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It would be interesting to see the language of the contracts. I bet in the future they all have a disaster clause, if not already.

There's a theory going around that the gov't is doing that to all of us by reopening some stuff, the numbers go up, ICU's fill back up, and they quarantine again. Wash, rinse, and repeat until everyone is immune. And a lot of the old people are off the social security/medicare coffers...

One selling point with the Big Ten is the footprint almost matches the MAC. A lot more opponents can be reached by bus.

College athletics are a convenient target right now, and a big reason for that is a LOT of the faculty is very jealous of sports. My high school was the same way. But college athletics are a drop in the bucket as far as university spending goes. It's easy to take what is budgeted, and divide that by what 450? 500? student athletes. To be honest you also need a head count of student sports fans who attend the games for recreation, and try to factor in the name recognition and publicity it brings. But you also have to consider the network TV money football brings in, the away games at FB$ stadiums, and ticket revenue. Football revenue covers a substantial part of the athletic department's budget. Imagine if the team were successful and the university had the foggiest idea about advertising and marketing it... Then we could compare that to the costs and student utilization of (for starters) the busses, the bowling alley, the pool hall, the theater, the workout facility, the rock climbing wall, the indoor pool. That's a good start. Then we can look into things like, why the University spent $22,679,000 on Quaker Square, so they could evict all of the small businesses in there. Then spend an untold amount of money converting the hotel into dorms that would only be used a couple years before they locked the doors and left it sit empty. We could go on questioning university spending all week, without even getting started on the Scar's spending. Athletics are a drop in the budget. Bucket. Something like that...

The virus is hitting Florida and Arizona hard again. That’s where the NBA is planning on playing their games, and where the MLB is planning to restart spring training. In football numerous high school, college, and pro players are testing positive. Same with NASCAR. I’m not getting my hopes up about watching team sports in the coming months.

Don’t confuse “cutting colleges” with “cutting programs”. When I graduated in 2012 my College of Nursing was merged into the “College of Health Professions” along with seven other programs. It didn’t hurt the nursing. program in fact it was expanded to Wayne College. They just cut a lot of duplicate staff off the top.

I don’t think we’re going to see any sports, college, pro, or high school for at least a year...

It was Dinger’s first win on an oval. He’s a heck of a road racer, won several IndyCar races. But he couldn’t catch on to the ovals. Maybe he’s finally turned the corner on ovals, so to speak.

They had a lot of free time to talk to the Oakland people, the first weekend of the season. Does anyone know if teh change to the baseball schedule includes only in-conference games ala MBKB?

Have fun sitting six deep on the bench, fetching water bottles for the starter for four years...

There is a tendency for 7'0+ men to be more Herman Munster than Shaq O'Neal.

I think this new economic reality is going to separate the haves from the have-nots even further. The programs that have had their crap together the past 25, 35, 50+ years are going to further distance themselves from the rest of the BCS. That could help Akron if they get their crap together. There's no reason we can't compete with the rest of the MAC, and the bottom half of the Big Ten and other P5 conferences. IF. For such a short word, it is huge for us.

How many posters who demanded Akron stay in FBS, are now complaining about the cost?

NCAA fires a warning shot at CMU.

Only having him 4 years will look stupid if he fixes it and leaves.

I’ll bring a battery powered air pump.

An NFL team has what, 45, 50 players on the roster, and plays 16-20 games? Yeah they have a pool of talent to bring in as backups when they have injuries. But why do colleges need twice as many?

Quaker Square has zero occupancy now.

A drop in the bucket. When I was done with prerequisites and switched to main campus, I was paying for busses, the bowling alley, the pool hall, the theater, the workout facility, the rock climbing wall, the indoor pool, who knows how much other stuff I paid for that I never used. And then, because I didn’t live on campus and didn’t use the busses I paid for, I paid to park. I know all about student fees.I incurred twice as much debt on the main campus than I did at Wayne.

First, glad you’re back ZW. You just asked the most important question. Reading the drivel from so many fans, it seems the only important thing a college program can do is win games. If you can’t win enough games, cut the program. Now. There wouldn’t be any sports left... Others think it’s about drawing fans. If you can’t draw “enough” football fans (even though it sells as many tickets as the rest combined), cut the program. How many is enough? Is paying many of its own expenses not enough? Gotta cut the program!! Funny I thought all these years school sports at all levels built student confidence, teamwork, leadership, setting personal goals and accomplishing them, being a part of something. Putting it on your resume. Maybe, going on to. Hall of Fame career in the pros. Not to entertain some ungrateful alumni who will try to cut your program if you have a losing record.

Ask Niles, Ohio

I don’t see how “he” failed. He didn’t recruit the seniors, juniors, or sophomores. We’re not going to see his recruiting until maybe 2021. Knee jerk reactions to how Bowden’s third to last recruiting class played will only ensure we stay in last place. The financial side has already been thoroughly covered.

I keep hearing how the payday games sustain football, if not the whole athletic Dept. How it draws network money, sells a heel of a lot more tickets, corporate sponsorships, we played payday games to PAY the left over salary, blah blah blah. And I keep hearing the football haters complain that it is such a financial drain on the athletic Dept. How exactly is it possible a program can break even, and yet take millions of dollars out of university coffers. Sounds like jealousy to me...

Easy now. Jared inherited a perennial NCAA tournament team and took it to losing 70% of its games last year. still haven’t heard a single call for soccer to go bye bye despite the recent performance. Hold on. Let me crack open a beer before the fanatics start pumping their chests...

A one time five million dollar donation is a drop in the bucket against the FBS playoff teams. They’re reportedly operating on $100,000,000 annual budgets. Do you have that many poker chips to gamble with?