ZachTheZip

Glen Mason would be the worst possible thing. You thought Ianello was hated? At least he had to earn his hate. Mason coached at Can't, and so already has a built-in animosity among a huge portion of the Zips fanbase. We should not hire him. He should never even be allowed on campus. Who will we invite into our facilities next, Dean Pees?

LB Mason Monheim commits to Illinois

Whoever we hire, DON'T LOWER YOUR STANDARDS! I've seen this sentiment popping up all over the place, from Zips fans to the media to random strangers: "If the next coach can get to four or five wins every year, Akron should be celebrating". Did our standards fall that low in just two years? Just because the previous coach sucked doesn't give his replacement an excuse to never have a winning record. We should be celebrating that; we should fire him. It's win the MAC East or bust. You have four years to do it, Next Coach. But that doesn't mean you can take the next three years easy. We should be challenging by year three, and the first two should show unquestionable improvement and competitiveness. It's disturbing that we might now be content with forever sucking. "Yeah, the guy won five games. Give him a contract extension!"

I can't confirm, so I'll put this up as a rumor instead of adding him to the list. LB Shane Nastahowski from Greenwich, CT is possibly committed to the Akron Zips. He is supposedly re-thinking his decision.

I don't know. It's on our broadcast schedule. I guess check back closer to game time?

Odd that Paul Zeise, the Pitt football beat writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, knew nothing this afternoon of a Narduzzi interview even though he seems to have details of others being interviewed for the job. Help wanted: Pitt opens coaching interviews with Fickell, Cristobal That was written before footballscoop.com (which I'm sure was his "source") posted an update saying that Narduzzi and Mario Cristobal also interviewed later this afternoon.

New offer: JUCO DE Bernardo Nunez OT Raymond Marlow commits to Toledo WR Marquis Bundy commits to Montana

Narduzzi also interviewed for the Pitt job.

The only way he will do what you said is if the rest of the MAC quit playing football and the league just gave us the title every year by default. We can do better than Winters' mediocrity, but we're not even trying. Its deeply saddening to me.

That's the current list.

New offer reported: JUCO DT Roland Johnson

Latina hired to coach the Duke OL.

Can't say I blame him. I just don't know what school would take him.

"Dead period" is an official term used by the NCAA to describe a time when recruiting contact is only allowed by phone or letter.

Whoever we hire, it should have been at least a week ago. If we wait until sunday to announce the coach will not be able to recruit at all, because the recruiting "dead period" where coaches can no longer have contact with prospects starts on Monday. If Winters really wanted the job, we could have leveraged to get him to earlier or else we would need to move on. The fact that we are waiting is horrendous for the wellbeing of the football program. I don't care about your stupid D-II playoffs that draw less than high school games. Either you want to be our coach and will come here on our terms, or you don't really want the job. It's excruciating to me that we're intentionally crippling the program in order to get this guy. It's also a disturbing sign that we really had no other plan but to hire Winters, even as better options were knocking on the door. This is disgusting and Wistrcill should be fired for this B.S.

I think that's more than likely, ZW. Akron is waiting until they have interviewed all the candidates before announcing. Doesn't mean Winters is getting the job. UA just wants to wait until they have interviewed him and compared him to the other candidates before making a decision.

And Wayne State is still the Lions according to George, probably because nobody bothered to correct him in the comment section of his first article. They corrected him, he just doesn't care. Anybody know who the sports editor is?

You mean the article where he doesn't say anything one way or the other?

If all the candidates are equal as far as on-the-field performance (I'm not saying they are all equal there. Winters would be worse than, say, Narduzzi), wouldn't you want the guy that also brings an element of excitement to the community and can get the most people to show up and the most media coverage on top of that? Or would you rather bring in a guy that doesn't have any cache and brings along echoes of a failed period in Zips history, just because he's an "Akron guy"? Take away any Akron connection and Winters wouldn't even be on our radar. If he was an OC at some other school before taking over Wayne State, would anybody here even consider him?

