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The dumbest idea of all is the bye week. On what planet is it necessary for a high school football team to have a bye week? It's just stupid. Most assistant high school football coaches get paid very little for or their efforts. Give the vast majority of them a break and get the season over with as fast as possible.

Didn't know where else to put this so I figured here would be good. https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2025/04/22/ohsaa-ohio-high-school-football-playoffs-format-survey/83205036007/ It's obnoxious how many divisions and teams get in. After they reduce the number of teams, get the divisions back to five.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shedeur-sanders-wont-be-doing-it-but-someone-could-try-to-return-to-college-after-the-draft The NFL response would be interesting depending upon how often it happened. There could be an apprehension about picking players with eligibility. There could also be an increase in players declaring for the draft because the risk could be low. The NFL could solve the problem by starting a minor league, which might be awesome for college football by getting people out who don't want to be there, but that would be really expensive.

I heard an interesting proposal about the NIL this week on Full Ride. Teams will be allowed to have a maximum of 105 players on their teams. I forget the number, but it would keep over 1,000 players out of college football. I don't care if that many don't get to play. It just ends their playing career a year or two early. If this rule applies to DIII, it will greatly harm many of this schools. Filling teams up with players is a source of revenue these schools will be without. It could put some of them out of business. Schools like Mt Union have around 200 players on the team. Those students may just end up at state schools, which would be great for Akron. It would be a $3.5 million hit for Mt Union.

If you mean next year, I agree.

I'm sure the marketing department at Arby's agrees wholeheartedly.

That's not what they give out beads for.

So much about this story is disgusting. It's hard to even begin where to discuss it.

Take out the word "just" and I agree. What it is in addition to marketing could be so much better.

I don't believe the schools are make the rules at all. If they are they are terrible rule makers. Most are failing miserably as almost every school loses money. The rules are being made, either directly or indirectly, by TV networks. There are a handful of schools capable of thriving in this climate because they have the money to do so. Everyone else is just playing games for TV viewer consumption.

Almost every P4 schools loses money with athletics. Given our history, do you believe we would be in the minority or majority? I'm of the belief out administration would set records.....in losing money of course.

Yes. Akron is in no position to complete in a way that would benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Short term it would feel cool for a lot of people, but the long term would be a disaster.

It would be odd if after decades of trying, Akron finally got a real D1 coach, turned around the program, had success and then dropped out of FBS. It would be the most Akron football thing ever. The only thing that would make it worse is if we joined the Big Ten.

Did they get approval from the TV networks?

Who punishes them and what are the punishments? A good tongue lashing? General Amish level shunning? Being forced to run naked through a crowded bar?

Interesting, but I find the story a bit too formal and facts too convenient to be true. I also think this would have made it into the media via leaking. Could also be Buffalo or EMU. If it is true and Akron, it wouldn't be the first time we made a decision to change divisions without a clue where it would go or what it would do. It would be typical of the Nihilism the country is being drug through. So, it isn't completely out of the world of reality. I would have two questions. First, what is our current President's opinion of competing in the MAC for football long term? Second, was the meeting in question during his tenure? Bonus question..... If a formal petition was issued, where is it? If I'm not not mistaken, every MAC school is a public institution. A FOIA request could uncover the existence of this document sourced from almost every school. Bonus question #2.... If true, why aren't our competitors burying us with this information? I know I would.

Good post. It got me thinking about college sports and how the fellowship and friendship developed between players is going to be lost in the NIL era. It's something awesome that is yet another thing destroyed by NIL. A lifelong friend of mine and former teammate in the football team introduced me to Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world.

I don't think the results are sad. Some sad can turn into happy with winning. I would do describe it as expected.

I'll wait to see how lazy journalist pick the MAC and then do the opposite.

Don't worry, a couple trips to P4 schools will cover it and then some.

There was a recent court ruling stating that two years of JUCU do not count against your four years. It raises what I think is an interesting question based upon college athletics now being minor league pro sports. At what point can a player no longer play in college? For example, a player goes to the NBA after two seasons at School x. The player bombs out after three years in the NBA or some other professional league different than college. Why can't the player go back to college, finish a a degree and get paid NIL money? I would imagine a man with three years of NBA or D League could name a pretty high price at a college. I hate to even bring this up because as disgusting as it sounds, the logic connects.

When one door closes, another one opens. Before I judge his leaving, what is his NIL value?

There is an episode of The Office where one character mistakenly admits to taking gifts from a vendor in exchange for gift cards or something like that. Real life is sitcom at Kent. In the world of sanity after something like this happens, employees are sent additional compliance training. I wonder if Kent was at least smart enough to do that.

When athletic directors see "other resources", I'm guessing that means solid gold toilets and urinals in the athletic practice facilities. The funny part is athletic directors created an illusion that all of the new found money flowing into college athletics would benefit the greater university systems. A lot of really smart people bought that crap. A lot of really smart people still buy that crap.

And is more famous. And gets better girls. I could go on and on with all of the "Ands". I never had much sympathy for college athletes taking a beating from fans and the media. They were famous adults and with that came some abuse. I've gone from not having much sympathy to having zero sympathy. If a 19 year old NBA, NHL or MLB player takes a beating from the media and fans, so can the new breed of college athletes.