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https://getsomemaction.com/news/2025/11/24/2025-mac-football-championship-game-tiebreakers.aspx MAC tie breakers.

Brilliant. I see now how if those three incompetently managed organizations were brought together, they could dominate higher education in Ohio. Thanks! Maybe we could get Jim Grobe to be the President, or at the very least the head coach of the football team.

Thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.

Competitive against who? Both schools finished in the middle of the MAC. Respectable seasons for both as far as the MAC goes. You could go to a Dicks and Kalamazoo and not find WMU gear.

I'm rooting for them to fail even worse in their new conference.

Nobody goes to Tuesday/Wednesday games. I reject out of hand that high school football keeps stadiums from being full. It assumes the addressable market is only people who attend high school games. There are people who believe the only addressable market for college football in Ohio either go to, or watch OSU games. It's complete nonsense. BG sold out their game against Toledo this year, and the OSU vs Texas game started at exactly the same time. There is a market for people who want to attend college football games. The MAC needs to tap into it instead of being afraid of the many excuses for not doing something. The MAC needs to make it such that high schools are changing their game times for the MAC game of the week. For the record, I think high school football is trash and haven't attended a game in over 10 years.

If you hire the Akron coach after never having a winning season, you shouldn't be AD at a school like UCONN. We have begun the point of the office season when people in the media throw out names in an effort to look smart when coaching opportunities arise. If they throw out 20 names and one hits, they can tell everyone how smart they are.

Interesting. I looked closely at the SBC as I think they a a good model for the MAC. AI tells me they only play during the week on Thursday night, not the ghetto days of Tuesday and Wednesday. The only two teams that had two Thursday games were Arkansas State and Georgia Southern. Neither of the teams had two home games on Thursdays. Why can't the MAC do something similar with Friday nights? The premier MAC game of the week could be on Friday night with no team having to play more than one Friday game. It could be done over 3 weeks. I'd be interested in two pieces of information about this chart. What is the percentage of capacity for each team? Are they showing actual attendance or tickets sold? I see UNCC has shown 15,000 fans per game. That would mean a horrible one win team is filling their stadium. I doubt that's the case. The percentage of capacity as it relates to actual crowd size is most important.

I'd think CSU would be better in that there is more certainty. Scheduling at UCONN has to be a nightmare. There is also the possibility of winning a conference championship and maybe leading the team to the playoffs because of that. UCONN is just a place where you play games and maybe a bowl game. People who are highly competitive want to compete for as many things as possible and it helps with motivation. For example, you compete for conference rankings even if the championship is out of reach. It keeps the players focused and motivated for something in addition to a win. It also helps with better bowl games.

Rediculus

No, but I think Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, is happy about it.

Was it an NIL contribution directed to players or directed to the recruiting budget so coaches can go find players? $100k for recruiting seems like a lot. My guess is it takes much more to have a really good recruiting budget. My company spends over $60,000 a year for my travel expenses. To hire at least one person would easily absorb the entire amount. Athletic recruiters must travel a lot for the program to have success. Akron needs muh more money just for recruiting alone.

No. The point is that they are an example of a historically bad program that has gotten good. They are a good example for Akron. Their fans have graduated from the expectation of losing and failure, to seeing the positive in their accomplishments. Yesterday they had a WR set the school record for most yards in a game. Moving forward, nobody is going to be saying, "ya, but he did it against Delaware.". They will remember one of them being an 80+ yard catch with 20 seconds before halftime and being excited. The memories will make them happy. Search for Debbie Downer Thanksgiving Dinner on YouTube and you'll see the "ya, but" people of the world.

That's not the point. JD won his first year. I don't care who he did it with. When fans say "ya, but" it's a dick thing for fans to do and dismisses a real accomplishment. Let's not forget 2005 with Luke and a better supporting cast he brought in including an NFL offensive lineman. I don't know a single Wake Forest fan today who is saying, Dickert won 8 games this year, but he did it with Clawsons recruits. In 20 years, they won't be trying to make a dumb point about a successful season.

It's the toughest part and one that I don't think Akron is set up to do. It's cultural throughout a university that is successful at it.