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It's in this thread. Unfortunately, we drew NIU and Toledo as our cross division opponents.

NIU down 13-7 to Arkansas St. Looks like the MAC might end 3-2. Still pretty good. If NIU can come back, the MAC will have the best winning percentage of any conference. The Zips just got a mention becasue the replay official is Chuck Amato's brother.

We don't have either EMU or CMU on the schedule next year. We could potentially put Buffalo and Can't in those spots.

No way do I want this guy putting up any shots.

Certainly he should be welcomed. He is an alum.

From the looks of the pdf, this was in the works before he became UA's head coach. That was either a nice bit of luck, an extreme coincidence or some real behind the scenes dealing no one was privy to.

Think its toiugh to make too much of a judgment based on one league game apiece.

The feed isn't exactly high def but I didn't have any problems with it.

Bulls and Flushes in a slugfest. 32-30.

See here.

Bobby says that he plans an attending a Zips game or two. That woud be pretty cool. Has this been posted yet? It was a link off Bobby's page.

Great - the two toughest West opponents. I could see that one coming after Can't and Temple both drew EMU. Well, we'll see what next year brings.

So facilities do matter but not the way we thought. Quote from Coach Amato "When Terry called me and asked if I would consider coming to Akron to be a part of his new staff, I told him that I really wanted to come and visit the campus before making a decision," Amato said. "After seeing that the University's facilities are second to none, and hearing first hand the type of commitment the entire administration has to building a winning football program, the decision was an easy one." So facilities don't directly bring in recruits, but they help bring some good coaches and then THEY get the good recruits. Too bad we didn't know this a few years ago. This is a really interesting staff being put together. Hope Coach A doesn't hold it against us that we might have been part of the reason he got fired at NC State.

Peter King spent a little time talking wth Jason on SI.com.

So with 17 games, are you predicting a win against an unknown Bracketbuster opponent?

Thanks for posting. A lot of talk about Penn State with Terry and then it became a little more clear when they asked Bobby about whether Terry might move to Penn State if he is successful at Akron. I see an agenda,

That ring might have been able to fund our new wished for arena.

I like the way the schedule is set up for the East, where we start with Miami and BGSU on the road, where we should be able to win and get OU and Can't at home. For this team that would seem to be a good way to start. At the end we get three East homes games too. I do not, however, like the MAC West setup. We get what are likely the three toughest MAC West opponents on the road.

I hope we don't schedule them again next year. I hard a hard time trying to decide to root for Marshall to do well or Marshall to do poorly or both. And so I hope we don't schedule Walsh as our D-III game next year either.

Zip Alum Karma!! Wonder when Jerry Jones and the rest of the so-called "experts" are gonna wake up to the fact that Tony Romo is the most overrated player in the NFL. Eight years and counting... Meanwhile, the billionaire has 1 playoff in 15 years of ownership? Still sad to see that Chase is our best NFL player right now with Taylors retirement. Nothing against Chase who has done a great job but we used to be a little more prominent in the NFL.

Saw Quade play at the Baltimore Arena yesterday. He looked like he was having a ball doing it. Happy for him, here are a couple of pictures of him there.

Would be kind of ironic if he ended up in Akron. Wonder if he would know how to coach non-qualifiers?

At least we'll finally get rid of the idiotic scheduling quirk where we don't play every East team in a year.

MAC now guaranteed to have a winning record in bowl season. Been a few years since that happened.

I'm not sure we can squeeze them into the schedule for a beat down by the end of December anyway.