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The Akron Zips FB program
Penguin Nation:
Akron has a new President who has said he wouldn't have built the InfoCision Stadium, and has raised student fees, fired faculty, and just cut baseball. It is certainly true that anything could happen, but it seems almost implausible that they'd raise student fees $50/credit hour but still bonfire $8M/year to simply remain in the FBS. It would be epic insanity. I wonder if the statement from the faculty member was a planned trial balloon to gauge public/fan reaction.
OleYSUfan:
It would be great to see a renewed rivalry between YSU and Akron in FB, but this probably will not happen.
Akron will continue in the MAC in the foreseeable future. They will try new attempts to bring fans to the new stadium. Most likely they will continue to throw money into the FB program and thus more heads will laid off in the future.
If Kent and Akron would schedule home games every other year with YSU, it would probably guarantee a crowd over 14,000. That would be double their average fan attendance.
Penguin Nation:
If you want to see what a meltdown looks like, look here:
http://zipsnation.org/forums/topic/33696-faculty-recommends-i-aa/page-2
Amongst the angst and delusions of FBS viability, one fan offers a nugget of sanity:
"Let's be honest here about revenues, in the MAC there is no big television contract that pays big bucks, far from it. There are also no big bowl game payouts, as back in 2005 Akron lost money on the bowl game as has every MAC team save for Northern Illinois' bowl trips over the past 3 years. The MAC television package with ESPN is a giant trade deal where the MAC plays a lot of mid week games in exchange for bowl slots that no other conference wants. The schools rarely sell their tickets to the bowl games and end up on the hook for travel, hotels, meals, etc... No one in the MAC will ever play in the College Football Playoff, so the only real source of revenue for Akron or any other MAC team is from playing the Oklahoma type games. Even the home and home series with Pitt will not yield what it should as no tickets are being sold for this game other than to Pitt fans who will outnumber Akron fans 3:1 at that game. Akron ticket sales are not going to make some mad jump and when the team starts 0-2 to begin the 2015 season people are not going to jump on board. Akron has only SIX WINNING SEASONS since 1987: which were Faust 1992, Owens 1999, 2000, 2003, Brookhart 2004, 2005. It's been a decade since Akron Football had a winning season. The largest crowds in Akron Football history came when the program played winning football at the 1AA or FCS level. These are all facts along with the reality that Akron spends 8m of a 25m total athletics budget on football, which sells so few tickets on an annual basis (season and single game) that the total gross sales cannot cover the salary of the head football coach. That's just not good business."
Penguin Nation:
--- Quote from: OleYSUfan on July 15, 2015, 01:31:05 PM ---If Kent and Akron would schedule home games every other year with YSU, it would probably guarantee a crowd over 14,000. That would be double their average fan attendance.
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I completely agree. 100%. But.....the fiscal hole for Akron has grown too deep for these half measures.
As ridiculous as it may sound...only beating OK and shocking the FBS world prolly could save them now.
Double ET:
--- Quote from: Wick250 on July 15, 2015, 12:59:04 PM ---Folks, keep in mind that you are reacting to the opinions of an Akron faculty member. Administrations and trustees typically ignore faculty on every topic not directly related to course work. Akron will continue to muddle on in the MAC and will continue to waste tons of money. There is no time limit on being perpetually stupid.
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If Akron's academic senate and YSU's academic senate are similar, it has virtually little or no impact on the administration decisions.
As a member of the YSU's academic senate, the university administration paid very little weight on the recommendations/resolutions from the academic senate on academic matters, let alone athletic issues.
IMO, if Akron decides to move down to IAA, it will be the administration's decision to save money and not because of the recommendations of their academic senate. In this case, the opinion was only expressed by the Chairperson of the academic senate. That was not even a recommendations from their academic senate. Therefore, it does not carry any weight at all.
Personally, unless NCAA combines G5 and FCS, I do not see Akron dropping down to join FCS.
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