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Topic: RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

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shabamon
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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:36:26 PM

Pataskala wrote:

Reghi was showing his Akron bias again. With Ohio up 14-9 he made some statement about if Ohio is to continue their streak against Akron, they'll need more points or defensive stops. He made it sound like Ohio was trailing. He might be enthusiastic for the MAC, but he should throttle back his Akron favoritism.

I've been feeling for Reghi over the past few years. Went from being the TV personality for the Cavs on FSN to doing MAC games on ESPN3 in front of 1500 fans.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:39:22 PM

shabamon wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

I've been feeling for Reghi over the past few years. Went from being the TV personality for the Cavs on FSN to doing MAC games on ESPN3 in front of 1500 fans.

I know we have a lot of NE Ohio Reghi lovers here, but I find him insufferable. I have never gotten it. Must just be me.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:46:59 PM

Pataskala wrote:

...Offense really needs work, especially in finding someone who can fill in for Vick right now. He's really dinged up and can't throw the ball well because of the ankle. If he has to step into it to get the ball down the field, it sails. That happened several times last week. If he goes down, we're really one-dimensional. Windham is a good option QB but throwing the ball is not his game. That INT was a real wasted opportunity....

Exactly. With Miami up this week, I favor playing Windham and/or Duckworth the entire game and letting Vick and Sprague have the week off to heal, much as they played Vick against Norfolk State a few years ago. Vick has been really effective when healthy this year, but it seems like he keeps getting one thing after another..

By the way, though, Windham is supposedly a very good passer, but not much of a runner. I think the reason they ran the option is that, the way Akron was defensing Vick was based on the fact that Vick wasn't able to run, so Ohio was trying to take advantage of that. Yes, he threw a terrible pass on that interception, but that doesn't mean he can't pass, once he gets settled in.

Last Edited: 10/3/2015 5:47:57 PM by L.C.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:49:38 PM

D.A. wrote:

shabamon wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

I've been feeling for Reghi over the past few years. Went from being the TV personality for the Cavs on FSN to doing MAC games on ESPN3 in front of 1500 fans.

I know we have a lot of NE Ohio Reghi lovers here, but I find him insufferable. I have never gotten it. Must just be me.

I feel something when Reghi is broadcasting but it isn't ever anything good. If you are the team's employee and broadcaster that is one thing but his enthusiasm for Akron is hard to listen to. (Was the screaming fan also at this game? I forget if that is a Kent State thing or Akron)

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:50:20 PM

But why pass on third down when you should be looking to get 3 points with Windham in? I found that interception play totally unacceptable. Give it to AJ and he either gets the first or we get 3 from Josiah. That would have been a breathing room field goal.

I have said it over and over again..why are we so enamored with Daz? He was awful in the second half. Yes, he had a key TD and yes, he's been clutch at times this year but Papi had a hot hand today. A.J. is tough as nails..when Daz is off, he's off. There's no going back. Let's start getting Papi and A.J. some carries.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 5:53:51 PM

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Akron had the ball on the Ohio 5 at one point before getting pulled back for a penalty. Very close to putting it in the endzone but shot themselves in the foot with a penalty. From the 5 minute mark of the 3rd to the 5 minute mark of the 4th there was almost no big plays from us on either side of the ball.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 6:18:39 PM

Pataskala wrote:

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Reghi was showing his Akron bias again. With Ohio up 14-9 he made some statement about if Ohio is to continue their streak against Akron, they'll need more points or defensive stops. He made it sound like Ohio was trailing. He might be enthusiastic for the MAC, but he should throttle back his Akron favoritism.

A win is a win; so, we're 1-0 in the MAC with Fiami coming up next. Let's beat the crap out of them.

To be fair to Reghi, I said (i.e. screamed) much the same thing (albeit with more expletives) to my neighbors through the walls during our late abortive offensive drives. Not like the outcome was assured late in the game.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 6:20:27 PM

I agree with Bobcat1998 look at the first half stats. 2nd half have was not good at at all. Why isn't AJ getting more carries we do better with him in, and albins play calling is so horrible.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 6:20:29 PM

Play of the game was in the second quarter, OHIO with 4th and 1 and going for the first down when a procedure penalty on the Bobcats occurs moving em back five and then punting into the endzone for a net 16 gain. OHIO gets a first down there up 14 and the game would have likely been a laugher.

