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There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening. The reality is this. The invitational tournament is absolute trash. More trash is not what college football needs.

He can afford to take a year off of coaching and maybe do some consulting work. In two weeks, it will be firing season in the NFL. He could pick up a coaching job then.

Let's not forget McDaniels was a clipboard holder for four years at Kent. If there was an NFL HOF for offense coordinators, he would make it on the first ballot.

I would caution against using exhibition games as your evidence. Cincinnati is the best P5 school I have ever seen. They played an Alabama team that is not nearly as good as AL teams in the recent past and they were soundly beaten in a meaningful game. Nobody wants 8-10 blowouts to take place in a 16 team playoff. If I wasn't too lazy to do it, it figure out the average margin of victory in the other divisions. I bet it is very high. Just bad entertainment. The country doesn't need more crap shoved at them. The fate of western civilization does not hinge on whether or not the college football invitational tournament is expanded. I think it would be terrible for the sport. What I do see are bowls allowing schools to use their football programs in a way that benefits the players, students, alumni, fans and general communities. There are lots of winners and happy people. Even the losing bowl teams give their fans enjoyment.

https://www.outkick.com/avoiding-prime-time-dont-expect-to-see-deion-sanders-coached-jsu-play-any-power-5s/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1640960868 This is as good of a place as any. Sanders is showing himself to be a smart guy. A program needs to be built around winning. Don't build losing into a program. Don't tell me the money angle. HBCUs are in far worse financial condition than other state schools.

I've heard that Coach M sticking around Oregon to finish the season is generating positive opinions of him in high school coaching circles. Coaches want to believe a new coach is committed to a program when they advise a recruit to consider a school. His commitment to Oregon makes high school coaches believe he will be committed to Akron. Anything can happen, but this is a good start.

I saw a few minutes of both invitational tournament games. Cincy put up a decent fight but didn't have the firepower to really compete. There was nothing compelling about the second game after watching for 10 minutes at the Green Turtle on Amelia Island. If the powers that be think the second two games are good for college football, they need immediate psychiatric help. If they think more of the second two games are good for college football, they need immediate institutionalization. I'll be interested to see what the television ratings were for that crap. I hope the ratings were terrible so there will be no incentive to increase the volume of crap. I went to the Gator Bowl yesterday. It was fun. Got back to my hotel, showered and went to downtown Fernandina Beach for the annual shrimp drop and fun. If you can find things to do in life other than sitting around waiting for 8 hours of crap to be shoveled through a television in your direction, more fun can follow. I'll be ignoring the national championship game. Not a big fan of reruns. EDIT: Oh, by the way. Enough is enough. A division for G5 schools needs to be established. Cincinnati was destroyed in a meaningful game, not a meaningless bowl game. Reality needs to take over.

Meaningless is a relative term. For Purdue and TN fans it wasn't meaningless. College football fans are looking at Bowl season all the wrong way.

Hats off to Bruce for what I consider to be a great career all things considered. Very unlikely success!

Michigan was a problem. He didn't get fired after Michigan. They could have fired him after Michigan. Losing the Outback Bowl badly after losing to Michigan was the problem. Would have survived another year regardless of the loss to Michigan. Michigan is just a state shaped like a mitten at the bottom. Michigan does have some good snowmobiling thought even though it has nothing to do with football. The MAC plays in a great bowl game in Michigan.

My bad. Forgot about OK. Shows how disinterested I was in the game. I struggle to put any importance into a teams performance in a bowl game. Nothing at stake. Disinterested seniors. Opt outs. Developmental period for underclassmen. The list goes on. John Cooper was probably the last coach to get fired for bowl performance and think about how long ago that was.

Typical results for a team in transition against a team that isn't in an exhibition game. It's typical bowl season.

What it tells me is that around 6 out of every 10 who enter do not belong in college. This is about four players for every team in D1. The number isn't unrealistic. It's approximately 5% of every team's scholarship players. The drop out rate for American college students in general is much higher because they do not have the same tutoring and financial services as an athlete-student. https://whattobecome.com/blog/college-dropout-rate/ For example, a guy is flunking out somewhere and thinks he will be smarter at another school. One doesn't get smarter through the transfer portal. The other schools know the guy is a moron after spending ten seconds with him getting a look at his transcripts so nobody offers a scholarship. The majority of kids entering the portal would be better described as "college drop outs".

