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You mean the same year we lost to BGSU by a score of 59-10? IMO we've never looked like we were one of the best teams in the MAC. We've literally only beaten 1 MAC team with a winning record in Bowden's 5 seasons here. EMU has much worst facilities than we do, they have a smaller fan base, and just as bad of a history. We're well on our way to missing 5 postseasons in 6 years. This isn't a Dambrot situation where the team has been successful but people are wanting more. The Zips have solidly been in the bottom half of the MAC under Bowden. A coaching change is a no brainer

Chris Creighton was a no name coach who took over an historically equally as bad EMU program and has them playing pretty good football right now while competing in a much tougher division. Despite being hired 2 years after Bowden, EMU looks much closer to being real contenders in the MAC. You can't let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game. Somewhere out there is a guy who can turn the Akron program into a winner. Its Larry Williams job to find him.

Reverse racism is a definite problem.

My expectations are set by what our peers like WMU, CMU, Toledo, and NIU have been able to achieve. I get it we'll likely never go 13-1, but considering we have the nicest facilities in the MAC and play in a recruiting hot bed, there is no reason we can't consistently win 7-10 games. There are few fan bases that would defend a coach that only had 1 winning season in 5 years. Perhaps that type of apathy and being content playing borderline .500 football is why Akron hasn't progressed to being more successful.

Alternative facts? I stated a real fact. Alternative facts is what you're stating. Akron's best season by record is the 7-4 Lee Owens team. That's besides the point as Akron has had a long history of terrible football. Its why nobody gives a damn about Zips football besides a small niche of fans. We've had 1 winning and 1 bowl appearance in Bowden's 5 years here. That number is about to be 1/6 as I have 0 faith in this team winning 6 games. If you're content with 5-7 football good for you, I'm not.

Bowden I believe is the 2nd longest tenured coach in the MAC. Not once in his tenure has the Zips even looked like a semi contender in the MAC. His best season was a tied for 6th place MAC finish. I'm a realist and by all measures his tenure has sucked. Maybe he was away from the game too long and no longer knows how to recruit. Whatever the reason is he has failed the meet the expectations I had when we signed him.

Even a guy like Lane Kiffin who took a pay cut to coach at FAU is still making $1 million per year. What is Bowden making $450k-$500k? We would significantly need to raise that plus would likely need to raise what we are paying the supporting staff to attract a guy of that caliber.

The problem with a major school coordinator is that those coaches are making near or even over 7 figures. Akron would pretty much need to double what they pay Bowden to get any of them.

Unless there is a large backer that I'm unaware whose going to fully fund some scholarships, these teams are going to be terrible.

People are finally coming around to seeing Bowden isn't the answer. Some are still resisting. Can we please not put any more salt on the wound. Everyone, including the Zips biggest die hards, know our attendance blows. Personally, I'm glad only ~11k people saw that butt kicking we took.

Funny because true The first step in correcting a problem is admitting you have one.

Did you see our showing against Iowa State? Despite NIU beating Nebraska, I'm still confident they'd smoke us.

I was stating it back a month or 2 ago when everyone was penciling this in as a win in the season prediction that Troy was a very good team last year and they had a lot of good returning players. Being this big of underdogs is a bit jaw dropping, but deserved considering our showing this past Saturday.

I had this team starting 1-3 and I'm feeling very confident in that prediction. We lost a lot of talent from what wasn't a great team to start with. I've unfairly been labeled a pessimist by this board for sharing my candid opinion on Bowden and the state of our football program. I lost all faith in Bowden after our back-to-back-to-back losses to Buffalo, Toledo, and Bowling Green last season. Losing to Toledo wasn't bad, losing to them by 31 at home was. Who do you bring in to replace Bowden? That's not our problem, it's Larry Williams and his staff concern. Larry Williams made a slam dunk hire in Groce. I trust his judgement in bringing in someone whose better than Bowden.

@Zipgrad01 you're not wrong in your assessment of this team through 3 weeks of football. Hopefully they find some way of turning it around or else this is going to turn into a really long season.

My concern necessarily isn't Woodson neither. My concern is whether the Zips o-line can protect Woodson well enough and if Zips receivers can create enough separation so that Woodson doesn't have to force every pass into tight coverage.

I just don't think Akron's defense is going to be good enough to get stops.Offensively we don't have the perimeter weapons that we did last season. Woodson will have to be nearly perfect squeezing precision passes in tight windows for the Zips to have any chance. I expect Akron to get down early and forced to abandon the run.

I'll get around to buying my bleacher season tickets, I just haven't yet. ~15 games for $60 is a tremendous value. Even if you can only make it to a handful of games, it pays itself off.

It just surprises me ESPN cares enough about their WatchESPN time slots (if you want to even call it that) to dictate start times for non televised games.

Other MAC schools have shown the ability to consistently compete and on occasion even beat good to great P5 teams. We haven't and from what I've seen I don't think we have the talent on this roster to be competing with those teams anytime soon. This isn't to say we can't compete in the future. I just don't feel this staff for whatever reason can recruit the players we need to get us to the next level.

We're going to lose to them by a large margin. That was my point...

This will be the 1st game where we can make any real judgement on the Zips this season. I'm expecting to lose by 10+ points as we lost a lot of talent from what proved to not be that great of a team last year. I would love for the Zips to prove me wrong and pull off the upset.

We're going to get annihilated by Nebraska next year. They aren't anywhere close to being in the same category as a Purdue or Rutgers.

I honestly know nothing about this team we are facing. These were flat out guesses.

I'm in agreement, I'd rather us get bought to play than see us play an FCS team. There is nothing stating we'd need to schedule to schedule 2 top 15 power houses. We could schedule 2 games against 2 mediocre/bad P5 games (Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern, Rutgers, etc.).