Blue & Gold

Still have my fingers crossed on getting two more verbal commits to sign on the dotted line: OL Maurice Long & LB Joshua Bowen Bowen is the 6-3 stud LB from Florida that may have been our first commit of the year (IIRC). Maurice Long is an OL who was recently selected to play for the South in the Ohio North-South All-Star Game.

So Terrence Thomas signed with Purdue as a RB? He's an explosive offensive player. Maybe our tweet listing him as a Safety is a typo? @LZIp

+1. His highlights as a WR were outstanding. He's got the ability to turn screen passes into TD's. Safety, eh? 🧐

Why will they need to be re-offered?

I guess I'll post this article here. It could have gone in a number of different threads. The article talks about how Early Signing Day (December 21st) and the Transfer Portal have taken much of the luster off of the traditional Signing Day which has (always?) been on the first Wednesday of February. One enlightening quote, concerning the impact of the Transfer Portal, from former Zips RB and current Buchtel HC Bryan Williams: “You've got to tell your players, 'If you get an offer and you feel as though that that's the school where you want to be, hey, man, you've got to commit to that school because that offer may not be there.' You got it probably in December, and, in January, it may not be there because they've got a guy that they may pull from the portal. So you have to be strategic.”

Wait a minute. That dude calls us angry? 🤨

On Post #1 I've listed OL Ben Frank as a scholarship player and Aiden Diaz and Langston Ragland as PWO's, though Langston's post is the only one which specifies him as a PWO.

That block at 0:18 may be the best highlight I've ever seen! 🤣🤣🤣 That was against Barberton 😭😭 Drew Holt was a great HS OL but is definitely a walk-on at the college FBS level.

I was thinking the same. He's probably in his 30's 😂

Here's an intriguing offer. I'm digging it. 6-6 player from Indiana who looks like he's mainly being targeted for basketball, but MAN he is built like a truck & is athletic as all get out! Can't believe that's a high school senior. That's a freaking full grown-ass man 🤯😂

That could keep you away.

Buffalo... where it is always winter but never Christmas.

Come home, Lanae!

You guys were still great! It just doesn't look as intimidating when the section has a large swath of blue seats in the center. But you guys who were there were fantastic! Thank you! The players love it and it really adds to the atmosphere of the game day experience for everyone in attendance. I had another question, what was with so many of the Rowdies wearing red yesterday? What was the theme?

Noticed that. What gives? It’s a big game.

Did Kent not look so hot?

I know local schools have felt slighted by some past coaching staffs, but like you said, this is a new staff. Who knows, maybe they hit these Akron-area schools months ago & I just missed the tweets. We did offer ‘24 Hoban LB Rickey Williams, so I was excited about that one. He’s a stud.

No idea. There are also some players from Hoban that other schools seem to be inexplicably beating us to the punch on. How is that at all fathomable? Within the last couple days even KSUck’s brand new defensive coordinator has posted pics of recent visits to East, Buchtel, and Hoban. Makes me slightly ill.

Judging by his other offers Aiden’s most likely a preferred walk-on. Welcome, Aiden!

He won some northeast Ohio sports award but I’m pretty sure it’s concerning 2022.

That’s a good idea.