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What is a two way play and why can't they play in the playoffs? Explain it like you were talking to a third grader.

Interesting. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/wisconsin-sues-miami-for-tortious-interference-with-xavier-lucas

If you haven't watched the HBO documentary, Surviving Ohio State, I highly encourage you to do so. Most of you I assume are taxpayers of Ohio and you should see how your tax dollars are being spent. Yes, that's present tense. What happened at OSU is just as bad as what happened at Michigan State and Penn State with the addition of injecting steroids into athletes without their knowledge because they were told they were B-12 shots. The risk to Ohio taxpayers is not complete yet as the settlement amounts are not final. It's all quite disturbing on a multitude of levels.

Gross. Let's think this through. As a fan who doesn't gamble, thinks legalized gambling should be legal, believes legalized gambling is horrible for society,and likes good analysis of a game, I lose even more. In order to raise even more revenue, schools will sell even more advertisements to get people, in a very poorly state, to blow even more money they cannot afford to blow on gambling. That means the endlessly silly in game comments about the percentage of the right guard going into a three point stance on third and four. Further, the "analysis" of a game will become even more about telling us about stats and not analyzing the game. Facts aren't reasons. I want someone to tell me why something happened, not the RPMs of a pass. Louisiana universities are now in the business of persuading people to engage in one of the most irrational things anyone can do, gambling. College athletics are becoming more and more gross by the day. It's a real shame and a blight on our society.

I saw a report that said CBB would only review out of bounds if a coach challenged. Team must have a timeout and if successful, they don't lose the TO. I'm glad to see this. CBB games are lasting entirely too long. Let's get the games back to two hours. Now do the same thing with reviews to put a tenth of a second back on the clock.

Schools paying players is exactly the wrong direction. They should be allowed to have jobs and earn a living outside of the universities. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/06/07/ncaa-revenue-sharing-settlement-questions/83221673007/

Good grief. It's worse than you described. The first game is at home on a Thursday night. Why do they make this mistake over and over again? This is the Thursday before Labor Day weekend. While it is true that many will take Friday off, but why rush them home from work to scramble to make a game that probably won't be over until after 11 PM? It would be better if people had time to prepare for a nice day with their family and friends at what could be a great day for the players, students, alumni, fans and general community around Akron. They can't start this game between noon and 4PM on Saturday? It's all so gross. Prime time games against Nebraska and UAB? These should be "get in and get out" games starting at noon. Players get home in time to have a fun Saturday night out. Akron only has three chances to start games on a day AND time that is convenient for people to attend games. I understand TV is hard to control, but they need to do everything they can to play these games when the sun is up for at least half the game. For the first time in over 15 years, I didn't buy Wake Forest football tickets. Its not about the money because the tickets are relatively cheap. I'm waiting to see when games start and then buy single game tickets for game I want to attend based up a sane starting time. The first game is on a Friday night. The third game is on a Thursday night against NC State. I've gone to games like this before and the fan experience isn't good. The small 27,000 seat stadium they have is half full and after halftime there are only around 5,000 remaining at best. People vote with their feet. College football shouldn't be this hard to be a fan of.

Thanks for posting this. What these schools are doing is gross. It gets worse every time another story comes out. The solution isn't paying minors to maintain what may have been a bad decision made by a teenager. The solution is to prohibt schools from offering scholarships until January 1 of a players senior season. Further, no early graduation. Let's keep kids in high school until the normal cycle ends in May.

People like to pick the language apart, but it's propped up by taxpayers. If it wasn't for taxpayer support, UofA wouldn't exist.

Schools like Northwestern, Wake Forest, Duke, Stanford, etc will be finished. P4 is going away. It will be one super league. It has nothing to do with the NFL and everything to do with TV networks. One super leage is less expensive to produce and more expensive to buy advertising for. It's a win-win for the TV networks.

Good questions. If there are 85 current scholarships, reduce the total number of players to around 60, no scholarships. Reducing the administrative staff will be a savings as it will involve the deprofessionalizarion of college athletics. There are millions of dollars spent on administrative staff that can easily be reduced. The money is all there, just not in the hands of those who need it. Do they really need as many assistant coaches as they have? The bloat in college athletics is enormous. Cap head coaches salaries. The elimination of spring practice and summer jobs lend themselves to more time for a part time job. Spring practice is a joke so use that time in a less joke like manner. If a kid is so poor that he needs a full time job to earn a living, that's where the needs based financial support comes in. The one thing we all have to keep in mind is playing college athletics just because you were good at sports in high school isn't a right. In addition, just because someone earns a masters degree in Sports Management doesn't give them a right to a job where the taxpayers support their desires. There is no magic pool of money.

