Dave in Green

If a lot of teams are doing what VCU is doing, then maybe VCU has a better PR department to get the national coverage. Of course there are the additional points that being a Final Four team helps get extra media attention, and, of course, the Navy SEAL connection is also good for media coverage in the wake of what they accomplished this year.

Looks as if the Pac-XX may be first to reach the 16-team super conference status. Adding Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech would be quite a coup. All four have been top 25 teams in recent years.Report: Texas, others closer to forming Pac-16

You must have missed my direct question to you in one of the other threads as you never responded to it, so I'll copy and paste it here:So, akron football, could you please expand a little on how you've reached the irrevocable conclusion that Nicely is clearly superior to Moore.You say that the only reason Nicely can't get more completions is because the receivers drop his passes. Would this not apply equally to receivers dropping Moore's passes?Or, if receivers are catching passes from Moore and dropping similar passes from Nicely, what's the reason? Is it that Moore's throws are weak and Nicely's are too hot for them to handle? Is it that they like Moore and want to catch his passes and don't like Nicely and deliberately drop his passes?Seriously. I'm open to hearing your rationale for posting all the one-liners about Nicely = good, Moore = bad.I'm really open to any thoughtful arguments.

Keener'92 states my position very well. I've been willing to give Ianello a fair chance, and the clock is starting to run down as I continue to look for signs of progress with increasing pessimism.It's annoying enough to have to put up with inferior play on the football field without the added annoyance of having to dig through a continuous stream of "I hate Ianello" posts from the usual suspects every time I come here looking for thoughtful comments about what went right and what went wrong in the last game.We all know by now who has totally written off Ianello. It doesn't need to be continuously repeated like some annoying little kid continuously whining about not wanting to take a bath. Endless repitition is annoying and unproductive. Make your point and move on.Like coaches and players, fans can also be judged on their performance. One measure of fan performance is the thoughtfulness of their comments. There are Zips fans on this forum who do a good job of citing examples and explaining why they don't think Ianello will be successful with the way he's trying to build the program. I enjoy reading those thoughtful comments and I learn from them.

So, akron football, could you please expand a little on how you've reached the irrevocable conclusion that Nicely is clearly superior to Moore.You say that the only reason Nicely can't get more completions is because the receivers drop his passes. Would this not apply equally to receivers dropping Moore's passes?Or, if receivers are catching passes from Moore and dropping similar passes from Nicely, what's the reason? Is it that Moore's throws are weak and Nicely's are too hot for them to handle? Is it that they like Moore and want to catch his passes and don't like Nicely and deliberately drop his passes?Seriously. I'm open to hearing your rationale for posting all the one-liners about Nicely = good, Moore = bad.I'm really open to any thoughtful arguments.

The Zips outscored Cincinnati's 2nd and 3rd stringers 14-10 in the second half. I don't see any excuse for not being able to perform this well or better against VMI's first string.

Moore was 16 of 30 for 213 yards with 3 interceptions and 2 touchdowns.Nicely was 1 of 6 for 7 yards and 1 interception.Pick your poison.

Zipmeister, I think you're losing it. Your scrotum comment was in another thread.

Seriously? A current Zips football player actually wore a tOSU shirt to class? What an insult to the rest of his team as well as every Zips fan.

Kellen Moore is a surgeon. He's a little small for the NFL, but he appears to have the skills to take apart an NFL defense.

I watched the Boise State-Georgia game, and Boise manhandled Georgia in the Georgia Dome. Boise State is a for-real potential national championship contender.Toledo is playing tough tonight. They are doing the MAC proud. But it's unrealistic to think they could be strong enough to actually beat Boise.If Toledo can play like they're playing tonight, it reinforces what I believed after their performance against tOSU -- it's possible for a MAC team to become so good that it would not be embarassed by any team in the country.But it's not easy. It requires a lot of things coming together. Every fan of every team in the MAC wishes their team could be as strong as Toledo appears to be this season. Maybe one MAC team will make it to this level once every few years.Along with everyone else on this forum, I'd love to see UA rise to this level.

This thread has been quiet a lot longer than one would expect from a team that specializes in studying the criminal justice system from the inside.What if there were arrests going on that were not being reported by local media? How would we know?Well, we could always check in every month or two with the Portage County Clerk of Courts website, go to Search Court Records, go to Public Access Record Search and start entering the first and last names from the Can't basketball roster.Oh, my. What have we here?2011 TR C 11415 R STATE OF OHIO VS. MANNS, JUSTIN T OSP67 MKF

