Blue & Gold

Earlier in the season I was firmly in the camp of questioning whether Bowden should be back next year. Especially after our win at BUGS. I know it sounds odd to want Bowden's seat to be hot after a win, but that BUGS game was possibly the ugliest, most poorly played (by both teams) football game I've ever witnessed. We won, but I was thoroughly unimpressed. That performance @ BUGS, coming on the heels of being humiliated by Penn State & dominated in the 2nd half against Iowa State, had me almost completely disillusioned with Bowden & Co. And, honestly, I'm still more than a bit salty about how badly we lost both the MACC & Boca Bowl. But, having said that, I believe Bowden should definitely get an extension. It's the recruiting. Last year's recruiting class was FINALLY a good one. As is this year's class. It seems as if recruiting has finally gotten untracked. I'm expecting us to be better next year than we were this year, and better the year after that. We've got some really good young talent ready to take the field next season & we signed more just yesterday. I think these last two recruiting classes contain more top talent than Akron's brought in in the last decade combined. I've been waiting my entire adult life for the Zips to be the destination for top local talent and Bowden & Co. seem to have finally done that.

That is simply awesome!!

Another well intentioned, though slightly discombobulated post from Z.I.P.

I was also thinking Hester, but Hester's listed on our current gozips.com roster as #2.

No. But I almost posted last night saying I've no idea who he's talking about. :/ It's gotta be that walk-on that some assistant coaches saw playing pick up ball in the rec center, no? By the way, how bush-league does that sound?^^ Crazy

Alex Ramart showing fantastic leadership already! He sent out congratulatory texts to all the recruits & though each text was different, he basically told them he's excited they're part of the team & can't wait till they're on campus & they can get to work together! Alex Ramart's twitter page P.s. Can't wait for this QB competition in the spring.

Good catch. My bad.

Alright, update as of 6:00 p.m. Signed LOI's: WR/S Jalen Hooks DB Rich Hall OL R.J. Kelly DL Logan Hawkins OL Vincent Fonte OL Ben Phillis RB Devanier Floyd WR Daishawn Brimage WR/S Gavin Blunt RB Keyondre White Still awaiting word on/from: WR Timothy Scippio. His twitter profile still says "WR @ The University of Akron" OL Ronald Beasley. who's twitter profile still reads "Committed to The University of Akron" DT Ramon Fields. Difficult to tell from his twitter but he may end up playing at a lower level ATH Te'Cory Tutson. Wasn't able to find anything on Te'Cory WR Treon Sibley. Can't tell anything by his twitter profile. But I know for certain he was/is planning on playing for UA. I'm gonna go out on a completely unfounded limb, but take a guess that he may be a academic non-qualifier. And speaking of academic non-qualifiers, we had a handful last year, so I'm not sure how that works against this year's scholarship count (I'm confused by this every year). Off the top of my head: S Reggie Corner Jr. RB/WR Marquise Bridges OL Marcus Kidd DB Marquess Callaway DL Tracy Jordan DL Matthew Hanson

+1. I think we desperately need Devon'Te next year.

Encouraging tweet in regards to Devon'Te Jest coming back next year. I'm pretty sure he's gonna be on campus in January.

As of 11:00 a.m.... WR Jalen Hooks DB Rich Hall OL R.J. Kelly DL Logan Hawkins OL Vincent Fonte OL Ben Phillis Still awaiting... RB Devanier Floyd ATH Daishawn Brimage WR Timothy Scippio ATH Te'Cory Tutson DT Ramon Fields S Gavin Blunt ATH Treon Sibley OL Ronald Beasley RB Keyondre White (who'd tweeted a couple times he's committing today)

I think that's what's happened to me. I see my Likes not showing.

@CDMac, let me see if I can get that to post...

Speaking of the beef eaters in the trenches...

Absolutely! Naturally, I get all excited about the skill position players, but the game's won & lost in the trenches!

Looks like I'm going to have to refine my working definition of "athlete."

Versus the Akron Football twitter feed as of 9:50 a.m.: UA Football twitter

Here's an Unpopular Opinion & I hope I'm not eaten by my own for expressing it: The problem isn't really Milwee's play calling. The problem is that the OL couldn't run block. At all. Just throwing that out there because I think if the OL could run block even a smidgeon, it would have made the play calling look a lot better.

Exactly. This is like Christmas morning - or a wedding day - to these young guys. Today is THE big deal. Look at Western Michigan's twitter: https://twitter.com/WMU_Football?lang=en Bowl game should have ZERO to do with this. A week or two ago UA should have had a tweet ready to go for every recruit so today they could just have some intern (or even the janitor) tweet it out when we receive the LOI. I'm certainly absolutely positive they will do this. There is absolutely positively no way conceivable that they wouldn't. Right? :/ (Btw, I know Gavin Blunt isn't signing till 2:30 this afternoon.)

Good find!! I know Jest will be back on campus in January. I suppose he'll participate in spring ball.

Link? Who's recruiting these guys for them?