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There's a lot of speculation that those "personal reasons" are highly correlated with alcohol consumption, but I have absolutely no first-hand knowledge of that.

Southern, Atlantic 10, West Coast (think Gonzaga basketball for now) But yeah, for soccer...whatever

And the magic happens if both are true! Provided the UConn booster is "big enough" to matter.

Probably not plausible. TTU and BYU are much too strong a potential champion to get bumped by a G5.

I think we've hit the point in college football that there are no surprises.

I anticipate a LOT of events being held there when it opens.

Definitely possible.

I feel it may be time to move the MAC title game back to the top seed's home field.

I think there's a very very real chance of this. Chaos reigns supreme!

This is a 2026 thing but... If we get Duke, Troy, and UNLV Conference champions, UNLV at 11-2 (having avenged one of the 2) is a very possible playoff team Which means Akron could possibly host a playoff team next year.

Good way for NIU to finish its MAC run, 3-9 with their QB throwing for 27 yards in a loss to Kent.

This is why I don't see Joe as an actual candidate for any of the HC jobs that are open.

Technically, NO league has an auto-bid. It's the top five ranked conference champions that get a bid. Obviously, the B1G, SEC, B12 are 100% of the time always going to get there. The ACC usually, too, but that's more tenuous than they'd like. Then that leaves one for the top ranked G5 conference champ, which I think happens much more often than the PAC would like, will be the AAC.

The PAC is not going to get an auto-bid. The AAC is in the driver's seat for that G5 bid every year IMO. But an 11-1 PAC champ would have a good argument.

The biggest thing for Joe will be to triple his pay in a "well Akron was hopeless too so who cares."

Still better than Arth and iCoach

This is why I do think some of the transfer stuff will kinda even out and calm down. If guys keep transferring and basically going AWOL, SOME of the transferring will slow down.

Sorry for a late reply here. Conference USA gives the MAC a very serious run for this title.

Hosting the Avon-Walsh state semifinal isn't going to solve $5M worth of issues but every little bit helps. Doesn't hurt getting people on campus either.

Good point, I didn't even think about that side of it.

I think it eventually stabilizes a bit. But certainly there will always be some that are going place to place.

It sucks, but that's the life of things. The thing hopefully Akron can do a bit to help is to get the amounts these guys end up getting elsewhere. Akron isn't going to be able to pay much NIL no matter what happens. But I would think there's something there with "we can develop you, and look at the cash our guys are getting elsewhere." Clearly, they did some developing this year with guys. Could almost convince me that Moorhead is the guy for this, haha

Nor that Goodrich will be particularly bothered either way.

Oh for sure. If they're not bringing ESPN enough viewership to hold them in places...and they probably aren't...then it's time to cut bait.

It would certainly be a big "move" for his followership if he actually did break this. But...yeah this isn't the actual story.