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Of the choices given, I voted 'wait and see.' Boring answer, I know. But, from following Akron recruiting for more than two decades, I know one thing by looking at a list of high school kids. I know nothing. For me, it's impossible to judge from looking at a list of kids with some stars next to their names, and some high school football highlights playing against who knows what kind of talent. In my opinion, one of the most important things, is how hard a kid is going to come in and work at his craft. How much muscle, or weight will he put on? Will he take to coaching? Will he understand it? How do you judge that? When I see these kids padded up and playing against similar talent, I can evaluate effectively. Otherwise I'm only guessing. Back in the early 90's I used to cut out the top 100 recruits from the USA Today and put them in a folder. After checking the senior class after four years, I realized it was pretty useless because more than half of those guys weren't contributing to college football in any significant way. I stopped doing it when I realized that some "expert" getting paid to "evaluate" these kids couldn't even get half of them "correct."

I have a sneaking suspicion that the recruiting rankings perceived correctness amongst the ZN.o faithful might be given a lot more credence if the Zips were ranked higher. Just a hunch.

My bad. I'm hitting wrong buttons and shit.

Akron's bench defintely beats Ohio's but I don't think its even close in comparison. Treg Setty and Isaiah Johson have similar stats as do Stevie and Deji, but that's where it ends for Ohio, they only have 3 more available scholarship players and none of them see the floor much, if at all. There's nobody available this year that comes close to being able to contribute like Kretzer or McAdams. Akron's bench went 6 deep and scored 44pts in 93 minutes, Ohio's bench went 3 deep and scored 16pts in 42 minutes. Advantage Akron. The Zip's might have been victims of their own success- by getting hot from the outside they weren't forced to push the ball inside and get Ohio into foul trouble. This had a double negative impact for the Zips because it kept them off the foul line and it kept Ohio's bench players on the bench. Campbell is foul prone and in games where Ohio has struggled he and/or Ndour have gotten into foul trouble early and been forced to sit. Setty is the only servicable F replacement off the bench and his skill set is a big drop off from those two. After that its sophomore Wadley Mompremier who averages 8 minutes and 1.5pts/gm and graduate transfer Chandler Thomas whose been on the floor a total of 1 minute this year. If I'm Dambrot I'm running kamikazis at Campbell and Ndour early and often in the return game and forcing the issue. BobcatTV put together a game recap video, it's obviously heavy on the Ohio highlights but there's some Akron highlights in there too-

You guys knew Jacob Harrison was a stud before he verballed to the Zips, right? I mean, you have been following his career since 7th grade or maybe peewees? You surely didn't draw the conclusion that he was a great player from his 4* ranking I hope, because those stars don't mean anything.