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Hate Disney/ESPN, but damn do they offer outstanding services such as ESPN+ for my Akron obsession and Disney+ for my sanity with 2 little girls. Haha

Oddly enough, Vantrease beating Nebraska may very well cost Iowa State Matt Campbell.

Day to day for Irons is certainly encouraging. Just save him for Liberty if he's good to go or even just MAC play honestly.

This is interesting decision for Matt Campbell. At this point it would be a possible lateral move. Nebraska could offer up more money but Matt turned down the Detroit Lions. A job he could of made more but the risk of getting fired is high. I think the Nebraska job is the same way. High risk high reward. At Iowa State you can have stability being a big fish in a small pond. 2 of the perennial powers are leaving your conference. The new playoff format means you can make it by winning your conference and not having to be ranked particularly high. The flip side to that is do you think the BIG 12 is capable of sustaining itself. If you don't think so then where does Iowa State fit in the landscape of a new conference? The BIG 10 isn't going anywhere and is pumping money into the veins of its schools like a junky. If you think you can turn Nebraska around, there is a lot of upside. I think for Matt, ever pro has a con. For Nebraska, the Frank Solich curse is real.

Monday night scores Michigan State 4 Chicago State 1 Cleveland State 2 St. Bonaventure 0 (Cleveland State is now 4-1-0 - only loss is to Marshall...) UIC 2 Northern Illinois 0 (NIU is now 2-2-2)

From what I can tell, out of the 25 players who have transferred out since I started tracking: - 2 are now at JUCO - 1 at FCS level - 4 at D2 level - 1 at D3 level Either I just can’t find where the other 17 went or they are not playing football this year. That’s rough.

Joe breaking the news to George that Tenn. beat Pitt 😂😂 The man is a joy to listen talk about football, that’s for sure. Listening between the lines it sounds like we’ll see Undercuffler on Saturday. Coach noted his jitters and nerves in that environment, hopefully he’s more ready to take the field in Knoxville and get a scoring drive or two on the board. The biggest issue in losing Irons on Saturday, coupled with the fumbles, is that the way the Zips were controlling the ball kept it from being a blowout. If they had gotten points on the board to start the game and kept moving the ball a bit, they wouldn’t have won, but it would have also been far closer than 52-0 at the end. The Zips looked like a Division 1 football team for a bit on Saturday. What an improvement! LOL

Best interview I’ve seen with JoeMo so far.

Figured this deserved it's own thread. Will bring a lot of artistic entertainment options to the heart of downtown.

I wish we were facing them with our starting QB, and the team we saw for the first 1.5 quarters (3/8th's) of the Michigan State game. But I'm not too confident that will be the case. Regardless - The wife and I will be in Knoxville to cheer on the Zips. I was there 33 years ago when they had Carl Pickins, Chuck Webb, and a host of other NFL-caliber players. It was a great time. I think we lost 52-9, but that was irrelevant. 😁

Per gozips.com, the game is on ESPN+.

They posted on social media so I’m assuming it’s fine to post here. I updated in the position previews as well. QB - Joey Marousek = Baldwin Wallace WR - Oran Singleton = Hutchinson CC TE - Nick Dottore = Morehead State DT - Janirr Wade = Jones CC LB - Kyle Bischof = Walsh LB - Connor Francz = Walsh LB - Jake Miller = Slippery Rock LB - Brandon Bischof - Slippery Rock

It's interesting how many recruits from all across the country come to Lincoln and mention how much better it was than they expected. Strangely enough, I lived in Lincoln for 6 years. It's the nicest place in which I have ever lived. When I lived in Milwaukee, I was puzzled that there were a few guys who worked with me, but lived in Madison. After living in Lincoln, I understand why they did.

IMO it's a hotbed of high school football, pro football, and one college. I can see it in a way, the Bengals lost three Super Bowls, the Browns haven't made it. Then there's a top ten college program (the only one that gets ranked most weeks), with the name "Ohio" that everybody can get behind, and wins national championships. Five thus far. I can see that being popular, and I can see how fans from the other dozen colleges that play football shrug and wonder why. That's how I was raised, my parents were from central Ohio.

It was great to hear some excitement about the freshman. Joe knows he has something cooking here. I’m incredibly excited about the future of our LBs with Fish, McCoy, and Griffin. I also can’t wait to see the freshmen OL develop. Just need to get through these next two weeks with minimal injuries and hopefully find a few more players that will provide depth come conference play.

