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The offense moving the ball some is helping.

I'm concerned about the big plays, but there are some positive signs.

In Latin, there is a word spelled competere. It means to strive together. In English, it is spelled compete. To compete doesn't mean to win. Why am I saying this? I really like this QB the Zips have. He's a scrappy kid striving to do well on the field. I'm hoping the Zips get it together this season to the point that the other players are striving as hard as he is. Stop fumbling! Catch easily catchable passes! Start to freaking compete!

DTV 610-1

Ok. Save the taxpayers some money.

YOY My understanding is the population of ohio is in decline and there are fewer kids going to college. It captures both volume and share of students. Ohio students should be primary. They also need to attract out of state students because of increased tuition costs.

I guess Pitt is steeped in history in the way a Lipton tea bag has been soaking in a glass of pee for a month. I read an article about the history of Pitt football about 10 years ago. At that point Pitt had winning records in only 38% of seasons in their history. It's a historically horrible program deserving of low attendance. The only thing making them interesting now is the ability to schedule more cupcakes at the beginning of the year and playing in the ACC that allows for lots of average teams to make a bowl.

Exposure.......

Yes! Schedule a G5 team and play D1 football. Right now, our only choice seems to be starting every year 1-3. I've had enough of that. I'd take my chances starting the year 1-2. An 0-3 start isn't even that bad because if we would just get good, that extra win making us 1-3 could come from the MAC. I see way more upside than downside.

Looks like our MAC opponents had a respectable weekend. No upsets, but no black eyes either.

If the Zips can win 100-0, they should.

I can help. It's another way of creating data points so degenerate gamblers can bet more on a game while shoving whatever is being advertised into their mouths.

Oh, I thought they did.

Watching UMass struggle to get four more wins is going to be funny in the way we like to make fun of the Big Ten. I can't remember a more humiliating loss for a B10 team. They didn't lose a close game against a lesser conference, they were easily beaten at home letting UMass score more than 35 points. In an act of athletic director desperation, they fired Schiano the next day.

The assumption here that WMU is just going to waltz through their MAC schedule is interesting. They have a trip to the Glass Bowl to play Toledo. Toledo is almost always at the top of the MAC and is the best program in the conference. It isn't an easy place to win for anyone. In fact, it's a difficult place to win. They have fans that actually turn out and make some noise. I predict that at the end of the season, WMU will have three losses.

Good start, but we need more clarity. The reason they need the money is they have spent their schools into near bankruptcy listening to some of the most reckless people on campus, athletic directors.

It's why their influence must be mitigated.

They may have no choice. Either we dump the P4 or they dump us. After this happens and the G5 conferences combine, the commissioners will be exploring new employment opportunities.

Just to close this out, if you went to the game, what did you think of Winston Salem and the stadium?

Create something between the two. There is nothing stopping us...The NCAA? What are they going to do? It's becoming increasingly obvious it's an almost useless organization. We wouldn't actually need it. They would be desperate to keep us because if won't be long until the P4 schools wash their hands of them.

I see one. It's one where the G5 conferences come together and create their own division and stop playing P4 schools. These schools would offer scholarships and stipends like the military academies pay their attendees (at some schools, ROTC members make a stipend of around$400 per month). If the players want to earn money elsewhere, that's up to them and whatever agent they may have. They must be on a path to graduation. There would be a structure for coach pay and staff structure and headcount. Players get one transfer. One additional transfer if the coach that recruited them gets fired. Five years of college football at any level is enough. If a player gets cut, the school must continue to pay their scholarship and monthly stipend for as long as that student attends the university. Limit the influence of athletic departments to day to day management of their departments and no influence in revenue generation. Share TV revenue and no team shall have more than one game a year played on any day except Saturday. Regionalized teams, 11 game season, regional winners make a playoff system and crown a champion before, on or the first weekend after January 1. I think this would be a good start.

I haven't been overly critical of him. If Akron fires him, he'll get a much higher paying job elsewhere. I think he's doing the best he can considering the circumstances.

Are they not trying hard?

They sure do. However, it's the only interesting game on TV. This will be a really bad loss for them.