That would be awesome. My question is, what would that framework be? What if the framework was this simple below the P4 level. 1. Eliminate scholarships for college athletes. We are the only country bankrupting universities with athletic departments. 2. Allow college athletes to earn a living. This is America. 3. Restrict transferring to one time. Eliminate the obnoxious. 4. Academic standards that require movement towards a degree. This is actually helpful to kids. 5. Better regionalized conferences. Better rivalries. 6. Needs based financial support for athletes who cannot otherwise afford college. Help those who need help. 7. Schools agree to not charge out of state tuition for varsity athletes. Stop the shell game.

What could go wrong with the P4 deciding our fate? https://frontofficesports.com/charlie-baker-power-conferences-will-enforce-house-settlement-not-the-ncaa/ I've been saying it for years. Schools like Akron need to separate from the P4 and chart a better course for ourselves.

Not all of them, which makes comments like this particularly dumb.

I think kreed makes a good point, but I always fall back on what a failure it turns out to be when Akron makes unilateral decisions. Schools like Akron, and there are a lot of us, need to come together and figure out what the next steps are. I've said this for years now. Maybe an association of MAC schools and those in the Pioneer who simply don't want to shell out the money for scholarships for football and continue the humiliation of playing P4 teams just to stay afloat. What if it's just as simple as changing the MAC bylaws to eliminate scholarships for football and form a national alliance? What if it's as simple as having a large non-scholarship D1 football league? BTW, if they accepted this solution, there is a good chance the financial problem would get worse. Speaking of season tickets, I'm considering not renewing my Wake Forest tickets. Last year, four of the seven home games started after 6:30. One was on a Thursday night and another on a Friday night. I didn't even bother going. I disdain night college football games. They already have a Thursday game scheduled against NC State that I have no desire to go to. TV is ruining the college football fan experience. I'll just go to the games I want to that start at a time and day of the week that is convenient to me. I think there will be plenty of tickets to purchase.

Toga!!!!!!!!

Our goal is to stick it up the @$$es of the rest of the league and the NCAA. Come up with a bad guy. Frame yourself as a victim.

The NCAA loses a lot anymore. My guess is we could make it an initiative for the law school.

The one thing we have learned during the NIL era is the NCAA is easily defeatable in courts. Hire Thomas Mars to file a case against the NCAA. The case could argue the punishment prohibits a player from displaying their talents in a way that limits their freedom to promote themselves. It could come from a player who was meeting academic standards.

Wrong, they can complete for a league title. That's the goal.

Eliminate that handful and replace them with a handful of ringers.

Showing up for practice is too much work. Just give some guys scholarships to get good grades. This really isn't hard.

I want 5-10 guys with extremely high GPAs, SAT scores and no illusions that they could actually play given the chance which could lead to a transfer. The other 75-80 players can contribute on the field. Let's not make this extremely easy solution something that will one day blow up in our faces. No room for failure.

It seems to me that meeting the NCAA standard shouldn't be very difficult. So, how could the stats be manipulated. First, I don't believe it requires 85 players for a good college football team. If NFL teams can get by with 48 dressed for a game, so should everyone else. In reality, 65 players is enough yet we are allowed 85. Second, we are only a few students away from getting over this extremely low bar. It's only a matter of numerical manipulation. Akron should save 5-10 scholarships for what we could call "ringers". The ringers could have full football scholarships and be on the team. These ringers would also be very smart students well on their way to graduation. These ringers would all unfortunately have season ending injuries on the first day of training camp every year. It would be as if they never came to camp at all. Get well soon guys. See you next fall. The ringers could also help their teammates who are in need of some academic support. Give them all varsity jackets. Heck, if they kept the program out of probation, it would be a well earned varsity jacket. The athletic department could pick up what is covered through scholarships. They could use whatever academic scholarships they probably have for general living expenses, fun or whatever. This really isn't very difficult.

I like what I think you are thinking. If it's just about reaching a data point, then manipulate the data that creates the point. How would a school go about doing that?