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If Dawson is out, Hilltopper's 7 Guys Who Should Dominate PT is reduced to 6. That's an awfully thin lineup. IMO, now we really need Nate Johnson to step up. His HS tape was fantastic & he's got a strong build, ala Dawson. If he can buckle down & play stellar defense like Dawson does (Dawson is our junkyard dog), we won't need him to be much of a scorer. Sadly, I've gotta revise my lineup as follows: PG: X....................Clarke G: Hankerson....Prather G: Tribble...........Johnson P: Hunter............Mosengo P: Freeman........Lyles However, until I hear differently, I'm going to hold out hope that Dawson's injury isn't as serious as it may appear. They give these guys First Class care & spare no expense as they go above and beyond baseline treatments (e.g., being admitted to the hospital overnight for simple dehydration, etc.). Hopefully what we saw with Dawson is something along those lines. Maybe he just stubbed his toe 🤞😉

Can you elaborate? Walking boot? Knee brace? Crutches?

LET’S GO D!!!!!!!!!

TD!!!!!!!!! Great pass DJ Way to hang onto the ball Alex!

Love Shocky but he’s not a very good blocking WR

Love Darrian Lewis.

Indeed. And DJ put it right on the money.

I see Chu Ogbanna warming up.

I also like how our DL has begun to come into it's own. Victor Jones was a monster from Game 1, but now Zach Morton has emerged as just as much of a monster at the other DE position. Likewise, Curtis Harper has been solid from Game 1, but now with #55 DT Kyle Thomas lining up beside him we've been stuffing the run for 3 quarters now. Let's stuff the run & pressure the QB for all 4 quarters tomorrow! Zips win by 2 scores. Go Zips!

Could you give some highlights of what you remember from JoeMo?

I cannot attend tonight’s match, nor watch on ESPN+, so I’d really appreciate match updates & commentary tonight. 🙏

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Preseason I didn’t have this one on the (rather long) list of Not-To-Miss matches. I was wrong.

Hot Take: starting both Clarke and X. Are you hoping either Nate or Kobe can step into the backup PG role?

Hit him right in the numbers.

I had Taylor Currie on my Preseason 2nd-Team All-MAC squad 🤐 PG - X....................Clarke G - Hankerson......Tribble G - Dawson...........Prather P - Hunter..............Mosengo P - Freeman..........Lyles Attention Mr. Hunter & Mr. Freeman: Please stay out of foul trouble.

Looks like they're going to burn his redshirt, eh? Wish Gray would/could step up. Oh well, gotta get the best 11 on the field.

Zips remembering how to win

Sounds like the ABJ had both Michael Beaven and George Thomas asking questions. Big step in the right direction (if this isn't a one-time thing).

ABJ post game story: Akron Zips show some fight in loss to Liberty Flames

Is our offensive drop off due in large part to losing Guywon Chong?

That was RB Clyde Price.

If you became a Zips' fan during the Ianello years you are a true hero.

I notice that someone just posted a reaction to the initial post in this thread. So don't forget, or, for anyone new to this thread please know, that I'm continually editing Post #1 to keep it as up to date as possible (sans any insider information) in regards to our Class of 2023 Verbal Commitments.

Yeah, I hope they're energetic and ready to go. They've traveled a lot this past month and to top it off I saw on twitter that they had an awfully bumpy flight down there (one team manager was joking about it by saying he's never flying again). Hope they're amped up and ready to go come 6:00! Go Zips!