ZachTheZip

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My review of the offense:

I just don't see him being able to beat Chapman.

This offense is a joke. Needs a complete re-eveluation of all coaches, players, and called plays after the season.

Or with that much protection, an open lane to run for some yards.

We're an offseason away from better talent at QB. Still no word on any kind of WR coming in, though, which is the real issue to me.

Because he can't focus solely on the QB during practice anymore. It's not about paycalling, it's about coaching. Milwee can't coach the QBs because he's busy coordinating the practices and and position coaches.

Milwee is a really good QB coach. He's also a really bad offensive coordinator. Put him back at QB coach and let Bowden take back the OC duties. Bowden originally gave OC to Milwee so he could focus more on the defense. The defense looks good now. Time to switch the focus back.

He has the confidence needed to be an effective floor general, and plenty of skill to back it up. But he's still a freshman and still will make mistakes, and can still get worn down if the defense focuses on him. I went and looked up DJ Cooper's freshman stats. Cooper averaged 13.5 ppg to Noah's 13.2. Very similar, but Noah has been much more accurate from the field. But Cooper averaged 5.4 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, to Noah's 3 rpg and 2.2 apg. I used Cooper as a comparison, because he's the ultimate example of a freshman superstar point guard that we've all seen and can relate to. I like Noah's game a lot, but his assist numbers are lacking. Part of that is on the team. Nobody on the roster has shown to be any good at getting assists. Maybe that's a product of Dambrot's offense.

In his three seasons, how many of Bowden's troubled transfers have gotten into more trouble while at Akron? He has an eye for players in need of a second chance.

Don't look now, but ESPN dropped Jacob Harrison off all their rankings, and demoted him to a 3-star recruit. They're probably just mad that they had to mention Akron as the desination of a top recruit.

The MAC has a bunch of back-up contracts with other bowls.

The coaches need to figure out why that always seems to happen.

The fact that we haven't heard anything either way from anybody yet is strange. Is he getting charged? What's going on?

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Penn State barely beat the USC team that Akron dominated. However, PSU will be playing at home, and had much better travel arrangements than the Zips. Still, this is a game Akron should win.

I can already imagine the athletic department throwing a fit about not being able to put the students somewhere unobtrusive.

Just put in my 50 votes. They are the only sure-fire way to get points, since they don't rely on an intern to approve them. The more I think about it, the ideal strategy for votes is to do as much of the big stuff (pics, tweets) as possible during business hours, and vote during off hours.

But their bus wasn't, because they were smart enough to go around the disaster zone. Why didn't the equipment truck go the same way?

I think they had to take I-390 and US-15 to Williamsburg PA, before turning back west.

Don't wait until late tonight to do it. I'm convinced that Capital One has interns working on counting points, and they stop counting sometime in the evening.

It is. Doesn't matter how many are bowl eligible, because the contracts dictate who goes where.

Don't forget we also play @ Penn State on Tuesday. They're definitely beatable. Four power conference teams in a row before we gorge on cupcakes.

The only thing in our control is the game on Friday. If we win, we would be the sixth-best team in a conference with five bowl tie-ins. If we get a bowl invite, great! If not, the team put themselves in this position by losing multiple games they were favored to win.

Not much room on the roster for new additions unless we have several players transferring out.