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Date: October 15th, 2022 3:30 PM

Opponent: Western Michigan  (2-4, 1-1 MAC)

Site: Waldo Stadium

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????? I was just on Bronco Stampede

WMU is 120th on offense and 74th on defense. Where Kent had a passing defense ranked 116th, WMU's passing defense is rated 81st. Ohio's passing game is 8th in the country at 334 yards.

Oh, you mean it's like this board?

Here the bar anymore is 6 or 7 wins for a good regular season. That gets the team into a bowl and presents well on the recruiting trail. Three other teams in the MAC East are going to have the same success in a given year. Then an occasional 3-9 bogey year is ok.

If you think about that TA has a decent chance of 1) wining 6+ this year and keeping his seat. 2) winning 6+ next year as Kurtis is back as a Sr. 3) Completing the 4 year contract w/ extension. Moderate success can help TA load up on defensive transfers to possibly win the division in 2023. Its not implausible.

Correct

Unless we have a boatload of injuries from here on out, I think we’re going to have to get used to the idea that Albin may be around for a while.

Sounds like you're hoping for failure.

Seems that’s the growing trend on this board, even beyond the defund football crowd.

And you know the qualifications for staying how?

I expect Julie Cromer doesn't know exactly how many wins it takes because that isn't going to be the only criteria. Let's not be arrogant and think that we know what the people in charge of this decision are thinking. But let's also be realistic an recognize that coach firings rarely blind side the media, boosters, and fans. The people widely thought to be on the hottest seats usually are the guys that the athletic departments end up letting go. Not always but certainly usually. I think that we can agree that Albin's seat was probably quite hot coming into the season. I hope that almost everyone would concede that at the mid point of the season his fate is still likely very much up in the air and still dependent on what happens the remainder of the season

Most of us have witnessed college football for years and often decades and we do have some feel for the norms of how these things play out. I think that its pretty reasonable to think that if Ohio has a winning season that he is quite likely to be back and that if Ohio finishes with 3 or 4 wins that he is quite likely to be gone. I also think that from what I know of Ohio University and of Albin's contract that he isn't likely to be fired until the season is over and if he is kept for 2023 that under most results he would be probably kept as the head coach in 2024 as well. I am not arrogant enough to think that I know any of these things but I don't think that this is speculation made in a vacuum either.

And please don't count me among the people who are rooting against him as a result of this comment. He has been here a long time and, from what I hear, the players like him. I definitely don't want his tenure to end like that.

If there's one difference between our board and theirs is our trust in the AD's to make the right call. Nothing has indicated that we'd get sent down the river by Cromer or Schaus for the better part of a long time. Whoever pulled the trigger on the design of Albin's contract was clutch, and if it works out, groovy. If not, it's no worries and zero buyout.

Give Cromer credit. When the Frank news was thrown in her lap in July, she reached out to a number of AD friends, including the AD at a Power 5 institution, for advice. Her approach to the contract was based on that outreach.