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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.

The guys on Full Ride are talking about this. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/acc/2026/10/27/dave-doeren-nc-state-football-nil-resources-comments-press-conference/92467483007/ My question is this. If you have high level expectations for the Zips, is the University financing your expectations? The Zips are exactly what they are paying for. If this doesn't change, firing Joe is an exercise in firing to hire only to fire again. This is a losing equation. The next guy will just be another victim. Coaching football is extremely difficult. The head coach can't be the fundraiser. The AD needs to do this work. He seems to be doing well, but the Zips need a lot more.

Or between every play. At the last Wake Forest vs Stanford game I went to, the referee had to stop the game and tell the score board operator to stop playing music after the play clock started. I think college athletics are run and populated by total morons. Oh well, at least I'm not made nauseated by how loud the music is. They seem to have gotten that under control.

I meant literally.

It sure is. The Rockets are a serious football program and the Blade reports on it in a serious manner. That's what NE Ohio needs. People want the ABJ to be a cheerleader for Zips football. It shouldn't be. If the Zips were a serious program, the ABJ could do serious pieces on them. That means the good and the bad.

They should be at home this week.

Timing is everything. A 3-6 team making the playoffs is punishment for a bad season.

He's just getting started.

If rather have Jim Grobe.

Half the crowd at Wake Forest games leaves at halftime. Maybe it's not about the football but about the endless TV timeouts, unnecessarily long halftimes and replays turning what used to be a 3 hour game into a four hour game. We look at things as Zips fans. The rest of the world is seeing their game day experience the same way and responding the same way Zips fans do.

Then make it about more than the game. Involve the entire University. Involve the students and faculty in a more meaningful way. Involve the alumni in a more meaningful way. Involve the general community around Akron in a more meaningful way. The lie we were all told, and anyone who goes back long enough on this board knows I thought was stupid from the beginning, was the "exposure" lie. TV exposure isn't going to help a school like Akron. In person exposure would be awesome because people would get to see first hand what a great campus, student body and faculty the school has. ESPN isn't going to do that for us. We need to do it ourselves. I know why I don't go to high school games and haven't for years. It has nothing to do with ESPN. The quality of football isn't good enough for me to spend my time on. The last time I went to a high school game I was so bored I left at halftime. The MAC is the lowest quality of football I will watch in person. I can stay home and watch better quality football on TV. I wish the NFL played on Friday and Saturday nights. It would be great to watch a Saturday afternoon Zips game starting in the afternoon, go get a nice dinner, and have an NFL game waiting for me when I got home.

I don't know. I would like to run a 25 year test (about the same time MACtion has been going on). During the test, MAC games will only be played on Saturday afternoons during the day. In addition, the athletic directors of each school will put all the effort into supporting these MAC games as they have in destroying the league over the past 25 years. Actually, we'll need more effort because they didn't put up any fight against ESPN and the obvious bad idea MACtion has been the past couple decades. I'm old enough to remember Akron vs Kent games when both teams were bad and there were 20k plus at the games. I know it can be done because it HAS been done. After this 25 years, we'll know. I'll 82 and close to death because that's about the age my parents died, but we'll know.

Maybe we could forego weeknight games and stay where we are until the MAC and the rest of G6 conferences start their own division.

I'd rather not have them at all.

A better product always helps. It's not the only thing that draws people to games.

I would argue that the weeknight games are not only the worst thing to happen to Akron, but the entire MAC. The only people who think they are good for the schools are the athletic directors, and they are the same clowns who will destroy their school to make it to a bigger school.