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12 hours ago, 94zipgrad said:
Our linebackers can't improve if we don't get some big DT's to keep the lineman off the 2nd level, I think that is our biggest hole & I'm hoping the next recruit put on this list can help & hopefully the Bowden name can get a transfer or two as well, we are small up front for D1 football
Big tackles are at a premium. Personally, I am a big fan of converting big RB's into DT's. I have said before that I think Newman Williams should be looked at for DT but as CK pointed out he is awfully injury prone to play the position. Nico Caponi was a good DT for us because he was a physical specimen and was tough as nails. Cody Grice was very athletic for a big man and also was a tough guy. In recent history, other than these two guys, we have leaned heavily on transfers to come in and shore up the defensive line. When you are so dependent on transfers, they have to come in and produce at a high level. We can't have guys like Jelani Hamilton come in and be a total bust. Perhaps we just got spoiled by the likes of J.D. Griggs, Keontae Hollis, C.J. James, Moses McCray, Albert Presley, Nordly Capi, Rodney Coe and Jamal Marcus. All these guys came in and contributed to the success of the defense. I guess we were due for a letdown.
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32 minutes ago, 94zipgrad said:
We need some BIG DT's
Said every program in America.
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1 hour ago, LZIp said:
Coaching staff may want to take a look at one of these guys? GA State had 7! players decommit in two days.
http://fanbuzz.com/story/one-fbs-school-has-had-seven-recruits-decommit-over-the-past-two-days/
Taking a look at this list makes me feel better about our recruiting. Wow.
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Looks like UVa wanted Nick to switch positions to RB or LB.
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3 minutes ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
I guess I would have to ask the question - what would make anyone think the Zips football program would have the success that YSU, or NDSU, or App State or Georgia Southern enjoyed during their 1-AA hey days? Baed upon what I've seen over the past 30 years...a pretty relevant statistical sampling period... I'll guess the Zips would have been nothing more than minor playoff contenders, with more losing records than winning ones.
At the 1-AA level: YSU had Tressel, who won multiple championships. We had Dennison...who was a decent coach.
YSU's losing began when Tressel left. And mysteriously kicked back in when he returned (yeah, he's not the HC, but that's irrelevant).
A better, more realistic question regarding the fate of UA in general and its football program would be - what if we'd hired Tressel instead of Scarborough? Tressel seems to know what it takes to win football games. And YSU's overall prospects are also trending upward since he became President.
Akron blew it every which way possible when it let Tressel walk. UA had the the cure to cancer in their back pocket, and flushed it down the toilet.
This is very true.
Western just capped off the greatest regular season a MAC team has ever had. 13-0. The prize for this is to go to the Cotton Bowl and play Wisconsin. 10 times a mid-major has gotten to a "major" bowl game and the results are overwhelmingly in favor of the mid major.
'04 Utah over Pitt 35-7.
'06 Boise beats Oklahoma in OT 43-42. Classic game.
'07 Georgia smokes Hawaii 41-10.
'08 Utah beats Alabama 31-17.
'09 Boise over TCU 17-10. The only time 2 mid majors made it to a major bowl and they played each other.
'10 TCU surprises Wisconsin 21-19.
'12 FSU trounces NIU 31-10.
'13 UCF beats Baylor 52-42 in a shootout.
'14 Boise over Arizona 38-30.
'15 Houston humbles FSU 38-24.
Mid majors are 8-2 in this big game (7-2 would probably be a little more honest because '09 was a mid major win no matter what happened in the game). Utah was able to turn their success into a P5 membership. The 2 times that mids lost, they got manhandled. Hopefully, Western can pick up the W.
If the playoffs were expanded to 8 teams, this should be ample evidence for the highest ranked G5 school to be included. Unfortunately, more years than not that would probably mean playing the number 1 seed.
Fun to talk about.
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22 minutes ago, skip-zip said:
Now you'll just bring back another dead discussion instead. "What if we dropped down a division and just won the title every year"
Do you think that would be satisfying? Do you think fans of the top FCS schools are satisfied with their playoffs or do you think they would rather go FBS and go to a bowl instead? Just curious. I have mixed emotions about it and sometimes wonder if Akron would be better off if we stayed D-1AA. Moot point, for sure, but I still wonder.
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On 12/5/2016 at 10:36 AM, skip-zip said:
Please, I hope this doesn't turn into another lengthy "lets drop down" discussion. I think that's been put to bed before, and some of it is repeated here.
As someone who's been involved for decades with our athletic programs in a number of capacities, including being a donor, I would personally be angry if we ever talked about dropping down. Most of us who contributed to our growth would feel the same way, and there's people who have invested far more than me.
We apparently have long ago forgotten what a lot of us did back in 1985-87 just to make the move up. Those who are too young to remember might be inclined to disregard it even more. And a lot of effort and a lot of money has been needed to continue that growth, especially in facilities.
There's no turning back now. Not for me. Too much invested.
The "let's drop down" discussion is played out, no doubt, but I think we can safely say that it is more fun to be a YSU fan than an Akron fan right about now.
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1 hour ago, Blue & Gold said:
Didn't know where to put this & didn't want to start a negative thread concerning an individual player.
But I still can't get over how unproductive Se'Von Pittman was this year. Here is a year-end summary from the Canton Repository.
DL Se'Von Pittman, sr., McKinley: Appeared in 11 games (10 starts), making 25 tackles, including one for loss. Also had two quarterback hurries.
In 11 games Se'Von only had 25 tackles. Basically 2 tackles per game? ONE tackle for loss?!?! Only TWO quarterback hurries?!?! (Zero sacks, needless to say.)
Perplexing.
That being said, he still played 13 circles around Jelani Hamilton. No wonder the defense blew.
