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And regardless of how it unfolded, he was also the guy who hired Terry Bowden. Anyone unhappy with that hire?

I have to admit I now get a little nervous any time I see this topic get a new entry. God bless you in your fight Coach Peters.

Yes but this image from sports center this morning was fun. http://zipsnation.org/forums/gallery/image/671-2014-09-14-074040 (Sorry for not embedding it I cant get that option to post correctly)

Remember that Pitt is playing in Akron next year (assuming it doesn't get bought out) and that Indiana and Syracuse have played here in recent years.

This could be a reason why. I'm not saying its 100% accurate (can't be because K.e.n.t ended up above the embarrassment line ). This was published by the Wall Street Journal and took a large number of factors into account. The Zips rank low is esteem and play. Not hard to figure out why a community has trouble rallying around the team. Most people want to be associated with winning (except for this group of masochists - well honestly all of us would like to be to but we chose to stay loyal to an alma matter that football-wise has given us very little in return).

But they got them at Kansas. I think the Zips could take on those types of games but they'd have to play on the opposing teams court all of the time too. I'd like to see a bit stronger of an OOC schedule but the Zips really drew bad luck in the double crossover opponents from the west this year - they get Toledo and WMU twice. Ugh. Do not like the 18 game schedule, I thought the 16 game schedule where you play your own division twice and the other once was just fine.

When I saw the post I thought it was U-Wisconsin - Green Bay, but this is much different than that. Good he gets another chance and probably learned some big life lessons the hard way. Good luck to Alex and thanks for some great memories.

Just saw a piece on Blake Bortles where he showed all of the D-1A offer letters he got out of high school: UCF, WKU, Purdue, Tulane and Colorado State. That was it for the eventual third pick in the draft.

Its only a little over three hours for me to get there and I got seats in section WE, row N so I will be fairly close to the action (last time I was at least this close at a road game was at Michigan so hoping for the same effort but different result ), sitting with a cousin who is a Penn State fan so Zips I really need this victory. I give the Zips about a 25% shot which is way better than I would have given them at this game five years ago, so a well played game could be historic for the Zips. Plus our next three opponents all got votes in the ORV category so the Zips have some real opportunities in front of them. Others receiving votes: Texas 126, Oklahoma State 94, Duke 60, Florida 49, Penn State 49, Mississippi State 49, Michigan 38, TCU 29, Washington 27, BYU 21, Marshall 18, Iowa 18, Virginia Tech 17, Tennessee 14, Cincinnati 8, West Virginia 7, Texas Tech 7, Rutgers 6, Arizona 4, North Dakota State 2, Louisiana-Lafayette 1, Pittsburgh 1 Who's with me?!?!

Were you there for the attempted breakdown of the concrete wall with sledgehammers by the players at the beginning of the game? In concept I'm sure it sounded great but the execution was so poor it ended up on a Sportscenter blooper reel and someone made a pretty good Youtube parody.

I actually walked across the Lobos field earlier this summer. I put a little hex on it.

Yeah I've heard some professors at Akron are pretty terrible. Why do you teach there anyway?

A few surprises there for me there. Hirschman not winning the backup slot (which probably says as much about Kyle Pohl's improvement as it does Tommy Woodson's). Happy Pratt got a starting spot, thought he was very impressive last year. Also happy a few local kids like him and Osborne are starting, bodes well for area recruiting too. Am surprised O'Leary beat out Stein, hadn't even heard of him yet.

Haven't you seen how Congress operates? Didn't word that well, I meant it has been the only season opening win in more than a decade, akzipper being right in that the last one prior to 2007 was in 2001. So one opening season win in the last 12 years I think we are due another one.

Ding, ding, ding. It was the 2007 "Patriot Bowl" that was played at Cleveland Browns Stadium (although the location is listed as Brown Stadium, Providence RI at the top of the ESPN recap). The Zips beat Army 22-14 for their only season opening win in more than a decade.

Pitt loses a starting cornerback.

One week to go - assuming the Zips can win this game anyone know the last time they started the season with a win (hint, no one currently in school was likely to have seen it, expect maybe if John Blutasrsky is enrolled).

Maybe the team thinks the A-Roo looks like a donkey like some on here have expressed.

Sure wouldn't seem like it. They said the old deal was $1M per year. Lets says it got upped to $1.2M. When the MAC shortly returns to 12 members that would be $100K per school per year. If the average ticket price sold over for those games was even $10, you'd only have to get 500 more fans at another couple of games instead of those Tuesday/Wednesday games if you get scheduled with two of them at home like the Zips did.

And more fine journalism AKRON, Ohio -- Before LeBron James left the Cavaliers in 2010, fans gathered there hoping to see him resign. Next month they will gather there to welcome his return. If that's what they were hoping for they got their wish. I suspect most folks there would have preferred to see him re-sign at the time.

From all the articles above, gotta be good to be DeAndre Yedlin right now, teams now fighting over his services, a nice $300K bonus from being part of the World Cup, man this young man has the world in his hands right now. And through it all it appears he is staying very humble. Gotta be happy for him (just wish they'd mention UA a few more times in the articles about him ).

Perry Kitchen also got a mention.

DeAndre gets another pop culture shout out.

Some cheap shots (for all the players they "profiled") but in the vein of all publicity is good publicity... Hey can we get the title changed to Yedlin makes the final 23? Sure hope he at least gets a few minutes in one of the matches.

And she was only 5 centimeters from tying the NCAA Championship meet record. Two sophomore pole vault champions this year, the future is bright here at Pole Vault U.