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Beating these three comparable mid-majors (Yes, OSU is now considered a hoops mid-major) only solidifies Akron as a top tier mid-major. It's not fair, but it is reality. Beating all three teams by double digits will not erase a 15-20-pt loss to Purdue in the eyes of the selection committee. And yes, the Zips looked very good even in that Purdue loss. I'm willing to bet there will be at least one B-10 team that loses to Purdue by the same margin, that gets an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Any takers!!!

Look at more than the W-L. Nobody is celebrating. I'm pointing out that without being crippled with injuries, BG is a good team that would have had a chance at Detroit, won around 8 games and gone to a bowl. If BGs season was only the first six games, it would be defined as a success. We've never had that good of a start to a season. It is common for people to mistake facts for reasons. It's why sports debate is so dumb and why turning on ESPN can only make someone dumber. The fact is BG will have a 3 win season. The reasons are easily explainable. I don't think a three win season makes George a bad hire and stand by him being a good hire. I wish Akron would hire this boldly after fixing all of the other crap that would destroy a bold hire. I wish at the end of a three win season Akron fans could look back and easily explain it with the understanding that it was a fluke and better days were ahead, but our failures are so many they are hard to explain and fix.

Not thinking we are in the at-large bid range just yet, but winning will drive up our ranking thus hopefully a better seeding if we make the Tourney. Also winning games convincingly will do even more for us.

Touche. Hofstra up 2-0 on Cuse with 18 minutes left in the 1st half. WMU up 1-0 on Clemson with 15 minutes left in the 1st half.

Yes, I could have worded it better. I was meaning winning 3 (or 4 with UMess win) games when you play 8 of your 12 games against MAC teams isn't anything special regardless of circumstances. Arguing otherwise is just playing mental gymnastics.

Technically one win in the MAC, though I would think they beat umASS next week.

Unlike Western Michigan, at least Clemson, Michigan, UNCG, Seton Hall etc. have lights.

3 wins in the MAC will never be an achievement worth celebrating. It's by far and away the worst conference in all of FBS. Like I said, I'm not saying he won't be great there. I'm simply stating the jury is still out, which it is. I'm not advocating for any particular coaching hire at this time.

If we beat Iona, Oregon State, and Yale… I will be thrilled and that is how we get an at large… going to be extremely hard. But I think it is possible!!

Just sent this to some people who should have answers. I'll report back when I hear back.

Clemson's stadium is excellent but their lighting sucks. Same with Michigan's stadium. Use some of the billions of dollars the football teams are making to get proper soccer pitch lighting. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk about poorly lit college soccer stadiums.

He's already having success, it just didn't show up in wins because he was killed by injuries. He has been recruiting well, endowments, win against rival and a real team, two sold out home games, win against Liberty, I thought they had a great game plan against the Zips and executed it as well as they could all things considered. If any first year Akron coach had the pre-injury success George did the first six games of the start of their career at Akron, we would all be floored at the success. Some of you can't be so obtuse that you can't see what a great hire he was. I wish Akron had the brains to think outside the box and hire someone other then Faust, Ianello, Bowden and Arth.

Update: quad box now for the multiview. Heck of a quad box, too. ND/Michigan Hofstra/Use UNF/UNC WMU/Clemson

George will be in the NFL HOF before too long. The Bowdens are freaking dinosaurs. Are you kidding me?

Every game after Ianello was hired became a funeral for Akron football.

Seton Hall should have to start down a goal for having their pitch be the softball/baseball outfield. What are we doing... Side note: multiview on ESPN+ is nice. I have 3 games up and was able to choose a view that doesn't have the Elon game. That game looks like someone is using a Harry Potter movie filter on the stream.

It was on a PK with about 2 minutes left when ab FDU defender made a horrible clearing pass right to Duke and a teammate was forced to foul in the box. They also mentioned that 2010 champion Akron is also in the same pod.

Lee Owens book "The Spirit of a Team" quotes: 1. Owens was in his ninth season at Akron when the Zips beat Ohio U to complete a 7-5 season. After the game, Owens drove from the Rubber Bowl to his campus office, where he found a letter telling him he was fired. 3. Owens invited team chaplain Knute Larson to his farewell speech to the Zips players the next day. The talk became full of anger and lament. 4. Book quote: “Pastor Larson asked to visit with me after the meeting. He was quick to point out how poorly I handed myself to the team. ‘Football isn’t fair. Life isn’t fair. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. There are players and staff hurting just as much as you … bitterness is never the answer. Ultimately, you will be judged in life on how well you handle the adversities of life.’” 5. Owens and his Akron staff recruited quarterback Charlie Frye out of Willard and worked with him through his junior season, at which point Owens was fired. Frye became a fourth-year starter under Owens’ replacement, J.D. Brookhart. The Browns picked Frye in Round 3 of the 2005 draft. 6. Book quote: “Charlie landed with one of the worst-run, if not the worst, franchises in the NFL, and I say that as a lifelong Browns fan. He was rushed into a starting quarterback job as a rookie behind a makeshift line with few proven weapons. The Browns had no vision and no real plan going forward.” Firing through a letter isn't as bad as firing on the way to your mother's funeral.

Oh for sure. If they're not bringing ESPN enough viewership to hold them in places...and they probably aren't...then it's time to cut bait.

He sure was allusive though.

I wish I was surprised about that.

Coit was nothing special at Kansas. As I recall, he was a 15 minute/5 or 6 point a night guy. He's not capable of 40 points at that level and attitude-wise was not a fit for the Zips. His chirping at Groce to come get him while on the floor for another team was proof of that.

We have the first result of the tournament and it's from the Zips section of the bracket...Duke beats FDU 1-0 to advance to a matchup with Princeton.

It would certainly be a big "move" for his followership if he actually did break this. But...yeah this isn't the actual story.

Kansas replaced 5'11" Coit with 6'6" Darryn Peterson (son of former Akron standout Darryl Peterson) who has 21 and 22 pts in his first two collegiate games. He has been out with a hamstring injury but otherwise, they traded up IMO. Coit is a heck of a shooter but he's more of a liability on defense.