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$hit. I forgot about him....he would be a big loss as well it seems...lets hope its just another case of our media team not being up to par, but the fact that they were removed doesn't look good....

Dollard is no longer appearing on the roster...

I think we may have had a little better outlook this year if everyone wasn't given an extra year. We have virtually zero senior contributors, especially outside of Kato, so we were returning essentially everybody regardless. Now everyone with their much more experienced teams return everyone as well who wasn't good enough to go pro. That will change next year, but we'll still have everyone, with another year of experience, and another recruiting class where the staff can address holes for immediate help as well as provide more depth (and hopefully get up to the 85 scholly limit finall). If we are only winning a few games still next year, time to throw in the towel IMO. Looking forward to seeing our players develop and hopefully pull off an upset or two this year as well as win the games we should.

He better be better than Peterson! We can't afford to be driving off talent. We need to keep on the upward trend this year or Arth may not get a next.

Pure speculation, but if he's no longer on the team, I'd assume it would have something to do with being 3rd or 4th on the depth chart when he was slated to be starter last year prior to injury.

So is ULM ranked worse than them, or better then them?

That's surprising. Can't imagine many other reasons one would transfer this time of the year, though! Oh well, we'll just be that much more experienced next year.

Thanks for sharing. Today is the first day of classes, I have to wonder if that means Dollard is allowed back now per University policy? Coach Z hasn't tweeted since August 5th and doesn't mention being coach in his bio, though he does have a picture of the players in his background. Would be interesting to know what went on there. Have to assume he's no longer with the program....

Lol. A few players were given cash advance loans ranging from $100-$1,000 as a result of a delay in scholarship money/grants coming through. Once again, embarrassing for sure that this is a headline, but come on.

Yea embarrassing for sure, but not egregious IMO considering they had to be paid back and the fact that there was a delay in scholarship money. I think the article said former associate AD, so I don't know who it would be. The only name I know of is still listed in the staff directory. We apparently keep ~4 Associate AD's at any given time. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/zips/2021/08/21/ncaa-sanctions-university-akron-football-program-tom-arth-associate-athletics-director/8231399002/

He's actually been in the portal for quite some time. interesting he is just now posting this now. Maybe grades?

Bubba is obviously a gimme, maybe Kato, but who else? There may be 4-5 Bowden recruits starting this year. Kato, Bubba, Hooks, Peterson, Andre Williams? Williams, Kato, and Hooks are still getting the benefit of the doubt from their production years ago/recruiting hype. Our all conference type of players outside of Bubba - Watts, Gray, and Dollard - aren’t Bowden recruits

Same HS as Mike Mathison and recent commit Montarious Reed. I don't recognize many schools on their schedule with the exception of Grayson, who I think is a powerhouse. With that said, I think its big HS ball/good competition.

My money is that its this guy if we don't hear anything between now and the 1st. https://www.hudl.com/video/3/11171444/5f78bbb6b53ef50618e79a75

Looks like they have lowered the GA tickets from $15 to $10.

Picking us behind BG is hard to agree with.

A simple visit to GoZips.com would have given you the schedule. https://gozips.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule

Looks like we got him over Ga State and Kent St. Also went to same HS as Mike Mathison. Also, Dent has already de-committed as an update on him. Since then, he's picked up offers from Michigan in addition to Oregon, among others. Staff was in early on him. Too bad camps were back this year!

So the zipsfb account just posted some photos on instagram with Andre Proffitt tagged in one, so clearly he's on the team and practicing even though not showing up on the roster online. This is the fun stuff we deal with.

So I scrubbed the roster the best I could..i think I'm going to wait a while before posting an updated scholarship chart in case there are changes, because honestly its hard to follow with all of the additions after the early signing day, but items to note that we didn't previously know (nothing too exciting): Absent previously known scholarship players: Shawn Muldowney (OL) and Kevin Walls (WR) Absent previously known 2021 signees that are believed to be scholarship players: Andre Proffitt (DL) Additions who are what I'd assume to be new scholarship players: Zach Morton (DL - previously with Syracuse on scholly), Andrew Behm (LB, who seemed to tear up JUCO as a true freshman in the limited spring 2021 season), Kevin Dever Jr (S - from St Eds, previous walk-on at OSU). https://247sports.com/Player/Zach-Morton-85536/ https://www.eccathletics.com/sports/fball/2020-21/releases/20210615g0p1qa https://www.elevenwarriors.com/forum/ohio-state-football/2021/01/120694/former-ohio-state-walk-ons-kevin-dever-and-darryl-sinclair-in-transfer-portal

1 win in 1.5 seasons with no FCS opponents if we want to get technical.

There isn't really a reason to be excited for the season. I'm looking forward to see the team competing and players continue to develop, but winning somewhere between 3-4 games would be "meeting expectations" in my eyes. We could end up being be surprised now that we have the starting QB back who is in year 3 of the system, many players got a lot of experience the past 2 years, we appear to be getting some old faces back in Jalen Hooks and Andre Williams per the roster online, and we've added some key transfers like Fann, Boateng, SL McCall, and Ant Williams that are filling holes and able to contribute immediately Its a building process and I think we are a year away from a .500 or better season assuming it doesn't get blown up before then, but I think at this point there is definitely more potential in year 3 of the rebuild compared to year 1 and last year with everything surrounding that.