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TEAMISM. That’s a culture win if I’ve ever seen one, and Groce said as much. One of the toughest wins since he’s been here, I can’t believe the Zips put up the point total they did after the first ten minutes or so AND without their best shooter. Zips got Williams out of the game and forced the rest of that mess of a team to beat them, and they couldn’t do it. Tuesday won’t be any easier. Put the team on your back, Ali! Go Zips! Happy New Year to all!

Now if you had this detail with bigjim's suggestion to group the assistants under their respective coordinators and got the post located on the first page of this thread you may be in line for some kind of award. I don't know whether it would be a Pulitzer, a Nobel, one of them buy-one get-one-free coupons from Mickey Ds, or something else but it would definitely be something cool you would want to include on your vitae.

Can't wait for Aziz to get stronger. The raw ability is there, he's just a little timid at times. Kicking it out 2 feet from the basket instead of going up strong - that will develop.

Amen. Just think back to where we were a couple of months ago with respect to our expectations of who might follow Arth. Moorhead is far beyond any of our reasonable expectations. If you'd have told me then that a coach of Moorhead's stature was the next head coach at UA, I'd have told you that you were nuts and that there was no way UA would expend the money or that a coach of that quality would accept the amount UA would pay.

Put OSU, OK State, ND or anyone else against Alabama and Georgia today and the results would have been the same or worse. They’re head and shoulders above everyone else.

Undefeated this year 😁

I believe the answer there should be oh hell yes. 👍 Really impressive job by the Zips. Really great job of driving to the basket.

Mikhal Dawson getting on the damn floor!

I don't consider Trimble a shooter. He's a streaker.

I think Buffalo is having trouble with the crowd noise.

Awful crowd. I go out of town and everything goes to $h!+.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/health/covid-omicron-lung-cells.html This virus is going to be with us forever. Forgive me for hoping that Omicron becomes the dominant strain.

Wow!! Thank you very much. I have missed most of these hirings, and they did not show up in my searches. My takeaways are as follows: 1. Look at the experience and knowledge. This group should be fantastic at recruiting with the experience and contacts. I am looking for a great close and many transfers and recruits when the late signing period occurs. This is not DIII John Carroll (Sorry Arth). 2. I did a google search, and several places said you can have 10 assistant coaches at FBS schools. Akron is currently at 9. You can have up to 4 grad assistants and Quality Control and Strength coaches. So, there will only be one more assistant, probably an OC that does not call plays. Thanks again. This information has got me so pumped. Happy Zipyear

Cincy lost by 21 to the 1st seed. Michigan lost by 23 to the 3rd seed. Could have switched their opponents and ended up with the same two teams in the championship game. I think Cincy represented the G5 pretty well.

That was the first loss for a Group of Five team to a Power Five team in the entire bowl season. The Group of Five was 7-0 in 2021 bowls against the Power Five prior to the Cotton Bowl, including the MAC’s own Central Michigan winning the Sun Bowl over Washington State.

The Edge just tweeted 🎶 “Ali’s not quiet on New Year’s Day!” 🎶 Bono retweeted. 🎉 32 points! 🦾

Group of Five 7-1 against the Power 5 in bowl season. MAC 1-0. You can say these mean less than the Cincy game and they do but it still shows that the gap is not as wide as the experts and ESPN would have you believe. I still say if they would just have a playoff, like every other sport, that includes all conference champions, the so called Group of Five would close a good bit of the perception gap after a handful of years. It would only help recruiting, coach retention, and fan interest in conferences like the MAC and that makes a big difference.

Great win. I thought we were going to get run off the floor. IDK how much of a difference the head coach makes, but props to Canada for getting this game played. I think we're finding out the team runs through Ali (and he's realizing his potential). That was efficient domination by him today. Also, Wynn provided some solid minutes for those who are interested. We're knocking off the favorite in the MAC and this team is still figuring itself out. Should be a fun season! Go Zips!

Sounds like he rolled his ankle

Well, the Bulls game was fun. The Boals game should be fun as well..

Hell of a win, especially after the slow start. It's easy to see how the preseason MAC favorite is struggling now. If they can get any semblance of discipline on offense and stay healthy they will still be a threat at the end of the season.

For as ugly as the first half was, the second half was a thing of beauty. I guess you can say the fellas shook the rust off.

