LZIp Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said: Any idea on who? Per 247, at least these guys listed here.https://247sports.com/college/akron/Season/2022-Football/Visits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adzip Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 94zipgrad is on the right path- some of our announced commits are already enrolled- they may participate in this weekend’s doings but they are committed in the sense they have already enrolled; other announced commits are here with family to cement their decision and meet people, see facilities, etc. There is a third group that are not committed and, hopefully, some/many will commit tomorrow. To have no new info tonight is not a problem- they are busy. To have no new commitments by this time tomorrow will be more of an issue. Hopefully we will have some positive developments in the next 24 hours. Go Zips! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 @94zipgrad & @adzip thank you both for the explanation/clarification. I'm caught up and it all makes more sense now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 10 hours ago, LZIp said: Per 247, at least these guys listed here.https://247sports.com/college/akron/Season/2022-Football/Visits Ugh. January & February are the lousiest two month of weather around here. It's 10-degrees this morning. But I'll cross my fingers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 11 hours ago, 94zipgrad said: You just confused me, there are a couple weekends of official visits. They could be committed for a year but they come for an official visit. Your other game day or practice visits are not official. Your official visit has all the commits in during the couple weekends they have set up where parents come as well. All the commits get to meet each other, parents & complete staff. It’s standard. I hope that made sense They can have uncommitted players as well. Your only allowed 1 official visit where they can pay the expenses of travel and hotel for a weekend so it’s nice to have commitments before official visit but if they aren’t committed it’s obviously late in game & if you have them here you have offered and really want and think you have a chance as we don’t have the endless budget P5’s do. Your last paragraph is correct. The rest of your post may or not be what Akron has done in the past, but otherwise it is completely wrong. Schools with budgets hold numerous (many) official visits, which can occur on a game day, parents may or may not show (usually a good idea if they do), and it is unlikely the recruit will meet with the entire staff. The official visit can occur before or after the recruit commits, or with increasing frequency in recent years (due primarily to COVID) never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 He is right? You only get one official visit to a school. 5 in total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 11 hours ago, LZIp said: Per 247, at least these guys listed here.https://247sports.com/college/akron/Season/2022-Football/Visits Thyler Williams is an OL from Alpharetta, GA who holds an offer from Miami, FL. It's currently 12-degrees in Akron 😭😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Just read that 1st Team All-Ohio RB and Zips commit Charles Kellom was named the Cincinnati Enquirer's D-1 Offensive POY. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) Julian Lewis, coming for an official visit January 28th, is a true stud. He has offers from: Appalachian State Arkansas Boston College Buffalo Cincinnati Coastal Carolina Florida Georgia Tech Kentucky Pitt Rhode Island Southern Miss Syracuse West Virginia How is Coach JoeMo able to attract talent like that? I'm assuming this kid would never have glanced at Akron under Arth & Co. Is his high school coach telling him JoeMo is legit? Is it JoeMo's personality? I doubt the kid has followed Coach Joe's career or is at all familiar with JoeMo's resume, right? Edited January 16, 2022 by Blue & Gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94zipgrad Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Zipmeister said: Your last paragraph is correct. The rest of your post may or not be what Akron has done in the past, but otherwise it is completely wrong. Schools with budgets hold numerous (many) official visits, which can occur on a game day, parents may or may not show (usually a good idea if they do), and it is unlikely the recruit will meet with the entire staff. The official visit can occur before or after the recruit commits, or with increasing frequency in recent years (due primarily to COVID) never. Do you want me to paste the NCAA rule of only allowing 1 official visit. An official visit is when the school pays transportation and lodging expenses for a whole weekend. I didn’t guess Edited January 16, 2022 by 94zipgrad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said: Julian Lewis, coming for an official visit January 28th, is a true stud. He has offers from: Appalachian State Arkansas Boston College Buffalo Cincinnati Coastal Carolina Florida Georgia Tech Kentucky Pitt Rhode Island Southern Miss Syracuse West Virginia How is Coach JoeMo able to attract talent like that? I'm assuming this kid would never have glanced at Akron under Arth & Co. Is his high school coach telling him JoeMo is legit? Is it JoeMo's personality? I doubt the kid has followed Coach Joe's career or is at all familiar with JoeMo's resume, right? I guess this is a bit cynical but I wonder how commitable those offers are. In any case, just to be on the radar at those places is pretty impressive. Glad to see some positive momentum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 4 hours ago, 94zipgrad said: Do you want me to paste the NCAA rule of only allowing 1 official visit. An official visit is when the school pays transportation and lodging expenses for a whole weekend. I didn’t guess Too late for that. I agreed 5 hours ago, in my initial reaction to your post,that every thing you said in the last paragraph of your post was correct. It's the rest of the post that needs work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94zipgrad Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 34 minutes ago, Zipmeister said: Too late for that. I agreed 5 hours ago, in my initial reaction to your post,that every thing you said in the last paragraph of your post was correct. It's the rest of the post that needs work. Sorry but it is accurate and comes from 1st hand knowledge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 hours ago, Blue & Gold said: Julian Lewis, coming for an official visit January 28th, is a true stud. He has offers from: Appalachian State Arkansas Boston College Buffalo Cincinnati Coastal Carolina Florida Georgia Tech Kentucky Pitt Rhode Island Southern Miss Syracuse West Virginia How is Coach JoeMo able to attract talent like that? I'm assuming this kid would never have glanced at Akron under Arth & Co. Is his high school coach telling him JoeMo is legit? Is it JoeMo's personality? I doubt the kid has followed Coach Joe's career or is at all familiar with JoeMo's resume, right? 