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He was making similar comments last season as well. To me it just comes a crossed as he's incapable of adapting to the changing landscapes of college athletics. Kent also has a poorly funded football program. Sean Lewis found a way of turning lemons into lemonade. He was too busy finding ways of making due with what he had to make excuses. Perhaps Moorhead is just at a point in his career where he no longer has that drive.

You misunderstand my point. That game was an awful bore to watch. As for the Top of the MAC competing with the Bottom of the Big Ten ... so what? It's not good football. The bottom of the Big Ten is awful, which means the top of the MAC is awful. It's not good football, and it's not particularly interesting or fun to watch. And pretending Akron is going to become that is just being silly. It's not, and it's time to STOP WASTING THE MONEY ON IT, all while the University is underpaying professors, cutting programs and shortchanging students. Akron CANNOT compete, and it's time to stop this farce.

Great question. I'm guessing the answer is yes. I didn't think this until I read Captain Kangaroo's report of the event held in west Akron before the season. When a coach openly bellyaches at a public event about all the things he doesn't have, he's finished. If you give a crap about how the program is viewed publicly, you don't do that.

OU had a chance to win the game and only lost by three. OU is what a competent MAC program looks like. There is no reason a top third of the MAC shouldn't be able to complete against a bottom third Big Ten school. College football is broken in that almost everyone is just playing games and trying to make money to support a bloated athletic department. There are only 5 to 7 programs tops who have a shot at winning a championship. Akron can compete, but it has to be at a level where money is less important. I don't know that exists right now nationally, but I would bet a lot of universities would breathe a sigh of relief if it did.

News? Do go on.

More thoughts: By the end of the first quarter everyone in the stadium knew Finley didn't have it. Why stick with him? When Johnson came in for the obvious running play the Zips still got the yards they needed. Let him stay in or go to Roggow. That gives us a chance. Finley doesn't give us any. The win is most important. How you get it is not. In the second half my buddy and I started watching Finley as the offense came off the field. Only once did a coach talk to him and it wasn't Joe. For an offensive genius Joe never said a word to his QB. Finley was alone. Only Johnson came over next to him and seemed to try to pump him up. If the guy is having a bad day help him. Coach him up. Nothing was done. Is Joe mailing it in? Finley on the other hand did not pump up his teammates. He sat and stewed. The only emotion we saw was when he attacked a Gatorade water cooler with his helmut. It was Johnson who came over and picked the cooler up and put it back where it belonged. Johnson seems to be a high character kid.

Dear god the ESPN+ experience was awful. Reghi needs to retire, and the ESPN+ crew couldn't even put the proper down and distance. It would just sit there blank. And why are there so many commercial breaks for ESPN+? It makes no freaking sense, and the game was so boring anyways so it's all just insane. Dear god watching the grainy GoZips.com feed of the games back in the 2010s was better than this crap.

Agreed. Akron Football is NEVER GOING TO BE COMPETITIVE and we need to stop living the fantasy. I watched the first hour of the OU vs Rutgers game too, which was remarkably boring, and both teams sucked balls. There needs to be a reckoning in college athletics, and this crap has to end.

I have never bet or sports so I guess I am a diehard fan and have been following the Zips since attending school in the 80s. Actually, the game was frustrating but it was not a blowout. The defense had some great stops on 4th down, played well and we had some excellant punts. Findley had his worst game as a Zip and very dissapointing offense.

University needs a big win after last night. Lets get!

great news about the Serbian. Wonder with whom he will be fighting for time? The Duquense guy? Conner?

