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We're losing to a team that is shooting less than 30% Wow.

This should help tie it in to the Zips. To win the Super Bowl now you need a MAC player on the roster. The last Super Bowl Champ not to have a MAC player and win it all were the 1998 Broncos. This time period includes three Zips - Dwight Smith, Chase Blackburn and Domenik Hixon. Maybe the MAC isn't as bad as we thought.

Another angle on Mr. Howard from the Beacon.http://www.ohio.com/sports/high_school/83503302.html

I think we did give them credit?You're very literal (or my English classes at UA didn't prepare me as well as I thought they did) . I didn't mean for this specific article, I meant it more as general reference for posters I've seen who seem to dump all over the BJ at every chance where they perceive an "injustice" has been done. I think the BJ has done a pretty good job lately of covering Zips sports (and UA in general) despite what to me seems to be a prevailing sentiment. I just thought we ought to give some kudos for the overall job they've been doing.

Posts on the groundPosts on the groundLookin' like some fools with these posts on the groundWith the bar set low and your head spun aroundLooking like a fool with these posts on the ground

I think we have to give the Beacon Journal, that's right, I said it, BEACON JOURNAL, some credit because their coverage of the Zips has seen an uptick in recent years. There are a lot more stories about the Zips than I ever remember before. I know there is some ways to go yet, but gove them credit, there have been a lot of stories lately that weren't directly about games being played.

Not killing the Zips - Conyers and Cvetinovic, both with a double-double. Wonder when the last time two of our guys had that happen?

And they just kept making Milton's life more and more miserable, hoping he would finally get the hint and leave. Seems like a pretty good parallel for a Can't State football coach. Wonder if Martin has noticed any boxes being stacked in his office yet?

Pretty close, they have only beaten NIU. That loss is not looking so good now. And EMU has lost to every East team thet've played so far, except us.

This upcoming road trip is not looking like an easy one.

I want a Zeke double-double and who was it that wanted Darryl Roberts to shoot more? Wow.

I'm hoping this means most folks are at the game, but not even a thread started on the NIU game? 46 points for the Zips at halftime? Think KD might have lit a fire under them?

Hey Bailey's an athlete, he can play anywhere, including Zippy. I'll bet he could ride a Segway onto the field without losing his head.

Thanks Dr. Z No real surprises there but I looks like they kept just about everyone that JD had recruited. No too bad of a class, now let's see how it translates onto the field. Where are the Brian Wagner's and Patrick Nicely's of this class? Only thing that worries me is very few lineman - two DE's and two OL's.

Can anyone post it? All I am seeing on GoZIps.com is a blank page with a link to Ianello's 3 PM press conference.

Lost Robinson to Syracuse

We all know that facilities don't win anything, but they absolutely do help in recruiting. If you noticed, every one of those kids mentioned the new facilities as a factor, and Schrock even said that he was glad the Zips no longer play in the Rubber Bowl. Ianello is said to be a very good recruiter and he has the facilities now to make an impact on recruiting. Now lets see how he is an an X's and O's coach.

Under the "nice problem to have" category, it will be interesting to see whether the men's or women's basketball team wins more MAC games this season. This hasn't been a real question for several years but it certainly is this year. Will the men come on even stronger realizing they are the defending MAC champs? Will the ladies get a little tight when they realize how close they are to the top? I'm going to go with the women's team - by one game. It just seems the men have a much tighter group of good teams.

It may be highly respected, but at the moment it has Iona hosting two games:Old Dominion at Northern IowaSiena at ButlerWichita State at Utah StateLA Tech at VCUWilliam & Mary at Can't StateWestern Carolina at NortheasternCollege of Charleston at IonaNevada at Murray StateAkron at George MasonBuffalo at IonaNew Mexico State at PacificI think the Zips do have a shot at a TV game, I'd love to see them come down this way and play George Mason.

If not for that one point loss at Ohio (still Ohio's only win) ... Of course we'd still technically be behind BUGS since they beat us head to head but if excellent play conrtinues, the game at Akron against them should be very interesting (said with Arte Johnson Laugh-In smirk )

"They're in a conference that allows non-qualifiers in school," Amato said during his weekly news conference, the Charlotte Observer reported. "Non-qualifiers. Do y'all need to look that one up to write your stories? ... Do you know what kind of players non-qualifiers are, usually? They're inversely proportional to what their grade-point average is. They can make a big difference." Chuck isn't going to like this, but you know what, as much as many of us don't like the open admissions policy at UA, it exists for all students to give them a shot a proving themselves in college. I don't see how this is any different. Now whether he makes a difference for the football team is a whole 'nother matter, but I wish him luck for him and to help our downtrodden team. Plus since he is a local kid, if he happens to read these boards I think we should welcome him.

Apparently Smiley has turned upside-downyand now he's just a Frowney Box Score5-18 from the field 3-13 from behind the arc Pierces stats were even worse - 5-18 as well and 0-5 from 3 pt range. Are these the same guys we played against? If they did that in our game, we'd have won by 20.

Here's some reading material for youI'm sorry, but this does nothing to suggest anything of a concerted effort by the NCAA to keep mid-majors out. At best, it's tautology. Mid-majors aren't there because the NCAA doesn't want them; the NCAA doesn't want them, so they're not there. Because the number of bids has been going down is proof of nothing. What about when the numbers were going up? Doesn't this decline match the NBA's age rule? Think that might be a reason?Fact of the matter is, the at-large pool was weak last year. The teams cited in that article all had huge holes in their resume.People want to blame The Man instead of looking in the mirror.Here's a good piece about the at-large process. You tell me if there's room for collusion.One of the most interesting parts of that article:One thing that really struck me was up in the top left corner, the first thing a committee member sees when scanning one of these. There's average RPI win and average RPI loss. That's not something that you can find on any website, is it? (Don't worry, we're on it this weekend.) SJU's average win of 170 makes its profile look a whole lot less impressive.That's where I think the Zips get into the most trouble. Quite frankly, their best RPI wins are likely to come in conference. That's not going to do much to impress the committee. Their RPI losses would look pretty good, but that doesn't help you much, I wouldn't think.And another one for the Zips to consider:One thing that the NCAA staffers and Slive built immediate consensus on was that the "20-win season" has become completely meaningless.

Who was defending Kool last night?I think the idea was "let Kool shoot, don't let anyone else shoot, see what happens".Does it scare anyone that both Pierce and Kool torched the Zips for 30+? That was almost unthinkable two weeks ago?Not as much as if they were on the same team. I believe Pierce had a teammate with 18+.this is what worries me about the zips, we have no one that will put up 20+ points a game, let alone 30+. We need big scorer, to put points on the board and draw double teams that will open up the game for other players. I mean its not very good when your highest scorer is only averaging 1 pts a game.That's true that we don't have a "go-to" scorer but its also nice that other teams can't key on one guy. For the WMU game, we had guys at 11,11,10,10,9,9. Awfully tough to figure out who to guard when scoring is balanced and comes frm all over. The problem with the "big scorer" is that when he has an off-night, the rest of the team has trouble picking it up. Of course a team like ours, if we have a few guys with an off-night, it prodcues the same effect. Still, I'm happy with the offensive production in general.

If you want to see what people thought on the subject of Coach Kest dismissing players a few years ago, here are a few good threads. Most people seemed to have been supportive of her moves:http://zipsnation.org/forums//index.php?sh...t=0&start=0http://zipsnation.org/forums//index.php?sh...473&hl=Kesthttp://zipsnation.org/forums//index.php?sh...=9273&st=0