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I'm not standing on a moral high horse. Morality has never been my strong suit. "Being right is the boobie prize." A contractor once told me this. Fighting and winning this case in 2027 would get us nothing and be little more than a distraction. I really don't give a crap what guys are Tweeting. In fact, the transfer portal has given me the go-ahead to not give a crap about them since their loyalty is about an inch deep. I'd rather they put their efforts towards getting ready for the season. After all, they are professionals now. I think winning against Wyoming would give this team more of a jolt in 2025 than winning a lawsuit against the NCAA in 2027.

The ABJ wouldn't give Akron a bad look in this case. Akron would be giving itself a bad look.

I don't think fighting the post season ban is a fight worth having. Akron didn't live up to Akron's obligations as a member of the NCAA. Akron is getting punished for Akron's actions. Accepting punishment for wrongdoing is the adult thing to do. Another adult thing to do would be to learn from this lesson and get better, not call a lawyer. We're four months away from bowl season. The best we could hope for is to get a temporary injunction until the case could go to trial in 2026. Do you have any idea how full Federal Court dockets are? How long do you want this drama to go on until we ultimately lose a case? What if Akron loses the case and next year at this time we are having the same conversation? How is anyone being helped carrying on with this case? Adult conversation over.... Meetings over.

I'd be difficult to prove damages when making a bowl game would cost the school more than it would make.

Why would we pay for a law firm to fight for a result that would cost us money?

I wouldn't keep him from leaving.

This is really a shady thing for this coach and ODU to do. If an employee doesn't want to be around, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

Imagine the money they have flushed down the toilet maintaining this albatross over the past couple of decades. I say good riddance. I've never understood why so many were so emotionally tied to this old factory.

I'm unconcerned if someone was a back up player last year and a starter this year. We can't play against last year's team. Players can improve over the off season. If a starter goes down, there's a big problem to deal with at the G5 level and most of P5. Depth in college football is horrible and compound that with the lack of continuity because of the transfer portal, injuries kill. The question then becomes how does Akron exploit this bad hand WY has been dealt? Attack the backup players in the run game?... That's what they do in the NFL. Prepare for more WY run and pass blitz packages?....I would because backups can't get as much pressure as starters and blitzing helps support them. If a backup is a weak link, how do the Zips block him with one lineman while double teaming Wyoming's better players?....makes sense to me.

Good information. Much needed news for the Zips who have a lot of questions to answer on the O line. This is not insignificant. Injuries are killers in football. Depth is important as players can't play every play. At G5 schools, it's hard to find really good starters and even more difficult to coach your way out of injuries. Coaches are only as good as their players.

Nice find.

These three paragraphs stand out to me. I agree, college football for me is becoming less interesting by the week. I don't care that there is money in it now for the players. I do care that the conversations around it are so tedious and boring. It's all so gross anymore and I even mean other sports as well. There are lots of other things I can do with my time. I'm going to start doing those and wait for pro football to come on the television on Sundays. Being broke is bad. Being the poorest of the poor is catastrophic. It's something that can't be hidden from the competition. Heck, they talk about it publicly. I don't know how any coach wins under these conditions. Akron will have a losing record again this season. They will part ways with Joe. Then they will hire another victim. Years ago I drove everyone nuts when I called Akron The Graveyard of Coaches. Please prove me wrong. Would I care if Akron got rid of football? Yes I would but I'm at the age where I wouldn't be overly upset. Football is the national sport now and they need to find a way to have one at whatever level works for them. I don't want to be a Wright State or Cleveland State. This could be said for a lot of programs around the country. Maybe schools like Dayton have figured it out. Become part of a non-scholarship conference while having high level basketball, etc. Maybe a huge weight would be lifted off of MAC schools if they all went this direction.

It's too bad they don't hold public events and fans could go ask questions to quench their thirst. Oh, wait.....

Television networks haven't decided.

Oh well. I'm not a degenerate gambler so I don't care.

P4 won't trim the fat as in cutting weak programs. It would be a smart for the Big 10 and SEC to have their own football conference. I don't know how many schools they have between them, but the number has to be around the same as the NFL. It's become pretty obvious that the Big 22 and ACC cannot keep up with them.

How embarrassing for Memphis. They won 11 games last year. Let me be the first to welcome them to the new G5 division. I will say, it's been nice to have an off season without all of the conference jumping. That part of college football may have run it's course.

This was quite the ramble. I'm jealous.

Looks like one game starting 3:30 or earlier on Saturday. Miami game start time not set but on a Saturday. Could the start times get any worse?

Bankruptcy is bad. Dissolution is worse. Anything further you would like to share?

I wouldn't attend this if I still lived in Akron, but I think it's a good idea. Annually, they would have things like golf outings to bring people together. I didn't play in those either because I absolutely suck at golf to the point I'm made miserable playing, and I'm not blowing a round of golf level money to be made miserable. I prefer to throw money at the University from a distance. I'm so lazy about it I don't even write checks anymore. I let them automatically take money from my account every month. A small $20 event at a coffee shop is a good idea to bring some people in who don't want to spend golf level money but want to learn more about what's going on. It is also pretty low cost, which is important right now. I hope people attend.

I wouldn't buy season tickets because I wouldn't go to the weeknight games or any game that starts after 3:30. There is no reason for a family of four with the oldest child being 11 to go to a game starting later or on a weeknight, which isn't me, I'm just saying. By itself, Akron can't solve this problem. It's a problem throughout the G5 world. The causes are many. The solutions will be simple but hard to achieve because of the enemy within, athletic directors.

Well, if the G5 schools pulled their heads out of their backsides, they could structure their league in a way that finances were less of a burden. I don't think a high level P4 win does much for a G5 school long term. App State was already a good program. It won national championships the two years prior to beating Michigan and were a I-AA powerhouse for years prior. Win or lose against Michigan that day, App State would be good. I think that the incoming freshman class wasn't born when they beat Michigan. It's a strange historical fact for them in the same way that Akron beating OSU in the late 1800s is a strange historical fact now. Our problem is even when something good happens, it's never enough and an excuse for why we can't be any good. Wins against Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Northwestern (I think they played in the Big 10 championship this season)?..... That's not good enough, they didn't beat Michigan that one time so nobody cares. The reason nobody cares is because even if they were good, they play their games on days of the week and at times that make it almost impossible for people to either attend and/or care. They play their arch rival on weekday night games in front of a basically empty stadium. The money problem can be mitigated, but the stupidity can't.

Millions of people live in NE Ohio. Surely someone could figure out a way to get 15,000 of them to show up for a football game six times a year.

I hate to hear this. I believe universities should maintain at least some old buildings. It's been over 30 years, but at one time the restaurant in the basement served the best grilled chicken sandwiches in Akron.