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Did we learn anything about Brisco or Barre?

James Madison has quite a bit of talent with no chemistry yet. They'll be fine, and when they are fine, we won't have to play them.

I thought it was ironic when they were showing the graphics of their respective stats at Fordham. JoeMo had more passing yards at Fordham while Carney had more touchdowns. Symbolic of what we saw last night. JoeMo plays well in between the 20s while Carney gets in the endzone where it matters.

We're talking about a team in Kent that was 1-23 the last 2 seasons and had an interim HC up until a few weeks ago vs. JoeMo in his 4th year at the helm at Akron. So whatever positives you want to focus on, make sure they are accurately viewed through the appropriate lens. The scouting report on Akron shows that we struggle in the red zone. Kent's defense reflected this as they were giving Akron anything they wanted in between the 20s to prevent any big plays then locking down in the red zone. The total yards were largely meaningless. First drive, Akron got inside the red zone and were held to 3 points. Late in the 4th quarter, JoeMo had 3 plays from the 3 yd line - 2 were basic runs up the middle and 1 was a horrible pass play. He opted to take the 3 pts instead of going for it on 4th, a decision that will be hotly debated for a while. The offensive was wildly predictable most of the night, hence Kent's success for 2.5 quarters with bringing pressure and jumping passing routes. It wasn't until Akron started taking more chances and mixing things up in the 4th quarter that the points started to occur. A fluke onside kick recovery (incredible execution) and a fluke fumble were the only reasons Akron stayed in that game. Otherwise, Carney kicked JoeMo's butt. I don't really care about a team quitting vs. not quitting. These guys know there is always an opportunity to put out film for their next NIL deal, so in this era of college athletics, it's hard to take that discussion seriously. The fact is, the talking point of quitting vs. not quitting is being discussed because Akron was down by so many points to a previously 1-23 Kent team. As far as I know, Kent is in a similar financial situation for football. They made a move at HC to a true football guy and look how it's working out for them. Heck, I poo-poo'd Carney as a hire with his only success being victories over lowly UMass but I'm thinking that was largely denial from fear of them making a good hire. It is possible to get this right.

It also helps when one of the new starters is the older brother of the stud redshirt freshman starter. Evan has been a blessing so far this season. Kudos to their parents who seemingly raised terrific young men.

This is the biggest indictment against JoeMo there is.

I added the current KenPom rankings for each team, and added the rest of the Paradise Jam field. I know it's early, but this is a nice, competitive-yet-winnable OOC schedule. If the Paradise Jam includes a combination of beating Iona and 2/3 Oregon State/Charleston/Yale, it'll have a similar outlook to last year's OOC schedule which was pretty solid. The team this year is seemingly much more capable, however, of making this at this point in the season. For comparison, here is where last year's OOC schedule ended up in KenPom: Arkansas State 84 Saint Mary's 25 Lamar 158 Omaha 165 Alabama St 269 Northern Kentucky 230 Milwaukee 141 Yale 74 Jackson State 246 Princeton 177 South Alabama 109

Ken Carmen just reminded me of this. Did not realize his son is a member of the 2026 class. Joe needs to do the right thing and follow his son to the deep south that has treated him so well in the past.

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Hire a football guy who is a motivator. JoeMo certainly isn't the latter. Both the Browns and the Zips have alleged offensive gurus at the helm and they both get owned by football guys.

Nice 13 pt win by Buffalo at DePaul. Ohio currently getting throttled by Saint Mary's.

Refs tried giving it to Kent, Kent didn't want it, then we played hot potato and gave it right back to Kent.

That's JoeMo for you. Loser.

An investigation needs to be done on these refs.

Yeah, Kent would've won in regulation. 😉 Win this in OT

What in the world

How is that not defensive holding/pass interference?

Truly embarrassing by these refs.

Another one.

Do you really trust JoeMo to dial up a play that would've been successful? Not sure if you heard the beginning of the broadcast. Akron has the 2nd most red zone visits in the MAC, but a HORRIBLE conversion rate. 3 plays from the 3 yd line and the ball never advanced an inch. What's the point of having MJ as a backup QB if you aren't gojng to bring him in on the goal line to at least keep the defense on their toes.

Don't forget that Carney is 10x the coach JoeMo is, and he was an interim 3 weeks ago (I also don't think Carney is that good; he's a much better motivator though).

These refs are atrocious.

That didn't work out too well for Oregon.

Ignore the quote. JoeMo is pathetic. He's simply not a winner unless he has Saquon in the backfield.

Their issue was picking fruit one too many times from the Bobby Hurley/Nate Oats coaching tree. Eventually, the fruit soured with Whitesell and it killed all the momentum with their program. This is the exact reason why hiring Groce was such a big hire for Akron to sustain what KD had built. Canada's South Campus doesn't have a very strong athletics backing, so unless they strike gold with coaching hires (they've done well in football, too), they'll always find themselves with a middle of the MAC ceiling at best.