Jump to content

Big Zip

Members
  • Posts

    1,412
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Big Zip

  1. I was going to post something similar. The team played hard tonight and I thought they played with passion. If this team plays like this next Friday we will see our first win and I predict we may see a win by double digits. I'd like to see a 70-30 dose of run/pass.
  2. akron football "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?"
  3. I watched Temple destroy Buffalo a few weeks ago and I watched a little bit of the Ball State/Buffalo game last night and I can honestly say (despite everything I've said this year about us going winless) this is the headline I expect Saturday, November 27th in the ABJ. Buffalo is horrible.....and I believe more horrible than us. Ball State beat Buffalo at home and knocked their starting (Freshman) QB out for the season. The back-up (the original starter) picked up where he left off and showed why he was benched throwing 2 INTs bringing his season total to 14 against 12 TDs. His completion percentage is 4 points below Nicely, but he has five more TDs and only one more INT.....but from what I saw he is worse than Nicely. They are even talking about starting a Freshman tight end at QB...at the least he'll be backing up the starter. Top off the information above with Akron will have nine days to game plan while Buffalo will only have six and (although it will only be in front of families and friends) a home game for Akron.....I see this as Akron's first win of the season. Can you say cream puff for Thanksgiving dessert? I hope I'm not wrong and if I am wrong I can't imagine how the Zips recover from this with ICoach at the helm.
  4. For all who continually say we aren't worthy of a move to another division...who would want us etc. We continue to see other schools come from lower ranks into better conferences than ours so I'm not sure I'm buying that we aren't a candidate for a better conference.
  5. I don't want to state the obvious here Zippy5, but HS prognostications don't always equal College level talent.....it is all a crap shoot. If I recall correctly JD"s recruiting classes were most always in the top of the MAC and now I'm being told we have no talent on our roster....In fact I think I'm being told he didn't even know what Div. 1 talent looked like for the most part. Never mind the fact that the guy coached two Biletnekoff Award Winners in Antonio Bryant and Larry Fitzgerald while at Pitt. Being annually ranked as a top recruiting class doesn't always translate to a top football team.
  6. If that was what they expected why would they have built the entire marketing plan around the coach?
  7. ZipRoo I love the Richard Kind pictures and responses from ICoach....I think you need to create an alternate ID on here Recrooter In Chief or something though specifically for the picture posts....uncanny how they look alike.
  8. Couldn't imagine a more fitting ending to this game.
  9. I've said from the beginning of the year Nicely wasn't what everyone had him cracked up to be.....when are those who were picking him as the man going to show up on the board and admit they were wrong! He is even worse than I thought he would be. TERRIBLE!
  10. JCU is actually a great team to scrimmage. Coach Moran is a great coach and has been a part of the Greater Cleveland basketball community forever. His St. Joseph HS teams were always fun to watch well prepared and hustled from whistle to whistle. It is definitely the type of team that is not going to come into the JAR intimadated and expecting to get beat. They will hustle and probably give Akron fits in parts of their game. I fully expect a 20+ point final score, but think the ability to work against a quality opponent like JCU will be good for the team.
  11. They also had five starters out for the game.
  12. Nobody is asking for the best in football and basketball....in fact I'm pretty sure everyone has been pretty happy with basketball, but we are definitely expecting more from football. We are expecting a team that will be bowl eligible annually, beat Can't and compete for the MAC title year in and year out. It may sound loft given our current state, but I dont' think it is too high of a goal at all!
  13. Might want to back off on the Can't program in football. Talking smacking against a .500 program from a winless program just makes you look like an idiot.
  14. Nothing like giving opposing teams plenty of fodder with the new guys....how incredibly stupid!
  15. I'm ambivalent about Ohio State, but the pure hatred some of you have for Ohio State is amazing. I could care less if they win or if they lose. What I know is that Jim Tressel walks around with the same The University of Akron on his resume that all of you who graduated from here do and those who are planning on graduating from here some day will. He has coached multiple National Championship teams at 1-AA and one at 1-A. Charlie Weiss the guy who recommended RI (I imagine) has none of those and is a faiulre at the HC ranks. Fickel started his coaching career here and knows the area better than RI could possible know the area. He's from Ohio and played football in Ohio. How these don't add up to him being a better candidate than RI is beyond me. At the end of this season we are going to be sitting with an 0-12 record and a coach whose team has looked worse than they did the first game of the season. He is a complete and utter failure. To flog someone because they believe another assistant coach from another school that more logically fits with our situation is idiotic. You're right he doesn't have past HC experience but he still fits our situation better and IMHO would have been a much better fit with our program. Not to mention (like it or not) he at least came from a winning program. On top of it look at what the "Recruiter" left behind in South Bend....a 4-4 program that got their ass handed to them by Navy last week. How does he even get the reputation of being an excellent recruiter when the program sucks soooooo bad!
  16. How is it we are only 27 1/2 point underdogs? I don't see how we aren't 50 point underdogs to another MAC program. I really wish Tom would have gotten a quote from Tom Wistrcill and Luis Proenza and maybe the President of the Board of Trustees for this article. This would have been the perfect article to get the take of higher ups and what they think. I don't really care if they would just speak the comapny line I actually want them on record as saying something. Thanks Tom.....keep the pressure on and I only hope your articles get more and more negative if this team continues to lose. Keeping the negative to iCoach and asking him pointed questions he can't dance around would be great!
