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My quick thoughts from yesterday: • The Zips defense held UB to 7 points and 254 yards of offense. That should equal a victory. • AJ Watts (freshman from Georgia) had a great game yesterday. He has my attention. • The offense has to score touchdowns to keep my interest. I don't mind rebuilding, but somehow, someway you need to score TDs to keep me involved in the process. • Gibson was the best QB on the field yesterday. Gibson was under constant pressure and outperformed UB's QB who had a clean pocket most of the day. • I'm not giving up on Kato, he was still involved in warming up Gibson, tapped him on his head when he went out, was in the QB huddles after series. • In limited carries (8) Decavilon Reese looked like he can help the offense move the ball on the ground. Hopefully his injury was a stinger, and is all right. • I've watched football for decades, and I have little, to no idea what pass interference is anymore.

Through October 15th, the United Soccer Coaches' poll shows: #1 St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark, NJ) - assistant coach Clint Caso (Akron 2013, 14); current Zip, Henrique Cruz is an alumnus #2 Medina, (Medina, OH) - head coach Simon Spelling (Akron 1980, 81, 82, 83) https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/top-ranked-teams-continue-their-stronghold/ The Medina Battling Bees defeated Barberton 5-0 yesterday and will play Akron Firestone, who defeated Brunswick 2-1 yesterday, on Wednesday, Oct 23rd in Medina. The St. Benedict's Grey Bees also won yesterday, 3-0 over Long Island’s Chaminade From Henrique's bio on GoZips.com: ...Helped his St. Benedict's Prep (N.J.) squad capture back-to-back national and New Jersey State Prep A titles in 2017 and 2018, respectively, including posting a perfect 18-0 mark in 2018...played at St. Benedict's Prep under the tutelage of former Zips' men's soccer player Clint Caso, who is an assistant coach with the program... (https://gozips.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6343)

way too early to be worrying about that.... Southern Illinois Edwardsville(SIU-E) is the league leader at 2-0-0 and they come to Akron Friday night Akron will have to play that game without Marco Milanese Carlo Ritaccio was not able to play today...not sure of his status for Friday SIU-E is a very good team. Jared is a great coach....and will have this team focused on one game at a time I am proud of this team. They had to play without a pre season all american at center back. They got kicked in the teeth at 44 seconds.... and battled back to tie it at half time they played 33 minutes a man down....against a team ranked #27 in RPI (and WMU had won at Michigan on Thursday night) these zips are fighting and battling proud of them

Sports Illustrated (back when it was the gold standard) quality, Dr.

To get suspended in mid-season, especially when you're the QB of a struggling team, is unforgivable. I suspect we may never see Kato in a Zips uniform again. If Arth yells, he's out of control and in over his head. If he didn't get mad and yell, he'd have no fire.

21 point difference, 193 yards passing for the Zips, and one takeaway pencil. Congratulations go to @kreed5120 @Zippyroo @Sergeant Zip and @ZippyRulz...did I miss anyone?

You do an excellent job of capturing not only the play on the field, but also the gameday experience as a whole. Thanks Dr Z!

It is a draw.

Red card on Marco. Play for the tie now

22 minutes left and we're looking much more the likely team to score, if there's a goal left in this match. Let's get the goal!!

Zips knot it at 1 with 53" left in the half.

Why? Over & over again, i am so thankful for Bowden getting us out of the basement but he hit cruise control & we are here because of him. We are playing with Bowden recruits & Recruits we got after signing day. This sucks because are senior coaching staff didn’t want to hit the recruiting trail anymore If you look back I wanted a new OC but once the decision was made I wanted Getsy. For being an x QB here, being in NFL around Rogers & an OC in SEC but would have cost some money. With that being said we gotta give him a chance to recruit as we can see he wasn’t left much & playing true freshman is never a good thing

This looks like it could have been really bad if he drove into the QB rather than just push him.

It is an unsatisfying consolation prize, but much of the rest of the season is about "watching our backups against their backups." Down the road, meaningful experience by upcoming players may yield good dividends.

Sands who usually averages -1 per carry is a leader? Kato with all his taunting penalties is a leader? The trustees don't care about the athletic program? And a visit from Mr. Rogers? The thread has jumped the shark.

I doubt the President and Trustees are as disinterested as you portray them. At the end of the day, they have to be results-oriented and we are talking out of both sides of our mouth if we fired Bowden based on results and don't hold Arth and William's accountable. Recruiting for the worst team in D1 will be an uphill battle and the transfer portal shows a lack of confidence in Arth. Tge suspension of Nelson and Sands, who should be leading the team is also not a good sign. The Zips need a miracle to resurrect the program. Arth wiped out all of the gains we made under Bowden. I do not know where we go from here. It's not like we have a marquee QB to build the program around. Gibson looked OK, but he is not going to be an all-star. What are some practical measures that can be taken to improve the quality of play?

You must have gone to the Long Island Medium when she was at the Civic Theater ?. As for Kato, he has always been for Kato first and foremost. Good riddance.

SIU-Edwardsville.......looks like they might be 2-0 in the MAC after tonight they lead BGSU 2-0 at 78:45 in a non-MAC game of interest...Michigan State defeated Ohio State 3-1

Toronto FC and DC United 1-1 after 90 Richie Laryea scores a goal in OT to make it 2-1

The Zips rushed for 9 feet (3 yards), net, on Saturday in the 21-0 shutout loss to Buffalo, the Bulls only road win of the season. Right now Akron is historically bad in football, as we have lost 12 games in a row, a losing streak which is officially the worst such streak in the 65-year history of Akron Football, besting the 11-game tabs of 1950-51, 2010, and 2012 The University has a new President who has only started his job in the last month. Athletics issues are not on his top 10 list, as Trustees have told him we are on the right path. The Head Football Coach is in year one of a new contract and is not going anywhere anytime soon. Trustees love him and his supposed "academic approach" to D1 football. The Athletic Director is in the next to last year of his contract, and is not likely going anywhere because the President has bigger issues to tackle than a bad football team, which unfortunately, is not a big deal here as we have been bad for so long that no one really cares. Same goes for the staff under him. The 2019 season has 5 games left, 2 of which are at home. Less than 2,000 people will actually be in the stands for these Tuesday night games. The AD will announce a made up paid number, as they announced 16,909 on Saturday which is a completely made up figure. No one cares about this. Focus now is on building for 2020, recruiting https://247sports.com/college/akron/Season/2020-Football/Commits/ and thinning out anyone on the roster not about 2020 and beyond. These are the facts, and they are undisputed. You can either get on the Gold Sweater bus, and hope for a better future, or get off. It's rolling on either way.

Asleep at switch!!!! 1-0 W. Mich 44' in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!