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Getting back to attendance because I don't really care about the game itself. Doesn't seem worth talking about. I have the nicest yard on my street. People might think Hank Hill himself lives in it. My neighbors ask me, "GP1, how do you get your yard so nice". I always respond with the same three reasons: 1. TruGreen 2. Sunlight 3. Water It isn't overly difficult to get people to a football game in NE Ohio. 1. Play on a weekend day. 2. Play when the sun is up. 3. Clean bathrooms and parking lots. Can the MAC start to get this part right?

Sounds like Jim Brown.

Play games on a day of the week and a time convenient for people to attend, and they will. It's plainly obvious. I wonder how much longer the MAC will allow ESPN to destroy the league with weeknight games? Probably a long time.

Good for them. What about the rest of the season?

All of this sounds pretty dire.

They had better hope nobody ever sees it.

I don't actually go to the beach. I can see it, but I don't go. If by "water", you mean Coors Light, pretty good.

I'm at the beach today. What happened?

Hal Hunter was on his staff. Hal.was the offensive line coach for three years right when Akron became D1.

EJ Manuel summed up the ESPN view of the college football playoff expansion this morning. He basically said that once you boil down college football to the core, it's about late season meaningful games and winning a national championship. A true company man. I almost threw up listening to him.

Why do they have to meet at all? Is what makes college football great a national championship, or is it everything else. I'm of the opinion it's everything else.

You can't say the Zips don't play hard. You can say that they do the dumbest things.

ESPN executives are like a drunk in a bar, 20 beers in, and someone offers him a shot. He takes it just to take it at that point. This is why Congress needs to step in. If the universities are going to protect themselves from the money, someone else will need to.

What has happened is the people who preached "more is better" around college athletics are winning and are are killing it. More teams have not made conferences better. More solid gold urinals in athletic facilities hasn't made college athletics better. More playoff teams isn't going to make things better.

Good post. Not that long ago, a type of AI was picking a four team playoff and it was great. Today, humans are deciding on a 24 team playoff. Maybe there is something to this AI after all.

ESPN doesn't care what any says about this issue on their air. A 24 team playoff rips at the heart of competition, which is to bring out the best in yourself, if you follow the Greek version of the word. Allowing so many team to participate doesn't require teams to be at their best every week. Many teams guaranteed playoff spots will sit players late in the season to avoid injury risk while fans pay top dollar going to games having to watch meaningless junk. This is all so disheartening and gross it's hard to articulate how much I hate it.

Wake might be a little better? Let me help. This is the best Wake Forest team I've seen in my 18 years of going to games. They outplayed Miami by a lot in the second half of their game. They beat an improved Purdue on the road. They had back to back road wins against Top 25 teams for the first time since Peahead Walker was coach. They beat a very good Louisville on the road and destroyed NC State on the road last week. I can't think of a better coaches team.

What else would be involved other than the game?

Relegation would accelerate the rate at which universities bankrupt themselves with sports.

Throw in Mountain West and Conference USA.

It would be most of the MAC. Deadwood ain't just a city in South Dakota, its a G5 conference.

It's a small price for another line on an athletic director's resume.

I assume 8. The Ivy League gets a team every season.

Amen. Akron only had one win and drew a nice crowd Saturday. They played during the day on a Saturday and people showed up for what an entertaining game. People will remember a fun day with family and friends much longer than whether or not the Zips won. All of those people chose fun. Keep providing a fun day.

Good post. I've been saying it for years. Expansion for the sake of expansion is dumb. Conferences are way too big. I'd love Akron to play the same 9 teams every year, develop deeper rivalries and mix in 3 OOC games.