  17. GP1 (King of all Negativity) how does that roll up the carpets and give up philosophy work for you in your real life? People on this board complain a lot, but people on this board have lots of ideas for doing things differently than the University. The University has failed miserably running the football program an there is as much chance of the ideas on this board fixing the problem as the ideas that have been implemented. Dropping the program down and giving up because "it can't be done" like you seem to suggest in most of your posts is not something fans would like to see. I'm thoroughly confused by you. You seem to hate the program, enjoy telling everyone your the smartest guy in the room and the only guy with ideas that make sense. I'd challenge you to put some thoughts on here about how the football program could get better instead of putting everyone down. You have to know how to fix it you know everything else. I have found myself not biting on all of your non productive digs on the program, but I finally had to say something. I get it....the message board is a place for people to post their thoughts and you have all the right to post what you want, but I struggle to actually understand your hatred for the University and your consistent presence here.
  18. iCoach was showing up at kids houses at Notre Dame with this pitch. We'd like you to come play for Coach Charlie Weiss at one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country Notre Dame. Don't forget Charlie Weiss is the guy who won "x" number of Super Bowls in the NFL and taught Tom Brady (a sixth round) pick how to be one of the best quarterbacks ever. How freaking hard is that to do? His new pitch...Hi I'm Rob Ianello coach of The University of Akron Zips and I'd like you to come to Akron to play for me. We were 0-12 next year and I can guarantee you'll have a chance to start for four years in one of the nicest new stadiums in the country and great practice facilities. Doesn't have the same ring does it?
  19. Hey Mods..... Can you make this stay on the top? Or can you make a banner across the top that simply says click here to vot for Ampi? Vote every day?
  20. By buying tickets next year you are saying that you support the decision TW made to hire an unfit coach that doesn't know his way around a football field. He has been horrible....horrible right on down to the little things. My time and my money are worth more to me and I'm sorry to hear your time and your money aren't worth more to you. I can spend an afternoon with my family not thinking about screaming or I can go to a Zips game and watch that crap they are putting on the field. Call me what you want I don't care...I've been attending Zips games as a student and an alumnus for 20+ years. Execuse me if I've finally had enough and know the only way they will understand my displeasure is by not buying tickets. They are showing they don't care about me as a fan with the decisions they've made. Why can't I show my displeasure with them by not buying tickets? Not to mention there are free tickets available to me weekly because everyone esle isn't going. Finally, I say this now, but I certainly reserve the right to mail in my check next year should the months without football lower my level of anger at the complete and under incompetence I have witnessed this year.
  21. You can count me in as another who will not be renewing my tickets next year. We have a family pack and nobody in my family wants to go including my dad who looks for any excuse to do something now that he is retired. I made other plans for this Saturday and will try to give my tickets away, but I'm pretty sure that is going to be difficult. I will still go to a few games next year, but I will only by the tickets to the games I'm attending. The athletic department continues to lower the prices as it is they may resort to giving them away soon.
  22. Rasor is reluctant to be even the slightest bit critical of the Zips since he was elected to office. I love the fact that the ABJ has a Zips blogger, but I don't believe he is being nearly as critical as he has been in the past.....that being said he was hardly critical before, but it was better than the dribble he is writing now.
  23. Racer it sounds like you are suggesting a monkey could win with Akron's team yet we have yet to win a game.
  24. OU was a doormat in the MAC just a few years ago. They were heading in the wrong direction and if I remember right was the lone victory one year for us. They then fired their coach and committed to their program by hiring a proven head coach who had fallen from the ranks of the big time. This year we had the opportunity to do something similar and hire Terry Bowden of The University of North Alabama, of the famed Bowden coaching clan, and two time SEC Champion as a head coach. We instead took a coach who was never a head coach and was an assistant on a terrible Notre Dame team that sought its pathetic performance get its head coach fired. Frank Solich ran the option and Nebraska then brought it to OU with much success. He's turned there program around in the six years he's been there....taking them to two bowl games. He added the pistol formation recently....a college formation that seems to be bringing success to teams throughout college. Our coach is running an offense grounded in the 70s and 80s as it pertains to college. An offense that failed miserably at Notre Dame and got him fired. I don't think we need to look any further than this to understand our futility. An incredibly poor choice for a head coach that isn't flexible and will bring us the first 0-12 season of our history. I can't even fathom 0-12. I said it before and I'll said it again there should have been a section in his contract that called for him getting fired if he went 0-12. YouTube Tom can follow him out the door. The two have taken our program to a level we never thought we would see, but unfortunately is here. I'm embarrassed at how horrible this team is!
  25. I don't really care about iCoach's rah rah attitude or not, but what I can see on the sidelines is a guy who mopes around and has a general demeanor that does not exude confidence at all. His always walking around slouched over and generally doesn't come across as even wanting to be on the field. No matter how bad JD was he still managed to win games and iCoach has now lost his first six with a good chance of going winless. I know I keep bringing it up, but it seems to me every contract in the athletic department should have a clause that says if you go winless you're fired and you get no severance.
×
×
  • Create New...