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I went and found an article. It looks like the real number was 26 out of the 105 players on the roster. Some were walk-ons. https://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/wku/portal-to-success-wkus-approach-to-building-team-pays-off/article_1d7fc788-8bf8-500a-91a4-6158d570b117.html Edit: Also, not all buy games are the same. If you're good enough to win the MAC, you have a decent chance of upsetting a team like Maryland. I actually like games against programs like Maryland, Nebraska, Illinois, etc. as you have nothing to lose by playing, but if you upset them you have tons to gain. It's when you start playing OSU, Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame that you kind of are just penciling in losses.

WKU I heard had something in the neighborhood of 32 transfers this past offseason. Last year they had the 8th worst offense in all of FBS using ypg as the metric. This season after the influx of talent they got from the transfer portal they finished the regular season as the #2 offense in the country by ypg.

This team doesn't have a LCJ that you can count on to put up 20+ points on a nightly basis. This team needs to be an offense by committee where everyone chips in and you ride the hot hand on a night to night basis. We really can't afford to have non-factors on the offensive end playing. During the LCJ, Xeyrius, Cheese, Banks days we could get away with that as we had enough offensive firepower elsewhere that playing Riak for his defense even though he was an offensive liability worked. We don't have that luxury now.

Honestly, I don't think Walton was a good fit for this team. We just don't have the perimeter shooters on this roster to be able to get zero floor spacing from a guard. Having KJ and Tribble on the floor at the same time is like playing offense 4 vs 5 as teams know don't have to guard either on the perimeter. It makes it easy for them to double team Freeman in the low post to force him to pass out of a post up and prevent driving lanes to the hoop.

Biggest bail out was probably Marshall putting up a shot with 5-6 seconds on the clock with the game tied and the shot clock turned off. Even if Freeman wouldn't have been fouled there 3.5-4 seconds would have given the Zips tons of time left to get a decent shot off. Just very poor clock management by Marshall.

1 of their players is fouled out and 4 have 4 fouls. That should do well for us if we force OT

We should just take it to the hoop here then foul. They're still in the 1 and 1 so we might be able to get them to miss the front end.

Transition defense even after makes has been bad. Marshall has kept us sleeping too much by pushing it on makes when we're too relaxed. It's led to quite a few uncontested pull up 3's and some layups.

Trimble 5-7 from beyond the arc. The rest of the Zips a combined 0-6. Will be interesting to see if Marshall starts daring non-Trimble Akron players to make 3's in the second half.

You just had to jinx them didn't you?

I doubt anyone who starts at Oregon would follow Moorhead to Akron. If we get anyone it will likely be players who are buried on the depth chart who Moorhead promises playing time too. Those players would still be a big upgrade over what we have on the roster currently.

You must not have watched the Browns vs Ravens game this past Sunday night when he was returning kickoffs to the 15 yard line...

I graduated Akron in 2012 and have attended maybe only a handful of football games since graduating. I'll be on the phone Monday inquiring about season tickets if this deal goes through this weekend. I'd say it would be Akron's first real commitment towards trying to win since Infocision was built.

Furthermore, when you're in a hospital bed facing a near death experience you probably realize being around friends and family is more important than money. Particularly when you already will be making a comfortable living either way.

I read Frye made 125k at CMU as OC and that NFL QB coaches on average make around 200k. If Moorhead wants him on the staff I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.

I'd like to see Irons stay. He's the kind of dual threat QB that would fit an Oregon style offense. I feel Akron had some talent at the skilled positions that would be nice to keep. Overall, I would expect to keep anyone who wants to be here. Naturally many guys will want to transfer and it's impossible to replace 85 guys in 1 season. I doubt anyone noteworthy from the staff gets retained. Moorhead will want his own coaches that fit his offensive and defensive scheme. It would be nice if he could bring some grad transfers that are buried on Oregon's depth chart. Ideally someone on the offensive line or anywhere on the defense.

If the cost for an unproven guy like Arth is 600k then paying something like 800k for a proven commodity like Moorhead seems reasonable.

Pass on Ferentz. Iowa more so wins games with their defense and not their offense.

Moorhead is currently making $1,150,000 as Oregon OC. That would be about double what Arth was making. I'm not opposed to him as getting a former P5 head coach who has connections to high school coaches in western PA and Ohio from his time in the area would be a plus. Just seems too good to be true given the state of the program and our limited resources.

Arth was making something in the neighborhood of 600k. A lot of coaches are egotistical and are looking for an opportunity. 600k is a hell of a pay upgrade for a non AAC G5 OC or DC.

I feel the Zips players will need to make 3s to open up lanes for Walton to drive. Teams are just going to pack the paint until we show them that they need to guard the perimeter.

In his defense we shot bad, but it wasn't as bad as yesterday

I don't think I've watched a group of guys struggle this hard to score since I went with my friends to a bar back in college

We actually ended up making a 3? I must have turned the game off before that

Fordham is a terrible team, but they're still the much better team. I'm not sure if Trimble and Walton can coexist in the backcourt if Trimble keeps shooting it this terrible. Every team is going to guard Akron this way moving forward.