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Btw, I'd flunk Recruiting 101^^ I have no idea what he means by "NLI are good for 3 days."

The timing of this is going to hurt this year's recruiting class. But, as we're all in agreement on, take the time to get this hire right.

Here is an interesting WKSU snippet from Terry Pluto () on Vince Kehres and Mount Union. Terry doesn't believe Vince will be a "Lifer" at Mount Union like his father was. In fact, Terry says Vince interviewed for the KSUcks job last year and didn't get it.

As Hannibal Lecter says, we covet "what we see every day." Lol. So I've wondered for about 20 years what a Kehres could do at UA. But in reading a little about Notre Dame College's Mike Jacobs I'd be really excited about him. Here is Mike Jacobs' bio from Notre Dame College.

I'm feeling the same way.

Don't look now, but PCCC is rolling. Games could be epic this year.

It's just wishful thinking on my part, but the longer this is drawn out, the more I'm thinking it may be Vince Kehres.

Here's a quote from the UTC board that made me both laugh and cry. They're getting just an ever-so-brief taste of our daily pain: It is hard to find any media coverage in Ohio about this other than Bowden was fired. Chattanooga news has several stories on Arth but that is about it.

It can be tough being an Akron fan. I just watched us lose 1-0 to Maryland in the soccer NC & then hopped on twitter & saw we lost one of our bigger verbal commitments, LB Max Wynn, to Miami (O).

I just hope we're not overly confident. This board has a much different vibe than it did before the 2010 NC game. Futbol is a cruel f-ing game. I'm still sitting here with butterflies in my stomach. Go Zips!

C'mon, man. We already knew Williams was a fool who deserved to be fired for canning Bowden. Am I right or am I right?

Zeke, by his own admission, didn't really focus on basketball till the summer before his senior year. Someone should have absolutely been busting his butt from the moment he stepped on campus (you can take a horse to water, I suppose). Now he's gonna have to get a real job.

Blood in the water for Zipsoutsider! Bowden was awesome, dammit!!! Zipsoutsider in 3...2...1...

We've lost a couple of recruits. No surprise; to be expected and I totally get it. This will be an "interesting" recruiting year. Quan Easterling flipped to Wisconsin and DeCarleon Townsend flipped to Air Force We should be expecting more de-commits (I’m really keeping my fingers crossed DeeArius Reese doesn't de-commit). I'll post them here and keep the initial Post #1 updated as well. Go Zips!

The posters on Chattanooga Moc Nation are beginning to talk as if Arth is gone. But they're citing a lot of the speculation from ZipsNation. Lol. Not entirely, but mostly. But where there's smoke... Again, I'm going to have to trust LW because in my heart I was hoping for either Kehres or Getsy.

I'm with you on Kehres, '72. I used to work near Alliance and so Mount's football success has been fascinating to me for 2 decades now. I've often wondered (and I mean, basically every year for the past 20 years) how a Kehres would translate to D-1 & UA in particular. Here's a great article from the Baltimore Sun about the kind of disciplined culture Kehres (and his dad) have built at Mount. I'd love to have a disciplined culture like that at UA. If UA hired Kehres he wouldn't have to waste any time assembling a staff. Kehres and all five of his full-time assistant coaches are former Purple Raiders players, and all but one of their coaching interns is a graduate, too. Kehres said that continuity has helped the staff identify and pursue the characteristics they seek in potential recruits.

Here's a great article on Colin Biros. Colin Biros fulfilling a dream come true with Akron soccer team

Though he's only 6'2" Rosco also does a nice job of attacking the basket. He seems like the perfect 6th Man.

Especially when half of our attempts are from 4-feet behind the line.

Because he's a football guy and not like any of those other Zips athletic directors. Because he made a great hire in men's BB. Because it appears he made a great hire in women's BB. Because he made a great hire for baseball. He has more football knowledge in the tip of his d*ck than I do. There comes a point at which I've got to trust him.

I've got to trust LW.

I love that discussion! But before Zach made that post there were about 1&1/2 pages worth of comparing Ohio high school football versus California, Florida & Texas.

For the watch party they only have bleacher seating available? Why not Upper Reserved chair back?

He just meant he was getting this thread back on topic. It had wandered off into the weeds.