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Let's finish the season 4-0 and silence the critics once and for all. Go Zips, it starts with a win on Saturday.

Of course you don't agree. I've seen your posts all over this board. Your opinion is somehow always rights and everyone else is always wrong. There isn't much objectivity in that... We may have outperformed expectations up to this point this season but that's only because expectations were incredibly low to start with. My and many others expectations when Bowden was hired 5 1/2 years ago was that we'd be competing with the Toledo's of the world to be the top dog in the MAC by now. By those standards he's failing. Perhaps you are content consistently having a 5-7 to 7-5 football team. Others and I want to see 9 and 10+ win seasons. We play in the MAC East which is perhaps the worst division in all of FBS. Getting to 9 wins should definitely be feasible.

Looking at the replay, Brennan returned to the pitch when the match ended (or earlier?). He was definitely on the pitch when Jared was having words with the BUGS asst coach. Brennan should not have returned to the field at all.

All kidding aside,Bowden and his crew now have a chance to make a statement IF! They have their own fate in their hands. When you are this close you HAVE to take advantage. They have to win AT LEAST 3 of the next 4 games to have a chance. Those three wins almost certainly have to be Buffalo,OU(Hi Frank) and KS.U. I would lean toward OU beating Miami which would almost certainly eliminate Miami(w/o a lot of help). Buffalo is eliminated so Zips HAVE to beat them to stay with OU. Buffalo will be tough. Stout defense,sneaky offense. If Woodson doesn't throw the ball with more consistency they will have trouble. He has to play his best ball the rest of the season for this team to win the division because they can't run. The Miami game on the road is a tough get. It comes down to Bowden getting rid of the Solich curse. Bad mouth OU all you want but they win consistently and are usually always competitive. I believe they still have to play Toledo,however. The KS.U game will be what it is depending on what the Zips do over the next 3 weeks. Take it and run with it! Weather on Saturday will be ugly.

Two star recruits can turn around a basketball program in one season. Turning around an 85 student football program takes time. Especially turning around one that was the absolute worst in D-1A. If Bowden would have chosen from Day 1 to recruit freshmen, redshirt them and slowly build a program, he would have been fired within 3-4 years max. You don't win with 18 and 19 year olds. And no AD in today's world waits 4 years to become competitive. So Bowden chose to heavily utilize transfers in the beginning. And we became relatively competitive in a short time. And being relatively competitive allowed us to get a nice recruiting class this past February, and redshirt most of them. For the first time, we have some depth, and can let players develop. This year's recruiting class, by seemingly everyone's estimation, is Bowden's best to-date. The bulk of those kids will be redshirted, and we have the makings of a deep, year-in-year-out competitive upper-tier MAC program. I see us winning 3 of our remaining 4 games. 7-5 would be a great season considering our original circumstances, and the future would look bright too. Our program is now appealing to some decent HS talent. That's my view. Like it or not.

I made a solo trip to Toledo yesterday. I miss my bud Dr. Z's pics, and layout skills. No one likely wants to read about the Zips getting their butts whipped, but I went...and here it is. Toledo.pdf

I am following the stats, is Pitt playing dirty?

Collided with keepwr and fullback after goal...

No. 9 Akron (10-3-1) at No. 20 Pittsburgh (8-7-0) Tuesday, Oct. 24 Ambrose Urbanic Field (1,000) Pittsburgh, Pa. • 7 p.m. Series History: Akron leads 16-7-2 Live Stats: www.gozips.com Live Stream: www.gozips.com Television: ACCN Extra/ESPN3/Watch ESPN

I'd objectively say that we're 1 game better than expected thus far (the Western Michigan road win). Hard to say if reasonable expectations will be met when we hit the 12th game. Anyone who predicted 4 wins will probably be wrong. Those predicting an 8 win season will almost certainly be wrong at this point too. I guess it's all a matter of exactly what each individual person expected.

It is quite conceivable that we will either match or exceed our best regular season record as a D1 program. It's not like we are headed towards failure. If we win out, during regular season and win a bowl game, we will have 9 wins.

I hope it's the game where he, uncharacteristically struggles, throws several interceptions, a pick-six and a fumble or two. You know the character building experience that he will learn from.

But I also recall tgat some said we could not beat WMU with only 14 points. It's pretty clear that no one else in the MAC is where Toledo is, right now and we are still in a place where we will match up differently against different teams. Toledo is at a level where they can be the same team, every week. I think we also continue to improve, each week. It might be harder to find our improvements last week, but I felt like things started to click for Chapman and Bickley which will be crucial down the stretch for us. Last year, it was a completely different feel, where we grew worse every week as the injuries piled up. We played a relatively clean game against Toledo and did not appear to really gain any new injuries. At this point if the season, out health bodes well for us. I have been one wanting to see more of Sands and Stewart all year and we did see them against Toledo. Unfortunately, it proved my own theory, that you try to carefully get them meaningful reps but do so sparingly because they are more likely to lead to turnovers, which both did with Sands fumbling and Stewart tipping a pass that led to a pick. Neither impacted the final outcome and let's hope they were both meaningfullearning experiences for them.

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Williams picked up by the Colts. On the 53. http://m.colts.com/news/article-1/Roster-Move-Colts-Sign-Guard-Isaiah-Williams/957579c8-afa8-4d2b-80cc-7bad41810591

I do like his nephew....still want him to lose, though...

The Zips will continue the tradition of the purple uniforms for the Coaches vs Cancer and Ball State games. Dan Peters son is an assistant at BSU.

Just consider the source of the posts. It doesn't take long to sort out who is who on the site. Makes me wonder if there is an "Ignore" tool. I've got a few that I would like to put on an Ignore List. And they would probably like to do the same with me (nah, probably not because they would prefer to just take shots).

Still appreciate the effort. Tough to write those

Too bad Buffalo is going to spoil your MAC championship hopes by rallying behind their new QB!