3 hours ago, zippy5 said: I guess this is a bit cynical but I wonder how commitable those offers are. In any case, just to be on the radar at those places is pretty impressive. Glad to see some positive momentum I had speculated earlier in one of the threads about Mr. Lewis that there might be a connection with Reno Ferri from his time at 'Cuse. Regardless, I don't think JoeMo is unknown to these players. This is the guy that produced one of the top offenses in college football in back to back years with Saquon Barkley and Trace McSorley, ultimately sending Barkley to the NFL as a top 5 draft pick. He is as good of an offensive mind as any of the schools on that list have on their respective staffs, if not better. Not to mention his reason for coming to Akron is incredibly down-to-earth (family), and he seems very genuine. It's not hard to sell himself to recruits, and there are worse places than Akron in the world. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, 94zipgrad said: Sorry but it is accurate and comes from 1st hand knowledge You have got to get out more. For example, take a peek at the list of official visits for just about any big 10 team and see if any of the visits occurred on a home game day. They do that so uncommitted recruits can personally observe how exciting the game day experience is at their place. In recent years having recruits in to watch a Zips game might not have been the best strategy. Edited January 16, 2022 by Zipmeister . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94zipgrad Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Zipmeister said: You have got to get out more. For example, take a peek at the list of official visits for just about any big 10 team and see if any of the visits occurred on a home game day. Ok, thanks bud, we are discussing the Zips on Zipnation, end of discussion because you are not going to get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 12 minutes ago, 94zipgrad said: Ok, thanks bud, we are discussing the Zips on Zipnation, end of discussion because you are not going to get it 21 hours ago, 94zipgrad said: It’s an official visit so it should be commits, they see facilities, gear, dinner on 7th floor of Info, trip to HOF & best part a night out on the town with players Ok sport, even if you were limiting the discussion to what the Zips have done (which was not clear), you are absolutely wrong about official visits being limited to commits. If that is what they have been doing (which I doubt), rest assured it will change now that we have a legitimate D1 head coach. Everything else you claimed about official visits, except that which I have already expressed agreement with, may occur but is not universally the case. End of discussion because I'm pretty sure you are not going to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94zipgrad Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 26 minutes ago, Zipmeister said: Ok sport, even if you were limiting the discussion to what the Zips have done (which was not clear), you are absolutely wrong about official visits being limited to commits. If that is what they have been doing (which I doubt), rest assured it will change now that we have a legitimate D1 head coach. Everything else you claimed about official visits, except that which I have already expressed agreement with, may occur but is not universally the case. End of discussion because I'm pretty sure you are not going to get it. Way to pick and choose, i explained there could be non commits in last paragraph. Please stop embarrassing yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 31 minutes ago, 94zipgrad said: Way to pick and choose, i explained there could be non commits in last paragraph. Please stop embarrassing yourself I agree you initially had it correct, but then you contradicted yourself 22 hours ago. Please stop flip-floping, you are embarrassing yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Kid's from London. NFL Academy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said: Kid's from London. NFL Academy. How cool. Who knows - maybe he develops into a scholarship player? At the very least, it lays the foundation to build a pipeline from the NFL Academy to Akron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjim Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/15/2022 at 9:58 PM, adzip said: some of our announced commits are already enrolled- some/many will commit tomorrow. To have no new info tonight is not a problem- they are busy. To have no new commitments by this time tomorrow will be more of an issue. This posting had me all excited on Saturday. Now, I have the following questions. 1. can you share the names of the commits that are already enrolled? I would like to know the sure recruits. 2. I did not see any new commits on Sunday. Did I miss them? Now it is Monday mid-day, and no news has been reported. Is there an issue as stated above? In Joe We Trust!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjim Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, zippy5 said: My post was 1 minute late. I was hitting send as this came through. Hopefully, it is the first of many commits in the next couple of days. 'Go Zips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Here's hoping there are no visits scheduled for this week! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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