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I don't recall this being posted, but this is the first time I've seen it. Will get you pumped for Monday:

Academies mostly play other academies, with few exceptions. So, the caliber of play is generally much higher than typical high school competition. Most academy participants forego high school competition altogether nowadays. More is the pity.

Can we just find a "Barry Sanders" who can make amazing plays and doesn't need an offensive line to block for him? Lol

Recruiting coordinator, assistant coach….anything to get another former MLS player in Akron

Ali happens to be one of those true freshmen that Groce used consistently

My guess is the focus is now on the recent offers. A few players we offered earlier in the year messaged me on Twitter and we don’t seem to be going after them at this point. I haven’t spoken to Harlem Howard but from outward appearance it seems we are still pursuing him. We were able to get Barrett Maddox on campus and I thought he would pull the trigger, but he’s been racking up offers since then. Including a P5 one from Kansas. All that being said, my best guess for the realistic “takes” left on this list are Harlem Howard, Taylor Wein, Bruno Dall, Vincent Jackson and the JUCOs. But we’ll see.

It’s going to take some time to fully update this list as there are so many offers out there, but I’ll do a bump every now and then. Some players that we offered late and are clear P5 guys I’m not going to add. If we offered somewhat early and they developed into P5 guys, I’ll leave them on the list. QB: Kamari McClellan -(AL) - 3 ⭐️ WR: Oluwakoleade Osinubi - (MA) - 3 ⭐️ Vernon Settles - (PA) - NR Javon Reid - (FL) - NR Fadrelle Andrus - (FL) - NR Fidel Pitts - (CA) - NR (JUCO) OT: Bowen “Bo” Fowler - (MD) - NR Jakheem Shumpert - (MS) - NR (JUCO) DT: Jordan Pritchard-Sewell - (OH) - NR DE: Stepfin Nesmith - (OH) - NR Brandon Littles - (FL) - NR CB: Drew Minich - (OH) - NR Matthew McKenzie - (FL) - NR Les “LJ” Hewitt - (MS) - NR (JUCO) S: Carl Boldin - (FL) - NR ATH: Cameron Frazier - (OH) - 3 ⭐️ REMOVED: (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Marc Nave (OH)️ = Ohio State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Brandon Hansen (IL) = Illinois (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - S Leo Colombi (OH) = Miami (OH) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - ATH Kaleb Martin (OH) = Miami (OH) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - CB Jaheim Miller (FL) = FAU (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Jaden Ball (OH) = Purdue (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - CB Joshua Clarke (VA) = Virginia Tech (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - WR Corey Smith (IN) = Minnesota (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - OL Deontae Armstrong (OH) = Ohio State (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - OL Devontae Armstrong (OH) = Ohio State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Sean Martin (OH) = Toledo (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Jake Wheelock (OH) = Cincinnati (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - QB Printess Noland (GA) = Ohio State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Brycen Coleman (MD) = Vanderbilt (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - DT Angelo McCullom (OH) = Illinois NR - IOL Knajee Saffold (FL) = FIU NR - LB Jason Hocker (KY) = AKRON NR - WR Ryan Brotherton (IN) = Western Michigan (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - TE Jack Sammarco (OH) = West Virginia (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - QB Ethan Grunkemeyer (OH) = Penn State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - QB Timothy Carpenter (OH) = Indiana (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Raynor Andrews (FL) = Rutgers NR - LB Huston Eubank (MI) = Western Michigan NR - DE David McMorris (DC) = Syracuse NR - S Rayshaun Hester (MI) = Eastern Michigan (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Christian Peterson (IN) = Indiana (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Terrion Hicks (KY) = Northwestern NR - CB Nacari Johnson (GA) = UAB NR - CB Jaylin Lackey (GA) = Virginia NR - QB Brayden Roggow - (OH) = AKRON NR - RB Jalen Alexander - (IN) = Ball State NR - WR Darrion Gilliam (IL) = Kent State NR - CB Jaire Rawlison (PA) = Kent State NR - S Tyler McKinstry (GA) = Kent State NR - DT Josue Cordoba (NJ) = Kent State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Jose Leon (FL) = App State (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - S Marqavious Saboor (GA) = Cincinnati NR - IOL Roosevelt Mitchell (NY) = AKRON (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Miles Burris (FL) = Charlotte (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - DE Troy Regovich (OH) = Northwestern NR - S Kaleb Neal (GA) = App State NR - S Caleb Turner (VA) = Eastern Michigan (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Cedric Franklin (GA) = Virginia NR - S Clinton Robinson (PA) = Syracuse (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - TE Benjamin Blackburn (FL) = Boston College NR - CB Denzel Chavis (NJ) = Temple NR - OT Gabriel Funk (OH) = App State NR - CB Jordan Toney (GA) = Eastern Michigan NR - CB Cayden Trotter (GA) = William & Mary NR - QB Brendan Zurbrugg (OH) = Syracuse (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - LB Rickey Williams (OH) = West Virginia NR - S Marshall Washington (NJ) = Monmouth (5.6) 3 ⭐️ WR Tashi Braceful (MI) = Toledo NR - ILB Nylan Brown (IN) = Kent State NR - S Rodrick Hunter (GA) = AKRON NR - CB Keyveon Johnson (FL) = AKRON (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Khalil Witherspoon (NJ) = Old Dominion (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ATH TJ Engleman (OH) = East Carolina (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - RB Sean Patrick (OH) = AKRON (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Kyan Mason (OH) = AKRON NR - CB Elijah McDowell (GA) = East Carolina (5.3) 2 ⭐️ - CB Tyshawn “Ty” Sanders (SC) = App State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Mike Smith (OH) = AKRON NR - S Troy Martin (OH) = Kent State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S Charles “CJ” Miles = Western Michigan (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - OT Charlton Luniewski (OH) = Michigan State (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - OT Mercer Luniewski (OH) = Michigan State NR - CB Elijah Cannon (FL) = FAU NR - CB Ronald “Latrell” Moore Jr. (GA) = Liberty (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Braheem “BJ” Long - (NJ) = Syracuse (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - CB Judah Jenkins (MD) = Indiana NR - WR Austin Clay (OH) = Bowling Green (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - QB Semaj Jones (PA) = Cincinnati (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - QB Anthony Maddox (MS) = Texas A&M (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - RB Samuel Dixon (OH) = Ohio State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - RB Khamani Alexander (FL) = Georgia Tech (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - RB Jakorion Caffey (OH) = Cincinnati (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Shaun Boykins Jr. (KY) = Louisville (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - WR Tra’mar Harris (OH) = Purdue (5.9) 4 ⭐️ - WR NiTareon “Nitro” Tuggle (IN) = Georgia (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Miles Burris (FL) = Charlotte NR - WR Da’Shawn Martin (OH) = Kent State NR - WR Jayvion Showers (FL) = Arkansas State (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - TE Dominic “DK” Kirks (OH) = Washington (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - TE Gavin Grover (OH) = Cincinnati (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - TE Ryan Jostes (MO) = Missouri (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - TE Devyn Zahursky (OH) = Cincinnati (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Tommy Ricard (OH) = Virginia Tech (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Taccofah Lewis (MS) = Memphis (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Jiavani Cooley (PA) = Pittsburgh (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - OT William Echoles (MS) = Ole Miss (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - OT Marcus Mascoll (GA) = Florida (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - OT Robert Wright - (GA) = Georgia Southern (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Jimmy Williams (FL) = Louisville NR - OT Izaiah Taylor (GA) = Liberty (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Jack Hines (CT) = Wake Forest (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - OT William Nolan (IL) = Iowa NR - OT Zac Clarke (IL) = Western Michigan (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - DT Emmett Laws (MD) - Virginia Tech (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - DT Francis Brewu (OH) = Pittsburgh (5.2) 2 ⭐️ - DT Germaine Carter (FL) = FIU NR - DT Elijah Davis (OH) = AKRON (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - DE Joshua Lloyd (FL) = Western Michigan ️ (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - DE Dominic Nichols (MD) = Michigan (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - DE Devon Baxter (MD) = Michigan (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - DE Demetrius John (OH) = Illinois (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - DE Elijah King (OH) = Rutgers (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - DE Wyatt Gilmore (MN) = Oklahoma (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - DE Quincy Ivory (CA) = Florida (JUCO) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - OLB Jaihien Roy (MD) = Kent State (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - ILB Jayden Brown (NJ) = Syracuse (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - CB Jalen Todd (MI) = Kansas (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - CB Tyrell Marshall (FL) = Memphis NR - CB Jah Jah Boyd (PA) = James Madison (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S Keke Adams (CT) = Virginia (5.2) 2 ⭐️ - S Jermaine Agee (OH) = Army (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S Lawrence Johnson (FL) = FAU (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S Ty Hudkins (MI) = Northwestern (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - S Cornell Allen (VA) = Charlotte (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - ATH Dejuan Lane (MD) = Penn State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Evan Austin (MD) = Charlotte (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Jo’Ziah Edmond (IN) = Purdue (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Donte Ferrell (OH) = Colorado State NR - WR Kenyon Massey (NJ) = UMASS NR - S John Keough (OH) = Buffalo NR - CB Adrian Laing (NJ) = Temple (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Jeremy Bell (GA) = Indiana NR - OT Keon Rohe (Germany) = FAU (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - OT Austin Liebfried (WI) = Indiana (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - S Christian Peterson (GA) = UCF (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - S Jakob Gude (GA) = UCF (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Justin Denson (RI) = Michigan State NR - DE Memphis Huff (GA) = Alabama A&M NR - IOL Alexander Gale (FL) = AKRON NR - WR Kaden Hurst (IN) = Ohio NR - CB Daniel Vargas (NJ) = Sacred Heart (5.9) 4 ⭐️ - WR Bredell Richardson (FL) = UCF (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - WR Mekhai White (VA) = Maryland (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - OT Rico Steele (PA) = Bowling Green (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Dane Wleklinski (OH) = Virginia (6.1) 5 ⭐️ - DE Dylan Stewart (DC) = South Carolina (5.3) 2 ⭐️ - DE Michael Lunsford (WV) = Marshall NR - CB Brandon Banks (PA) = Yale (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - CB Quinton Price (OH) = Cincinnati NR - CB Jaquari Brown (GA) = Georgia Southern (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S Tysen Campbell (OH) = Central Michigan (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Nakai Amachree (MI) = Bowling Green (5.3) 2 ⭐️ - S Malik Kamara (OH) - Navy (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - ILB Jasen Kelly (OH) = Ohio NR - RB Cade Wolford (OH) = Kent State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - QB Alex Erby (PA) = Navy (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - QB JC Evans (FL) = Jacksonville State (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - WR TJ Smith (GA) = Navy (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - IOL Melvin Puckett (FL) = Bethune-Cookman (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Chenellson Exume (FL) = South Florida (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Trevor Szymanski (MD) = Maryland NR - DT Maraad Watson (NJ) = Kent State (5.9) 4 ⭐️ - DE Brian Robinson (OH) = Kentucky (5.2) 2 ⭐️ - LB Wesley Brown (GA) = Navy (NR) - CB Mason Edwards (KS) = Utah State (JUCO) (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - DT Jerome Simmons (KS) = South Carolina (JUCO) NR - S Cary Grant (MS) = Charlotte (JUCO) NR - CB Justin Anderson (CA) = AKRON (JUCO) NR - S Michael Ray (TX) - UTEP (JUCO) NR - RB Kahseim Phillips (PA) = Towson (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - RB Khyair Spain (GA) = Memphis (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - TE Levi Smiley (OH) = South Florida (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - TE Lane Wadle (IN) = Georgia State (5.2) 2 ⭐️ - TE Jaxxon Warren (TX) = Ball State (JUCO) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - TE Dante Daniels (KS) = NC State (JUCO) (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Karsten Upchurch (MS) = Mississippi State (JUCO) (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - OT Rod Green (KS) = Purdue (JUCO) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - OT Daylon Metoyer (CA) = Boise State (JUCO) (5.8) 4 ⭐️ - DT Jaden Hamlin (MS) = UL Monroe (JUCO) (5.2) 2 ⭐️ - DT Trevell Vivians (MS) = Louisiana Tech (JUCO) (5.7) 3 ⭐️ - S Amare Sanders (FL) = Nebraska NR - S Taylen Eady (VA) = North Dakota State (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - S JT Haskins (KY) = Ohio (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - WR Jayquan Reid (FL) = Western Michigan NR - S Keon Collier (IL) = Western Illinois NR - RB Jaquon Reynolds (PA) = West Liberty (DII) (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - RB Sam Cooper (PA) = Stony Brook (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - IOL Que McBroom (MO/KS) = ULM (JUCO) NR - OT Evan McClure (OK) = Oklahoma NR - OT Julian Sutton (CT) = Dartmouth NR - OT Jared Morrow (MS) = UAM (JUCO) (5.5) 3 ⭐️ - DT Mikeshun Beeler (IL) = Michigan State NR - DT Brekien Harold (FL) = FAMU (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - DE Kareem Jennings (OH) = Findlay (DII) NR - DE Kameron Custis (MD) = Frostberg State NR - DE Dylan Reiman (FL) = Miami (FL) NR - LB Caleb Turner-Allen (FL) = Western Carolina NR - CB Zyon Pressley (FL) = Ferris State (DII) NR - CB TJ Jones (TX) = JUCO NR - CB Markie Grant (TX) = Wyoming NR - CB Zakaa Brown (NJ) = Towson NR - CB Antonio Morgan (FL) = Rhode Island NR - S Ricky McCrary (GA) = Emory & Henry (DII) (5.6) 3 ⭐️ - ATH Terek McCant (FL) = Bethune-Cookman NR - ATH Andre Crews (CT) = Grambling State NR - ATH Darren “Daco” Coleman (GA) = Furman (5.4) 2 ⭐️ - Tyrell Reed (KS) = Arkansas (JUCO)

