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I thought I was the only person who was driven insane by this...... I actually turn off the game while that is going on.

Excellent point. If CJ7 is worth throwing away a season for, then he should be kicked off the team. If not, he should be on the field. Winning football games requires the right tools. Right now we are trying to hammer in a nail with a screwdriver.In addition, really good programs bring in questionable players all the time and win with them. Not all the players, but some. It's less to do with whether or not to bring a couple in and more to do with what you do with them when they get to the school. If you are serious about winning, the questionable players are unfortunately necessary. If you are not serious about winning and want to pretend college sports are about something other than what they are, winning, then you don't want questionable players. Make no mistake about it though, the latter leads to losing.

I highly doubt it's a personal grudge, because if it was, most athletes would try to transfer out of that kind of situation.he may be looking into transfering out of it. who knows. I know that if i were him and i was the better player an was still getting screwed over, i would. looks like we will have to wait an see how the season turns out an go from there.If CJ7 is smart, he would transfer at the end of the year if JD stays. The decision to leave would be horrible for Akron, but maybe the best for him. There seems to be more here than meets the eye. He could go to a school closer to home and play right away in I-AA or sit out a year and come back at another school. He is not an NFL player so if he only has two more years to get on the field, he should do it somewhere else.If he leaves, Akron is down to zero playmakers next year after JA12 graduates. If you think the offense is bad this year, wait until next year if CJ7 transfers.Please don't anyone jump in with him moving to WR next year. It all starts with the QB. Start the best QB and then fill in the other 10 spots with the best players.In the end, I don't think it will matter. If JD is really as detached from the team as reported, he is leaving on his own next year. A lot of you will get your wish and Akron will be on ANOTHER four year plan. Maybe UofA will take that chance to change their name to The University of Akron Browns.JD had a decision to make early in the year and that was to go with a QB who is a pain in the ass and win, or try to make a point and go with someone else and lose. Akron badly needed to win this year regardless of the problems. It doesn't take a ton of good players to win in the MAC. One or two really good players on offense can win a lot of games in the MAC by just throwing up a bunch of points. Actually, that is the trend in college football. Look at the UGA game Saturday. 41 points is hard to beat.

I'm serious when I ask this. I really find the whole recruiting thing borring so I really don't follow it....What makes those web pages experts? There are hundreds of potential players out there. How do they know who is good or not? How does a player get on their page? Who decides who is good or not? What do the different "star" levels mean?Could someone please take a quick shot at answering this? I really would like to know.

UCDavid is typing madly. Insanely searching all of GP1's past posts. I love it.

I'm serious when I ask this. I really find the whole recruiting thing borring so I really don't follow it....What makes those web pages experts? There are hundreds of potential players out there. How do they know who is good or not? How does a player get on their page? Who decides who is good or not? What do the different "star" levels mean?

This is coming from a guy who did not see the game, than God, but it looks as if CJ11 started. I agree and said earlier in the year that there are some coaches who would rather be right than win. With out current QB situation, JD would rather be right about CJ11 than win games. In this day and age, it is critical that the QB you put into the game be a winner and make others around him better. The good news for CJ11 is that if he continues to lose, he will join a long line of loserly QBs at Akron.This coming from someone who admittedly doesn't attend the games. I don't know the reason the coach has decided not to play Jackson and no one else on this board does. I'll give the head coach a pass on this till someone can answer that question. There could be a lot more to this than anyone can imagine. To say he's losing games to prove a point is as thoughtless as declaring who is and isn't a winner. Do you have some sort of winner radar to be able to determine those assertions? Jackson brings a strong running potential that Jaq lacks, but that's no guarantee of success on the field. Is "loserly" even a word? Anyone care to guess who posted above? Who would praise the coach one day and rip him a couple of weeks later? Hmmmmm. UCDavid singling me out again. It's been a while. Good stuff. Sorry if my brilliance escapes you, but you don't strike me as very bright.......bitter, but not bright.....a better word would be dimwitted. You can copy and paste my well written posts all you want, but that won't make you my intellectual equal.I think I have been fairly critical of JD this year in terms of his defensive style and some of the play calling. Sorry you don't pick up on that. Most others on the board have I believe. I think the guy is a decent coach and deserves another year. If they play like this next year, he gets the boot.In terms of my winner radar it tells me that winners win and losers lose. Everyone has the same radar if they don't over complicate it. CJ11 put up a lot of yards today and the team lost. Remind anyone out there of anyone? We really have seen this before. We have to stop it before it becomes a Heisman Trophy campaign.Lastly UCDavid, "loserly" is not a word. I'm not surprised you had to ask the question. So for example if I write a sentence like...."I bet Browns fans are happy Charlie Frye and his loserly ways have been shipped off to Seattle." I indeed would be using a non-word in a sentence.Enjoy the weekend everyone.

