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Thanks for the reminder of why I don't enjoy talking about this team anymore. This is a terrible ooc schedule. Two destruction games. I had no idea Bryant even had a team. Temple is one of the least interesting teams in college football.

Develop good football and fan experience first, then worry about playoffs. The problem with the P5 schools now is the focus on the playoffs (it isn't a playoff and if anyone needs me to explain the difference I would be happy to do so). It is a distraction from the fact that the college football being played today is better than it ever has been across P5 conferences. Teams like Iowa State, Baylor and Indiana were bottom dwellers when I was growing up and now they compete well and provide a great fan experience. None of that seems to matter now and has been replaced with a focus on basically 3 teams with an extra. It's bad for college football...great for OSU, Alabama and Clemson, but bad for everyone else. Those who want to expand the current system think it will fix this problem and it will only make it worse. It's the same mentality that thinks watching Duke destroy a Howard in the first round of March Madness is entertaining, it isn't and people who like to watch this just like sitting in a bar on Thursday afternoon rather than working. So would I, but I don't need a bad basketball game as an excuse.

Makes some interesting points. Most of it is comparing apples to oranges. In reality, over half the teams in March Madness have almost zero shot at winning the tournament and are there as fundraising tools for the NCAA to operate itself. I would want the NCAA to make the college basketball regular season and tournaments more important. Start with decreasing the number of teams in March Madness to 32 or 16. Place a premium on winning your conference tournament. Everyone else can play in the nit or try harder next year.

I don't know, but it would be so disgusting that even Dr. Pimple Popper wouldn't want to inspect it. The doctor would just sign the form.

Akron has much more going for it than Monroe. Nicer campus. More for a young guy to do socially. Better football facilities. The list is a mile long. I would fake a job related injury and go on disability and live in Akron before taking a job in Monroe.

Imagine Shreveport, only worse. If you can't imagine Shreveport, imagine Youngstown. At least Shreveport has Earnest's Orleans. Best crab claws appetizer I've ever eaten.

I respectfully disagree. Expanding the "playoffs" (it isn't a playoff) to 8 teams only ensures that at least one of the underdog teams gets an invite to get their rear ends kicked by Alabama/OSU/Clemson. These sort of blowouts are terrible for the sport. The last thing the P5 schools should want to do is expand their season to the point their regular season are as meaningless as those in the lower divisions. The P5 schools will never want a 10 game regular season line D3. Twelve games plus a championship game plus three more games would be 16 games. That is too taxing on a college player. 16 games is too taxing on most NFL rookies.

Respectfully, none of this will do what you want it to do. Winning is creating the disparity. We shouldn't punish teams for success, but we should make the next year's schedule very difficult for them. For example, the first place team of the Big Ten should have to play the first place team of two-three of the other P5 conference the following season. Nine to ten conference games....no cupcakes for anyone. Go back to a computer deciding two teams that make the championship game, no "playoff". Just football with a meaningful season start to finish. If Ohio State, next year, can beat Clemson, Oklahoma and Alabama in early season play then run the Big Ten, they deserve to be in the championship. If not, someone else gets in. Same for the other three.

What is making college basketball more competitive is the one and done rule. Most schools cannot keep up if they get too many of these players. Kentucky seems to with the exception of this year. I would also argue that if it wasn't for the volume of games on in the first two rounds of the ncaa tournament, those games would mostly be a complete bore. Most end up blowouts and the only thing that keeps me tuned in is I can turn to another game.

It sure is. However, I have rediscovered this year how much I really like watching college football and it has nothing to do with some silly playoff the money grubbers who run college football designed. The BYU vs. CCU game was the best of the season and neither team is in the "playoffs". I can't remember the last time I watched at least 50% of a Clemson, Alabama or OSU game. They simply are not entertaining because they ultimately end up being blow outs. If I had to make a list of positives and negatives for buying Wake Forest tickets, a negative would be having to watch Clemson humiliate them every other year in Winston-Salem. The game is almost always terrible. If the Athletic Directors who run college football were National Park Rangers, their solution to a small and controllable forest fire would be to throw gasoline on it. I am sure that at some point, they will come to the conclusion the only solution to the boring system they created is to expand it. It will do nothing to change the competitive advantage those 5-6 teams at the top have in terms of recruiting. The rich will get richer and the rest of us will become more indifferent and stop watching.

This lady saved me a lot of typing. Article

I would like to congratulate those of you who were able to watch more than 2 hours of the season. They averaged 16 points per game. Not exactly entertainment. As a reward, espn will be sending you a set of Chris Berman salt and pepper shakers from their 1998 collectors series.

I am/was a huge Biggs fan. Was he the most talented RB? Not by a long shot. He knew one important thing. It takes zero talent to work hard. Through hard work, he transformed a team that was destined for a miserable season and turned them into winners. I haven't seen the Zips play a single play this year, but if this RB is working as hard as advised and is transforming the culture of the team, we may have someone far better than Biggs.

I would add that Coach Arth needs a little work on his cliches.

I have one better. The taxpayers of Ohio. Back out ESPN and P5 games and it's around two million per school. Six mac schools in ohio and that's 12 million dollars. Around one dollar per ohio citizen.

The NCAA is a membership organization and the members did not want it.

I agree with everything you said. In addition, schools like ours can do even better. We can make college athletics something that binds students, alumni, fans and the greater community to the school.

Thanks for posting this Sergeant Zip. I would have never found the article without your post. I had no idea the NCAA was taking advice from ZipsNation.org....but whatever it takes. For once, the NCAA may be on the verge of something that makes complete sense. I would hope that those of us who are G5 fans wouldn't look at this as a negative. The reality of the current situation is too great to pretend that we can just continue on as is with the dream of one day having all of the resources of the P5 conferences. That ship has sailed. We can be great in our own way. Let's do that. The first step on the journey for the NCAA should be firing Mark Emmert. He is a paper pushing fool stuck in an era long past. BTW, does anyone know where I can send a bill for my advice to the NCAA?

Sounds like a fun team to play for.

In addition, there is an endless stream of negative news coming out of the administration creating uncertainty about the University. Further, the negative publicity generated by the faculty senate as it relates to the status of the athletic department is not helpful. I don't know much about Arth and I'm pretty indifferent (sort of my feelings about the football program in general at this point). However, he has a ton of headwinds working against him. Arth has taken a job in one of the most toxic environments in FBS. Given all of that, they are better this year than last year. Not enough to win games, and winning is how careers are measured in college athletics.

So, I had a cobb salad at Sam Sneed's restaurant here in Orlando before the game. What did everyone else have? This has to be better than discussing the game.

Clickbait like this is always interesting. I spent most of my adult life traveling for work and I can tell you Akron is better than half of the cities ahead of them....probably more. I moved away 14 years ago after living there almost 20 years after high school. Anyone who lives in northeast Ohio and tells you they don't like it because it is boring is a boring person. It's a great place to live and I hope the people who live there know that.

Some day archeologists are going to dig up land fills around the United States and be astonished at the number of small dolls with bobbling heads on them.

ESPN computer servers do not get overwhelmed with people tuning in to watch.

I'm guessing it is 9:22 PM PST. The time slot ESPN has allocated to MAC games.