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Clawson is right. ACC football is widely disrespected. It deserves every bit of the disrespect. I'm not sure what it can do about it. It's in the backyard of the two best football conferences in the country. It's still pretty good football though. People worry too much about what others think about them. All the ACC can control is itself. If it wants more respect, earn it. Just don't complain about it. It only points out flaws.

He's a good coach at a historically horrid program. Excluding the COVID season, he had 6 winning seasons in nine. With that said, 10 years is a long time to be somewhere and he might have run out of time after the Hartman era. Recruiting has been poor and the lack of talent was apparent last season. Wake is patient to a fault with coaches. We'll see how patient they are after this coming season. I think they need a more sleazy guy to navigate the transfer portal era.

Good. So, four ooc games. Only one payday, one FCS and two G5. I'd take that. I'd much prefer 9 conference games. Regardless, the SBC still shows it is prioritizing winning over money. The MAC isn't.

You are correct. I thought they were still in CUSA. You sure about Liberty.

That's not what I'm implying. The conference has a defined strategy they agreed upon. They each play one payday game, one G5 game, one P5 and 9 conference games. For example, this coming season Appalachian State plays East Tennessee, Clemson and Marshall (CUSA). That's a solid ooc schedule. One guaranteed win, one P5 game a short bus ride to Clemson, and a game against an old rival from their I-AA days. I'd be happy with this if I was an Appalachian State alum. This conference strategy introduces an opportunity to better compete in 1-3 more games and opens up opportunities for more wins. It's why they have so many teams with at least 6 wins and in bowl games. I don't care if they are bad bowls or not. Bowls are good for the athletes students alumni fans and general community around the schools. Winning = good. Losing = bad. The SBC tries to win. The MAC isn't trying to win. Those of you who pay to go to the games are having your money stolen from you.

Yes. Payday games.

Respectfully, population has nothing to do with the Sun Belt's success. The SBC made a decision to apply sanity to how they schedule games. The decision prioritized conference games and winning over money. It's no more complex than this. They are succeeding on purpose. The MAC has prioritized money over winning. The MAC is failing on purpose. I don't know enough about cusa, nor do I care enough about cusa, to know what they prioritize. My guess is it's money.

Speaking of cuts, I just heard Norte Dame College in Cleveland folded. I honestly do know how a lot of these private schools stay open.

I can barely stay awake looking at this list of desperate losers.

1-11 is also the range of ACT scores for the average Kent student. 110 is their average SAT score.

What would this do? It's one of those dumb things soccer fans see in Europe and think it's a great idea. I'm not even sure why it's a great idea in European soccer. It looks to me like there would always be a certain number of teams jockeying around to be the worst team in P5. In reality, it would do exactly the opposite of what we need. We need to completely divorce ourselves from P5. This nonsensical relegation would just be another excuse for athletic directors to destroy the schools they work for in the disguise they could be a contender some day. We don't need relegation, we need an alimony system. We need to combine with G5 schools and demand more money from P5 schools so we would only need to play one a year. With all of the TV money they get they will be able to pay significantly more. That's our alimony. We put up with enough of their crap for years in a horrible, abusive marriage. In the long run we'll be happier without them. Relegation my foot.

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.