This is coming from a guy who did not see the game, than God, but it looks as if CJ11 started. I agree and said earlier in the year that there are some coaches who would rather be right than win. With out current QB situation, JD would rather be right about CJ11 than win games. In this day and age, it is critical that the QB you put into the game be a winner and make others around him better. The good news for CJ11 is that if he continues to lose, he will join a long line of loserly QBs at Akron.

I'm shameless. I would like to take one dummy a year on the basketball team if that meant we won the MACC. One great player is all you need in the MAC to win the tournament.The NFL requiring three years of college to play is the only thing keeping OSU from doing the same thing in football.

Interesting, but not surprising.NE Ohio is a professional sports area. I think that hurts Akron more than anything. Tie in a slow economy, and things become even more difficult as people may not want to spend the extra money.With that said, there is no excuse for each UofA graduate living in NE Ohio not attending at least one basketball and one football game a year. If that happened, every game would be sold out.

I had a feeling you've been around the board too long to take the bait.

Well, here it comes. What I mean is that they are too slow and soft.....What do you think I mean?

You nailed it right on the head. Anyone donating a $75,000 treadmill for the hockey team has no perspective on the problems around them. It's beyond bad taste to just plain obnoxious. I don't think this article put OSU in a particularly good light.I went to an OSU vs. Toledo baseball game last season because a guy who worked for me had a nephew playing baseball for UT and I was in Columbus on business. While sitting there, I noticed they were watering the field hockey field beyond the outfield fence. At first I dismissed it as watering a field in the spring to get the grass to grow...no big deal. Then I noticed the field was an astroturf field. It is truely a Gilded Age at OSU.

Can you cite the source for the 1.5 GPA statistic? I'd like to see it.Exactly. I would also like to see the source for OSU's football team having a 3.0. I doubt the student body at OSU or any school has a 3.0 GPA.

I don't follow the basketball team close enough to know if this is a good poll or not, but I do believe Akron blew the MACC last year against a bad team. They were badly out-played and out-coached by Charlie Coles and his traveling suburban team. As far as I'm concerned, KD and the boys owe you die hard fans a championship in a season where they are not supposed to win it. This should be that year.I'm serious...all of you die hard fans are holding an IOU from the bb program and you should demand to collect this season.Good luck to the die hards!

Biggs was the best player to play for Brookhart, and that includes Blackburn and Frye. He's probably the best player since Dwight Smith....although I think Smith was better. Had Biggs had any size whatsoever, he would be a sure NFL player.

They do need the money. If they are going to recruit kids like Ted Ginn J., who are closer to being retarded than normal, then they need $52,000 a year tutors to help them.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1192752424..._weekendjournal Good grief. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea the difference was this great between us and them. They pay a tutor $25 to tutor physics. Do the math.....that's $52,000 per year. None of you should wonder why our guys flunk out and they don't.

What was accidental about it? You Cleveland fans have so much trouble getting your hands around success. Instead of pride, you feel guilt. You're better than this Z-P.

I saw this on TV last night. Greg Schiano's record at Rutgers:2001: 2-92002: 1-112003: 5-72004: 4-7 I wonder how many people were calling for his head after this year? JD is in his fourth year right now.2005: 7-4 Add a bowl loss to Arizona State 7-52006: 10-2 Add a bowl win against Kansas State 11-2The first four years his record was 12-34.The MAC is at exactly the same competition level it was prior to the Pennington-Limpwich-Roethlisberger years at Marshall and Miami. Take out those two teams during those years and the league is at the almost the exact same level of well below average they were back then.I know that some on the board don't like to hear it, but the number of "suburban" athletes Owens was bringing to Akron killed the program. He couldn't get talent because the high school coaches he hired (he was one also) didn't know what to look for. Please save us the Championship being won with Owens players also. That game was won with Luke Getsy and Brett Biggs (two JD recruits). He won in spite of the Owens players, not because of them.JD wil be fine, some of you guys just have to stop going Browns fans all the time.I've said this before on the board. If JD has a losing season after this season, he gets another year. If they have another losing season next, he has to go.

