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There is a better statistical correlation between cultural fit between players and winning than the number of stars they have next to their name. UNLESS you have both going in your favor. Miami is in a great position right now.
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I'm not the one asking someone else to do his thinking for him.
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Apples vs. Oranges
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Zips/UA Memorabilia Thread - What's in Your Attic?
GP1 replied to Captain Kangaroo's topic in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes
I estimate$1.00 more than the Rubber Bowl itself. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Some boats have drain plugs that drain water while the boat is moving. It's possible to do two things at once. -
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People like Pj get the right people in the boat. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
This is one of those times the University has to delicately tell a high profile alum, "no". -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Yes and yes. It's a bit more than that though. You have to make the fan experience a good one and I don't mean bouncy houses. Who you play and when you play is critical to fan interest. They need to play good teams when people want to go to a game. They haven't been doing that. Your other point isn't the real problem. No presidents or BOT members know anything about sports at almost every school. I'd rather them take a risk on a visionary with minimal AD experience than the safe paper pushers they hire. We need a young PJ Fleck type as AD. -
His study is not a fair analysis. It is lazy journalism.
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Well, that's still a better chance than me driving over to Clemson.
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Some schools are starting to look at their condition realistically. This is a good thing. Some conferences are starting to consider joining together to pressure the NCAA. This is a good thing. More of this please. Sanity is starting to wake up from a long slumber. BTW, why are media outlets in Michigan so much better at reporting on the Mac than Ohio outlets? -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Magical thinking. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
You couldn't get a decent assistant from a P5 school to apply. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
If you don't think a coach can be successful, you shouldn't hire him. You hire coaches assuming they will be successful. This is a ticket sales conversation. The extra year between four and five is irrelevant. It is the cost of doing business. It is customary. Not offering it can impact recruiting because other schools will use it against us. We would be the only school offering contracts like that. It would be setting ourselves up for failure, again. How does Akron do when it acts unilaterally? -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
4 years would be good after taking over a disaster. I heard Lou Holtz once say that if a coach isn't winning after 3 years, he's probably not going to. I figure Coach A gets an extra for the circumstances he took over the program. Eating one year of a coach's contract is peanuts compared to the $300 million budget. Bad coaching creates a bad product. This is far worse than the one year cost. The goal should not be counting pennies. The goal should be to create a good experience for players, students, alumni and fans. Eating a year of a contract is part of that process. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
If G5 schools got together and made a decision to reduce scholarships from 85 to 74, it would be a meaningful cost savings that would not impact the quality of play. It would be a number higher than FCS. It would help create a structure where these schools could complete against one another on a playing field where they are equal. The players will go somewhere else? Where? There is nowhere else to go. There are limited teams and limited scholarships. 74 players is plenty. The coaches just have to do a better job of recruiting. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Good questions. I would change them to not just UofA asking these questions, but G5 schools getting together and deciding exactly what in the heck they are doing with their athletic departments. I'm interested you use the word "sponsored" in your post above. In my opinion, this word is not used enough in discussing college athletics. In reality, schools are not sponsoring college athletics, the taxpayers are. Most schools do not make a dime with college athletics so the taxpayers are sponsoring the sports. G5 schools need to get together and decide how much of a burden they are willing to put on the taxpayers of their states and what those taxpayers get in return for their sponsorship. The people who sit around on this board arguing about the price of tickets are nuts. It will NEVER be enough to cover the costs. This is an intellectual hurdle G5 fans need to get over. G5 schools are part of larger communities. Hopefully, those schools are taking the opportunity to expose what their students do in the form of arts, engineering competitions, community service and yes sports among other things. Is the engineering team making money for these universities? If you read much of this board, if the engineering team isn't making money, it shouldn't exist. That line of thinking is complete bull crap and contrary to what the purpose of the university is, which is to develop the human mind and spirit. How many university mottos are, "Pecuniam Facere Moriatur" (Latin for Make Money or Die)? I don't know, but probably not