Zipmeister

Temple's Akron connection........ https://owlsports.com/sports/football/roster/darvon-hubbard/16333

I'm so desperate for Zip football news I spent 45 minutes studying your blank post of yesterday at 09:22 AM and imagining what might have been in it at one point in time. It could have been about future schedules, or scoreboard news. I was filled with gloriously grand expectations. Was it about a straight up home and away against a weak P5? Was the new scoreboard going to employ 3D? Were the Zips going to get new uniforms so cool it would make the nipples of those Zipnation members who care about such stuff rock hard? Was it announcing that the ABJ was assigning a writer to cover Zip athletics full time. It was at this point that it occurred to me that I might be having a stroke so I stopped studying your post.

At your suggestion I have modified the original Table. Dropped Idaho like a hot potato (potatoe if you are a Dan Quayle fan). Added Sam Houston State and Jacksonville State (Conference USA must be so proud). Also added Coastal Carolina.

Now I feel even better..............

There are lots of ties, but Rivals is only showing the top 100 teams including 4 from the MAC. Why not list the other 30?

I think there are 133 FBS teams. Rivals only has 100 ranked. What happened to the rest?

Never mind. It actually Kent that they have as #1 and the difference between them and the #2 Zips is not clear to me.

I see Rivals provides some explanation for their rankings: looking at the link cat provided I see - The Zips are ranked second in the MAC with 17 transfers with an average rating of 2.29 and five 3 stars, Canada is ranked first in the MAC with 11 transfers with an average rating of 2.09 and one three star. Oh, now I understand, that makes perfect sense!

Apparently Rivals puts out lots of these rankings. The ranking I'm seeing has the Zips in 9th and Canada dead last. https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2024/midam/football/recruiting I like what catdad found better.

Rutgers has a fine intramural sports program. In addition, in both 1933 and 1934, Rutgers won the collegiate national championship in power boating. And they also claim the national championship in football the first year it was a collegiate sport – 1869. Maryland has a more extensive history of national athletic championships. https://umterps.com/sports/2015/4/30/national-championships.aspx

They may do that, just as soon as all (or most) G5's give up the hope of being the next Cincy, Houston, UCF.

Given the Big 12's recent addition of Colorado, Utah, AZ, and AZ St, I'll wager you don't have to kick over too many rocks to find Big 12 stakeholders who seriously regret previously admitting Cincy, UCF and Houston. Cincy and UCF in particular seemed like good lifelines at the time, but now, not so much.

As I understand it, it’s a three-pronged approach. 1. Permanently implement daylight savings time nationwide. 2. Require all stadium ladies rooms to provide free sanitary napkins. 3. Eliminate the transfer portal.

Word on the street is that the BC football team may be coming down with a severe case of Zipaphobia (a deathly fear that players that they want will end up playing for Akron). Zipaphobia can develop when at least three of the propects that a team has offered scholarships to commit instead to the University of Akron.

So am I reading his time line correctly or not? Six offers in one day; what would explain that?

If this is the guy, he certainly is well-traveled and he appears to have his sights set on bigger/better programs than he has tended to attract. Maybe the recent offer by Houston will be more to his liking. If he wants to be closer to his home in Springfield, Ohio this may increase the odds he signs with the Zips. https://247sports.com/recruitment/rod-green-162475/recruitinterests/

Generally positive message from the AD. was shocked, however, by the first sentence where he stated that Zip athletics has only one fan and one donor! It was not clear whether just one person was both the fan and the donor or if two people are involved.

Four questions................. Why are all you guys(with and without insider knowledge of the Zips football team) ducking monrowe's question? Is Johnny really JD's son? If Johnny does play for the Zips, why isn't he listed on the roster? Why hasn't catdaddyp posted a detailed player bio on Johnny?

Maybe they were storing John's football gear in a closet there.

I was born, and spent the first 31 years of my life, in Akron and never heard of the Heisman lodge before!

I posted a table in the "Where is all the recruiting money coming from?" thread to suggest that, compared to other MAC programs, the Zips have scrimped on staff to be able to help fund an obviously larger recruiting budget.* The same table might also at least partially explain the lack of info posting by the team that some of you are complaining about. IMHO, this staff is really thin. We could use, at a minimum, a graduate assistant or two with excellent computer skills. * The good news is at least the coaches realize we need better players to improve. If left to there own devices, academic types would increase the football staff with a variety of vice presidents each in charge of a different really important thing like concession stand signage or ticket taker uniforms.

