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A huge part of coaching in college athletics is recruiting. If you want to blame the lack of talent on the team that's on the coaches for not recruiting better players.

We're 2-2 and 0-1 against the MAC. I think we have different definitions of good. Off to another mediocre season, I would agree.

Sure, I agree this loss appears to have changed some peoples opinions. It feels odd being on the side of popular opinion in regards to this issue.

He inherited a 1-11 team 7 years ago. That's a lifetime ago in sports. He's now the 2nd longest tenured coach in the MAC. That shouldn't be used as an excuse any longer for the cycle of mediocrity we find ourselves in. We should be in a position to compete for MAC Championships by now. No getting smoked by Toledo last year on national TV doesn't in my mind count as competing. I have been critical of Bowden on this forum, but I am very appreciative that he brought us out of that cycle of being bottom feeders. I just have no faith he can lead us to being top contenders in the MAC, which is what I aspire the program to be. This program just reeks of stagnation.

That piece seemed to be a lot less negative than prior the annual ABJ story. I find it strange that Akron decided to add 2 additional sports while at the same time discussing the potential of dropping down in others.

It's really challenging to project the number of scholarships available regardless. It's nearly impossible to project whose going to transfer or not at this stage.

The highest paid coaches in the NCAA was posted yesterday and a familiar face can be found at #10. Nice to see Nebraska is getting a fine return out of their investment https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/10/03/nick-saban-urban-meyer-jim-harbaugh-jimbo-fisher-highest-paid-football-coaches-2018

Nebraska ended up scheduling Bethune-Cookman to replace the Akron game. Probably a wise decision on their part so they can avoid a winless season.

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It's hard to fathom how Rutgers isn't better given their history to the game and the fact they're the only FBS school in a state that produces a fairly decent amount of talent.

If the Zips go onto win 9-10 games I can see how his résumé could warrant P5 consideration, but at his age it's going to be hard for him to land a job.

The QB lobbed the ball into the endzone in an area 13 players were standing (8 of them Zips). The ball barely crossed the endzone. If there is another name for such a play it's news to me.

The thing is a blocked punt is almost a guaranteed lost and you know they'd be sending all 11 guys to do just that. Even if the pass doesn't run all the full 7 seconds they would still need to complete a 30 yard hail mary to the endzone. Personally, I think there was a greater chance of them blocking a punt and returning it for a TD compared to them having to both force a <7 second play & complete a 30 yard heave to the endzone. I suppose you may feel the opposite is true.

You can go through my post history. I've probably been one of the more critical Bowden posters on this forum. There were certainly things that I felt were mismanaged up until that last play, but I felt at the time sailing the ball out of bounds was the right call on that particular play. It's easy to second guess it now since it didn't run off the full 7 seconds. Hindsight is 20/20. Either way I'm glad to see the Zips won.

I have to believe he saw the receiver. He may have very well believed air mailing it would eat up the full 7 seconds, meanwhile attempting to complete a pass with less hang time only for the pass to not get caught wouldn't.

Lets run this out.

I'd feel much better had we not tried chasing points in the 3rd. Would rather they need a td to beat us instead of just needing a fg to tie.

Buffalo up 22-14 over Temple heading into the 4th QTR.

We've scheduled some low hanging fruit. We just haven't capitalized. 2008 - Syracuse 3-9 (1-6) 2009 - Indiana 4-8 (1-7) 2010 - Syracuse 8-5 (4-3), Kentucky 6-7 (2-6), Indiana 5-7 (1-7) 2011 - None 2012 - Tennessee 5-7 (1-7) 2013 - Michigan 6-7 (3-5) although they were expected to be good that year 2014 - Penn State 7-6 (2-6) 2015 - None 2016 - None 2017 - Iowa State was expected to be that type of team, but ended up having a decent season 2018 - Nebraska & Northwestern

If you're someone like me who doesn't watch much live television, you can cut your cable and still watch most Zips games (football, basketball, whatever else they stream) for $50/year. That's cheaper than a month of cable. ESPN3 wasn't free. It required you paying for a cable/slim bundle that had the ESPN family of networks. ESPN also recently acquired a lot more tv rights specifically to add content to ESPN+ so you will be getting much more than what was on the old watchespn app.

Without even knowing the formula for NET I'm fairly certain it will be a better measurement of teams than RPI. That's how bad RPI is.

So would it be any win against a P5 or ranked G5?

No, I'm with you. Marshall and Fort Wayne are the only games I'm remotely interested in. There might be a surprise somewhere, but I don't expect any of the other games to be competitive.

I'm sure if Boomers grew up with alternative options like Netflix or slim bundles a lot fewer of them would have cable today. At the end of the day Millenials don't view what ESPN has turned into as must see TV which is what got this discussion started in the 1st place. I use to watch ESPN nightly before bed because it was quality television. I eventually cut my cable because I couldn't justify spending $70 a month for something I barely watched.

Given how often it's brought up in the media I don't know how it's possible for anyone to not know that football can lead to concussions which can lead to permanent brain damage. At this stage I have to believe it's as widely accepted as smoking leads to an increase chance of getting lung cancer. What I don't believe parents are aware of is that putting their kids in soccer instead of football, they're actually increasing their kids chances of getting concussions, not reducing it.