many. With the right focus, the G5 schools can provide a lot to their communities and make the taxpayers more tolerant of and maybe feel good about where their money is going. What if all the taxpayers want is a nice day at a sporting event and this experience made it OK for them to rationalize some of their money going in to college athletics? From personal experience over the past 13 years, I have learned I will pay roughly $1,000 per year to watch football at a mid to low level ACC school with a 27,000 seat stadium that in every measurable way is not as nice as The Bid Dialer. My games involve the following: Two tickets sitting on the 48 yard line in a nice chair back seat that is in the shade because the sun falls behind the giant pressbox behind me by 12:30 on a fall afternoon. Parking less than 200 yards from the stadium in a clean lot with porta johns that are perfectly serviced for each game. 3-4 food trucks in the stadium in addition to the normal concession stands. Beer sales. Clean and ample bathrooms. Short lines to get in the stadium. And oh by the way, competitive games. After the game we go uptown in a city roughly the same sized as Akron, have some more fun and spend the night (tying the university to the greater area). Am I asking a lot?... Of course not. It's actually very simple. There is nothing going on at this place that could not be done at Akron or any number of G5 schools. They don't have bouncy houses for kids, fireworks or any of the other happy horse crap minor league baseball teams pee away money on in an effort to draw fans. The have a grass hillside people with small kids can buy tickets to and let them explore around if they want. How dare they offer simple, good clean fun as a solution! A friend of mine transitioned his career from working for a manufacturer to a distributor. A well respected roofer in the Carolinas told him, "David, All you have to do is not suck and you will be better than most". There are too many G5 schools that suck at what they do. It shouldn't be this hard. G5 schools have been going down the wrong road for years and this insanity has to stop. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Dear Niles, Ohio, How is your minor league franchise doing? Respectfully, The Great GP1 -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
The rebirth of baseball at Akron was always a bit of a head scratcher to me and it has nothing to do with money. I think it's awesome that someone was willing to donate a large sum of money to rework the field and bring back a team. This level of dedication needs to be harnessed and exploited in the right direction. It was a failure of leadership at Akron to allow for baseball to happen. Sometimes leaders have to say "no" and this was one of those times. You have to say no in a manner that the donor is more than willing to donate to something that fits better in the changing landscape of college athletics. Leadership was not paying attention to the big picture and that's their job. Baseball is not in a growth mode in the USA. Universities were already cutting baseball. Cold weather state schools don't have very good programs generally speaking. MLB has gone from the national pastime to a regional sport. Minor league attendance is a disaster. The attendance and support for baseball on the professional level is so bad MLB made a proposal to reduce minor league affiliates from 160 to 120. I wonder how many of those small cities poured out millions in the last ten years to help build stadiums. God does the "building process" look even more idiotic now. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
It's dead because the Great GP1 has not been around to spread some whit and wisdom. With South Carolina opening up, it will slow down again because the great one will have more to do/bars and restaurants to drink and eat in. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Sure, but it's not just us. It's boiling over all around us at many, many schools like Akron. Pathetic indeed..... I applaud many of the moves made by the MAC and other schools/conferences like ours. It is an unusual display of self-awareness. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
Nice post. I agree the product needs improved. Not just on the field, but the experience the MAC football consumers are purchasing. Meyer is correct. On field coaching is the most overrated thing in sports. It isn't irrelevant, but it is wildly overrated. You don't win with X's and O's. You win with Jimmies and Joes. -
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
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Financially, this is a good idea. In practice, let's look at the law of unintended consequences. When I was in school, travel squad was 47, not sure how the "building process" got it above 70, but the mysteries behind the "building process"...well, you know. In practice, herding the animals the night before a game is important. In reality, fans of home teams are going to have to accept that some players are going to be as hung over as Micky Mantle during a Sunday double header. Some are going to be suspended for the game because they were caught out drinking. In reality, the traveling team numbers need to be lowered to below 60. This will create some really lopsided scores when facing a poor home team, but too bad. If NFL teams can put on a game with 47 players, so can the NCAA.
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GP1 replied to DannyHoke's topic in Akron Zips Football
WOW, the University figured out acting alone would be a disaster. They also figured out acting in concert with the rest of MAC is important. This gives me hope for a sane outcome. I would encourage them to get advice from their athletic directors and then do the opposite of whatever the athletic directors recommend.