Schools can't pay nil money. NIL has just moved money around and brought it into the open. Years ago, a player would get clothes, a car, furnished apartment, ets valued at $80,000. Today, they get the money and they can buy their own.

Stop worrying about whether or not local AM radio talks about Akron. AM sports radio is dying across the country and NE Ohio is no different. Moving on to how people generally view the University. Stop worrying about how they have viewed it and worry about how people can view it in the future. Akron is a good school with thousands of alumni in NE Ohio who know it's a good school. Akron seems to have turned the corner on feeding the news stories that can only be viewed as negative and started to highlight the positives. This is a good thing.

Kent's left tackle should not have partaken of the Holiday bong water. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thebiglead.com/posts/kent-state-tackle-throws-up-during-famous-idaho-potato-bowl-01fqfgzk2gj7/amp

Kent's left tackle should not have partaken of the Holiday bong water.

Got it. Then utilize the money in other ways: recruiting, assistants salaries, etc.

Bingo. Long term"projects" should be viewed as recruiting failures moving forward. If there is a scholarship allotment of between 70 and 75, that's enough to field a team in 2022. College football teams should have three types of scholarship players: 1. Starters 2. Players who can play when needed. 3. Guys with a foot out the door. Heck, take the difference in scholarships between 85 and the actual number, cut them up and give partial scholarships to scout team players.

The probably are right now. If G5 schools had their own division and played for a national championship, WKU would be a favorite to win it for the near future after some of the G5 teams depart to the Big 12. If I was to rewrite your quote above it would say, "Western Kentucky was too good for the MAC and they probably know it.". My biggest concern with allowing WKU into the MAC was not how good they are now or how good they might be in the future, but their joining the MAC as a temporary stopping point until they found somewhere else they wanted to be. We allowed that to happen with Marshall and others in the past. It makes the MAC look desperate and simply doesn't make good business sense. The MAC is a good, stable mid-west conference. Some of these G5 conferences look like a bunch of fly by night organizations that don't provide a sense of history or regionality that I think is still important.

A MAC transfer isn't going to move the needle for a 3-9 school trying to get into a better position than barely edging out Duke for second to last place in the ACC Coastal.

Above, ZipsWin! requested a spreadsheet to track the progress of players who transfer. Will need a column for GA Tech and a third school for this kid unless he just wants to graduate from Tech. Tech was one of only 4 ACC schools to not make a bowl. If you don't make a bowl as a P5 team, your team absolutely stinks. Their coach won't make it past next year. The new coach will look for his own transfer and Gibson will be out. If you know Atlanta, Tech would be a great place to go to school whether you play football or not. It also has a great alumni network. He should go to school there and if football doesn't work out, just stay in school and get a diploma. While I'm a supporter of the TP, a player (and those around him) who jumps 3 schools just isn't capable of admitting college football may not be the best thing for him.

You are correct. There are approximately 65 active MAC players on NFL rosters. If you are good enough, you will be found.

They didn't surrender. They lost a Supreme Court case. They didn't care about a lot of things, especially the players. Everyone was making more and more money except the players. The injustice became obvious and gross. The best thing about nil and TR is they eliminated much of the sleazy stuff that went on in college athletics and brought the rest of the sleazy stuff into the spotlight. The sleaze always favored the power programs. Schools can't hog up recruits to keep a kid from another school knowing full well the kid will never see the field. There are no more envelopes full if cash taped to the bottom of chairs in basketball arenas that players pick up once a week. Sunlight is the best antiseptic. The TP will give Akron something it desperately needs.... Something that can save the football program from another "building process". I'm not a person that gets sentimental about college athletes. I find myself to be like the gangster in this video. Captain Kangaroo and ZipsWin! are the kid in the Yankees hat. Just win baby.