Coach Joe Rumor Page

[MangoZip]

I’m sure there will be many twists and turns until something is announced but there certainly is no shortage of accolades for Joe and speculation about his future on X.

[Captain Kangaroo]

I would assume neither of those bloggers know the budget issues Joe's dealt with either...

[AkronAlumnus]

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. 

Edited yesterday at 01:45 PM by AkronAlumnus
Typos

[zippy5]

Joe's agent is hard at work it looks like

[Blue & Gold]

14 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

Joe's agent is hard at work it looks like

Going off what?

[zippy5]

7 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

Going off what?

All of these posts from national guys happening the day after the season ended and Franklin gets hired

[Captain Kangaroo]

46 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

Joe's agent is hard at work it looks like

You don't earn your 10% cut by sitting on your thumb. 😁

[NWAkron]

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?

 

 

Edited yesterday at 03:19 PM by NWAkron

[Zipped Up]

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. 

[Captain Kangaroo]

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.

[adzip]

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.

[adzip]

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!

 

  

[kreed5120]

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.

[Blue & Gold]

Has Matt Kaulig sunk into the woodwork since JoeMo's been here?  I'm in no inner circles, but I haven't heard from him in a while. Is he not a huge JoeMo fan?

[adzip]

kreed5120- good points- accept the limitation of my post

[MangoZip]

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

[exit322]

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.

[Zippy87]

9 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

Has Matt Kaulig sunk into the woodwork since JoeMo's been here?  I'm in no inner circles, but I haven't heard from him in a while. Is he not a huge JoeMo fan?

 

I've wondered this as well. I feel like he was pretty visible around the program for a few years and not so much anymore.

[Sergeant Zip]

Letter from Dr. Goodrich

 

"Over the next eight weeks, we will evaluate our football staff, operations, roster, academic efforts, and recruiting and retention strategies as the transfer portal opens and closes. Inevitably, we will see some of our young men enter the transfer portal and we will also identify many new faces who are eager to join the Akron Zips football program in pursuit of a MAC Championship and University of Akron degree. "
 

[MangoZip]

26 minutes ago, Sergeant Zip said:

Letter from Dr. Goodrich

 

"Over the next eight weeks, we will evaluate our football staff, operations, roster, academic efforts, and recruiting and retention strategies as the transfer portal opens and closes. Inevitably, we will see some of our young men enter the transfer portal and we will also identify many new faces who are eager to join the Akron Zips football program in pursuit of a MAC Championship and University of Akron degree. "
 

That’s very interesting. Sounds like he and Joe had a pretty in depth conversation, but if this all hinges on getting a significant amount of money donated into the program I think they are going to be disappointed. If Franklin offers joe the Virginia Tech OC job he will be out of here in a heartbeat. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 hour ago, Sergeant Zip said:

Letter from Dr. Goodrich

 

"Over the next eight weeks, we will evaluate our football staff, operations, roster, academic efforts, and recruiting and retention strategies as the transfer portal opens and closes. Inevitably, we will see some of our young men enter the transfer portal and we will also identify many new faces who are eager to join the Akron Zips football program in pursuit of a MAC Championship and University of Akron degree. "
 

 

Some thoughts...

 

- Love that Goodrich took the time to craft this letter. Not sure I recall any recent ADs doing something like this. 

 

- I do wonder if the importance of the next 8 weeks silently refers more to JoeMo's decision rather than the other categories mentioned. Fundraising is really the only other crucial component to the next 8 weeks. The NCAA has a new 1-window transfer portal from Jan. 2-16 which only means players have to be in the portal by the 16th (recruiting doesn't end on the 16th). Talent hasn't been the issue, at least not nearly as big of an issue as coaching and financials have been. Every school is going through talent overhaul YOY. It comes down to financials and coaching as the key denominators between programs.  

 

- I re-read Goodrich's bio. Something that stands out is he negotiated the JMA Wireless Dome naming rights agreement at Syracuse and the Yuengling Center naming rights deal at South Florida. If I'm not mistaken, the football stadium's naming rights deal ends within the next 5 years. I wonder if he'll be here to negotiate another naming rights deal for his resume. That could be a big step in the financial health of the football program. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Let'sGoZips94

[kreed5120]

I would think the 8 weeks are important in the sense that even if you're able to retain 2 or 3 of the offensive lineman it puts you in a much better position to succeed than needing to replace all 5.

 

Some guys will perform at such a high level that we will never be able to afford them. We saw that with Nate Johnson in basketball. We need to at least position ourselves to keep a few guys below that tier so at least we have a foundation to build off of.

[ZippyRulz]

5.5 hrs...just sayin

 

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Edited 51 minutes ago by ZippyRulz