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I think that's easier said than done. Basketball has 13 scholarship players per roster. In a year where you turn over half your roster you're recruiting 6-7 new guys. In football, where all schools are spending more money and resources to recruit, you have 85 scholarships. Between transfers and incoming freshman, you're recruiting ~30 players a year. Not to mention spending time to re-recruit the remaining ~55 guys to avoid them from entering the portal. You would probably need ~5 Bud Wentz for football to have a similar impact. Pretty much one required per position group.

We need a football Bud Wentz.

Ignore the quote. New plan. Since we have Kaulig, we need to harness the Chernoff/Antonetti system of being successful with a low budget. Zips need to figure out how to become a coaching wagon and establish a system that wins.

Totally agree! Does she have 1 or 2 yrs eligibility remaining after this season? Would love her to keep developing into a potential all-MAC player and prove out a similar develop, teach them to lead, retain (then add a few key pieces through the portal) approach like the JG method. Hopefully what’s happening with Gensler through the guidance of Wentz and JG.

Cody Grice.

This 0 kid must be pretty good. When was the last time we got a recruit that went both ways?

Think I'm done caring about Zips football. I don't see the Zips crawling out of the hole they are currently in. I think at the time they beat Toledo they were about halfway out, but now they have slide back to the very bottom.

Offer to OL Nevell Brown of Alabama A&M. Started games at LG and RT.

That's an All American Ohio State level name for a DE or LB.

I wonder what kind of deal Pinky made with the ABJ to have the article written in this manner. Hopefully Kent has a NIL deal with a cosmetics company for all the lipstick needed for this pig (and Pinky's rosy cheeks/clown makeup). "They are third in the MAC in scoring" Based on what metric? They are currently 325th in the country in Points Per Game at 64.6. Only NIU is lower from the MAC with 62.8 ppg (335th nationally). "fourth in 3-point percentage" Again, what? They are shooting the 3 ball at a 28.4% clip, which is good for 317th in the nation. Only WMU is lower from the MAC at 28.1% (321st nationally). In fact, coming at this article from a positive offensive standpoint at all is erroneous on all accounts (to quote the AK Rowdies). "How are the Golden Flashes doing it?" It ain't by offense, ABJ dumb butts. Offensive National Rankings... Effective FG%: 343rd Shooting %: 349th Personal Fouls per Game: 305th Lastly, citing bench production on offense as a key for Kent is incredibly disingenuous. Kent has failed to score 70 points in 4 out of their last 6 games (all vs G5, and all but 2 ranked 200 in NET), including a 39 point performance vs. UC Irvine. Their offense blows, and one of their main bench players is seemingly only coming off the bench as punishment for failing to stick at Furman (Jalen Sullinger), as he was their starting PG last year and an All MAC Tournament team member. If the ABJ wanted to cite Kent's defense, this would've been an acceptably positive article as Kent's defensive metrics are quite good (albeit against lesser competition as most of their opponents are 200+ in NET). The ABJ can reference this source the next time they want to try to polish the turd that is Kent State. Also, they should think about changing their name to the KBJ - Kent... You fill in the rest. z.i.P.S. Kent has a typo on their website under Jalen Sullinger's page. "2022-2024 season" The epitome of "failure".

Offer to OL Alex Atcavage. Started at RT and RG for FAU.

It might of been in that audio file from a podcast someone shared, but I thought Bud in the interview said he was assisting people in getting a collective started for football. I'm not sure where that's at or if it ever got off the ground. It sounded basketball keeps Bud busy. It would likely take Kaulig or someone else to take the lead for football.

Article from the ABJ concerning KSUck's depth. Sounds like Pinky is also playing 10 guys https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/kent-state/2024/12/10/kent-state-mens-basketball-roster-bench-unit-stats-wins/76854982007/

Correct me if I’m wrong but the only position groups that don’t have a portal entry are QB and TE? Does anyone know for sure if Tahj and Finley are coming back? A little surprised that one of the TE’s didn’t hit the portal but glad they didn’t.

It’s impossible to f#ck things up more. Build a big beautiful stadium and then spend money on changing logos for Roos, Zs and settling on an A. Then you cut training table because you can’t afford it. We are in no mans land - can’t recruit against D1, hell now can’t even recruit against D3 because they are different types of student/athletes. At one point we had Jim Dennison, Gerry Faust, Jim Tressel and Terry Bowden on campus at the same time (not to mention one of the worlds richest athletes LJ) and they f#%ked it up. Unreal!!!

Kaulig, Wentz, James LaRose (if he's still involved with University) all come to mind as candidates to get football NIL off the ground.

Can someone contact the Pope or the Dali Lama and see if they will talk to God about our players leaving the program? It seems He or She is the one common thread in all their announcements regarding their departure. What's God got against Zip football? We are facing a tough off-season and He/She doesn't have to pile it on.

I mentioned this in another thread. These are great ideas, and I think are all possible. You list the alumni as leaders. Who would it take to really get this going? Until this happens Akron will be trying to rebuild its team each portal season. Coaching staff has hit on a lot of under recruited talent, but once they shine they’re off to a “better situation”. Not the kids fault, but there needs to be something done. I can’t imagine Joe puts up with it much longer.

With that being said…

Good grief. Gage Summers just entered the portal.

Offer to OT Jacob Otts of Rhode Island. Starting RT for most of the season.

Offered long snapper Kevin Gallic from New Hampshire.

We're allowed to recruit from the portal too

Looks like he already has an offer from Oklahoma State.