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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.

If Joe leaves, he'll be on staff somewhere as a coordinator or assistant making as much as he does at Akron.

This is the day every coach firing fan lives for.

You spend others money so easily.

In 1987 we got our first D1 win against EMU three games in also. It was nice. Too bad it was our last for the year that ended up 4-7.

I like to go out for dinner after going to a game. If I can't do that, I'm not going to the game. Food wins.

UAB 38 Akron 17

No. Just not a time of day I would want to be sitting in a stadium watching a football game start.