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Looks like he was buried on the depth chart, regardless.. only 2 years into his career so still plenty of time to live up to recruiting ranking. Do you bring Bailey up just due to the natural connection or is there more to it you’re aware of? regardless, let’s get him!

Bummer there. I thought he played really well this year.

They are next year (at the least getting rid of divisions part).

I think Jaharon can have a nice career, but the reality is he’d be our 4th LB next year in a defense that typically only has 2 on the field, so wouldn’t be in line to start until he’s a senior. I can understand wanting to go somewhere to play. My guess is it’ll be FCS as he didn’t have much attention out of HS and doesn’t have a ton of film from Akron. Good luck to him.

and I'd personally expect to bring in as many that go out. We have 1 HS commit.....expecting 2 transfers in with the current picture. Unsure how Jankowski seems to stick around lol

It works out perfect this year, but most commonly the MAC East in football is what the MAC West is in basketball. A 11-1 Toledo trying to get into the playoff and playing a 10-2 NIU is much preferred over the potential for playing a 7-5 MAC East champ. My only compliant would be us not being in the same pod as Ohio, as I'd like to play them along with Kent every year.

Good for the conference especially with the playoff expanding to include the highest ranked G5 conference champion. A better conference championship opponent could be the tipping point to get in.

I'm a fan of Joe as well.

ugly

Not a huge fan of our defensive rotations this year. Just seems...slow. Nobody really stepping up. and PG getting their ankles broken..not trending well so far. Also this Jackie Johnson tearing us up is a former Duquesne player.

Thornton, Scott, and Dawson starting in place of Johnson & Johnson & Hunter.

I'm seeing fans there?

It seemed to me Gathings kept the attitude in check a lot more during the OU game. Hopefully that for good.

I hope so as well, but crap like this only seems to go in favor of big programs.

Some bad news in this article. If he only needs 8 credits to graduate and isn’t set to graduate until the spring, the U most not be offering a class he needs this semester. without knowing full details in either situation, sure seems like BS that Aziz would get cleared but not Ali. Who did he have any sort of relationship with at Cinci!?

Cam Threatt (CB) - going Laurance Seymore (OL, Miami FL) - coming

Cam Threatt in. Disappointing two years at Akron. Played some early in 2022 due to necessity, ultimately benched. Don’t recall him playing regularly this year at all.

Leader right now maybe. It would be gross negligence not to bring in competition.

I don't like the tarped seats in prime location on the visitor sideline, but tarped sponsored seats make more money than empty seats.

3 P5 opponents, when you trade out a home game with one for an away game against a blue blood certainly doesn't happen every year. If this was Joe's first year I wouldn't even feel so strongly about it, but year 3 could very well be a make or break year. We'll have to go 5-3 in the MAC just to make a bowl game. I hope for some grace if we only win 4 or 5 games considering the circumstances, but you never know.

Agreed

Looks perfect

Fun fact: Jacksonville State is actually in Alabama.

Yeah I generally like to give people the benefit of the doubt and like a decent amount of what Guthrie has done, but this really makes me scratch my head.

Also I’ll add this- people are free to spend their money however they’d like as well as be annoyed by the move like i am, but pulling support for the program is going to hurt the coach who has to best chance to make it respectable. I’d have to imagine this is a pure Guthrie move, so even though he hasn’t been perfect, my support for Joe Mo isn’t going to change while he’s there as pulling it only increases chances of this not working out, and if this doesn’t work out….