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I can't believe we lost on a fumble return for TD on a run that would have put us in make-able, even for our kickers, FG range. I knew we were on the way to winning that came. But in the end we lost because our OL is a sieve. Too many sacks and pressures. No holes for the running game. This year we are losing because of poor execution. Last three years we lost because of zero coaching. Execution can, and will be, fixed. Jo knows what he is doing. Trust the process.

I am amazed at how adroitly Larry Williams has leveraged his credentials of Notre Dame, pro football and a law degree in order to get jobs in which he does absolutely nothing. At Akron he made the situation worse than what he inherited and then bailed before he was held accountable to fix it. Good luck USF. Your search committee did not do their job.

You hire a coach for the long run. You want a guy who will build a legacy. Coach Jo will do just that. He gets it and he gets Akron. Just watch his presser and you realize he wants to deliver a win as bad as we want one. Our mistakes will be corrected and we will cease to beat ourselves. That will happen because we have good coaching and we are growing our talent base. Neither of those two happened under Arth or Bowden. The process may be painful at times, ala BUGS and Liberty, but the foundation is emerging. We haven't seen this engagement from the coaches or the team in a long time. From that base Jo will turn it around.

😂 Damn keyboard!

Wow! Where did that come from ME? Call me crazy, but if we are having problems with streaming telecasts I thought it would be reasonable to go to the guy who directs that operation. If it continues I agree that we should go higher. I'm having a hard time understanding how going to Chad equates to "worship' of our AD. I really don't think he spends part of his day choosing the cameraperson for each streaming telecast. But what do I know, maybe he does. One thing for sure, I'd hate to see your response if we weren't friends.

"If" you can find the space key after a comma your post will be readable and not like a graduate of PCCC. Sorry, that was pretty low. No one should suffer that indignation. 😁

That was an incredibly horrible production. The camera person should never do a game again. Send your comments to Chad Welker at cvw1@uakron.edu. I hope he is inundated with emails so we never have to suffer thru that again.

This game was a huge booster shot for all Zip fans that we are on the right track and getting better each week. I think we will be fine in the MAC but Miami, Central and PCCC still scare me. I hope this week they work with Irons to not lock on one receiver thereby waiting too long for him to get open and risking a sack. Irons really needs to work on his progression. If you watch yesterday's game closely he rarely moves his head looking around and we do have open WR's. With the lack of a running game I am curious as to why Norrils does not get PT. In my mind he is better than Price. Norrils will hit the hole harder than any of our RB's. Perhaps his lack of PT is an issue they are keeping inside the team. I hope not. I hope to see the guy get a serious look in games.

Winning is the answer to attendance increasing. I have always felt that the NE Ohio fan is very intelligent when it comes to appreciating good football. Put crap in front of them and they will not come. Show them quality and they will begin to turn out. Quality also leads to winning games. Those two issues are intertwined. Joe has a huge task in front of him. Perhaps bigger than he initially thought. Nonetheless he is capable and will get the job done. These days look dark, but we are laying the foundation that will yield a MAC championship program under Joe. In Jo We Trust!

You are clearly a guy that says the glass is half full. Bring on the Vols.

Got to agree with Lee. Our team is a work in progress. I went to the MSU game and came away hopeful. I realize Irons is hurt, perhaps for a long time. Joe will find a replacement altho we may lose game we counted on winning. But our OL got better. They protected and opened holes. The DL looks much improved and showed they are capable of putting pressure on the QB. The game is won on the lines and we are setting a solid foundation. We have to solve problems in the secondary and at LB. Joe called a good game. Not so sure on the defensive side. So we are a team of a lot of new, moving parts. Chemistry is building. The only tradition we have to rely on is bad tradition. We need time. The culture is changing and when it changes completely we will win. In Jo We Trust.

That was indeed a hell of a team. It served notice that Stu Parry had built the program to compete on a national level.