What a grab by Papi to get OHIO out of the shadow of the endzone.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 6:41:29 PM

All football17 wrote:

I agree with Bobcat1998 look at the first half stats. 2nd half have was not good at at all. Why isn't AJ getting more carries we do better with him in, and albins play calling is so horrible.

Play calling and add to that use of personnel. You would have to think with Heitzman, Cope, Reid and Sebastian the offense could find a way to not go 3 and out on 6 consecutive series.

Last Edited: 10/3/2015 6:41:54 PM by Campus Flow

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 7:23:40 PM

Uncle Wes wrote:

All football17 wrote:

I agree with Bobcat1998 look at the first half stats. 2nd half have was not good at at all. Why isn't AJ getting more carries we do better with him in, and albins play calling is so horrible.

Play calling and add to that use of personnel. You would have to think with Heitzman, Cope, Reid and Sebastian the offense could find a way to not go 3 and out on 6 consecutive series.

Not a chance Akron had a damned good defense on the field?

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 7:49:03 PM

Bcat2 wrote:

Uncle Wes wrote:

All football17 wrote:

I agree with Bobcat1998 look at the first half stats. 2nd half have was not good at at all. Why isn't AJ getting more carries we do better with him in, and albins play calling is so horrible.

Play calling and add to that use of personnel. You would have to think with Heitzman, Cope, Reid and Sebastian the offense could find a way to not go 3 and out on 6 consecutive series.

Not a chance Akron had a damned good defense on the field?

Akron also has a very good defensive coordinator, one that made some adept adjustments when he realized that Vick couldn't run, and couldn't get much zip on the ball after the first quarter.

The important thing is that the Ohio defense grew a lot today, and should have a lot more confidence going forward. After being burned against Minnesota, giving up a final drive, it was quite obvious that they were determined to avoid a repeat, and they never even let Akron get started.

Last Edited: 10/3/2015 7:49:34 PM by L.C.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 8:11:53 PM

This needs to be Akron's season. All seniors across the OL,and Srs. at DT and a lot elsewhere. Bowden has been building for this season. Glad to be past Akron with a win Steele was not giving Ohio.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 8:48:05 PM

D.A. wrote:

shabamon wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

I've been feeling for Reghi over the past few years. Went from being the TV personality for the Cavs on FSN to doing MAC games on ESPN3 in front of 1500 fans.

I know we have a lot of NE Ohio Reghi lovers here, but I find him insufferable. I have never gotten it. Must just be me.

Me too. He is "Mr. Clich�."

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 9:24:59 PM

Didn't get a really good look at Reghi's hair so I can't tell what kind of game it had.

'kron ran a 290 lb d-lineman for short yardage first down. That is football.

That was some pretty dull, not-very-good football out there today. If one of those teams is good enough to have a solid shot at MACC, then the MAC is not a very good league.

Look, 'kron is not horrible. But they're also not very good. Don't even try to sell that it here that they are. They just aren't. That we barely won is not high praise on us. We played some dull football. As usual.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 9:39:06 PM

FACT is , they won.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 10:05:45 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

...That was some pretty dull, not-very-good football out there today. If one of those teams is good enough to have a solid shot at MACC, then the MAC is not a very good league. ...

Since I like defensive battles, not surprisingly, I disagree.

So far as I can tell there are four pretty good defensive teams in the MAC, Ohio, Akron, Toledo, and Kent. BG has to play all four, which will make for some interesting matchups. In those you will see offensive firepower versus defensive firepower. Defense often comes out on top, so it's quite possible that BG, despite it's great offense, will lose one or two. That was Elton Alexander's thinking when he, before the game today, picked the winner of this game to win the MAC East.

Monroe Slavin wrote:

...Look, 'kron is not horrible. But they're also not very good. Don't even try to sell that it here that they are. They just aren't. That we barely won is not high praise on us. We played some dull football. As usual.

There is no reason to try to sell this. Time will tell whether, at the end of the season, they have a winning record, but I would say that most people seem to expect that they will.

