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I injected him because I didn't have anything more interesting to say.

Yes. We are talking about that guy. We used to talk about him a lot more.

Akron ---> Heaven where we find out Jim Grobe is God after all.

Joe Biden? He strikes me as a genius. Maybe not Him Grobe though.

Not if Jim Grobe was coaching us.

Here are my thoughts on the game. I'm glad I didn't see a play.

I work with a guy whose brother is an extremely well known defensive coordinator in the NFL. When the Browns were going 1-15, people would say OSU or Alabama could beat the Browns. He asked his brother if that was true. His brother just laughed and told him the Browns would beat OSU and Alabama 77-0 and they would struggle to get more than one first down per drive. I thought of that when I saw your post.

My life experience tells me that no matter how hot it is out, no matter how cold it is outside, it's always 72 degrees on a barstool. Cleveland can do this. Maybe not on the scale of CLT, but it can be done.

I think the best thing about watching MACtion is seeing how good of a job the camera crews do of avoiding showing empty stands.

This is fascinating. Thanks for posting. I live in South Carolina, but if there were no other cars on the road, it would take me less than 20 minutes to get to the Carolina Panthers stadium. Charlotte is a bustling city. The part of CLT that is most happening is the South End just across a bridge from uptown. South Blvd runs through it. When moved here 18 years, a mayor of CLT referred to South Blvd as The Corridor of Crap. Now, there are 10 miles of things to do. It's designed for young people to have fun. What happened in CLT could happen in Cleveland and to a smaller extent Akron. These cities MUST make their downtowns a place for young people to live, work and have fun. The failure of Cleveland has been not making downtown an attractive place to live and hoping people from suburbs come and spend money. If the people already live there, there is a lot less hoping. Columbus figured this out two decades ago. Cincinnati figured out later than Columbus and I hear it now has a busy downtown. Cleveland needs to figure it out soon. I can't believe the amount of energy people in Cleveland are putting into trying to keep the Browns by the lake. The best thing that could happen to Cleveland would be for that pile of junk of a franchise to move out to that junkyard by the airport and play there. It opens up acres of land for lakefront property and development for young people. That area would be better than Charlotte's South End.

You're not wrong.

I thought it looked strange on TV. The royal blue makes the logo stick out, which is what we don't need. They should have painted the logo I invisible ink.

92 is still the best winning percentage in D1 history at Akron. Amazing, this was 32 years ago. All Akron had was the Rubber Bowl and a work out room in the Natatorium. Faust actually provided hope to Zips fans. There really was hope for the program back then. Just a few more pieces and we would be on our way. And then the failure of leadership hit and here we are today.

Such a simple logo. So many things wrong.

I'm hoping they hire Jim Grobe out of the retirement home.

I have a friend who is a member of Fairlawn CC. Faust showed up and played by himself all the time. Everyone liked him and he treated everyone well. I don't think he ever had a membership though. He just showed up and played.

They can have influence.

Some of you are waaaay to worried about the ABJ. Save that junk for other topics. A good guy died today.

He was a very nice man who actually cared about his players. He didn't have the required level of sleaze even back then to be successful at the college level.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5916622/2024/11/12/gerry-faust-notre-dame-akron-college-football/

The first word that came in my head was "unbelievable", but then I remembered the endless self destruction.

Cutting is the easiest thing to do. I'd be interested in knowing what the plans for revenue growth are besides destroying the football program. We seem to have destroying the football program down as it is the only successful thing we do with the football program. Looking for new ideas.

I'll see you Jim Tressel and raise you a Jim Grobe. Seriously, Tressel is 71 years old. Luke has a few more million dollar paydays in his future. Akron ain't one of those places.

A cartoon kangaroo should absolutely be part of the marketing efforts with a direct appeal to children.

Sort of. I complain about them padding their resumes with meaningless accomplishments and then moving on to destroy another school.