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Posted by ABJ/Ohio.com at 8:41am on 10/17. http://www.ohio.com/news/local/university-of-akron-looks-to-hire-matthew-wilson-as-permanent-president-1.719813

I expected to lose to WMU by 10-20 points, not be shutout and lose by 41. Injuries or not that was a gut-wrenching blow.

Good grief. It's already game 8. Football season goes way tooooooooooo fast.

They all count. I'd assume the East games are a tiebreaker

$12-million at the end of the day, what a wonderful death sentence.

Horrible. Why can't we simply buy polos with our choice of the ARoo or Z and "Akron Soccer", "Akron Basketball"...etc. or a current jersey for our Zips sport of choice?

I am not sure the outcome of the game is a huge motivator and Fleck will probably have another job long before they sign, but I know what you mean. Here are a few tweets:

We had no legitimate choice but to stick with Chapman. Hoyer doesn't take reps with the 1st team and is no where near as good as Chapman. It would be a mistake to mortgage the future by burning Nelson's red shirt at this point of the season. It's hard to sit and watch a QB struggle but that doesn't mean we have viable options. I agree with this and when I saw the tweet from the MAC earlier in the week about WMU playing on New Year Day I was concerned. Horrible calls and no calls in Q1 broke any chance of momentum we had. As a result, Chapman tried to force the game. In the end thought, we got handled by a superior team. We were not effective running the ball, except for ta couple of scrambles by Chapman, until WMU put in their second team. Our short pass game was not a lot more effective than our long pass game, yesterday. It's hard to be creative when the bread and butter isn't working. We did throw to MTB a couple of times yesterday and that did not work, either. I think if we found some early success, maybe you go to a couple of trick plays if you are in it with a chance to win, but why show your hand when you might need it when you have a chance of winning a game down the road. Punts and kicks were good, especially punts, but we had a hard time bringing down their big guys. It's the same problem other teas would have had bringing down Warren Ball. Gasser nailed his punts and ought to get Special Teams player of the week. One note: I appreciate the military tribute and thought they did a great job. The band sounded great, the swearing in ceremony was pretty cool, and the WW II vet stories were amazing. I appreciated how all of our fans responded to the vets and the tribute. Here's my however....in all of the years where we have honored vets, I can't recall, and my memory might be incorrect here, but I don't remember a single time where we have honored as vet that was not white. I think we must do a better here. NE Ohio is a diverse area, our military has been diverse for decades, our players and fans are diverse. I think the vets we honor should reflect that diversity.

This is the reason my wife and I watch the games at home now. We got tired of cheering loud only to have people look back and stare at us. I prefer to stay at my house and cheer where we will not be judged.

I hear you too :), and I'd love a little more recognition for a program that has made at least the conference semifinals for a decade and more often than not the finals, but in those ten years the MAC has sent six different champions to the NCCAs. That's still pretty wide open.

I thought it was a fair preview with a lot of the "usual suspects" named. In the college basketball pecking order Akron and the MAC are still considered small. And even with Akron near the top for ten years we've still only won the tourney three times so I think its also fair to call it a wide open league. Could this finally be the year to win an NCAA tournament game? I think its within the realm of the possible.