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eh it's still a sign the season's near. Carry on

Sadly, only until August 29th, at which point Akron will only be tied for second.

This should be a sign at the games.

Fixing NIL so bracket busters aren't just 19-15 power teams would be the first step.

If this were accurate to real life, feels like Akron's offense should be pretty OK!

That's a fair point. Two weeks is still better than "first of January." There's not many Sun Belt teams where we'd just bus (what, Marshall, James Madison, Old Dominion maybe, and App State maybe?)

Since these are all played the same day IIRC, you could even do it a week before. It makes travel a little hairy, yeah, but the MAC let Sacramento State in for football. Unenviable travel isn't a problem anymore 😄

We're not in a position to look down on anybody. It'd be nice to have a couple of these agreements with different mid major conferences. Give more good regular season games leading up to Cleveland.

Eh, it adds decent games in the mid-major world and probably gets a couple on the television. I see the reason to do it. It's not life-changing, but it's not that bad.

I promise the season ends before Akron goes 4-8 again.

Remaining schedule for the Greenheads: 6/27 at home vs (they're going to be) 1-3 Ozarks 7/11 on the road at Ozarks (Springfield, MO) 7/18 at home against the Memphis team that just beat them 65-20 7/25 on the road at Arkansas So, a reasonably manageable schedule without the top two teams in the league on it, but...they're going to have to play better to get back into the playoff hunt.

65-20 was that final. So...things are trending downward for the Greenheads.

Monroe well on their way to drop to 1-3 at the midway point, down 36-14 in Memphis at the break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BU_Lx-kuQs

Well that requires effort, and I'm still not sure Akron's Athletic Department does that sort of thing.

Monroe will drop to 1-2 as Arkansas gets a 45-43 win on the road. So Bowden's first game win might have been because Iowa is awful (they lost 74-22 tonight). We'll see how the last five games go

I missed updating here, good job 😐 Last weekend, the Greenheads lost 44-30 in their home opener to Nebraska (who through two weeks feels like a title contender). Tonight they're back at home against a decidedly not-as-contender Arkansas Diamonds squad. 37-26 Monroe midway through the third https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzJpkPNGK8k

This feels more likely. I could see a top team getting $1M but $12M feels excessive. If it's true, though, Sac State is getting $30M next year

https://www.threads.com/@thefieldrush/post/DZau3YtgfHA?xmt=AQG0i0GZnJoP1JQjVnbOL-nPS61iy-vl3uEaoqWS0I1gV9niYVBBWr5oLQrUUZk3mzRf-1cj&slof=1 If that's true, I wonder how much Akron got. They have to be a fairly popular dynasty play just because the team is in that "this'll be fun to try and win with Akron" level.

Look, I think we can all agree that the biggest winner of the 29-point Game 4 comeback is the Game 1 Cavaliers fourth quarter performance.

Congratulations!

Think we can get "We went 5-7!!!" merch?

Then we offer them to Senderoff

Oh no, it's definitely an "every little bit helps," with the emphasis on "little."

And that would be the reason not to do it.

The only issue is that NCAA rules limit the number of games, but otherwise that point of more games isn't wrong. And the Kent State Football scheduling method isn't necessarily an awful idea, either. The MAC champion is locked into a 12-13 type seed (noting that things will change with more P6s getting bids in the new 76-team format), so if you add a bunch of money games...maybe even win one somewhere...it's not going to change that seeding a whole lot.