My normally optimistic nature has come to the conclusion that unless things drastically change, what we have experienced since Coach Solich's arrival-hope about the future is gone. We look as disorganized this year as we did last. However, there doesn't appear to be any urgency for things to get better both in the action of our playbook, as well as our administrative powers that be. I haven't talked to anyone with connections to the powers that be this sports season, but I was told last spring that if anyone thinks Coach Albin is on a hot seat, they are profoundly mistaken.

The administative powers that be are fighting turf battles with a faculty that thinks athletics are out of control, even though MAC expenditures are a drop in the bucket compared to the power conferences. One only need look at the hundreds of thousands of dollars Texas spent to escort the youngest Manning savant around Austin, or the extra 5+ million Nebraska spent to relieve Coach Frost of his duties rather than waiting until October 1st. I am sure there are other MAC school administarors who face the same upheavel. Let's face it, the MAC as we know it will not serve in its current state by 2035, and most certainly 2040. What we had was fun, but as the 1985 Foreigner That was Yesterday states: Goodbye yesterday, now it's over and done, Still, I hope Yesterday will live on.

Ohio University is an institution of higher learning and football is merely an extra curricular activity. I think we’ll be fine.

A big part of this is talent, plain and simple. We haven't recruited well for the past 6-7 years. That's on Frank. I think there's a lot more energy and creativity going into recruiting today and we'll hopefully see that pay off.

Then why not just drop all athletics and save the expense? Why waste any more money? Even though the athletic budget represents about 3% of the University's entire budget, why waste the money? Is it not somewhat hypocritical to continue to throw good money on a losing proposition? BTW, please note my sarcasm.

I just checked us NEWS and Alabama is 137 among national universities and we’re 177, so what does that mean.

Why not? They were on the wrong side in the late rebellion and OHIO, according to President Solomon Howard, provided more officers to the Union Army than any other college in the Buckeye State. They should be paying us restitution, or something!

Paging Casper71! He’s been preaching this gospel for at least a decade.

OCF, several of us have been saying this for a very long time. The vast majority here though fail to understand how poor it has been.

You'd have to ask Nebraska about that one! And, you are talking about the guy who said Joe Burrow was not as good as the QB's they had at Nebraska.


https://247sports.com/Article/Nebraska-football-recruitin...

And as he would tell you right now, its much easier to recruit to Orlando than it is to Nebraska, and other places in the Midwest.

I'm sure, SE Ohia has so much to offer kids from the south. Maybe he can use that large NIL pool that we have, all the great things we have to do in SE Ohio.

So you are saying that Frost couldn't recruit at OHIO better than what we've been doing recently?

Well, this is all hypothetical, but in the rare chance that he does become our next coach, I guess we'd find out. My guess is that he would do better at recruiting than Frank because he's less "old school" and would put in a slightly more "modern" offense that would appeal to recruits more in some of the skilled positions. I'm basing this wild conjecture on his teams at UCF.