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I wouldn't be surprised if some of that has to do with enrollment going down. I believe we just graduated our largest senior class ever. It's going to take 4-5 years to cycle last years really small freshman class through the system. Our incoming freshman numbers are trending upwards again, but they still aren't at the levels they were 3-4 years ago.

I feel a lot of it just comes down to how much he wants to coach. Akron couldn't afford to pay him the salary he is use to, but at the same time I can't see any team that can afford it willing to pay him it given his age. Despite me being a Bowden critic for the past 9-10 months, I was happy when we hired him. I would be even that much more happy if we landed Miles. I've never purchased season tickets for football, but I'd buy them within 10 minutes of the hire.

A lot more $$$ than the "added value" they bring.

Getting someone of note to play a free admission concert would cost the university a good chunk of change. Its why you don't see them bring in huge headliners for springfest. You're probably right given how popular lock 3 gets for those free concerts, they probably would be better off bringing in a quality cover band.

That sounds like the Zips schedule.

As a ZN.o community I don't feel we rip into any particular players too harshly.I'm sure if you look hard enough you might find a few posts where someone was too harsh, but the exception.

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Thanks for the updates!

That's an extremely low bar to beat.

Balsy, I'm not labeling Kato a bust because he is #4 on the depth chart. The jury is still out on that. I'm just calling BS on you for trying to use it as justification that we are stacked at the position when in reality its a huge question mark depending on how well Woodson recovers from surgery.

You are what your record says you are. We were a 5-7 team, not a 7-5 team. Injuries are a part of the game and everyone gets hurt by them. Some more than others, but you have to plan accordingly. What killed us wasn't necessarily the fact we had injuries. What killed us was we had absolutely no depth. We were pretty much 1 deep at every position (some we weren't even that). We need to be recruiting more high caliber players if we ever want to progress to being something more than a middle of the road MAC team.

I kind of hope they decide to keep it in Canton moving forward. It's a nice build up to HoF week.

I'd be stunned if Dayton agreed to a H&H. Their program has moved up the totem pole quite considerably the last 4-5 years.

Miami recently did this for Cooper in basketball. As coaching salaries rise, I think this will be a more common occurrence at the G5 level. I fully agree Bowden deserves to be fired if Zips go 5-7. Akron's financial problems are however heavily documented and the ABJ would have a field day writing about how the University is using student subsidies to pay a guy $500k to not coach.

We don't need a bigger name. We need someone that can build us a winning tradition. Fleck was a nobody before he went to WMU. Not to say we'll find the next Fleck, but there are Campbell's and others out there that can build consistent MAC contenders.

I agree. My comment was more towards what he has to do this year and next. He needs to make the MACC IMO one of the next 2 years to justify us giving him an extension.

Isn't this the year Akron buys tickets to meet numbers or was that last year?

A MAC Championship title appearance.

He should have plenty of opportunities to rack up gaudy tackle numbers since I expect our defense to be on the field a lot and he's one of the few players on our defense that has proven he can play at the D1 level.

Your best ability is your availability. It doesn't matter to me if his arms are longer or the same size as last year. What I care about is if he can stay healthy for a full season.

We already knew we were playing CSU at the JAR. We're also playing Marshall and 2-3 Diamond Head Classic games. I've heard absolutely nothing on any of the other 8 or so OOC games. If someone with inside knowledge could weigh in on the other opponents that have been finalized, that would be great.

Not concerned one bit. They still return the bulk of their defense (a couple of which were All-MAC players), 2 All-MAC o-linemen, and an All-MAC RB.

Kwan has a lot of potential to make noise in whatever league he ends up being in. He's a big that can rebound, play D, and can hit the long ball. I know he's capable of reaching higher limits than what we've witnessed at Akron.

Why, because we had a run of incompetent coaches? We have the nicest facilities in the MAC. We play in a talent rich area. We play in arguably the worst division in all of FBS. We have the 2nd longest tenured coach in our division. Sputtering around 5-7/6/6 isn't good enough for me. We should be perennial contenders in the MAC East.

Bowden has been here long enough and the MAC East is one of the worst divisions in all of FBS. Anything short of 8 wins IMO should be viewed as failure. That being said there is no way in hell we're getting to 8 wins. How I see the season playing out is Akron goes 4-8 or 5-7. Bowden enters next season as a lame duck coach because the university is too poor to both pay him and another coach.