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This is solid advice. I pretty much gave up following Akron and college football 6-7 years ago and my Saturdays are now much more enjoyable.

This shows that anything can happen in the MAC. Pre snap penalties must be eliminated. I will say the call last week on our DT was poor. By rule motion by the DT that causes the O to react is OK; however just pointing out that motion is not the type of reaction the rule intended. The other 5 calls were on us. Finley must hit at least 65%. Drops happen; just like catches on balls thrown well behind receivers. This game is winnable. I'm always hopeful. Zips win. exit322, why don't you just take the off ramp to relieve your suffering?

Perhaps my phrasing was off, but we agree.

Huh? The average margin of victory in FBS is approximately 24 points and getting worse. The NFL is less than 10. College football is barely entertaining.

Hopefully we can take advantage like how Arkansas State took advantage last year against us

Hugging was votedOVC Coach of the Year following that 12-14 season in 1984. They were 8-19, 3/11 OVC the previous year under Bob Rupert. The Akron Buchtelite broke the story about additional benefits offered to players, including alleged under-the-table cash payments. Of course the Jerkin Beanal was unable to confirm the story.

can't figure it out either. that's why i'm hoping starting with the buffalo game we start to see them. duncan got 8 snaps first two games then we never saw him again. came here as an energizer bunny what happened? brown got 15 or 16 snaps in one game he came from fcs but had more experience than any end on the entire roster never saw other than that one game. cheatom played that first game then one snap last game and nothing else? the ends have a combined 5 sacks FROM 2 guys and that's 2 in the central game and 2 in the duquesne game.:: the twins have 1 solo tackle each and the one has 2 assisted tackles and the other has 5 ..: that sucks as a defensive end unit. coming into the season we needed pressure on the qbs. we haven't gotten. durham has played more snaps than ANY edge in all of FBS and only two in FCS have played more. he has played EVERY snap except 65 in seven games. maybe if he didn't play so many snaps he could produce more? i would have liked to have seen what gavin could have done in the middle as well. bosswell is good as a freshman but gavin is similar in size and is the fastest linebacker on the team what was there to lose by trying some of those guys earlier?

Yes, as an assistant to Chuck Machock. He did not particularly like living and coaching in Florida (football state). Akron interviewed 4-5 candidates in addition to Huggins. His backup options included Edinboro and Gannon. D. Guzzetta was UA president at the time and also sat on the Board of Trustees at Walsh so he knew Bob which helped. BH also previously assisted Eldon Miller at Tosu who put in a good word for him. The Zips had 7 consecutive losing seasons prior to BH and the entire 83-84 team was back except for Joe Jakubick (national scoring leader, 30.1 ppg). The Zips were under NCAA investigation (for giving some clothing and gear to some guys), given probation, and limited to 3 scholarships for 84-85. Zips went 12-14 in 84-85. Zips won the OVC in 85-86 and played Michigan in the tourney. They played a slow-down game and lost 70-64. Huggins didn't make the NCAA again at UA due to going independent due to the football move-up to Div. I-A. BH claims AD Dave Adams didn't know the OVC bylaws required membership in all sports (which would not be feasible for Akron if leaving I-AA football). (to be continued...)

Between that and the fact blowouts are much rarer than in college.

The NFL is the #1 television show in America. It's great entertainment.

The main difference is the NFL is designed for teams for teams to average 8-9 wins over the long run. The Browns being as bad as they have been for as long as they have been is pretty unbelievable. College football is a completely different animal. Bad teams aren't rewarded by getting the option of having first dibs at the best high school players. Good teams aren't constrained by a salary cap. Edit: Partly why I feel the NFL is so much more popular than college football is most fans think their team has a chance. The Browns this year might be an exception as it was a clear rebuild year, but you have the Jaguars and Patriots who both picked in the top 5 of this past draft now sitting at 4-2. Last year the Commanders had a similar turn around.

IF, and that's a big IF, Moorhead actually plays any of them. Not sure why he hasn't gotten any of them on the field yet, they have up to 4 games without burning the redshirt.

I don't know what to expect with ball state probably get the same with the zips that we have been getting. i am excited for buffalo and the other three games after that. they should be winnable games and we should get to see some of the freshman class that they were "saving" to preserve their redshirt season. i think some of the defensive guys will be exciting and i'm excited to see what broughton has to offer. he looked exciting in the spring. after the starting four d linemen are defensive line hasn't produced ANYTHING at all so maybe some new blood will be refreshing.

At lot of similarities between both teams for sure.

I watched 7 quarters of football last weekend with the Zips and the Browns and saw zero touchdowns by my teams. (I did not watch all of the 4th quarter but left early with my adult son and went golfing at Good Park.) I like watching football but it is difficult to watch when your offense cannot score a touchdown until the game is out of reach. (Also, both teams committed stupid penalties on punts that led to the opponent keeping possession of the ball.)

JMU appears to have only one returner of any consequence, Eddie Ricks, a 6'7" junior forward who averaged 6.7 ppg and 4.7 rpg last season. This type of situation makes me realize how blessed we are to have a program that can hold onto kids from season to season.

I mean ESPN2 or U. I'd be shocked if we weren't on ESPN+. Especially cause both conferences have deals with ESPN

I'm still in 1 but I like the cover in the bad weather.

They certainly have some experienced guard depth.

Do you mean ESPN or ESPN+? I don't see any viewing options listed for any of our games yet.

Really wish ESPN could pick up this game for tv but having it on opening night makes that near impossible

Your point is not wrong. But - NIU only cares about the football, and they're going to a better league (even after the changes). And their average road trip in-conference in all the other sports drops from 419 miles to 330 miles. The longest in-league road trip drops from 978 to Amherst to 516 for Robert Morris. It's not huge - this is admittedly no $10,000,000 savings, but with all the other sports, it's going to be a greater savings than the cost for extra travel in the MWC. It will be interesting to see how attendance changes for all their sports...it's possible they also see a little bump in basketball (in addition to the likely notable football attendance bump) because the team will have a better record (as noted, the Horizon League's bottom is definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel). It's not a life-changing travel savings, but it more makes up for the MWC football travel when aggregated across the other 12 sports.

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This is such a good opening game. JMU brings a solid G5 brand into an arena that lacks opponents with solid brands. I really hope UA marketing is getting the word out that this game is just a few weeks away. We need a solid 4k+ crowd. We match up well with them. We're bigger, but they're going to be a handful athletically. Our guards need to take care of the ball and we need to make our shots. Do that, and we'll be 1-0 with a nice early-season resume building win.