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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.

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.