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CSU doesn't have football. Our new basketball arena is called InfoCision Stadium - and it's one of the nicest G5 football stadiums in the country IMO.

Keon transferred in from Maryland & I thought he’d play straightaway, kinda like our OL transfer from Penn State did last year (I’m forgetting his name… Whigan?). Then with Kabbash Richards there was a lot of hype on the board about his verbal & he had a lot of interest from other schools. With how weak our DE pass rushing was last year I thought he’d also get on the field pretty quickly & (hopefully) remedy that.

I actually stayed up to watch thinking he'd at least get a few minutes. Guess not. Really don't understand the downside of letting all of your guys play in a Summer League game. The results are meaningless. I was shocked to see that Preston ended up with 15 points and 10 assists, since honestly he looked pretty terrible for parts of the game I watched.

Here is a depth chart from a source that claims to have spoken to every school’s coaching staff. Not going to say the source’s name because it’s behind a paywall. This source was almost 100% accurate on the depth chart to start the season last year. In any case, take it for what it’s worth as we all know some of this will change. Plus a few additions to the roster were made since this came out. Good offseason chatter though. QB: Irons Undercuffler RB: Lingard (TP) D. Anderson (TP) WR: Adams Walker (surprised this wasn’t Golden) WR: George C. Anderson WR: Gathings P. Wilson (TP) TE: Banks Newell (TP) LT: Chambers (Landers was listed here, but since he’s no longer on the roster…) Frank (TP) LG: Kilbane Stopiak C T. Williams T. Georges RG: K. Davis Robarge RT: N. Williams AJ George (TP) DE: A. Smith (JUCO) L. Jackson (JUCO) DT: K. Thomas K. Murphy DT: T. Jones (TP) D. Robinson DE: R. Johnson CJ Nunnally (JUCO) WLB: McCoy Behm MLB: Fish (was Bubba…) Griffin CB: Hunter (TP) Durant CB: Tallandier (TP) Golden-Nelson NB: D. Lewis T. Thomas (TP) SS: N. Thompson Woods FS: KJ Martin C. Thomas

The disrespect... I don't really agree with this one. Saw this a few days ago and forgot to post it

We haven't done anything on the field yet to deserve a higher ranking. Good bulletin board material though

My hope is that instead of giving their fringe guys each ten minutes they'll rotate games with meaningful minutes. So hopefully X gets some run next game. Fingers crossed

If you thought PFF's prediction was bad, see below. ESPN Computer Predicts College Football's 5 Worst Teams ESPN's computer model, the Football Power Index, has predicted the country's five worst teams as we head into the 2023 regular season. Here they are, in order from worst to least worst: 1. UMass 2. New Mexico State 3. Florida International 4. Akron 5. UL Monroe (No matter how hard we try, we can't escape Bowden Ball) According to ESPN's Football Power Index, these are the five worst teams in the country heading into the 2023 regular season. We are in straight-up Rodney Dangerfield territory here. No respect, I tell ya!

Agreed. Kindred and Kabbash are completely missing. Not only from the 2 deep, but also the 3 deep. Although I think George can play tackle, he’s probably a better fit at guard. George should probably be listed as the backup RG with Robarge moved to backup LG. Kindred should be listed as backup RT. I can’t count the number of times Whigan was asked to pull from the RG spot last year and that isn’t Robarge’s strength. He’s much better equipped at plowing away at DL directly in front of him. Blanchard is also missing and he will be pushing for a spot as well. The DE situation could be so many different combinations and I have to believe Kabbash will be squarely in the mix. A lot of what this outlet said I disagree with such as “Moorhead stepped into a decent situation” referring to all the freshmen Arth played. I can’t see how anyone who has been paying attention would come to that conclusion when less than 30 players remain from Arth’s classes. The one thing this outlet was pretty accurate on was the initial depth chart from last year. Here are the MAC Position Rankings for Zips: QB - 3 RB - 9 WR/TE - 1 OL - 10 DL - 11 LB - 7 DB - 4 ST - 11 Coaching - 10 Some of the above missed the mark so badly I don’t even know what to say. It’s mind blowing that Moorhead had one bad year in the W/L column and he is bumped so far down in nearly every national ranking system. The majority of pundits missed how this team improved throughout the year and that Moorhead inherited one of the worst rosters in all of FBS. It’s also easy to tell which outlets have been paying attention to recruiting and the transfer portal. Watch how the narrative is completely flipped after this year and headed into 2024.

At least they got our updated logo.

The University has done a good job of acquiring buildings for renovation, demolishing existing buildings and building on the lot, and expansion with new buildings. It's been a thoughtful balance. My brother knows a guy in Columbus who was recently hired by tosu to head up a much needed renovation program. With all of their expansion they have allowed their core buildings around the center of the campus to fall into a state of disrepair. It's going to be an expensive fix. It appears as if Akron has better managed their facilities program with better thought out solutions.

Freshman's first official day is Monday.