Most of the predictions I've seen give us too much credit for improvement this week. We do not have the talent to stay with MSU. Coaching and new players will make little impression on our team's fortunes. Our journey continues with slow growth. 51-10 MSU.

Meister, now that you mentioned it I have two impressions. My first is going to East Lansing to play on a cold day against a Spartan team that featured two Jamaican national players. How the hell they got to Michigan from Jamaica is mind boggling. They had speed and we lost. My second is getting them back at Jackson Field with 3,000 fans lining the field and lots of rain. Our keeper Stein Christiansen was incredible. That was a very heated rivalry. Now we own them and most of the Big Ten.

I for one was impressed with the quality of their players. Some were outstanding and would look good in blue and gold.

I watched Kent v. Washington. I thought Kent was better coached than us and had better talent. Based on what I saw in this first week we may have too big a gap to make up when playing the Flashes. They are the better team for now. There is much in our first game that was disappointing, primarily QB and OL. Both were terrible. Still, this is a marathon and JoMo knows that. He probably also knows he has a bigger rebuild than he thought. That's OK. We have the right coach and he will deliver. This could be a painful year, even when we get to the MAC play. Like others there were transfers I had hoped he would play. I don't know why he didn't get them in the game, but I trust his decisions despite dying to know why they weren't in. You gotta be tough to be a Zip fan......and we are. Enjoy soccer. Jared has a hell of a team that could see final four. Go Zips!

I also went with the Zips by 4 TD's. Our OL is now good, not great, but moving in the right direction. We have 3 WR's that will not be stopped and 2 RB's (Wiley and Norells) who allow us to attack all over the field with talent and depth. The offense will be kept simple for Irons so execution becomes the goal not diversity. None of this is good if we cannot stop SFU. Our D will be much improved. Every facet will be better. Improvement starts with the DL. We got better on the DL but it is the area that we improved the least. Yet if they are serviceable our LB's and DB's can carry the day. The D is going from terrible to fair. It will take time to get to the level we need in the MAC and it will not happen in games with MSU and Tennessee. But it will continue the improvement over the entire season. I'm good with that as that's when we will need it the most.

Damn! That was great. Our program is in fantastic hands. I hope we can keep him for a long while as he builds a legacy at UA.

We opened with a very good team at their place. We were the better team contrary to the idiocy of the play by play announcer. We have work to do, but we are deep and explosive. Our D was solid but lost cohesion in the last 10 minutes. That can be corrected with training and game experience together. Does anyone know why Malik not get much PT? I take to Jared last week and he said this could be a final four team if he can find leadership both on and off the field. There is a lot to be excited about with this team.

Miami seems to have the best facility in the MAC other than game day (Stadium). They have set a high standard. Congrats to the Redhawks.

I have got to echo your belief that our past failure wasn't all due to lack of talent. Our coaching staff was undeniably incompetent. Put the staff with an incompetent HC and AD and you have the makings of 3 wins over three years. Coaching makes a difference. In Jo We Trust!

I stopped in last week. They have little that has the new logo. I spoke with a manager and he said they have to move some of the current inventory before they can bring in more of the new branded items. He also said that their supply chain was very slow and he didn't anticipate a wide variety of new branded items until the beginning of the new year (2023).

Thanks. Keep the updates coming. Go Zips!

I watched this interview after returning from vacation. I was blown away. Coach Rod is a potential head coach. Coach JoMo has done a hell of a job in assembling a superior staff. Once again we have another reason as to why our program is in great hands. Can't wait for fall.

These upgrades point out that previous AD's were at best caretakers who did not want to do the work necessary to improve all our programs. Charles is a different sort of guy. He carries a chip on his shoulder because he started on the low rung of the athletic administration ladder. But talent cannot be hidden and he has moved up with every school he has been at. Enjoy him while we have him. He will get a better offer and he will be gone if it puts him closer to his and his wife's families in NY State. While he is here he will do a great job and that's all we can ask. That being said I'd still love to see what he could do with 20 years at UA.