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Is this what the QBs at Miami and Toledo make?

A scholarship is a series of one year contracts that aren't guaranteed to be renewed. Players can absolutely be fired. Many should be fired.

I'm really like Lingard, but we don't have the line to do this. Zips need everyone to contribute.

He's already a head coach! Former late 80s Zips grad assistant was Chris Ball. He's now the head coach at Northern Arizona.

You may be right. I think a couple of things come into play. First, if the kid plays well there is a lot of confidence and he stays. The key is what to do if he doesn't play well. If he's the coach's "guy", the coach needs to publicly support him as the future of the program and live and die with him. Dave Clawson did this with John Wolford. No matter what, he was going to live or die with him. Yesterday he benched a Senior starter at halftime who was badly underperforming. This year will be Clawsons first losing season in a long time. As good as he is, he can't win with a bum at QB. I predict a new face in the program at QB next year. Wake will absorb a couple of losing season for the next Wolford, Newman or Hartman. Akron doesn't have more years of losing.

A team is more than one person and the failures this season are widespread. I don't blame nil or tp for our failures either.

If you are in the woods and be chased by a bear, do you have to be faster than the bear or just faster than your camping partner? Bullock just has to be better than the 4th QB.

Take away one 27 yard run and it's less than 50 yards running. I'd love to know what their average yards per play on each down was, especially first down. Too often they are in second and long. There is just so much wrong with the offense. I think it has to do with an inability to complete passes down field for a number of reasons. Defenses can focus on stopping the running game and shorter passes. The running game would be better with an offense stretching the defense. At a minimum, the defense couldn't be so aggressive against Akron at the line.

The coach and administration didn't overthrow wide open receivers and miss game winning field goals. It's 2023 and players get to be on TV every game, cut NIL deals and transfer at will. With all of that comes a heightened level of criticism. The public face of failure is the coach. Behind closed doors, everyone knows why and who lost those three games.

Based on what NIU did to them, can you blame them.

There isn't enough high level local talent anywhere to produce a high quality G5 program. Everywhere in the country, people from that part of the country overestimate the quality of high school athletes of all types. The same thing happens here in South Carolina where I live. Everyone thinks Clemson and SC can live on local players alone and that simply isn't the case. This is a small population state incapable of making 2 P5 schools elite programs.

https://miamiredhawks.com/sports/football/roster This is a roster of one of the top 3 teams in the MAC. They just became eligible for a bowl 7 games into the season. They made a bowl for the 8th time in 9 years. They have some.local players.but don't rely on them. They aren't doing well because they recruit locally. The are doing well because they recruit good players who fit their system.

Define "everyone" please.

The oline is a huge problem. Yesterday, CMU brought a lot of pressure and they couldn't execute on a basic play like a screen pass to back off the pressure some. The team is currently swamped in failure. They should have 3 more wins and don't. I don't know how they solve their current problems and actually win games. I don't mean score a TD or two more a game, rush for more yards or complete a few more passes, but actually win.

Akron only possessed the ball for 22 minutes and only ran 53 plays. 53 plays per game is something you would not see even in stat lines from the 1960s.

Don't know what a fanboy is, but I think he's our best shot at resurrecting the program. Akron is in a position where the president, AD and head coach are all in alignment. This is typically a winning situation. Akron should have 3 more wins this season and the failures fall on the shoulders of some of the players, and veterans as well. At least Joe put the team in a position to win. He can't kick or throw the ball. My biggest complaint about him is what looks like a failure to have "his guy" on the field playing QB. Maybe the combination doesn't stop at the head coach, but looks something like this President -AD-Coach-QB.

If Akron doesn't win at least 5 games next year, the JoeMo years will begin to crumble. They will lose players and not be able to replace them. They will also begin to lose critical coaches and not fill the spots with anyone as good. Programs foundations are built on more than players. If Wasel was Joe's guy, he should have started the season. Redshirting is an antiquated concept in 2023. I've never seen him play, but he couldn't beat out the 3 bums we have started this year? It's concerning. The Bullock disaster is a good learning lesson for fans. Just because a player transfers from a school you have heard of and was once good, that doesn't mean the player is good. There are lots of failed scholarship players at big schools. The schools the transfer portal benefits the most are the P5 schools, especially the elite programs. It's a place they can dump their trash and replace with a better opportunity. Every once in a while, someone finds something really valuable at the landfill. We have to be smart about what we bring home from the landfill.

U is the best of bad choices.

He needs to find out quickly if Bullock can play at the D1 level or not. I think the answer is no. I also understand he washed outta VA Tech, please correct me if I'm wrong. Tech is a horrible program right now. If he couldn't get on the field, what made the staff think he could succeed at a high level in the MAC? Akron doesn't have an eternity waiting for someone to develop. There is not a guy on the current roster capable of getting Akron to where it needs to be next year. By that I mean 6 wins minimum. Finding a quality starting QB in the transfer portal must be the #1 priority of the coaching staff this off season.

You said they may be the best team in the league. Based on head to head competition, that's not true.

What's your point?

You deserve what you get in life. Akron played well enough to have a much better record but hasn't done enough to deserve more wins.

Why am I never surprised when an Akron fan makes a snide remark about the only MAC Championship? It's such a losing mindset.

If they are the best team, why didn't they beat Toledo? Don't the best teams win?

I was somewhere watching a bunch of games at once. The USC vs Florida and Washington vs Oregon games were on. If you were a fan of USC or Oregon now, you would be extremely disappointed, but you couldn't say your entire team didn't play competently and gave it their all in two great college football games. The Akron vs CMU game was a game of two incompetents who generally tried hard in a bad football game. That was just trash. Can we really no field a team that can win in this trash league?