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That may be the worst play call I have ever seen 😂

Not anti-Joe, but he’s got to win me back over. I’m not surprised this is happening, that’s what makes it so much worse.

Let us know how the GLBC XMas ale batch is this year. Normally doesn’t hold a candle to Holly Jolly or 12 Dogs. Enjoy!

The Gensler Era's first non-secret scrimmage (exhibition) takes place tomorrow evening at 7:30p at the JAR against Walsh U. I'm very excited to have hoops back and am looking forward to being in the JAR for another long and cold and hopefully successful winter. Looks like live stats being offered, no TV or radio. Schedule: https://gozips.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule

Game day!!!! 🥴🥴

We could've given Prince Mosengo a shot!!!!

Classic Groce wasting roster spots. Can we still hire Dru Joyce??? Get this clown outta here!

This is the most difficult is has ever been in the history of this rivalry to get excited for the game. Maybe I'm over-exaggerating. After all, I wasn't exactly expecting to win in 2019-2021. Anyway, this would be a devastating and unacceptable loss. And the unfortunate thing is, I'm not expecting to win. I'm not sure there is any position on the entire field where Kent has a talent advantage, yet this Akron team has done everything in its power to keep me from believing in them. I hope and pray that this game is a fairly comfortable win as it really should be. Reality is, it will be a rock/pillow fight. ugh. Go Zips! 🥲

This, like most things any “school affiliated” Barstool account posts, is unbelievably stupid. Kent fans banded together to wear black to the JAR for Akron’s “funeral” during basketball season. Let’s do the same thing. Genius. Wear Akron gear and cheer.

"Zips Basketball--Looking back to 2023-2024, looking ahead to 2024-2025"

If you think $500 for that isn't any kind of value, which to each his own, about 10x that amount gets you stale popcorn and warm terrible beer at another MAC stadium a few miles away. In my eyes, as someone who has experienced each and every seating option at Infocision at one point or another, the real value on level 5 is the warmth and comfort it provides when the weather sucks.

Our current faculty athletics rep is very strong. Dr. Matt Juravich. Very impressive guy, he does a great job of bridging the “gap” between athletics and the rest of the U.

This week’s advanced box score: https://collegefootballdata.com/boxscore/401532429 BG’s average starting field position was…the Akron 48 yard-line. I can’t say with any certainty I’ve seen that in a MAC football game before. Just total incompetence by this QB. The biggest issue with that room is that it isn’t even remaining a steady bad, it is getting worse. The biggest failure by this offensive staff is the disaster at QB and it is not even close. I can’t really wrap my head around it. At this point, I hope and pray that things will get better down the line. But this season has been an enormous gut punch. I can’t blame anyone for giving up on the 2023 Zips or the coaching staff at this point. This is really hard to follow year after year, no doubt about it. I wouldn’t be shocked to see some kind of shakeups within the staff following the season. I’m usually in the camp of let’s ride it out, but something isn’t right in that football facility. Just my opinion and speculation, but it isn’t supposed to look like this. Our next opponent is essentially a worse version of everything we have, somehow. And I’m terrified of them. This absolutely sucks.

I did employ the strategy of not watching and only listening today. I really didn’t miss it, either. I spent time doing other things, watching other games. That was actually more enjoyable than I expected. Maybe quitting Akron football isn’t so hard after all. This is just as bad a feeling I had in 2018. QB situation was maybe a bit better then, but the same principles applied. Talent that’s good enough to win games, but just never put it together. I knew expectations were dangerous for this program. It’s the hope that kills you. I am still very much in the Moorhead camp, but if we lose to Kent, that will teeter the other direction. And what bothers me the most is, how on earth is Akron ever going to be able to hire a competent coach? People can call Moorhead overrated or a fake genius or whatever. Believe me, I am totally disappointed in him and his staff’s efforts this season. But schools like Akron don’t hire accomplished coaches like this very often. Especially considering how the MAC has fallen into the basement—I mean the sump pump—of FBS football. IF Moorhead doesn’t pan out, then Akron needs to take a long look in the mirror, and totally change how things are done. I can’t even really begin to tell you what that would mean. In the last 20 years, we have hired: P5 Coordinator P5 position coach D2 HC, former P5 HC 25 years prior D3/FCS Head coach P5 Head coach/P5 Coordinator None of them have been able to sustain success. Not one. Meanwhile, Kent hires a P5 receivers coach and Syracuse OC and has a couple crazy seasons. Maybe it is an Akron problem after all. Then that leads us to, what the hell is Akron doing wrong? How can Akron sustain success across multiple decades in basketball but hardly ever have a winning season in football? Anyway, that got away a bit. A couple weeks til basketball! Then we can hear how overrated that coach is after dropping the opening game in South Dakota. Go Zips!

The worse the football team, the better the basketball team…right???

Are we playing the long game of keeping Loeffler employed a few more years?? Could be. You never know. The most hilarious possibility here is Wasel playing the last 4 games and Akron running the table.

Still out-gaining them. Lol. What would our record be if we tripled Lingard’s touches? Bowl game would still be a good possibility.

The record for lowest attendance for a UA game at Infocision is 838 vs UMass in 2014. Black Friday vs. OU may rival that. This is a total failure of a season, every bit as bad as 2018.

Where’s the guy that called JU a God for beating a tanking NIU team by handing the ball to Cam Wiley?

All the chips are on 11/1 now. You absolutely cannot lose that football game.

It’s amazing every game is the same

Going with the listening strategy. Not against it. Saving my eyes.

Not this year I don’t believe. Maybe next year.

Employing the “last time we wore this combo at BG we won by 2 TDs” strategy

I can’t believe I still get excited…but here I am! 🤡 At this point, I’m far too invested not to stick around. I do wish we were on a bye this week though. This has been a lot of non-stop trauma. Edit: also considering the strategy of not watching and listening only or checking in from time to time. We’ll see.