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Per Oddsshark: Drew Anderson QB Shoulder is downgraded to doubtful Saturday vs. Akron Tyree Jackson QB Knee is downgraded to doubtful Saturday vs. Akron The State of the MAC: Quarterbacks Buffalo Bulls: Kyle Vantrease took over in the middle of the 14-13 loss to NIU. Vantrease's offense could not score a touchdown that game, and the freshman followed up by losing his first career start to Miami (OH) 24-14. He will continue to start until Jackson or Anderson returns from injury.

http://www.thedaonline.com/sports/wvu-aims-to-finish-strong/article_b80617b2-b916-11e7-958b-136ae9880399.html The zips need to come out focused. WVU has an impressive win over Michigan State and they were very competitive against Western Michigan.

I like the long-term outlook for the team, but this season will most likely be a rough one. We are thin at about each position and we will be asking a lot of unproven players to play big minutes.

As much as I want this game as we work towards Detroit ... I really want to beat Icoach.

Freshman at QB, Kyron Brown has to be thinking this week he will get to put up 6.

You could always just do this.

Ya think!?

That is my excuse as to why I can't enter the contest. When it is warm though, I am right there with the best of them.

There are two sides to every story. I've seen posters making excuses for why we lose. We gave up 48 points and 626 yards and there was a poster who stated the game would have been closer had a few bounces gone our way. Seriously?! These nay-sayers, as you like to call them, are people who want to see Akron succeed. They want to see Akron be perennial MAC contenders the same way NIU and Toledo are. What frustrates me is the apathy among Zips fans. It seems to me many posters are content just being a 6 or 7 win team who when the Zips lose by 3+ touchdowns says oh well that was against a good team. I want to be the top dog. I've been critical of Bowden as I've lost faith in him being able to be that guy who elevates Akron to those heights. I will be a happy guy if I'm proved wrong and I assume those other nay-sayers will feel the same. I don't feel I was critical of last weeks win but I did state that we weren't going to win too many games where we are out gained 2:1 in yards. More times than not the outcome will be closer to the Toledo game than what it was for the WMU game. There is an easy way to silence the nay-sayers, win and win often.

That's because mine objectively is. Look, there are different models of the atom: none of them are wrong, but some are definitely more right than others. JJ Thomson (discoverer of Electrons) wasn't wrong...Rutherford was just more right. And even Rutherford's model wasn't the whole picture. But to equate all views as equal is inherently dishonest. Because they aren't. I was more being critical of the point that "all opinions are created equal" because that's a load of crap. They aren't.

Two star recruits can turn around a basketball program in one season. Turning around an 85 student football program takes time. Especially turning around one that was the absolute worst in D-1A. If Bowden would have chosen from Day 1 to recruit freshmen, redshirt them and slowly build a program, he would have been fired within 3-4 years max. You don't win with 18 and 19 year olds. And no AD in today's world waits 4 years to become competitive. So Bowden chose to heavily utilize transfers in the beginning. And we became relatively competitive in a short time. And being relatively competitive allowed us to get a nice recruiting class this past February, and redshirt most of them. For the first time, we have some depth, and can let players develop. This year's recruiting class, by seemingly everyone's estimation, is Bowden's best to-date. The bulk of those kids will be redshirted, and we have the makings of a deep, year-in-year-out competitive upper-tier MAC program. I see us winning 3 of our remaining 4 games. 7-5 would be a great season considering our original circumstances, and the future would look bright too. Our program is now appealing to some decent HS talent. That's my view. Like it or not.