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If you guys need a hate watch it’s Fordham vs Iona on espn+ rn. Iona win helps Akron and fordham has Guthrie as AD lol

Thank you to the zip athletic staff for doing these excellent features on Stu Parry and putting them up on YouTube. For Zips season ticket holders, this will allow them to see what they missed at home games on ESPN Plus.

All of them until proven otherwise. With Devan coming out of nowhere, there's recency bias for me and I'm really intrigued by a 6'9" F with his level of athleticism. 6'4" and 6'5" guards though maintain fantastic size in our backcourt and everything about Ladd sounds like he's a real player. St. Iggy to Akron is an awesome pipeline I'd like to keep going. The St. Iggy kid Kent has can shoot so if RJ has the ability to contribute like that as a freshman, look out. We will still have 2 open spots automatically to bring in transfers. This is truly a dynasty being built.

Netters beat Toledo 3-0 tonight. If they beat Toledo tomorrow they qualify for the playoffs (and potentially knock Toledo out since the Zips will finish with the same record and took both games of the series so will finish ahead of Toledo). The Zips can still qualify with a loss but BGSU must lose to Buffalo. The Zips will win the tiebreaker with BGSU. They split their two games but the Zips have a win over a higher ranked team (WMU) than BGSU does.

I honestly don’t know enough about them yet. But the video above of Devan is quite impressive. Is he really 6-9? He sure is skilled and athletic for a young forward.

Maybe he meant IFL

Canada mens National team.....is very fortunate to have Richie Laryea on their roster. Zips Nation is very proud of Richmond Laryea. https://wakingthered.com/2025/11/14/21600/richie-laryea-energizes-10-man-canada-in-scrappy-draw-with-ecuador/

Dequan Finn?

Miami (OH) QB apparently quit the team to focus on the NFL draft lol.

The game kinda showed me that...Finley maybe wasn't as much the problem as I've thought for awhile. Maybe he's no solution, but I don't know that Moorhead would adjust much for the next QB either. Finley's best offense may actually be a Mumme air raid where...he's just chucking the hell out of it without regard to consequences (Tim Couch's last year at Kentucky for example, he threw for 4611 with the bowl game and the whole team ran for about 1650 when disregarding sacks). Moorhead doesn't strike me as a coach who adjusts his system very well to what his players do best. May not be the best for the team as we have multiple capable backs, but...

I'm not sure about this. I think they were ready to fold early in the game. Akron let them think they could win after the botched punt return and big play after. Is Akron a good team? They gave up six sacks and have given up a lot during the season. Do good teams allow a team like Kent to produce more turnovers? Do good teams allow the Kent's if the world to get six sacks? Do good teams miss less than 40 yard FGs? Did they lose because they didn't go for it on a couple of fourth downs? Not really. They were 2 of 4 on fourth down conversions. The national average is 54 percent. Whenever I go games and the crowd yells for the coach to go for it on fourth down I yell to to coach to kick it and not listen to the crowd because they have been drinking all day. I have a pretty steadfast rule in life.... Never listen to the advice of thousands of drunks. Sporting events are almost always actively lost, not won. Teams lose not because of things they didn't do. Teams lose because of things they DO. So, is Akron a good team? Teams that DO the things they DO aren't good teams. If Akron ends the season 4-8, which it looks like they will, are they a good team? No, the body of actual evidence in 2025 will show that what they did proves them to be a bad team.

After calming down I still want offer a few thoughts on the Kent game so bear with me. Our biggest problem Tuesday night wasn't JoMo, player stupidity, the refs, or the cold. It was Kent State. They came believing they could win. They didn't have the talent, but they had a plan and they stuck to it. The game was exciting. The rivalry is renewed and heightened. The public wants a good game between these two schools and they will show if they believe it is going be a good game. Zip football can recover. It will be slow and it will be a series of addressing issues one at a time. Nemer wants a good team. Goodrich has been told to build up the program. He believes he can, but only over time. He is building up NIL now. It will not be great, but it's a start. Jo will not be fired or bought out. If he leaves no one in administration will talk him out of it. Jo told his team he didn't believe in them when he kicked a FG on 4th and one. They were on the 11 and all they needed was one f**king yard. It was the first series of the game and they had nothing to lose. Why? The Zips weren't prepared. On the first series of each half a TO called to straighten out the team. What a waste! What team uses TO's tat early in the game. That's an indictment on the staff, not the players. Also how can DeWalt be running to the ball on a punt when the receiver ran away from it thus exposing DeWalt to a bounce that goes his way, hits him and gives the recovery to Kent. That's stupidity and poor coaching. High school kids know not to do that. Speaking of coaching, I watched Kamara after giving up an 89 yard TD to Clark. He went to the bench, threw his helmet down and no one talked to him. Not fellow players, not captains , not a coach. He sat alone for several plays until a coach told him to get up and join the DB's. No coaching was given and guess what? He blew it again for another Kent TD. We were the better team, but we lost. Jo coached teams do that every year he has coached. Not once, but two or three times each season he has been here. After four seasons why would we expect it to stop. Jo has yet to show he can correct it. He may feel he hasn't gotten a fair deal here and he would be right. Sill he has compounded the problems and for that he can't blame anyone else but himself.

WOW! That sounds like a lot. Exactly how much are we talking about? Now, about the part where you bet your own money.

Yurachek is out. Wistrcill is replacing him. 😉

Joe Moe didn't miss the field goal, drop the punt, or throw the interception. He also was not in the secondary letting the Kent wide receivers do whatever the wanted to like they never played defense before. He did however, have the offense last night have over 500 yards offense a qb that threw for over 400 yards, a wr that caught for over 200 yards and an rb that had 96 yards rushing... BUT most importantly to me... his team DIDN'T quit down 18 going into the fourth quarter and fought back and tied the game.... somebody motivated that team on both sides of the ball... But let me guess, we aren't going to give him credit for the offensive performance and we aren't going to give him credit for the team NOT giving him and scoring 18 points in the fourth quarter? we will just bash and hate on him and say he has to go cause he sucks.... It was a great game and it didn't go the way we wanted it to... sometimes that happens....

Did they cut away to one of their cheerleaders?

Hell, just protect the rivalry games. There is no reason for Akron-Kent to be played on a Tuesday evening at 7:30 in November. I'm fine with it against literally any other opponent, but this should have been a Saturday noon kickoff. I believe it would have been a decent crowd and generated at least some mild buzz for the program locally. Instead, we will probably get a bit more than last week, which was downright embarrassing.