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Cincinnati is in a tough spot if these are their choices. Calhoun makes sense, but is Cincinnati that much better of an opportunity than his current job and could be do better. At 44, he needs to do better quickly before he turns 50. Groce is 54. If I was an AD at a school like Cincy, I don't think I'd be looking for someone in his mid 50s. The older you get, the faster you get old. The guy from Miami makes the most sense. Young guy. Good energy. Undefeated regular season. Plays an exciting style for the fans to get behind.

John Madden once said, "The champion is the champion until he's no longer the champion, and that's what makes him the champion". Normally, this is pure gibberish, but tonight it makes a lot of sense.

Does anyone have a tape measure? It's about time to go see if that trophy case is big enough for another trophy.

In a few years, P4 may be separate from the rest of the NCAA and it would be irrelevant. College athletics is making decisions based upon football. I'm not sure what these teams bring to the table. Miami had one good year in a while. The rest are average at best. CBB? Take out March Madness and between getting squeezed out by the CFP and NFL playoffs, it only has about a month of regular season relavency. I now yawn when I see the Duke vs UNC game show as an upcoming event.

Interested enough to pay the massive exit fee to the ACC for inferior products? Wouldn't it make more sense, and cost nothing, to just wait out the inevitable separation of P4 schools from G5 and the NCAA?

Where are they going to go and who is going to pay their exit fee for the ACC?

Please tell me you at least at here. https://bistrobellavita.com/ In all my years of business travel, it's one of my top five restaurants.

I don't think he's a negative. I just don't think his influence is as great as people think. The second he retires from the NBA, he becomes less relevant and that doesn't get better with time. I don't think he sit around thinking about how to get an arena built in Akron. In fact, it would probably create a nightmare he doesn't want in his life. Here is the other problem. A rule of thumb in facilities management says the cost of constructing a facility is only 20% of the cost of maintaining the facility throughout the life of the structure. Who is going to pay for the maintenance alone on the facility? Assume the arena lives for 50 years and is constructed for $150 million, the annual maintenance alone would be around $15 million if my math is right. It's also an average so the climate on the building in Ohio would create even more maintenance. Is LBJ going to pony up for the maintenance also? What is Akron can't draw high dollar events like quilting convention? See the problem here? They could prempt time and just start out calling it The Interbelt Arena.

Jordan owned a team. There is no arena named after him. He grew up in Wilmington. Not a great place but getting better. All without the help of Jordan's money. This isn't a knock on LBJ. It's a knock at those in NE Ohio who believe that LBJ or some.other savior is going to come along and improve things. People will be waiting around forever.

Barely. Building and arena would take him from being a billionaire to a millionaire. I've been confused about this for years. Why do so many around Akron think LBJ is the solution to the problems around Akron?

You could have at least lied and said you were attending a heavy metal concert.

How much do you think LBJ really has and why would he spend it? His prime earnings days will be coming to a close in the near future.

When I still lived in the Midwest, Grand Rapids was one of my favorite places to go. I was there recently was there again and it's even better. A big part of the start of the revitalization of downtown was Van Andel Arena. Akron doesn't need something this big, but an arena would help. The Van Andels are the family that started Amway. There isn't a business around Akron that would pony up the money for an arena. In 2025 dollars, Van Andel Arena would cost approximately $160 million.per Wikipedia. Goodyear or Firestone could pony up some but they won't. LBJ is rich, but he isn't Van Andels level rich. Gary Taylor wasn't Van Andel level rich. Akron is really stuck with the JAR. https://www.vanandelarena.com/

Pirates fans chant, "Sell the team!". It's the wrong cheer. Small market teams should be chanting, "Lock them out!". The only way for small market teams to compete is to institute a salary cap. That can only be accomplished by locking out the players and force a renegotiation of the labor contract. What does this have to do with college athletics? Easy, lock the players out and refuse to pay their nils and scholarships. Make the bet that the players will cave. This would force the players to the bargaining table and provide some order to college athletics. Lock them out!

Wow. That looked like a team well primed for a championship run.