Well considering the were a part of the Big East (1991 until 2004) and were booted I doubt that the Big East will be attracted any time soon.They were out before 2004 I think. The reason they were told they were booted was because of fooball attendance. The real reason was they wanted the basketball program to move to the Big East and the school wouldn't do it.If they are interested in a TV market though, Philadelphia is the way to go and that would be Temple.I really don't know what the long term holds for Temple, but I do know that they could become a very good MAC team in a hurry.I don't think I've ever thought so much about Temple in my life. I should stop now.

quote]How big is your media market?Important question. I hate to talk about Temple like they are a power as they have a long way to go, butt of all the MAC schools, they are in the best position to move to the Big East. When I was growing up and into my early adulthood, Temple was not a horrible team. They smashed Akron on a Thursday night ESPN game. Annually they played: WVU, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Penn State, Boston College, Maryland and Rutgers. They competed pretty well against these teams.Back to the media market. The Philadelphia market is much bigger than Cleveland and would be more attractive to the Big East in population and if breaking the Big Ten Network is important (Penn State). Having an NFL stadium would not hurt them in football and playing in the 76ers arena would be attractive for basketball. Right now they have a basketball foothold in Philadelphia with Villanova, but nothing with football.If Temple can get good, how long will it be before the Big East is attracted to them?

The USF story is not unique. Mike Wilbon (sp?) made a good point the other day on PTI. He said that USF is exactly where Miami (FL) was in 1983. I thought that was very interesting.Akron has no shot in the Big East. Florida has an increasing population and Ohio has a declining population...USF can get better players just by the numbers. USF is in the NE section of Tampa with girls in skimpy clothes year around and Akron is in Akron. I could go on.Think about this. Why has Florida State become so average? The answer is partly USF. Tallahassee (sp?) is one of the armpits of the United States. It wouldn't take much to convince a high school kid to come to school in Tampa and play in an NFL stadium. The Big East is every bit as good, if not better, than the ACC.USF is a much better "Feel Good" story this year than Rutgers was last season. I know I'm really interested in them and looking forward to watching them tonight and the Indians at a sports bar.

The attendance for Temple is interesting. They play in an NFL stadium, so there is some attraction to going to a game if you live in Philadelphia and want to see a college game in a big time stadium...especially if you had kids who wanted to go to the field and you couldn't get Eagles tickets. More than anything, they did some real smart things with ticketing this year. I have a friend who lives in Philadelphia and is a Penn State fan. PSU plays Temple at Temple later in the year (I believe the game is sold out). He wanted to buy tickets to PSU and Temple made him buy tickets to three other home games in order to get PSU tickets. That's smart marketing. Now he has found the MAC, enjoys going to the games and said he will continue to go even after this season.Temple has an NFL stadium and they are located in one of the best recruiting regions in the country. The MAC had better watch out for this program in coming years. Outside of a winning tradition, they easily have more advantages than Marshall did when they dominated the MAC. If they get things going.......watch out! It wasn't all that long ago that Temple was at least respectable playing a much more difficult schedule than a MAC schedule. It only takes one or two really good players to get it going in the MAC.

what else are you going to do on a Saturday there?NIU has slowly built up a nice fan base, that more less follows the slow, steady progress in the program under Nowak. One losing season hasn't deterred them....yet.Good post and good posts by everyone.NIU has seen MUCH worse than this year in the past. It just goes to show how one player in the MAC can make a big difference. They lose their NFL running back and now they are in the dumps. It happens to a lot of teams in the MAC. Just think of how good JA12 is and what he is doing for Akron this year......he gets my vote for POY, butt I'm a homer. Think of how much better we would be with Harvey.