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He's terrible.

It's terrible. Temple is terrible and we didn't score a point.

Hats off to the Zips defense. The left it all on the field.

From his accuracy, to his arm strength, to his leadership, to his sideline body language, Irons isn't the guy. He has never won and he isn't going to win.

Much better.

Yes. Accuracy is worse.

Missed two open receivers. Irons has to play better. The standards are higher.

I respectfully disagree. There will just be another division. G5 schools need to do everything they can to complete against the likes of Northwestern and Wake Forest because those teams will be their competition. MAC schools beat lower level P5 schools annually. It's a realistic landing spot for all parties.

At the highest level, it's already an exclusive club. There are less than 10 schools with any shot to win a national championship. When the super conference is created, that is the one thing that won't change. They can have their money. The rest of college football will remain the same. It could be improved for the rest of colleges because they can finally stop chasing the Holy Grail and setting into a level of college football they can realistically succeed in. I'll still go to games because I like college football and I don't really care who is playing or about their shot at winning a national championship. This is the main reason I really don't care about conference realignment. It has no meaningful impact on my life. Casual fans lives won't change because they will watch football on TV regardless. Degenerate gamblers will bet on anything regardless of a super conference or not. Alumni will still follow their school.

How does a mountain of money equal fatality?

SMU is a joke of a program high dollar donors are able to keep afloat.

Depends on how you define success. Success and failure in college athletics is now defined in terms of dollars. Television executives and their willing dupes, athletic directors, could easily make this happen. Not only will it happen, under the current definition, it will be wildly successful. Americans love the NFL and it's business model. All colleges will do is duplicate it. It's about 10 years away.

Where is this all going? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/30/college-footballs-inevitable-conclusion-is-a-40-team-mega-alliance

It's only a matter of time until the AAC had the rug pulled out from under it.

We are witnessing the death throws of independent conferences at the highest level. Teams are looking for landing spots. Within 10 years, there will be one super conference, run by one commissioner who is charged with gobbling up as much money as possible for the member schools. It is reported SMU gave up all rights to ACC TV revenue for 9 years. Stanford and Cal are only getting 30% of the total. Basically, these schools needed a place on the bus for when a super conference becomes reality. I'm hoping Wake Forest can trade games against Clemson, FSU and Miami for SMU, Stanford and Cal. Wake Forest fans love games against institutions they believe are equal in academic standards to theirs, in the hope of winning.

JD was a great guy. Never gets the credit he deserved from people around the University. He achieved actual greatness by actually winning something meaningful.

MAC kicker sighting.

MAClike implosion by OU at the end of the first half.

Watching College Gameday. Feeling disappointed ESPN has turned it into the same talking over each other buffoonery as the rest of the network.

More like the Mona Lisa. Not a beauty, but a lot of people appreciate it.

You mean AAC.

Week 1 of college football is different than any other week because of the unknown. For many teams, disaster unfolds in the form of turnovers, miscommunication leading to defenses giving up big plays and general folly. Mental preparation is the key and would be surprised if Temple was better prepared mentally than Akron, but you never know what Week 1 brings.

The future of the Zips is bright. The future of the MAC is medium gray.

A Dallas Cowboys game would easily out rate Texas vs Texas A&M. The NFL could flex a premier game into a Saturday night spot. Primetime NFL Saturday games would drive the best college games into the afternoon where the TV rights are less valuable. There will still be enough money for solid gold toilets in practice facilities, but the big schools might have to cut back to 3 coaches per position. Television networks are currently running college athletics. None of this is out of the world of possibilities.

It is true that college football in general has gotten better, but that's largely a result of the transfer portal. Everyone is missing the giant elephant in the room, the NFL. They already dominate football watching on Thursday night even while putting out a bad product. If they decide Friday and Saturday games are a great way to grow their business (it is and they will) the networks won't have the money to pay top dollar for college because ratings will go to the NFL. Edit: Unusually good editorial out of the Charlotte Observer. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article278059432.html?taid=64d2c90266d1df0001ffc212&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter