NWAkron

To paraphrase a song, "When the 'wins' keep rolling in, you don't ask how." Friday's game worries me a bit more but of course that is subject to change if we are down by 5 with seven minutes left tonight.

I watched the entire OU/EMU game. Both teams were "chippy" with each other. At one point, OU's Block body slammed EMUs Thompson. These will be highly physical contests, and I think the neutralizing of Big Dog will be their focus. This is going to be a great week of basketball at the JAR.

It is a shame to see Campbell injured. OU's loss and his injury (if it's as serious as it looks) zaps a lot of excitement from that game. I wrote before this road stretch that if we could win these two games on the road we are looking at a different kind of Zips team. These two wins were big, however we got there (and despite my gloom and doom). Teams of the past would have dropped one of these games. 4-0 start in the MAC while Canada and Kent are imploding. Feels great. We are the premiere team in this conference.

Antonio Campbell in a boot.

Meanwhile in Athens...

History predicted this. We always win at BG always lose at Oxford.

At this rate unfortunately I may get two out of three right!

Isn't there someone on here who is an Utomi fan?

Wasn't it last year or year before we ran into some foul trouble and Big Dog injured his ankle or there was a crazy technical at the end of the game? There is a full moon this week, so if we can avoid a meltdown coupled with poor officiating then i think we will be ok.

Hard to feel bad for Buffalo but that was a bad call and at home. Really awful for refs to do that after the guy misses both foul shots.

Agree with LZip. I think this was a great game and win for us. CMU is a very high-scoring team. I remember when we played them at home last year. Very impressed by them and were well-coached. I think we got them on a really good night, and we proved to be the better team.

Buffalo better pull that game out vs. OU after choking a big lead at home! Kent in OT and home against NIU.

Thank you ZipNation for all the updates. I can only watch the Zips at the JAR. Listening to French or watching on computer gets my heart racing.

From what I'm reading from you guys is that we have a size advantage. So the simple plan for CMU would be to triple Big Dog and hope we go cold from 3. And if we are hot from 3, then CMU prays Keene scores 40 points?

I see we are three point favorites. I'm skeptical of any Zip game on the road. If we can come out of this week 4-0 in the MAC, then we have something different going on this year. But we've all seen too many road disasters in recent years at places like DeKalb and Oxford to think any of these games is certain.

If any of you are watching that other game, Kent player just got a technical for "flopping." Pathetic.

OU v Kent on ESPNU....decisions, decisions.

Downward spiral this game and last. Not seeing this one getting any better.

That was a life-sucking first half. With my usual caveat of not knowing the game that well, it seems like they want the game to come to them, that working hard is only necessary when they are forced to do so.

It sure is a fine line. Coaching is a cutthroat world. You are hero one moment and a big loser the next. One day you are getting couple million a year and you and your family are treated like royalty. Next day you are an assistant basketball coach at some SUNY school. If you don't build yourself up, who will? However, doesn't mean the WMU fans don't have a right to be bitter or feel used. But it's a tradition in MAC football programs that these guys leave. WMU knew the score.

Fleck, like basketball coaches Groce, Hurley, created a brand for himself. when I watched Fleck, I always thought he was preening for the cameras, making himself a BRAND and building himself up more than he was the school's program.

At some point BG deflected a ball off the referee right by the Akron bench. Coach was yelling it should be Akron's ball because red was standing on baseline? What is the call on that? From where I sit I couldn't see where exactly ref was standing?

Never doubted we would win, but the Zips let them catch up, tie, and take the lead, and that is something they usually avoid. Onward and upward. Always a grind.

Who is this Joe Akron person everyone keeps talking about? I think he's an urban legend.

I thought Texas was one of the top teams in the nation?