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ABJ Akron -v- CMU "scouting report" ?

You could watch Jordan get better as the game went on. It was fun to watch. His high school film impressed me. He's gonna be a good one.

Well, 6 P's, actually.

ABJ/GT: Zips looking for a run game to balance the offense I'm still utterly perplexed by the whole pencil thing. But I do appreciate Arth's differentiation between it being a "Takeaway Pencil," not a "Turnover Pencil."

Excellent article. Learned more from that than I have in the last 5 years reading the ABJ.

ABJ/GT: Zips' secondary struggles in loss

I left after the 3rd Quarter, so I guess I missed us playing our best ball. (I was with friends who aren't as diehard as I am.) Having said that, what I saw was that our OL is still a major liability. Both in run blocking and pass protection. Run blocking is obviously pretty weak. But I also watched UAB's 4 DL get consistent pressure on Kato without the need of rushing any linebackers. Their LB's could simply fall back into coverage & clog the field for Kato. This is a major issue which, I'm afraid, we're going to have to suffer through all season. Alvin Davis was playing Dime back today. We ran 5 DB's pretty much all day. Lako & Bubba had good games today. They are obviously players whom we can count on all year. Yes, I just used "whom," properly. Jest also had a great game. Good grief, are our DB's young.

Jokes are never funny when they need to be explained. So I guess I just don't get it.

Top-shelf pics once again, good Doctor! ???

Can someone enlighten me on the Turnover Pencil idea? It's obviously tongue-in-cheek. Is it supposed to emphasize the academic side of being a student-athlete, as opposed to a turnover chain, or whatever? I'm just guessing. I don't get it. It's so obviously silly it's an attempt at irony? And (now I'm going to sound like a curmudgeon), but Riley almost pokes Tyler Gilchrist's eye out with the dumb thing. Jesus.

I do have to say, though, that the article on Coach Arth is very good.

ABJ/GT: Zips coach Tom Arth shows traits necessary to lift program ABJ: UAB -v- Akron scouting report Read the scouting report. It will certainly make you a more educated viewer of today's contest.

Hmm. The link was working yesterday... ?

Pretty sweet Zips' basketball spark page

Man, I am getting old. Did Jest even play last year? I thought he was in JUCO last year & this was his first year back? But when I look at the Zips' 2018 roster, yeah, his name is listed.

^^They whiffed on Dwight Smith.

ABJ/GT: Zips ready to move on from lopsided loss to Illinois as home debut awaits The Zips’ offense struggled, gaining just 192 total yards and the offensive line surrendered six sacks. Defensively, UA surrendered 401 yards and allowed the Illini to score on six of their seven trips to the red zone. ? ...This is where mitigating circumstances come into play. UA played without three key members of the team — starters Davon’te Jest at nose tackle, cornerback Alvin Davis and left tackle Trevor Brown — who didn’t make the trip for undisclosed reasons...But those players should return when the Zips face the University of Alabama-Birmingham in their home opener at noon Saturday in InfoCision Stadium. [edit] Lots of good info/stats in the article. I don't want to copy & paste too much. Give it a click.

Good point. I was only assuming...

Hoping for the proverbial marked improvement from games 1-to-2. Especially from Kato. More Brandon Lee, please. (Stay healthy, little guy.) Having 3 of our best players back won't hurt. Julian Hicks? Still can't believe we started 3 freshmen DB's last week.

Yesterday's print edition of the ABJ had an article -front page, beneath the fold - which stated something like, "Arth era at UA begins with a thud." Or something along those lines. Fair enough. But I couldn't locate the article on Ohio.com.

Wow. And thank you for checking! (I'm out of "Likes" for the day.)

Did someone say 3 of our 4 starting DB's were true freshmen? Is that true? (I did notice true freshman Randy Cochran was a starter.)