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Broughton to the locker room. I was worried he couldn't handle the hits.

Special teams not helping on that one. Akron has played pretty OK here against a decent B1G team, but they just don't have room for the errors they've made.

I like the aggression from Roggow, even if it didn't work.

If Akron doesn't have a jugs machine, Brookhart and Beals need to be throwing fastballs to these guys for about 14 hours in practice this week.

And it starts for Broughton and the injuries.

Receivers catching would help Broughton a ton

100% agree. This team didn't enter defeated, which is a major shift.

Offense still sputtering

Defense listened

Credit given - Akron did not enter this game already defeated.

Decent (got a first down anyways) opening drive for Akron ends with Jordan Gant losing the ball. Can't be doing that.

Minnesota right down the field for 6 to start.

I just hope Akron doesn't kick off the game already having lost like they always do in the money games under Moorhead.

Yes. Playing when fans can't make it to games means you don't get any where it matters.

But but but TV money. Never mind you can't build a fan base because fans can not come to all the games...so they just don't come to any.

I'm not sure the Game 1 event experience improvements were incremental, honestly. It was a big shift.

Well, I figure that if Marty can't be there, maybe AI Slop Marty like in the picture can be the fill-in

You're right. They'd rather have the easy sort-of cash instead of trying to build their fan bases.

Including the next two 2027 - at Arizona State, Rutgers, UNLV - hosting Maine 2028 - Lafayette, at Wyoming, at West Virginia, at Vanderbilt 2029 and 2030 right now Akron has four OOC games scheduled but the James Madison home-and-home is almost assuredly going away.

As long as it gets rid of the midweek games

Could be why the MAC jumped to 9, honestly.

Right. But then looking at some of those years...you show a 25,000+ crowd for Game 1, then a 6,000 attendance average the rest of the way. This promotion combined with the gameday ops will increase attendance...not immediately, it's not like we're gonna get 27,000 for a noon game with UNLV two weeks after doing this for the first time, but this sort of stuff moves the trendline the right way for once. Now to get rid of the midweek crap.

This was probably more successful, just because weren't the ACME Zips game tickets free or super cheap or something? I'm a little younger than the heyday of that promotion.

Might be more to get a cheaper home game since it's gonna be a beating either way. Robert Morris did bring a decent group of people, so as long as you keep with more local teams it could bring a little value. I'm not sure a G6 home-and-home is much better than doing the FCS thing, just because there aren't many G6 schools around here that local fans would care that much about seeing.

I do agree with you...I don't think it's necessarily going to help the finances. Especially for teams that have some longer-standing OOC G6 games (not sure how many of those there are, of course).