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The assumption is good facilities now. Now schools need money to keep up the facilities and a bunch of other things. Most professional facilities organizations like BOMA and IFMA estimate that the cost of building a building is only 20% of the total cost of the building over it's lifetime. It's a lot of money.

Was he talking in the Royal We or something else?

Good points. The most important point is they are still paying 4-5 million dollars a year for the stadium.

I'm pretty certain they didn't look externally. The ink wasn't dry on the resignation letter and they hired him. I don't know if he is a good coach or not. I do know it is good for organizations to look outside of the organization for talent even if the hire ends up being internal.

I'm not 100% sure either, but I'm pretty sure Toledo's guy wouldn't. Toledo is set up for success and they typically do. If it isn't the top program in the MAC, it's top 2-3.

I don't want this to come out out the wrong way because it will sound like I'm slamming the basketball coach, but here it goes. It's not intended to do that. We have the best basketball coach possible. Akron has the premier basketball program in the MAC. We had a highly accomplished coach leave and the best we could do was promote an assistant. I'm not sure if that last sentence should end with a period, question mark or exclamation point. I am going to assume that the leadership looked at the possible options and said yes. Joe was the best possible option a few years ago. Nobody was applying for the job. Those who yearn for a high school coach taking over the program might have gotten their wish. All things considered, he may still be the best option. It's a horrible program at a school that is putting limited effort into it. What coach is going to want the job? If their vision for making Akron successful is so good, wouldn't that person want to apply at a place actually trying to win? Given the current circumstances, only pure luck gets someone better than Joe hired.

This management technique doesn't work on wealth people who don't care if they get fired. It's bush league management for people who don't have the balls to just fire someone.

It's almost as if it is hard to pass the ball with what is a third string QB.

This is a good post. The question I have is, given the existing money, how would you define success?

I would like to is offer some advice to our friends in Oxford. On Monday morning, fire your AD. The biggest threat to MAC schools is their AD and the ideas in their heads. If the option is, the guy is right or fire him, the choice is to fire him because there is no going back on the bad decision. Worse, the decision cripples the athletic department for decades. There are a lot of alumni stupid enough to believe the nonsense, and you know who are because you swallowed the Thomas and Waddell nonsense hook, line and stinker. Miami alumni shouldn't fall for this crap. Listen to your AD at your risk. Fire this clown Miami. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7641539/2026/09/29/miami-ohio-american-conference-acc-mac/

When I saw the Shreveport Times, it really got me thinking...... about one of the best meals I've ever had. https://www.ernestsorleans.com/ There are crab claws and then there are crab claws. In any event, I hope this news gets people talking about the proper structure for college athletics, because the current structure isn't working for most teams. Things like this get university leaders thinking about and saying things they have wanted to say for a long time.

The volume is horrible. The Army deploys something called Sonic Warfare for siege warfare. It's the use of playing music and other types of sound so loud that it disorients the enemy. Last year at a Wake Forest game the sound system was so loud I couldn't talk to Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, between plays. By the end of the game I was starting to feel nauseous. My request to people producing the in person experience is to, please, tone it back a little. Just because you have the tools to use sound wave to the point I'm about to throw up doesn't mean you have to. I'm not the enemy. The volume has become part of the overall gross feelings I get about college football.

Those stats are interesting, but if a fan tries hard enough, they can find two good games on. For example, the TX vs TN game was not good last weekend. There was another big game at the same time that wasn't good. The best noon game last week was Louisville and Wake Forest. It was probably one of the best games all weekend. Both teams played great. Fans just have to look for good games.

I respectfully disagree. There are plenty of very competitive games on every week. Teams that used to stink can now get good. It's still the most unpredictable sport on TV other than Jai Alai, which the South Florida organized crime basically runs. What I find difficult are the 3.5+ hour games, long halftimes, endless replays and now ESPN Game Day. I'm a bit sick of the players themselves I've seen enough celebration dances from guys catching three yard outs on their own 28. The Fox pregame show is actually interesting and doesn't have Pat McAfee doing his pro wrestling routine for three hours. I'm Pat McAfeed out. I'm tired of television, gambling apps and beer companies making all the decisions. What I'm starting to find interesting is the use of the noon start to highlight big games. It used to be the ghetto spot for the worst games. Now the games are compelling against high ranking teams. I wonder if they are experimenting with early starts because they a afraid of the NFL. What the NFL wants, it gets. They may want Saturday primetime. If they get it, it will crush prime time college football on Saturday.

I think this is going to make it hard for players making a lot of money to transfer for playing time. The salary cap will restrict the potential opportunities. What I don't know yet is what is the school's responsibility to the player if they cut him?