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Kick the freaking FG. They would be down 1 with 4 minutes. Two time outs and two minute warning. Long run TD. Kick the FG and you're still in the game. This is what bad coaching looks like. Horrible situational awareness.

Question 1: No. Those that spend, outperform. Those that don't spend, underperform. The job isn't attractive enough to draw someone capable of overcoming the lack of spending. Question 2: No. The job of being a head coach is too difficult to rely on that person to also raise money. This responsibility needs to fall squarely on the shoulders of the AD. From what I can piece together, our AD is putting his best foot forward, but we have a long way to go just to catch up. Could this get turned around and Akron becomes respectable? Of course it could. Wake Forest is having a Top 25 season with a cast off from UNC at QB, one future NFL receiver and a physical defense. None of this showed itself against the Zips. All of this has been strung together by a coach who is smart about how the money he does have gets spent. Can they win the ACC? Probably not, but at least everyone is talking about them in November. Akron could be a MAC program that at least MAC teams/fans must to pay attention to in November, but that will never happen with what they are spending.

Yes. I can imagine it. Where do I sign up.

JD won a MAC Championship and is the only coach to do it. I'll take that over a bowl game.

Ummmmm.....

I'm not interested in talking about the futility of the program. There's enough of that around here. For the record, Dennison wasn't forced to leave the school. Dennison was promoted to AD where he showed zero ability to chart a course for the future. Had the University not made this Mickey Mouse decision and brought in an ad that had a vision, we might be having different discussions today.

I miss some of it. Can you summarize in 15 words or less?

How did Urban Meyer do it? Very simple, he brought in a future NFL player at QB named Josh Harris. He was only there for two years and got out while the gettin was good. Any player with JHs talent in the NIL era would be at a P4 school. Pretend you are the coach. How do you discipline them? Most are at Akron because they can't be disciplined or they simply aren't very good. Bench them?....Holy cow, most are already third stringers who found the last place that would take them so the person behind them is even worse. Yell at them?....It goes in one ear and out the other with most guys because they know they can't be benched because of the crap behind them. Kick them off the team?.....If you kicked every moron off of this team, the waterboys would be playing. Make them do more exercise as punishment?.....Most of them can run until their legs fall off. Shame them?.....I don't think guys who transfer as much as guys do today experience much shame. Seriously, someone tell me how to discipline these idiots.

How would you discipline these idiots in a way that would eliminate mistakes?

He did create the roster out of what's leftover when better financed programs get their guys. I'm not sure many Zips fans realize how behind the eight ball the program is.

There is little difference between college soccer and college golf.

Anyone with a brain wouldn't hire him.

Show me a coach with a roster of bums and I'll show you a loser.

I listened to the interview. He's a dunce. We are screwed.

You're too dismissive of the portal. How do you expect someone to build a culture with the scraps we get after the annual player exodus? You can't fix stupid. Our financial position leaves us with the dummies of the world. Did Indiana fix their culture or did Mark Cuban just buy a bunch of star players? Indiana's coach wouldn't be winning with the crap they used to put on the field.