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24 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:
Ohio beats WVU 17-10 in front of a sold out crowd in Athens.
It really makes me wonder if we had hired Frank Solich then the fates of our program and Ohio's would be reversed.
Imagine where Akron would be if they hired Jim Grobe.
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3 minutes ago, ZippyRulz said:
The Virginia stadium is sitting empty today whereas both stadiums could be relatively full. Ticket revenue lost. You're not thinking like a patriotic capitalist.
They'd find a way to lose money.
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The NC State vs Virginia game is really good. Two ACC school playing a non conference game. I love the idea.
Are the athletes students alumni fans and general community getting more out of this game or NCSU vs Joe Blow G5 school?
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4 hours ago, kreed5120 said:
The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 prevents them from doing it. Otherwise they would have already done it.
You are almost 💯 correct. They could play on those Saturdays, but they would forego their anti-trust exemption. I guess the question then becomes, would that matter? The NFL is the #1 TV show in the USA. Drunks and degenerate gamblers can't get enough.
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2 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
Why would you do that to your free minor league?
To make more money. Why wouldn't they do it if they could ? What would change?
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Did anyone else see the OSU Athletic Director on CNBC this morning talking about the business of college athletics? The sleaze dripping off the guy was noticable to the point I think the interviewers picked up on it.
He did some bragging about the TV ratings for the Texas game. 16.6 million people watched the game. I wonder if the NFL owners noticed and are licking their chops for those viewers. NFL games draw between 17 and roughly 30 million per game. If I was the NFL, I would start with driving college football out of the Saturday prime time games and then work my way earlier into the day. I'd bankrupt college football with a better product that people have more of an appetite for.
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52 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
We could make an entire thread of suggestions with ways they can make the games more appealing for people, especially families, regardless of the product on the field. The fact of the matter is, until the suits in charge start thinking outside the box and caring about more than just the donors' experience, Akron will continue to struggle with marketing.
I've written a lot about this. Based upon my experience as a Wake Forest season ticket holder, making an experience that benefits the athletes students alumni fans and general community isn't difficult.
I've seen some really bad football at Wake. What I also see is a good tailgate area that is clean and toilets are clean. Akron has a better stadium, but does nothing with it. Wake has multiple team shops open with good merchandise you would expect for an ACC school. The beer is good enough. The stadium and bathrooms are clean. They have many food trucks with a wide variety of food. They sell tickets as family passes for their grass hillside under the big scoreboard and children have a nice time with their friends and family. When I go to a Wake game, I know they are doing everything possible to create a nice environment for me to watch a game. They can't guarantee a win, but they put their best foot forward.
My only beef about Wake is they are starting too many games in the evening and on weeknights. It's making going to the game unappealing, but they can't control that.
There is nothing Wake does that I describe in my second paragraph that Akron couldn't do. Akron does do some of those things, but not all of them. They need to do all of them, all the time and then some. It isn't hard.
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6 minutes ago, ZipCat said:
Kent and Akron both don't need nursing schools. Both don't need biology departments doing research ... etc.
Ya, I'll pass on this idea. We need a lot of people doing a lot of research from different perspectives. We need competition to make people better.
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2 hours ago, dre22era said:
Yeh give us apparel we can buy from the team shop to support our own damn team
That would be nice. See how easy it is. There are ten other easy things they could do.
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1 hour ago, dre22era said:
Because there is too much GOOD FOOTBALL on to settle for watching Bad Football
Give people more than just football.
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1,000 years from now archiologists are going to find all of these bobbleheads in landfills and think we worshipped more Gods than the Greeks.
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58 minutes ago, egregiousbob said:
I question this claim. Yes, the Zips have been successful under Groce, but how do you define premium? Zero NCAA wins, very average fan engagement (5th-6th in basketball attendance), and an NIL strategy that is wholly dependent on one guy's checkbook. Do these facts add up to the top "program" in the league? I think not.
MBB is MAC elite in 2025. Those who want Akron to leave for another conference need to realize it isn't elite in many mid major conferences.
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12 hours ago, dre22era said:
Folks are really complaining about us playing on Thursday acting like we would get more viewers on Saturday competing against the Ohio States and Alabamas when it comes to viewership? Hilarious.
Nobody here cares about the viewership.
Espn+ provides a lot of flexibility for start times because when you stream you cann start whenever you want. Why couldn't they have started the game on Saturday at 5PM? Why is it so hard to watch a Zips game on a Saturday when the sun is up for at least half the game? It shouldn't be this difficult to be a Zips fan.
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7 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:
Maybe it would result in more money in totality. I would just expect 60% of it to go the the B1G/SEC, 30% to ACC/Big 12, and 10% to the G5 to split.
I could see that happening. I could see the MAC agreeing to play exclusively Tuesday night games.
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2 minutes ago, ZipCat said:
What if we didn't do that through the athletic department, and did it through the actual departments that do the actual work of education?
Now, that's an interesting idea.
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If you have noticed this commercial this weekend, the article explains it.
