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Bowen has one job to do: make 3s. He needs to start doing his job.

Over 4000 in the portal? 30+/ team? nearly 40% of the roster? That's hard to believe. I know some teams loose more than others, but if this is true D1 football is in a real bad place.

Beaven references Miami game statistics & I found this interesting: Akron held an edge over Miami in rebounds (37-36), assists (14-12), steals (11-6), points in the paint (38-18) and points from reserves (27-0), but lost. The teams each committed 15 turnovers. Personal hot take: I think we should move Shammah & Eric back into the starting lineup. We haven't been playing with as much moxie since Groce made the switch.

Looks like Myers went the JUCO route out of high school before landing at ODU, while Hilburn will be coming straight from JUCO. Both receivers were very productive at that level, albeit as two different types of players. Hilburn looks like a guy who could step right in on both kickoff and punt return. If Brookhart can get similar production out of them as they had in JUCO, then these two commitments should be excellent additions.

Good point LZip. I never claimed to be the brightest. I assumed he decommitted before the offer from Akron came but you could be right. He had decent numbers. I'm willing to give anyone a chance.

Zips open at -22.5 against CMU with an O/U of 165.5

I guess the glass-half-full view is that they all have some post-HS experience/tape and there are enough to go around for FBS. The question is whether we can get enough of the good ones to come to the Kron..

FBS vs FCS would be my guess

I think you're mistaken. Defense is what is controllable. That's why the saying is defense travels. You can't expect to shoot 40% from 3 and 50% from 2 each game in a 30+ game season. That's just not realistic unless you're playing a video game. There will be nights where your shots simply aren't falling, which is what happened against Miami. I didn't feel the looks we got offensively were much worse than we have gotten much of the year. That's why I was overly critical of our defensive play earlier in the year. We were just able to mask it against some very terrible teams given how we were playing offensively. I actually saw improvements on the defensive end against Miami, which is encouraging.

interesting a month ago he was committed to new hampshire ... i wonder what persuaded him to choose the zips?

Staff offered him out of HS, good height at 6'2" would complement Williams and Mason well but didn't have a recorded catch at ODU.

The part where I'm somehow calling for Groce's job with an aggressive undertone related to my dissatisfaction with JoeMo in the football section? I am very, very frustrated with the result of Saturday's game in Miami. Part of the reason I've harped on maintaining the offensive prowess we've exhibited thus far is because it's a controllable. That game was there for the taking given Miami's lackluster offensive numbers and high turnover rate, and we didn't take it. It's the first opportunity all year vs. a quality opponent where they didn't shoot lights out vs. us and we didn't take it. Need to figure things out vs. CMU. It's a long season, I get it, but we have 2 months now to send a message that the Miami game was a fluke before Cleveland/Selection Sunday (God willing). In Groce I trust, as I always have. Just tired of so many close losses in 20 years after promoting that I'm an Akron fan publicly and having to deal with the aftermath when people say, "Tough loss," after the few Akron games that garners more views than usual. Simply venting a bit on the Akron forum. Pardon me.

This is a well-timed "get well" game. Get the offense tuned up, get Sharron back on the beam and his confidence back up and start the team off on the right foot for the rest of the season.

what part didn't you understand?

Huh?

When are you opening the "John's Next Endeavor" thread? Morehead may last longer than Groce.

We scored over 20+ pts less than our average, shot 15% worse from 3P than our average, and had 15 turnovers which is 5 more than our average. We're now 0-3 vs. Q1 and Q2 mid majors with potentially zero opportunities left on the schedule, and we didn't show up offensively in a game we should've won by double digits (based on Miami's numbers). That was an embarrassing performance. Edit: Let me add that I don't have a very favorable view of Miami. I think we will see them lose games in the MAC that make this loss look worse than it may currently. That is a large reason why I view the loss and our performance as embarrassing.

I believe the 4k is just the Division 1 athletes and does not include Division 2 and 3 athletes. The one report I saw this morning said there is an unprecedented 4,500 Division 1 players as of today with the portal closing on the 16th and an estimated 3800-4000 Division 2 and 3 combined but there is not an exact number known as of now. The report estimates that only 30% percent will improve there current status or "find a better home"...

I don't know if losing by 3 on the road to an undefeated team is embarrassing. Especially when we had a chance to win it with less than 20 seconds left if Amani didn't step on the line while inbounding. I was disappointed too because we should've won. But it wasn't embarrassing.

Would love to see us get back to a pedal-to-the-metal offensive mindset. Embarrassing performance vs. Miami and back to back performances vs. DI opponents where we've shot under 30% from 3P.

I am curious, this POODAH fella is represented by an agent according to his twitter. What if any NIL could the Zips possibly have to offer him? Considering the current roster makes $91.00 a month I don't expect it could be very much and just about every player that could enter the portal did except Gant...

Looks like his juco HC was Arth successor Oscar Rodriguez?