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We pick him off the scrap heap after Pitt ditched him and this is the thanks we get... If I want to say something nice about him - he played hard against BG. Guys like Mumpfield and Norton completely tanked their last games before hitting the portal.

kreed5120- good points- accept the limitation of my post

Last night I was all about #FireUpChips

Has Matt Kaulig sunk into the woodwork since JoeMo's been here? I'm in no inner circles, but I haven't heard from him in a while. Is he not a huge JoeMo fan?

This is why I drive in the slow lane 🤣

It's impossible to compare our football to our basketball program. Thanks largely to Bud we're the 2nd best funded MAC basketball program (only behind UMass). Akron football is the bottom of the MAC in funding. If we didn't have the money to retain Tavari, Lyles, Scott, Young, not to mention sign Evan, Akron basketball would also be struggling. Maybe not to the extreme football has, but we wouldn't have had the success we've experienced either. In basketball if you find a diamond in the rough or one just happens to show up unexpectedly at open tryouts (Freeman) that dramatically raises the ceiling of your program as you only need 2-3 players to carry a team. That doesn't work in football where you have 11 starters on offense and another 11 on defense. Not to mention a few specialists. Even if you found 1 absolute star at QB he wouldn't have the same impact that a Steph Curry had at Davidson.

I Google searched without luck. I want to buy a jersey. Anyone have a link. How about a blank basketball jersey?

One man's destruction is another man's 8 point loss. 😁 CMU (7-4) has won 4 of their last 5 games, the only loss coming by 3 points to a WMU team that has won 7 of their last 8 games.

I wouldn't be surprised if more fall when the playoffs expand.

We need someone who can successfully coach at a D1 college level and can also successfully recruit at that level with handicaps. The handicaps likely require excellent evaluation of sleepers who wont receive major dollars elsewhere as Joe says happened with Gant this year- difficult job. We have a basketball coach who can evaltuate, recruit, develop players, and coach. I know nothing about softball but it appears to this layman that we have a softball coach who can do those things. We have a women's lacrosse coach who can definitely successfully develop players. We are about to see how good she is with evaluation and recruiting- but the signs are postive. So we know there are people who have the total package and some are at Akron now. Admittedly this is most difficult in the very visuable and money-laden world of college football but that is the task ahead for anyone who takes on the position of Akron football coach be that Moorhead or anyone else. Go Zips!

First of all.... I think Tressel and the Bowdens are WAY more well known than Eddie George to today's student athletes (and parents) and WAY more credible as coaches. You can make your individual comparisons all you want. My point was we had THEM ALL here at one time and f'd it up. Collectively it is not even close.

Tyrell does things at a high school that actively recruits. Same thing was true at Cincinnati Moeller with Faust. Means they can successfully recruit at the high school level- often opposing teams that don't recruit (remember they are not "allowed to recruit"). In Mt Union's case- literally 25% of all male freshmen are football players- most will never see the field- its a numbers game that benefits their overall enrollment- different animal. Recruiting is different at D1 college level where everyone recruits and now including money. Also- can they coach as well as they recruit? The situations are literally apples and oranges. The one doesnt translate to the other in most cases.

I look forward to the day the number of people destitute from gambling addictions is so high the government forgives their debts and makes the responsible citizens pay for the bailout.

Sounds like some "Akron" moves. We've previously hired HC's that did great things at John Carroll and Cincinnati Moeller.

Vince Kehres isn’t coming to Akron. He has the third ranked D in the country. He will either replace Candle or move with him. Or worst case, stay put as D coordinator, if Candle doesn’t move, while entertaining better G6 positions. We could’ve possibly had him after Arth.

i'd like to see Goodrich look at someone local like Kehres or Tyrell. They are doing great things at Mt Union (Toledo) and Hoban. Right?

And I'm not saying George can't do well. Let's just wait until he has success before we praise him for it. We can check back in 2-3 years. Edit: As for Deion Indiana is just as hard, if not harder, to win at than Colorado. Especially since the Big 10 is vastly more competitive compared to the Big 12. The coach that deserves praise for turning a program around is Cignetti. Deion had a heisman winner and is still only 16-19 during his tenure.

You don't earn your 10% cut by sitting on your thumb. 😁

All of these posts from national guys happening the day after the season ended and Franklin gets hired

Going off what?

Joe's agent is hard at work it looks like

I mentioned this a while back, but Louisville contacted an Akron coach regarding a Zips WR that was in the portal last year. They were looking to build "the best scout team possible" and if the kid was deemed a decent MAC-level player they were going to offer him a little cash and a position on it. The Zips can't pay as much for a starting QB as Louisville...not Alabama, but Louisville... can pay for a scout team guy.

I'm stoked to see JoeMo's read-option finally run with a dual threat QB. That's kinda the whole point of the scheme. Finley wasn't keeping too many defenses off balance with his playmaking ability. 😂 But our Dual Threats are only going to be a redshirt freshman & a true freshman, so... yeah.

If he leaves, I think it’ll be to take an OC position in the B1G. I understand the ACC is still considered a Power Four conference, but just barely—they’re more of a hoops conference, and I’m not sure going from HC here to OC at VT would be much of a vertical move considering he's been an OC at bigger programs. Plus, VT just spent $8 million on Sam Levitt. And with the emergence of a very competent AD, I think he stays put.