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ESPN+ has to show something to what are mostly degenerate gamblers,so games on Saturday shouldn't be a problem. This is my idea for a weeknight game. The Ivy League is terrible and somehow gets a nationally televised Friday night game. I think MAC basketball on Friday nights is great when two top level teams play. The NFL flexing a game to prime time is great for ratings. I would propose flexing the best MAC match up to Friday evening for five weeks. Only once can a school lose a Saturday home game and will only be required to play on Friday twice in a season.

If it's about the money, they will make another bad deal.

Saturday looks like a nice day for a game.

The AD probably already has the list. The walking away part may be implied.

Give a gorilla a hammer and everything becomes a nail.

I was going to make this topic about the Guardians pitchers being investigated in the attached, but sports gambling is so part of sports now it deserves its own topic. My general take on sports gambling is we are going to see many more stories like this and at some point there will be a decline in sports betting because the gamblers won't trust the games. One way I could be wrong is if we get people so addicted to gambling apps that they will lay bets regardless of the integrity of the games. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/09/cleveland-guardians-emmanuel-clase-and-luis-ortiz-indicted-for-pitch-rigging-sport-betting-scheme/&ved=2ahUKEwia-daM7OWQAxUTkYkEHZT4AAkQr_oDKAB6BAgsEAE&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3zKII9ozAQ3cUTWJWG7kyp

Id rather proceed with less extreme measures.

Two missed extra points.

Almost every time I think about UMass joining the MAC, I throw up a little in my mouth. But if they are going to give us a win like this on a regular basis, maybe they aren't so bad.

Nice beat down.

I can't see the game in my hotel, but the people on ESPN said we could be on our way to a bowl. Don't anyone tell them.....

Progress is a funny word. It has to be defined. I could define this season as success if they go 5-7. I could also define it as failure. I define it as success. It's just not successful enough this far in.

I'm starting to crave some chicken.

Always select going to a bowl. If you win, great. If you lose regardless of the score, with the exception of a few loud fans, the loses are easily forgotten in the backdrop of the holiday season. Zips fans could easily move into MBB.

Is it correlation or causation? Enrollment increases are pretty easy to achieve regardless of FB or BB results.

How is the athletic department not doing this? It's been pretty successful across the board.

The primary purpose of athletics is to provide life lessons to young people. The value shouldn't be measured in money or students, but if it is benefiting the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Enrollment just went up. I doubt athletics is driving a lot of that increase.

Simple answer. It's not a business. It's college athletics at a public university. I have the same reaction when someone says government should turn like a business, it isn't. In a world where Joe is underpaid compared his peers and could use about 4-5 more assistants and a bunch of other crap, it's the market.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/louisiana-governor-says-hell-let-donald-trump-pick-next-lsu-football-coach-before-athletic-director-does-211057289.html I doubt that letting Trump make this decision is a good idea, but the governor is on to something. I said recently that the bush league nature of athletic directors would not fit in the NIL era. I've said for a few years that a committee should choose the direction of G5 schools and athletic directors should not be involved in the decision. Moving forward, the role of the AD should be limited to administrative tasks and less on directional decisions. These people have made a mess of college athletics and can't be trusted with major decisions. This is particularly the case at G5 schools where these halfwits will destroy their employers institution just to make it to P5. Think this isn't true? Look at the MAC.

A bronze Arby's A?

I think they will be "ok" also. Solid 5-7 wins a season.

They spent a lot last year. Only fourth in the conference over a number of years. LSU won't be able to sustain it over time. At this rate LSU will be hiring a new coach every year or two. NFL teams aren't this stupid. Over time, Kelly will not be remembered for a student getting killed. It didn't get him fired and he still got the LSU job.

Stanford is an interesting case. I'm not sure they want to do what it takes to win at a high level, but they should be better. When I think of Stanford, I think about Notre Dame without the history of success. ND is flooded with money and puts it into the football program. They have their own TV network. Don't look now, but they are ranked #12 and have a relatively easy schedule with Pitt being the toughest game. They should win out and be back in the playoffs. I think Freeman is a good coach and has a good background in paying players from his time at OSU. The ACC deal is perfect for ND.

Good post. I think a lot of it is going to revolve around not just one person, but the wealth in a state, the number of P5 schools in a state and how the money is divided up. For example, OSU is the only P5 school in a state with three major population centers. Mississippi State and Mississippi are two schools in a poor state with little population. There aren't many Uber wealthy people in Mississippi. Oregon is a small state, but tech has created a lot of very wealthy people who have more than car dealership money.

Arkansas brings in more revenue than LSU by a little. Arkansas has Walmart money. In addition to Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Texas AM and Oklahoma have more revenue than LSU. The point is, in the playoff era, LSU is close, but will be almost always in the second level. The question of Brian Kelly is interesting. He only had three losing seasons in over 30 years as a head coach, which is pretty awesome. He never won a national championship, which in 2025 means you suck as a head coach beyond belief. Guys like him, who tend to be unlikeable people, tend to have a lot of poop thrown a them when things go wrong. I'm betting that once the loud a-holes who love when someone they don't like move on to hating someone else, history will be kind to Kelly.