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- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
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- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
- Kent State-Akron in-game updates: Kent State wins 4-3
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The amount of commitments is not very important. The quality is. Miami is leading in both categories, on its way to another top-half of the MAC recruiting class.
Watch for the announcement about the new stadium, which is coming Wednesday, to nudge some of Akron's targets into a verbal commitment.
MAC recruiting update
Football
Here's a look at how the MAC teams are faring according to Rivals.com.
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Commitments
Miami - 8 (including
an outstanding quarterback and a slew of players whom non-BCS schools fought over)
Temple - 8 (with an average rating of 1.67 stars)
Western Michigan - 3 (including tight end
Blake Hammond, whom Akron
was recruiting)
Eastern Michigan - 2 (including a giant Canadian defensive end, who is
a three-star player)
Akron - 1 (not including
Kyle Roddenberry, who is not listed yet)
Bowling Green - 1 (an unranked athlete who had
no other offers)
Northern Illinois - 1 (an unrated offensive lineman who
chose NIU over Central Michigan)
Ball State - 0
Buffalo - 0
Central Michigan - 0
Kent State - 0
Ohio - 0
Toledo - 0
The amount of commitments is not very important. The quality is. Miami is leading in both categories, on its way to another top-half of the MAC recruiting class.
Watch for the announcement about the new stadium, which is coming Wednesday, to nudge some of Akron's targets into a verbal commitment.
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Smooth Danny Kadar broke down two more MAC teams recently. Ohio, he
writes, may take a step back. An easy schedule, however, should land the Bobcats in a second-consecutive bowl game. On the other hand, Buffalo has a decent running back and fairly good secondary. The rest of the team
is awful.
Akron landed at No. 90 in the list of ESPN.com's best football programs of the last decade.
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