EAST LANSING — Joe Moorhead returned to Akron in the offseason, a place he and his family felt to be a second home.
The Zips' new head coach brought along more than just his wife and three children.
Moorhead took a similar approach to upgrading his new roster that Mel Tucker did a year ago with Michigan State football, with Akron adding 40 new players — more than half from the transfer portal — in an attempt to jumpstart a rebuild for the Mid-American Conference's perennial East Division cellar-dweller.
The initial result proved favorable, albeit a show of how much work is ahead for the former Mississippi State head coach.