GP1

How long will it take Dave in Green and a few others to get a sense of humor? Never.....If they ever come out with RPI rankings for football, God help us.

I wonder whether it was an "accident" or not. Even worse if it was.

Why am I the only one concerned that we have a coach who is too stupid to send a simple text?

I love the topic and voted for leaving when another chance presents itself. The history of Akron coaching is it is the "Graveyard of Coaches". The history of the MAC is a coach can win a championship relative quickly if he has the right people and things go his way. Buffalo did it and JD did it at UofA. Coach I, here is my advice. Listen closely because JD didn't take this advice and look what happened to him. Win something quickly and get the Hell out. If you don't win something within the first three years, get the Hell out because this is when the graveyard catches you. Your assistants will start to leave and you won't be able to hire good replacements. Your recruiting starts to fall apart. Leave before getting fired....you're not making that much money compared to the rest of the league so the income shouldn't be that hard to replace.

An interesting thing about Buckeye/Big Ten fans is they always tell you how many NFL players are from the Big Ten, but they never mention they rarely produce a big time difference maker. Most Big Ten players on NFL rosters are easily replaceable. One of the big names coming out of tOSU in the past ten years has been Bobby Carpenter. His NFL career can best be described as a joke. Although last year, he set an NFL record for jumping on piles after the play was over. You would have thought the guy was the greatest LB coming out of college in the past 50 years if you talked to Buckeye fans. For those of you who don't like tOSU, you had better get used to the ESPN hype machine pumping them next year. Their OOC schedule is a joke (no, Miami is a shell of a team they used to be and will get killed in Columbus). The Big Ten is a joke. tOSU will be in the National Championship game next season.

He should fit right in at tOSU then. He should get three days in the bank right now for when the inevitable DUI hits. It will save him the time of serving the three days once he gets there. Signed Chris Jaquemain.... The last time I checked, Chris Jacquemain never made the police blotter. OK, LOL Maybe I should have signed it with one of many other names that I could have used. Which Zip has made the police blotter in the last five years? Every year, a Buckeye graces the pages of newspapers around the country with his off the field exploits involving drinking and a car. It's really OK to admit you are OK with the off the field exploits as long as they win. I would feel that way if I like tOSU, why can't everyone else just admit it? I am not going to start calling out Zip players. Sorry. You certainly have me at a disadvantage. I could sit here and name many Akron players that have had their issues. i could also name many OSU players as well. The thing is I don't do that for my alma maters. Since you are only a fan of one school, you will do this. Ok then. Don't call them out by name. In the past five years, how many were in the police blotter? If you don't know, that's OK. If there weren't any, just say so.

There is a difference in "trying" to compete and the actual ability to compete week in and week out. The further I got away from the MAC, the more I realized how unrealistic it is to believe the league can compete every week at the highest level. There will always be cases when MAC schools beat BCS schools. I would argue that many of those BCS schools wouldn't make the top 40 of my list. The year we beat NC State, I think they finished the season with only 3 or 4 wins. I'd have to go back and look at my original post, but I don't think NC State was in the top 40. It's not about a super difficult schedule made up of the top teams.... that's the NFL! You're right. It isn't about that. It's about competition. The current state of college football does not allow teams within one division to realistically compete against one another. The separation has to be made to increase competition.

There is a difference in "trying" to compete and the actual ability to compete week in and week out. The further I got away from the MAC, the more I realized how unrealistic it is to believe the league can compete every week at the highest level. There will always be cases when MAC schools beat BCS schools. I would argue that many of those BCS schools wouldn't make the top 40 of my list. The year we beat NC State, I think they finished the season with only 3 or 4 wins. I'd have to go back and look at my original post, but I don't think NC State was in the top 40.

Inclusion into the top 40 would be voluntary. Nobody would be forced to join and anybody could leave whenever they wanted. Other could apply to take their spot. I guess one modification could be that if a team finishes last place in their division for "X" number of years straight, they get the boot.

It is for a lot of reasons the BCS teams want it as it is. Instead of a BCS team playing one other BCS level team and three cupcakes at the beginning of the year to fill their pockets, they would actually have to compete against top level competition every week. Look at the winners of the SEC, PAC10 and Big 12....does anyone really think they would want to play one another the first three games of the following season? Close to home, does tOSU want to play USC, Navy, Can't and OU? Or do they want to play Alabama, USC and Texas the first three games of the season. They want the cupcakes because it gives them three practice games played at home before conference games. Is it fun to go to bowl games? Yes, we almost never go so I almost forget how fun it is. The bowls could remain in place for the non-top 40 teams if it makes the fans feel good. From the looks of the stands in MAC bowl games, I don't think people are too excited about the games we go to anyhow. Nobody goes. Is it fun to play Big Ten teams every year? No, it is a complete waste of time serving only to pad the pockets of the schools and giving MAC schools 1-3 starts to seasons. If the NCAA is interested in competition in lieu of money, the Top 40 conference makes sense. Are upsets fun? Yes, too bad they are few and far between and getting worse.

you know what, now that LeFevour is no longer a MAC rival, I wish him the best of luck. How lucky to be able to play for the team you grew up watching. I expect him to compete for Cutler's starting position within a couple years, especially if Cutler has a year like he did last year. I don't understand why guys are making fun of him here. We should want conference members to make it to the NFL. It brings cred to the MAC. We need all the cred we can get the MAC. So do you root for #7 from Pittsburgh? 2x Rapist, 1x motorcycle stunt man, all-time douchebag no, but I don't dislike him because he is from the MAC. I dislike him because of his character. I dislike him too. I also know my Steelers need him to win. I'll take winning over losing...it makes the fall go faster. There is a writer for the Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh that wroted a good article this week about the long term disaster that would be getting rid of Ben. His name is Ron Cooke and he wrote the article on Friday (I think). What day did you readed it? Good catch. I just noticed it. Too much typing while drinking.....

