Captain Kangaroo

If the HoF stadium was built prior to InfoCision, the Zips would probably be playing there, and the InfoCision grounds would still be dilapidated old rubber worker houses. I agree With GP1. We have a nice, 30k seat stadium on campus. The only road game we should be playing within 10 miles of our own stadium is against Kent.

Hope script Akron is on the front! 🤮

DII allows 36 football scholarships. I believe they also allow partials.

By popular demand I am forced to predict the OSU/Akron score. Our defensive line has no hope to slow down OSU. Our offensive line has no chance to slow down OSU OSU is primed to show they don't suck as bad as their fans think they do. OSU 63 - Akron 10 The Zips best chance to make me look bad - Irons needs to build off last week. He played well at Auburn, then took a step or two backwards against Temple. Last week he saved the team from a supreme embarrassment with a Herculean effort. The only difference between Gardner-Webb 2010 and Bryant 2021 was Nicely vs. Irons. Irons runs with a purpose, and his long stride covers a lot of ground quickly. When given time, he does a nice job of hitting open receivers (not a given for many recent Zips QB's). But if he runs as frequently as he did against Bryant, he'll get pummeled and we'll probably be seeing Gibson behind center against OU. We don't want that. Could he and Mathison go "Tim Rattay / Troy Brown / Nebraska" and run up some big numbers on OSU's 2021 secondary? Probably not, but it would be fun to see Arth try it. Best case scenario - Keep Irons healthy. Get through the game with minimal injuries. Keep the clock running. On to OU.🐈

"The Brian Wood of Indiana"

LCJ left some big size 8's for Tavari to fill.

During my time at UA, a kid who was a bouncer at The Townhouse got shot at the Katheryn Place party. He was in my (now) wife's Spanish class. He survived. Katheryn Place was a great college party in the mid-to-late 80's. Over time, more non-college kids began showing up. At the last party I attended, I saw a co-worker from Mentor. He'd heard about the big party and drove down with a van load of friends and some Stroh's 15 packs. Katheryn Place was always packed with people. Shoulder to shoulder, for a full block. The night of the shooting a group of maybe 10 kids just began pushing through the crowd trying to start a fight. I left. The next day I read about the "riot" in the Beacon. Glad I left. I used to love the Katheryn, Wheeler and other block parties. We had a 15 kegger in our back yard, complete with beer truck, a couple times. But once things get too big, the riff raff comes in, and things get out of control. Having a 20 year old son @ UC right now, I can't imagine getting the phone call those parents received. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Difficult game to handicap. Zips are terrible. Bryant is a bad FCS program. Zips pull away late and win 31-16. I don't care how bad the rest of the MAC appears to be, I still don't see a second win on the horizon. Mathison is the only Arth recruit that is proven to be worth the price of admission. Offense or defense. That's not enough. Hope I'm wrong.

I’ve become an expert on bad football.

What a bungled train wreck of a sequence. Giving the gave away on a silver platter. Unreal…

Bowden had is early tenure surprises against Michigan and Pitt. The clock is ticking for Arth to coach his first "The Akron fans were pleasantly surprised..." game of his tenure. At some point he needs to give Zips fans some tangible hope that things are improving. Playing an AAC team that's 1-7 in their last 8 games, at InfoCision, seems like a great opportunity. Losing 56-12 would deflate the bandwagon in record time. Dre is right...this is sort of a do-or-die game. The champagne popped after the BG win has long since evaporated.

I think the casual fan will lump Akron and Temple in the same non-P5 grouping. But Temple's success over the last 10-or-so years blows the Zips away. Al Golden left Temple for Miami FL, Steve Addazio left for BC, Matt Rhule was hired-away by Baylor and Geoff Collins took the Georgia Tech job. They hired Rod Carey away from NIU. They've had one losing season since 2013. In that same time JD Brookhart left Akron to sell CAD software, Rob Ianello's forced exit landed him the coveted Buffalo's WR Coach job, and Terry Bowden recently resurfaced at doormat Louisiana Monroe after being fired. Over the year's Kent has had some terrible teams...but they maintained some respectability because they had some great QB play. Jose Davis, Josh Cribbs and Julian Edelman compensated for horrible defenses with a high-scoring offense. I hate Kent, but those guys were fun to watch. If Irons can prove the Auburn appearance wasn't a fluke, and Arth opens the offense up, the 2021 Zips could actually be watchable. I wouldn't have thought that when the season began. I see this game playing out slightly worse than the the UAB game a couple years ago. Temple 45 Akron 23. I don't see us stopping Temple, no matter how badly they appeared to play against Rutgers. I'd tighten the spread if a few more Jeslord Boateng's joined the defense this week. He makes plays behind the line of scrimmage. I like him.

The Auburn game was easy money. No way a Zips defense that couldn't make Kent punt once last November was going to hold Auburn under 50 nine months later. Temple is a little more difficult team to gauge. And Irons is a wild card.

Going off 35 year old memories, I believe Akron’s first “major” D1-A opponent was Auburn. I was watching it on Channel 55. The cameras panned to some Zips fans in the stands with a sign that said “Just let us score.” Probably just as applicable a sign today. Auburn 59-0.

Did it feature Teon Dollard?

My speculation - His frame was similar to the often-injured Warren Ball's. Two of his three seasons at Indiana ended prematurely (2016 Game #3, 2018, Game #1) due to season-ending leg injuries.

I agree.

Doesn’t every team get new uniforms every season?

ESPN is the $300 weekly stimulus check...it's welfare. MAC schools would rather sit and home and collect ESPN's checks than build their programs, market them and fill stadiums. It's a lot less work.

If he says "Waah waah... I wouldn't have built that stadium," he's the wrong person for the job. If he says "That stadium is a resource, and I'm gonna figure out a way to get 20k in it on a regular basis," then he's the right guy.

Clayton Qualifies for Tokyo Is he still pissed at UA, or has that been smoothed-over?

What will get you more "clicks?" "Coach punishes Jewish football player - forces him to eat pork" or "Disruptive local HS football player punished - chooses to pull pepperoni off pizza rather than eat chicken nuggets"

I think the last Zips player to give the dual sport, hoops/gridiron teams "the old college try" was Jake Schifino back in the late 90's? He lasted a couples games at the end of Hipsher's bench before hanging up the Chuck Taylors and focusing on football.

Hope the deposit on his graduation party tent was refundable.

Does a kid's Akron vs. Duquesne decision possibly come down to the endorsement deal he's promised from Akron Felt and Chenille vs. Primanti Brothers?