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Aren't the Zips 12-2 with a two game lead on the entire league? How many teams in the country are in that position? Go Zips!!!

Fixed it for you. Go Zips!

I'd like to see the zips seal up the nit bid, then take it with them to the NCAA tournament.

Not sure about that, but it sure makes some $$$$.

My group had a great time at Cleats last year, both before and after the final. There was a great band playing after the championship was over. But I thought I heard a month or so ago that it was closed up?

I do think Dr Peterson should start the u@b game regardless of the circumstances.

Only took just under 2 hours for this exact comment to be lifted by a user / blog write and tweeted as his own. Journalism!!

Nice!

Hey now, Nitro threw a couple of daggers at the Q last year to help get through the early rounds. Let's not start some broad brush stroke that he hasn't come up big when it counted .. because it's not objectively true. Go Zips!!!

You should have seen their game-day experience. I'll have more comments in my coming trip report, but it was pretty good. Perhaps the best halftime event EVER .. better than Red Panda. Hope the AD staff that was there took some notes. Go Zips!

It's on the horizon, not sure when it will happen, but it will.

Sounds to me like he's good to go.

You are correct sir.

Timely article in the WSJ this week. Where are the fans? I think there's a real risk of building too big. Gotta avoid that, and the noid. See you in Tulsa. Go Zips!

We are set for tonight @ 5:15ish w/ George Thomas. I'll PM everyone who's posted in this forum the location. If you're interested and haven't posted, please PM me before 3:30 or so, and I'll send it to you also. Go Zips!

I predict someone with the number "71" in their username will find the live stream to be unreliable.

Notre Dame is private. Purdue and IU are both substantially well funded state institutions that in any other state would likely be the "only" flagship school. Except that IU is really a dump where they don't teach math or science.

Depending on how it's done, I don't hate the concept. Say for example it settles at 18 teams. So you have 2 nine team divisions, divide by East & West. You could have 8 divisional FB games and a conference championship game. Add one crossover game each year to make things interesting and cut down on the need for FCS non-cons. In hoops, you keep divisions, play home & home w/ your entire division, and say 2 crossover games for an 18 game conference slate. In the non-revenue generators where possible, it's divisional play only until the title games. Keep the championship games in the middle (say Memphis or St. Louis) .. and travel isn't completely ridiculous. Divisions could look like: East: Akron Toledo/Temple Marshall ECU UAB S. Miss Tulane Rice Tulsa West: UTEP Wyoming Air Force Colorado State New Mexico Fresno State Nevada UNLV Hawaii The real detail would need to be in the media contract & rights. If this league could garner a C-USA type deal where each team is getting significantly more $$$ than the MAC. Then I'd take a hard look at this. I would think this league will do better in the media rights than the MAC will. Curious times. Go Zips!

Why no love for Enrico Polazzo?

Indiana is an exception.

Let the western C-USA teams go shore up the MWC. Take the remaining Eastern C-USA teams and some MAC schools who invest in athletics and you get: North: U@B Toledo Temple UMass Akron Marshall South: So. Miss E. Carolina UAB Tulsa Rice Tulane All sports for all teams & there's some historically good teams there for both sports. Travel isn't out of control, and there's a good mix of urban and traditional campuses. If the travel is too wide, you could let Tulsa and Rice go west , and try and get WKU and MTSU in from the Belt. Then the hoops in the league would be immediately a 2+ bid league most years. It's tough with all of the flux to take a flyer on something like this. It really is. I want UA to keep pushing itself and make the most of it's investments in athletics. Those investments can benefit the entire campus if they yield results. Not sure if I would jump at this or risk staying pat where they are. The investment in FB tells me that LP & the Board would probably go for a transition like this. I think we would need to bring a rival with us .. so hopefully UT would see it the same way.

Due to weather & the responses. We will do this on Wednesday before the Miami the game. Time confirmation and location details to follow. Go Zips!

Seems like good interest. Next two games are Saturday vs. NIU & Wed vs Miami. What does everyone think about meeting at 5:30 or 6 tomorrow before the NIU game? Next choice would be 5:30 before the Miami game. Fire away.

George Thomas has reached out to see if Zips fans would take him up on the offer to get together and discuss the ABJ coverage, what we like, what we'd like to see, and the coverage in general. This isn't an invitation to attack the ABJ, but a chance to have an open, constructive dialog with the new beat writer. I've been on the road this week with crummy data connections, so I'm slow in posting this. If there's sufficient interest, we can set a time and place to meet with George prior to one of the hoops games. I reitierate that the hope here is for a constructive dialog, not a ranting session. Post here if you're interested. Go Zips!

Nice!!!