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If he leaves, I think it’ll be to take an OC position in the B1G.  I understand the ACC is still considered a Power Four conference, but just barely—they’re more of a hoops conference, and I’m not sure going from HC here to OC at VT would be much of a vertical move considering he's been an OC at bigger programs.  Plus, VT just spent $8 million on Sam Levitt.  And with the emergence of a very competent AD, I think he stays put. 

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i'd like to see Goodrich look at someone local like Kehres or Tyrell.  They are doing great things at Mt Union (Toledo) and Hoban.  Right?

 

 

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Vince Kehres isn’t coming to Akron. He has the third ranked D in the country. He will  either replace Candle or move with him. Or worst case, stay put as D coordinator, if Candle doesn’t move, while entertaining better G6 positions. We could’ve possibly had him after Arth. 

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51 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

i'd like to see Goodrich look at someone local like Kehres or Tyrell.  They are doing great things at Mt Union (Toledo) and Hoban.  Right?

Sounds like some "Akron" moves. We've previously hired HC's that did great things at John Carroll and Cincinnati Moeller.

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Tyrell does things at a high school that actively recruits. Same thing was true at Cincinnati Moeller with Faust. Means they can successfully recruit at the high school level- often opposing teams that don't recruit (remember they are not "allowed to recruit"). In Mt Union's case- literally 25% of all male freshmen are football players- most will never see the field- its a numbers game that benefits their overall enrollment- different animal. Recruiting is different at  D1 college level where everyone recruits and now including money. Also- can they coach as well as they recruit? The situations are literally apples and oranges. The one doesnt translate to the other in most cases.

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We need someone who can successfully coach at a D1 college level and can also successfully recruit at that level with handicaps. The handicaps likely require excellent evaluation of sleepers who wont receive major dollars elsewhere as Joe says happened with Gant this year- difficult job. We have a basketball coach who can evaltuate, recruit,  develop players, and coach. I know nothing about softball but it appears to this layman that we have a softball coach who can do those things. We have a women's lacrosse coach who can definitely successfully develop players. We are about to see how good she is with evaluation and recruiting- but the signs are postive. So we know there are people who have the total package and some are at Akron now.

 

Admittedly this is most difficult in the very visuable and money-laden world of college football but that is the task ahead for anyone who takes on the position of Akron football coach be that Moorhead or anyone else. 

 

Go Zips!

 

  

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9 minutes ago, adzip said:

We have a basketball coach who can evaltuate, recruit,  develop players, and coach. 

 

It's impossible to compare our football to our basketball program. Thanks largely to Bud we're the 2nd best funded MAC basketball program (only behind UMass). Akron football is the bottom of the MAC in funding. 

 

If we didn't have the money to retain Tavari, Lyles, Scott, Young, not to mention sign Evan, Akron basketball would also be struggling. Maybe not to the extreme football has, but we wouldn't have had the success we've experienced either.

 

In basketball if you find a diamond in the rough or one just happens to show up unexpectedly at open tryouts (Freeman) that dramatically raises the ceiling of your program as you only need 2-3 players to carry a team. That doesn't work in football where you have 11 starters on offense and another 11 on defense. Not to mention a few specialists. Even if you found 1 absolute star at QB he wouldn't have the same impact that a Steph Curry had at Davidson.

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21 minutes ago, MangoZip said:

This clown is from Kansas City and has 56 followers… not putting much credibility to this report! 

 

 

It would certainly be a big "move" for his followership if he actually did break this.

But...yeah this isn't the actual story.

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