I don't see why PJ would make that move. To start all over to just be in the same position. ... besides he has 10,000 lakes to row is boat in.

This will be very interesting to see what Campbell does. Prior to Campbell, Iowa State was somewhat like the Nebraska of the Big 12. The Big Ten would be a step up in competition, especially given the Big 12's ever changing landscape over the next few years. It would be similar to going from Toledo to ISU (bigger jump than ISU to Nebraska, but you get the picture). His style fits the Big Ten (big, physical WRs and a solid run game), too. I also saw PJ Fleck as a candidate for the job. Fleck needs to keep his boat docked in Minnesota, in my opinion.

According to the University of Akron's Facebook page: In the TV series "The College Tour" - each episode focuses on a different college and presents its narrative through the eyes of its students. This episode shines a nice light on UA and the city of Akron. The College Tour episode about The University of Akron is available here...

Call me crazy, but I think living in our region of the country is going to be more desirable as time goes on. We have a significant amount of the most valuable resource in the world right here - water. Anyone see what's going on out west? No water, no electricity, forest fires, warming temperatures. Happy to vacation there, but I wouldn't want to live there.

You are clearly a guy that says the glass is half full. Bring on the Vols.

That’s disappointing. I wonder if he has the grades and/or desire to graduate and enroll early. If so, that could be a nice spring board from this setback.

The Zips may be a "work in progress" and have "a lot of moving parts", but they are highly thought of by those responsible for ranking FBS teams. Witness, MSUs victory over the Zips vaulted the Spartans 3 spots in the AP poll to #11 and 2 spots in the Coaches poll to #9. Now if that's not respect, I don't know what is. GO ZIPS

Anyone else notice that the QB that led Georgia Southern over Nebraska was Stow's own Kyle Vantrease, fresh out of the transfer portal from a successful stint at Buffalo?

The Beacon sports page is up to 7 pages?! I'll assume 6 of them are ads for ED treatment?

I really agree with that type of scheduling. The instant gratification to the bottom line is very short sited by these AD's and Presidents. It really sets the program back as we just seen with the damage Larry Williams and rotation of presidents. There wear tear to the roster, the mentality of the program, not to mention 1 game is big to your bowl eligibility. Not just if your eligible or not but that 1 win can move you up a bowl tear with higher payouts. The impact they have on recruiting because those "marquee games" are the games they are guaranteed to see. I do have faith in our current leadership as they seem to get it but for now they are paying for the sins of the past. One other point he made that really hit home was when we was talking about expansion. You don't have to go after a major market if you can find a big fish in a small market. He said when he was in the WAC he looked at the paper in Boise that Boise State football was always on the front page. When he was at the SunBelt and they were looking at expanding, App St. looked a lot like the Boise model and when you open the paper in Boone that it was always about App St football. It's hard to be the team that is always buried on page 7 of your sports section. We have fought that battle with the nonAkron Beacon for a long time.

Are you listening to the former Sun Belt commissioner discuss the conference? The MAC could learn a lot from the discussion. My biggest takeaway is the importance of university presidents in that conference buying into changes in scheduling that don't result in teams starting the season 1-3 every year, and how that leads to more winning and the importance of winning over money. Basically, money doesn't create winning. Winning creates a momentum the results in more winning. Success in college football for G5 schools is about winning, not gobbling up money. MAC schools have scheduling all wrong. In fact, how the MAC schedules is in direct contradiction to winning. What was the key to scheduling changes for the Sun Belt you ask? Easy..... They encouraged schools to abandon the following scheduling method: 2-3 money games and one FCS team to start the season. Replaced that failing model with: 1 money game, 2 G5 games and one FCS. Georgia Southern has a schedule like this that creates a winning culture....how did that work for them last weekend? Marshall has a schedule like this that creates a winning culture.....how did that work out for them last weekend? App State has a schedule close to this.....how did that work out for them last weekend? Sun Belt Conference membership model does not involve admitting teams just because you think it's a good idea or the fans are bored with the current state. It purposefully brings in teams specifically in the footprint of the southeast with the exception of Marshall. The MAC is a midwest conference and with the exception of Buffalo, who could hit the bricks and nobody would care, the conference should stay that way. If you want a successful midwest conference at the G5 level in the midwest, keep Western Kentucky and MTSU out of the league. Get rid of Buffalo and shrink the size of the league and it will be better off for it.

DraftKings line is now +47 with and under/over of 67. Yikes.