K92 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Please share your reasons for your vote if you don't mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 I gave up years ago trying to decide the quality of football recruiting classes for the Zips. Unless we sign a kid who decided to stay home and gave up a scholarship to a BCS level school, the players we sign are all projects IMHO . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Is there a video of the press conference I guess you would call it today? Would like to see that where I don't have to chase around info all over the internet before giving an opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 If this class was put together early, I'd probably be kinda disappointed. Maybe it's the momentum of most of the class piling up towards the end, but it's got me somewhat satisfied. I was between that and wait and see. Would have liked to see some more help on the line, and maybe another WR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 That depends entirely on what you consider to be this year's signing class. Do you include the newly eligible transfers that sat out last year? The greyshirts that signed last year? Bowden has this habit of signing guys, greyshirting them, and announcing for both signing classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrship35 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 I would have like to see a bit more size at CB and WR but I think it will be fine.Like the O-Line guys .............. Size and height !!! Lots of athletes and it seems like we got guys from the target areas of FLA and GA ............... Hopefully made some inroads in the Ohio area as TB indicated he wanted to focus on.Got a couple TE/H-backs it appearsAll in all ............ I am satisfiedLet's strap on the helmets and get Spring started !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roo Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 The thing that Akron needs to do is find that one kid that is a stand out athlete that has the ability to make things happen. We have plenty of schools in our area that can make that happen, but we just cannot seem to land that type of recruit.It blows my mind that we cannot find a kid from Glenville, Akron area, Canton area, that wants to stay closer to home and play right away and be a star rather than go to OSU and be another guy on the bench for a few years and maybe play as a junior and senior.\What I hate seeing is kids commit to Indiana, Minnesota, etc..etc.. over Akron. Hopefully, with a pretty decent class from all account, a team that can rise to the bowl game and MAC Championship type season, we can start taking kids that would go to those type of schools to stay closer to home. But we invested heavily in Florida and the south. It would be interesting to see how a winning season looks next year. (if it happens) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckzip Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 This class is ok. If you pay attention to recruiting rankings it's one of the worst in the MAC.We need to win to get the recruits. Then the recruits help us win and its a big circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozips#30 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Give the Wood kid a shot this spring at Qb lead all southwest. Ohio in passing his senior year and was in the top 20 in the nation. He was a preferred walk on last year. Has anyone here'd how he's doing ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 I think this is the best Bowden class to date, certainly lightyears better than the Ianello ones. I also think we should consider Pittman, Chapman, Hope, Coe, Alexander all part of this class too. They were on the team, but had to sit out till this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Bowden has this habit of signing guys, greyshirting them, and announcing for both signing classes.+1 or is it -1.Not good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckzip Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 I think this is the best Bowden class to date, certainly lightyears better than the Ianello ones. I also think we should consider Pittman, Chapman, Hope, Coe, Alexander all part of this class too. They were on the team, but had to sit out till this season.Pittman played last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 I've always wished for more area kids. I think it would increase interest and put butts in the seats. In the final analysis though, nothing puts butts in the seats like winning. Hopefully, this class brings some wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckzip Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 He keeps doing it too.It's almost funny how he announces guys, then they never make it, and he announces them again the next year.Really odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Adams Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I gave up years ago trying to decide the quality of football recruiting classes for the Zips. Unless we sign a kid who decided to stay home and gave up a scholarship to a BCS level school, the players we sign are all projects IMHO .Good plan. Don't know how many people on this board have actually seen a significant number of these recruits play in person,but I doubt its a significant number. So its really hard to make an intelligent assessment of how these recruits will perform at even the lowest BCS level. I note that 3 transfers from bigger schools were prominently noted. Recruiting at the MAC level in football is exceedingly difficult. You are recruiting against the high level BCS teams as well as the FCS(1-AA) teams. But at some point the coach has to go 'all in' and play the 'best' people on the team. Hopefully,2015 is that year. No reason it should not be at this point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA1987 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 This is the best we're going to do till we get on the map with steady bowl appearances. Right now, we really only have the Bowden name to help in recruiting. We have the facilities, but we don't have a winning reputation. I like our lineman in this class, but still hope for another blue shirt and or transfer on the offensive line. Muscle on the lines = winning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZip0510 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I know ratings aren't everything but even so, this is part of why I'm downright worried.LINK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I know ratings aren't everything but even so, this is part of why I'm downright worried.LINKUntil recruiting services stop rating classes based on quantity of signees, the rankings are meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Until recruiting services stop rating classes based on quantity of signees, the rankings are meaningless.+1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 +1.Pretty sure they only count the top 20 in each class.. So they do to an extent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipgrad01 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Meaningless??? It just so happens that all the teams at the bottom of the ranking are the worst teams in the country? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Meaningless??? It just so happens that all the teams at the bottom of the ranking are the worst teams in the country?NIU is routinely rated around the bottom 20% of recruiting classes, behind nearly every P5 doormat. It's like that every single year. And yet who is one of the winningest teams in the past decade?If recruiting rankings were correct, teams would never go from bad to good, or fall off the radar, because they adjust ratings based on the offers a recruit gets and that, in turn, is based on how those teams are doing right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K92 Posted February 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I have a sneaking suspicion that the recruiting rankings perceived correctness amongst the ZN.o faithful might be given a lot more credence if the Zips were ranked higher. Just a hunch. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 NIU is routinely rated around the bottom 20% of recruiting classes, behind nearly every P5 doormat. It's like that every single year. And yet who is one of the winningest teams in the past decade?If recruiting rankings were correct, teams would never go from bad to good, or fall off the radar, because they adjust ratings based on the offers a recruit gets and that, in turn, is based on how those teams are doing right now.Recruiting rankings are based on individual talent. Apples and oranges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballzip Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Most kids from Fla. Would have liked to see more Ohio kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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