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Coming out of retirement for this one. I have run into k92 a couple of times at games, on road trips and around Akron. He has always been a good time and ready to invite people to be zips fans. @balesy, I believe we had season tickets a few years back right next to you. Tressell sat a couple of rows behind us. You really care to the max about the zips. Always an active and loud fan in a good way. Enjoyed sitting near you two. I honestly don't see a big difference between zips fans beyond what they write on here about the same topics year in and out. The first college basketball game I attended was with my now deceased grandpa 25 years ago. I was a drunk student at the games a decade ago. I was a less drunk fan sitting in lower bowl for 5 years. Now I take my 3 year old daughter and sometimes my 1 year old son to the game. You can see me doing laps with them throughout the second half of nearly every home game. We chase zippy but don't get too close for fear she may actually get touched by zippy. Scared outta her mind but the thrill of the chase is everything. Getting to the point. To me part of the fun of the games is how much the same it is from year to year. I have shared years of boring early home wins with my friends, wife, children, and the same old salt zips fans I give the head nod to in passing. I remember going to the Mac tourney with my girlfriend in college who years later is my wife. I remember taking he bus to Detroit to see the zips in the macc. So many memories from the years. At Mac tourney time we go to Cleveland like it is mecca. We sit down have a bunch of beer and relive the years we have been coming down and what was going on in our lives when x happened. So in closing. I get what I need from the zips. I am not advocating for keeping the status quo or anything. But to me the experience of being a zips fan is in the memories. It will change some day but a new marketing scheme, jersey color, or whatever will have no impact on me or most of you. I go to games because in a world of travel, tv, kids, and so on...sometimes taking the time sit at a game is worth a sore ass and geriatric park like atmosphere. Also I sneak in popcorn and water so Aramark be damned. We bring 20 to 30 people in a year for our alumni tailgate and Conference basketball games. People ask why we are zips fans and all I can answer is that we just are. And after all of these years. Kent sucks worse than ever.

To say that no one working there cares is honestly pretty ridiculous.

So what do you do...huddle in a corner, twitch and cry? Seniors graduate. Great players move to the professional ball. It happens at every Division 1 program in the nation, every year. I'll go out on a limb and predict it will happen at every school next year too. Wolf is solid. Coney is a good #4 WR. Smith has boarderline world-class speed...maybe he develops, maybe he doesn't. With no Lane and Natson, he'll get some PT, and I liked what little I saw of him in 2016. We bring in 3 heralded WR's. All with P5 offers, who ended up here for various reasons. So they are talented, and already have a year in the program. Beyond that, you never know who comes across the waver wire as a 5th year transfer, or what Freshman might emerge. It's only November. Losing Lane or Natson is like having your 98 year old grandparents pass away. It's sad, but their time was up. They had a great run... provided some great memories...and now it's time for the next generation to step up.

Brad Ruhaak is scheduled to be the student speaker at the UA Fall 2016 Graduation ceremony that includes the College of Engineering. Saturday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m. College of Applied Science and Technology College of Engineering College of Health Professions Wayne College Student speaker: Bradley Ruhaak, Williams Honors Scholar, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

The 71 point victory over Denison in 2005

I'm new to watching Zips football but from what I see we need to get BIGGER, especially on D-Line, you need a 300 LB DT that can't be moved & keeps blockers off the second level, we need a QB (Hope full recovery for Woody but it is throwing arm so nervous) & a viable backup, the other positions seem to have pretty descent depth & talent but no team is good if you can't control LOS so I hope the next info I see on here is a great DT commitment & hopefully DT transfers

I'm not trying be a jerk but all Collegiate programs go through this, every player is given 4 years of eligibility & part of the process every year is going Oh My God how are we going to replace so & so. That is why the recruiting process is so important & also the part that makes College Football so awesome, if we are heading in the direction that everyone on here is hoping we are heading you have to hope someone steps up & I hope as a whole if Woody's shoulder is better next year that the receiving group is even better

His dad was a pro athlete, so I have to believe he's getting good advice. His dad also left after 3 seasons at Pitt. Jerome has the size and skill set to be an NFL WR. His life goal is to be an NFL WR. If he wants to attain his professional goal he's much better served being on an NFL practice squad honing his football skills 24/7, than taking Eastern Civilization and Western Cult at UA and running college WR drills with Freshman in the Stiles Center. If it doesn't work out, he can always return to college. But he can never turn back the clock to being a 22 year old athlete. Due to our QB situation he rarely got to strut his stuff in 2016. It was pretty obvious it wore on him. Thanks, Jerome. Wish you well. Make us proud.

I got your recap right here. :-)

"I want to especially thank coaches Terry Bowden, Jeff Bowden, Matt Gildersleeve and Todd Stroud." Coach Milwee...? Hmm.

Again. The vast majority of P5 teams are not willing to sacrifice their gimmee wins. The G5 teams are not willing to sacrifice the $$$ payouts for playing the P5 teams. The vast majority P5 teams are not willing to sacrifice their $$$ from Bowl games at the cost of paying G5 schools to come lose.

Here is an update on Colin Irish for you Z.I.P. Whatever happened to ... former Cathedral Latin basketball standout Colin Irish?