Still working on this list, but bump for update.

I’ll add him. I slowed my roll on the updates with the portal picking up steam. I realized there will be a ton of connections this year, plus some players checking us out due to SJL’s success. Awesome to have a player up for best WR even when the team only has one win. Shows the kids will get recognized here regardless of the record.

Tibesar would have coached this guy, and multiple members of the staff are already following him on twitter..

I'd settle for Larry Sanders if he'd average more than this team's 2.4 yards per carry.

I'm real happy for our buddies over at Over The Pylon (Ball State board). That was a beautiful way for Kent's home win streak to end. It was a little bittersweet, though, because UA really should have beat them last week. If we had a little better QB, we would have. Akron is a couple of touchdowns away from being 3-2 in MAC play, and Kent is a couple of touchdowns from being 1-8 and 0-5 in MAC play. What a fun/terrible league this is.

I thought this was a really good episode, especially when talking about recruiting towards the end. Joe Dunn has done a nice job this year of asking questions about who is on scholarship, eligibility remaining for players, and getting Moorhead to speak about how the freshmen are developing. - Robarge and Georges have been put on scholarship. - The most competition when recruiting the high school level is for OL and DL. Even more so in the portal. - The staff is recruiting hard for players in a two hours radius, but Akron won’t be a fallback option. “We want everybody who is local, but we want the guys who can play. - “Start taking guys who can’t play at this level and you have a roster full of guys who can’t win.”

I watched the end of the Kent - Ball St game. On a 4th down play Schlee scrambled out of the pocket and would have picked up the first down by a good yard or so had just kept running or dived forward. Instead he slid giving himself up about 1/2 yard short of the first down marker therefore handed the ball back to Ball State to run out the clock. One of the worst displays of situation awareness I've seen in a football game.

I think most teams are following along the same ratio Moorhead is using. Don’t want too many developmental players and ideally the portal/JUCO guys will contribute immediately and have a few years of eligibility left. The 1 year guys should at the very least reliably fill a hole. Regardless of how it’s done, a good class usually has 2/3 of the players panning out. 1/3 typically fall by the wayside. Looking at our 2022 class, we landed some high end players out of the portal at receiver, but failed to land the same caliber elsewhere. All the freshmen outside of Landers are developmental and most players from the portal have at least contributed. The DL has improved over last year, but the pass rush is still close to nonexistent. Forget sacks, the DL itself has only 8 quarterback hurries and 16 total as a defense. That puts a lot of pressure on a secondary that has its own issues. Robinson is a project. Harper, Holt, Thomas, and Jones have all been solid, but we need more. LT has been a revolving door, although it looks like Landers (freshman) now has it locked down when healthy. LG has been meh, when we thought Banes would excel. Whigan has been solid at RG. Assuming the freshmen live up to their potential, we should be better along the OL next year. Maybe we land another player or two of Whigan’s caliber from the portal. Terry solidified the LB spot by Bubba, but again nothing spectacular. McCoy (freshman) looks like a star in the making and Fish certainly has all the athletic ability needed to be successful. Safety took a few games to get it together but Thompson and Martin have come on strong and Woods has contributed when he’s had an opportunity. Cornerback play combined with a poor pass rush has killed us. Golden-Nelson seemed like a solid pickup but he’s missed so much time. We really needed Threatt to produce, but that hasn’t happened. This position turned out to be the biggest whiff due to the returning players not playing up to par and the transfers not living up to their potential (or healthy). Solid CB play with a sliver of pass rush would have probably flipped a few games in our favor this year. We haven’t needed Undercuffler in a competitive game, so I’m not sure how he’d be classified (outside of being good for an FU). Banks has started every game at TE, while Clark has some developing to do. We had so many holes to fill before Moorhead took over and still have a few that need filling. On the bright side, it seems the staff is determined to rectify that.