that's an interesting post because one would think that how a team is playing coming into a game would indicate some things about what will happen the next week.   And obviously we're playing to that same glorified high school level currently.   ....just saying.

One might. One might think there's little, if any, correlation.



Disagree.

I disagree that BSU is an inferior opponent.  They were blasted by Oklahoma, but we would've been too.  They were blasted by USF, but we probably would've been too.  Their OOC schedule did not have a 1AA school -- they beat Indiana and Army, both of which are mid-level MAC quality teams this year; we would probably beat IU but I'm not sure about Army.  Their pasting by Temps came the week after their D secondary was decimated by OK, so they were still making adjustments.  Yes, we are not playing well right now.  But I don't see Akron as being the threat that, say, Kent was a year ago.  They don't have a Roosevelt Nix and they haven't fired their coach (yet).

We seem to bring that out in teams.

Akron was Buchtel College.

http://www.uakron.edu/development/history4.dot

Can someone permanently station a camera on SBH at this game?

I want to see the full range of emotions as vividly as possible.

I wanted those clowns and felons in Columbus to beat the Zips by 100.

My disdain is based on the quality of that school, known locally as "Hilltop High."  They started a major last year focused on running a telemarketing sweatshop. Reason?  They got a big donation from the folks who own InfoCision.

Heard a great story from an associate recently about the UofA experience.  She took a statistics class at Akron and she and her classmates quickly discovered that the adjunct "professor" was actually a moonlighting junior high math teacher who had never even taken a statistics class herself.  The class went on strike and asked for their money back.  The university finally agreed, refunded 7/8 of their tuition and invited them to take the class from a different professor at half-price the next semester.  So when they walked in the door a few months later...it was the same woman.  They again went to the dean and were told that the university couldn't find anyone better (because they rely primarily on adjuncts to save money). But he assured them that she had brushed up on her statistics learnin' over the preceding eight weeks, so their experience should be "good enough."

Drew, I think you'd be shocked at the number of adjuncts here at OU too.  Sad state of affairs in higher ed right now.   And on an unrelated note, 10 or so years ago I got a call one day wanting to know if I'd like to teach a volleyball coaching class.  It seems no one from the Convo was available that quarter and since I was the local high school coach, they thought I'd be a good candidate.  I said yes and started the next day and no, everyone did not get an A.