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Another ~$ 2 million loss of revenue is not good. That's only counting tuition, not room and board and other fees. PS Akron lets just about anyone in as far as I know.

The top getting better and the bottom staying the same sounds like an improvement to me. Even aside from NIU and Toledo, BG came this close to knocking off Penn State. The “average programs” aalso seem to generally be beating the other G5s (Ohio/South Alabama and EMU/Jax State) come to mind immediately.

Yep. Definitely feel like they give more leeway to the bigger programs in terms of celebrating.

Game day experience thoughts: Starting with purchasing tickets - pretty sure I was charged a service fee for buying tickets at the window. Ticket said $15 and paid $19. That was a first. Additionally only one ticket line open aside from will call, which is another miss. Long and slow line before the game. Surely we can afford to pay a student a min wage to alleviate this. Think we had an external vendor in the concourse near midfield. Good idea that we should explore more, especially in the food stands they don’t open. Save on costs (and make money by charging the vendor) and give the fans more options. New scoreboard and ribbon board looked and worked great! Thought the volume of music was just fine. I didn’t miss the cannon, however. To the game: Could not have had a worse start. While completely inexcusable, I was never that worried because it was us giving Colgate the opportunity. The second quarter and latter part of the first quarter shows what the team can be, and that’s fun to watch! Great game by D Lewis. No real complaints on defense after we spotted them the easy 17 and settled in. Just would’ve thought we would have more of a pass rush. Starting to feel we have little to no improvement in our OL from last season. Whether a run or pass, seemed like Colgate players were generally in the backfield near immediately. Whenever they did protect, Finely/passing game looked pretty good. Also shout out to Norton. He does look like the real deal. Players I noted on sideline not dressed: Adams, David, Proby, Cooper, Brockington, Madden, Fox, Lyons, Walker

Toledo had the mist impressive G5 win yesterday. 2 straight weeks for the MAC. Dare to say the conference feels improved and is in the drivers seat for the G5 playoff spot if NIU can get by NC State in week 5, who is definitely beatable.

I don't find the volume of the music to be any different than any other FBS or NFL game I've been to. Might just feel a little out of place considering how sparse/dead our crowd usually is.

That sounds like a good move, considering all the "fans" who left and seemed to never come back once he did, he clearly had a following.

Im thinking you might see the likes of NDSU and SDSU make the jump up to FBS, and maybe a couple CUSA teams that dont make any sense like NMSU join to fill it out.

I agree, shouldn't be considered a power conference with the addition of those teams. Not much better than the Mountain West as it currently stands, if at all. Haven't done any reading on this, but my guess is $$ is main motivation for the move with the hope of being considered a power conference again.

Thank the lord. We could go for a good stomping of an opponent, regardless of who they are.

Looks like we opened as 10.5 favorites. We haven't beaten a FCS team by double digits yet under Joe Mo. Would sure feel nice.

Yet the powers that be still have them ranked 18th and ahead of NIU. its the highest ranked win by a MAC school in history. Best win ever in my book.

Just more bullshit.

We fired Arth under similar circumstances. Though would hope the powers that be have a little more patience with Moorhead.

Agreed. The mental/organizatinal stuff appears to be biggest issue so far. That is fixable where talent isn’t.

Sure looks like Kent State is going to lose vs St Francis. I would laugh, but could very well be us next week vs Colgate.

Corner blitz gives up a TD for both teams

McCoy; David, Cooper, and Hunter banged up on D on this drive. Can’t make it up

Tuddy!!

Bad end to the half

Appears MIA, again.

Drop by Golden.

Akron football might be cursed.

Cheatom with some nice plays on this drive. Nice to see high school guys develop.

Clear missed hold on the big run by Rutgers.