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Or the opposite. “Hey, it’s not 10’ and snowing here. I want to transfer.”

Toilet Bowl maybe

I spent the day moving huge heavy dressers from one basement to another. I think I was better off.

We could have the band play for 20 minutes before the game, then when the game goes sour we can leave thinking we got something for our time and money.

Im thankful for having so many like minded fans of my alma mater through thin and thinner (football), the good times in the other sports and even a few baseball fans. It’s not easy being a Zip…

I brought this up several years ago and was thoroughly thrashed, so get your helmet ready. it doesn’t effect the other sports, it makes the football team easier to build and more entertaining, we can play at our appropriate level IMO. And we wouldn’t be the laughingstock of college football. We use to fill the Rubber Bowl when the team was good, local corporations sponsored us and highlighted us in their stores. Ticket giveaways. I love going to Rubberducks games. It’s a fun time. I don’t want to see them play the Yankees and Cubs. And I don’t see how a MAC program will ever have a chance to climb out of the FBS basement. The football budgets are just too ridiculous between the power 5 and the bottom end conferences.

That’s how they pay the bills. They can’t draw fans or TV ratings with those results so they take as much from the top schools as they can get.

I got nothing…

Great points. Minor league baseball is the perfect example of how to engage the fans. And More important, engaging the youth. Minor league baseball is miles ahead of everyone else in that. Learn from it. Use it. Maybe the next generation won’t all be fans (and more likely to be future students) of the worthless nuts. The game day experience is definitely lacking. I’ll pay for the tickets and drive the admin to Canal Park. OSU can be stodgy and old fashioned. Open the gates and the seats are filled. That doesn’t work for anyone else in Ohio. Put players on the field in pads and let the young-in’s walk out and meet them. Maybe in the practice facility. Maybe send them out on a pass pattern and lob them the football. I’ve seen worse ideas. A lot of them. game. day. experience.

This forum has had its moments over the years, and someone my disagree on one or two of the dozens of good points you brought up. But I doubt, taken as a whole, your post shouldn’t warrant a ballistics vest. 🙂

There is no doubt the properly run state university football program in Columbus not only operates at break even (at least a few years ago) but generates interest (and loyalty) to the school and millions of dollars into the local economy. If you drive a couple hours south from Akron, away from CLE, Cincy, and Pitt, OSU football IS LIFE. Akron was more popular as a successful FCS program than it is a basement FBS program. Think about that for a second. The old decrepit Rubber Bowl drew more fans, one of the big events of the season was a game sponsored by a local grocery store chain. At one point a human pinball errrrrr indoor soccer team was the most popular team in this market. They never sniffed a championship. This market will support a winning team no matter what it is. You have to market it and you have to win games (not dominate, just win and make it fun). Akron is failing in both of those.

Akron should be competitive at the MAC football level by now. We’ve been in FBS for 25 years now. That’s a long time. That’s several AD’s (and a ton of head coaches) and here we are. Seemingly in the same spot we were in 1987. A winning season here and there doesn’t make up for the awful seasons. Each one creates more apathy.

I don’t think the program is moving in ANY direction. It just sits there. It’s as if every coach hired had no vision. Or worse yet, an administration that forces the HC’s follow THEIR flawed vision. What is the budget compared to other FBS programs? Is it the college football version of the 1970’s Cleveland Indians who had no money in the budget to sign quality players? is major college football broken to the point that there’s a glass ceiling between the legendary programs and everyone else, with very little chance of joining the boys club?

Yes it was. I haven’t been able to get down to the U this fall, and the new soccer TV package is a no-go for us.

...and a lot of people STILL can't understand why people in this area will drive 130 miles to see a school they never attended but have a loose connection with it's name. IT IS AN EXPERIENCE. It's a party atmosphere. There's 100,000 fans in the stadium. It's easy to get caught up because THEY USUALLY WIN. We haven't seen .500 football in HOW MANY YEARS? The picture I posted at the Spring Game is what an Akron atmosphere feels like. There was nobody else in sight (I shot from the upper deck, but still). If the Worthless Nuts had a farting contest, 20,000 people would pay to watch, and it would draw decent ratings on TV. In Akron you can fart in the stadium and nobody else would be close enough to hear. (I usually don't talk like an 8 year old but this is where we are at). Between being the football laughing stock and the mismanagement of the baseball program, it's hard to get behind the rest.

I brought this up a few years back. OK a LOT of years back. Anyway I played football for Chippewa (Doylestown, Ohio) and we didn’t know what division we played in. It’s Division VI btw. Nobody cared that we never played Canton McKinley or Massillon. Our coaches didn’t, our fans didn’t, our families didn’t. It was good competitive football. Same with Akron Zips, football was a lot more fun before we went FBS. IDK if the U thought football would bring in more money. Or if they thought a competitive FCS team could win games and conferences and bowl games. Or maybe they were looking at the TV money and thought “We can get that too.” Whatever it was, they just about destroyed the sport. It has to be a PR hit for the whole university. Jump in and tell me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s a lot more fun being Mount Union in a division they belong than it is for us in FBS.

Inexcusable. Year after year, same bullshit. I may have finally had enough

A big waste of a really nice afternoon.

You know the old saying about what happens when a stoppable force meets a moveable object.

You mean like that?

Can they catch a football?

If we lose this game…

Nice drive!!!

I had the Nuts and 4 😶

Meanwhile The #6 Worthless Nuts just blew chunks against #9 Notre Dame. A bad night to bet on Ohio schools…