Laventure was all over the place. The "stats" really didn't add up, 1 solo and 3 assisted but he was constantly causing havoc and running loose. Hull had 2 assisted tackles Hall 1 solo 2 assisted 1 QBH and 2 deflections (1 led to the int that I thought was going to change the momentum) Durham 1 solo tackle (TFL) 3 assisted I could be wrong but I believe he was on the field for 70 of the 75 offensive snaps, not including special teams. Cheatom 1 assisted tackle 1 pass deflectoin Mixon 1 solo tackle 2 assisted He came up HUGE on the fourth and 1 in the tight red zone. At the time it was 3-0 and I thought was going to give Zips a surge. I thought the LBs played well and the CBs helped out a lot on the outside runs. 1 QBH and 0 sacks is not going to cut it.. I do think that Laventure could have gotten credit for at least 1 or 2 QBH's but these stats came straight from the Akron statisticians. McManus played very well I thought for a true freshman. Stepped in and played well. It seemed early the OL was doing well and by half way through the third it started to fall apart. The sack that knocked them out of field goal range was the back breaker I thought. I thought Finley looked scared and extremely timid. He seemed to be short arming a lot I saw him rotating his arm like maybe it was sore or tight. He was throwing off his backfoot a lot and ducking. His reads and timing seemed off. Patrick looked great. For what it is worth the announcers said at half that Zips had 117 total yards offense and Patrick had 75? He looks like he could take it to the house on any play. Scott ran with ease through the line. It is not going to get any better this weekend. Nebraska's RB runs hard and Raiola completed 33 times of 42 attempts 2 tds, no ints Zips better figure out how to get pressure on him. A 68 yard punt in the air was insane. There were chances for the Zips to capitalize and they just couldn't. Wyoming did not respect or fear them and it was evident. Zips did not deserve to win that game, but they certainly could have.

About halfway through the 3rd Qtr, after seeing no half-time improvement offensively, I knew it was going to either take Wyoming turning it over deep in their own territory or a broken play defensively (on Wyoming behalf) for Akron to find the end zone. Akron showed no ability to sustain a drive. Fortunately the defense showed up in a big way otherwise this game would have gotten out of hand fast.

Akron is certainly the school for a punter to be able to showcase their talent.

Random thoughts from the pillow fight that I watched last night: - Finley‘s interception in the end zone was atrocious. Those are the type of decisions that lose games. - overall, I was happy to see that it was a relatively smart game for Akron. Not that many stupid penalties, personal files, etc.. - obviously, the defense played well. More specifically, I thought they tackled really well. - as usual, I think we abandoned the run game too quickly, especially as inaccurate as Finley was last night - I don’t understand why we don’t run more two tight end sets. Especially, since we have some tight ends that have proven they can catch the ball - glad to see we are rotating punters, smart move because at this rate, their feet will get very sore

That Moorhead still has his job tells me the future isn't bright. Yes, I know the nihilism worry as noted elsewhere. But him being around is clearly going nowhere fast.

If you're digging on ESPN+ to find an Akron game you're either already a diehard fan or a degenerate gambler. Joe Akron isn't going to be put off from Reghi because frankly he isn't going to be watching the game in the first place.

I know right now it's too early. But when is the "right" time to start looking at RPI? Currently we're at 91, but it isn't based on much right now with such a small sample.

That would be one damn short line.

Are they playing their games on a day of the week and at times that would make it attractive for someone to attend? I would say no. BG had a great crowd last night, but Eddie George creates more interest than $2 beers and scholarship give aways. I'll be interested to see if they can keep it up. Is Akron a mess? Hell yes. Last night was a disaster. There is no positive spin that can be put on a 10-0 loss to a bad team that had to travel cross country. I think the entire league is a mess in terms of football. After a couple of decades, the rot created by weeknight games has taken its toll. I'm so disgusted by it all I can barely bring myself to watch it.

I watched some of the Miami Wisconsin game and by that I mean a couple of Miami series. They have a seventh year QB (yes, you read that right). He looked like he never played a game. If you plan on playing college football until you are 25, at least look like a star your last year, whenever that may be.

Organizations? No, just give them away to anyone who wants one.

The TV experience was worse. Reghi continued to call out the wrong players when doing the play by play and a few times even got the down wrong. The TV was showing the player's name on his jersey but Reghi was not watching the monitor. It was ugly. And how many times can he indicate our coach is an offensive genius when we cannot score a point. And how many times can we watch the same wrestling commerical? 50 times and counting.

Free tickets will not improve the quality of the football and that's the real issue. Also, people will not go to see bad football, even for free. They've given away tickets before and it hasn't worked.

AMEN!