Western Michigan Preview (Game Ten)

[ZippyDoo]

couldn't agree with you more 72... it's sad to watch. i just want the misery to end...

[ZippyDoo]

Someone called it 35-7 !!!!

 

 

maybe western will let up. i know the zips players did. that was obvious in the first half. not all but most

[ZippyDoo]

shouldn't have CB out there at this point. this is stupid and not in his best interest. 

 

i would pull the string on him and save him. 

[ZippyDoo]

shows what i know that was a perfect throw...

[Reslife4Life]

Imagine if broughton was healthy this year. I can say that, but I won’t accept that as an excuse from the staff

[Reslife4Life]

Is this the worst defense we’ve ever had?

[ZippyDoo]

our only win is going to be RMU... that's crazy...

 

i honestly thought we were going to win 6 or 7. Man i am an idiot...

[kreed5120]

1 minute ago, Reslife4Life said:

Is this the worst defense we’ve ever had?

 

Every time I bring question to that someone tries to say well if you take away 5 plays the defense wasn't that bad. What they fail to mention is those 5 plays are all TDs and represent like 200 yards allowed lol

[exit322]

3 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

 

Every time I bring question to that someone tries to say well if you take away 5 plays the defense wasn't that bad. What they fail to mention is those 5 plays are all TDs and represent like 200 yards allowed lol

 

The defense was not bad last week, and I'll continue to argue that.

 

It was awful tonight.

[exit322]

18 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Imagine if broughton was healthy this year. I can say that, but I won’t accept that as an excuse from the staff

 

Left a few wins on the table with Roggow, right.

[exit322]

If the rumblings are true and there is booster money to send Joe on...after this lifeless performance you have to wonder if they won't pull that trigger.

[ZippyDoo]

this was pathetic. The assistant coaches couldn't even fake like they cared tonight when they went for it on fourth and five or six whatever it was on their second series and Wester scored a touchdown. It was over. There was no coming back from that.

 

Most of the players didn't care, fans don't care joe doesn't care

 

time to cut the strings...

 

UMASS has something to play for buff has something to play for and of course Akron does not. It's gonna be an embarrassing next two weeks if Joe is still here.

[clarkwgriswold]

Well, we won the penalty battle!

[72 Roo]

26 minutes ago, ZippyDoo said:

our only win is going to be RMU... that's crazy...

 

i honestly thought we were going to win 6 or 7. Man i am an idiot...

You are not alone. I had us at 6-6 this season. Sadly the talent is there, except for maybe the defensive backfield. 

[Captain Kangaroo]

1 hour ago, Reslife4Life said:

Is this the worst defense we’ve ever had?

Not even close.

 

I recall in 2011 we were losing to Western 66-3 in the 3rd quarter. I think we ultimately lost 68-19.

 

In the Arth era we lost to Western 58-13.

 

Western leads the all time series 18-5.

 

Hard to believe the Zips have been worse, but they have. Multiple times.

[exit322]

1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Well, we won the penalty battle!

 

It was a fairly clean game in that regard.

 

The offensive targeting was a nice twist though 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Every loss is one step closer to JoeMo being gone.

 

Dilly Dilly.

[ZippyDoo]

PLEASE MR GOODRICH ... end this misery now!!!! 

[clarkwgriswold]

39 plays for 233 yards while WMU had 80 for 566.  WMU had the ball for nearly 43 minutes of the game!  Yikes.

[exit322]

31 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

39 plays for 233 yards while WMU had 80 for 566.  WMU had the ball for nearly 43 minutes of the game!  Yikes.

 

The argument that this may have been the worst Akron defensive performance "ever" despite the higher scores listed before is that WMU very clearly entered the game with a gameplan of showing no one anything, and still ran up 566 yards.

[LZIp]

At this point, I don’t really care if JoeMo is here next year or not. The university is  clearly not willing to step up the support for the program while he is here. With that said, nothing is going to change if financial commitment isn’t stepped up for whoever’s next.

 

Lastly, it’s easy to blame coaches, but the players deserve plenty as well. 

[clarkwgriswold]

17 minutes ago, LZIp said:

At this point, I don’t really care if JoeMo is here next year or not. The university is  clearly not willing to step up the support for the program while he is here. With that said, nothing is going to change if financial commitment isn’t stepped up for whoever’s next.

 

Lastly, it’s easy to blame coaches, but the players deserve plenty as well. 

 

Given the school's lack of financial commitment, an new head coach needs to be a guy that can whip up interest and financial support.  It's pretty clear that the JoMo doesn't have the interest in or the ability to do so.

[kreed5120]

7 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

Given the school's lack of financial commitment, an new head coach needs to be a guy that can whip up interest and financial support.  It's pretty clear that the JoMo doesn't have the interest in or the ability to do so.

 

The thing is everyone else has adopted the philosophy of throwing every last dollar at football. We probably need 5 boosters to contribute to the football program at the level Wentz Financial is contributing to basketball to see a meaningful difference. Even then that's not getting us anywhere close to the $8 million Miami reportedly spent on their roster, but perhaps close enough a good talent evaluator/developer will have a large enough selection of players to make a difference. 

 

We have Kaulig, assuming he's still heavily involved, but it's not like Akron has a Mark Cuban or Stryker family networth that can single handedly bankroll a quality G6 FBS program.

[clarkwgriswold]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

 

The thing is everyone else has adopted the philosophy of throwing every last dollar at football. We probably need 5 boosters to contribute to the football program at the level Wentz Financial is contributing to basketball to see a meaningful difference. Even then that's not getting us anywhere close to the $8 million Miami reportedly spent on their roster, but perhaps close enough a good talent evaluator/developer will have a large enough selection of players to make a difference. 

 

We have Kaulig, assuming he's still heavily involved, but it's not like Akron has a Mark Cuban or Stryker family networth that can single handedly bankroll a quality G6 FBS program.

 

Agreed.  it would have to be a collective effort.  Football is too big for one donor to do it.