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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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.




GO BOBCATS

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.

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.