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I’m in Columbus for work later today and planning to make the quick hour-and-15 drive southeast. First game at OU, catch me behind the UA bench

why do you find it necessary to bring politics into a discussion of Enrique Freeman?

It's a wonderful read. Shoutout to the announcers tonight. Miami OH fans watching the game had to be pissed hearing them essentially say Akron is still the class of the MAC despite the Sweaters being undefeated. Cleveland will be fun.

I don't know how many people caught it, but after the WMU game they interviewed Bowen on the radio. He brought up the possibility of getting some kind of waiver for an extra year of eligibility and Joe goes "Hopefully at Akron" and Bowen responded "Absolutely, I love it here these guys are the first ones to ever give me a chance at regular playing time"

The spring roster is out, and according to it we’ve got several guys back that I assumed were out of eligibility — Lyons and Archer on the OL, plus David, Jarmon, and AL. Branch in the secondary. If that’s accurate, that would leave us with approximately seven scholarships still open. Based on how the roster looks right now, 5–6 of those should be allocated to the DL.

I was planning on bringing a group of 12 but had to do the 'adult' thing & cancel the outing. But still planning on bringing the same group to the KSUcks game!!! 🤞🙏🤞🙏

I think this might be our most complete game yet. The fact that we dominated a full 40 minutes in a true road game in Athens is awesome to watch.

Zips get the national game in the MAC- Sunbelt challenge!

He actually had TWO pick sixes in that Super Bowl. The only reason he didn't win MVP was because they stupidly voted for MVP before the game was over a which was before he ran back his second TD! And the "MVP" was another defensive back! Still pissed! 😁

Both Rudy Gobert and Naz Reid are hurt for Minnesota. Enrique may finally be active tomorrow.

The bigger question is will the NCAA allow Whaley to play with an oxygen tank? He's going to need constant oxygen dragging his fat rear end up and down the court all night. Gillespie got in foul trouble the other night vs Miami. Fully expect that to happen again with our athleticism.

It's going to be interesting to see how Groce plans to handle the defense when Gillespie and 6'7" 290 pound Whaley are on the floor together.

Spaghetti Warehouse is garbage, even though it's one of the coolest places inside.

The watch party for the Arizona game was terrible, they have grown accustomed to the place being half empty or less since covid probably. Our group got sat at a table with a view of only 1 TV and it wasn't even on. They are severely understaffed and so many items on the menu are sold out, the waitress even said "yeah we always are out of a bunch of things on the menu". I hate to be so critical of a downtown business, I think downtown Akron needs places like this, but in its current state it isn't helping. I'd say it would be better off having this at lockview and they have a capacity of maybe 100. And also, any college cup match or march madness game should have a watch party in the JAR. The ones in 2018 were awesome and I wish they'd do it again. That's my rant for the day, looking forward to the game on Friday

Congratulations to Beto… …“Gui and Beto played important roles in our success last season, and we’re excited to reward them with new contracts. We expect them to remain key pieces within the group for years to come,” Sporting Director Dan Visser said. Ydrach, 24, famously netted the clinching penalty kick in the Hounds’ shootout win over FC Tulsa to secure the league title, and he also headed the game-winning goal in the team’s U.S. Open Cup victory over New York City FC in the Round of 32 last year. A Puerto Rico international with 17 appearances for his national team, Ydrach started 27 of the Hounds’ 29 regular-season matches as a rookie out of the University of Akron. …

Now we need some quality DL.

I saw somewhere that there's a good chance that the MAC goes to a 22 game schedule next season. Home and away against the other 11 teams.

Landed at Alabama. Coach JRod identifies under recruited high school talent as well as anyone in G5. Portal additions have been hit or miss, but he’s been excellent with the prep scene.

After watching even more special teams gaffes from the Rams in the playoffs, I don't think this was all Chase's fault.

Much like everything else in Minnesota, the Timberwolves are frauds. Somebody needs to save Enrique and get him out of that organization.

ABJ coverage Lyles compiled his fifth double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore Sharron Young added 11 points for the Zips. Lyles has scored in double figures in 15 consecutive games, becoming the first Akron player to do so since Enrique Freeman during the 2023-24 season.

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Now that was funny as a final comment from the announcers. They saw Connor Groce with that big head of hair and wondered what happened with his dad. They surmised that it might have been like space jam where Connor was like a Monstar and stole all the the hair from his dad. 😂

Please...please...please...no let up tonight.

new tight end, Wyatt Hook, is on campus so both of the new guys are here. That should pretty much complete the offense. hopefully they get that chemistry rolling right away...

