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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.

We already play Toledo about every other year, which is pretty frequently, and nobody really in either fan base gets excited about it

How would one even regulate that? These games are scheduled 5-10 years in advance. When we scheduled Kentucky they were probably in the 50-80 range, but now they're currently a top 15 team. I presume they will be ranked next year when we start our series.

You're already seeing the P5 play fewer cupcakes. The P5 conferences have started to expand to 9 conference games instead of the traditional 8. That leaves 3 OOC games instead of the normal 4. Add in pretty much all P5 also play at least one other P5 OOC then that would leave at most only 2 cupcake OOC games. I actually don't think our OOC schedule this year was that bad. Tennessee was obviously very good. MSU wasn't nearly as good as people thought and a good G5, which we aren't, could upset them. Liberty isn't a P5 and we were in a position to win that game, but failed to execute. Take away MSU and replace them with a middle of the road Sun Belt or CUSA and I'd still say we'd still have went 1-3 OOC.

Honestly, that was before my time of being a Zip. My comment was in regards to the talent (or lack there of) Moorehead inherited from Arth

I actually thought Dawson was posed to have a breakout year. I felt he was going to be able to absorb much of the offensive production we lost with Ali transferring as outside of Castaneda he would of perhaps been our best perimeter shooter. I don't think it's back breaking, just unfortunate

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I wouldn't fret too much over game threads or things people say immediately after losses. Generally they're speaking with emotion instead of logic. Most people I've talked to believe Joe will right the ship. He inherited a roster that was bottom 5 FBS in talent. Even with the transfer portal it's going to take some time to build this roster

Funniest thing there is one of the commenters actually thinks BG has a chance of winning the MAC East. It pains me to say this, but Kent is likely the heavy favorites to represent the division. I do think Miami can challenge them though. After those two the division is pretty terrible.

I think LeBron is much older than you realize. He was born in 1984. The Cowboys won 3 Superbowls in the 90s.

I'll be joining you in the bleachers this season. At ~$4/ticket to watch a competitive basketball team it amazes me these don't sell better.

The NCAA doesn't own the media rights. The individual conferences do so you would have to get all the conferences to agree to it.

The problem is there is no one network that owns the right to simulcast all FBS games. The NFL owns RedZone so when they reached a TV deal agreements with Fox/CBS they reserved the right to show live highlights. There is no centralized party to do the same for college football