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Southern currently up 24-23 on Kentucky with 4 minutes left in the 1st half. I expect Kentucky to pull away in the second half, but I kind of feel this shows Southern is a scrappy team. I wouldn't be surprised to see them make the tourney by winning their conference.

The most shocking thing about this poll is that someone actually voted for the script logo

It doesn't matter to me where the players come from as long as they can play. Beggars can't be choosers.

Akron going from having 0 assistants with prior FBS experience on the last staff to getting a pretty great one. I wonder how much the university bumped up the assistant pool?

Yes, on the road. Someone was commenting about nobody showing up to the JAR because of who the opponents are. My comment was that these are the same type of opponents we always get to come to the JAR OOC.

All the conferences better than the MAC have challenges setup with one another. I wish the MAC was able to team up with the MVC and do a MAC vs MVC challenge.

The home OOC schedule is always this bad. That's not the reason attendance is down so much compared to previous years. Covid impacted it in two ways. 1) covid got people out of the habit of going to Zips games. It will probably take years to get some back. 2) Old people (the ones who make up a good chunk of Zips fan base) are highest at risk so take covid more seriously therefore don't want to put themselves at risk attending a game when they can just watch it on TV. The mask mandate honestly is a non-factor. You have to wear it all of 3 minutes from the time you enter the door until the time you get to your seat. I can't see that discouraging anyone from attending.

As many of you know NET rankings is the new metric the selection committee uses to evaluate teams instead of RPI. Today the first NET rankings were released. Obviously Akron, or any MAC team for that matter, won't be receiving an at-large bid this year, but it should be useful to see how we measure up against our fellow MAC brethren up to this point. 75. Toledo 86. Ohio 112. Buffalo 118. Miami (OH) 127. Kent St. 202. Ball St. 218. Akron 235. Eastern Michigan 239. Bowling Green 312. Western Michigan 324. Northern Illinois 345. Central Michigan Edit: Add link https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings

When we get closer to that time can you start a thread for question suggestions?

One would think we should expect some staff announcements this week. Not only do we need to recruit high school/transfer portal, but we need to recruit players on the current roster to not transfer. Akron's thin about everywhere so our best recruiting pitch is opportunity to come in and compete for playing time right away.

Offense definitely showed up during Marshall. Southern was kind of over matched so really hard to use that game to judge. I feel Trimble is the closest thing we have to a #1 scorer. I expect the offense to do well when he's hot and not so well when he's not. Ideally a little more consistency will be nice.

No idea how many years, if any, are left on her contract.

Akron shouldn't be buying out contracts for non-revenue sports. Just let her go once her contract is up unless some alumni is willing to flip the bill.

There will never be a compete separation. The P5 need the G5 schools to pad their win totals. Against non-P5 schools Maryland was 3-6, but because they were able to pad their win total against "inferior" competition they can sell their fan base on a bowl appearance. With a closed division Maryland would be at the bottom of the food chain and their fanbase will die off as I'm sure many Akron fans can attest winning 0-4 games a year year over year is no fun.

It looks like Bob Shoop was making 450k in 2020 as safeties coach at UM. Not sure what he is making at Miami, but I don't think Akron will be able to afford that kind of money. That's pretty much in the neighborhood of what we were paying Arth last year to be our coach.

Terry Pluto doing this fluff piece on CSU even though they have 0 wins against division 1 teams with a winning record... https://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/2021/12/something-special-could-be-happening-again-at-cleveland-state-terry-pluto.html

Of course no 5* recruit regardless of position is going to come to the MAC. The point is you can still make it to the NFL from the MAC. NFL teams only care if you can help you win, not where you played. That's why D2 schools like Ashland even have get players drafted. You're just moving the goal posts by disqualifying a player by adding an additional qualifier even though said player is currently on an NFL roster. Being an undrafted FA is still a pathway to the NFL. Cooper Rush was a MAC QB and Cooper Rush made it on an NFL roster therefore the premise that MAC QBs have 0% chance of making it into the NFL is a fallacy.

Wentz had only one scholarship offer to an FBS school coming out of high school. That means pretty much everyone missed him. He went to NDSU because he didn't have many options. It happens, some guys get missed because they played at small schools or because things clicked late for them. Josh Allen went to Wyoming. Derek Carr went to Fresno State. Jimmy Garroppolo went to Eastern Illinois. This shows you not all QBs went to P5 programs. Some fall through the cracks. That is fact. To say you have a 0% chance of making it in the NFL if you go to a MAC school is perhaps the worst take I've heard on this forum. Is it a lower percentage than if you went to OSU or Alabama, definitely. But it's not 0%.

Well that's not remotely accurate. Carson Wentz was just drafted #2 overall a few years ago from an FCS program. If you're good enough, the NFL will find you. That said, no 5* prospect would join a MAC team. Any NFL caliber QB on a MAC squad would be a 3* recruit who was a late bloomer.

I knew of them giving players extra eligibility, but missed them raising the scholarship cap temporary. I kind of tuned out of college athletics during covid so I haven't stayed current on the rule changes. I really only started getting back into it the last few weeks. About when I started posting here again.

I don't think there are Dambrot haters outside of maybe 1-2 trolls. Anything that might have been perceived as Dambrot hate was mostly Akron fans retaliating against posters who masqueraded as Akron fans for a dozen years, but in reality were Dambrot fans who immediately abandoned the program and crapped on the university the second he left.

How is that possible? FBS caps scholarships at 85. Anytime there is a coaching change, especially one that brings in a new scheme, there is going to be some turnover. You see it everywhere and not just at the college level. When a new defensive coordinator switches from a 4-3 base defense to a 3-4 they need plyers with a different skillset to fit needs. Not all 4-3 DE can make the switch to a 3-4 LB. I'd expect 30 new faces on next years roster and an additional 30 new faces the year thereafter. That equates to about a 51% roster turnover

I feel the big difference is Bowden took 20 years off from coaching. That's a pretty significant gap as the game has changed a ton from the 90s compared to now. Not to mention many of the connections you may have had in the recruiting trail would have retired. Also, I don't recall Bowden getting interest from anyone outside of Akron when he was at North Alabama. Consensus I've heard pretty much everywhere is that Moorhead could have held off for something better, but wants to be here.

Year 5 Moorhead poached by Pittsburgh and Akron reverts back to being 2-10

Toledo if I remember right got Willie Jackson from Mizz as he transferred midseason and they had a scholarship to spare. I believe he still had to sit out the remainder of the season, but he was able to help them the next year.