Hilltopper Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 4 hours ago, GP1 said: I'd prefer articles that don't remind me it has become entirely about money. Those are hard to find. Money ruins everything 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 1 hour ago, Hilltopper said: Money ruins everything Lauper-Topper? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted September 20 Report Share Posted September 20 11 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said: You know a really cool side benefit to the advent of NIL? - We'll never have to worry about the cost of adding names to our Wall of Fame. From here-on-out, any decent player will bolt the Zips in a heartbeat for some P5 cash. The days of watching a Dwight Smith, Jason Taylor, Charlie Frye etc. for more than a year or two are officially over. Yippee. Next up - Based upon the success of the 2-minute time out, I foresee instituting the "6-minute breather"...a 5 minute "catch your breath" break at the 6:00 point of each quarter. We'll be able to listen to 15 consecutive, "Akron Bearings" and "Electrifying your Future" commercials, 4 times per game. Double Yippee. The flip side is we won't be facing a Finn or Rourke or Gabbert for 3-4 years straight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted September 20 Report Share Posted September 20 (edited) College Football 25 Patch was released yesterday. Seems like these are being released every 2-3 weeks. Still no fixes for Akron's incorrect field logo and no new uniforms. Not sure how they can updated 22 teams, but Akron keeps getting ignored. Edited September 20 by akzipper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 20 Author Report Share Posted September 20 1 hour ago, akzipper said: College Football 25 Patch was released yesterday. Seems like these are being released every 2-3 weeks. Still no fixes for Akron's incorrect field logo and no new uniforms. Not sure how they can updated 22 teams, but Akron keeps getting ignored. This is the least of our problems. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted September 21 Report Share Posted September 21 Here we are again, another season of empty stands and losing football games. 8,900 fans paid their way into the Dialer to be entertained. 8,900 fans according to the program (and you know they’re always accurate with that). As I’ve said for years, in the middle of a football hotbed. Meanwhile down Rt. 21 there’s a high school football program that draws 8,000 fanatics per game. A routine game. For big games, this city of 32,000 sells over 12,000 tickets. My high school football coach took us to watch a Massilon game. We’ve fired AD’s and coaches, built new training and work out facilities, whatever. I don’t know if I’m going back this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted September 21 Report Share Posted September 21 8 hours ago, Spin said: Here we are again, another season of empty stands and losing football games. 8,900 fans paid their way into the Dialer to be entertained. 8,900 fans according to the program (and you know they’re always accurate with that). As I’ve said for years, in the middle of a football hotbed. Meanwhile down Rt. 21 there’s a high school football program that draws 8,000 fanatics per game. A routine game. For big games, this city of 32,000 sells over 12,000 tickets. My high school football coach took us to watch a Massilon game. We’ve fired AD’s and coaches, built new training and work out facilities, whatever. I don’t know if I’m going back this year. Massillon fans are rabid. It's in their DNA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 21 Author Report Share Posted September 21 10 hours ago, Spin said: don’t know if I’m going back this year. Thanks for letting us know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted September 21 Report Share Posted September 21 2 hours ago, GP1 said: Thanks for letting us know. I didn’t realize I’m the first to bring that up since the board started. We do sound like broken records because outside a couple good seasons the program has been a dumpster fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 21 Author Report Share Posted September 21 15 minutes ago, Spin said: We do sound like broken records because outside a couple good seasons the program has been a dumpster fire. Goes without saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted September 21 Report Share Posted September 21 This forum is a place for people who want to vent. Apparently that only applies to the cool kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 21 Author Report Share Posted September 21 6 minutes ago, Spin said: This forum is a place for people who want to vent. Apparently that only applies to the cool kids. I love when people vent. I could do without the comparisons to a crappy small town full of halfwits who have nothing better to do on Friday nights than going to high school football games. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted September 21 Report Share Posted September 21 LOL Duly noted… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 22 Author Report Share Posted September 22 https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article289359760.html I was talking with my friends yesterday at the game and renovations to Williams Brice Stadium came up. There is no way MAC level schools can compete in the future of college football and they badly need their own division. Part of the discussion not mentioned in the article is USC is planning on reducing the crowd size while increasing revenue. Part of that is moving the students section and giant scoreboard to the opposite side of the stadium, tearing down the current student section/scoreboard and replacing it with luxury condos. Each condo will have a balcony where you can sit outside and watch the game. If you