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Nick Saban is classless and he wins national championships. I'll put you down as not wanting to win.

There is too much media coverage about Arth going to LA for it to not be true.

Want to win or not?

Want to win?

I think you have this turned around. I'm not a fan of the current President. His PR strategy seems to be to take a bad situation and make it worse through poor communication.

Interesting. Let's play out a couple of scenarios. First, Arth stays at Akron and combining his first three years at Akron with his time at UTC, nobody any bigger than Akron ever touches him. He is too young to let his career rot away at Akron. There is no Earthly reason for it, but it is truly The Graveyard of Coaches. Heck, Bowden is now in a worse situation than he was at Akron, but he was pretty long in the tooth. Second scenario, he leaves Akron to go to LA to be the QB coach. He falls into a great opportunity with a great young QB. QB coaches are some of the highest paid non-coordinators in the NFL making almost $1 million annually on the high end. More games annually and no job description that includes kissing the rear ends of 16-18 year old kids in the recruiting process. People can say whatever they want about soCAL, but if you make that kind of money you aren't living around homeless encampments.....Did I mention the weather? Their two "bad months" involve having to run the air conditioner because of the heat. Even if he only made $650K he would improve his income at Akron while improving his future employment opportunities. Hmmmm..... If Arth hasn't at least made a call, he is nuts.

Nothing. It's been a long time since Duquesne has achieved anything so when I saw your question I knew the safe answer was "nothing".

Another reminder of why it is so hard to follow. Two things. First, given how much money OSU and Auburn make, we are being grossly underpaid. This is a symbol of athletic director incompetence. Second, when the conversation becomes money vs putting on an event where students, alumni, fans and the general Akron community can enjoy a game, and money wins, I'm not interested.

Thanks for the reminder of why I don't enjoy talking about this team anymore. This is a terrible ooc schedule. Two destruction games. I had no idea Bryant even had a team. Temple is one of the least interesting teams in college football.

Develop good football and fan experience first, then worry about playoffs. The problem with the P5 schools now is the focus on the playoffs (it isn't a playoff and if anyone needs me to explain the difference I would be happy to do so). It is a distraction from the fact that the college football being played today is better than it ever has been across P5 conferences. Teams like Iowa State, Baylor and Indiana were bottom dwellers when I was growing up and now they compete well and provide a great fan experience. None of that seems to matter now and has been replaced with a focus on basically 3 teams with an extra. It's bad for college football...great for OSU, Alabama and Clemson, but bad for everyone else. Those who want to expand the current system think it will fix this problem and it will only make it worse. It's the same mentality that thinks watching Duke destroy a Howard in the first round of March Madness is entertaining, it isn't and people who like to watch this just like sitting in a bar on Thursday afternoon rather than working. So would I, but I don't need a bad basketball game as an excuse.

Makes some interesting points. Most of it is comparing apples to oranges. In reality, over half the teams in March Madness have almost zero shot at winning the tournament and are there as fundraising tools for the NCAA to operate itself. I would want the NCAA to make the college basketball regular season and tournaments more important. Start with decreasing the number of teams in March Madness to 32 or 16. Place a premium on winning your conference tournament. Everyone else can play in the nit or try harder next year.

I don't know, but it would be so disgusting that even Dr. Pimple Popper wouldn't want to inspect it. The doctor would just sign the form.

Akron has much more going for it than Monroe. Nicer campus. More for a young guy to do socially. Better football facilities. The list is a mile long. I would fake a job related injury and go on disability and live in Akron before taking a job in Monroe.

Imagine Shreveport, only worse. If you can't imagine Shreveport, imagine Youngstown. At least Shreveport has Earnest's Orleans. Best crab claws appetizer I've ever eaten.

I respectfully disagree. Expanding the "playoffs" (it isn't a playoff) to 8 teams only ensures that at least one of the underdog teams gets an invite to get their rear ends kicked by Alabama/OSU/Clemson. These sort of blowouts are terrible for the sport. The last thing the P5 schools should want to do is expand their season to the point their regular season are as meaningless as those in the lower divisions. The P5 schools will never want a 10 game regular season line D3. Twelve games plus a championship game plus three more games would be 16 games. That is too taxing on a college player. 16 games is too taxing on most NFL rookies.

Respectfully, none of this will do what you want it to do. Winning is creating the disparity. We shouldn't punish teams for success, but we should make the next year's schedule very difficult for them. For example, the first place team of the Big Ten should have to play the first place team of two-three of the other P5 conference the following season. Nine to ten conference games....no cupcakes for anyone. Go back to a computer deciding two teams that make the championship game, no "playoff". Just football with a meaningful season start to finish. If Ohio State, next year, can beat Clemson, Oklahoma and Alabama in early season play then run the Big Ten, they deserve to be in the championship. If not, someone else gets in. Same for the other three.

What is making college basketball more competitive is the one and done rule. Most schools cannot keep up if they get too many of these players. Kentucky seems to with the exception of this year. I would also argue that if it wasn't for the volume of games on in the first two rounds of the ncaa tournament, those games would mostly be a complete bore. Most end up blowouts and the only thing that keeps me tuned in is I can turn to another game.

It sure is. However, I have rediscovered this year how much I really like watching college football and it has nothing to do with some silly playoff the money grubbers who run college football designed. The BYU vs. CCU game was the best of the season and neither team is in the "playoffs". I can't remember the last time I watched at least 50% of a Clemson, Alabama or OSU game. They simply are not entertaining because they ultimately end up being blow outs. If I had to make a list of positives and negatives for buying Wake Forest tickets, a negative would be having to watch Clemson humiliate them every other year in Winston-Salem. The game is almost always terrible. If the Athletic Directors who run college football were National Park Rangers, their solution to a small and controllable forest fire would be to throw gasoline on it. I am sure that at some point, they will come to the conclusion the only solution to the boring system they created is to expand it. It will do nothing to change the competitive advantage those 5-6 teams at the top have in terms of recruiting. The rich will get richer and the rest of us will become more indifferent and stop watching.

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I would like to congratulate those of you who were able to watch more than 2 hours of the season. They averaged 16 points per game. Not exactly entertainment. As a reward, espn will be sending you a set of Chris Berman salt and pepper shakers from their 1998 collectors series.

I am/was a huge Biggs fan. Was he the most talented RB? Not by a long shot. He knew one important thing. It takes zero talent to work hard. Through hard work, he transformed a team that was destined for a miserable season and turned them into winners. I haven't seen the Zips play a single play this year, but if this RB is working as hard as advised and is transforming the culture of the team, we may have someone far better than Biggs.

I would add that Coach Arth needs a little work on his cliches.

I have one better. The taxpayers of Ohio. Back out ESPN and P5 games and it's around two million per school. Six mac schools in ohio and that's 12 million dollars. Around one dollar per ohio citizen.

The NCAA is a membership organization and the members did not want it.

I agree with everything you said. In addition, schools like ours can do even better. We can make college athletics something that binds students, alumni, fans and the greater community to the school.