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The volume is horrible. The Army deploys something called Sonic Warfare for siege warfare. It's the use of playing music and other types of sound so loud that it disorients the enemy. Last year at a Wake Forest game the sound system was so loud I couldn't talk to Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, between plays. By the end of the game I was starting to feel nauseous. My request to people producing the in person experience is to, please, tone it back a little. Just because you have the tools to use sound wave to the point I'm about to throw up doesn't mean you have to. I'm not the enemy. The volume has become part of the overall gross feelings I get about college football.

Those stats are interesting, but if a fan tries hard enough, they can find two good games on. For example, the TX vs TN game was not good last weekend. There was another big game at the same time that wasn't good. The best noon game last week was Louisville and Wake Forest. It was probably one of the best games all weekend. Both teams played great. Fans just have to look for good games.

I respectfully disagree. There are plenty of very competitive games on every week. Teams that used to stink can now get good. It's still the most unpredictable sport on TV other than Jai Alai, which the South Florida organized crime basically runs. What I find difficult are the 3.5+ hour games, long halftimes, endless replays and now ESPN Game Day. I'm a bit sick of the players themselves I've seen enough celebration dances from guys catching three yard outs on their own 28. The Fox pregame show is actually interesting and doesn't have Pat McAfee doing his pro wrestling routine for three hours. I'm Pat McAfeed out. I'm tired of television, gambling apps and beer companies making all the decisions. What I'm starting to find interesting is the use of the noon start to highlight big games. It used to be the ghetto spot for the worst games. Now the games are compelling against high ranking teams. I wonder if they are experimenting with early starts because they a afraid of the NFL. What the NFL wants, it gets. They may want Saturday primetime. If they get it, it will crush prime time college football on Saturday.

I think this is going to make it hard for players making a lot of money to transfer for playing time. The salary cap will restrict the potential opportunities. What I don't know yet is what is the school's responsibility to the player if they cut him?

This seems to be a good place to place this since college football drove changes. Full Ride opened with this yesterday. Part of the bill is it caps the number of teams per conference and requires schools to be an independent for three years after leaving a conference, if my memory is correct. If passed, it would put an end to the Miami rumors unless they can beat the deadline because they won't be independent for three years. It's basically begging schools to not make bad decisions the way the NCAA limited Akron's scholarships in 1986 telling us we would be making a horrible mistake, and we did it anyhow. Akron has provided an encyclopedia worth of bad decisions since 1986. It gives back power to the NCAA, which is like giving an arsonist matches. Worse, it provides antitrust protection which is like giving the same arsonist a welding torch. It doesn't force membership in the NCAA, which means the P4 conferences could leave whenever they wanted. Actually, anyone could leave whenever they wanted. https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/senate-passes-protect-college-sports-act-decisive-vote

Jesus had an all volunteer staff. It would fit the Zips budget perfectly.

Would that coach make a distant fan say, "who" or would he be a known commodity that would have no trouble getting a higher paying job somewhere else?

Imagine if Joe left on his own after a bowl season and the best we could do was to promote an assistant. It's not out of the world of reality. It happened to another Zips program anyone of their best coaches ever left for another school.

We'd lose a lot of game because the only hydration the players had was wine.

Why couldn't the MAC schools just keep the MAC and abandon scholarship football?

I don't know the answer. I do think I know what the answer is not. That is a MAC school making individual decisions. There are strengths in numbers. I think NIU has made a horrible mistake.

What if he is rising above the limitations and this is the best we can hope for until the overall circumstances improve?

I don't know if he gets more time or not and I don't care. The players play like I'd expect players to play if they played at a school that wasn't really invested in them. One hand washes the other.

Division 1 football league with no scholarships but their basketball teams have scholarships. Not sure they are all in the same basketball league.

Both were long kicks for a college kicker and one of the two was blocked.

The question is, why aren't they getting together to chart a better path together? The answer is never what athletic directors want it to be. MAC schools aren't going to somehow start raking in money. The answer is something around what Dayton, Davidson and others have done, but no MAC AD is going to go for that, which is why they should be taken out of the decision making process.

Good post. The losing is one thing. The looking like complete crap because of clownish mistakes is another. Getting handled easily by Minnesota is one thing. Getting handled at home by a team that had to travel across country, with a game time that equals a 9 AM start for their bodies and is at our level is something that should be unacceptable for MAC schools. The game I have met on is the WMU game. Can a top level MAC school keep it close against a high level G5 program, or maybe even pick off a home win. If not, what is this conference doing other than sell it's soul for weeknight games and a tagline (MACtion).

Makes me glad I turned it off because the television feed was so bad.

Let's assume the Supreme Court would uphold this part of the law, and it probably wouldn't. But let's assume. I have a question. What else could these meatheads do that would pay them $5 million per year? $5 million is life-changing money. A head coach could make $50 over ten years. That's not enough?

The first thing I would like to see moving forward is the coaching staff decided on a primary receiver. This receiver can't just be good on paper or the workout room. This person must be someone they can count on to catch passes. Three of the Zips drops yesterday were embarrassing. If modern day athlete are capable of embarrassment, I hope they are. Tell all the others why they aren't #1 and why. Then tell them if they want the ball more, they had better freaking catch it when thrown to them. They will either get better or get out. We don't need butterfingers on the team.

Or, he could have found another way to get another adult to the ground. Players should play through the whistle. Whether or not a whistle blows doesn't absolve players from following the rules.

It's a penalty no matter what. The whistle angle is nonsense. It was a dumb play by 97.

It's punishable as unnecessary roughness under Rule 12, Section 2, Article 15 of the NFL rule book.

He broke a rule that is against the rules in junior high, freshman, JV, high school, college and the NFL. It's football, not pro wrestling.

It's against the rules and he has to know that. He should have immediately been take out of the game but the left him in.