Or Clarke.

Huge 3 by Xavier

I've heard that Coach M sticking around Oregon to finish the season is generating positive opinions of him in high school coaching circles. Coaches want to believe a new coach is committed to a program when they advise a recruit to consider a school. His commitment to Oregon makes high school coaches believe he will be committed to Akron. Anything can happen, but this is a good start.

Love me some Mikal Dawson 💪💪💪

The teamism is on display!

2 pt lead with a chance to make it 3! LET'S GO! This is a heck of a coaching job by Groce. He had conviction in the aggressive game plan, let his guys iron out the issues, and trusted that it would eventually come together.

Freeman is so quick he can draw a lot of fouls down low.

Yeah, that was ugly. Thrilled to only be down 4. I'll be interested to see if we have legs for another 20 minutes.

Darn happy to be only down by 4 after that ugliness.

But when they first came out with the vaccine wasn't the message that if you take the vaccine, you'll be immune to the virus & we'll thus make the virus extinct? Ala, measles, polio, small pox, etc., etc. That was certainly my understanding (I realize I put that in terrible layman's terms. Lol.) But if that was in fact the original message, was it an over-simplification? Or perhaps wishful thinking from the beginning? Or was the vaccine simply not as effective as originally hoped? And I'll ask here because it sounds like you have a pretty good idea of what you're talking about: how is it we had effective vaccinations for measles, polio, small pox, etc., but not for the flu or the "common cold?" What's the difference?

And?Just because something will be with us forever doesn't mean you should/can treat it trivally, especially in the initial phases of novel viruse's adaptation to the human immune system and our immune system to it. There's a saturation point to adaptation which you hope to reach a stable, predicable, rate of mutation. This is why H1N1 (which is the chief culprit for the 1918 pandemic) is not as deadly today. It reached its mutable saturation point to which there's only a limited scope for which it can mutate, and our immune system has a wider ability to adapt to those mutations...and we learned how to treat patients to increase survivability. With the 1918 pandemic it wasn't the virus that killed you, it was your autoimmune cytokine shock that killed you. You literally drowned in your own autoimmune response of trying to fight the virus. If given enough time, most people fought it off. The problem was...they drowned long before that could happen. The original projections back in February 2020 based on the rate of mutation, to reach a point of normalcy was at the earliest 2022...latest 2025. We're right on track for that projection. Huh, it's almost as if science works or something.

Agreed. The more I watch Enrique the more impressed I become. He's not super strong, but he's just so incredibly quick and coordinated he drives other bigs crazy.

I added your info to the first post in the thread.

I've been updating this and reposting it every few pages or so. It includes conference experience in their backgrounds. HC: Joe Moorhead; Big East, Big Ten, SEC, Pac12 ST: Allen Tucker; SEC OC: (Moorhead?) QBs: Billy Fessler; Big Ten, SEC RBs: Terry Richardson; Big East, ACC, SEC, NFL WRs: David Gilbertson; AAC, Pac12 TEs: Reno Ferri; ACC, MAC OL: Joel Rodriguez; ACC, CUSA DC: Nick Toth; PAC12, SEC, MWC, CUSA DL: Winston DeLattiboudere; PAC12, CUSA LBs: DBs: Tre' Bell; SEC, ACC

I have another request of the honorable B&G. B&G does such a great job of keeping track of recruits that have committed and coaches that have agreed to come to the University of Akron, I was hoping that he could start a similar post (or make a list on page 1 of this post) of the assistant coaches that have agreed to join JoeMo at our beloved University. A simple suggestion on a layout would be: OC - OL coach - J Rod RB coach - etc. (list of offensive coaches) DC - Toth DL coach - Delattiboudre LB coach - etc. (list of defensive coaches) Spectial Teams Coor - etc. If it is possible to make this list and keep it updated, Thank you. If not, Thank you and Happy Zipyear!!

Groce talking to the team while Wynn stands behind the crowd tribbing the ball and spinning it on his finger.

That has to be sarcasm, right? Sending a single reporter, one who doesn't travel to away games and doubles as a movie critic, is certainly not dedication. Ohio.com does actually have a nice game day story for PCCC but nothing for the Zips. The Beacon continues its decay with no print edition on Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years Eve New Years Day.