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It is. It's also completely real. Most people in the United States should expect their career and income to decline after 50. It's why people who delay retirement savings until after their kids leave the house will never able to retire. In addition to not be able to take advantage of compound interest, their incomes decline so they can't save as much. Most countries revere and hold up older generations as sources of wisdom. The United States discards older people. It's gross.

JD was a really friendly guy. In fact, I got to know some of his assistants and they were all good people. That was a different time in college athletics.

I've been saying this for years. The disparity between the P4 and G5 isn't just a few dollars a year. It's tens of millions of dollars that is almost impossible to balance out. There is good football being played at the G5 level. Enjoy it. There are just under 2,000 public universities in the United States. Most are doing poorly financially. The last thing the country needs is for some of them to waste time and money chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This isn't professional European soccer where the reason for existence is money. Relegation is not a solution to any of the problems G5 schools have. In fact, the pursuit of the pot of gold would be further detrimental to those schools.

I don't think I can muster enough interest about this story or watching the rest of the dominoes fall. I'm so bored with all of the conference realignment. It's because something for conference commissioners and struggling athletic directors to do.

I don't know if he's in over his head or not. Maybe he's been placed in a bad situation via a vis the football program. I don't think he has much, if any, major college football experience.

Can we go back in time and say the first recruiting class?

If this timeline is correct, Joe took the job at Akron before Mario took the job at Miami. Someone would have to confirm the timeline. https://www.si.com/college/oregon/football/early-oregon-offensive-coordinator-hotboard

That's the primary problem. Secondary is the last 3 season all have sub 60% completion percentage. It's never been easier to complete a pass and an average QB should be minimum 60%. Feel free to click on the link below. Click on each QBs name to see individual stats. The QBs on the better teams complete a high percentage of passes. https://www.espn.com/college-football/qbr/_/group/15

My point exactly. Maybe the shiny new stuff matters, but there are things that a program does that matter more than new stuff.

Maybe it isn't all the coaches fault. I would argue that the University is giving less meaningful support to the football program than it was 5 years ago.

If you think Akron can coach itself out of the hole the administration has created for this football program, you don't understand how important it is that an entire university administration support a program in order for it to be successful. Look at it like this. Joe is a mid level many at a badly run company. There is no winning and the only way for a person to advance their career is to leave the organization.

Don't forget he has an administration that submarines the program at every turn. That's a huge benefit.

I get how pissed you are. There are a lot of things to be mad at. Here is a different perspective. Joe is coaching at a school that at every turn under mines him. If you are going to go down, you my as well go down swinging with what you believe in. There is nothing for Joe at Akron. In 15-20 years he will look at taking the Akron job as one of the worst decisions in his life.

It's a long story.....

Coaching at Hoban has been good to Jim Grobe.

I agree. If someone offered any one of us a job and then didn't pay us, we'd stop going to work also.

I'd love it if Joe asked him what his plan is to help him get into the top 3.

No disagreeing, just asking. I have no doubt understands the marketing value. Does he know what to do about it?

The only miss was Joe taking the job. If Akron can hire a caliber of coach at his level and the school will not support his program, can Akron ever win?

Tom Arth is a key coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is designing a passing offense for an average at best QB and they are 3-0. He was bad at Akron because he couldn't put a staff together that could bring in talent. He is very good at other parts of being a coach, but not good enough for what Akron needed. What I'm saying is there are a ton of places Joe can go and be successful, and he should. He should have bailed last year after the $#!+ the school pulled when Kennedy bailed. It was a knife in the chest of the Moorhead tenure at Akron. Drives me nuts every time I think about it. Could be in College or the NFL. Head coach or not, he'll be in demand. The failure at Akron would be easy to explain in an interview because there are tons of coaches out there who have failed in an unsupportive organizations. Akron should be a place where the football program thrives. We go through one coach after another. The coaches change but the way the University runs the program remains the same. Hmmm.... what could be the problem?

I know what it is. It's a bad attempt to gauge how players are impacted throughout a game and then impacts their performance. Isolated to five areas. Doesn't take psychological impact on players.

Nice human approach to viewing football. We've reached a point in society where too many thinks football is a video game or just a jumble of statistics. The QB never gets hurt or has emotion in a video game.

I think you are right and would like to add. I would say coaching is 1A and the coach bringing in a QB for his system in year one is 1B. The QB attracts skilled players that best fit the new coaches system. It allows the coach to better create his own program. I've said it for a couple of years here and I'll say it again. Moorheads biggest mistake is not bringing in his guy on day one and then living and dying with that guy. Colorado is a way better program than before Sanders. They are relevant, exciting and generally competitive.

Better topic headline would be "Moorhead 2024: Why Would He Stay Until 2025?"

Good post. It's very simple. Akron has made a choice to lose in favor of money. Failure is the easiest possible choice. I can't imagine an easier choice for the AD a few months back than signing the contract to play OSU in lieu of scheduling a more winnable game. The players are not robots. They are at least smart enough to get into college and most will graduate. They understand what goes on around them. They are friends with and stay in touch with players at other schools. High school coaches know what is going on at Akron. There are no secrets. It has to be demoralizing beyond belief for the players/coaches to go to practice/work every day knowing the institution you attend/work for us conspiring against your success. Success is hard. It starts with a choice to be successful. JFK specifically used the word "choose".