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I doubt they will, unless they receive some P5 offers and choose to go that route. Just thinking back to the beginning of the year and to what the HC, OL, and DL coaches were saying. They made sure not to hype expectations and focus on the building process and getting better day by day. They all strayed away from talking about the roster itself as much as possible. That’s why I feel like they are really pitching playing time and the building process. We already have the facilities, band, and a fan base that wants to support. Put a winner on the field and watch things really pick up.

Moorhead basically said he was looking to take about 15 HS prospects and 10 portal if I remember correctly. If that’s the case, we should be close to finished with this prep class. With that being said, I think a few of these kids are still “takes” regardless of the numbers. With the recent offers out to more 2023 prospects I wonder if the staff is expecting some more of our players to hit the portal at year end. I’m not sure if the losses have much effect on this year’s class. I’d guess the staff is pitching playing time and the building process.

Added to 2023 outstanding offers list along with recent offer for JUCO DB Matt Littlejohn.

Colin Van Rooy decommitted from Pitt, so he’s back on the list.

Insane play by Jean Louis.

We could have really used the bye week after the Kent game, but it’s finally here. This week will give the staff an indicator of which players are still invested and which ones they might need to think about showing the door at the end of season. It’ll also allow them to work with the younger players and give them 1st team reps for a few days as well as the coaches a chance to hit the road recruiting. I’m expecting some new offers to be issued this week. As far as the Miami game, kinda same ole same ole. My reactions throughout the game tend to be “Ok, good. Looks like we cleaned that up,” to “Very nice. We are playing that well today,” to “Wtf was that?! Why?? No way he’s coached to do that.” Plenty of upperclassmen on the roster but still a ton of inexperience when it comes to game time and being coached properly (outside of this season) so it makes us look like a young team at times. Offense: - We continue to get placed in crappy field position when starting drives. It causes us to string together long drives which lowers the chance of scoring success. - 3 turnovers is a killer, especially when the defense doesn’t create any. - We saw the gamut of DJI - the good and the bad. As he goes, so does the offense. - Hope DJI doesn’t get hurt in the first half of the next game because Undercuffler decided to make himself unavailable. - Miami’s defense was really good as expected. - The OL was not great by any stretch, but they did create holes at times. When that happens the RBs must make someone miss in close space and that rarely happened. I put those situations on the RBs. The short yardage failures are a collective fail and I’m including the play-calling in those situations. - Adams came alive late, but we could have really benefited from him making a few of those catches earlier. - The adjusted final yardage of 396 to 268 is a tough pill to swallow when only scoring 9 points. Defense: - Defense was actually solid for parts of the game. We even held them to only 2 third down conversations. The issues came on explosive plays and giving up key downs within drives. - Cornerback play was borderline atrocious against the pass. Golden-Nelson looked like he hadn’t played in a few weeks. Hooks looked like he reverted back to bad habits. Durant gives it his all, but he’s constantly picked on by opposing offenses. Having Amankwaa jet for the portal hurt us this week. - Safety play was solid for the most part, but they did make a handful of mistakes. - If I’m mistaken, Terry lost the TE twice for big gains at the LB spot, but he may have thought he had help over the top. - Harper and Holt were very active. Good to see Harper get a sack. Thomas and Wilson caused some havoc in garbage time. - Bubba was Bubba. - I’ve said this before, but Lewis has learned to disguise his blitzing extremely well. Some problems won’t be fixed by anything except recruiting at this point. I hope this team can regroup after the bye and give one last push to finish out the season strong.

384 yards compared to 270 for Miami and only muster 9 points. Tough outing.

What was Undercuffler thinking? Come on man.

Did we just make a stop with only 10 men on the field?

Can’t argue there. Miami has the best defense we’ve seen in the MAC, but the offense should have put up more than 3 points.

Some RS Soph. in there too

Off the top of my head I think these are the numbers. Not counting transfers: Offense = Georges, Williams Defense = Bubba, Hooks Counting Transfers: Offense = Everyone but Adams and Landers Defense = Everyone but Durant and Lewis

Are we counting the COVID year?

Hopefully we make a game of it in the 2nd half. Have you tried the hotdogs? I was pleasantly surprised.

Interesting decisions in that first half to say the least…

So we start attacking the middle of the field when clock is running down? 🤨

No way Hooks is taught to play defense like that. The majority of routes are to the inside. Having hips to the sideline in that situation is foolish.

Both Morton and Johnson sucked up on that TD reverse, but how a flag wasn’t thrown on the dropped pass in the end zone is beyond me. It was a clear pick play by Miami to free the receiver. Oh well. Time to respond.

Agreed. I’m not sure what he’s looking for, but playing time should be plentiful here. The staff is clearly pushing for more experienced players on both sides of the line with the latest offers that have gone out. Makes me think some of the juniors/redshirt sophomores aren’t progressing at the pace they’d like and a few may transfer out. It’s odd that Manoa even posted about the offer. I’m the past, the majority of transfer portal players were quiet about their process, which is a stark contrast to their recruitment coming out of high school. Maybe we’ll see more of the transfer portal players be open about their offers this year.

Thanks! Added as an OT, but I suspect he’d end up at OG with us. We are the 3rd MAC school to offer and he’ll have plenty of options ahead of him by the time his recruitment is finished.

Recent offer out to DE/TE Bruno Dall of Bay St.Louis, MS. Dall has size and length that can’t be taught at 6’7” 230. He’s picked up 4 D1 offers since 9/30.

Tyler Manoa, grad transfer from UCLA, has been offered as both an offensive and defensive lineman.

Amankwaa. I should have added his name in the post as well. Sometimes the tweets don’t load correctly.

DJI sometimes gets happy feet and caught in a state of indecision. Like he’s unsure if he should tuck and run or try to keep the play alive. When he’s able to stand and read in a clean pocket, he’s excellent. When the pressure comes and forces him to make an alternate decision he gets into trouble. Not knocking Irons as he plays the most mentally tough position in football, but I expect to see continued improvement as the year closes out and another step forward in the offseason.

I know all too well. I used to write for SBNation, but I watched the teams I was writing about. After about 3 months I was given an offer by Rivals. Now I’m covering just one school while also trying to expand coverage for Akron/MAC. It’s an uphill battle because it’s all about money and subscribers. It scratches my coaching itch which my wife keeps trying to push me back into. She’ll eventually win and I’ll have to give up the writing gig.