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I'm looking forward to seeing if all the below is true. I'm not sure about everything else, but the weight loss was obvious to me in the spring. I might be in the minority, but I like Woodson's potential, especially if he has worked on the things coach speaks of. “You have to get two guys getting reps. Woodson’s getting a lot of reps,” Bowden said. “There’s a lot of things when you’re dealing with Woodson. He’s had a lot more at-bats with things we do than Tra’Von Chapman, but it gives us two guys who are at least probably more similar in the way they do things.” Woodson, like Chapman, has the ability to pass and run the ball, and in the time since he struggled as a starter when Pohl was injured last season, Bowden has noticed a difference with Woodson. “He hasn’t had a chance to show the maturity that he has,” Bowden said. “Last year, he was a redshirt freshman starter and there were times we were in games at halftime and we made the first mistake. “We made the first turnover. We made the first mistake offensively. And that’s what you’re hoping you’ll see from him, some maturity from that standpoint that he understands sometimes it’s OK to force something or try to make something happen.” Bowden said that along with that confidence, Woodson’s maturity shows in his loss of about 30 pounds.

We still might want to have him checked.

Does your cousin smoke crack? If so, that would explain his theory.

We Want Woodson. We Want Woodson. We Want Woodson.

It'll get Akron a few more looks because of a tag line? Malarkey. Universities are a known quantity. "Polytechnique Institutions" are unknown quantities (I mean even the freakin new commercials have to explain what polytechnic means because no-one knows what it means).

Based on UA being an FBS team and their opponent this week being a struggling FCS team, the onus is on the Zips to destroy. It's the same kind of no-win that the premier teams face when they play UA in their openers. If they lose outright, they lose big-time. If they win a close game, they lose. If they win by a lot, they should have won by more. Really, the entire early season paradigm is bullshit in college football. Money games, running up 60 points on opponents, little programs hoping for the David moment, it's so cynical and cruel on so many levels. In the end the only winners are the mega programs (that win big in those early games of course) who pad their results with the 60 point wins on their way to the Tostitos/FedEx/MegaCorp FBS playoff games.

You guys are not mentioning the most obvious reason for the offensive struggles: PLAY ONE QUARTERBACK. All it does is kill the flow of your offense when you play a two quarterback system. I mentioned this last year with Pohl and Woodson, and TB is doing it again with Pohl and Chapman this time. Your o-line needs reps in practice blocking for the quarterback. When you basically have a two quarterback system, the o-line needs twice as many reps in practice to understand how to block each quarterback and that may not even be enough. Same with the wide receivers on how each quarterback throws the ball and where they normally throw it at(in front, outside shoulder/inside shoulder, etc). I feel that someone with the experience of Terry Bowden should understand that running a two quarterback system just will not work. The starting quarterback will be looking over his shoulder knowing that if he doesn't play well, he most likely will be coming out. That doesn't include the play call, picking up the blitz, adjusting the pass protection, calling hot route/audible(if TB and AJ allow it) which should be some of the things he's worried about while on the field. That school down I-71 has basically a "free pass" to try a two quarterback system without people complaining. However, he went with one quarterback. That way the team gets all the first team reps with just one QB, not two where it can get confusing for the o-line about who they're exactly blocking and where they like to be in the pocket along with many, many, other positive things with committing to just one quarterback. YSU scored 37 points on this "best defense we'll see all season" in Week 1. There is no excuse for only scoring 7 points, no matter the weather conditions. You have to be prepared for it. I wasn't expecting 37 points against Pitt, but I expected anywhere between 20 to 28 points. I've come to the conclusion that I expect too much from this staff that KNOWS we can't fire them anytime soon, so they feel safe and are taking their time messing with situations that don't really need to be messed with right now.

The most significant Zips victories in the last decade are not on the above list. I don't think that is the consistent bleat at all. I think that most ZN members question the quality of out of conference scheduled opponents at home. Instead of scheduling non competitive teams, schedule some competitive ones. Pretty simple, but this puts the 20+ win seasons at a risk. The above list really doesn't address that concern. Dave did a nice job describing within a 9 page thread on the topic.