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I don't disagree he can improve. How much is the question. He's going into his fourth off season and fifth year. The time to take a major step forward was two years ago and I'm not confident the jump to 6 wins is in any QB after that amount of time.

You should shop around for another bank.

Just to be clear, I've never said this. P5 have nots will never leave P5 for G5. There is more money in failure at the P5 level than they can make at G5.

I'm unimpressed. Remember, the TP is actually the Washout Portal. His career has been at best unremarkable while washing out at two different P5 schools. He'll have one more unremarkable year at BG and that will be that.

I'd like this also but them protecting themselves is much more than a playoff. They need to separate from P5 as much as possible while not becoming FCS.

I want everyone to have a good time as long as it doesn't impact my viewing of competitive and interesting sporting events.

Or, you can do what the organizers of the event really want...place a live bet and keep watching garbage hoping to win a few bucks while guzzling Bud Lights.

It could be made more interesting by reducing the number of teams allowed in March Madness and limiting the field to conference champions followed by only having a winning record in conference. The only thing interesting about the first two rounds of the ncaa tournament is watching the games in a bar while taking two afternoons off and getting loaded. The games aren't that interesting. Want to make it about basketball? Reduce the number of teams. Want to make it about getting drunk and gambling, expand the number of teams.

I did not. My interest level in college football falls off quickly after January 1. So does my interest in the NFL regular season, but here we are. Normal, football loving fans are made miserable by seasons and games that are entirely too long. Degenerate gamblers and fantasy players are made happy. It is a type of decadence (the societal decay type) we seem to have to live through now. The college national championship game should be played on primetime New Years Day unless it is a Sunday. BTW, anyone else see this? It is a recommendation to expand March Madness to 90 teams. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/adding-teams-to-march-madness-among-recommendations-by-ncaa-transformation-committee/ While some call it crazy (it is), once CBS waves some dollars in the faces of ADs and university presidents, it will probably come true in the next ten years. More people taking time off of work to gamble and get drunk off of the beers advertised during the games means more money for CBS and they will pass some along to the idiots who run college athletics.

At least one of the two audience groups college football is now aiming at had a reason to stay up until the end of that miserable marathon.....degenerate gamblers. I'd love to see the ratings on the second half of that crap the ncaa shoveled into America's living rooms.

They'd be better off working out or studying rather than watching this trash.

Habit. You are correct. The MAC had a good season this year. Now they need to combine good football with playing games on days and at times that are attractive to people.

Not a bad idea. If a game can be played in Idaho, why not Canton? It would be nice if the NFL put a cover over the stadium like the one in Los Angeles but they have already put a ton of money into the location.

The Proenza hangover has been difficult to recover from. Too much growth, too fast and not considering changing state/regional demographics. While enrollment is down, that's a common story among Ohio public universities. I'm less concerned about quantity and more interested in quality but I don't know if that is being accomplished. Even OSU has had some bad years recently. I think Dr. Miller is doing a good job all things considered. There is no shame in being wrong about win predictions. Our job as fans is to be overly optimistic. I don't think fans realized how horrible the program was the 3-4 years prior to Joe. He took over a DIII team. Making the team as competitive as they were this year showed me the guy can get the team to a bowl game next season or maybe 5 wins. Probably 5 becausr the scheduling is so moronic. It's an easy league to get good in.

Good post and I agree. I know it's hard to see, but we aren't that far away from a bowl and a bowl win.

I watch almost no high school sports. What I do see makes me believe the post game free buffet at the local Pizza Hut is compensation enough for their "talents".

It would be hard to find many people who believe Joe is a bad hire.

Dear God. This is such a bad hire. It makes me happy beyond belief. This idiot took a pay cut to win fewer games, go to no bowl games, have zero chance at a division title and basically kill his career. Only at Kent State could something so stupid happen. I hope he likes living in Rootstown.

Basketball is interesting. The TP has made college basketball more competitive, but has also made it very sloppy.

For every one on the way up there will be one on the way down.

I think you're right. And my version of "better" is more entertaining and competitive. There are always going to be the usual cast of characters, around 10 teams, that are always at the top because they can throw money at winning. I'm not interested in those teams and I really don't watch them because their games aren't very competitive or entertaining. I'm more interested in how the free movement of labor (transfer portal) has made G5 football the most entertaining in college football right now. The quality of players has created better competition and entertainment across the board. We see it in bowl games this year. I know as mac fans we can get down on the conference, but the football is better now than it has been in years. Akron is a much better team than last season and will be even better next year. Now, if they could stop pimping out their schools to P5 schools and play games at more convenient times/days for fans (see pimping out) the MAC will have something. The ongoing suicide needs to stop though.

Buffalo beats Georgia Southern in another very good G5 game. I don't put a lot of stock in bowl games, but G5 schools are playing hard. The MAC is representing itself well. The league is not a laughing stock and if they could stop pimping out their football programs for cash, they can turn the league into something really good with other G5 conferences. Can they though?

I forget the year and I think the opponent was Kent, but he had the greatest single game effort in Zips history. I remember a kick return for a TD and at least one int for a TD. Someone help my memory.

I love the teams. I hate the mac leadership.

A major problem the mac needs to address.