Last Edited: 10/4/2015 12:22:10 AM by L.C.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/3/2015 10:10:42 PM

Uncle Wes wrote:

All football17 wrote:

I agree with Bobcat1998 look at the first half stats. 2nd half have was not good at at all. Why isn't AJ getting more carries we do better with him in, and albins play calling is so horrible.

Play calling and add to that use of personnel. You would have to think with Heitzman, Cope, Reid and Sebastian the offense could find a way to not go 3 and out on 6 consecutive series.

I'm not quoting this to prove the truth of the matter quoted, but just to show that perspectives can vary. I was perusing zipsnation after the game to see their thoughts. Naturally there was some grumbling about a variety of things, but I also found this quote, which takes the exact opposite view than that expressed above:

lee adams wrote:

If you wanted an example of how good coaching can make a difference in a close game,you saw it today. Solich and his staff were better prepared in pre-game planning,in game defensive and offensive play calling and having the right personnel on the field at the right time. Solich made 2 TD's stand up and Bowden couldn't figure out a way to put his guys in the right circumstances to score even one TD. Don't blame Woodson. The coaches put the offense in poor circumstances especially with early play calling and a couple of puzzling decisions in the second half. ....

None of the other zipnation posters made any effort to disagree with or refute this post.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/4/2015 3:44:10 AM

That was freaking Akron. A fair number of posters on here thought that we'd coast.

Yes, we won. That is a fact.

But we seem the quite vanilla team that we've been for so long (since the end of the good TT era). We rather hung on to beat Akron.

I saw some of Ariz State beating UCLA tonight. ASU's offense has some excitement, some verve. We don't. For all the weapons that we're supposed to have, our offense has huge stretches on non-performance.

That's the main reason that we ought to try Brown or Irons. Maybe they could spark this offense.

Okay, now start with your REALLY LENGTHY responses about how that could never be, how it would be a really startling, bad idea to try Brown or Irons.

The tolerance for mediocrity here is overwhelming.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/4/2015 4:39:46 AM

Watch the top plays near the end of College Football Final if you see a reair - Papi hurdle made the show.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/4/2015 11:11:20 AM

Papi is a special player who has shown the ability to make plays. He is an exciting player to watch and each time he gets the ball you are expecting him to do something great i..e yesterday's hurdle over the Akron defensive player and the results was additional yardage gained.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/4/2015 12:43:19 PM

First thank goodness we won. Second, extra point call had be one of the worst calls ever. Three Akron announced their were over 17,000 at the game yesterday. Now I know we all joke about how some schools inflate their numbers but this is really stretching it. Maybe 6000 tops and two thirds were wearing green. The band and football team probably made up on quarter of their attendance.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/5/2015 8:23:41 AM

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Three Akron announced their were over 17,000 at the game yesterday. Now I know we all joke about how some schools inflate their numbers but this is really stretching it.

Akron, like us and like most of the MAC, reports tickets sold and not butts in seats. I think maybe only Western counts at the turnstile. It was their homecoming game, and alumni could get tickets with free food and drinks for $8. I think (could be wrong here) they also gave away thousands of season tickets to recent grads to inflate their figures. In short, I'm confident they sold 17,000 tickets somehow. I'm also confident that our Tuesday night games in November will have a similar looking 17,000 fans. I know Akron's support sucks compared to ours but don't see how we can throw stones here.

On another note, they are bizarrely zealous about patrolling the home side stands. My wife wanted to watch the band while standing under the awning during the pregame and two ushers kicked us out even though no one was within 20 feet of us. Heaven help you if you try to get in one of the 10,000 empty reserved seats. On another note, $61 million does get you nice, wide concourses, modern bathrooms and decent concessions. Many beer choices (and being able to drink at our seats) was also very nice. It still feels very sterile, but I think that's a symptom of the malaise at Akron and in the program rather than an indictment against the stadium.

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/5/2015 3:23:07 PM

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RE: Official Game 5 Thread: Akron

Posted: 10/6/2015 8:06:18 AM

I might be alone in this, but, I am feeling good about beating Bowden/Amato. Last year Akron led the MAC in Scoring Defense and 3rd Down Eff Defense. They returned two 1st Tm All MAC defenders; J. Brown at LB and Grice at NT. Good job Ohio. The fans might not long remember 2015 Akron, but, something tells me the players and coaches will never forget 2015 Akron.

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