Let'sGoZips94

That's fair and if that becomes reality, it will be a good thing for the MAC. I will say the top of the league will get a huge boost from UMass joining in general. If only NIU were hitting the road a year earlier...

This feels like fake hype. Of course Toledo, UMass, EMU, and Kent are hitting the portal/HS ranks/JUCO hard; they all lost the majority of their production/rosters. Akron went 17-1 and outside of Miami & Ohio, nobody came particularly close to challenging the Zips. UMass, Miami, and Ohio will be our biggest threats to start the season until others prove themselves (or not).

Nate got his degree.

Just found the database; did not realize that existed. The way it was being spread on X, there were comments it was leaked. Are the scores for the individual years public? Or just the multi year?

I never said the hit job was by the media. This was leaked by someone to Reddit, then the media ran with it and piled on. That someone targeted Akron by leaking the APR numbers and potentially false ones at that (they differ from the ABJ's numbers if I'm not mistaken).

The more that comes out about this, the more my anger turns towards whomever leaked whatever those APR numbers were (my fire Joe post previously was more of a joke). The ABJ shared different numbers that indicate YOY progress. It feels like whomever leaked it wanted it to be an Akron hit piece instead of some sort of journalistic reveal. I hope we play our asses off this year and give a massive middle finger to the NCAA. I also hope more journalism is done into the academic fraud committed at most schools to pass this stupid APR.

Akron's football team scored an 885 during the 2021-22 school year, a 905 in 2022-23 and a 920 in 2023-24. So it has improved every year since JoeMo's first year? It's still not ideal, but at least JoeMo isn't fully complacent. I really hope part of the plan is to challenge the ruling by the NCAA. LSU and New Mexico State reportedly failed to meet the 930 score during the pandemic pause, but were not penalized. LOL. F the NCAA. They can eat a bag of Kent 💩. If the APR was just reinstated last year, how can there be a 4 year report to fail? That's such horse crap.

Will Akron take them to court?

Why would players come to Akron with the postseason ban and embarrassing recent headlines?

Meanwhile, Kent set a new university APR record and had 5 programs with perfect 1000 multi-year APRs. Apparently offering Primary Colors 101 and 1st grade mathematics as courses has its benefits.

Started his career at Milwaukee. Transferred to UTSA where he never played, then played at Florida State last year.

APR be damned. We're still getting quality commits. 😂

Well that changes things a bit. Fire JoeMo.