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Change community to recruits.

Yes, but in reality I could care less about ESPN events.

I'd like to replace the word feature with dynamic. For instance, maybe a black head coach has a different type of dynamic with a player like Dollard and is able to guide the kid better. We have failed at guiding at risk kids down the right path too many times to count and we immediately run down an unproductive path that leads to the likes of Ianello or Arth. Maybe we should stop trying to change the players and start changing how coaches interact with the kids. At risk kids want discipline and order. We just need someone better capable of providing it in a way the kids can relate or well end up with another DIII team. I could go on all day about the recruiting benefits of a black coach at Akron so I won't. Want the University to be a center piece in a Midwest city that is over 30% black? Make one of the most visible employees more relatable to the overall community. Everything has to work together.

I've brought up Hunter and Alford as guys who would be a good fit along with Blackburn and Rodriguez. I have not read every post so please forgive me if I'm wrong, but why isn't anyone even considering the possibility of the benefits of a black head coach? Who has Vince Kehres ever recruited that set the world on fire? The recruiting at Mt. Union had to be pretty easy. The guy at Hoban would quickly become a worse version of Arth. It's fun to speculate as fans, but the ultimate decision is an extremely important one. Missing on a hire is extremely expensive in any organization. Akron doesn't need to play lip service to diversity in interviewing by throwing in a couple of token interviews. They need to put action to words and give strong consideration and take the candidates seriously. In the NFL the Steelers did this and have their third in a row Hall of Fame coach.

It would be hard, not impossible, to get and NFL coach. In addition to the earnings potential, NFL guys love not having to recruit.

That's a pretty small pond.

Maybe that Bowling Green, KY media market doesn't get the exposure we are looking for.

Why shouldn't we consider Blackburn for head coach? LBs aren't looked at like this, but he was a better college football player than both Charlie and Luke. Throw in Hixson while you are at it. He also had a good NFL career and is currently the special teams coordinator for the Panthers. Food for thought.

Who cares.....

Don't forget the Notre Dame connection. The Catholic school connection seems to matter a lot around Akron for whatever reason.

A younger version of Rich Rodriguez would be good. While WVU isn't an urban campus, he brought in players he could win with at a school that isn't easy to win at. He related to the players, they responded to him and they won. He brought in a lot of tough kids, many marginal, and got them to work together. The coach has to fit the culture of the school, not change the culture of the school or football program.

Wow, another guy with ND ties. I'm shocked to see that..... not. This guy's resume is slightly better than what Arths will be in 20 years.

Tony Alford. OSU running backs coach. A John Hunter with better current Midwest credibility. Bonus reason: Brother of the late Aaron Alford who coached early in the Brookhart years. A fantastic guy.

Look up the history of Clemson football coaches.

He's a guy with a Twitter account as far as I'm concerned.

Well, if the voice of a D3 team says so......

In the buffet line of Tweet speculation, these are two pretty unappealing items. We'll call them frozen fried oysters and liver.

Is this Brock guy paying people to Tweet about him?

He's a name, but not the right guy for AKRON.

John Hunter, RB Coach, Wake Forest. Midwest roots. MAC roots. With winning programs at places that don't normally win. Experience coaching at urban schools. Stop trying to turn Akron into Notre Dame. Stop hiring D3 coaches. Start by hiring the right guy for AKRON.

He would be the end of the football program.

We could play them annually for the Rubber Green Chilies Trophy.

It shouldn't. The stink of failure on the program under his tenure is too great to erase.

We should steal New Mexico State from the grips of CUSA so we can have exposure to the Rio Rancho TV market.

There isn't always safety in numbers.