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I'm not defending the BS. I'd like to eliminate the BS and make MAC athletic departments benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around their schools.

There should be MAC sports. Football should be part of MAC sports. They need to find a way to make all MAC sports work.

Incomplete definition.

If you want to eliminate all MAC sports that don't make a profit, there will be no Mac sports.

What if they tell Akron to leave and take their basketball program with them? How do you plan on paying off the MAC for the breach of contract lawsuit Akron would be almost guaranteed to lose? The major problem with Nihilism is the is never a consideration for what comes next. Your second paragraph isn't in the world of reality. The answer for the MAC is not to abandon football. The answer is to find ways to make it financially viable for the members that will benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools. Start with no more weeknight games and start games at times that make them more family friendly considering games last 3.5+ hours now. Make it a college athletics experience and not a television show. The answer for Akron is to use our new AD to help influence a new direction for the member institution.

A problem I see with Akron is what happens when the coach you hire sees behind the curtain. From the outside looking in, Akron looks like a great opportunity. Great stadium, great training facility, location that allows them to recruit well...and then....

What would you like to do with the rest of the teams?

Great question. I'm guessing the answer is yes. I didn't think this until I read Captain Kangaroo's report of the event held in west Akron before the season. When a coach openly bellyaches at a public event about all the things he doesn't have, he's finished. If you give a crap about how the program is viewed publicly, you don't do that.

OU had a chance to win the game and only lost by three. OU is what a competent MAC program looks like. There is no reason a top third of the MAC shouldn't be able to complete against a bottom third Big Ten school. College football is broken in that almost everyone is just playing games and trying to make money to support a bloated athletic department. There are only 5 to 7 programs tops who have a shot at winning a championship. Akron can compete, but it has to be at a level where money is less important. I don't know that exists right now nationally, but I would bet a lot of universities would breathe a sigh of relief if it did.

Are they playing their games on a day of the week and at times that would make it attractive for someone to attend? I would say no. BG had a great crowd last night, but Eddie George creates more interest than $2 beers and scholarship give aways. I'll be interested to see if they can keep it up. Is Akron a mess? Hell yes. Last night was a disaster. There is no positive spin that can be put on a 10-0 loss to a bad team that had to travel cross country. I think the entire league is a mess in terms of football. After a couple of decades, the rot created by weeknight games has taken its toll. I'm so disgusted by it all I can barely bring myself to watch it.

I watched some of the Miami Wisconsin game and by that I mean a couple of Miami series. They have a seventh year QB (yes, you read that right). He looked like he never played a game. If you plan on playing college football until you are 25, at least look like a star your last year, whenever that may be.

Organizations? No, just give them away to anyone who wants one.

I hope you are right.

Not this season.

These are called promotions. If the promotions don't work, come up with another promotion. If I was a student who really needed a tuition waiver, I might not be able to attend a game because I'm at my job because I need money to pay for tuition. The odds of winning the waiver are so low it isn't worth losing my job. Or, I can't go to the game because I have to study because I don't have much free time because my job that pays my tuition doesn't give me much fee time for fun, if you call what happened last night fun. The promotion right now needs to be tens of thousands of tickets being given away around NE Ohio just to get 5-10 thousand people willing to watch that crap.

Nihilism is not the answer because it doesn't prove solutions, only destruction. If Akron moved forward without a plan as to what to do about basketball and soccer, those programs would be finished. Football isn't holding those programs back. They are really good already with a bad football program and will remain so.

They aren't old enough to remember Black Saturday, which was a loss in 1987 to Delaware State, 52-27. We gave up three pick six's and a blocked punt in the end zone for a TD.

I understand, but there are various types of costs. There is the cost of student fees. There are also time considerations. I wasn't there and didn't actually see a play, so I rely on others. Did the university do enough to make a students time spent at the entire event worth it?

I always say the athletic department should benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Regardless of outcome, did the athletic department do all it could last night to benefit these five groups?

We should have hired Jim Grobe to supervise the construction.

Actually, the student fees largely support athletics, so they a paying. Think of the students non participation like this. You are forced to buy a gallon of milk because you need a cup of it to make something and milk at your store is only sold in gallon sizes. You make the dish requiring a cup of milk and put the reminder in the refrigerator. After a while, the remainder of the gallon of milk spoils in the back of your refrigerator. You have two choices: 1. Drink the milk and get sick. 2. Pour the milk down the drain and write off the loss. The students are pouring the milk down the drain.

They should give away thousands of tickets. Seems to be the right price for the product.

There won't be many MAC teams that score zero points this week. In 2025, it's almost impossible to get shut out. It's a level of malpractice ranking right up there with a doctor amputating the wrong leg. Wyoming isn't even a very good team. Joe is finished. They can fire him tomorrow or they can wait until the end of the season. I really don't care when. If they fire him now, it makes the type of fan who always wants to fire the coach happy, but they will probably want to fire two replacements by the end of the season. That level of Nihilism is insatiable. I don't think it matters either way, but I don't care at this point. The program isn't dead, but it's close.

BG has a really nice crowd tonight.

This is the reason why Bill Belichick benched Drew Bledsoe for Tom Brady. A shell shocked QB is a good reason to bench one. Findley has been under siege his entire time at Akron like Bledsoe was. It just happens.