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I was driving home from the Wake Forest vs Clemson game and listened to the end of the Guardians game. Then I switched on the Zips game just in time for the muffed kick. I thought the same thing.

I also heard Atari is getting rid of the joystick.

They don't stand a chance.

I remember CK posting something. I trust him.

Considering recent budget cuts including elimination of a training table and the Kentucky to OSU stupidity, I think it's a legitimate discussion.

I guess I should look at the schedule more. Five of the first seven games on the road. What could go wrong?

Those are all for the fans and students. The players don't care anymore. I wish I was wrong.

There is no more tradition in college athletics, only money.

Why? With the transfer portal, half will never graduate from Akron.

I don't know who the AD was that fired Arth, but I heard they did petty things to him while he was still coach like taking away his parking space. What I'm saying is if I heard this in a a bar in Charlotte, what are people around college athletics saying? Arth was a chump. Moorhead is a big name and knows a lot of people. He'll get a lot of calls from coaches interested in Akron. I doubt he'll have many good things to say about how Akron manages the athletic department. Yes CK! It can get worse. A lot worse. What do I mean by worse? Imagine a Rob Ianello hire only not because the AD is a moron, but because he is the best choice of applicants.

I would have left after Kentucky bailed and they backfilled the schedule with OSU on the road.

It is. It's also completely real. Most people in the United States should expect their career and income to decline after 50. It's why people who delay retirement savings until after their kids leave the house will never able to retire. In addition to not be able to take advantage of compound interest, their incomes decline so they can't save as much. Most countries revere and hold up older generations as sources of wisdom. The United States discards older people. It's gross.

JD was a really friendly guy. In fact, I got to know some of his assistants and they were all good people. That was a different time in college athletics.

I've been saying this for years. The disparity between the P4 and G5 isn't just a few dollars a year. It's tens of millions of dollars that is almost impossible to balance out. There is good football being played at the G5 level. Enjoy it. There are just under 2,000 public universities in the United States. Most are doing poorly financially. The last thing the country needs is for some of them to waste time and money chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This isn't professional European soccer where the reason for existence is money. Relegation is not a solution to any of the problems G5 schools have. In fact, the pursuit of the pot of gold would be further detrimental to those schools.

I don't think I can muster enough interest about this story or watching the rest of the dominoes fall. I'm so bored with all of the conference realignment. It's because something for conference commissioners and struggling athletic directors to do.

I don't know if he's in over his head or not. Maybe he's been placed in a bad situation via a vis the football program. I don't think he has much, if any, major college football experience.

Can we go back in time and say the first recruiting class?

If this timeline is correct, Joe took the job at Akron before Mario took the job at Miami. Someone would have to confirm the timeline. https://www.si.com/college/oregon/football/early-oregon-offensive-coordinator-hotboard

That's the primary problem. Secondary is the last 3 season all have sub 60% completion percentage. It's never been easier to complete a pass and an average QB should be minimum 60%. Feel free to click on the link below. Click on each QBs name to see individual stats. The QBs on the better teams complete a high percentage of passes. https://www.espn.com/college-football/qbr/_/group/15

My point exactly. Maybe the shiny new stuff matters, but there are things that a program does that matter more than new stuff.

Maybe it isn't all the coaches fault. I would argue that the University is giving less meaningful support to the football program than it was 5 years ago.

If you think Akron can coach itself out of the hole the administration has created for this football program, you don't understand how important it is that an entire university administration support a program in order for it to be successful. Look at it like this. Joe is a mid level many at a badly run company. There is no winning and the only way for a person to advance their career is to leave the organization.

Don't forget he has an administration that submarines the program at every turn. That's a huge benefit.

I get how pissed you are. There are a lot of things to be mad at. Here is a different perspective. Joe is coaching at a school that at every turn under mines him. If you are going to go down, you my as well go down swinging with what you believe in. There is nothing for Joe at Akron. In 15-20 years he will look at taking the Akron job as one of the worst decisions in his life.

It's a long story.....