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Well said. Most people with a sense of honor would take their $3 million and go away for a year. Tressel hasn't seen a microphone he could stay away from. My guess is he wants to cash in on this. He'll say what he wants to say in a book in a year or two so he can try to rewrite history. There will be a state full of dupes who buy it and put money in his pocket.

It depends on who it would be worse for. For the 50-60 teams in the other league, it would be a bank breaking improvement. For the rest of us, we would have to be creative as to how me move forward. I guess the question is...How much worse could it get for us in the ncaa?

There is a real good 30 for 30 about the USFL. The league was doing very well. Donald Trump and his ego were the driving force to compete directly against the NFL. Had they just stayed as a spring league, the league may still be in business today. I have a great memory about the usfl. When I was young, my father took me and my brother to see the Pittsburgh Maulers play the New Jersey Generals on Easter Sunday at Three Rivers Stadium. Hershel Walker and Doug Flutie played for the Generals at the time. There were a lot of guys who played in the USFL that went on to have Hall of Fame careers in the NFL. Reggie White, Jim Kelly and Steve Young come to mind.

Good luck Zips. To all of the fans, have fun and be safe.

History suggests otherwise. My brother works out with a Federal judge in Columbus before work every day. When all of this happened, he told my brother, "Tressel must be the most stupid SOB (he said the words, but since this is a family friendly board well go with SOB) in the world." Tressel was as smart as he wanted to be. One can be willfully stupid. Tressel knew what was going on around him for years and decided to not look into things to keep the appearance of his hands being clean and the saintly sweater vest wearing guy. More than anything, that is what makes him such a phony.

Kind of makes me wonder whether or not Roger Goodell will suspend Tressel for the first five games of the season like he did Pryor...

Had the usfl stayed as a spring league, it would still be around or the nfl would have absorbed it. Donald Trump of all people was the guy who pushed this so they could file a legal claim against the nfl. I think if the top 50 teams in college athletics left the ncaa, they would somehow be able to compete against the remaining teams while having their own league. Within a year, the league and TV contracts could all be established. It's not that hard.

Actually, under ncaa rules, self reporting is one of the best ways of not receiving any harsh sanctions. Cleaning house is the second best way. Are we really to pat osu on the back for self reporting everything? Wouldn't it be better if they just didn't break the rules in the first place? Sounds like their paranoia is justified. Like I said, when a culture is established, it is hard to change the culture. Self reporting is what they are required to do. Now that Tressel is gone, they can do the hard work of breaking the culture he created going back to when he was receiving written performance evaluations from his boss ten years ago for unacceptable compliance performance. It's going to be extremely hard work, but someone has to so it. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish the Zips well in their scrimmage against tosu tomorrow. Have the money wired directly to your account, don't take check...someone will probably lose it during the two hour trip from columbus to Akron.

:lol: That's what you get keeping the same staff from a major NCAA scandal. How dare they accept gift bags for appearing at a cancer charity event. What a bunch of idiots. While I don't agree with the rules, rules are rules. They are idiots for what they did. They know the rules...as well as a 21 year old can understand a 450 page ncaa rule book. The ncaa is full of idiots for rules like this. It's hard to break a pattern of bad behavior all at once. Their previous coach didn't seem to think rule applied to him, so why would his former players? He was a great example for them.

How long could it possibly take to create a body to oversee a new league. With fewer teams, it would take less people. God knows, there would be fewer rules to follow. I don't see it taking long. Leagues like the USFL, etc. were created in less than a year.

I'm not interested in the Zips being an opening act for a high school football game. Not many fans would be interested in sitting in The Big Dialer for six hours watching football.

I was not aware that was primary goal of college athletics. Try reading it again.

September 19, 1987 at the Rubber Bowl. It was a great night to watch a game. Pierce J. blocks a last second kick to secure a 17-16 victory against EMU who finished the season 10-2. It was the Zips first year in D-1A and the first win against a D-1A team as a D-1A team. EMU had a good team that year.

Getsy and Jabari couldn't be stopped. I remember a huge play by Harvey. Things didn't look so good in the second half and we really turned momentum around in the fourth.

So many good memories. Well done everyone. I'll add one more. Getsy's perfomance in the fourth quarter against NC State.

