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Less that a month to the season!

If you're looking for proactive reporting by George, you're barking up the wrong tree. "I do exactly what is expected of me and nothing more."

An up and down start to MAC play the last two weekends for the Women, but yesterday may have shown a turning point on the season. Last weekend the Women lost to the Defending Champs at BG, then went into Toledo and came home a winner. Friday night at FES they gave another stellar effort defensively in a 1 nil loss to a solid Ball State squad, and then took it to Miami 2-0 Sunday with two ripped goals, Kayleigh Peyton’s first career goal for the sophomore and Syd Worthy netting her second match winner of the season. 2-2 in MAC play now, 5-7 on season, and OU coming in on Thursday night, and they’re playing tough right now. Herlihy’s team seems to have found some offense to go along with their stingy defense, and if so, the rest of the season should be fun.

It ain't over til the Kent cheerleaders sing (or cry)..

nice lock screen wallpaper.

Amen! Again, Amen....The goal should be to nose UofA into the tier 2 group..... 3 for 3 Balsy...."local" should be the tie-breaker in decision vs. equal talent from outside area.....

Will Kent be ready for it?

Simply saying naked platitudes like "build it and they will come" or "the right staff" and not understanding/accepting your true circumstance, nothing will ever change. Going 0-12 is not change. Blindly casting dice and hope that you eventually strike a seven isn't a way to change something. Bowden's Staff when he first got here was definitely far above what a 2-22 team with one bowl appearance in 10 years could ever hope for. And things improved. From culture to results on the field. It just seems some people have delusions of grandeur.

That's why I put OU in a different category, I put them as a Tier 2. Ohio is far more attractive than Akron is. They have a history of winning. They have a culture of fan support (two things Akron DOES NOT have). Therefore we aren't in the same tier as the WMUs, Buffalos and Ohio Universities. All the other schools also have Facilities. This argument about "facilities" is not a factor in 2019. It just isn't. YSU now has facilities equal (if not better by virtue of being new) to ours. It's not the factor you think it is. Yeah we got those good players, when College Football was a completely different thing. Some kid might go unnoticed and develops into a Star in the NFL like Baker Mayfield did...oh wait, even Baker decided to believe in himself enough to go walk-on at Oklahoma instead of transferring to a lower Tier school like Akron and shining. It's 2019. It's not gonna happen.

Attracting local talent is not the problem: its attracting GOOD local talent. As a history of drafting players ot the NFL who have been in Superbowls; so has Kent, Toledo, Ohio and Ohio State; Hall of Fame, Just one player...who played here almost two decades ago. Sure I'll even throw in John Heisman himself coached here AND developed the under-center snap at Akron. Those things might matter to Zips Alumni; they don't really matter to anyone else, that's just being honest. Akron is IMHO, a third tier of where local talent would go: Tier 1: Ohio States, Big-Tens, Alabamas of the World. Tier 2: Cincinnatis, West Virginias (Bigger Schools away from here) the OUs of the world. Tier 3: The Akrons, Kents, BGSUs of the world. The players Akron would be getting are those that can't get to Tier 1 or Tier 2s, or the rare...and I mean RARE individual who could get into Tiers 1,2 and choose not to be there. The Best Shot Akron has is to get what decent recruits it has, from where-ever it can, with a healthy diet of transfers who go to those Tier-1s that don't crack the starting lineup and want to play other than being benchwarmers. I think it's delusional to think Talent is going to come to Akron on their own...regardless of who is the coach (except a big name WOULD help...).

DNag is also sneaky...with an ice bucket

the great DNag with a goal

You guys are delusional if you think any of the good NE Ohio Football players are going to come to Akron when it's 0-12, and have a history of not being good, and look like they're going anywhere but up. It doesn't matter how much talent is in an Area if you can't attract any of it. Number of guys on a roster from a region do not reflect if they actually have the talent or not.

Brown with the fumble recovery

I didn't get to see the game, but a result against a very solid team is a sign of progress even if we gave up a late and potentially illegitimate goal. Win the MACC!

The Zips end up with a draw. Tough way to end with a FIU goal in the 87th minute, which appeared to have two players offsides.

I mean, not to get into a discussion that's really a waste of time re: Bowden. But the last 5-6 games last year with a better roster didn't look much better than what we're seeing right now. I know this is the UMass thread, but I'll put it here anyway. And people have even said it already in some ways. Did Akron have a good reason to fire Bowden? Yes! Does that automatically make those of us who came to that conclusion fans of the current staff by default? Absolutely not! There's a reason that even if we do indeed go 0-12 this year (which I've come to accept, but still support the team) I will not miss what the previous group became. Not at all. That was an embarrassment, so far beyond the football itself.

And just in case they are monitoring this site and planning to take over the world I would like to state that I have always liked robots.

I have earned my stripes; I have been here quite a long time. And I will be here long from now. I will handle my fandom as I feel appropriate, requiring neither advice nor permission from anyone. Fan is sort for fanatic. I am not here in the capacity of a coach; that is a different perspective. And I am certainly not a cheerleader. AND I am not a PARENT of someone on the team, which is definitely an entirely different perspective. My means of protest are limited to either vocalizing or not attending. I have not missed a home match in well over a decade. So, vocalizing it is. My support for this program cannot be questioned. I have been here way too long for that. Our team has fallen into the predictable habit of nearly always playing back to GK. Opponents are just waiting to pounce on these back passes. I realize we want maintain possession, and we want to draw out the opposition. But we have become far too susceptible to the high press. And we have become sloppy and too casual about playing square across the back. No. I am not making it up. And who are you to insinuate that I am? Surely you have noticed this sloppy ball handling along the back Many others have noticed, even if you have not. I do not mean to imply that sloppy back passes are the only thing wrong here. That is far from the case. We are on a losing streak of historical magnitude. I do not believe any Zips squad has ever begun 0-0-4. We are at 0-0-7 and counting. We probably will hurt some feelings and trample some egos before this gets fixed. But fixed it will eventually get. And I will be here through all of it. See you at the match. Go Zips!