GP1

Grotesque indeed. It's getting hard to look at and I don't think I'm alone in that sentiment. It's also getting worse.

I've advocates for this for years and many have talked about it publicly. "Zero traction" is the same thing I notice. I'm guessing it puts the careers of too many ADs in jeopardy. This is why the university presidents of G5 schools need to discuss the idea as a commission with no athletic directors included. In addition, one league would require one commissioner, not 5. I doubt there are five commissioners out there willing to risk being one of the 4 that are out.

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-new-college-athlete-compensation-model-may-cost-power-schools-300m-each-over-10-years-003140102.html

I'd be willing to donate $100 to finding the missing stall door from the lone crapper on the press box side of the Rubber Bowl.

I don't dislike him at all. Just noting he isn't an NBA player. I watched the Cavs yesterday. It was a savagely aggressive game between a bunch of freakishly good players. B James doesn't fit that description.

If his name was Joe Smith, he would be transferring to San Jose State or something similar.

Bobbleheads are moronic, if Akron had a throwback bobblehead with the Townhouse on one side and the Plazma Alliance rendition on the opposite side, it might be interesting to me.

Another year? At best, he is a below average player at a below average program in an OK conference. There are hundreds of players who could produce what he did at USC. There were guys on Akron's roster who could have produced what he did at USC. The NBA is the elite of the elite. He Enrique Freeman has a better shot at the NBA and I'm not sure about how great his shot is.

Instead of finding ways to stop the clock, they should be implementing ways to increase the number of plays or actual action. With helmet radios, they can now shorten the play clock. Instead of the team ahead standing around bleeding the clock at the end of the game (zero excitement), they should be forced to run plays and get more first downs. I'm too lazy to look it up, but in the last 3 minutes of a half the CFL has clock changes that force the leading team to run more plays. It's better than watching the QB kneel down.

It makes me want to barf every time I have to hear Jim Nantz blabber on about what "gentlemen" the guys are. It's so common for a player to yell at a caddy. How come they never show that?

Close. They hear the complaints and don't care about what the average fan wants. They want to sell their souls to television networks so they can afford facilities with solid gold toilets. The TV networks will destroy football and find something else for degerate gamblers to gamble on while eating and drinking everything that is shown to them during commercials. The longer the time of the game with more commercials allows degerate gamblers the time to place more bets in line. Am I wrong? I'm open to being wrong and open to another opinion.

Two things. First, I don't enjoy going to games as much either. They are too long and too much dead time. Second, and worst of all, the people who run college athletics don't care if I go or not or not as long as more commercials are sold catering to degenerate gamblers and drunks. My question is this. Do the people at universities know they are killing the sport? There was a time in the past 80 years when professional boxing was the number one sport in the USA. Then it became a gross representation of a sport and is an afterthought. Is that where college athletics are going?

I hate the two minute warning because nothing happens. Instead of this money grab, theu should institute a 20 to 25 second play clock in the final four minutes to force actual, you know, football. Fewer commercials, more plays. I like helmet communication. It's 2024 for crying out loud.

They are swimming against the tide.

This news is as exciting as a warm glass of skim milk.

Thoroughbreds eat a lot of oats. It probably wouldn't be the best move for him.

Is there a Brink's truck en route from Kentucky to Connecticut yet?

Bring your animals in during the eclipse tomorrow. Humans I mean. We at the only animal stupid enough to stare up at the sun.

If, indeed.

A year and a half ago, KY was on the schedule and it got worse. Long time between now and the 2025 season.

They set themselves up to lose and place JoeMo in a position where he can never win. Successful college football programs use the schedule to establish and maintain winning. Akron doesn't. It is used to make money, not win.

I struggle to think of a reason why someone would buy season tickets. Toledo and BG are the only two teams on the home schedule I find even a little interesting and one is during the week so I wouldn't go even if I lived there. This is an absolutely horrible schedule.

That's not what the first sentence of my post says. I think winning is secondary to making money. They would like to win, but if they lose and make a lot of money, they are happy. When they get to the point where winning is their primary consideration, I will change my opinion. However, the facts are on my side.

I suspected for a long time that the university doesn't care if the football team won or lost. It was when KY dropped their game and we replaced it with OSU that I actually believed it. It's also the day I was convinced Coach Joe should have turned in his resignation and gone to a school that is actually trying to win games. What I don't understand is this. If the University doesn't care, why do so many of you still buy season tickets? Find another way to give the University the same amount of money. Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, and I were invited to the South Carolina game by a couple we are close with and don't see as much because they made their Edisto Island house their full time home. The only reasons we are going is because Wake Forest doesn't play that day and we want to see our friends . I'd never go watch the Zips get destroyed otherwise.

My flight is delayed.