Kent State got $1.9 million from Georgia this year.
I agree with Dave that it’s hard to simply call UC a G5 school. They were once a P5 school (and are again) and have been operating as one for the last 15+ years. Not your typical G5 program.
We start next season with 3 away games in a row. Dumb
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Thanks much for the info. Appreciated!
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UC is the only G5 school to pay their coach $5million a year
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Our first home game is 9/23. We’ll probably have two Saturday home games in October and two midweek November home games. It’s really difficult to create a solid home following with that kind of scheduling. It looks like things get a little better in 2024.
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This is true Dick…but the reality is this though:
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UK - as about non-traditional a SEC power there is…2 hour bus trip
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Robert Morris - middling to bottom FCS @ home to recover
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UC - non traditional P5 on “neutral field”…when and who else does that happen to?
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NW - lesser to middling B10 overall, Miami with historical advantage…and built in road crowd
Not discounting talent of these programs in 1, 3 and 4…but as said in NW thread, our little " MAC D" looked better than NW’s despite the ex IU coach knocking us and saying NW had better players. Miami lifts weights too…there seemed to be little disparity along the O and Dlines in these games, IMO.
In review…
Game 1 - Pull your QB, you are not whining in this presser
Game 2 - Scrimmage vs Bob Morris and 2s (recovery)
Game 3 - You had several chances now to win, see game 1 for your most recent problem
Game 4 - You learned to get under center @ 1 yard line, see game 3 - kudos on that, there’s signs the light IS on.
In the end, Chuck has to stop whinning and project an attitude of beating the team in front of him…that schedule is tough, but lined with advantage…about 3 millon dollars worth, no Georgia’s or trips out west.
I coach my son in several sports…and he and his buddies will ask “who are we playing” this week and that week…I just say…“the kid in front of you.”
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I’m sick of this UC fawning. I’d like a coach that wants to rise to the challenge and beat them. UC has a good program right now, but man they’ve put out some very beatable teams in the last nine years—and we got nothing.
Additionally, if Chuck had actually been winning G5 OOC games (Army, Marshall, WKU) I’d take his comments more seriously. But this is a guy that couldn’t beat anybody, anywhere outside the MAC for 8 years. Forgive me if I’m not in a hurry to throw away our biggest FB rival because our coach is mediocre.
How about WE get better as a program? Let’s look inward first.
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my stats are bullshit? a little harsh dick? you want to continue the debate on a reasonable level?
so i guess we should’ve added 59 tomahawk plaques to the locker room wall for all those UC victories? i mean if we’re going to put them at the P5 level (before they’re in a P5 conference), i guess we should include them in that category back to the point where we started identifying big games?
has UC elevated their game over the past decade - yes. you want to put an asterisk next to UC on the historical records, that is your choice…and the stats aren’t even my real beef (even though they support chuck is barking up the wrong tree)…its that chuck continues to air dirty laundry publically.
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and dick, another question. if you’re so steadfast on recognizing UC as a P5 team, are you in support of cancelling our series unless UC pays us on an equivalent buy-game basis?
am i the only one who recognizes the dire financial position that miami and the mac is facing with revenue? we HAVE to play two buy games a year…
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We opened as 1 point favorite Saturday, about what I thought given we’re going on the road after a brutal offensive game.
Buffalo is certainly beatable, but it’s never easy to win there. Hopefully the offense can move the ball more and the defense can keep playing well.
A win would build a lot of momentum coming home for Kent.
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We’re the better team. We are going to win.
Imo this is ignorant of the fact that program status and conference affiliation matters. If we beat the University of Chicago in the 1920’s that would be a Tomahawk win against a Big Ten team, whereas today it’d be laughable to even play a DIII like them. If we beat Florida State in 1947, a year after become co-ed while they were in a conference with the likes of Millsaps and Oglethorpe, it shouldn’t count as it would today.
UC was a BCS school from 2005-13, before they joined the Big East they had zero ranked finishes ever and zero 10-win seasons since the Truman administration. Since then those numbers have been 9 and 8 respectively. It doesn’t mean we should count our wins (or anything in the future if we finally snag one) as Tomahawks because history matters, but it does mean we can view the series through a different perspective than we would 20 years ago. A balanced approach acknowledges that the rivalry and dynamics between us has fundamentally changed (for the worse in our case) because both programs have changed, but knows that maintaining a hopeless, defeatist approach against them is a loser’s attitude.
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I feel our defense has been building quickly…not sure what McWood’s situation does to that …and Ty Wise back would not hurt, although Woullard I think just played more and is looking like potential next thing at DE (6-5, 250 and high-motor).
I know 3/4 of our DEs are TR and we have couple more on D this yr…but wow, look at UB’s two-deep…TR,TR,TR,TR,TR,TR…all but one OL.
Any word at all on McWood status?
Not that I’ve seen but I’m guessing he’ll be playing with a soft cast.
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The Two Deep is up in game notes. It looks like McWood and almost everybody else who was questionable is on the list. I don’t know how accurate it is on a Tuesday, though.
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Yes.
I think we should cancel UC series. It does absolutely nothing for us anymore outside of embarrass us regionally. This is NOT a rivalry. Nothing about our program is on par with theirs, and the gap will continue to widen.
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I see one new name…Matt Bjorson (IU/TR)…wonder if Bolden got dinged?
Or maybe he’s playing his way into rotation.
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That’s a reputation that comes from freezing, windy night games in November in the middle of the week. A Saturday at 3:30 on the first day of October shouldn’t be any special home field advantage.
Over the past decade, Buffalo is 8-2 in home midweek MACtion games and 13-12 in all other MAC home games.
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I saw Bjornson’s name, too. Didn’t realize it was Bolden he was replacing. Don’t know why. I thought I saw Bjornson in just a jersey on the sidelines vs ROMO. Maybe he was injured.
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