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Screw Nebraska football. I hope they never win another game until the pay us per the details of the original contract.

U missed the point, of course. But let me reiterate for you...a MAC east championship that led to a blow out in the MAC Championship, a humiliating loss to Lane Kiffin in the Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl and then a total collapse the following year. How about we stop making excuses and only expect excellence. A MAC east championship ISN'T a MAC Championship. And with Akron that year, it was comparable to an 8th seed making it to the finals of the MAC basketball tournament only to lose by 30 to the #1 seed followed by a 25 point loss in the first round of the CBI.

I'm looking forward to the future, and a new staff. Hopefully, a staff with FBS experience, and solid resumes.

I'm not gonna get on Rodriguez too much. He, like most of the staff, was completely in over his head. Take an assistant that's in over his head and promote him to head coach, and that's what you get. Coach Rod is a tremendous person and a great story. I have no doubt he will be a great college football coach some day. Like most guys on this staff, including Arth, they benefitted from a very poorly done coaching search, and for Rod in particular, he jumped onto Arth's staff from D3 right before the 2018 season and then we know what happened from there. When you consider the timeline of how things have gone down with this program since the win over Ohio in 2017, it's like Murphy's law outside of the wins over Kent x2 and Northwestern. The program has been in the tank ever since they got blown out by Miami on homecoming in 2018. It's really quite remarkable. At the end of the day, when I think Akron football 2019-2021, I think "overmatched." Overmatched in every way. Got manhandled nearly every single game with a couple close losses and a couple of wins. I'm still baffled that Dustin Fox had the cajones to say Arth was about to turn the corner and that it was a terrible move to get rid of him. Nowhere else in America would Arth have survived too long past the 2019 year. I'm so tired of coach talk and speculation. This news release cannot come soon enough.

Ms. Mishler-Elmore writes an interesting article. I was surprised to learn that Getsy played QB for the Zips while he was in college. I had always thought he played for the Zips before he was in college. Also impressed by the quote about Getsy made by the fired coach Arth. Keep up the fine work Beth.

When I was listening to the post game interview with Joe Dunn and ORod started to cry, I felt for him. He has been through a lot and I think it all hit him at once. I wouldn't mind seeing him stay on as an assistant. but I am pretty darn sure that ship has sailed. I wish him luck in the future.

UWV tops Tulsa 1-0 in 2OT to reach the Elite Eight.

That dude was tough. Nut case. But tough.

I watched Zips Weekly (they quit putting coaches names on the show) and Rod came off as a genuine guy, would love to have a coffee or other beverage with him. But was not ready for the job. Very soft spoken too, maybe he's not use to being on TV and the mic and all, but he needs a bit more bite when talking to players. Maybe he has that when addressing them. I wish nothing but the best to him, wherever he coaches.

Here's hoping that next year all the football Zips play as if the hair on their ganuccies has turned to steel wool (or not if this is bad).

So if we’d pull off hiring Kevin Wilson, that would have to be the biggest hire in the history of MAC football, no? That’s certainly swinging for the fence.

Kevin Wilson makes $1.2 million at OSU

https://twitter.com/brucefeldmancfb/status/1464986676984356870?s=21

Dino Babers is going to be available in about 20 minutes.

4 years ago in 2017

Agree.. except my first priority would be a guy who has built a program not just coached at a good one. Secondly, you say D2 but why D2 and not FCS? Yes, I know Arth came from FCS Chattanooga but he wasn’t there very long. He made his name in D3 at John Carroll. For what it’s worth, the guy I like the most turned around a mediocre at best FCS program so well that he led them to the Final Four and is now a coordinator in the Big Ten that makes about as much in a paycheck as Akron head coaches generally do. He checks all the boxes for me in building a program, achieving on field success and now being around the FBS as a coordinator. If you can recruit to Orono, Maine you can recruit to Akron, Ohio. Just my take and what do I know though? https://gophersports.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/joe-harasymiak/2429

You’re 1000% right. Thought Miami totally blew it in regulation and Kent is far from perfect, Lewis has found the formula to have sustained success there. Sure they lost a couple MAC games by 20+, but they were a clear favorite from the start and delivered. And they went undefeated at home. It makes me sick, sick with jealousy. Akron has never had the swagger that they possess.

Arth wasn't irrationally fired. We aren't bad at the firing part. We are horrid at the hiring part.

I sure hope this is the last we see of the script "Akron" logo.

Old Virshon is now at New Mexico State. https://nmstatesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/virshon-cotton/8465

https://heavy.com/sports/green-bay-packers/luke-getsy-akron-coaching-candidate/