I could see how it could result in more money. I also see how the morons who run G5 could make things worse for us. When it becomes about money, the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools get poorly served. I'm also not keen on giving the NCAA more power.
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2 hours ago, ZipCat said:
And the taxpayer support should be going to supporting students and the next generation of our economy,
What if they found a way to do just that with the athletic department?
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12 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:
And I said nothing about socialism or communism. There is no need to trot out these boogeymen models in defense of plutocrat or oligarch. You will never be one and neither will I. The populace's constant defense of plutocrats and oligarchs astounds me.
We have Plutocrats. We don't have Oligarchs. Oligarchs arise after Socialism/Communism and privately control what used to be state run businesses. Shame on Bernie Sanders for so often misusing the word.
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21 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said:
I am all for taxing the plutocrats into oblivion to support a healthier society;
I'm old enough to remember the Soviet Union and the failures of Communism. 130 million people died in the name of Communism in the 20th Century. I addition, I have been to Cuba and have seen the destruction Communism has brought to that beautiful island. Socialism is great for the Socialists, but creates misery for everyone else. Is the perfect Social Man the Communists tell us will run the world going to create this healthier society? In reality, it gives us monsters like Stalin, Lenin and Mao.
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16 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:
The same argument is made by the right against Amtrak...it doesn't turn a profit. You know what?...neither does our highway system or airports or libraries or schools or fire or police departments. In the early years of this country for profit police and fire departments were tried, and they were an absolute disaster. Basically, when you try to put a price on everything, nothing has value anymore.
All of the G6 need to band together and create a competition level between FCS and 1-AA. Suppose there would be about 4 conferences and ~64 total teams. A quarter would play a single elimination championship bracket after the conference season while the others would play out-of-conference games that could help determine how many wild card invites for the tournament a particular conference gets for the following season. Level playing field, every game is meaningful, players get paid a living stipend, but they aren't free agents...I'd watch that!
That's too complicated and results for one season shouldn't impact the next with the exception of more difficult schedules the following season based upon how good you were the previous.
What if they just had eight divisions and every team in a division had to play each other in a 10 game season. Ten games is enough for the Ivy League and less games will help keep costs down. 7 divisional games and 3 non-division games. Establish some tie breakers. The top two teams per division make a playoff of 16 teams. Champion determined and they move on to the next season.
60 scholarships is enough. If the NFL can have games with 48 dressed, college can survive with 60. Players don't get paid. They can get a job if they need money. Players get to transfer once for coach leaving or after they graduate. Only five years total. No injury red shirt years. Contract says if they transfer before graduating, they have to pay back scholarship. If team cuts player, school must fund scholarship until player completes what would be eligibility years or player is free to transfer once.
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7 minutes ago, ZipCat said:
And, with all due respect, that time has sailed. That time to be a "benefit to athletes, students, alumni fans and general communities" was 20-years ago.
Actually, it's every day and they never really tried. UofA is a taxpayer supported institution. If it isn't doing those things every day and in every way possible, it needs to start. No better time than the present.
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12 hours ago, dre22era said:
we have a Legend around the corner pursuing a 6th state championship for Archbishop Hoban with a 142-25 record in his 13th season = Tim Tyrrell. A local guy who knows this region and can aggressively recruit local talent and we can probably get him at a bargain price.
Gerry Faust was a high school legend but that's not my point with this post.
Coaches who do well at private high schools where they have a recruiting advantage as a contributing factor to their success build a lot of resentment from coaches in surrounding high schools. Those coaches are critical to recruiting success. If Timmy ever got the job at Akron, there would be so many coaches with a hard on for thim they would happily undermine his recruiting. He would be DOA. Jealousy and pettiness are alive and well within the personalities of high school coaches.
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1 hour ago, ZipCat said:
I'd add, what Mid-Major team has elevated itself significantly to "compete" with the big boys, and sustained that, over the past 25-years? None. Zero. Nobody. A few teams have had scattered success to be interesting...to get a Top-25 ranking, and then inevitably melt into irrelevance. WMU? TCU? Marshall once?
All of this is true. There are a total of zero. I just don't think that the success of G5 programs should be based upon how we complete against more resourced programs. There is a path forward that involves making athletics benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools. In the case of football it includes, but is not limited to, playing games at times and days of the week that are convenient for people to attend.
My understanding is Kent had a respectable crowd yesterday. It's amazing what you can do if you play on a beautiful afternoon day on Saturday. I'd love to know what the rationale was for us playing on a Thursday night so tens of people could watch it on ESPN+. The onslaught of stupidity around the Akron football program is amazing.
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4 hours ago, dre22era said:
You do know Deion Sander was hired at Jackson state with absolutely no Experience Period. Never an assistant coach.
Guess what? = he was a HS coach at an academy he created that no longer exist.
Michael Vick = No Coaching Experience
Eddie George = No Coaching Experience
Desean Jackson = No Coaching Experience
But you believe my solution is a Disaster?
I do. That's the point. I'm not certain that if your name is big enough and you have an understanding of how successful football organizations works, prior coaching experience is needed.
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