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"Former Akron defensive coordinator Todd Stroud, now a special assistant to Manny Diaz at Miami is on the list" Thank gawd. This gives me confidence at least someone has a clue.

Not sure I trust that FootballScoop has credible "multiple sources" on this. Did it come from the known liar himself?!? In case anyone doesn't know, or needs a good refresher on Bobby's controversies, click here. Hard to believe this was 2012 I'm fairly confident Bobby is not the right hire for Akron. You can cross him off the list Mr Guthrie.

https://footballscoop.com/news/update-akron-coaching-search

The search firms allow for confidentiality. Otherwise, GT could get a public records request for emails and documents relating to search. I think in this situation...maybe more warranted than others. How about announcing Holliday as coach during the Marshall basketball game? Too cute by half?

He lost his right one on the 2005 Motor City Bowl. He's quite the risk taker!

Nothing earth-shattering, but a new feature added to the site today. You now have the ability to add stock photos from Pixabay. When you post, you will see in the bottom right you will see a dropdown "Other Media", one of the choices is "insert stock photo" Select, and type in a keyword in the search field. Example: "kickoff" Select your image. This will add it to the uploaded images area below your post. Click on the image, and it will insert it in your post. Double click on your photo, and you have the ability to adjust the size and alignment. (the below image is 333 pixels wide with left alignment)

Reminder for new users. (see above) @zipsoutsider @Zips Win! We lost some images during a host file transfer some time back. I guessed, and replaced your profile photo. Feel free to change if you don't approve. If anyone needs help, let me know. Happy to help.

@Blue & Gold Reactions per day have been increased to 10 per day. Enjoy. 🥳

The article is interesting. I wouldn’t really be blown away with excitement by too many of the guys on that list. I’d be pumped about Getsy, but he seems like more of an afterthought after reading that. I’m just ready to get this last game over with and move on. The future is now, and the quicker the guy gets in his office, the better.

With the disdain the committee has for MAC schools they could probably go undefeated up until the MAC championship, lose it and be relegated to the NIT! As such, I have put less importance on OOC games.

MAC Championship, ACC coach of the year, offensive oriented, best available, success at FBS.

I'd bet my left nut Arth would have won at least 3 games next year (likely more). If that's all our expectations are, he shouldn't have been fired. In my mind, the right guy will be able to at least flirt with bowl eligibility in year 1. These players have a lot of experience and will only continue to improve. The right coach should be able to keep the majority of talented payers and can bring in the right pieces to supplement our weaknesses. Its never been easier to turn a program around quickly with transfers now being immediately eligible AND getting an extra 7 scholarships a year to account for players who voluntarily enter the portal. We have the chance to bring in 32 new should-be quality players as a result.

The MAC East is a dumpster fire. Easily the worst division in all of FBS. By year 3 I'd expect to make a bowl game and by year 5 or 6 I'd expect us to contend for the division crown most years. It's not like we're in a situation like Maryland or Rutgers where we have no chance of success.

Superb post @RowdyZip It's such an interesting and important topic to discuss, but it's so simple. I'd say that as a bottom line, competing for/becoming bowl eligible by the end of year two/three is absolutely reasonable and there's no reason that it can't be done here. Given how absolutely horrendous Akron has been for a decade plus, seeing the numbers that you guys have put in this thread is even shocking for someone who has been to just about every game. I can't believe the place isn't more empty. For all of the talk of financial incompetence at the U, I would argue that the athletics donor base is pretty strong. If it weren't, there would be zero means to justify firing the last three coaches with time left on their contracts. I don't pay much attention once people start calling those firings bad decisions when it comes to coming up with the money. If they couldn't afford to do it, they wouldn't considering the guidelines these ADs get from their bosses. Bowden had the formula to success right there, he just didn't follow through with it. He put together a really good roster in just over a year that had a ton of transfers that could buoy a locker room full of guys that didn't belong. Unfortunately, "the rest" of the guys on the roster ended up becoming his HS recruits, which were absolutely dreadful in most cases. If he could have supplemented his transfer game with legit HS recruiting later on in his career at Akron, he would've done so much better here. Oh, and if he had fired Milwee. He left the program a lot better than he found it, but as many other posters say, there was too great a talent gap by the end of it. You can't win at this level with a handful of transfers forever, just like you can't win quickly, or play teams close quickly, by recruiting high-character academic all-stars that belong at John Carroll. There's a happy medium. See: Portage County. And they play in a dump! I don't know if I really answered the question. But when people call Akron such a "hard job" or "it's impossible to win at Akron," I get where they're coming from, but I don't think it's in any way true. Ianello and Arth can be chalked up as disastrous hires, and Bowden did a nice job here until his philosophy became myopic and didn't work anymore. Brookhart had a bunch of issues at the end and that might be why he's disappeared since then. As time passes in this environment, the best coaches are the ones who can adapt to a situation whether it's how they normally do things or not. Look at John Groce. I get it's a different sport and that does matter, but I still think there's something to learn. He won big at Ohio recruiting his own guys. He goes to Illinois and is pretty average doing things the way he always did. He goes to Akron and is winning a lot. But he's doing it totally differently than he's done before. It's all about transfers and culture. And as he's progressed, he's relying more and more on his own HS recruiting. That's reality of the coaching game now, and it's not how he was raised in it or how he learned it, but he adapted to make it work. Akron can be successful. All eyes on Guthrie.

On the bright side, our '23 schedule is close to ideal, IMHO.

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product.

I only put up the thread due to the tradition of every game having one and thinking no one else would.

Well if that isn't the most "Akron" thing you'll ever read. SMH

I clicked on the three dots in the upper right, below the X, then set ZOOM back to 100%. It took some tinkerin' but I got it. Now to not have the scroll wheel accidently control zoom...

Petrino would be fun!

In front of Infocision fans, the home Zips have won one Division 1-A game in the past 4+ years (beginning November 22nd, 2017). By comparison - The Cincinnati Bearcats just stretched their home field winning streak to 23 games. They've won 23 in a row...I can't imagine the Zips winning 23 home games combined during the balance of my lifetime. Next season the Zips don't play a home game against a D-1A opponent until at least October 1st. If they win on October 1st, it will break a streak where Zips fans have walked out of Infocision a loser all-but-once over 1774 days. If they lose, the count keeps climbing.