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Strong cultures bring teams together to win. What the NIL era has ushured in is an era of bad culture at most schools. Those will strong cultures continue to win.

I generally agree. They had enough talent to win six.

Hope isn't a strategy. I'm of the opinion we aren't far from getting 6 wins every season. The 2025 season wasn't the disaster some believe it was. Over half the MAC schools had losing records. Akron literally finished in the middle of the conference and had a .500 record in conference. The Kent loss still sticks in my craw because I believe Akron is a better program and had better players. That's the difference between going to a bowl or not. It would have also given Akron four wins for the home fans, which is badly needed. Akron also won two games on the road which seemed out of reach not long ago. On the surface, Akron should have beaten Kent and Wyoming. Dig a little deeper and it's understandable why a coach finds winning at Akron so difficult. Akron isn't far away. Just a couple more financial pieces.

I agree. In addition, Duke, Tulane and NTSU were all in championship games this weekend. Kansas is good, Vandy is good. Wake Forest is good. I could go on. It is possible for a school like Akron to get good. Akron being bad has been by decision and on purpose as far as I can tell. I just saw Hunter Y on GameDay and threw up a little in my mouth that he wasn't named after Mack. Instead, we picked Wistrcill and got I Coach. He chose ICoach on purpose in spite of him being completely unqualified for the job. Think our failure isn't on purpose? On a side note, I saw Kennesaw State play Wake Forest this year. I was very impressed with how physically they played. It was a good reminder that physicality still matters in football.

Wilson isn't being punished. He's being held to the terms of a contract he signed. The players want their cake and eat it too. They want to be treated like adult professionals, but when they get treated like one they play the old "student -athlete" card crap. Screw them. If my relocation offer included me having to pay back a year's salary for leaving the company before one year, I would never have signed it. I wouldn't have needed a lawyer to tell me that. I'm sure there were better structured deals from other schools. He should have taken one of them or negotiated better. If the judge in this case rules against the collective, it will set off a series of cases far and wide pertaining to NIL contracts. It could be a good thing that drives college football to move towards collective bargaining.

I agree. They should have scheduled it for this coming Tuesday night or 11 PM on Friday night. What is your better idea?

How is it predatory? Was it his only contract offer? What is difficult to understand about the terms? Did he sign it at the age of 18 or older? It all seems pretty clear to me. I once signed a relocation offer that included me being required to repay the cost of the relocation if I left the company after during my first year of employment. This seems very similar.

I wish it was a contract negotiated under a collective bargaining agreement that left no ambiguity of the parties obligations.

With NIL, why are scholarships needed at all?

Ok

Two reasons: He would have taken a large pay cut and a family event that he didn't want to disrupt.

I know who the first choice was and why he turned it down.

He wasn't the AD's or President's first choice for the job. They wanted someone more mature guide the program but that person turned down the job. I'm not talking about Jim Grobe either.

Strikes me as something where the guy is a boozer or was banging a student. I'd say he may have accidentally misgendered a student, but his firing would have been immediate.

I'd settle for an airport where I'm not sweating my ass off after 5 minutes.

The killer is, with the exception of the weather, everything else is fixable.

Cleveland could have not just the best stadium in the Midwest, but in at least half of the country. People should be excited.

You actually found a place worse than Detroit.

I mean overall wins as a tie breaker. If three teams finish 7-1 in the MAC and two had 3ooc wins and the third only 2 ooc wins, the two ten win teams go.

If the MAC wanted to add some sanity to this, they would use overall wins, but only one win for FCS. We would find out then if schools are trying to win championships or using their football program as a fundraising tool. They could probably eliminate some confusion by making the MAC season 9 games.

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2025/11/24/2025-mac-football-championship-game-tiebreakers.aspx MAC tie breakers.

Brilliant. I see now how if those three incompetently managed organizations were brought together, they could dominate higher education in Ohio. Thanks! Maybe we could get Jim Grobe to be the President, or at the very least the head coach of the football team.

Thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.

Competitive against who? Both schools finished in the middle of the MAC. Respectable seasons for both as far as the MAC goes. You could go to a Dicks and Kalamazoo and not find WMU gear.

I'm rooting for them to fail even worse in their new conference.