Enrique is active again in tonight's game that just started. Let's see if he gets any minutes!

I find this conversation ironic in that dring the KD days we would be having a conversation about Akron getting an at large bid and then we would lose a game against a weak team and the conversation would end. I am sure Miami will pick up a loss during the season and this conversation will end. However, I would love to see them go undeated and lose to Akron in the finals and have the MAC be a two bid confernce.

Nice story on Miami, but doesn't give enough Akron credit (steel sharpens Steele 😉), doesn't even mention the very close loss in Oxford and talks about the last team before Buffalo getting and votes in the AP ranking being Kent in 02. While correct, the 12-13 Zips team was ranked briefly in the coaches poll. Too much glorification for a team ranked 339 out of 365 in strength of schedule.

I just checked the roster for last night's game and it looks like Freeman was active for the Timberwolves. He did not play because it was a close game but maybe he will finally get a chance to play for them: Enrique Freeman: DNP – Coach's Decision Rob Dillingham: DNP – Coach's DecisionLeonard Miller: DNP – Coach's DecisionJohnny Juzang: DNP – Coach's DecisionJoe Ingles: DNP – Coach's DecisionTerrence Shannon Jr.: Inactive - Injury/IllnessRocco Zikarsky: Inactive - G League - Two-Way

Playing international games is always a challenge 😉

If memory serves me the annual trip to arctic Buffalo has not always been kind to the Zips. Would be nice to get Sharron and Chabi back.

https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq/news/national-championship-indiana-miami-punch-mark-fletcher Am I the only one getting a little disgusted with what seems like every game having a post game dust-up? I attribute this jackassery to NIL and there being little consequences for bad behavior because you can always transfer somewhere else. If they want to be professionals, treat them like professionals. Want to embarrass the NFL/college football Mr. Player? Want to run your mouth to the point someone takes a swing at you? Here is a hefty fine. Players don't misbehave like this in the NFL because they will forfeit lots of money in terms of fines and game checks. Unionized college athletics now like the NFL and they can begin to get these clowns under control. If players want to appeal, they can have their union do it for them.

The allure of the beach and the Dick's Last Resort NIL $$ was too much to resist, I guess.

Jason Taylor seems to have done a nice job with Miami's front 4. I was checking out his HOF profile on the UA site, it is pretty much blank. Is it me or does he dissociate himself from Akron.

As someone who has been skeptical of Halligan’s playing time, he seems to be coming along. Good to see

josiah Graham most likely played for leonard at monmouth or they probably have connections there from when leonard coached there but Graham has offers at Troy, James Madison, and Hawaii mcGowan committed to Louisiana Monroe on January 18 according to 247. Byndon and Ridley are similar in size armstrong is listed at 6'6 and one site has him at 260 and one site has him at 280. If i read correctly it said something about him playing tight end in 23 or 24 so maybe he is athletic also?

Coach Groce said in the radio Pregame that Sharron is available tonight while Chabi is 1-2 weeks away still.

The staff has offers out to: Josiah Graham - edge // Mammoth Le'kell Mc'Gowan - edge // Memphis Lance Byndon - edge // Morgan State Jahmek Armstrong - edge // JUCO (Independence) Jasun Ridley - edge/DT // JUCO (Pasadena City) There's surely more but that's what I found on X for defensive line

that's great for McManus. He was very well liked by the players. JRod really knows his stuff. I have never met him but the way his players transferred this year to Programs is a heck of a recruiting platform...

Just saw shootaround photos on IG and Sharron was involved. Doesn't mean he's playing today but it's a good sign for the near-term.

My son gets an athletic digest. In it, it said about Indiana - "A program that had been the worst in Power 4 history and the losingest in FBS history just won the national title two years after getting dragged into quadruple overtime by 2-10 Akron,"

We're Akron. We always get everyone's best. Especially on the road in the MAC.

Indiana is probably the most interesting outcome in college football in my life. It's one thing for a team to upset another like App State did to Michigan. It's something entirely different for this kind of turnaround to result in such high level success.

keshawn hayden is the one that backed out of the zips and chose eastern kentucky... i was looking at this cam williams. his agent says that he has 10 FBS offers and he will be announcing soon. He lists 6'5 the school site has him at 6'3 both have him at 250... decent stats at atlanta clark. offers i saw were Troy, akron, memphis, eastern carolina, middle tennessee state, coastal carolina, western kentucky, jax state i dontknow if all those r fbs but those r the offers i saw on his site... so we shall see. he looks like a tackle. looks very thick.

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