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Weeknight games in NE Ohio in November are great for the program. It's exposure!

It was built two years later. So, how can a school use a sports facility to bring people together when a game is not happening. They have a restaurant in the pressbox with a full bar. They open it during the ACC basketball tournament so people can eat a meal, have some drinks and watch basketball on a giant television. There is no charge for entry.

No. I just go to their games. It's enjoyable. I think if them a lot when I think of Akron. There is nothing they have accomplished in the he ACC in the past 15 years that Akron couldn't in the MAC. Wake Forest is a historically horrible program in a city very much like Akron. In fact, Akron Blvd is the main exit to get off of when going to the game from the expressway. Along the way they provided the players students alumni fans and general community around Winston Salem with as high of a quality game day experience as they could provide given their ability. They didn't let a bad team get in the way of a good experience. This is my hope for Akron. Get good at football. Along the way, make the football experience at Akron as top notch as possible for the players students alumni fans and general community. I just want them to do their best in those 5 areas and they aren't. It doesn't seem that hard to do. For example, does it really take two years to get a new scoreboard? It makes no sense to me. I work in the construction industry and something that easy to make shouldn't take this long to get. It's a television screen with large speakers held up by framing with some advertisement around it. Again Wake Forest, but they built an entire scoreboard, 30 yards long, with brick around it and the largest television screen in North Carolina during an off season.

How about a long line at the gates?

You're not over exaggerating.

If the MAC hasn't eliminated divisions, they should and adopt an ACC style model. Below is Wake Forest's future schedule. My point is this. It's possible to maintain in state rivalries while providing athletes students alumni fans and general communities a great experience. I just wish the MAC and ACC would go to 9 conference games. https://godeacs.com/news/2023/10/30/exciting-matchups-inside-allegacy-stadium-await-acc-announces-football-schedule-model-for-2024-30?fbclid=IwAR1_1FhnTwR-UQ_Sfv-jEuNJLFZH18vup96fJX1GU3PL0xXWAsSHO9NJLNc

No. It's the failure after two years to have the future of the program under center, maybe even on the team.

Playing players because you "want to see what they can do ' is a form of fan Nihilism.

Sort of. Past the second team players, most guys don't get very meaningful reps.

Out of curiosity, how many people voted?

I'm glad he acts like an adult. Met him at an alumni function and he was very friendly.

Only for the Adam's Family.

They can dress any way they want. They are paying for it.

Do the math. It you wouldn't be getting much of a break and you would be contributing to Ohio's public universities being a benefit to athletes students alumni fans and general communities.

Imagine if you could show up with your spouse and two kids with a pass issued from the state that shows you paid taxes in Ohio and get 4 general admission tickets to any MAc event you wanted, twice a year. You're already paying for it. You should get something for your money.

It's evidence nobody listens to college professors after the age of 24.

Regardless of on field outcomes, if the University was doing a better job of making athletics benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general community, notes from the faculty like this would make them look even more foolish than they already do. It would make a monitary argument look shortsighted and foolish.

The professors are making a badly informed argument, or they are Nihilists and just want to blow athletics up without out any idea of what comes next. We are living in very Nihilistic times. Akron isn't changing conferences, it isn't changing divisions and the football team isn't dropping down unilaterally. None of these actions are necessary and any one will negatively impact the athletic department. This is what Akron needs to do, FIX THE FREAKING FOOTBALL PROGRAM!!!!!!! Everything else will work itself out.

Good post and thanks. People love a winner, but they can stay home and watch OSU play in what is nearly a guaranteed win every week. My experience with college football in the past 15 years has been very different, almost unexpected. We made a decision to follow a historically bad program in Wake Forest in a city extremely similar to Akron. The product wasn't always great on the field, but the gameday experience is almost always good. Even in the bad years, they were still pulling in 15-20,000 per game in their 30,000 seat stadium. I've said it before, I'll say it a thousand times. There is nothing Wake does that Akron can't do. Akron needs to stop being this terrible on the field and the game day experience. From what I read here, the gameday experience can only be described as a joke. It doesn't have to be. It isn't that hard to create a good experience for someone at a game. My experience tells me if a group of fans can at least be given a nice day regardless of the game outcome, they will come back, and when the team gets good they are excited come back. That's where Akron needs to get to.

Maybe not great, but very good.

Good post. If I was hiring an AD at Akron's level I would look for someone could changed a program for the better for the athletes students alumni fans and general community. Are we seeing progress in those categories at Akron?

The relevant budget comparison is to primarily MAC and secondarily G5 schools. Id also like to know taxpayer support of programs with budget shortfalls. I'd also like to know what these schools are doing to add value to the taxpayers who are supporting their programs. The ultimate question to me centers around what G5 schools are doing to benefit the athletes, students, alumni, fans and general community around their schools. I don't think it takes massive budgets to do this smartly and well. In fact I believe the P5 schools are largely spending money on nonsense at this point and have lost sight of the mission.

The ending was interesting. The game was not.

Alignment between President, Athletic Director ang coaches is important.