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WVU fired its AD Shane Lyons (father of our former long snapper Cameron Lyons). Neal Brown is probably gone IMO. There's only 2 jobs I could see Joe Mo leaving for, WVU and Pitt as they would be P5 programs that are closer to home. With our season, I don't think he'd be a candidate at WVU, so we can probably cross them off of being an option for the next 5 years.

As Clark mentioned, the guys we definitely need to step up the most right now are Hankerson and Hunter. They were brought in to score, no doubt. Hopefully the issue is that its just taking time to gel. I think that's a safe assumption for Hankerson as he's a proven MAC player. Hunter is a little more up in the air as he was well regarded out of high school, but didn't do much at Ole Miss. The reports of him tearing it up at practice are encouraging as a stretch 4 with his size would be tough for a lot of the MAC to deal with. At the end of the day, we stand with a great mid-major win, and a disappointing loss to a team we were an underdog against, one we clearly didn't play our best game. We will likely have more disappointing losses as the season goes on, it's the nature of college basketball. Lets just hope we start to gel so we can win a lot more than we lose!

For the most part, walk ons who are deciding to hang it up after this year. They likely all have their degrees due to the extra year of Covid eligibility.

I'll admit I didn't look and was going off of memory. I'd be skeptical how many of them were still recruiting him by the time he committed to Akron, as most offers were ~2 years earlier than that. Regardless of any of that, I root for any Zip who plays hard and shows good character, which both Tribble and Clarke do. I'm sure they both think they can and need to play better offensively.

If you're a fan of Akron basketball, you should be able to recognize the guards and wings outside of X need to start hitting some shots, including free throws. Has nothing to do with size Groce did or didn't bring in. Their job is easier with players cheating on Freeman. A few guys need to step up, or no tourney for us.

I know somebody said Bubba wasn't announced on senior night, but it also looks like Ravontae Holt wasn't either. Good news for us. "AKRON HONORS 17 SENIORS Akron will honor 17 players competing in their final home game in pregame ceremonies before the squad's showdown with Eastern Michigan on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Among those being honored are redshirt junior LS Kyle Bauman (North Royalton, Ohio), redshirt junior DB Sean Conroy (North Olmsted, Ohio), redshirt senior DB Logan Day (Cincinnati, Ohio), senior P Noah Gettman (Daytona Beach, Fla.), DL Curtis Harper, redshirt junior DL Logan Hawkins (Harrison City, Pa.), senior DB Jalen Hooks (Warren, Ohio), redshirt senior DL Angelo Howze (Fishers, Ind.), WR Shocky Jacques-Louis, redshirt senior DL Victor Jones (Sacramento, Calif.), redshirt senior DB Jaylen Kelly-Powell (Detroit, Mich.), redshirt sophomore WR Jalen Knight (Akron, Ohio), redshirt senior DL Zach Morton (Detroit, Mich.), redshirt sophomore TE Jacob Shaffer (Portersville, Pa.), K Cory Smigel, redshirt senior LB Tim Terry (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and redshirt senior OL Anthony Whigan (Lexington Park, Md.)."

Fair point for sure.

Biggest needs will be multiple positions on both lines and multiple CBs I think. Outside of that, a guy here and there to supplement graduation loss or improve depth.

Indeed, but we significantly out kicked our coverage in landing JoeMo. If he can’t turn around this program, who can? I’ve posted more in detail about this in other threads, but considering the competiveness in conference play this year, We are probably about a dozen players away from 6-6 next year, and based on how the staff has recruited this cycle, they know it. Thank God for the transfer portal.

Bottom line is we need more from them. It’s their 3rd and 4th year in the program and while we always get continually good effort and defense from them, we need more on the offensive side on a consistent basis. The fact is we were each their only D1 offer and they aren’t as complete a player as they should be. it’s only two games in and I think the staff still has a lot to figure out as it comes to putting the pieces together, but unfortunately Hunter has given me vibes a lot closer to Maishe Dailey rather than X Williams. We can’t afford to have missed on him with the exodus of Ali, Kalle, and Aziz. we need more form everybody on the team outside of X and Enrique right now.

30 for Bates vs Michigan. Dang.

The offense was more understandable then defense IMO as he was doubled, but Tolu Smith had his way in the paint on offense. He's got to figure it out if the goal is to play in the league as he'll be undersized against just about everyone.

N Johnson 0-2 for 0 points. Mitchell scored a bucket in garbage time. Replay is available on the app if anyone wants to watch. I'm watching the last 6 minutes now to see how the young guys look.

Gotta be one of Enrique’s least effective games as a Zip. Think they are cheating an extra guy towards him because Tribble isn’t a threat to shoot. Would be ideal to have a 7 footer like Aziz for this game.

Smith is tearing us up.

Faster pace game seems to be benefiting us. Nice run here.

Okay Hunter!

Thinking a bit of both. We aren’t getting good looks and when we do, we miss wide open layups

Can’t get anything going on offense. Freeman out with 2 fouls doesn’t help.

Yup. Not his best game so far

Yeah we need him to start coming along.

Cochran is a really nice glue piece for Toledo.

Just type in barstool. There is no s at the end.

Toledo looking sloppy so far. Walker for UAB is a nice player but seems like kind of a chucker.

Working flawless for me so far.