2025 MAC Football Post-season

[Let'sGoZips94]

 

[clarkwgriswold]

26 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

This never would have been upheld had Akron been bowl eligible. I guarantee the suits in the NCAA's legal department were sweating when Akron was making that comeback vs. Kent. Akron was low hanging fruit for the NCAA to flex its fake, tough-guy muscles one more time before they are completely rendered useless.

 

We'll never know but it remains a bad look that the Zips were the only one.  It was also time to stand up when it came down rather than essentially concede and push it back a year.

[Blue & Gold]

1 minute ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

We'll never know but it remains a bad look that the Zips were the only one.  It was also time to stand up when it came down rather than essentially concede and push it back a year.

Wait... we're still going to be ineligible next year?

[LZIp]

4 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

Wait... we're still going to be ineligible next year?

I’m pretty sure that was my takeaway when the news/numbers first came out. I believe they use some sort of rolling average and my thought at the time was we could get it up for next season, but we’d need close to a miracle.

 

Understand we have money concerns, but I agree with Clark the time to fight it would be been when it was first announced. One less practice a week is a big deal, especially when we might be looking at dealing with it for 3 years (last year, this year, and next year). That’s a lot of lost development.

[kreed5120]

40 minutes ago, LZIp said:

I’m pretty sure that was my takeaway when the news/numbers first came out. I believe they use some sort of rolling average and my thought at the time was we could get it up for next season, but we’d need close to a miracle.

 

Understand we have money concerns, but I agree with Clark the time to fight it would be been when it was first announced. One less practice a week is a big deal, especially when we might be looking at dealing with it for 3 years (last year, this year, and next year). That’s a lot of lost development.

 

It's a 4 year rolling average. I read up on it awhile ago and shared links to the website that lists all the APR scores when the news first broke. One of the years was laughably low and would make it near impossible to be compliant next season. I think that's the score that disappears at the end of next year.

[zvillezip]

Ohio to vacate 7 wins.
 

https://x.com/petenakos/status/1995690540848087496?s=61

Edited 13 hours ago by zvillezip
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[MangoZip]

That link says nothing about it?

[Let'sGoZips94]

 

 

[zvillezip]

Sorry I posted the wrong link and now can’t find the correct link.

[Blue & Gold]

Bad day for this to happen as tomorrow is signing day. I'm still seeing recruits tweeting that they'll be signing with OU tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

[MDZip]

1 hour ago, zvillezip said:

Ohio to vacate 7 wins.
 

https://x.com/petenakos/status/1995690540848087496?s=61

If this is true I'm mad we didn't play them this year. Would have made us bowl eligible. 🤣

[GP1]

10 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

He wasn't the AD's or President's first choice for the job. They wanted someone more mature guide the program but that person turned down the job. I'm not talking about Jim Grobe either. 

[egregiousbob]

8 hours ago, GP1 said:

He wasn't the AD's or President's first choice for the job. They wanted someone more mature guide the program but that person turned down the job. I'm not talking about Jim Grobe either. 

 

That's not true. I have knowledge of the process. He was their first choice but the AD felt the need to conduct a wider search before finalizing. Hauser, the interim HC (and defensive coordinator), was a finalist.

 

Secondly, this situation has nothing to do with NCAA violations, etc.  There is no vacation of wins -- you know how long it takes the NCAA to conduct investigations. It takes months if not years.

 

The truth is the coach is embroiled in a very contentious divorce. My (educated) guess is that his spouse has made a claim that is serious enough to warrant investigation by the university. Could be she's being spiteful to try to ruin his career...could be there's some element of truth to it.  Will likely know sooner rather than later.   In the meantime, they've received all but 2 of their expected letters of intent today.