I read the whole story. Didn't see much I haven't read over the years, but it did summarize a lot in one article.It portrays many of mankind's classic vices: money is power, power corrupts, greed leads to killing the goose that lays golden eggs, etc., etc.There's no way to have a comprehensive discussion about an article of this breadth because it brings up so many different issues and examples. It's thousands of words long and would take many hundreds of thousands of words to thoroughly debate every point.You could take individual elements and shoot holes in them. For example, the author makes a big point that only a fraction of NCAA rules breakers are caught, therefore the rules are unenforceable and should be dropped.But it's the same with every rule and law. A fraction of all speeders are caught and punished. A fraction of all income tax cheaters are caught and punished. A fraction of all burglars are caught and punished. A fraction of all murderers are caught and punished. Therefore, these laws are all unenforceable and should be dropped.What's happening in the modern world of instant communication is that the blueprint for gaming any system is quickly put up on the internet for all to read and learn. Where a few people used to get away with things, now a lot of people do.It's a problem that goes beyond sports. There's no perfect system that can't be cheated just as there's no perfect system that treats everyone fairly all the time. The concept of winning at any cost, whether in athletics, business, politics, or any other human endeavor, ultimately exacts a high cost on society as a whole.If the concept of student-athlete is quaint and outmoded, then maybe it's time to examine whether institutions of higher learning should be involved with sports at all. As the article correctly points out, the U.S. is the only country in the world where universities make millions of dollars on sports. Yet with all of this money coming in, the U.S. is slowly losing its lead in higher education to other countries.Maybe it's time for U.S. institutions of higher learning to get their eyes back on the right ball and lose the obsession with sports. Maybe have a new professional league for HS grads who aren't ready for the NFL. Let the league teams lease college football stadiums to put on their show, and let the colleges focus on turning out better educated students than China and India.

The ultimate solution is to formally pay a professional fee to every infant who successfully exits a womb and make everyone a professional from day one. That will end all amateur status in everything, and there will be no more need for any rules pertaining to amateurism and professionalism in anything. Everything and everyone will be bought and paid for. TANSTAAFL.If only Ayn Rand had lived a few years longer, she would have surely realized this as the ultimate cornerstone of her philosophy and written a powerful 3,000-page novel about it, and zealous adherents to her philosophy would be running for political office on this platform.

A little selective quoting and interpretation, Dr Z? The way I read it is that any juco QB who didn't admit the same thing Moore did after his first two D1A games against MUCH stronger opponents would be fooling himself.These are the quotes I think best represent Moore:“Being a competitor, it hurts. It burns,” Moore said. “There isn’t a day or night go by that I don’t think about it. I am always asking if I could have helped my team more. Being the quarterback, I take a lot of responsibility to score. When we put up three points in two weeks, I don’t like it. I put a lot of pressure on myself. “I am not used to losing, and I hope nobody on the team thinks it’s OK to lose, just because it is Ohio State.”

Army-Navy game doesn't produce the highest level of college football because the players are primarily soldiers and sailors who also happen to play football -- sort of like the quaint old idea of students getting an education who also happen to play football.The best players go to the football factory colleges so they have the best chance to become pros and make lots of money. Some of them jump the gun and start collecting their money before they get to the pros.The reason the game is broadcast on TV and not just AFRTS is because there are many Army and Navy veterans outside the military to whom this game is important, not because it's the highest level of college football but because these veterans are loyal to the branch of service in which they served.It may seem like an alien concept to those who are fixated on chasing after the almighty dollar. But there really are people in the world who place loyalty, honor and integrity above personal wealth and riches.

Former OSU quarterback sentenced to 10 years in prison

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Money is power.Follow the money.College football was once an amateur sport, and over time it evolved into a big moneymaker.It will get worse before it gets better.

Zach, this old curmudgeon will help you shout the old wet blankets out of the JAR. If they want everyone to stay quiet and seated, they should be attending a symphony orchestra performance somewhere.

One size does not necessarily fit all. Each set of geographical neighbor schools would need to be thoroughly analyzed and all options considered. Combining resources might make more sense for some than others. The ones that are doing best on their own right now might laugh at the thought of joining with their geographical neighbors. But if combining some northeast Ohio schools resulted in superior performance, you can bet that other schools in other areas would be looking and wondering if that might not be the way to go.

Well said. Having followed many college football teams over the years that went through a building process, I can say that they don't always advance at a steady rate. There are valleys and peaks with plateaus in between.A team can be on an extended flatline, which is extremely frustrating for fans, and suddenly a breakthrough comes almost as if a switch was flipped. But this is only when the building process is successful. If it's unsuccessful, the team never goes anywhere, the coaching staff gets canned, and the process starts all over again.

Unfreakingbelievable. Terrelle Pryor knows how to deliver the cash as well as receive it:A Cleveland-area Ohio State booster has admitted "responsibility" for the $200 payments at a charity event that led to the two-game suspensions of Buckeyes Corey Brown, Travis Howard and Jordan Hall. He also revealed how those payments were delivered--by none other than ex-Buckeye Terrelle Pryor, who gave the three suspended players envelopes with the cash inside.Buckeye booster takes responsibility for payments

Darn! VCU apparently bought the line that the Zips are a sweet 16 team, and Shaka came up with special training to prepare the Rams for their trip to Akron:VCU undergoes surprise SEAL training

Just for a little perspective:Can't is rated #64 here and finished last season #67 in RPI, so these folks project Can't to improve by 3 positions.Zips are rated #90 here and finished last season #101 in RPI, so the projection is for Zips to improve by 11 positions.The Zips are going to have to do more than win the MAC tournament to get rated higher than Can't.

This article is the media's warning shot across the bow. The media will most certainly be asking tougher and tougher questions as the season goes on if there are no obvious signs of progress.