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You spend others money so easily.

I still think that donor money would be better spent on NIL. Donors only have a finite amount of money they're willing to give. $1 million in additional NIL could greatly revamp our offensive and defensive lines. Probably make both units at or near the top of the MAC. @LZIp made a comment the other day about how Akron is at the bottom spending in the MAC, but I pointed out those numbers don't include how much we're spending on Infocision debt financing. With it included we're actually near the top. It's not just about how much money you have to spend, but how efficiently you spend it. Paying a near 7 figure buyout to a coach has to rank at the absolute bottom of efficiency spending. At Akron we need to make our dollars go further, not further handicap ourselves.

I would say the penalty on the field goal by the defender. That directly led to UAB scoring at least 4, maybe 7 (if he missed fg try) additional points. That alone more than accounts for the scoring difference. In the other examples it's no guarantee Akron would have scored a TD and with how bad the defense played in the UAB they may have gotten a TD before half anyway.

You could see it on the TV. When the Zips were driving in the 2nd half right before the Finley score Akron called timeout and JoeMo was yelling and pissed. On TV you could also see the frustration between Finely and JoMo when he tried to talk to Finley and he walked away.

Joe's firing needs to be on the donors. Kaulig or someone needs to step up and fund the buyout.

During the last dozen years of Zips football we have seen a lot of losing and "dumb butt plays" like trying to catch a punt on the one yard line and then fumbling the ball or taunting penalties that have killed a drive. Last night we had three "dumb butt plays" that prevented us from winning because that is what losing teams do. Which dumb butt play do you think hurt the most: The special teams player that called out a cadence in a field goal attempt that led to a penalty and first down and then a touchdown instead of three. With 2:05 left in the first half and the ball on the UAB 3 yard line instead of letting the clock run down to the 2 minute warning we tried to draw them offsides and the center snapped the ball unexpectedly leading to a loss, and then a field goal instead of a touchdown. UAB then scored a touchdown right before the half. (Giving up a touchdown before the half is an Akron tradition) The unsportmanlike penalty when we had driven the ball to the 15 and instead of 1st and 10 we had 2nd and 19 at the 34. We did not move the ball after that play and missed a field goal. (Lets be real, we have seen that a lot in the last 12 years)

100% accurate.

I find it amusing that on the morning after that loss the athletic department sends out an email announcing 50 days until the basketball season

In 1987 we got our first D1 win against EMU three games in also. It was nice. Too bad it was our last for the year that ended up 4-7.

Uncle.

Delaware got their first FBS win as an FBS team yesterday, must be nice

I haven't read the finer details of Joe's contract, but it appears his base salary is $620K and he still has two years left on his contract. That's 1.24 million in total. The buyout language in his contract says we would owe him 75% of that total. That would amount to $930K. I can't see how Akron could financially afford to pay that when we couldn't even afford a training table that costs $3k-$5k. Furthermore, it's not like we have Nick Saban waiting on the sidelines wanting this job. The Akron job is among the bottom 5 jobs in all of FBS as we have poor funding and little to no NIL in a day and age where money means more than it ever did. Hell, if the University just gave Moorhead $465k in NIL each of the next 2 years (amounts to what his buyout would be), Akron would probably be in a better position competitively than paying that to him to not coach. The reality is whatever coach we bring in is setup to fail and in 2 or 3 years we will be asking to pay his $1 million buyout as well. At some point this chain needs to be broken. To clarify, I'm by no means trying to defend Moorhead. I just realize Akron has much deeper problems and trying to slap a bandaid on it by bringing in a new coach is simply not going to work. If they want to compete they need to better engage the community and in particular wealthy alumni and local businesses. These are 18-23 year old kids who are now hired mercenaries. They will go to the highest bidder and frankly we can't compete financially without external help.

Who cares if we even beat Duquesne, like it's awesome we beat an FCS team but that still makes us the WORST FBS team. No victory laps after beating the JV kids.

It is so fitting that Akron and the Cleveland Browns are partners. Last Sunday, the Browns held the Bengals to 7 yds of total offense in the second half and lost. Last night, the Zips held UAB to 0 second half points and lost. When there's no mental pressure on Finley, he's a fine MAC QB. The moment any weight gets put on his shoulders, he folds like a very cheap lawn chair. He brought the Zips back from the dead in that game, but once it got within a score, he panicked in the pocket, missed his reads, etc. Someone on the Zips fan Facebook group stated they were at the game and heard tons of chaos on the Zips sideline. JoeMo was yelling at people and there was tons of confusion with play calls. JoeMo has to go. Let the interim coach get his feet wet vs. Duquesne. This program needs a glimmer of hope and that can only be accomplished with a HC search. UAB and Wyoming were the cornerstone pieces of a successful season this year. Two pathetic G5 programs with semi-decent name recognition, and we flopped vs. both. Bye Joe.

Saturday evening scores Number 17 Bryant with a 2-1 win at Providence Creighton gets a 3-0 home win over Oral Roberts Harvard went on the road and played a 1-1 draw at UConn Ohio State with a 4-0 road win at Butler Green Bay 1 Northern Kentucky 0 (game was at NKU) Georgetown gets a 4-0 home win over Rider Marquette 1 Lipscomb 0 Cleveland State and Milwaukee 0-0 result (at MW) Drake earned a 1-0 win at Home over DePaul not zip opponent related...High ranked teams found some trouble this weekend...Saturday night - Michigan 3-2 win over #1 Indiana ; Virginia battled to a 1-0 win over number 6 Louisville ; Friday night - #2 Clemson and SMU 1-1 tie ; #4 Wake Forest and #21 UNC 1-1 tie ; Furman put a 4-1 beatdown on #7 Gardner Webb. (Gardner Webb and Louisville had both been 5-0-0 before this weekend)...When I look at Gaucho Dan RPI this morning, it appears that Lindenwood, Delaware and Utah Valley are the only teams that do not have a loss or tie at this point of this season. #5 NC State will likely be the new #1 team when the polls come out.

Yeah. Defense did their jobs.

Defense pitched a shutout in the second half to boot…

Don’t turn it over, actually win the turnover battle, rack up 441 yards of offense, and still find a way to lose. Rough.

So we looking at what, maybe 1-11 this year? Figure Duquesne is bad enough to squeak by with a 21-14 win? That good enough for another two year extension for the offensive genius? The defense isn't anything special, but there's guys who could get a few NIL dollars from other teams on there...how many of them watching this nonsense and thinking "ya know, I could save my eligibility if I stop after four games."

I will never get those 3.5 hours of my life back.

I'm shocked this drive went off the rails.

I'm kinda surprised they didn't just run it. He had the guy, though.

Shocked UAB didn’t run another screen there.

Well, here's the chance. 80 yards from a touchdown, and approximately 77 yards from field goal range. Here goes nothing.

2 guys covering 3 on that first down. Coaching.