This is a dumpster fire. I would have preferred a short term hit with an interim vs. a three year massive move backwards with a guy who is obviously way over his head. Just lost in all phases of the game and game management itself.

Not that it matters in the final score, but that guy for UL-L stepped out of bounds on the 3 yard line and they still gave him a TD without hesitation.

I've seen better officiating in high school games. Or middle school even.

Something is "not kosher" with this officiating crew.

I'll go ahead and say this, and it's just my personal opinion.

But the way this is projecting to be, the Albin era will strongly sour my views on Frank's so called legacy and success.

Granted he took a terrible program and made it respectable, but he had it on a downward trajectory for several years going into his ultimate retirement. I really wish he would have hung it up after the Spud Bowl and it was obvious the program was stagnating. He never brought home a MAC championship.

I was even ready to roll the dice between Tettleton era and and N. Rourke as the program was still in a good enough spot to attract legit coaching prospects.

As it stands now, Ohio Football will have to endure what we have seen so far this season 45 more times. 45 more-barring an early termination.

And this is on Frank's hands because of his "loyalty."

Only at this hapless school would an unproven coach be blindly handed the keys to the truck for four years out of fear that it would burn a bridge from a coach who had way too much control over a future that he made messy if he wasn't given what he thought was "earned." Short of last year's Men's NCAA tourney run, this entire athletics operation from on field/court performance to game day experience has been down right abysmal lately.

My fear is that the players who may actually be a part of making this program relevant again are in elementary school right now.

Has a pulse

This was the first time my wife go to see Albin coach.

From the beginning of the broadcast she said he looks extremely nervous
walking up and down the sidelines and that can't inspire any confidence
from his players.

As the game went on she said "he looks completely lost".
(Deer in headlights)

Truth.

I can't change the fact I already spent $700 to attend the NW Game. Planned it a month ago and I can't do anything about it now. I will have to listen to my Sister -in-law (NW Grad) and Brother-in-law (Wiscy Grad) railroad me over our HS Team. Great.

To add to my post above, when I talk about Nicholls State being an FCS program that plays in the Southland Conference, that means that Nicholls State has a maximum of 63 football scholarships total as opposed to our 85 scholarships. Secondly, it appears we spent $9,935,951 on football in 2019, while Nicholls State spent a total of $2,967,630 for its football program at the same time. Finally, even if we were in the FCS I do think OUr current team would still be a bottom feeder. As others have posted, the house of cards that is Ohio football has been exposed at just how bad it really is.

Walton seems like a Papi-type player -- they even gave him Papi's number -- but he really needs to harness his enthusiasm. He was called for one unsportsmanlike last night after the TD and could easily have gotten another one earlier when he trash talked and flashed his muscle at a Cajun defender for about ten seconds. If he hadn't been walking back towards his end of the field he probably would have been flagged. A RS junior -- even one who hasn't seen much action -- should have more discipline.

I'm beginning to honestly believe this as well. While there are a handful of MAC schools that seem to manage to compete with P5 schools, I can't see how any of them can afford to sustain that given the economics of "big time" college football. And I know data suggests that the MAC is better off financially in the FBS, but at some point, my gut feeling would be that it can't last.

Recently, I was talking with someone about the move of UC, UCF, Houston, and BYU to the Big 12, and the trickle down effects of that. Obviously the AAC is going to look to fill the void left by those teams. And then wherever those teams come from will fill that void, etc. My opinion is that now is the perfect time for many schools that get left behind from that to decide on their level of commitment to football and whether it's worth it financially.

First of all, the MAC is not now nor has ever been in an arms race against the P5. Miami is the Cradle of Coaches because as long as 60 years ago it wasn't going to pay the money the P5 does. Second, the business model of FCS isn't great. Less scholarships, yes. But the loss of revenue offsets that. That's why we've seen traditional FCS powers (like Appy State) go FBS.

I think, especially non-P5 schools, need to start seriously driving for endowment models. There is no reason that Ohio, with probably 800 to 1,000 living football alumni, should not be able endow 1 or .5 scholarships per year. Same for the other sports, they have fewer former players but fewer scholarships to cover. We've seen people pony up (BG baseball) when sports get taken away. 

I don't post a ton but I've lurked forever, and as long as I've been around there's been a small-but-not-insignificant contingent of fans who want us to all but dump football to try to be Gonzaga in hoops. This sentiment always crops up when things go poorly on the football field, and now is no exception. It's always felt a little disingenuous to me... if you like basketball better as a sport and therefore want OU to put more into basketball, just say that. That's a legitimate opinion to have. In football? We're in the most stable conference in the country, for better or for worse, and dropping to FCS obviously hasn't penciled out enough for anyone to actually do it save Idaho.

Your standards of defining acceptable is essentially that you have no standards. Saying Cromer negotiated a decent contract tells me you must be her cousin or something. Did the world end? No. But has the program turned into a punching bag seemingly overnight? Might as well be in Mike Tyson’s basement. The student-athlete point you touched on is seemingly irrelevant on a COLLEGE sports forum. Every single team in the nation is comprised of student-athletes. COVID and personal health are also irrelevant in this discussion. It’s no different anywhere else and it’s a topic anyone with working eyes and ears can see is truly nothing more than overblown and sensationalized for political purposes at this point.