He should fit right in at tOSU then. He should get three days in the bank right now for when the inevitable DUI hits. It will save him the time of serving the three days once he gets there. Signed Chris Jaquemain.... The last time I checked, Chris Jacquemain never made the police blotter. OK, LOL Maybe I should have signed it with one of many other names that I could have used. Which Zip has made the police blotter in the last five years? Every year, a Buckeye graces the pages of newspapers around the country with his off the field exploits involving drinking and a car. It's really OK to admit you are OK with the off the field exploits as long as they win. I would feel that way if I like tOSU, why can't everyone else just admit it?

Very responsible response by TW. There is no reason to build a bigger arena if only 3,500 are going to show up. A new arena is a want, not a need. True. But then fixing up the JAR becomes a need, not a want. I agree. There is no need for people who buy GA tickets to have to visit a doctor for back pain the day after going to a Zips game. Less potential crowd size, more comfortable seats is what I'm talking about. Make the game day experience one that at least doesn't result in physical pain.

you know what, now that LeFevour is no longer a MAC rival, I wish him the best of luck. How lucky to be able to play for the team you grew up watching. I expect him to compete for Cutler's starting position within a couple years, especially if Cutler has a year like he did last year. I don't understand why guys are making fun of him here. We should want conference members to make it to the NFL. It brings cred to the MAC. We need all the cred we can get the MAC. So do you root for #7 from Pittsburgh? 2x Rapist, 1x motorcycle stunt man, all-time douchebag no, but I don't dislike him because he is from the MAC. I dislike him because of his character. I dislike him too. I also know my Steelers need him to win. I'll take winning over losing...it makes the fall go faster. There is a writer for the Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh that wroted a good article this week about the long term disaster that would be getting rid of Ben. His name is Ron Cooke and he wrote the article on Friday (I think).

He should fit right in at tOSU then. He should get three days in the bank right now for when the inevitable DUI hits. It will save him the time of serving the three days once he gets there. Signed Chris Jaquemain.... The last time I checked, Chris Jacquemain never made the police blotter.

Please go back in my posts and find my brilliant explaination for how they should divide up college football with the best teams of the past 40 years.

Very responsible response by TW. There is no reason to build a bigger arena if only 3,500 are going to show up. A new arena is a want, not a need.

In full agreement! Along with that, when this big conference thing shakes out, I would not mind the thought of adding Navy and Army as football schools only (mostly b/c I doubt they would do more than that). Akron, Toledo, Buffalo, Temple, Army, Navy, Marshall, Western Kentucky (nice b-ball program, newer/renovated stadium), Troy, ECU, Southern Miss, UAB, etc. Again, it is so tough to predict right now what these leagues will look like. And really, I, like GP1 (or at least similar) have been calling for perhaps a Tier 1 and Tier 2 FBS schools type situation. A lot is going to change in the next 4 to 5 years. We need to be ready to pounce on the best opportunity available. Make fun of NE Ohio all you will, but it is still a large population pool and relatively big market when considering the whole picture. Not to mention the talent pool football wise (b-ball and soccer not bad either!) that it can help to bring into a conference with Akron on board. Both good points. Temple is not long for the MAC. I would go as far as to say as if the Big East had teams leave, they would take a long, hard look at bringing Temple back regardless of what happened in the past. The ACC now has a team as far north as Boston College. UCONN and Temple would make excellent choices for the ACC. It would round out New England and bring in a HUGE media market in Philadelphia. As far as Army and Navy, whatever conference we are in needs to be an "all or nothing" conference. Either schools are committed to being in the MAC or not. If they aren't, then no thanks. If they are, then they would be good additions. Separating D-1A is the best way to make college football better and schools better able to compete at their own level. My brilliant and foresight full commentary on this issue in the past year is the kind of reading NCAA leaders should be reading if they really want to reform college football in a meaningful way. If the choose not to take my brilliant advice, then let them wallow in their own stupidity. I don't know why everyone has to suffer because people involved in college athletics are so stupid.

He should fit right in at tOSU then. He should get three days in the bank right now for when the inevitable DUI hits. It will save him the time of serving the three days once he gets there.

While it makes more money for the pimps at the NCAA, it does not make the quality of the tournament better. One could even say it devalues the tournament. This is no different than the expansion of professional sports leagues. When the NHL first started, there were six teams. Was the day in and day out play better, yes. Did they make more money, no. The majority of players playing in the NHL today would have played in the minors when the league first started. If you know anything about hockey, you would have been highly entertained by Olympic tournament. The best players in the world were on the ice for the top level teams every SHIFT. Imagine MLB with half the teams they have now. The excellent starting rotations would be able to be matched by excellent hitters. The quality of long relievers would be great. Bench depth would be outstanding. Fielding would be better. The game would be better. As the NCAA "builds" itself, the quality of play is diminished. Does anyone really believe all 135 odd D-1A football teams are equal? Does anyone believe adding five more teams to D-1A will make it better?

Triple play.....

Explain why dinosaurs and humans only existed on together in television programs and in Creationist indoctrination centers..........I mean, museums.

Probably not. Paul is to intellectual to believe that. The "Earth is 6,000 years old" crowd, while it has been around forever, is now populated by the home schooling types who are complete lunatics. Neo-Christians are a large part of this group.

GP1, How do you see a split between the BCS and non-BCS schools bringing in $$$ for the non-BCS schools? I don't. It was a mistake. It would bring in a ton of cash for BCS schools.

Ron Paul is sort of a super hero fighting for truth, justice and the American way.....