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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…

wow. just wow.

The race to the bottom of Division 1 starts tonight!!

The athletic department can’t put together a functional web site. What makes you think they can run a D1 football program?

There’s gotta be a curse on the region. It is almost impossible to suck this bad for decades. The birth of (pro) football. We draw more fans for high school games than most colleges. And we’re stuck with this crap.

You’re not making me feel any better

It takes four years for a coach’s first class to be the seniors. Soooooooo, 2025? If there’s a prayer? In the words of Detective Roger Murtaugh, “I’m getting too old for this crap.”

Well how are they going to blow this one now?

There are no words…

This is FRICKEN EMBARRASSING. We give up 13 points in three games against a non-FBS opponent (putting 148 on them). Then can’t beat them at home. I have no words. Just when you think this program is making a big step forward we get kicked in the nuts. What an embarrassment.

JT Brubaker made a highlight reel while in Pittsburgh.

At halftime (UCF) so far so good 😁