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I can't believe Jim Grobe didn't make the list.

Do you mean former all time Akron great and current Indiana Pacer?

If course, but I'd rather discuss games, tailgating, players and coaches. Nil should be what it's called and should have existed for decades. Players should have been able to hold jobs, sign autographs for money, make personal appearances for money, etc. Now it's people getting together and handing out money. It's all so gross. Many public institutions are in deep financial trouble and this is how they put their fundraising efforts to use? Barf.....

It's this exact conversation that is turning me against college sports. I don't care if a guy can make money, but the handouts are gross.

This is awesome. Kent blows.

Zips are destroying these clowns.

If you build it, they will come...... Oh, wait, that's been proven to be complete nonsense.

And let the City have a say in it.

It's a big nothing. Them leaving the MAC is a good thing.

It's oversaturated with generally bad play.

I think it would be funny if nobody did. Could end up being the worst decision since Akron moved to D1 without any idea of what to do next.

Am I understanding this correctly? NIU is leaving the MAC but doesn't have plans finalized yet for all sports?

Run the score up on them and send them on their way.

100+ points is getting value for your entertainment dollar.

Most of it is just dumb. I think the media has confused them into believing they are somehow entertainers so they think they need to do something to entertain us other than playing football well. It's all just a bit too much. I'm pretty convinced if the networks would stop showing it, they would stop doing it.

You said a mouthful. It's barely football anymore. Bad tackling. Bad coaching. Gimmick kickoffs. Bad QB play. Players can't be physically anymore. Nonsensical "dancing" after routine plays. Too many replays. Too many commercials. Only drunks and degenerate gamblers can enjoy this nonsense, which are the base demographic groups now.

My advice is, rent, don't buy.

I prefer discussions of food and booze over NIL or any of the other crap college athletics has become. Start times between 4-6 PM are ideal for what I like to call a Bang-Bang. This is two suppers. One supper is consumed mid to late afternoon, while the other is consumed after the game in the evening/night. Two o'clock is too early to execute a proper Bang-Bang.

When I see this article, it reminds me that college athletics in the USA are unique to the rest of the world.

When I see the word "we" in your post, I hope you mean a bigger we as in the MAC and MAClike conferences.

I think society may be going through football fatigue. The expanded CFP is not going as expected and NFL ratings are down also. I don't know if there is a correlation or causation between expanded college football playoff and decline in NFL viewers. If there is, the NFL will need to do everything it can to destroy the now minor league college football playoff. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43525435/cfp-title-game-most-watched-season-viewership-down

The City of Akron has Goodyear and their research center. Akron also has the Bridgestone research center. I could see how a world class research school could look regional. Akron doesn't have to leave the region in order to service research needs for companies if that is the priority in addition to education, which I feel is more important. If the cuts take into consideration maintaining the base of research demand until things improve, maybe they are making the right choices.

Blowing out bad conference opponents on the road is what really good teams do. I hate to see UB has fallen off so much. There used to be some really good matchups with them.

Actually, there are around 10 on at any one time and it's hard to find more than one. It's going to get worse and I'm not sure how it gets better after that.

I was as fair as I can be. I could have said something along the lines that the only things missing in the areas behind the baskets are parallel bars and a pommel horse like in a junior high school gym, but I refrained.....