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Comment regarding the offensive struggles - and I’m as disappointed as anyone else - but it’s worth noting we’ve been trotting out literally only ONE returning starter (Finley) on offense so far. Polk could maybe count as two. I imagine it’s takes that many players playing together in their first season some time to gel..

I’m old enough to remember Zip Cat claim Akron had a $30mm football budget… We get what we pay for.

Meh. It’s one game with a lot of new players, some old players playing worse than what we’ve seen before, and no real idea of how good Wyoming will be. Have you seen UAB yet? The let Alabama State score 42 in a close game.

I just saw a post about walk on tryouts. Kind of leads me to believe both are gone, Serb will get one scholarship, and we have one walk on spot to fill.

In what world do you think Akron football is subsidized anywhere close to that figure? Total athletics, maybe. But the football budget doesn’t even come close to that

So..whose spot is he taking?

Honestly, how would the MVC even benefit us? It’s been relegated to a 1 big league (same with A10 basically). The Big East wouldn’t take us (nobody cares about college soccer). A tougher bball league makes it harder for us to play in March Madness. We’re in a college athletics era where it’s P4 or bust aside from a few select programs (Memphis BB, Gonzaga BB,etc) and it sucks!

Wouldn’t those “similarly situated schools” be most or all MAC schools as well? What needs to happen is the G6 in general needs to figure out how and where they want to be in this new college athletics landscape.

I was there live and haven’t had it in me to watch the replay. I felt the OL was generally serviceable aside from a few plays. Also noticed Finley bailing out of the pocket early instead of stepping up a few plays as well. So I think a little of both, but lean more towards Finely at fault.

I don’t understand how we have so many guys hurt Week 1: I may have missed something, but notable guys I did not see on the sidelines (and didn’t play): David, Shor, Motley-Simmons Notable guys I saw on the sideline not in uniform: Gee, Davis, Curry, Davis, Newell. Pretty disappointing that two for sure starters and the rest at least being 2 deep type players weren’t even available for game 1. Losing Patrick was huge and I like what I was seeing out of White as well before he got hurt. Hope those guys are back before week 3. Finley’s play was inexcusable. Adams’ drop was inexcusable, but it’s even sadder that he’s hardly able to get on the field now. I have to assume he’s fully healthy after 2+ seasons. I thought defense was solid enough (besides the last drive). I thought Joe Mo punting on 4th down with 3 minutes left was inexcusable as well. Really disappointed we couldn’t even score a point. Use next week to continue evaluating all the new players, give Roggow or Johnson a few drives, then shore up our rotations for week 3.

Semaj Beals is still in high school. The Johnson kid from Syracuse will play the Tahj role this year I believe, at least at QB. Don’t know if he’ll be lined up at a skill position though lol

Could enrollment be trending up? The U’s website shows just under 14k for spring 25 semester. Just read a post on LinkedIn from the university’s official account that we have over 15k enrolled. Great to see assuming those numbers are final..

Hell yeah it’s game week! Looking forward to seeing this new look Zips team. Just one game, but I’d feel really good about this season if we start out with a win on Thursday.

We would settle for cliff notes 😀

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