Blue & Gold

Wouldn't Aziz Bandaogo and Jermaine Marshall be looking awfully good in blue & gold right now? 😩 I like Shammah more than Garvin Clarke... but barely. I've been rather disappointed in him honestly. Love his defense (I liked Clarke's defense). I do think Shammah finishes better at the rim than Garvin, is more athletic and a better ball handler. You stole my words in regards to Nate. He's playing with veterans & it just doesn't doesn't look like he feels like a team leader. Hopefully next season he'll take a big jump when he's the locker room veteran. But I don't know if we're a deep team, or not. It's been quite the disappointment that none of Tavari, Lyles, or Prather appear to be at all serviceable at this level. I had relatively high hopes for Tavari coming into the year but he's yet to duplicate last year's early season game vs. Nevada. That was a long time ago now. And that Nevada team was as good & athletic as any team we've faced since. Weird.

Just wanted to say I'm just trying to enjoy these players for one final go-round. Last year was actually our year to make noise in the dance - we were primed to return a starting 5 who punked KSUcks in Cleveland and then took Sweet 16 UCLA to the limit. But then Ali Ali transferred out and Mike Dawson was injured and our potentially epic season was derailed before it even started. This year it's obvious we haven't been able to fill X's shoes... hell, we're not close to anyone filling even one of X's shoes. So it is what it is. Let's win the MAC, beat KSUcks, and then hope maybe Dawson (if not Dawson, who?) gets hot from behind the 3-point arc in an NCAA game or two.

Pregame WHLO Joe Dunn stated he thinks the key to us reaching our potential this year is Dawson and Tavari.

Where are you going with that, @catdaddyp? Edit: I hope you're not getting at the possibility of KSUcks getting this guy. He's tough and could absolutely be a difference maker in the MAC. He's better than anyone we trotted out onto the field this year. We'd have won 6 games w/ Labas at QB.

Orie's twitter/X profile says "Head Strength Coach-Akron Football"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Thank you, @Bona BigCat. What an excellent breakdown! I hope you have a great time Saturday & that it's an exciting game. You're welcome here on ZipsNation and in the JAR anytime!

Merry Christmas, brothers!

Wow. I just watched the video from last night & that's downright assault. He could've been arrested for that.

EMU certainly didn't represent the MAC well last night.

NIU looking good. Up 21-7 over Arkansas State. Early in the 2Q.

Wish I had seen Eric McLaughlin play.

Maybe another player to keep an eye on

Check out how WMU announced their LOI's on X. Pretty cool.

Have to assume we'll have a better shot at landing a QB -or two- during the 2nd signing period as players will be more desperate to land somewhere... anywhere... if things haven't worked out as they had hoped by then. Much like @Zipmeister searching for a girl during last call.

Still wish we had gone after Copley/Massillon LB Dorian Pringle. D2 co-defensive POY. 6-0 (maybe), 215. Maybe a bit on the short side, but so is Bryan McCoy, and Dorian's a player. Why not? He's the kind of NEO player we need. As far as I can tell we never extended an offer.