GP1

...... UMass athletics is a sick joke.

I don't think most ACC football programs are as exciting to watch as you think.

If by breathing life you mean farting into the faces of MAC fans, I agree.

It brings in an athletic department that is worse than almost every existing mac school. It makes the MAC worse, not better.

Good grief.....

It devalues the league.

This isn't a solution to any problem the MAC currently has.

UMass helps us catch up to the SB?

The only program less exciting than Temple.

Complete trash.

There are a lot of reasons someone may use the TP. The getting pushed out because he didn't develop into a good enough player part bothers me. I believe if a player is pushed off of the team, there should be a full scholarship for him for his remaining years.

I still don't understand how UofA was directly harmed. How much UofA money did they take?

He turned a runt of a running back, Brett Biggs, into one of the most impactful players (at least for one season) in Zips history. I just don't know what contact with football JD has had since leaving Akron. Maybe someone could help me out with that. The game has changed a lot since then.

I love beating Kent. That school is a blight on the Ohio public university system. I really mean that too.

Offer incentives. One hour at the hooker hotel with a top 20 hooker on Howard Street for any player who scores 20 points.

50 percent never play again.

The road has been a tough place for good college basketball teams this season.

The screens aren't showing off. The tequila bars, wine stands where you can buy an entire bottle of wine and take it to your seat, and a champagne room for high dollar donors is the showing off part.

I'm at the Texas vs Kansas State game. Worried about Zips attendance? Texas has its entire upper deck covered with screens they project images upon.

They would be better off instructing the athletes on how to live like a college student and save what little they get for life after college.

If I'm still working at 70, everyone has permission to put a bullet in my head.

I'm probably in the minority, but I am one of the people who likes the parity. I do like college football and I still like going to games even though the average length of games is starting to become intolerable.

I think mediocrity is the new excellence. In my opinion teams aren't as dominant because of a lack of cohesion within programs as a result of the transfer portal. I'm not sure the mid tier teams are getting better guys than 20 years ago. Years ago, mid tier programs like Wake Forest had Chris Paul and Tim Duncan playing for them. Now their guard is a Central Michigan transfer in Boopie Miller and their center is a Gonzaga transfer Efton Reid. They have traded Hall of Fame players for guys who you scratch your head when you hear their name. College sports will become generally less popular as dominant teams/players go away and they are replaced by more average players/teams. Average is not excellence. People like excellence because it's predictable. It gives us something to love or hate. I'm not even certain making college sports less popular is something that can change even as we turn the country into a bunch of gambling degenerates. An example would be the NBA of the 1970s. It was full of parity and was unpopular. Magic and Bird hit the NBA in the 1980s and for ten years, one or both was in the NBA finals. It's popularity grew a great deal.

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll Kansas is ranked #6. They are in 5th place in the Big 12. Are any voters paying attention?

I have a question. Last night I noticed Duke, a team I haven't watched 10 minutes of all season, was ranked #9 and all I could think after watching them for two hours was, they are the worst Top 10 Duke team I've ever seen. Question: Is college basketball really this watered down at the top?