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Doing the bidding of ESPN is what has gotten G5 schools into the mess they are in. One school making the playoffs per hand winning one game every 10 years is not a good reason to expand. There is no good reason for the MAC to expand.

I have no interest in what those schools do. Never been to a UNCC game and it's 25 miles from my house. Saw Wake Forest play Rice once and almost passed out from the boredom......or was it the 12 beers?....I can't remember. Anyhow, good luck to them. We are fine where we are at.

The MAC isn't the Big Ten. It will never have the ability make money grabs like P5 conferences. What has gotten G5 schools into the problems they have now is pretending they are P5 schools. Worse, the G5 athletic directors who will do anything detrimental to their schools in order to get a P5 job. It needs to stop. Any G5 AD who jumps conferences right now is harming their school in favor of their career and the president of whatever school they work for should fire them on the spot if they bring up the idea. You brought a different twist on the "exposure" argument. You assume more markets will be become more money and the money leads to more exposure. Normally the logic thread starts with exposure. In reality, the exposure has resulted in more money for ESPN and not enough for us to cover our overhead making G5 schools public works programs. The ESPN exposure has resulted in all the excitement empty stadiums bring to a nationally televised audience while at the same time making degenerate gamblers happy on Tuesday nights. Better competition? The MAC is the worst it has been in my lifetime.

G5 schools need to get away from P5 schools. Agreed, we shouldn't be doing anything ourselves. We should do something with every other G5 school. Something bigger than schools jumping conference. Jumping conferences at this point is Mickey Mouse. Spring football may be the only way to save G5 schools from the athletic directors who work for them.

I agree, but expanding the league isn't being proactive. It would make more sense to eliminate a team or two which would make the league more competitive. Better competition would make it more compelling. Making it more compelling would drive up interest. Driving up interest would lead to more people at games. More people at games is using MAC schools in a way that benefits the players, students, alumni, fans and general communities around those schools. That should be the goal. I saw ODU play at Wake Forest this year. The only reason I went is because I thought it would be one of the three games Wake won this year, but that's another topic. Bottom line, Akron vs Toledo is far more compelling than Akron vs ODU. ODU is less interesting than Temple and I can't believe I just typed that, but it's true. G5 schools don't need to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. They need to get off the sinking ship. Lots of people survived the sinking of the titanic. G5 schools can survive the changing landscape of college football, but not through hysterical conference jumping. Let's get off the ship.

Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and UCF heading to the Big 12 slams the door shut on meaningful conference realignment. Now the discussion needs to be about college football realignment. The foundation for the separation of P5 and G5 is complete. This is a great thing for both. Let sanity prevail.

I hope you meant this to be funny because it was. The bar for successfully ordering pizza and wings is pretty low. If the Zips can't achieve this level of skill, it must have been really bad.

I'm laying down in my hotel room and actually started to laugh when I saw this. Playing QB for 10 years for Akron and a prison sentence are very similar.

What has he contributed to their recruiting efforts?

Enjoy success.

Follow the results in the Universities Facebook page. They do a decent job of updating people on the ongoing failure of the program.

I come at this from a different angle. He and his staff aren't taken seriously enough by high school coaches so they aren't able to get enough good players. He has to know the talent isn't good enough. He's incapable of doing anything about it. On field coaching is the most overrated thing in college sports. It's all about getting good players. He isn't getting them. If the next question isn't asked during the next interview process, everyone should be fired. Can you tell me about successes you have had improving your team's talent through recruiting? I bet John Hunter at Wake Forest could easily answer this question. He was a stud recruiter for Clawson at BGSU and has continued in that role at Wake. He is from Detroit. He is the RBs coach and has recruited such a stable of players that their best RB from last year transferred to Michigan State and he has three guys behind him just as good. They have not missed a beat. For years I have been tired of hearing about process and have been looking for results. We need someone who has produced results everywhere he has been throughout his programs. Maybe a guy like Hunter isn't achievable, but there a guys like him out there.

While that may be the reputation, the reality is different. It's "the graveyard of coaches'.

Get in line.

Good post. NE Ohio is a culture of apathy. It's a great place to live and all people do is complain about it. I don't understand why. The State of Ohio does not do a good job of framing the MAC schools as valuable parts of the communities they are located. Athletics could be an important part of it. As a whole, the citizens of Ohio are not viewing these schools as the tremendous value they are because they are not made aware of the great things these schools do for their communities. It's a real shame and opportunity. The State should promote these schools better.

Existentialism is for the clinically depressed.

Akron has almost everything it needs. Winning needs to get fixed. GameDay experience could be a little better to attract the casual person around Akron. They need to get winning.

Our problem is losing. In fact, one could say it is the one thing people most associate with the brand that the program is. I have Wake Forest season tickets. Not a powerhouse but does everything they can the best they can. Years ago, Notre Dame wanted them to change their game to the NFL stadium in Charlotte. Wake told them to pound salt and played in their 27,000 seat stadium in Winston. Your home is your home. Play there.

Uh, no. I almost threw up when I saw this. Not sure how Grobe has fooled so many people in his career. I sat in the stands for several years and watched Grobe transform an ACC Championship team into a losing team then a losing program. I watch him waste the senior season of then the best QB in Wake history and go 5-7 by running the fullback dive ever other play in a winnable game against Miami which they lost 17-10. After a bad season he went and told the AD he wanted transition the offense to a triple option attack which would have doomed the program for decades. They had a great AD at the time who responded with, "You're fired." That's leadership we need at Akron.

Because in just a few years, their main idea, maximizing freedom, is making college football from top to bottom the best it has ever been. The transfer portal is a total Libertarian idea and college football is more entertaining/competitive than it has been in my lifetime. NIL will prove to do the same thing.

John Hunter

The free movement of labor is critical to Libertarian beliefs. The transfer portal is the best thing to happen to college football in many years. It has made college football much more competitive because really good players are not held in bad situations and others can exploit their services. The new school wins and the player wins. The old school really doesn't lose because the us a player they really weren't using anyhow. To not exploit these looser restrictions is to not understand this basic concept and maximize opportunities.

Of course not. He openly interviewed for the Chargers QB coach job.

He was a second place MAC East coach. We've had two coaches since him who made the MACC and one won the championship. Akron probably held on to him a couple years too long.

Your last sentence may in fact be correct, but that's irrelevant. I have a relative who is well connected in Ohio high school football. The problem is no high school coaches don't take Arth or anyone on his staff seriously as D1 coaches. It will never matter if he can coach or not as long as there is no talent. Recruiting is more important than coaching. He'll never be successful at Akron. I don't wish ill on Arth. He just needs to go. He'll be fine. It's shocking that Akron has missed so badly on two coaches in roughly 15 years.