GP1

They are swimming against the tide.

This news is as exciting as a warm glass of skim milk.

Thoroughbreds eat a lot of oats. It probably wouldn't be the best move for him.

Is there a Brink's truck en route from Kentucky to Connecticut yet?

Bring your animals in during the eclipse tomorrow. Humans I mean. We at the only animal stupid enough to stare up at the sun.

If, indeed.

A year and a half ago, KY was on the schedule and it got worse. Long time between now and the 2025 season.

They set themselves up to lose and place JoeMo in a position where he can never win. Successful college football programs use the schedule to establish and maintain winning. Akron doesn't. It is used to make money, not win.

I struggle to think of a reason why someone would buy season tickets. Toledo and BG are the only two teams on the home schedule I find even a little interesting and one is during the week so I wouldn't go even if I lived there. This is an absolutely horrible schedule.

That's not what the first sentence of my post says. I think winning is secondary to making money. They would like to win, but if they lose and make a lot of money, they are happy. When they get to the point where winning is their primary consideration, I will change my opinion. However, the facts are on my side.

I suspected for a long time that the university doesn't care if the football team won or lost. It was when KY dropped their game and we replaced it with OSU that I actually believed it. It's also the day I was convinced Coach Joe should have turned in his resignation and gone to a school that is actually trying to win games. What I don't understand is this. If the University doesn't care, why do so many of you still buy season tickets? Find another way to give the University the same amount of money. Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, and I were invited to the South Carolina game by a couple we are close with and don't see as much because they made their Edisto Island house their full time home. The only reasons we are going is because Wake Forest doesn't play that day and we want to see our friends . I'd never go watch the Zips get destroyed otherwise.

My flight is delayed.

I'm assuming nobody will care. With limited vision, it wouldn't be hard to tear it down and construct something more value to the people in and around Akron.

Events like these benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. They are a good thing and should happen.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a guy who plays at the Flora Bama at Orange Beach named Alabama Big Earl. I've seen him live. He has a song called Poontang On The Pontoon. Maybe he could have a post game concert.

Rhode Island is worth a trip.

It would be lame. I can think of 1,000 better ideas. Here are two. First, home and home in Cleveland and the Pens arena in Pittsburgh. Make it part of a double header with Pitt playing Team X in Pittsburgh and OSU playing Team X in Cleveland. Second, play in a double header at a military base or on the deck of an aircraft carrier during the holiday season. Bring KD along and give him something. Make the destination somewhere nice like San Diego where KD and his wife can have a nice vacation around some basketball. When the school does something permanent for KD like hanging a banner in his name or naming the court after him, it should be on a Friday night when Kent comes to town. Honoring KD at a high school basketball gym just so every can name drop LBJ, again, is nonsensical. Good grief, St V is in a horrible part of the city with a hotel across the street known as the "hooker hotel".

Good point. It's a huge gamble and one he doesn't need to make at this point in his career. He shouldn't kill a bright future there. Nobody recovers. With the exception of KD, look at this list of failures and their bad jobs after Duquesne. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duquesne_Dukes_men's_basketball_head_coaches

The Pittsburgh press is as lazy as the rest of them and is better than most at cheerleading for bad decisions. This article claims he has good experience. Five years at CSU and Duquesne combined isn't that great of experience. Being friends with James isn't experience. This is ABJ level logic. Don't take the job Dru. It's a historically bad program that went on a great 5 game stretch. It's almost always a coach killer. Find an assistant job at a good P5 program for a couple of years. The connection with James will be enticing for one of them just like it is for Duquesne. If you want after that, take a mid major job. It's a better path to a P5 HC job.

Not in it's current state. Unused real estate is expensive to maintain because there is no revenue stream. If the University doesn't have plans to use it, sell it for anything they can get and move it off the books. Let someone else tear it down and develop it.

You're right. It's more mainstream. And it's not as cool.

Here is an article that includes gambling as a reckless behavior. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/four-years-later-covid-isnt-done-with-us-280a7cf1?mod=Searchresults_pos16&page=1 Because of legalization, gambling and smoking pot aren't even cool anymore. It used to be cool to feel like you were clandestinely buying some pot in college on a Friday from some shadowy dude. In reality , the cops had a lot more to worry about in Akron than a small time pot dealer pushing joints around the University. Now you just got to a store to buy pot that leaves a person catatonic after two hits. When I was in college, I could smoke an entire joint with three friends and not be incapacitated. Gambling was cool also. You knew a shady guy that you had to go pay once a week. Now you tell your phone. Is there anything less cool than that? I think this is the first time in my life when I look back on the current college kids and pitty them for not being as cool as my generation.

It's easier than ever for a player to fix a game. There is no gangster paying the kid. All the player needs is a Draft Kings account only the player knows about, and the discipline to not get greedy and keep his mouth shut.

They just need to include a warning written on the websites written in the smallest font possible warning people gambling might not be the best thing for them. Everything will be fine.