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Nearly 2/3 of all FBS teams go to bowls. Making a bowl game isn't really an accomplishment anymore. They hand bowl bids out like participation trophies.

I hope Groce takes note and runs a press against Kent when we face them later in the season...18 turnovers

I thought I saw somewhere that @Hilltopper posted that Moorhead will be both the HC and OC freeing up some extra money to hire better assistants elsewhere. When he speaks I listen as he's proven to know what he talks about.

I'm guessing neither are anywhere near the top of that list now given the volume of 3s shot now.

Fordham and App State are better than you think they are. Both would be solidly middle of the MAC this season. Fordham has a NET ranking of 167, which is better than Akron's. App State is #203, which is only 29 spots below Akron. Both those teams would beat Radford by double figures as well.

Radford NET Ranking is 281 and Kenpom is 262. We're not missing anything besides practice from this game not being played. Their wins were against William & Mary (#351 NET) and Eastern Kentucky (#234 NET).

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The extra year of covid definitely impacted those numbers. Schools that may have had 20 scholarships available in a normal year now have 14-15 as they now have a handful of 6th year seniors. I'd expect that Ohio number to climb into the 80s by the time schools fill out what's left of their roster. You have to remember a lot of recruits reopened their recruiting process once the coaches that they committed to were fired.

I'll try to update this periodically throughout the year. As we get more data points, these rankings should start looking more realistic. Buffalo - 83 Ohio - 85 Toledo - 101 Miami (OH) - 132 Kent St. - 145 Akron - 174 Eastern Mich. - 210 Bowling Green - 215 Ball St. - 243 Northern Ill. - 299 Western Mich. - 322 Central Mich. - 346 We've climbed 44 spots since the original rankings 10 days ago. I do agree the Florida tournament really tanked our numbers. Not necessarily by losing to Fordham and App State as both based off NET are middle of the road MAC teams, but because of how much we lost to them by. Fordham - 168 App State - 198 Edit: I already feel these rankings are more reflective than the prior ones I shared. I feel UB and Ohio have looked the best thus far with Toledo just a little behind them. After those three teams Miami/Kent/Akron have looked to be about on par with one another. Bowling Green and EMU have looked mediocre. The rest of the MAC has been garbage.

Yes, we're 3-0 all-time against them. The last time we played them was 2016. I vaguely remember them. Not the game itself, but them being on our schedule.

To be fair LCJ, Cheese, and Banks was a hell of a backcourt trio.

They also came in 2-6. They aren't as good as people thought they would be coming into the season.

I'd have no interest in Akron have a 10k+ arena. Crowds look small enough in the the 5500 arena we have now.

Right or wrong it's what it was always going to turn into. A car dealership in Columbus was never going to give money to a kid going to Toledo.

I don't know the specifics. I heard something about them giving him some sort of webcast reality show.

Not sure of the accuracy, but I heard he got $1 mil from Barstool Sports and another $1 million from Jerry Jones to go to Jackson State. We don't have that kind of booster money.

It's surprising this will only be our second true road game of the year. IMO we should have scheduled more road games this OOC to better prepare ourselves for trying to win in hostile environment come conference play.

It seems a bit odd that the whole staff is pretty much in place excluding the 2 most important positions. I have to think Moorhead has people lined up and who they are just hasn't leaked yet.

Oregon was his only previous offer from the sounds of his tweet. Also, with a new staff coming in I doubt the new coach would honor that offer.

With the SEC talking about going to 9 conference games once Oklahoma/Texas join and the B1G/PAC-12 talking about scheduling 12 games annually against one another as early as 2023, that might lead to some shake up in the future schedules. The SEC/PAC-12/B1G will need to cancel (buy out) games to open up their schedule availability.

His bonuses don't seem that much different than what I recall Arth getting.

This article is behind a paywall, but looks like Moorhead was signed to a 5 year, 2.5 million contract. That includes 425k base, 50k for media work, and 25k for shoe and apparel. https://www.crainscleveland.com/sports-business/akrons-joe-moorhead-gets-five-year-25-million-contract EDIT: I see this was shared elsewhere

If women's soccer had really any sort of real alumni involvement one would think it wouldn't be hard to crowdfund most, if not all, of that ~80k it would cost to buy out. Women's basketball or volleyball are probably the 2 most popular women's sports and look at how much we cheaped out on the basketball hire.

I was excited when Bowden came (not the case with Arth). That said, I think what separates them is Moorhead could have had his pick of a number of G5 jobs and even had his name linked to a few P5 programs. Bowden didn't have any FBS offers outside of Akron. Whether its coaches or players, it's a good sign you when land people that other programs covet.

I don't mind the Roo. I like the Z better, but can see why others would like it. The script Akron is just hideous