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Don’t want you to feel like your post is being ignored. Unfortunately, I don’t have much to provide outside of the clips from social media and what I saw in the spring game.

It was just a link of some of the football players showing off their dance moves. Looks like the link was deleted and reposted later in the day.

What a massive hole the OL created here. Wonder who won? RB Anderson or S Martin who is about to fill.

Yes, exactly my point. Just fyi, 2019-2021 was under a different coaching staff. Less than 30 players remain on the roster from that regime. Anyway, I’ll stop at this point. Everyone is welcome to their opinion. We are obviously at different ends of the spectrum here.

I guess “realistic” is in the eye of the beholder. Below are other MAC teams that have made similar leaps in the win column that I’m expecting for this season. There is no hype for this program outside of myself, some others on the board, and two media outlets that actually follow MAC football to some degree. Even Joe Moorhead has been very coy this offseason. He clearly knows he has something cooking. Every other outlet and fanbase seems to think Akron will be a bottom dweller again, yet not a single one of them have actually paid much attention to what this staff has done on the recruiting trail since they’ve been here. Also guessing they didn’t watch many of the games last year… CMU: 2018 - 1 2019 - 8 EMU: 2015 - 1 2016 - 7 Kent: 2018 - 2 2019 - 7 Miami: 2009 - 1 2010 - 10 NIU: 2020 - 0 2021 - 9 Ohio: 2021 - 3 2022 - 10 WMU: 2013 - 1 2014 - 8 If the casual fan could get past the name on the jersey, they might see “realistic expectations” may not be so realistic. As for the diatribes of Ohio, I haven’t lived here long enough to have an informed opinion.

Sleeve of Texas A&M’s NIL fund shut down. Sounds like they’ll be playing by the rules now. Just to add a little context, most P5 schools have some type of NIL resource department. They are only allowed to educate and let athletes know about the opportunities that are out there. They cannot directly facilitate a deal. The resource department can educate the collectives, but what the collectives do from there is on them.

Count me impressed! Also looks like Rivals needs to remove Idaho and add Jacksonville State and Sam Houston.

John Young. OL transfer from Kentucky.

That’s an interesting idea about NFL on Fridays and Saturdays. It wouldn’t go that well in the SEC foot print (especially on Saturdays) but maybe elsewhere.

Good question. For some reason Rivals has always just listed the top 100 teams.

I don’t believe we are counting on any freshmen to start this year. The #1 ranking included HS/JUCO/ and portal. Last year, we had two portal players become All-MAC and another two are preseason All-MAC this year. It’s happening….

The 2023 Composite Ratings have been posted and linked here. FYI, Akron is #1 in the MAC. Doesn’t fit a narrative of poor recruiting…

Right. Kent is listed as 1st in the transfer rankings, as you mentioned. That one goes by total points, similar to the HS/JUCO rankings. Can’t argue their portal class was much better than their HS/JUCO class. Better than Akron’s? Doubtful, but we’ll see.

The comprehensive rankings take the highest ranked 25 players (plus any bonus points for top 250, which no MAC has) and formulates the rankings. One stat that stands out is Akron has more 3 stars (9), between the HS/JUCO class and portal class, than any other MAC school.

That’s for the 2024 class, which is still in progress.

Here’s Rivals new feature of comprehensive team rankings for the 2023 class. And MAC rankings. I’ll go ahead and spoil it. Akron is #1 in the MAC and #89 Nationally.

That’s actually the opposite of what’s happening. Make sure to check the 2023 MAC recruiting thread when the Rivals composite ratings are released.

It’s a new feature that hasn’t been released yet. Coming soon..

Wait until you guys (and gals) see Rivals Comprehensive Team Rankings for the 2023 class. 🤫

Respectfully disagree there. It’s easier than it’s ever been to turn around a program with the transfer portal. Only about 30 players remain from the Arth era.

Obviously not a ton can be gleaned by these clips, but a few things stood out. - Freshman Connor Cravaack looks to have great size in that short clip. Nice job looking the ball in and securing the catch. - Impressive feet by George. I’m confident he’s going to have a big season. - Bullock has a more compact throwing motion than Irons. - #27 freshman Catrell White is fluid and seems to have some explosiveness to him. I initially thought he was one of the transfers. - JUCOs (#90) LaJoshua Jackson and (#91) CJ Nunnally move well for guys their size and should provide DL position/tech flexibility like we thought. - Myles Walker seems to be carrying right on from his spring game performance. Gotta think he’ll be in the rotation if he’s moving like that. - #82 freshman Jean Louis with a tough catch against safety Jaden Woods. Louis is not built like a typical freshman. Can’t wait to see more.

Definitely all very fascinating. PAC probably shouldn’t be considered a P5 conference for football with the remaining teams plus any G5 additions. It was likely only a matter of time before they added SDSU and UNLV though. From my limited knowledge, I’m not sure if SEC has much interest in any ACC team. They are only going to add another school that increases the payout to each current member school. The same source that gave a heads up about Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC (before it was reported nationally) also said SEC had conversations with two of the elite BIG10 schools but nothing came from it. Wouldn’t that throw another curveball in this whole mess if the likes of Michigan or Ohio State eventually bounced over to the SEC? I was very opinionated on this before, but no longer. Now just sitting back and watching the madness unfold.

Nice job as always @LZIp! I’m sure you’re right about Owens. For some reason Castle is still listed as OL, Camari Harris now shows as a redshirt freshman, and DT Kyle Thomas as 230lbs. Definitely some fat fingering by someone. Assuming the rest is correct, nice to see all the incoming JUCOs with multiple years of eligibility. Too bad about Rabah. Even though he didn’t do much in the spring game, I hoped he would have a strong offseason and provide some pass rush this year. Seems we confirmed before that AJ George is on scholarship? The ones I’m still confused about are Kilbane, Georges, Robarge, Yarmo, and Behm. I’m assuming Durant and Hester carried their scholarships over and were not only for a semester.