GP1

They are always bowling.

This is one of the best posts on this board in a long time. The television networks want a playoff because they will make a ton of money destroying a great American tradition like bowl games in order to shovel crap into American living rooms. Yaaaaay In my opinion, college football should benefit the athletes, students, alumni, fans and general communities around the schools. How do you bring as many of these groups together as possible? A bowl game is a great way to do that. There are events at these games where many of these groups are together celebrating a good season and their school. These games are good clean fun for everyone and that is something that should be embraced and fostered not destroyed by TV networks. Maybe at an event a player encounters an alum and the starter relationship where the alum mentors the player and maybe one day hires the player. Maybe a player and another student meet at the game and strike up a lifelong friendship. Maybe a fan meets the players and realizes that almost every player is a good guy and the impression this fan has of the school grows. Last year I went to the Gator Bowl to watch Wake Forest. They stayed at the Omni on Amelia Island (I'm actually in the Courtyard on AI as I type this). There is a downtown Fernandina Beach that's awesome. When the players weren't playing they would go to the town and walk around together or with their parents. All of them spoke to every fan who talked to them and would thank them for coming to the game. I'm sure the same thing was going on at Jacksonville Beach where Rutgers was staying. Akron students, alumni, fans and general community need more of this in their lives. This is more important to UofA than a college football playoffs.

He's right where he wants to be, not just UofA but Akron, Ohio. Morgantown is a horrible place. It's so awful their previous coach left for an AAC school somewhere more attractive to live.

Agreed and I dont know. It's time for the players to turn the program around is my main point. We need to bring in some players with less experience in failure than we currently have. If the choice is a Transfer Portal player from a losing program vs a winning program, the winning program player gets the scholarship.

Good post. One doesn't have to watch every second of the team to understand their problems. There are two major problems. 1. Talent. Regardless of how hard a kid competes, if the base talent isn't there it's extremely difficult to win. 2. Details. Turnovers kill and they commit too many. Too much bumbling around. It's losing football. Get talented kids who are detail oriented. A coach can change the players or he can change the players. Joe M needs to change the talent rapidly this off season. He also needs to change the bumblers. No matter how hard they play, another 1 win season next year will signal the end of the Joe M era at Akron. The stench of failure is hard to wash off and change has to happen soon.

Better pursuit gets more guys around the ball so a team has a better chance of recovering a fumble. This is something the players can control. There is no such thing as luck.

You're using the word luck too much. The Zips don't need luck. They need to execute on the things they can control. I'm sure they don't practice dropping passes and punts, and under throwing passes.. I'd go as far as to say they probably practice catching and throwing. They need to apply those lessons in games.... Every time. It's a gazillion little things they do wrong. Losing culture is extremely difficult to change.

No. They can't. It's one of the many reasons they have one win.

Details.... Details...... Details. Just catch the Fing ball. Stop playing like a losing program.

That is not targeting.

Great fake injury by EMU. In a sane world it would be a 15 yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.

I have to say. After all of these years the aluminum still looks nice and shiny on the bleachers. This is great exposure for Akron and the MAC.

If irons wants a DPI call, he needs to throw it close enough to the WR to get one.

Someone needs to tell Coach M he doesn't need to pile sour cream on every pierogi.

Listen..... This is the first 15:39 seconds of the Zips I've seen this year. There is zero talent on the field. EMUs base talent is superior and they are a 5-4 team. Remember this. Chuck Noll once said after his first year coaching the Steelers, "The bad news is we don't have a lot of good players. The good news is half of these guys won't be back next year." Coach M needs to know this.

I'm more worried about the two wide open receivers who were missed.

Whatever it takes, Irons has to be replaced next year. He's given his best but it isn't nearly enough.

We're the Zips playing 9 guys on defense when the TD was scored?

That happened on January 10, 2022.

For those of us with Fatfingeritis, an Undo button would be helpful for those times when our fat fingers accidentally delete a large body of text by accident.

Those statistics are just depressing. I applaud anyone who has consistently gone to games during this period. You had to have been driven by friendship more than an opportunity to watch good football. Is one win too much to ask for? Yes. While you cannot see it on the field, Akron is an improving program. EMU is a program that has improved and probably feels confident about themselves every week and especially this week. I'm sure the same cannot be said for the Zips for many reasons including the Athletic Department has spent a lot of time making decisions that ultimately lead to a lack of momentum. Coach M isn't just battling external elements, there is an enemy within he has to contend with as well. "The most dangerous team is a team with confidence and momentum" - Bill Cowher. Akron is not a dangerous team and really does not have the ability to produce big plays necessary to swing momentum in their direction making them capable of upsetting a favorite. Never bet against a home underdog, but is there a safer home underdog to bet against than Akron this week?

EMUs ooc is based upon sanity. It left them needing only one more win in their last 3 to make a bowl. Great place for a program like theirs to be. It is what we dream of, a meaningful games in November. We have another meaningless game. Akron gets blown out by a motivated team.

The NFL model. General football fans and degenerate gamblers. Societal decadence continues.

They probably have analytics that say you should slide.

You could probably get it down to $1.00 per year. They just need subscribers to sell advertising.