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You're right. He'll be a good coach anywhere. The culture is the hardest part. He is a two time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Famer and top 100 NFL player. If you aren't old enough to remember his playing days, he was awesome. Because of his greatness as a player he can demand more from players and they will listen and respond. My understanding is he is an old school coach and very demanding of his players in practice and behind closed doors. That means a lot. I know a guy who played with him in Atlanta. He told me once the doors closed and the cameras weren't on, Sanders was a different guy in a good way. He said he was one of the nicest guys on the team and treated everyone well. Sanders autographed a bunch of jerseys and posters for his son's.

The bowl game motivation is an interesting one. I can't see a P5 school being very motivated to make a bowl game with an extra week. 6-6 at a P5 school can mean the coaching staff is already fired and going through the motions in order to go through the motions for a couple of more weeks for a bowl game does not seem very motivating. On the other hand, G5 schools making a bowl is a bigger deal and a 6-6 season (typically) does not leave coaches looking for another job. I anticipate Buffalo being well prepared and motivated for the game. I think the Zips will be well motivated and prepared as well. Buffalo is just the better team and will win.

OK, let's think about this. What conference do you want to play in?

The Heisman Lodge always smelled like mold. I'm sure recent years haven't made it better.

Maybe to you and me, but if you were an AD/Commissioner looking to move to a bigger school/conference and were willing to destroy your current employer to do so, the MAC is the perfect place for you.

Great hire! He won at school known for brains. Same thing at Tech, but in a significantly more attractive city.

Another one win season would have been a disaster for recruiting. 3 wins looks like there is a pulse. They need to win this weekend.

Years ago my brother belonged to Arrowhead CC in North Canton. One afternoon we decided to play a quick round. I easily shot a 60 on the first 8 holes. If you play golf and say you have never played this bad you are lying. We were going to hang it up after 9 and live to fight another day. The 9th hole had a group of 15-20 people standing around watching and I resigned myself to an embarrassing finish. Par 4, first shot straight down the fairway, second shot 20 feet from the hole and I two putted for par. Everyone patted me on the back for a great hole but none knew how bad I really was playing. I felt so good about the 9th we decided to play the back nine and I played even worse on the back 9. Easily shot over 140. It was like being on a train that was wrecking for 4 hours. What does this have to do with the Zips? I think they are going to win this weekend at NIU and it would be the final game. I can't see any good coming out of rescheduling this game.

You're probably largely correct. Add this to the reasons a massive roster evaluation needs to take place.

Finding ways to fail is part of the NE Ohio fan mentality. There is a game to be won this weekend. Akron should be doing everything it can to win this one game and not worry about games being played 10 months from now. With the transfer portal it's hard to tell how many Ben h warmers will be on the team next year. If they can't beat out a group of guys accustomed to winning one game a year, what's there to see?

If there was a 22 team college football playoffs, this wouldn't be a problem.

Syracuse?

If they haven't figured it out by now.....

This is an easy answer. They really aren't creating a playoff. There are too many teams in college athletics to allow for a regular season to create a list of playoff participants so a committee is needed. The same goes for college basketball. More teams does not solve this problem.

Ah! Are you saying a 36 team playoff would be 3 times better?

I have no doubt this is true. Kent State is the worst public university in Ohio. Truly stupid people. My guess is their university president was driving the truck.

If there was a 12 team college football playoff, their fans would be smarter.

Oh, the crap they could shovel into our living rooms is endless.

I'm guess he's probably seen enough.

The MAC has the crockpot set on low for this decision. This is going to take some time but whatever happens feel confident a really stupid decision will be made.

I just shake my head reading this post. After all of these years, have you learned nothing about the MAC? It takes time for bad ideas to bring out their flavors in the crockpot of stupidity that is the MAC league office. There is still time to make a really bad decision that will create both terrible entertainment for students, alumni, fans and the general communities around these schools as well as putting the safety of the players in question because of travel through a blizzard.

I don't see how Buffalo wins the division. They are a game behind OU with OU having one game to go and OU has won the head-to-head matchup (assuming the MAC uses this stat to break ties, which would make sense so I'm suspicious the MAC uses the stat to break ties). Even if OU loses next week there is no way for Buffalo to catch up.

I listen to a lot of meatheads discuss college football on the radio. There is one thread that runs through all of it. Without any evidence whatsoever they state that a 12 team college football would solve problem X in almost every case. Moving forward, I vow to solve all problems in all of college athletics with declaring, without any evidence, that a 12 team college football playoff will solve any problem present. Doubt me? Try me.

Seems like a pretty easy solution to me. Play on December 10th only if Buffalo needs the game to make a bowl. If not, don't play it. A 12 team college football playoff would solve this whole snow problem.

Stop making sense. The MAC will have none of that.