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Good point. Limit them anyhow. Let private money pay for it.

70 is probably a better number than my original. They could have 53 scholarships and 17 walk ons. It wouldn't take much time. They could chart the number of plays per player on every roster. Some players may only play a handful of plays in a season. I believe those players are unnecessary to give scholarships. A lot of NFL players are brought in n mid season to replace IR players or guys who aren't cutting it. Injuries are part of sports. Teams will need to deal with those problems with their available roster. Life isn't fair.

This is a good step. Next step should be reducing scholarships to 65. College football is now a professional minor league. If 53 players per roster is good enough for the NFL, college can do the same thing. It will make coaches really think about who and who does not get a scholarship. One half of all kids in the TP never play football again. It will also accelerate them out of the sport and move them to things they can do on life where they can be more successful.

This interests me because he doesn't strike me as a sales type guy, but a gym rat kind of guy. It must have been hard at first because he wasn't really a "name" when he came to town. Imagine how easy it was for Sanders or George to do. Akron football needs to do at least one thing that would make life easier for them.

I imagine a lot of Tennessee State fans said things like this over the years. At some point, someone decided to ignore the sad sacks and do something truly different. Why can't we get someone like that "someone" to work for us. What is our most recent marketing genius AD going to do that the last 10 didn't? He might be really bright and energetic, but I've already seen Band Day, etc. If Eddie George is too old and irrelevant for kids to remember and be drawn to, why are so many good transfers from respectable schools drawn to him? The nightlife at Bowling Green?

I bet the coaches and players of the kids going to BG remember him. Heisman Trophy winners are hard to forget. He's Dieon Sanders without the flash and gold jacket (yet). Imagine the recruiting credibility he'll have if he gets a Hall of Fame induction in the next couple of years. Imagine if he is coaching at BG if it happens and the entire team is sitting in front of the stage while he gives his induction speech. It's not outside of the world of reality. Kids want to win. Tennessee State won their conference for the first time since 1999 last year. He actually built a solid team over 4 years and BG was on solid footing when he took over. He has a win against Liberty already, which could prove to be hollow at seasons end, but a big name win already. I'm guessing a lot of the moms and grandmas of the recruits are more than impressed with him. The fathers want to be him. The mother's want to jump in the sack with him. Good grief, he's married to a pop music star. Is education important to you? It is to him. He has a degree in Landscape Architecture from OSU and an MBA from Northwestern. George's credibility is immediate and lasting. If Day ever leaves OSU, George is immediately one of the finalists for the job. What else could he do that could make him more credible to kids?

Maybe there is another option. Maybe we could hire a coach with so much credibility with kids that they would be lining up to play for the Zips. https://bgsufalcons.com/news/2025/7/8/bowling-green-football-lands-no-1-transfer-class-in-the-mac-per-247sports

The first D1 team at Akron had 10 coaches. The only thing they have more today of is an extra DB coach and special teams coordinator. This is year 38 of complete mismanagement.

It's worse than this. In many cases, managers can't accurately define the problems, so they can't fix what is wrong. Look at it this way. The lack of money at Akron is a symptom of a larger problem (s). I am of the opinion that Akron does not do enough to benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Those are five problems impacting a lot of people. The football program is a product to sell and only people can spend money. A person has to buy a ticket. A person has to authorize corporate sponsorship money. People have to authorize tax dollars being spent. Akron isn't doing enough to satisfy the needs of these people so no money is spent. My biggest problem is this. I'm a guy living in the Carolinas and I really have no idea how to fix the problems. I have ideas, but I don't know enough to actually fix the problems. My worry is that the people who are supposed to know, don't know much more than I do. I'm also worried that they don't actually know how to go about finding the answers so they do the same things I've and over again.

We've been waiting a lot longer than that. The question I have is this. Are the people managing the coach good at managing based upon the two criteria I was presented when I was younger? It seems to me that when there is coaching turnover, the response to it by upper management is almost always the same in college sports, although we didn't do this when hiring Joe. When there is turnover or a desire to make a change, the ADs reach in to their tired bad of tricks and call an overpriced coaching recruiting firm to do a search. That firm reaches into their tired bag of recycled hacks and pulls out some names. A new head coach is hired. This all sounds to me like a collosal and lazy waste of money. Do any of the dummies who run athletic departments ever reach out to an organization like the NFL Players Association? The NFL PA is in charge of managing retiree benefits so they are probably regularly in touch with former players. I would think the nflpa would want to help their members in this way. Here, I'll write the letter to the NFLPA for every AD in America since most are not even slightly this creative, and what I'm doing isn't all that creative to begin with. Here it goes. Dear Mr. Reeves-Maybin, I am the Athletic Director at School X. School X has many active and retired members of your organization as former players. Included in this group are Chase Blackburn of the NY Giants Super Bowl winning team, Victory Green of the Jets and Patriots, and Hall of Famer Jason Taylor. Currently , I am conducting a search for a new Head Coach for our football program.and am looking for networking support. I believe former NFL players could provide great value to School X and the young men they would lead, and I would respectfully request that you make your retired members and their representatives aware of this great opportunity. The changing landscape of college football presents many possibilities for former professional players and if any of them are interested in talking with me, I'm interested in talking to them. Below are links to the job description and application. Link to job description. Link to application. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. My contact information is below. Sincerely, Blah blah blah Then Akron could do something like posting the letter to social media and tagging the NFLPA along with the NFL itself and any other party of interest.

This is a good post and paints a clear view of the reality. We need two things badly. They are problems 1A and 1B. We need a coach who can both make it attractive for people to spend money on NIL and manage turnover in large numbers up front. A smart guy once told me about being a manager is that the two most important things to manage are safety and turnover. If you can't manage those, you can't manage. Same for college football coaches. We don't need some child with a lot of energy but no experience. We don't need a money guy who has no experience in dealing with turnover. We need guys like Dieon Sanders and Eddie George. Their names attract money and the NFL is a great place for people to learn about turnover as NFL rosters are relatively fluid from year to year. They weren't in the NFL for five minutes. Their long careers exposed them to a great deal and they seem like smart guys. God knows they don't need the money. Is it impossible for us to get someone like this? I don't think so. Jackson State and BG did it. Colorado quickly went from a laughing stock to some level of respectability. BG is playing well. Former NFL players are chomping at the bit for a college head coaching gig. The problem many have is they don't want to work their way up the ladder, and I'm not sure they are wrong about that. I'm not sure I would want to make $100 million and then work as a grad assistant or low level assistant for someone I would be confident I understood more about football and the organizational structure of what has now become professional football than they do. What are we waiting for?

Bingo. It's pretty well known around college football that Akron is pretty close to impossible to win at.

Schools like this have much more in their calculations. Akron just has money. Either they can afford to fire Joe, or not.

Meaning what? How will failing at the Graveyard of Coaches hurt his career or money making potential? Keep in mind Arth is the passing coordinator for an NFL team.

Agreed. There is too much in it for him to resign.