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He does have an impact..might not be as big as some on here might think, but there is some. Zeke Marshall said that LeBron being around the JAR in the NBA offseason was a factor on him coming here. Same with others...may not be a big factor in them coming here, but if they have a choice between two schools and they are very similar, but one has an NBA superstar that comes back a few times in offseason, while the other one doesn't, it could be an impact...

At this point, I'll pull out a Bill Cowher quote... "SO WHAT IF WE WON UGLY?" Even though I wouldn't be happy about it, but I would take a 27-26 win...because a win is a win...especially in the MAC East this year...

Obviously, with Rachel Tecca out, this team is not the same offensively. The worst part about it is they didn't work on defense that much so far this year, because Coach Kest wanted to play an up-tempo game and had to put a lot of that in before the first game, when defense would normally be worked on. Here's what the first round of games results: Bowling Green 76, Can't State 57 Ohio 73, Buffalo 64 Miami(OH) 95, Akron 85 Central Michigan 86, Northern Illinois 67 Ball State 54, Eastern Michigan 51 Western Michigan 70, Toledo 67

Terry Bowden to Akron Some of them bring up good points, and others are well....yeah, not so much...I wonder if equins has a yappi account... Anyways, I think page 5, post #137 brings up that he's hearing a strong rumor of Tommy Bowden potentially being asked to join the Zips' staff... It also amazes me the lovefest of YSU fans that are on there... Basically, the reason i posted this topic, was to show you that Bowden has gained steam at places that weren't touch 2-4 years ago here as a football program...and that's the local social media whether it's message boards, forums, blogs, newspapers, facebook, twitter, etc. Can't wait to show those YSU fans who the best in NE Ohio will be (and YSU)

agreed...but I think that might be a given with how our division in MAC has turned out in the re-alignment...

I think it's clear that Bowden might be the guy to awake the sleeping giant of our football program here....Don't want to get ahead of myself here, but this could very well be the start of us being the Boise State of the East....

Do we still have film from Brookhart's last season? If so, wouldn't it be beneficial for Coach Bowden to see how Nicely did in the games his freshmen year. To be honest, I think that many posters on here, had higher expectations for Nicely in his sophomore year, because how he played in MAC play his freshmen year. Then a different system entirely from what Nicely was used to freshmen year with Brookhart, and before he was at Willoughby South. I wouldn't rule out any of the three quite yet...but wouldn't surprise me if one of the three are gone by the spring game...

Yeah...because leaving a 20 some year old to run an organization is the best way to go . It's the Cavs organization's fault for always trying to please LeBron instead of just building a team, even if LeBron didn't even like that particular decision. Kobe Bryant hasn't like every decision the Lakers had made, but look where they've been. That's enough NBA talk for me already...especially since this is a college football forum...

I don't know what happened with the earlier game link I posted this morning...sorry to anyone that tried it...was listening to French on the way back from out of town...man, are those winds heavy out there?

Check here at tip-off

You forgot about the chef that will be present on the sidelines during the home football games

Did I ever say the referees were terrible? NO Did I feel we played lousy defense majority of night? YES Have I seen worse officiated games before? Unfortunately I mentioned the free throw attempts due to thinking that it would show the lack of hustle we had to box out and keep VCU from getting so many dadgum offensive boards. I'm sure they scored about 50-70% of their possessions off of offensive rebounds. You'll never see me complain about referees the rest of the year. I saw 70+ fouls called in a 32 minute high school game before. Ended up not being a basketball game. Just ended up being who shot the best at the free throw line. Each team attempted more free throws, than the amount of minutes played(one team had 45 free throws, while the other had 36). So you won't see me complaining much...and the free throw stat was just put out there to show two things: 1) VCU was more aggressive 2) Our defensive closeouts and defensive slides were lazy, which let practically any VCU player go to the basket...

at one point VCU had 29 free throw attempts to our 10...

thanks JZ84, I was going to keep the link up, but thought M(OH) fans were laughing at us like the Can't, Ball State, and others have...When I googled John Pont, I didn't find the result I wanted. So I deleted the original post real quick. Here's what is was, since it's safe to share it now: Pont to Akron?

Some of the MAC love our hire, and some hate it...That tells me we got the right coach...

It's quite hilarious how most of what they're saying are off the field "issues" with Terry Bowden...not on the field, since they know all he does is win... thread on Terry Bowden

You going to be in town, Districtballer?

Title of thread explanatory...game is FREE...

tonight's women's basketball game is FREE...come out and meet him!!!!!!

Link sent me to macsports.com...can't get it to load though...anyone else able to?

Great analysis Zip Watcher!!!!!! :bow: :bow: I agree about the 1986 debacle. Huggins felt neglected, and left Akron. Let's just hope history doesn't repeat itself....

Did not know which thread mentioned PTI having the Akron hire mentioned on their show, so I started a new one, and if the moderators know which thread it was in, they can merge this one with that one if they want to so the football page isn't so cluttered. Wish everyone Happy Holidays this weekend and throughout next week as well! Here's the video

They're in denial over there