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You're right. It's now or never. If a kid wants playing time and doesn't find it at two different schools, maybe the kid isn't good enough for FBS football and should just go to school or find some satisfaction in riding the bench.

Scholarship offers have become pee wee league participation trophies. They hand them out to kids in 9th grade now.

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/nba-least-minutes-played-in-2023 Here are a bunch.

Ok. I'm still missing something. If the storyline was so great ESPN would want to use it, why wasn't the game on TV the other night? I'm also not sure how showcasing your program in NE Ohio at a high school gym makes a program look anything other than high schoolish. Again, maybe I'm just too stupid to understand the greatness LBJ has that can make everything in the world better, but I'm having trouble swallowing all of this. Maybe I live too far away to be able to see the greatness. I should watch more Duquesne basketball to see all of the high school all Americans KD has recruited because of the LBJ association. I'll check out their schedule so I can see all of the high level teams KD has beaten this year because after all of these years there his program has to be capable of doing so and not piling up wins against cupcakes like he did at Akron. I have a lot of work to do.

Ok. What are the benefits? Let's say the AD at Duquesne somehow gets strong armed by LeBron to hire Dru and Dru turns out to be the Coleman Crawford of the A10. What happens then? Can't fire him because your afraid of LBJ. Can't keep him. Fire the AD?..... What kind of AD are they going to get who is OK with not being able to fire a "family" member of LBJ's? If anyone really thinks about this, LBJ making decisions for a college basketball program he doesn't work for is laughable. He lives OSU....How many decisions is he making for their basketball program?.... Zero. OSU didn't even want his talentless son and OSU is not a good BB program.

Maybe I don't pay close enough attention to basketball, but is the MBB floating around in a swimming pool of money on a Zippy floaty? Let's be honest about the impact of LBJ's money. His school is currently being out performed by APS. When I live in Akron, they passed school levy after levy promising the kids would do better. Every time they passed one, the kids got dumber. It's a horrible school district. I agree Dru will get his shot. It won't be at Duquesne. The A10 is a very good mid major conference with highly competitive games every night. It isn't a conference for rookie head coaches, unless you are one of the less desirable programs. Sports are results oriented. Dru doesn't have any actual results as a head coach. Any AD who hired him would be placing their career in great jeopardy. He'll need to produce results at a lesser school or become a assistant for a few years at a powerful basketball program.

I didn't know Michael Jordan was a supporter of Duquesne basketball. Contrary to public opinion around NE Ohio, LeBron doesn't have sway over all things basketball. KD has been at Duquesne for around 7-8 years now. Where is all the talent LBJ raked in for him? They are still playing a Mickey Mouse game at a high school gym for crying out loud. Either LBJ is landing great talent at Duquesne and KD is under performing, which I reject because KD has a track record of getting the best out of lesser talent, or LBJ really has no influence in recruiting.

I have one academic credit on my undergraduate record called Varsity Football. I got an A.

I'd be shocked. KD was the best they could do at the time and their fan base was highly unimpressed. Dru would be an even less impressive. Athletic Directors will do almost anything to get a better job. Dru isn't someone an AD will want to hang their future on.

That's fine. We need someone better.

There are a certain number of guys who just can't grow up.

Does the athletic director know this?

I wonder if KD spoke with the St. V-M AD in hopes of getting them on his guaranteed 20 win schedule next season.

It's a trash game in a trash event. The CW probably wouldn't even televize it.

How do you even get your team motivated to play in such a rinky dink event? They should be embarrassed.

When I saw this, the pure stupidity of it almost caused me to choke on a spoonful of soup. Then I looked at the Dukes schedule and did choke a little in laughter. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Labas is a career bench warmer. If he's the best Akron can do, the Zips are in trouble.

I think conference realignment is settled. Nobody would get bumped off unless they wanted to bolt, which should be an option. The current P5 schools should go on their way. College football won't be able to withstand the current level of instability for many more years.

The problem is, G5 is currently neither FCS nor glorified.

Full Ride is having a great discussion right now about the future of college football and the need to separate P5 from G5 and all of the financial issues around college football.

The field was flooded.

Maybe we were watching different games.

Interesting article. Misses the point of what really needs done. Football is special and driving revenues for schools. There needs to be one division with one commissioner for P5 schools only. The money will pour in. So much money, G5 schools could get one $4.4 million dollar payday instead of three beat downs to get the same amount. $4.4 million would be a drop in the bucket for the big schools. The G5 schools could then go about rationally organizing themselves into a highly competitive and entertaining division for athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools and country.

Early take away from yesterday. The quality of players in the MAC match up with other G5 conferences. If the MAC had adult leadership, they could eliminate the appearance of sucking. Fans get into stupid arguments about what "the worst" conference is. Nobody really knows because there isn't a meaningful way of measuring it other than insignificant exhibitions like bowl games. The MAC is a quality conference. Akron needs to become a quality team in a quality conference.

Almost all of them were caused by an aggressive and relentless defense. OU beat them up and down the field.