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  2. Women's Softball

    in Other Sports

    Posted · Edited by Blue & Gold

    This team starts 3 freshmen (IIRC) and our best hitter, Lexi Campbell, is a sophomore 👀👀🔥

     

    Just like we keep saying with football, there is so much HS talent in the area.  If we can only become a destination... 🙏

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  6. Class of '25 Verbal Commits

    in Akron Zips Football Recruiting

    Posted · Edited by Blue & Gold

    2025 VERBAL COMMITMENTS

    TP - Amarie Archer, OL, 6-3, 300, transfer from ECU

    SIGNED: Markus Boswell, LB, 6-1, 230, Jireh Prep HS via Lake Travis, TX

    TP - Alex Branch, DB, 6-0, 190, Twinsburg HS, Twinsburg, OH transfer from KSUcks

    TP - Aamii Branch, DB, 5-10, 185, Forney, TX, transfer from Kilgore College

    SIGNED: Cibastian Broughton, QB, 6-0 175, Fleming Island HS, Fleming Island, FL

    TP - Chase Brown, DE, 6-2, 226, Cincinnati, OH, transfer from Dayton

    SIGNED: Jaiden Brown-Demery, OL, 6-3, 300, West Mifflin Area HS, PA

    SIGNED: Taven Curry, RB, 6-0, 225, Loxley, AL transfer from UL-Monroe

    SIGNED: Tairan Davis, S, 5-11, 185, Ursuline HS, Youngstown, OH

    TP - Jake Dennis, LS, 6-2, 220, Omaha, NE, transfer from Colorado State

    TP - Israel Duncan, DL, 6-3, 250, Vancouver, WA, transfer from Pasadena City College

    TP - Cyrus Durham, DL, 6-3, 250, Redwood City, CA transfer from Arizona

    TP - Mehki Flowers, S, 6-0, 200, Harrisburg, PA, transfer from Penn State

    TP - Jordan Gant, RB, 5-10, 205, transfer from Tennessee State

    TP - Chris Gee, RB, 5-11, 215, Fort Worth, TX, transfer from Colgate

    SIGNED: Jon Gould, OL, 6-5, 270, Maize HS, Maize, KS

    TP - Tim Grear, WR, 6-0, 190, transfer from Fresno St.

    TP - Bebe Hills, WR, 5-10, 175, transfer from Washington St.

    SIGNED: Gavin James, LB, 5-11, 205, Lincoln HS, Tallahassee, FL

    TP - Allen Jones, OL, 6-4, 310, transfer from West Alabama JUCO

    TP - Darrell Johnson Jr., OL, 6-4, 300, Indianapolis, IN, transfer from WKU

    TP - Michael Johnson Jr., QB, 6-3, 225, San Jose, CA, transfer from Syracuse

    TP - Ben Kamara, CB, 6-3, 205, Philadelphia, PA, transfer from Upper Iowa University

    SIGNED: Vann Kavals, DE, 6-4, 250, OLSH HS, Coraopolis, PA

    SIGNED: Maasai King, OL, 6-3, 300, JUCO: Lackawanna CC, originally from Scranton, PA

    TP - Julien Laventure, DL, 6-2, 285, Upper Darby, PA, transfer from Pennsylvania Western U.

    SIGNED: Kenneth McManus, OL, 6-2, 305, St. John's College HS, Washington DC

    TP - Cam Monteiro, WR, 6-1, 180, Brockton, MA, transfer from Pitt

    TP - Javirea Moore, OL, 6-5, 300, Lancaster, TX, transfer from East Texas A&M

    TP - Jayme Motley-Simmons, OL, 6-5, 315, transfer from University of North Alabama

    TP - Nehemiah Musika, DL, 6-1, 315, Milpitas, CA transfer from San Mateo College

    SIGNED: Devin Reeves, LB, 5-11, 220, Hayfield Secondary School, Woodbridge, VA

    TP - Adam Samaha, K, 5-11, 185, Ypsilanti, MI, transfer from North Carolina

    Gavin Schieler, LS, 6-3, 235, Normal Community HS, Normal, Illinois

    SIGNED: Luke Sivon, WR, 6-0, 195, Perry HS, Perry, OH

    TP - Jamari Somerville, S, 5-11, 190, Indian Head, MD, transfer from James Madison

    TP - DJ Stepney, DB, 5-11, 200, Macomb, MI, transfer from Marshall

    TP - Jamall Thompson, DL, 6-3, 250, Sarasota, FL, transfer from Samford

    TP - Eddie Vega, DL, 6-3, 285, Dinuba, CA, transfer from Reedy College

    SIGNED: Ty Watkins, DE, 6-3, 230, Mt. Healthy HS, Cincinnati, OH

    TP - Marcel Williams, WR, 6-0, 200, Hollywood, FL, transfer from Marshall

     

    CLASS BREAKDOWN

    Total Commits: 41

     

    Offense: 19

    QB: 2 (Broughton, Johnson Jr.)

