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Can't say he didn't earn it.

High school star coming home in hopes of leading a major upset at Boca Raton Bowl

I read on Football scoop that a couple of Dino Babers assistants are in the running. They are coachless in the prime of recruiting. They are going to be awful for a long time.

I have heard they are doing emergency construction on the stadium before the game. They found out that the FAU fans egos are too big to fit through the door.

I went totally and unashamedly homer. These FAU fans have turned out to be the most annoying we have had visit us in quite some time and I am really hoping we pull off the W. Kiffin is an idiot flash in the pan who inherited decent players. Amato and Bowden will totally out fox him. Kato lights it up at home a d it won't be that hard because the Owls have a vulnerable defense. Zips D shows up like they did against WMU, frustrates their QB like they did against Ohio and turnovers make the difference.

You know, FAU seems incapable to cheer in their team without insulting our team. I can't wait until UG5 introduces himself to your RB.

What do Lavar Nelson and FAU fans have in common? They are both legends in their own minds. FAU will be a flash in the pan faster than WMU. Build a program around a personality and the program isn't worth squat when the personality leaves. Build a program for the sake of a program and you have flipped the university's fortune, if the U stewards it well. As long as Matt Wilson and Larry Williams are around I think the Zips are on the right path when Bowden leaves. GT has another positive send off article: University of Akron football: Injuries to top running backs have put freshman QB Kato Nelson in the spotlight

But it was a loss against a team that did not go to a bowl and was perhaps your most difficult out of conference game.

Bowl.projections are almost always a joke, IMHO. I am not sure how anyone with any sense of reality would have paired you with them. TBH, I think top tier P5 schools would rather stay home than play most G5 schools.

My original complaint relates more to what I saw in Twitter and it was the unfounded superiority complex and we deserve better than Akron attitudes that I took issue with, to be clear.

Akron Zips getting ready for trip to Boca Raton Bowl “We are getting their pace of the speed down pat so, I think going into the game the only challenge will be to just get lined up and playing fast and matching their speed of the game,” said Jamal Davis of Canton.

University of Akron football: Local players on Zips roster hope to leave legacy, building blocks for future success "Ten years from now when you look back and see that we had this team and no other team had done this in the past … that’s huge for the coaches in the recruiting process,” Moore said. “Younger guys in the recruiting process will know — especially the ones from the city of Akron there is change happening here. We are creating a legacy.”

Might be a good get, if we can. http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/13064665-74/third-string-pitt-qb-thomas-macvittie-to-transfer

It's the, "We're too good for you attitude that rubs us the wrong way. Clearly, you aren't. If you want to play a more prestigious team, get a respectable LOC schedule. That's out point. You haven't played anyone serious.

Graduation is Saturday, so the U is putting together a special graduation for players, band members, cheer and dance, and other kids involved with the bowl game for this Wed. Well done, UA. Matt Wilson can stick around for a while and no one would be upset. Notice, no having to beg for money to get the band to the bowl game this year.

I watched your game against North Texas. You are no Toledo. You make a lot more errors.

Thanks. I agree with this. It has been insulting to imply that FAU is too good for Akron. We have more losses, but they were to Penn State, very good Iowa State and Troy teams, and with a R-FR on only a couple of days of practice as the starter, and an high quality Toledo team. We lost to Troy in the last minute of the game. We are better than our record shows. We are clearly not an elite MAC team yet, but we have improved all season long. If we are honest, there is a lot of interest in a Kiffin v. Bowden bowl game and that is why we are playing each other.

Who did you play?

I see 247 Sports lists him as a 3 star composite. I am guessing we are hoping to ink some of these better recruits on early signing day this month.

Bears repeating based on foolishness I have seen on the Twitterverse. One season and you would think they were Alabama, lol.

Jojo is interviewed on Inside the Jets starting about 17:40 into the video: http://m.newyorkjets.com/videos/videos/Inside-the-Jets-with-Xavier-Cooper--JoJo-Natson-124/9f527bd4-13d7-4a5f-a7d8-c4cd6bae7ca3