The World of College Football

[GP1]

4 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

 

I would have to imagine that problem is only going to get worse with the declining enrollment. The vast majority of the houses north of Thornton slumlords were renting to college students since they could fetch higher rents. With fewer and fewer students living around campus more and more of those houses are going to get rented out to low income.

Enrollment isn't declining. 

[kreed5120]

1 hour ago, GP1 said:

Enrollment isn't declining. 

Sure if you compare just this year to last, but if you zoom out and compare it to what it was 10-15 years ago it's nearly half.

 

Also, if you look further ahead northeast Ohio's population is expected to decline roughly 15% in 2050 compared to what it was in 2020. That will likely lead to further declines 10-15 years from now.

Edited September 27 by kreed5120

[GP1]

So,.you all know I find the number of support personnel and people running around with GoPro's on the field more than a little bizarre. In fact, I find it obnoxious. Yesterday I was at the WF vs GA Tech game. For the coin toss, there were four captains per team. There were 10 people with cameras filming it. What the Hell is going on in the world of college football that this happens? Is this what the money is being spent on?

[Hilltopper]

Dueling bills

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/09/29/senators-introduce-safe-act-for-college-athletes-nil-rights-womens-sports-sports-broadcasting-act/86428219007/

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/09/29/nil-bill-in-us-senate-allows-athletes-to-go-back-to-school-after-draft-uniform-sponsor-patches/86429347007/

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/07/10/college-sports-bill-ncaa-congress/84538608007/

 

 

Edited September 30 by Hilltopper

[kreed5120]

Private equity is looking to spend $2 billion to buy a 5% share of future Big 10 distributions. 

 

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46452188/sources-big-ten-discussing-2-billion-private-capital-deal

[GP1]

5 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

Private equity is looking to spend $2 billion to buy a 5% share of future Big 10 distributions. 

 

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46452188/sources-big-ten-discussing-2-billion-private-capital-deal

The Big Ten is a good bet.The footprint the conference leads to money. Los Angeles has Hollywood money and West coast money. Seattle has big tech money. Oregon has Nike money. Cities like Philadelphia, New York, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis have loads of money. Now that college football is about money, the more money you have, the better odds of success. 

 

The two biggest money schools in the SEC are Texas and TX A and M because they have oil money. The rest of the SEC only has car dealership money and that ain't that much in comparison. 

 

The Big Ten has a huge money advantage moving forward. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

 

In the world of NIL, we should be asking recruits to rank the top 5 players of all time at their position. Any type of reward for this level of stupidity should be punished similarly to Akron's academic postseason bowl ban.

 

Who knows how he is as a student, but he is certainly not a student of the game. 😂

 

[GP1]

It's nice to look at the MAC standings and not see Akron in the heap of crap at the bottom. 

 

It does my heart good to see NIU flailing in their last year in the conference. Good riddance. If they think it's bad now, just wait. 

[kreed5120]

4 minutes ago, GP1 said:

 

It does my heart good to see NIU flailing in their last year in the conference. Good riddance. If they think it's bad now, just wait. 

 

The Mountain West also got raided. Nearly all their top teams are going to the PAC-12. It might still end up being better than the MAC, but I don't think it will be by a significant margin.

[Spin]

On 9/26/2025 at 10:18 PM, GP1 said:

Enrollment isn't dropping

 

University of Akron sees largest enrollment increase since 2021 http://bit.ly/4mdmYAK

[LZIp]

Last I checked, you have to be enrolled as a full time student in order to be play sports. What am I missing??

https://x.com/joel_haas1/status/1975926830029803852?s=46&t=9-fcK7Vn9q6OYAnLHpOI3A

[GP1]

3 hours ago, LZIp said:

Last I checked, you have to be enrolled as a full time student in order to be play sports. What am I missing??

https://x.com/joel_haas1/status/1975926830029803852?s=46&t=9-fcK7Vn9q6OYAnLHpOI3A

This same story could have been written 30 years ago about someone else. 

 

The guy has zero big game wins. He can still beat Illinois and Rutgers if he spends a few less hours sitting around the football complex. 

[zippy5]

6 hours ago, LZIp said:

Last I checked, you have to be enrolled as a full time student in order to be play sports. What am I missing??

https://x.com/joel_haas1/status/1975926830029803852?s=46&t=9-fcK7Vn9q6OYAnLHpOI3A

nah - remember when Matt Leinart took ballroom dancing his last semester?

[GP1]

For years many have told us that we can't play at the same time as OSU because nobody would show up. I always thought that if Akron put a decent team on the field at a time an day of week people would go if the program benefited the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Surely, we could get at least fifteen to twenty thousand to show up for a big game.

 

Well, I turn on the Toledo vs BG game that's starting at the exact same time as the OSU vs IL game, and the first words I hear are "Welcome to sold out Doyt Perry Stadium".  Of course, I thought to myself that a lot of Toledo fans showed up.....  Wrong, the stadium was almost completely orange. 

 

Bowling Green is a cow town less than 30 miles from a city smaller than Akron. There is no greater Cleveland 30 miles away. Their record is not stellar at 2-4, but there is excitement around the team. People showed up. This isn't hard. 

Edited 4 hours ago by GP1