think people won't buy the condos and you were at the game yesterday, keep in mind a lot of the condos across the street from the stadium are owned by wealthy people and only stay in them on game day. I was able to go to the private party once. They have a bar and live bands playing on game day. The condos attached to the Cockaboose RR cars are the same way. Think about what someone would pay for a view of the game from their condo, private bathrooms and air conditioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 12 hours ago, GP1 said: https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article289359760.html I was talking with my friends yesterday at the game and renovations to Williams Brice Stadium came up. There is no way MAC level schools can compete in the future of college football and they badly need their own division. Part of the discussion not mentioned in the article is USC is planning on reducing the crowd size while increasing revenue. Part of that is moving the students section and giant scoreboard to the opposite side of the stadium, tearing down the current student section/scoreboard and replacing it with luxury condos. Each condo will have a balcony where you can sit outside and watch the game. If you think people won't buy the condos and you were at the game yesterday, keep in mind a lot of the condos across the street from the stadium are owned by wealthy people and only stay in them on game day. I was able to go to the private party once. They have a bar and live bands playing on game day. The condos attached to the Cockaboose RR cars are the same way. Think about what someone would pay for a view of the game from their condo, private bathrooms and air conditioning. My complaint has never been about competing against the Penn State's or Wisconsin's of the world. My complaint is we can't compete against our peers (Toledo, WMU, NIU, etc). Even if the entire MAC drops down a level, we're still at or near the bottom of the MAC food chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted September 23 Author Report Share Posted September 23 9 hours ago, kreed5120 said: My complaint has never been about competing against the Penn State's or Wisconsin's of the world. My complaint is we can't compete against our peers (Toledo, WMU, NIU, etc). Even if the entire MAC drops down a level, we're still at or near the bottom of the MAC food chain. It's not that Akron can't compete. We've had big wins against P5 schools and trips to the Championship. We are not competing in a meaningful way is the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 (edited) 3-0 UNLV's QB has quit the team based upon representations made by the school not being met. Welcome again to the new age of college athletics. The check must have bounced. https://sports.yahoo.com/unlvs-starting-qb-says-no-064119975.html Edited September 25 by clarkwgriswold 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 39 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said: 3-0 UNLV's QB has quit the team based upon representations made by the school not being met. Welcome again to the new age of college athletics. The check must have bounced. https://sports.yahoo.com/unlvs-starting-qb-says-no-064119975.html Speaking of this, it is that time of year players enter the portal to preserve a year of eligibility. Wonder if we have any Ryan Johnson-like quitters this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 (edited) 1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said: 3-0 UNLV's QB has quit the team based upon representations made by the school not being met. Welcome again to the new age of college athletics. The check must have bounced. https://sports.yahoo.com/unlvs-starting-qb-says-no-064119975.html Edit: Read some tweets that are reporting Sluka asked for more money for the mid season and since they aren't giving it to him, he's quitting. That's wrong. Toledo and NIU are kicking themselves even more for losing last week. Edited September 25 by Let'sGoZips94 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catdaddyp Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 14 minutes ago, LZIp said: Speaking of this, it is that time of year players enter the portal to preserve a year of eligibility. Wonder if we have any Ryan Johnson-like quitters this season. Johnson was named a team captain last year too. My guess is that things haven’t panned out quite the way he thought they would at Southern Miss. Losing Johnson hurt from a pass rush perspective, but in the end it allowed Adler to get the developmental snaps he needed. Amankwaa leaving in 2022 hurt when we were in desperate need of a consistent cornerback. I’d be surprised if we lost many this year as almost everyone on the roster was recruited by Moorhead. Only 9 remain from the previous staff and that includes walk-ons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 No 4 RB also leaving UNLV. I love all the finger pointing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egregiousbob Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 Hard to believe UNLV doesn't stand by its promises... I applaud the QB, who's obviously got a pretty good head on his shoulders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 Just now, egregiousbob said: I applaud the QB, who's obviously got a pretty good head on his shoulders. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 https://sports.yahoo.com/unlvs-starting-qb-says-no-064119975.html They told him they would pay him $100k. All he has recieved is a $3k relocation fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egregiousbob Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 44 minutes ago, LZIp said: LOL. Graduate of Holy Cross. Not exactly a state school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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