My esteemed colleague from Green brings up an interesting point here. I remember when Marshall said the goal of their program was to compete for championships. I didn't understand that then, but now I do. I remember how good I felt when the Zips won the MAC in 2005. Remember how good we all felt last March when the Zips beat Can't for the BB tournament? As a MAC fan, winning your college league championship is about as good as it gets, with the exception of Zips soccer. If we weren't in the same league as the BCS schools, I don't think I would feel any less of a sense of pride or fulfillment. If we were in our own level or affiliation with non-bcs teams, we could not only win our league, but play for a national championship. Imagine how much better that would feel than just winning the league. The excitement and anticipation of playoff games is really fun. Winning playoff games is even better....maybe even at The Big Dialer. It would be better than going to the Motor City Bowl. If we limit ourselves to the never ending circle jerk of the ncaa, we can never get to the point where we are fulfilled as fans. I think we can do better than the ncaa. I think college athletics, from top to bottom, would be better without the ncaa.

I would be in the not so smart group if I still lived there.

He doesn't bite the heads off of baby chickens....

Amen. TP never took UA athletics seriously and told ABJ readers that neither should they. This happened for years on end. UA is still fighting this negative perception in the community. Winning will help break it. One day, we'll put a winner on the field and folks will pay attention somehow. I don't know what that "somehow" is going to be, but there will be something. The problem with the Akron media now is...there really isn't one. Who reads the ABJ? Is there even an Akron TV station anymore? Akron sports radio station that has more than five listeners? Pluto did what he did during the final great days of the print media and it really stuck. We need a media that is going to tell the truth about Akron sports. When we do well, they should say so and demand even better. When we do poorly, they should say so and demand better. When UAkron sports get treated as a child, people look at it as a child instead of the adult world it is supposed to be. It's just frustrating.

Maybe the top 100 players in Ohio aren't all they are cracked up to be. A lot of them go to Big Ten schools, but the Big Ten is what it is. Let's just say schools from the north go south to recruit and not many in the south go north to recruit. I can't find the graphic, but espn ran it last weekend and it showed the nuber of kids from various regions in the Top 150. It was shocking how many from the southeast and Texas there were. Ohio only has two kids in the ESPN Top 150 and neither of them are in the top 50. One of them is around 137. With that said, I'm a skeptic of all of the various player rating "things" on the internet. We need to be getting the best players possible regardless of where they are from.

Some of you may not know this, but I have it on good authority CK as spent tens of thousands of hours in the Cleveland Sports Media Hall of Fame pouring over Terry Pluto articles. Anyone else remember Pluto's column on Colman Crawford: "He's Always Been an Underdog." See what I mean... In all seriousness, Terry Pluto was a huge obstacle in maturing the people in and around Akron for D-1A sports in their own backyard.

Some of you may not know this, but I have it on good authority CK as spent tens of thousands of hours in the Cleveland Sports Media Hall of Fame pouring over Terry Pluto articles.

Good post. Some people write about Coach I like he bites the heads off of newborn chickens. Philosophically, I don't agree with is style of football, but I only have a theory he is deploying the wrong style and my theory is up for being proven wrong over the coming years. None of us really know him personally and I think the attacks have been way over the top. Other than going 1-11, what has the guy done wrong? You have to do a lot of things right to get over the 1-11 problem, but I'm sure you guys get the point. Not only that, I don't think any of us will get to know him personally....I don't think he is that kind of person, which is fine with me. As long as he wins, I don't really care what he is like or who likes him personally.

Providence was a bad school to use. A school like Northwestern would be a better analogy. Duke will make the super conference just to have them for the bank breaking basketball tournament. There isn't much to work out once the four 16 super conferences are complete. The break-up of the Big 12 is the key. Once that is compete, they will have all they need and them leaving the ncaa will be nothing but a formality.

I think the day of a super conference separate from the ncaa isn't far off. Once the 16 team, four super conferences are complete, it's all over for the ncaa. There are haves and have nots in D-1A college football. There is also a group of mostly non-bcs schools who would be called "the don't belongs". The charm I see of the ncaa basketball tournament is taking a Thursday and Friday off of work to watch basketball games between teams you don't really care about and getting drunk in the process. That can be accomplished in the current manner or another way. Would watching Providence get slaughtered by Duke be any different than watching Hampton get slaughtered by Duke? Upsets would still happen, they would just be more known teams upsetting the higher seed.