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Luke Fickel should jump on ND. Then ND should enter the ACC full time. He would make them the league champion within the first two years.

Morehead..... I hope it's true. I thought he would be out of our league in terms of interest and price. Akron badly needs competency at the helm. His resume smells of more competency than any other coach in the division or even the conference. Some guys reach their level. Joe is a G5 head coach or a high level coordinator. If you want to lead, you become a head coach. If you want to follow, you stay a coordinator. Joe is a good leader. He did well at Fordham and MSU. He knows how to lead a team. He also developed a good list of QBs. For those who root for defense, his 2018 Bulldogs lead the nation in total defense. He was on a MAC Championship team at Akron so he knows what it takes. If this is true, and God I hope it is, there will be brighter days ahead.

He has the pedigree. Just kidding. Felt throwing out a useless cliche.

Now that's some road rash.

A reason to take the Akron job? The MAC East is so horrible that Kent can win it. With just a little competence and some decent recruiting, the next coach should be competing for the division championship in three years or less.

I know it seems fars off into the future, but I believe the Zips are on the verge of much better days. It has everything it needs to be successful and just needs some consistent winning with a competent coach. Once they win, they can then really make the University something that benefits the players, students, alumni, fans and general communities around Akron. This will be the difference between good and great.

Jim Grobe is still available.

Send me his number. I'll call him tomorrow.

I'm not certain this is a bad thing. Notre Dame Light wasn't working for us.

Arth wasn't irrationally fired. We aren't bad at the firing part. We are horrid at the hiring part.

Notre Dame connection. I've seen enough of that.

We can't afford the sexual harassment cases.

Ya, but would you be willing to bet both of your nuts?

MAC Championship, ACC coach of the year, offensive oriented, best available, success at FBS.

That's not my photo.

These two 5-6 teams play this weekend for the right to go to a horrible bowl game. In the category of "When Athletic Directors Strike": I'm sure almost nobody knows this, but Maryland left the ACC, where they have the most all time conference football championships still to this day (9). Granted, their last conference championships were in 2001, 83-85, but they still won. It doesn't matter where Rutgers is, they are still going to stink at the P5 level.

You're darn right. Don't anyone ever tell you it isn't possible to win at Akron because Akron has won and can win much more. With the right coach, any program can find success if they hire the right person. Wake Forest is historically an ACC bottom dweller. Today they are good and if they win Saturday at BC they are in the ACC Championship game. They are 6-0 this season at home making my $1,200 for two tickets and a parking pass well spent regardless of Saturday's outcome. Going back in time, for all the talk about how great Grobe was at Wake, I saw something completely different. In each of his last five years, he had a .500 or worse regular season after being really good for a few years. I almost stopped buying season tickets. Had they held on to him one more year there is no way I would have season tickets today. On a side note, years of futility allowed me to get closer and closer to the 50 yard line as other dropped their tickets and now my seats are on the 47 yard line 2/3rd of the way up the home sideline. Dave Clawson gets hired and in both of the first two seasons they went 3-9 totaling 8 straight .500 or worse seasons. It was bad, but there were signs of life...barely, but there were signs. John Wolford was the QB and took a beating, but you could see he was capable and is now the back up for the LA Rams. Year three they go 6-6 and win a bowl game to go 7-6. They have made a bowl game every year (ignore last year's record because of COVID). If it can happen at Wake it can happen anywhere. Next year, considering the transfer portal, it isn't unreasonable to expect 3 wins from Akron. Year 2, fans should expect 4-5 wins....the MAC is an awful conference and with a competent coach it isn't unreasonable to expect this. Year 3 fans should expect no less than 6 wins. The MAC is the easiest conference in the country to get good. We just need to hire a competent person who can get us there.

Replace Temple with Toledo if Akron isn't already playing them in the MAC. Actually, just replace Temple. Whenever I see them on the schedule, I just think "again...why?".

You drove me to look at the 2022 schedule. The program has had a lot of soul sucking schedules in the past, but this one ranks right up there with some of the greatest. Guaranteed 1-3 start to the season with two of them being humiliations and one possible humiliation (Liberty). Note that in my guide to success (benefit players, students, alumni, fans and greater Akron community), "padding the Athletic Director's resume" isn't one of them. There is a Rage Against The Machine song called "Know Your Enemy". At the end the singer shouts out enemies. He should have included G5 Athletic Directors as one. They are just as bad as those he mentions.

Moving forward, what do you think progress will look like in the next 2-3 years? Going 6-6 and making a bowl would be good. Meaningful late season games that have us in the hunt for the MAC Championship would be fun. Other thoughts are: How does the progress tie to making the football program benefit the players, students, alumni, fans and greater NE Ohio community? I'm going to throw out one idea and let you folks figure out the rest. Miami and Kent are playing for the MAC East Championship this weekend. What is one of the big things that helped them get to this point? Both teams are undefeated at home this year. Over half of all MAC teams will finish the season with a home record of .500 or worse. That's terrible. It's a symbol of how easy it is for a team to win six games with a small level of competency in a bad league. Want to benefit the players by playing meaningful games late in the season? Win your home games. Want to benefit the students? Win home games so they feel good about going to the games. Want to benefit the alumni? Win home games so they feel good about going to the games. Want to benefit the fans? Win home games so they feel good about paying money to go watch a school they didn't even go to play football. Want to benefit the greater NE Ohio community? Win home games so they feel good about the school and see it as a valuable part of where they live. Winning puts a shine on things. Losing cakes everything in mud. Expecting progress in the form of making a bowl game in 3 years isn't unreasonable.

I haven't been there in a long time. I assume yes. The cleanliness of the stadium is not the problem.

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product.

"If your time to you is worth saving" is the line that stands out to me. I can't say I put much time into Zips football as many of you over the past 15 years. Some of you may not even have much time left on this Earth or may be approaching a time in your life where you can't make it to game as much or ever. At some point the time you spend has to be worth saving for those things that can give you some pleasure. I hope the University makes a good decision for those of you who have wasted too much time in your life watching bad football.

I expect more than indifference from Akron. Luke 16:19-31.

He makes money from an organization that takes a small fortune from a country, China, that literally has slave camps where an ethnic minority Muslim group is forced to work and he says nothing about it.