No Bowling This Year.

[Lee Adams]

On 5/9/2025 at 11:20 AM, kreed5120 said:

 

I've tried fighting the good fight of arguing to keep the program FBS. Each passing year as the cost of FBS escalates and the football program reaches new levels of ineptitude it's becoming harder and harder to defend.

 

If this path continues one has to ask at what point should we explore the decision of joining Dayton in the non-scholaship Pioneer League? I'm not saying we're there yet, but that date might be approaching. I don't see the value in scholarship FCS as any cost savings there is more than offset by reduction in revenue.

I was about to renew my long held season tix. After reading all this I have to ponder.

First, I am not in any way defending the so called 'rating system' the NCAA uses. It has never really worked before and as many here have pointed out it is probably even more antiquated now. How do you keep track of the movement from program to program. Schools have different academic standards. On and on. I also see here that some are again mentioning dropping down in level of competition. I assume there are rating systems that apply at all levels of scholarship sports? 

I have no idea what the new administration's attitude is about the football situation other than it doesn't want this situation hanging around its neck for long.

Do they fire Moorehead now. Not likely given the calendar. Do they wait to see how the season goes into October/November? Do they seriously consider overhauling a football program that can't seem to gain traction at the end of this year? Can Moorehead et. al remediate the academics enough this year to buy some time. Or, does Moorehead bow out and move on. OR, does the adminsitration seriously consider a drop down to a lower level of competition in football?

Now about those season tix?!

[MarkWiley]

What about the idea that if a player enters the portal in december or april, the team that picks him up will take on the academic stats of that player from the fall semester.  that way if a kid knows they are leaving, they still have to maintain academic quality to get picked up by another team.  

[LZIp]

23 minutes ago, MarkWiley said:

What about the idea that if a player enters the portal in december or april, the team that picks him up will take on the academic stats of that player from the fall semester.  that way if a kid knows they are leaving, they still have to maintain academic quality to get picked up by another team.  

I’m curious how a kid who basically quits school mid semester because they are transferring would be able to retain their eligibility..

[clarkwgriswold]

It would and could never happen but wouldn't be nice that if the kid didn't hold up his end of the bargain by attending class that he owed the school for a year's tuition?

[GP1]

20 hours ago, Lee Adams said:

I was about to renew my long held season tix. After reading all this I have to ponder.

First, I am not in any way defending the so called 'rating system' the NCAA uses. It has never really worked before and as many here have pointed out it is probably even more antiquated now. How do you keep track of the movement from program to program. Schools have different academic standards. On and on. I also see here that some are again mentioning dropping down in level of competition. I assume there are rating systems that apply at all levels of scholarship sports? 

I have no idea what the new administration's attitude is about the football situation other than it doesn't want this situation hanging around its neck for long.

Do they fire Moorehead now. Not likely given the calendar. Do they wait to see how the season goes into October/November? Do they seriously consider overhauling a football program that can't seem to gain traction at the end of this year? Can Moorehead et. al remediate the academics enough this year to buy some time. Or, does Moorehead bow out and move on. OR, does the adminsitration seriously consider a drop down to a lower level of competition in football?

Now about those season tix?!

I think kreed makes a good point, but I always fall back on what a failure it turns out to be when Akron makes unilateral decisions. Schools like Akron, and there are a lot of us, need to come together and figure out what the next steps are. I've said this for years now. Maybe an association of MAC schools and those in the Pioneer who simply don't want to shell out the money for scholarships for football and continue the humiliation of playing P4 teams just to stay afloat. 

 

What if it's just as simple as changing the MAC bylaws to eliminate scholarships for football and form a national alliance?  What if it's as simple as having a large non-scholarship D1 football league?  BTW, if they accepted this solution, there is a good chance the financial problem would get worse. 

 

Speaking of season tickets, I'm considering not renewing my Wake Forest tickets. Last year, four of the seven home games started after 6:30. One was on a Thursday night and another on a Friday night. I didn't even bother going. I disdain night college football games. They already have a Thursday game scheduled against NC State that I have no desire to go to. TV is ruining the college football fan experience. I'll just go to the games I want to that start at a time and day of the week that is convenient to me. I think there will be plenty of tickets to purchase.