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Do you really think that the catastrophe will all be on him?

It will be a Kent level disaster.

What if they could be 38-10 over the next four years?

I was hoping they would try to use the football program to benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. I don't think this is unrealistic.

No

I can only see Nihilism in our future.

"kids"? These are grown ass men who now are playing a type of minor league professional sports. Some of these "kids" are 25-26 years old. I'm not even certain why academic standards are a consideration. To me, if some of these men want to take classes towards a degree, that is good for them. If not, see you at practice, meetings and games.

Actually, it was the Supreme Court of The United States of America.

Might result in one less person in attendance next year.

Yes because I'm intellectually honest. I'd be more than happy to do it if the team won the MAC. I'd do it for a six win season next week. I can't pretend it's college athletics anymore. I don't think a person who got passed through the college of engineering without doing any work is going to last long, or even get hired in the engineering world.

In the NIL era, degrees are being handed out left and right. Players transfer from school to school and I doubt there is much cogency to the curriculum from school to school. On line masters programs are devaluing undergraduate degrees far faster than anything.

College athletics used to be a means to an end. Players went to schools, got an education/degree while playing sports then entered adult life prepared for success. Today, college football is the end and there is no preparation. I don't know how many more times I have to say this. College athletics are now minor league professional sports. I don't expect a college athlete to get a degree anymore than I expect an Akron Rubber Ducks player to attend classes and graduate from a university. Accepting this would allow coaches to do what they are brought to schools to do. That is preparing athletes for events that will be broadcast so TV networks can make money.

In an era when it's almost impossible to flunk online classes, this is pretty inexcusable. OSU probably has a 5 to 1 ratio of "academic assistants" to football players. The primary job of the assistants is to take tests for the players who coincidentally happen to be in the same classes. Sanders joked when he was at Colorado that he had not seen the inside of a classroom. Let's not pretend in the NIL era players are at the schools for the education and get these issues addressed with some academic assistants of our own. Some call this embarrassing. I don't know about that. If nobody is paying attention or even cares, how embarrassed do you need to feel?

Why is he in street clothes?

The dumbest idea of all is the bye week. On what planet is it necessary for a high school football team to have a bye week? It's just stupid. Most assistant high school football coaches get paid very little for or their efforts. Give the vast majority of them a break and get the season over with as fast as possible.

Didn't know where else to put this so I figured here would be good. https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2025/04/22/ohsaa-ohio-high-school-football-playoffs-format-survey/83205036007/ It's obnoxious how many divisions and teams get in. After they reduce the number of teams, get the divisions back to five.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shedeur-sanders-wont-be-doing-it-but-someone-could-try-to-return-to-college-after-the-draft The NFL response would be interesting depending upon how often it happened. There could be an apprehension about picking players with eligibility. There could also be an increase in players declaring for the draft because the risk could be low. The NFL could solve the problem by starting a minor league, which might be awesome for college football by getting people out who don't want to be there, but that would be really expensive.

I heard an interesting proposal about the NIL this week on Full Ride. Teams will be allowed to have a maximum of 105 players on their teams. I forget the number, but it would keep over 1,000 players out of college football. I don't care if that many don't get to play. It just ends their playing career a year or two early. If this rule applies to DIII, it will greatly harm many of this schools. Filling teams up with players is a source of revenue these schools will be without. It could put some of them out of business. Schools like Mt Union have around 200 players on the team. Those students may just end up at state schools, which would be great for Akron. It would be a $3.5 million hit for Mt Union.

If you mean next year, I agree.

I'm sure the marketing department at Arby's agrees wholeheartedly.

That's not what they give out beads for.

So much about this story is disgusting. It's hard to even begin where to discuss it.

Take out the word "just" and I agree. What it is in addition to marketing could be so much better.

I don't believe the schools are make the rules at all. If they are they are terrible rule makers. Most are failing miserably as almost every school loses money. The rules are being made, either directly or indirectly, by TV networks. There are a handful of schools capable of thriving in this climate because they have the money to do so. Everyone else is just playing games for TV viewer consumption.

Almost every P4 schools loses money with athletics. Given our history, do you believe we would be in the minority or majority? I'm of the belief out administration would set records.....in losing money of course.