GP1

Nobody does. It's nonsense deployed to sell TV advertising.

Alright, this is funny. I may not like it, but it is funny. Maybe we could just call them "French White".

Looks like the Arby's pre game meal is complete.

The fans can. The coaches can't. Hope is not a strategy. They have to think and act smartly through these challenges.

I think you make a good point. Winning attracts better high school recruits. If they don't pan out, they transfer to lesser schools that may not win and have lesser high school talent coming in. Therefore the transfer has a better shot at starting. This drop-off can happen very fast. I was surprised at the Wake Forest game last night how poor many of the back up players are. I'm talking MAC level players getting substantial playing time at an ACC school. I'll reserve my judgement until after the UVA game next week, but Wake Forest could be in big trouble. I'm not sure Clawson is sleazy enough to survive the transfer portal era.

You should go to Denver. It's unavoidable. Id rather smell cigarettes and I don't want to smell that either. I believe two things can be true at once. I believe pot should be legal. I also believe it's horrible for society. The endless stench in urban America has to be dealt with.

To other schools where they they believe they have a better chance of starting.

The days of solid depth are over due to the transfer portal. There will be backs ups and many will play, but not the quality of the past.

Joe is a small part of the failure.

State Share of Instruction It's important to put to bed the idea that the taxpayers of Ohio aren't keeping public universities alive. There is a line in the Universities balance sheet called State Share of Instruction. It's around $90 million. The first sentence of the definition reads: "The State Share of Instruction (SSI) is Ohio’s primary mechanism of subsidizing the instructional costs at Ohio’s public institutions of higher education for the purpose of reducing the cost of tuition for Ohio residents." Those who think they are smart will tell us it applies to instruction. This person doesn't see the real picture. Does anyone out there think UpfA would exist without this revenue line? It's over 30% of the revenue. Would there be an athletic department?...No, because there would be no school. Would there be dorms?....No, there would be no school. Would there be a recreational center?.....No, because there would be no school. Whenever anyone says the taxpayers of Ohio are putting up money for the instruction and everything else around public universities, they are correct. This is why any taxpayer of Ohio should get 4 general admission tickets to two MAC sports events of their liking annually. They are paying for it.

It would be nice if they could go to a football game against a D1 team on a Saturday when the weather is nice.

Harvard College admits approximately 2,000 students a year going back to at least 2016. I would bet a number very close to that goes back a long time. Akron should be increasing the standards for admission and maintain at the current enrollment. Higher GPAs and standardized test scores would be good for the University. "More" being the only measurement for success is how the University landed in this position in the first place. I want more, just more good students. I also want fewer underperforming students.

The vast majority of the students are Ohio residents. That means they are paying for the bonds and interest on the bonds.

The vast majority of the students are Ohio residents. That means they are paying for the bonds and interest on the bonds.

The taxpayers of Ohio spent millions turning Akron from a commuter school to a campus where kids would live full time. My understanding is the dorms are full. If so, where are they falling?

I used to get mad at this until I realized the University is getting out of the football program exactly what it wants. The football program is merely a fundraising organization for the athletic department and they don't care about winning. Once I realized this, it made discussing the program a lot easier.

I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be angry about. Maybe he's not dressed like a high school math teacher, but angry? He may not be Brad Pitt, but neither am I. Maybe slightly disappointed, but angry? I wish my life was so easy that something so meaningless made me angry.

Bill Belichick would disagree.

Let me know when the fundraising stops and the games start.

Doesn't it make more sense for the remaining Ohio public university system schools to make themselves more attractive to potential students? Artificial supply restrictions will drive up overall costs for attendance throughout the system making an already increasing societal problem in the form of student debt worse.

Nice job by the University. It's critically important for them to do these things.

Mary Jane must be wearing urine scented perfume.

This guy has been around more than one of the girls in the backroom of an old western saloon.

It's a blight. Casinos are the end result of public officials who are intellectually incapable of figuring out how to develop urban areas.

I happen to stay in downtown Cleveland this Friday night with Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world. We stayed at Hotel Cleveland next to Public Square. The hotel was great, but it's amazing how Cleveland took a great landmark like Public Square and is in the process of ruining it with that gross casino. I don't know what's worse, the visual of the blank face degenerate gamblers, the stench of body odor, the smell of urine, or all of the above. We took a walk Friday afternoon towards the baseball stadium and were outside by Harry Bullalo. The casino stench was so bad, we could smell it that far away. Two things can be true. Gambling should be legal and it's horrible for society. I can't possibly see what good that dump of a casino is doing for Cleveland.