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AAC may have had enough. I will respect the decision. They can't keep up. They should be included in a future G5 conference/division. It would be good for everyone. https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3518692/the-new-aac-commissioner-says-they-might-institute-an-nil-compensation-salary-cap-to-create-balance-in-the-conference?utm_content=bufferc1440&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Actually, that's four things they do better. The question I have is whether or not Akron can produce a great gameday experience at The Big Dialer if they win, because they've never won there. There is no actual evidence they are capable. I haven't been to a basketball game in a long time. They have a fantastic team. Does the experience match the quality of product on the floor?

Gameday at a Toledo game is a better experience for athletes students alumni fans and general community than Akron. It's been like this for decades. Toledo puts their best foot forward with a good program and people respond. We should be more like Toledo.

I've been in Hilton Head in January and have experienced the same thing. In fact, I've seen an extremely small amount of snow on the ground before. If you want to feel small, walk along the ocean without anyone around for a couple hundred yards. It provides perspective.

Analysis of second round picks. https://sportsanalytics.studentorg.berkeley.edu/articles/trash-or-treasure.html#:~:text=Seniors actually have the lowest,rounders are on teams today.

I rarely go. There are places just as nice with more to do closer to where I live if I want to go to the beach. With that said, if you're in a position in life where you can vacation in the fall, I do like going to HH then. You can stay right at the beach for around $75 per night. The ocean is still warm in late September through October and it provides radiant heat. It's very comfortable because it's warm and the humidity is lower. Most importantly, there is no crush of tourists. If golf is your theng, the courses are in fantastic shape in the fall.

I-77 in Charlotte is a disaster. Even worse, there is no way to expand it. If you are traveling through Charlotte, make sure you use the toll roads and Waze. If Waze takes you around the cit via I-485, listen to the program and do it.

This is awesome news. Congratulations to him.

My thousands of hours spent in bars has allowed to observe different types of human behavior. Can I get a couple of credits for Sociology? This doesn't strike me as a good idea. At same time, my college transcript contains one credit hour for Varsity Football. I guess used smartly, it's a good idea.

Thanks for your diligent planning.

I agree. The burden for non OSU state university athletic departments should be spread among the taxpayers of Ohio. Then they should make those programs benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around them in a first class way. That means play at times that are convenient for people to go. Have clean parking lot, stadium, bathrooms, good food, make it an event beyond a game, and generally put their best foot forward. Further, they should give four general admission tickets to two MAC sporting events to every Ohio taxpayer. If the taxpayer likes what they see and want more, they can buy tickets. Expose taxpayers to a great experience at an event they are paying for and are willing to continue to pay for it.

Good points. I think it's possible to have a good team and a respectable scoreboard that functions the way a scoreboard is supposed to in 2024 (give information and provide ads). If the football program should benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron, nice experiences have to be provided in addition to a competitive team. Id also say that my experience at the game I went to last year was good. The parking lots were clean. The stadium itself was clean. The bathrooms were clean. The merchandise store has some good items and was well stocked. The food was decent. The potential for a great gameday experience for the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron is there, but the team is just so freaking bad.... Throw on top of all of it that it doesn't appear as if the University is interested in fielding a winner, it's concerning at best.....

As we enter the dog days of summer, the annual trek from Ohio to Hilton Head and back starts. It is currently in full swing. As a resident of the greater Charlotte area and someone who likes to go into the city on Saturday nights, I have one request. Please do not oversleep on your last day. Too many Ohioans wake up late and then drive recklessly trying to get home, or they hope to avoid the many hours of miserable traffic. This causes accidents and traffic jams on interstate 77 on Saturdays in Charlotte. Thank you and have a great day.

I live in SC and I like Frank Martin. He's a different kind of guy, but not in a bad way. USC probably held on to him a little long but he did a good job. Martin wins at schools where it is difficult to win by getting marginal players and making something out of them. MAC schools had better be ready when UMass comes to town because they will be well prepared and play hard.

You're not wrong, but you're not right either. Ohio has merely shifted the tax burden to the students (90% Ohio residents) and called it something else. The government charges you a tax to use the Turnpike. They just call it a toll. They extract money from you and spend it on government services. At least someone can avoid the Turnpike if they want so it is a voluntary tax. There is no getting around student fees. Student fees are a mandatory government tax. The government run university extracts money from people and provides what they believe is a service for it.

I don't blame them for not going. If I still lived in Akron, I might never see this rivalry game again because they play during the week. I would only attend the Saturday games.

I'm assuming one of my past predictions is coming true... There are probably solid gold urinals being installed in some athletics program right now.

The crisis will exist regardless. It's never ending. I just want to give the taxpayers four general admission tickets to two MAC sporting events a year. It's the least the state could give them for their support of the Ohio public university system. If done properly a school could showcase the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around their schools to people who might be unfamiliar. I'm not sure who loses in this scenario.

Sure they do. It's a shell game. The money is just being moved around in a way that can easily fool some people into believing something else. The human is the only living being with a brain on Earth that is capable of convincing itself of things that simply aren't true.

Roughly 90% of the students au UofA are from Ohio. I don't care how they shuffle the money around, the taxpayers of Ohio are paying for it.

College athletics should benefit five things: the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools. I fall into the fan and alumni categories. Give me a competitive game that lasts less than 3.25 hours at a time on Saturday that is convenient for me to go to the game and have a dinner at 7 PM somewhere in Akron. Also, give away tickets to the taxpayers of Ohio. They are paying for it, they should get to attend a game or two for free.

Taxpayers pay for things all the time that don't benefit them. In this case, donors supported the upgrades. Some taxpayers may like it. It's not just Zips games. It's also the high school games played there. Some enjoy a more professional experience. UC has a nice stadium and the program loses money. Nobody complains because the experience has been good recently. Here is why the experience has to be really good. If the taxpayers of Ohio ever figure out how much of their money is being spent on public university football programs that lose money, the reckoning will not be good for anyone except OSU because they make money. This country has developed a Nihilistic streak across political spectrums in the past 12 years that I thought was not possible and not healthy for our society. The experience at these stadiums must be good so the taxpayers don't direct their Nihilism towards the athletic programs or those programs will be destroyed.

They should do the best they can with what they have for the taxpayers. That score board fell short of that standard.

Those are three different elephants. Let's focus on the athletic one. I believe the athletic department should benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Giving the taxpayers of Ohio a good gameday experience could make them believe their hard earned money being spent on public universities is a good thing. A paved highway makes taxpayers feel good. A pothole filled highway makes taxpayers bitter. The old scoreboard was a pothole filled highway.

What is the elephant?