Captain Kangaroo

I always like Omar Jacobs' (former Florida HS star, BG QB and Steelers draft pick) take on playing college football in the north. He felt is was important to show NFL teams that he could play in the cold weather, so he chose BG over similar-level southern schools. Although he didn't do anything in the NFL, it did get him drafted by the Steelers.

Heath better be sending Gary Waters one hell of a Christmas gift every year…that season he rode Waters’ kids to the Elite 8 pretty much bankrolled his college coaching career.

1,000 points…that averages out to 100 per year for him over his college career?

If you’re concerned about COVID, you should come to the JAR. My section is at about 8% capacity. Others are even more sparse. You have a better chance contracting COVID in your own attic than you do at the JAR this year.

Anyone see the script Kent jerseys when they played Buffalo in hoops tonight? Not what Akron should emulate. Looks like 1968.

Point differential cost you, but I still think you win “Prediction of the Game” award today. 👍

When they do, you can bank on him having either - A.) Knocked off a liquor store B.) Scored a 4 on his SAT C.) Possessed a 450 lb bench press, and the bone density of Betty White D.) Been grossly over-starred Note - Multiple correct answers are possible.

Hello all - this is a friendly reminder that there's a thread dedicated to the importance of recruiting stars. Please keep discussions here. Thanks. 🙏

Great to see Coach Ferri back in Akron Football gear recruiting the Youngstown area! Could this kid be the next Brandon Payne?

The biggest reason we changed was - our colors were essentially the same as Kent. I think it was a good move. in be shocked if we changed today’s colors. I think they’re here to stay.

3 ppg in 2019-20. 4.2 ppg in 2020-21 and 6.9 ppg this season. Not a bad progression. He should be around 8 ppg next year, which is great if he's surrounded by other guys that can score. He finishes better than ever at the rim now, and his FT shooting has improved from 48% to 64% since year #1. Not great, but serviceable. He's outscored Dawson 90 - 73 this year?

And he won 3 games in three years at UA. If I'm him, I'm tired of getting pounded into the ground for nothing. 9 wins in one season sounds pretty good. Hope he does well there. All of Arth's best players have now left. Sans Bubba, and IMO Irons. You yank the band aid off, it stings for a few seconds...then it's fine. Looking forward to seeing Joe's 32-player, transfer-heavy, high-impact recruiting class!

They got a good one. Onward and upward for the Zips regardless!

Too many Zips players didn't show up last night. Ali, Dawson, Clarke and Trimble were all disappointing. I thought Bandaogo, Freeman, Tribble and obviously Casteneda gave it their all. Kent outworked us for sure. Carry clowned us. He did what he wanted, whenever he wanted. I definitely don't want to see that again in round #2. Hope we get our swagger back. That was a bad effort for a Kent game.

To create the section is groundbreaking for UA. But it's actually been full too? The old AK-Rowdies section was completely empty under the Williams regime. I could very well be wrong, but I expect to see a dramatically increased student engagement at InfoCision this fall. At least for Game #1. 😁

I have yet to meet the new AD. One seemingly small, yet impressive thing he's implemented is displacing some lower-reserved season ticket holders in the JAR and creating a lower-reserved student section. That idea was suggested here years ago and was dismissed as impossible. Likewise, selling beer at the JAR was suggested here years ago, and dismissed as absolute lunacy. Now we have a basketball student section as engaged and full as I've seen it in decades. And during a pandemic, no less? And I can have a $6 beer at my seat and watch the game, and shockingly...nobody has died because of it. There was a General Electric commercial a few years ago which contained the phrase "Ideas are frightening because the threaten what is known. They're the natural born enemy of the way things are." There are way too many people within UA that had clung to "the way things are" for decades. And believed issues like football game day attendance is just "the way things are." Why? It is a lot easier to say "I wouldn't have built that stadium" than it is to fill it. You're off the hook scot-free...it was the fault of the guys preceding you. It seems like UA may have finally lucked into an ambitious, engaging AD who can pull it out of it's decades-long death grip on the past. He made a great hire with Joe Moorhead. He's implementing changes that are seemingly simple, but on UA's conservative scale, are groundbreaking. I look forward to seeing InfoCision butts-in-seats increase appreciably over the next several years. Based upon the student involvement at the JAR this winter, I expect an immediate uptick in student attendance at football games this fall. Great things are going on at UA. Thanks to Guthrie for pulling us Zips fans off the ventilator. After a 3-24 three year stretch, I was ready to flat-line. Now I'm ready to party! 😁

Three From The Burg

Thanks. I forgot about that one.

I'd think Akron is about 127th on the list of possible landing spots for College Game Day. Nowhere to go but up, I guess? They did make it to BG in 2003, so it's technically possible.

Tennessee-Martin

I dunno...no mention of this veteran staff having any experience at Ahola Solutions ... just marquee P5 football programs. Meh.

Another example Makes his dropped passes against Kent understandable. His mind was elsewhere.