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It's year 1 and I feel Joe is creating a fun offense that 18-23 year old skill players will want to play in. Irons is #12 in the nation in passing yards. We have 3 receivers in the top 100 in receiving yards (#20 Shocky, #86 George, and #87 Adams). Obviously we're not going to go out and land 4* and 5* freshmen, but I feel very much we can become a preferred destination for skilled players who have talent, but got buried on the depth chart at P5 schools and just want an opportunity to showcase their talent.

I didn't like settling for the fg or punting on 4th & 2 on Kent's side of the field. Despite our defense playing well in the first quarter, it has been garbage all season. You have to be aggressive on offense to score points because you can't count on the defense to get stops.

I actually thought this was some creative marketing that poked fun at students wearing other teams gear on campus, but done in a fun, amusing way.

Toledo and choking in the postseason...name a more iconic duo

Anyone get their season tickets in the mail yet?

I didn't want to create a new thread for this so figured I'd put it here. There is talks going that the NCAA is looking to expand the tournament by 20 or so teams. My first thought is that would be great that the MAC would have a chance to get an at-large. My immediate second thought is I bet the tournament would just take the 12th and 13th place Big 10 team instead. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: The Division 1 Transformation Committee has had dialogue to expand the NCAA Tournament in all sports to include 25% of the programs who are eligible. <br><br>This would mean the Men&#39;s Basketball NCAA Tournament would expand by approximately 20 teams.<br><br>Many have opposed this.</p>&mdash; Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1583128946169638913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's good to see some MAC schools are doing well, but that's not the norm throughout the MAC as a whole. All 3 Michigan schools, Akron, and NIU have all experienced severe enrollment declines to various degrees https://www.mlive.com/business/2022/10/michigans-public-universities-have-lost-45000-students-since-2011-its-about-to-get-worse.html Edit: I didn't realized you posted this last month. I just received the notification today. That's weird

I don't think the Zips have a QB on the roster who can challenge Irons for the job, but I'd love to see some competition get brought in for a QB competition next year. Irons while I think has the tools to he really good seems to hold onto the ball too long, which leads to many costly sacks. I get our o-line isn't good, but he needs to get better at throwing it away or checking down instead of taking costly sacks.

Well if you're saying Joe is a good coach then the answer is time. I don't see any meaningful improvement happening this year, but I expect to be more competitive next year when Joe has a full recruiting cycle to get his guys in here.

Was approaching field goal range for opportunity game winning attempt only to fumble and let CMU return it for a TD Zips going to Zip...

I honestly don't think it would help much. Students can get in for free and they still don't show up

What's going to hurt Schiano is that Rutgers plays in the second best division in all of FBS. Most years UM, OSU, and PSU are going to all be in the top ~15. Maryland has steadily been improving under Locksley and MSU is normally good to great. I almost feel the B10 would need to realign before Rutgers would have much of a chance.

We already have a series lined up with them in the coming years. Edit: Realized I may have misinterpreted your message and you were saying that we scheduled them.

I really hope not. That Kentucky game is scheduled to be at home. I can't recall the last time Akron has had a ranked OOC opponent come to Akron to play a game.

We're to the halfway mark in the season and Gibson has only thrown 2 passes all season. I can't imagine to many ~21 year olds are eager to transfer places just to ride the bench.

My game 6 thoughts is Joe Mo is creating a fun offense that should be one of the best, if not the best in the MAC, in the coming years. I can see how this would be attractive place to play for skilled position players who want an opportunity to showcase their talents. On the defensive side of the ball I suppose the bright side is it can't possibly get any worse...

Basketball season can't get here soon enough...

I honestly don't know what people expected of this season. Anyone that could look at this roster without wearing their Zips colored lens would have seen this roster was devoid of talent. Nobody was going to turn this team around in 1/2 of a recruiting cycle. 2-3 wins was all that was ever going to be achievable with this roster.

I'm glad I decided to watch the Guardians game instead. I agree with @ZippyRulz that we'd just he better off onside kicking with how bad our defense is. Hopefully we have 7-8 new defensive starters come next year

Football isn't bankrolling other sports, especially with the costly buy outs we've been paying recently. The stadium payment alone is like $4.5 million.

OU offense seems pretty good. They just don't have much of a defense. I'd guess OU ends up winning this something like 31-20

If that's true then we're very fortunate Williams is gone

Just to add onto my prior post I actually like that 2 for 1 deal we signed with Kentucky even though they turned out to be pretty good. We talk all the time about how we can't get anyone good to come to the JAR to play us in basketball, but here in football we very well could be hosting a ranked team in 2024. When is the last time Akron has hosted a ranked team? Would it Marshall back in Leftwich days or Miami during the Big Ben days?

The Tennessee game was scheduled 12 months ago when Arth was very much on the hot seat. The Zips needed the game to pay for Arth's buy out and getting Arth out sooner than later was much more important than playing a meaningless game against New Mexico. I'm very much against the scheduling Kent State does even though that has seemed to work for them under Sean Lewis as Kent is likely the favorite to win the MAC this year. I just don't think Akron's schedule was all that bad this year. MSU is sitting at 2-3 and still has games left against OSU, UM, and PSU. They will be lucky to make it to a bowl game this year as that leaves them little to no margin for error. Tennessee just happened to have their best year in some time the year we played them. Liberty we played against their 3rd string QB and very much had a chance to win. College football is very much the bigger fish eating the smaller fish. The problem is we're a bottom 5 roster in FBS so we're always going to be an underdog pretty much regardless of who we face. I expect that to change with Moorehead, but that will take some time. I see people talking about how tough next years schedule and we play Temple, Indiana, Kentucky, and Morgan State. Kentucky is certainly good, but they were pretty mediocre when we scheduled them. The other 3 schools we play are all very beatable.

Tennessee is obviously good this year, but you're way overestimating the program as a whole. The last year they finished a season ranked was 2016. They aren't remotely in the same class as an Ohio State, Clemson, or Alabama. And the last time they had sustainable success to be compared to a Wisconsin would be 1990s-2005 so like nearly 20 years ago.