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  1. The Worst Plays of 2023

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    3 minutes ago, 1981 grad said:

    happy to read your post.  I would prefer a field goal attempt from 46 over a punt from the 30.  However, a 6 point lead with 2 minutes left and a team that continues to lose games is not ideal.  If they make the first down.  Game over.   

    Not my first choice selfishly, but going for it would have been far better than punting.

  2. The Worst Plays of 2023

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    Tired of this kicker talk. I know this place isn’t a great place to be for a player parent and I’m 100% comfortable with player criticism. But let me just defend Owen. He missed one kick this year that was his fault, the other was so poorly blocked on the edge that the Buffalo player was standing in front of him when he kicked. It’s maddening because he routinely wins the weekly “kick off” by making all of the kicks that Moorhead refuses to try in game. Yeah he had a squeaker in OT, but box score shows it went in. 
     

    What should be talked about, is kicking is 80% mental. And you can’t have confident kickers when they know if they miss just one, they are out and rotated. No kicker is perfect. The Georgia kicker started the year terribly, the coach publicly and privately backed him and he’s a Groza semi-finalist right now. 

     

    Dante is a good kid, and a good kicker, but the decision to start him in Indiana shocked all of us, including Dante. Moorhead put him in that position last minute. Not Tucker. 
     

    I watch my kid make those kicks in warmups, in pressure kicks at practice, and to not go for the kick and instead punt from your 31 is just incredible to me. How do you preach finish and don’t give your players the chance to finish. 
     

    This coach, the announcers, all talk about the kicking issues and meanwhile my kid has missed one. A 47 yarder into a stiff wind. The holder and the snapper are very good. But no kicker will succeed in this environment. 
     

     

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  10. Wagon Wheel Game 2023 - Game Thread

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    3 hours ago, Zipped Up said:

    He verbally committed to Arth’s staff per their X posts in October of ‘21. He probably didn’t sign his NLI in December because of the uncertainty around the new hire. JoMo and Fessler closed the deal in January because they had only been on the job 2 weeks and hadn’t time to recruit anybody. 
     

    My point is that Jennings is not Moorhead’s kid, nor Jankowski. Wasel is a different story but if they don’t give him a chance in last 4 games given where the season stands ( and his redshirt intact) then that may say something about their initial evaluation of him. 
     

    I personally wish they would give Jankowski a start against the other worst team in FBS. With almost zero experience in three years, he has just a good a chance as what we’ve seen. 

    Not sure what QBs travel, but at the end of the BG game Jankowski was warming up on the sideline.  I suspect he would have been in on a final drive if we would have gotten the ball back.

  13. Game 7- CMU

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    22 minutes ago, catdaddyp said:

    Agreed, part of the problem with the running game is a lack of a vertical passing game. Another part is the OL’s lack of consistent push and some blame also falls on the QBs keeping when they should give on the read options. When we do try to push the ball down field we struggle to not only complete the passes, but also not turn them over. 9 of the 10 interceptions have come on attempts beyond 10 yards. 

    The other part is some stubborn play calling. I don’t know the averages, but the majority of drives seem to either go run, pass, pass or pass, pass, pass. Of course, some of those pass plays turn into runs due to the QB scrambling. We tend to call consecutive run plays only after a gain of 4 or 5 yards and go away from the run if we gain only one or two yards. The more opportunities a player like Lingard has with the ball in his hands, the greater chance of an explosive play happening. Same can be said for Alex Adams. The offensive staff hasn’t done a great job of putting our best players in a position to be successful this year. Granted our limitations at QB have played a role in that. 

     

    “Stubborn” is a great general description…

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  14. Game 5 - Buffalo

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    5 minutes ago, MangoZip said:

    No but it looked like number 5 broke the cardinal rule…he took the outside guy and the guy that took his inside gap blocked it 

    Just saw it.  You're right they put him to a choice and he chose wrong, the inside guy blocked it with his helmet, the outside guy was close but would not have got there.  

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  17. Game 3 - Kentucky

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    4 minutes ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

    A final thought on Kentucky -

     

    I dunno how many fans they had at the game...maybe 55,000? 

     

    Their stadium seats 61,000 and routinely sells out. Our parking space sold for $200 on Stub Hub. I can't imagine what a space goes for when Tennessee or Alabama rolls into town.

     

    The lots were full of RV's, trailers, HD TV's...all their fans wore either white, or blue. There were literally thousands of incredibly attractive women in form-fitting dresses, tank tops, white cowboy boots...it was something to behold (ditto for Tennessee last year, NC State in the past...southern schools game days can be quite the fashion show).

     

    So in a nut shell, game days in Lexington are a big time party. Millions upon millions of dollars generated by the school. 

     

    In Akron we get a few thousand fans on a given Saturday. Our average ticket price is at least $100 less than a UK ducat. Our game day parking, directly behind the goal post, is included with our $100 season tickets. Yet we were down only 14-3 midway through the 4th quarter? If resources controlled the outcome, we should have lost by 60. Kudos to what Joe and Co. are building at UA with a ham and cheese budget.

     

    Speaking to a UA official in the lot, apparently Kentucky is trying to get out of the return game in Akron next year. Akron is receptive to the buy-out, because "We don't want them filling our stadium with blue and beating us by 30." That comment saddened me, as it is small-time thinking. Joe will have the program competitive next year. We'd have a good chance of hanging with them. The Infocision lots would be full of RV's, music, fans...it would be an awesome game day in Akron for maybe the 3rd time since it opened. But it probably won't happen. I told the official as much..."So what are you going to do...replace Kentucky with Bethune Cookman? That sucks." He said "Oh no, we'll get someone good." No chance.

     

    If we play Kentucky in Lexington in the future, make the 5 hour trip down 71. Lexington is a really fun city. The Kentucky fans are very nice. Distilleries abound. It's a great weekend.

    I agree, Lexington is a gem.  The game day environment was awesome and everyone was very friendly (I got four "What's a zip?").  I was disappointed with the Indiana crowd, seemed like over half of the crowd left after the halftime high school bands performance.

  23. Game 3 - Kentucky

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    9 minutes ago, akzipper said:

    I'm sure the penalty was legitimate but why did they wait so long to throw the flag for ineligible man downfield? That's usually pretty obvious and called immediately.

     

    Also can't believe the Kentucky fans actually booing their holding call that brought back the TD. Do they spend too much time watching basketball that they don't know the rules of football?

    The stadium replay continentally only show the line that didn’t hold.  

  24. Game 2 - Morgan State

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    22 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

    This is where I find myself this a.m. I was underwhelmed last night & still feel it this a.m. We were LUCKY to beat an FCS opponent. I fear it's going to be another long season.

     

    On top of that, except for the final minute of the 1st and and final minute of the 2nd half, last night's game was

    B-O-R-I-N-G.  For years I've been taking guys to games just hoping against hope to make some new Akron fans and for years I've often felt guilty for subjecting my friends to the stuff.  Last night was yet another occurrence. Ugh.  Before the 2nd half started one of my friends - who loves him some football - said, "This feels like a looooooong game. Even halftime felt long."  It simply wasn't much fun. 

     

    Being a Zips fan ain't for wimps.

    The TV timeouts are killing the live viewing.

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