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I thought this was an excellent interview overall. A few interesting bits I took away: (and I’m mostly paraphrasing) - Lost nearly 50 players from the end of last year’s roster to either graduation or the portal. - Had several waves of transfers. - Expect players to conform to all expectations, including the simple things like wearing the right outfits each day and always being on time. “If you’re not 100% right then you’re 100% wrong.” And “Express your individuality through conformity.” - Have to be very particular when recruiting out of the portal. If they don’t bring in guys with the right mindset and fit the culture being built, they could lose the team. Have longer to recruit high school kids and make sure they are the right fit, but must make those decisions in several weeks with portal players. - When recruiting OL the preference is for kids to be multi-sport athletes. Recruit interior OL differently from offensive tackles. Prefer to see interior OL also wrestle and prefer offensive tackles to play basketball at the high school level. Both sports help with body control and balance. Other sports could be track & field or baseball. - For the most part, no need to recruit OL outside of the midwest. Can find really good offensive lineman within a 5 hour radius of campus. - The whole staff trusts each other and worked with JoeMo in some capacity in the past. Only one who hasn’t is the DC, but he coached against JoeMo in both the BIG and PAC. - JoeMo learned a lot from his time at Mississippi State. He wasn’t a good fit there culturally, but came away knowing what he had to have at his next stop as a HC. One of those things was full control over who was on his staff and support from the administration. - JoeMo chose to come to Akron and rebuild the program. He had opportunities at Power 5 schools, but wanted to be at Akron. - The offense mostly works out of 11 personnel, but can shift to 10 or 12. - The offense can be tailored to what fits the players best. If a mobile QB, more QB reads will be called. If a less mobile QB, more inside zone runs will be called as well as WR screens etc. Mentioned the different ways they used Barkley at PSU and the QBs at Mississippi State and Fordham. - Spoke to how they call their blocking schemes a good bit.

Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn’t, but that group looks like: LCB: Cam Threatt SS: Jaylen Kelly-Powell FS: KJ Martin RCB: Jalen Hooks OLB: Corey Thomas MLB: Bubba Arslanian OLB: Tim Terry DE: Ryan Johnson NT: Logan Hawkins Cant make out the other DE and DT

Sounds like fun!

Akron isn’t the only MAC school to load up on transfers. The BGSU roster shows 9 transfers from P5 schools, several from other D1 schools, and numerous others. Boston College 2 Kansas Minn. Rutgers Syracuse Wake Forest Washington West Virginia Cincy 2 Memphis others: a baker's dozen And the Buffalo roster shows 10 transfers from P5 schools, several more from other D1 schools, and a lot from other schools and JCs. Arizona Boston College Florida Minnesota Nebraska NC State Notre Dame Rutgers 2 Vanderbilt Cincy Connecticut Louisville Others: a boatload If you want to read about the player with, IMO, thee most interesting background of any D! football player check out Damian Jackson on the Buffalo roster. https://ubbulls.com/sports/football/roster/damian-jackson/6452

Wasn't sure where to put this, but I just checked out gozips dot com regarding football season tickets, and there's no option to buy GA season tickets? Reserved only? We must've sold out all the GA seats, right? 😁

"This week is 1st and 2nd down..." That's right, Coach! 3rd and 4th down are for teams that don't get a 1st down in 2 plays. JoeMo Ball.

I really like this post, meet our new WR corps from Pitt, Penn St, & LSU & by the way our Dline will be better meet our new DT from Syracuse & DE from Wyoming

All of our 2023 commits now have ratings except Lester Miller and Max Tucker, but I’m working on that.

Bump: for some entertaining pre-hire discussion of JoMo as the Zips new head coach.