By LARRY LAGE and CLAIRE SAVAGE, Associated Press Updated 16 hours ago Allegations of hazing in Northwestern’s athletic programs have broadened CHICAGO (AP) — Allegations of hazing in Northwestern's athletic programs broadened Wednesday as attorneys said male and female athletes reported misconduct within two other sports and suggested sexual abuse and racial discrimination within the football program was so rampant that coaches knew it was happening. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he and other attorneys have received disturbing details from former baseball and softball players at the university, in addition to growing complaints of abuse in the football program, which players described as widespread and devastating. “This is a civil rights issue for me,” said Crump, who said 50 former Northwestern athletes — male and female — have spoken to the Levin & Perconti law firm. “I think these players have the right to be respected and valued and not hazed, intimidated and retaliated.” Black football players appeared to have faced an additional layer of abuse. A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses fired football coach Pat Fitzgerald of enabling a culture of racism, including forcing players of color to cut their hair and behave differently to be more in line with the “Wildcat Way.” “The abusive culture was especially devastating for many players of color,” said former Northwestern quarterback and receiver Lloyd Yates, who is Black. Crump and Chicago-based attorney Steven Levin said they have not filed a lawsuit yet on behalf of any athletes. The attorneys represent 15 people, including Yates, and have been in touch with dozens of former athletes. Crump said the majority of those are football players. Warren Miles Long, a running back on Northwestern’s football team starting in 2013, said players were put into a culture where sexual violence and hazing was “rampant.” He said new recruits had no sense of whether it was normal or limited to Northwestern. The attorneys declined to detail the former athletes’ complaints about the baseball or softball programs. The Evanston, Illinois-based private school fired baseball coach Jim Foster amid allegations of misconduct last week, three days after Fitzgerald was dismissed. Northwestern has been added to a long list of American universities to face a scandal in athletics and may eventually join the trend of making large payouts following allegations of sexual abuse. A former Wildcats football player filed the first lawsuit against Fitzgerald and members of the school's leadership Tuesday, seeking damages stemming from the hazing scandal. More lawsuits, filed by multiple law firms, are expected to follow from former football and baseball players as well as from student-athletes who played other sports for the private school. Yates said every member of the team were victims, “no matter what our role was at the time,” and lamented the school and team’s lack of leadership. “The university and football program let us down and that’s why we are here today,” Yates said, surrounded by some teammates who have also retained the Crump-led team of attorneys. In a letter to Northwestern’s faculty and staff, University President Michael Schill wrote that an outside firm will be hired to evaluate how the school detects threats to student-athletes’ welfare and to examine the athletics culture in Evanston, Illinois, and its relationship to academics at the prestigious institution. Northwestern fired Fitzgerald last week after a university investigation found allegations of hazing by 11 current or former players, including “forced participation, nudity and sexualized acts of a degrading nature,” Schill wrote. After the school initially suspended Fitzgerald, The Daily Northwestern published an article including allegations from a former player who described specific instances of hazing and abuse and suggested he may have been aware. Fitzgerald, who led Northwestern for 17 seasons and was a star linebacker for the Wildcats, has maintained he had no knowledge of the hazing. Fitzgerald said after being fired that he was working with his agent, Bryan Harlan, and his lawyer, Dan Webb, to “protect my rights in accordance with the law.” An emailed statement Wednesday from Fitzgerald’s defense team quoted Webb responding to allegations, saying: “no arguments were made that would present any substantive, detailed, factual allegations, let alone evidence, about Coach Fitzgerald’s conduct,” and that Fitzgerald's legal team “will aggressively defend against these and any other allegations with facts and evidence.” Webb, a former U.S. attorney, has been one of the most sought-after private lawyers in the country for decades. The former Northwestern football player, identified in the Tuesday lawsuit as John Doe, alleged Fitzgerald, Schill, the board of trustees and athletic director Derrick Gragg enabled and concealed sexual misconduct and racial discrimination. The player, who was on the football team from 2018 to 2022, had his filing submitted by the Chicago-based Salvi Law Firm. A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of another former Northwestern athlete who was on the football team during the same period, identified as John Doe 2. It named Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner James J. Phillips, Northwestern’s athletic director until 2021, as a defendant. Phillips did not immediately respond to a text request for comment. “It wasn’t just confined to one bad actor,” said attorney Parker Stinar, adding that he expects to file several more related lawsuits.

72, how could you read my response to 94 and not see that between the lines I was saying: "94, you sure ask some good questions and I hope one of your fellow ZipNationers can provide you with the answers you seek. I still love you 94."

And when I Google "basketball Akron shootout" I get lots of cites for shootings that have occurred in Akron.

I'm not sure the answer to your first question dictates the answer to your second question.