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Anybody watching the NM bowl? When they showed the Brian Urlacher highlights it made me long for the way football jerseys used to fit.
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The last qb from TX was pretty good. Alex Ramart, come on down! I mean up!
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Zach, Ramart is a hs kid, not juco, right?
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I never said that Kato should have played because he was poised to "shoot out the lights". I simply said if a freshman qb has the ability and the team has the need, he should play. Burn the redshirt. The Zips definitely had the need. The other half of the equation is in question.
You are the one who made the ridiculous comment about a 1000:1 ratio. I came up with 20 success stories. Give me the 20,000 Hindenburgs. You can't. You can't even come up with a list of 200 Hindenburgs. It was a dumb statement and you were called on it. Your rebuttal was laughable, comparing successful freshmen to the entire sample size. How many freshmen failures were there? That is what we are debating. The freshman success rate. We aren't debating how few successful freshmen there are. A 5th grader knows that.
Bottom line is this. You are a Bowden supporter and you are content with the current situation. I am not. Bowden has another year (at least) to prove his worth. Time will tell.
We are never going to agree on much of anything, I'm afraid. That's ok by me. I respect your opinion and like Coach Holtz says, I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
The only thing we probably have in common is that we both said we were leaving the forum, but yet here we are. Obviously neither one of us can leave it behind. That's love for the Zips and that's a good thing.
Merry Christmas, Balsy.
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1 hour ago, Balsy said:
For every QB who did well as a freshman starting, theres 1000 who failed miserably.
You couldn't be more wrong.
This article mentions 20 true freshman quarterbacks that had great seasons
I will be waiting for your list of 20,000 that failed miserably.
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1 hour ago, Balsy said:
Complaining for the sake of complaining is what this is. The fact of the matter is Miami IS a Bowl team, and we beat them, even with our hobbled team.
Dumb idea. That may be a thing that the OSUs of the world are good at doing, but not Akron. We need to give these young QBs a chance to learn before we throw them out there. Chapman likely did just as good as Kato could have done in those same games, so I don't know what you're crying over. Your dislike of Tra'von Chapman is unnecessary.
I hope Kato can play, and I'm hoping he will take the opportunity presented him to challenge Woodson.
I love how you put so much stock in Miami being a bowl team. They are 6-6. They are a bowl team because any program with a pulse gets to go to a bowl. I will give them credit, though. They have things going in the right direction when it looked pretty dismal for their current staff. I am not complaining for the sake of complaining. I am complaining while playing armchair quarterback because the Zips competed in the absolutely putrid MAC East and are sitting home instead of going to a bowl. That means that the Zips do not have a pulse. If you are not upset about that and make excuses for the program, great. Enjoy your outstanding participation trophy.
If Kato is the real deal, and many think he is, he should play. If you're "high on" the kid, get him in there. Football can be highly unpredictable. Woodson may never see the field again for any number of reasons. Kato may be forced into being the man next year with absolutely no experience, then people will be moaning about what a shame it was that he didn't get some game time experience in '16. This whole concept of bringing quarterbacks along slowly is complete bunk. Redshirt freshmen quarterbacks win Heisman Trophies.
I have no dislike of Tra'von Chapman whatsoever. After being much maligned, I was happy for the kid when he redeemed himself in the 2nd half of the Kent game. I hope that he has a wonderful and productive life. I also have two eyes and they told me that a 3rd team WR who sat the bench for pretty much the whole of 2016 was a better option at QB.
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9 minutes ago, LZIp said:
As I said, I don't see what there is to complain about when Chapman went 2-1 as a starter with the loss coming to WMU. If you think the redshirt should have been burned for the last game of the season against the division champs, then we will just have to agree to disagree.
I think the redshirt should have been burned at Kent.
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18 minutes ago, LZIp said:
And for the people crapping on Chapman, enough. No he did not live up to hype, No he is not the present or future. Outside of the 1st half against Kent, I think he showed to be a formidable back up. I mean..we went 2-1 with a win over our arch rival at their place, a win over a bowl team(how many other times has a win over a bowl team happened under Bowden??), and lost to one of the only 2 undefeated teams in the country left. I'm not acting like he is great, but some of you are bitching just to bitch. He is not the future and I do not expect him on the field so I'm not going to cry about the imperfections.
Kent won 3 games.
The Miami we beat was not a "bowl team" when we beat them. We put them at 0-6 then they went on a 6 win streak. They too, beat a terrible Kent team and they were also able to beat horrible Buffalo and miserable BG which the Zips could not muster.
Chapman's record is nothing to crow about.
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26 minutes ago, LZIp said:
Is that something you think the staff does? Alvin Davis was a skill position player who played this year even in a deep secondary. Bell, Gilbert, George, Brown(I dont know why he is listed as a Redshirt, I remember him playing), and Edwards played in 2015 as true freshman.
I think if Kato is skilled, he should have played when Woodson got hurt.
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Since Clark started the approximate spelling, I have to post up a pic of everyone's favorite dictator.
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I'm not a fan of redshirting for the sake of redshirting. It makes sense to redshirt linemen, if you can, to get them a year of a real weightlifting program before they play, but skill players that have the ability and if the team has the need, they should play. Period.
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Until we see someone play I am done with this "high on" nonsense. This staff was "high on" Chapman and Kincade. I certainly hope that Kato pans out but so far high expectations have meant doodly squat.
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Get him in here. He'll like blocking for these running backs we have coming in.
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No love for Marshall Faulk?
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22 minutes ago, skip-zip said:
OK, I'll get in on this.
Cain't be wrong. . .
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How 'bout ol' J. Howard?
Game 7—Western Michigan Broncos (2016)
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Akron would not be favored against YSU this year.