GP1

Akron won a game it should be able to win and that's great. The problem is, SFU is an average IAA program and even in an off season we should be able to win with relative ease. Improvement is needed...and fast, or it could be another loooooong season for Zips fans.

Where I am, 10-10 four minutes from half. SFU is garbage. Run the score up. Recruits don't want to go to schools where the scores are close against SFU. Destroy these guys in the second half.

So the can make money via television advertising.

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This is the key.

If the Zips get a chance to beat them 100-0 they should take it. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

I cannot predict the Zips, but I can predict StFU. They stink. If the Zips come out and play hard and limit mistakes, they should destroy them unless Joe calls off the dogs.

So many great things go on at UofA. I'm glad we have a President willing to highlight those things to the public so people actually know what their tax dollars are going towards. These are a great public service.

I'll pass my Pirates memory down to another generation, not give it away in a parking lot full of drunks. Except for the flag, the Wake junk has been thrown away long ago.

Saving a bunch of crap like this is the kind of behavior that lands someone on Hoarders.

Zips win by more than 4 scores. I'd be shocked if Joe didn't have the team well prepared.

People will never again record their life memories in this manner and that's really sad. In my bonus room is a framed collection of two of my favorite spots memories. On one side is a photo of me, Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and my now deceased parents at the last Pirates game at Three Rivers Stadium along with our ticket stubs. In the same frame next to it is a photo of me and Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and our ticket stubs from the first game at PNC. Not getting real tickets stinks.

I thought of Myron Cope watching Frost blow that game while "playing not to lose". Years ago I heard him say that everytime a team plays not to lose, they always seem to lose.

I hate the soullessness of electronic tickets. I used to get a great package of goodies that came with my Wake Forest tickets. Beautiful printed tickets, parking passes, stickers, a pin signifying how many years you were a season ticket holder and one year it all came wrapped in a flag you could fly in your yard. Now, parking passes and an email about how to get your tickets. 🤮

I hear he has a wicked spin move he calls The Wheel and can really fire up a crowd.

Expanding? No. Contracting? Yes. College football should go back to a BCS style selection of two teams. It was only half as insulting as the current structure. For those of you who may be Kent graduates, 4/2=2.

There is an "Option C". Watch something else or just do something else. This is the option more people seem to be picking. Last year's semi finals, on New Years Eve, had the lowest combined ratings in history. The television networks are shoveling crap into our living rooms, people are realizing it and deciding to do something else with their time. Shoveling an even larger pile of crap into our living rooms isn't going to make the situation any better. Last New Years Eve I went to the Gator Bowl that morning at 11AM. After the game we went back to the hotel on Amelia Island, changed for the night, went to the little town there to watch the annual Shrimp Drop festivities, went to dinner and then went to the Green Turtle. We saw very little of either invitational tournament game and what we did see was pure crap. A rickety electric shrimp hanging from a crane was more exciting than either game. In fact, anywhere we went and there were televisions, nobody was really paying any attention. The logic behind expanding the college football invitational tournament can only be drummed up by people who took a few too many shots to the head while playing football. There is little evidence to suggest an expanded tournament will produce better games. There is little evidence to suggest expanding the tournament will produce better long term ratings. There is little evidence to suggest the amount of money the G5 schools will make in the tournament will have a meaningful impact in leveling the playing field against P5 school. In fact the opposite is true, the games are getting worse along with the ratings and the money imbalance is growing. It's utter insanity.

The transfer portal will improve the quality of G5 players faster than a fantasy and it still won't be enough.

I feel a great deal of satisfaction raising taxes on others.

I'd be all for increasing taxes on Ohioans to make this happen. If you do the math, it wouldn't take much more I'm taxes per household in Ohio to make that happen.

Do you get excited about watching Alabama destroy a #16 team worse than they would #4 team.

Depends on the definition of "free". The taxpayers of Ohio are supporting MAC athletics so the price has been paid. Why shouldn't they get general admission tickets to a game or two? Reserved seats are something different.

Clemson is a historically good program, but not a great program. If they left the ACC for the SEC, they would immediately become the Virginia Tech of the SEC. It took a few years for VaTech to become irrelevant, but they were successful. University of South Carolina was once in the ACC and left for what they thought were greener pastures in the SEC. Now they are little more than, or maybe not even as good as Kentucky. Clemson had be careful of what they wish for or they will become another South Carolina.

When there is more money to be made in the Big 10, ND will join and the Big 10 will be glad to have them. It's getting close to that point now. The ND alumni association can make up the difference short term but it can't last forever.

The Mac/cusa etc will combine. It will be in their own division. The AAC and MW, once the good teams are skimmed off, will be a shell of their current self. They will play with cusa etc. There will be no bridge. Once the dust settles, the P4 schools will burn down the bridges behind them. Embrace what is happening. It is a good thing.