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At least he wasn't alone with this one, I guess?

There we go!!

Defense needs to start playing here today...

And frankly, a huge offensive drive coming up now.

Of course they weren't ever going to actually hold...

Not a bad first quarter. Let's get a stop on third down here to start the second.

Excellent opening drive.

If they give a reason to watch, sure.

Goodrich is doing everything he possibly can. This is a nice promotion.

When I was in school and in the band, we had a couple games (including one at PCCC) where it got kinda boring and we counted the people in the stands. We got to 750 for a Buffalo game, and got to 680 or so for one of the Kent games (and that included the bands). Given the complete lack of enthusiasm (very fairly earned) for a great weather homecoming game here, I wonder if the band will be doing that next month.

As an aside, the TV ratings are starting to crack a bit, which probably isn't helped by this "one year mercenary" nature of things. Double the TV timeouts of an NFL game certainly hurts at least as much.

I think the assumption was that he wouldn't actually be healthy enough to play in this scenario.

I'd put nothing past Eastern Michigan in terms of falling for it, but I don't want CB to get hurt worse just to try and help his failed coach win a game.

Given they're certainly the team most like Akron in terms of "wow there's no one here," at least they'll feel somewhat at home in the cavern (even if the turf is green). While that 45-17 result may be "too early" in Joe's 14-39 tenure, it's going to limit excitement anyways.

Losing 45-17 to a bad CMU team will do that.

Well, the "we're" here was probably him and his wife.

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If it were feasible to do the FCS move, I am operating under the assumption that Kent would make the same decision. As we're probably seeing that it's really not, I'm mostly just wasting keystrokes here.

That's what makes it a tough decision. They are getting some extra revenue being in FBS, and the expenses saved likely aren't wildly significant. There's no change that can be made that will fill the stands. Akron likely has (at least) 10,000 too many of those. This is solely relative levels of increasing attendance (which, getting rid of the empty stadium games would help accomplish year-long). Adding a close game with YSU would help both sides for that one (as Kent on a Saturday helps both sides when it's not an empty stadium game).

Then the question becomes...is there a path to the dollars making sense in FCS? You do lose some revenues (though less than a couple years ago as the P4 teams are scheduling fewer and fewer buy games), though you open up a little bit more revenue by removing the empty stadium games. Can't be done alone, but there's possibly an angle here.

Yes, they punted on 4th and goal from the 38. Long sack followed by an offensive personal foul.

Given the program success, I don't think Akron was looking outside the building. And I don't disagree with it. It might not work, but "run it back with next man up" isn't unreasonable.

I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment. We have the premier basketball program in the MAC...our coach leaves for a better job, and we have a top assistant from said premier program to try and keep things moving in the same direction. I'm not sure they seriously looked outside the program, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I don't think this correlates to the football program struggles.

Until he learns how to slide, I don't think we can safely call him a multi-week starter.

There's absolutely zero evidence to refute what you're saying here.