    RB: 3 (Curry, Gant, Gee)

    WR: 5 (Grear, Hills, Monteiro, Sivon, Williams)

    OL: 9 (Archer, Brown-Demery, Gould, Johnson, Jones, King, McManus, Moore, Motley-Simmons)

     

    Defense: 19

    DL: 8 (Brown, Duncan, Durham, Kavals, Laventure, Musika, Thompson, Vega, Watkins)

    LB: 3 (Boswell, James, Reeves)

    DB: 7 (Branch, Branch, Davis, Flowers, Kamara, Somerville, Stepney)

     

    Specialists: 3

    K: 1 (Samaha)

    LS: 2 (Dennis, Schieler)

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  18. The future of televised basketball and football games

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by Blue & Gold

    This past week Walsh Jesuit HS baseball played the top ranked team from Michigan & the game was broadcast for free on YouTube. The production was fantastic w/ 3-4 different camera angles & competent announcers. It was produced by a Michigan company (the announcers were slight homers for the Michigan team but nothing egregious).  It was free.  It was high school.  I watched it on my 64" smart tv w/out a hitch.  With stuff like this Idk how much longer ESPN is going to be relevant... or even a viable business model at all.  Looks like sports production is really beginning to filter down to grass roots.

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  20. 2024 MAC Recruiting

    in Akron Zips Football Recruiting

    Posted · Edited by Blue & Gold

    Miami signed Devin Bell. Idk if he has the athletic talent (I don't believe we offered Devin) to help us reach the top of the MAC mountain, but I've met Devin & he's the kind of person you want on your team and at your university.  Polite, humble, smiling, well-spoken, mature.  He's also a mountain of a young man. Built like an ox. I can only imagine what he's going to look like 3 years from now. 🤯 

     

    I'm still crossing my fingers for Hoban LB Rickey Williams.  True stud.

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  21. 2024 MAC Recruiting

    in Akron Zips Football Recruiting

    Posted

    On 4/10/2023 at 9:42 PM, catdaddyp said:

    Toledo and Miami have raced out front. I imagine we’ll get our first 2024 commitment soon.

    My thinking: that's nice, but I'll take quality over quantity.  Would you say that is on the mark, or would you say Miami & Toledo's early numbers are a harbinger of how the 2024 classes will ultimately shake out? (Really impossible to know for sure, I know... but just trying to make some interesting conversation.)

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  22. Basketball practice facility (and more) coming

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by Blue & Gold

    Would you guys rather have a true multi-purpose arena - like the Canton Civic Center, or Gund Arena (showing my age), which could also host indoor soccer, indoor football, hockey, etc., or a basketball-centric arena which can also host concerts.

     

    I'm torn. I like the versatility of the true multi-purpose arena, but don't like how far back the seats are for basketball as compared to the more intimate basketball-centric arenas.

     

    Just by watching other cities & schools online over the past decade, it seems to me the nicer new arenas being built for college basketball are basketball-centric arenas, which, of course, can also host concerts & volleyball, but not hockey or indoor soccer.

  25. Basketball practice facility (and more) coming

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    17 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

    I actually feel a downtown arena would attract less fans, not more. It's already hard enough to get students to the games as is. Making them walk 20 minutes in the cold and snow would only further deter them. 

     

    Not to mention attendance for pretty much all sports, at all levels is on the decline. Sure, we might get a temporary attendance boost when it's brand new, but that luster would soon wear off and we'll be looking at 2500 fans in a 7500 arena. I just don't subscribe to the philosophy of build it and they will come. 

     

    Also, I think sometimes people overlook how scarcity generates demand, especially with this younger crowd that wants to gloat on social media. I think it would be great seeing students camp out for tickets to a big game or something like that. You see at some other schools that have smaller arenas with limited student seating. Or see people feel the need to have to renew their season tickets because they don't want to have to go back on a wait list. Those kind of things is what makes a program feel like it's big time.

    This is a good conversation, @kreed5120.  Thank you.

     

    While I still think, if we were to build a true D-1 arena, the capacity should be 7,500, and I also think that across from Canal Park would be a perfect location... I also would be satisfied if it were on Exchange Street.  I think the block between Allyn & Kling, where Thursday's Lounge & the Starz Market currently sit would be a good spot.  If that block's not big enough, then cross over Kling & go from Allyn to Kathryn Place.  

     

    Exchange is a major road in/thru downtown & would have auxiliary benefit to downtown restaurants/bars (which in turn would have auxiliary benefit to the U, especially after the city completes the Exchange Street Corridor project.  I want Akron to be a college town!).  

     

     

     

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