So hiring a noname coach from MSU or Toledo is going to get people excited? Let's not focus on this though.... ......Let's focus on the first paragraph. Normally, a paragraph as stupid as the first above is reserved for drunks posting in the early hours of the morning. Done with finals are we? I can't believe you're arguing that Paul Winters has more name recognition than any of the other coaching candidates. He has the least name recognition of them all. Pat Narduzzi is known to a half-million MSU fans as a guy who will almost certainly be a BCS head coach by the end of the decade. Mike Johnson is known throughout Los Angeles from working at UCLA and nationally from his time coaching in the NFL. The only people who know Winters are his former players and a few thousand people in the 'hood of Detroit. I know how much you love Lee Owens' old offense, but Winters is not the guy for this job and he never will be. He had his chances and came up just short, just like his offense constantly did.

There is a former coordinator out there who once had his offenses in the Top 10 nationally. This former coordinator has also taken a laughing stock from one of the worst teams in their division to the brink of playing in a national championship game. This coordinator has also coached in the MAC so he understands how difficult it is to win somewhere like Akron. Rumor has it, he has close ties to Akron as well. Not another William Riker. There also is a head coach who had his offense in the top 10 nationally. He has seen success as a head coach at a local lower division college. He has ties to many local high schools and a locally worshipped BCS school. He has even won at Akron before. Why aren't we discussing hiring him instead of one of his lackeys? Because given the chance to assemble an entire team, Owens was a failure at Akron. 40 wins in 9 years doesn't cut it regardless of how anyone wants to slice it. Winters has had success with what he had control over and shouldn't have what he didn't have control over held against him. Given control over an entire team, Winters has had success so when given the opportunity, he can put together an entire team. He had control over putting himself out in public to promote his offense and building his own reputation as a solid coach. If he had succeeded in these, we would have hired him instead of Brookhart. It's not just about calling plays. We need someone who can excite the community in more ways than putting a good product on the field, because at this point nobody goes to see the product or even keeps tabs on it through what little media coverage we get. He could get us to six wins in his first year and nobody would notice or care because they've already been jilted by Akron in the past and don't want to see what we have to offer now. I would like one example please where the head coach was let go and a coordinator under that coach was hired in his place. Winning excites the community. Winters has proven that he can take a program like Wayne State and LIKE Akron and turn it around and make it a winner. Uh, Matt Campbell?

There is a former coordinator out there who once had his offenses in the Top 10 nationally. This former coordinator has also taken a laughing stock from one of the worst teams in their division to the brink of playing in a national championship game. This coordinator has also coached in the MAC so he understands how difficult it is to win somewhere like Akron. Rumor has it, he has close ties to Akron as well. Not another William Riker. There also is a head coach who had his offense in the top 10 nationally. He has seen success as a head coach at a local lower division college. He has ties to many local high schools and a locally worshipped BCS school. He has even won at Akron before. Why aren't we discussing hiring him instead of one of his lackeys? Because given the chance to assemble an entire team, Owens was a failure at Akron. 40 wins in 9 years doesn't cut it regardless of how anyone wants to slice it. Winters has had success with what he had control over and shouldn't have what he didn't have control over held against him. Given control over an entire team, Winters has had success so when given the opportunity, he can put together an entire team. He had control over putting himself out in public to promote his offense and building his own reputation as a solid coach. If he had succeeded in these, we would have hired him instead of Brookhart. It's not just about calling plays. We need someone who can excite the community in more ways than putting a good product on the field, because at this point nobody goes to see the product or even keeps tabs on it through what little media coverage we get. He could get us to six wins in his first year and nobody would notice or care because they've already been jilted by Akron in the past and don't want to see what we have to offer now.

Call him out in the comments section of the Canton Rep.

There is a former coordinator out there who once had his offenses in the Top 10 nationally. This former coordinator has also taken a laughing stock from one of the worst teams in their division to the brink of playing in a national championship game. This coordinator has also coached in the MAC so he understands how difficult it is to win somewhere like Akron. Rumor has it, he has close ties to Akron as well. Not another William Riker. There also is a head coach who had his offense in the top 10 nationally. He has seen success as a head coach at a local lower division college. He has ties to many local high schools and a locally worshipped BCS school. He has even won at Akron before. Why aren't we discussing hiring him instead of one of his lackeys?

http://www.cantonrep.com/community/blogs/x...cial-media-mark The Canton Rep doesn't like this idea. Then again, they never liked anything to do with UA because we don't recruit exclusively from Stark County's pool of leftover DII-worthy high school players. Edit: JZ84 beat me to the punch. Really, though, is anyone shocked that the Suppository has to tear down any attempt at putting a positive spin on the coach search?