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With the amount of roster turnover every year, I'm not sure how to predict any outcomes.

No. It waters down a football rivalry.

The ACC is paying schools for viewers. In the coming years, more schools like Wake Forest, Syracuse and BC will start to play a lot of Friday night games.

The MAC season? They should play the first week or two every year like they used to when 25,000 people would be at games.

Make that a double.

Thank you Bob Ross. I'll have what you're having.

Geez, I thought UofA buying Central Hower was a dumb idea ant the time. I'm glad they are unloading it. Cutting edge universities shouldn't buy outdated buildings that were once high schools. . It sends the wrong message. The people who bought it are morons. Akron needs real businesses, not another art studio. Akron needs rich professionals, not starving artists. https://signalakron.org/central-hower-high-school-to-be-sold-to-quaker-square-owners-akron-kyle-craven/ Central Hower should be torn down. Quaker Square should be torn down. Akron needs to sweep out the past and get modern buildings built and occupied. I was in Spartanburg SC today. There were three sky cranes working three different construction projects. Spartanburg is a dump, but they a sweeping out the past and trying to move forward. Akron needs to do the same thing.

The mailman accidentally delivered my neighbor's College of Charleston alumni magazine to me. There is a small article about Coach G. See below.

Never be surprised when an ACC team loses. We beat a better Big Team in Northwestern than Minnesota years ago. I think NE went to the Big Ten Championship that season, or not.... can't remember.

You're on to something. A couple of things people should use as a rule when betting this game and it has nothing to do with Akron. First, never be surprised when you see an ACC team has lost a game. The teams in the ACC are as unpredictable as MAC teams. It's one of the things I like about the league. I would not be surprised if the Zips win, but they won't. In my time following Wake Forest, they normally play a horrible early season game they should win easily and struggle to win. However, they end up winning. They looked horrible in their first game last season with a new coach and barely beat Kennesaw State 10-9. Then, they played well the rest of the season and went 8-4. I went to Boone to see them play App State a while back and if not for 2-3 blocked FGs, with one of those at the very end, they lose the game. I predict a close game with WF not coming close to covering spread. I also believe if you use Wake's first game performance to tell yourself they aren't very good, it will likely cost you money.

What if they are currently overpaid?

How many games are played now vs 10 years ago? Since the players are professionals now, shouldn't we expect them to play many more games? Class AA baseball plays roughly 20% fewer games than MLB and many minor league baseball players at that level are the same age as CBB players. I don't think asking a low paid professional basketball player to play 50-55 games a year is out of the question. Start the season earlier and end it later. Want more money flowing into your program? Load up on big conference teams on the road. 10-15 games sounds about right. The MAC is a one bid league regardless of the regular season results. All the Zips need to do is win the Championship.

I think the MAC BB tournament is a really good event for Cleveland. I wouldn't want to see it go away. I would like to see the better regular season teams rewarded. I'll throw this idea out. I'm not even sure how I feel about it. What if instead of a tournament in Cleveland, the MAC had a best of three championship series in Cleveland between the first and second place regular season teams? Potentially three straight days? Winner goes to March Madness.

I still don't get it. Is there any evidence that this consulting company has taken a program from one division to a lower one in athletics as part of a strategic plan? If they have, I could see it. If not and that's the plan, seems like it could be money poorly spent. Huron was hired by Toledo when they had budget deficits around level of Akron's in 2022, but Toledo is still around. Their plan seems to have worked. The President hired people to boost revenue to support the current athletic department. It seems like he is looking for a way to make that work and not gut the program.

I can't see the entire article. Based upon what is in your post, I don't see the same conclusion.