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Nervous, very nervous. Despite their dismal record, Ball St. is no pushover. With the amount of injuries we have plus the fact that even with a poor record they continue to play even the good MAC teams tough and they are at home makes me worried. This has the makings of a big upset. However, if the Zips have the heart I think they do, they gut out a tough effort and come away with the W, 72-68.

Don't worry I found his "u". Evidently the Leakin' Urinal is using it. Here is an excerpt from today on a story on the Browns titled "Cleveland Browns: Success Breeds Greed??"Hold on there, big guy. I don't think so. One decent season, does not a five-year contract make. Not buy a long shot. Mind you, after the Browns dispensed with Charlie Frye after the home opener debacle against the Steelers way back in September, Anderson showed that he had some skills at the QB position.

Seemed like the right time to re-post this.

And for those of you who were wondering where Quade Milum went (probably including Quade) - WOW.

While I suspect its probably been done before - Tim O'Shea and Clint Howard - separated at birth?

On second thought, clearly, we're going to need more room, so I readjusted (and took out Xavier since it was only an exhibition).

Apologies to BirdZip since he posted the original, but this seemed like a fine time to update it.

Great game but really disappointing.

Did we pick up the Arizona Cardinals QB - evidently Leinart is doing a great job guarding Roberts.

Somebody have Zippy go kick that ugly Flyer mascot's butt!

Who's heart dropped on the prayer 3 pointer?

I read an article on Greg Jennings (WMU) on ESPN and it got me to thinking there are some pretty good MAC players in the NFL so I did a quick run through the rosters to see what an All-MAC NFL team would look like. Every team but Temple has someone on an NFL roster (even Buffalo) and 51 players were represented (though some were probably pratice squad players). Only a handful of NFL teams didn't have any, Miami had the most with 4. We're a little thin in some positions (I had to do a 3-4 defense since there is only one DT) and I didn't count any UCF nor Marshall players even those that played while in the MAC (Randy Moss is the only one I would have added anyway). Here is my list, not as strong as I would have thought, what do you think?OffenseQB - Roethlisberger - PIT - MiamiRB - Taylor - MIN - TolRB - Turner - SD - NIULT - Shelton - MIA - EMULG - Bell - TENN - MiamiC - Ghiaciuc - CIN - CMURG - Mruckowski - GB - BGSURT - Staley - SF - CMUTE - Gates - SD - Can't StateWR - Jennings - GB - WMUWR - McCareins - NYJ - NIUDefenseNT - Muir - GB - Can't StateRDE - Taylor - AkronLDE - Babin - SEA - WMULB - Blackburn - NYG - AkronLB - Campbell - WASH - BGSULB - Harrison - PIT - Can't StateLB - Guzman - IND - BuffaloCB - Young - NO - Can't StateCB - Perry - MIA - EMUS - Smith - MIN - AkronS - Elam - NYJ - Can't StateSpecial TeamsPK - Suisham - BGSUP - Zastudil - CLE - OhioKR - Cribbs - CLE - Can't State

Anyone happen to watch the ESPN Top Games of 2007? The Zips made the highlight reel at the end twice - once for losing the MAC Basketball Championship and then the win at Western Michigan in football. The good thing is they only said Zips during the football highlight.

You're being a little hard on the MAC (although it is possible only one team will finish with an overall winning record - that would be bad). In general the MAC OOC schedules were not easy - would you rather have played our OOC or OSU's? And the MAC did at least get one signature scalp, WMU's upset of Iowa (at Iowa). Lets see, we beat WMU who beat Iowa who beat Illinois who beat OSU. We could have won the Big Ten if it wasn't for that sticky loss directly against OSU. At least the Sun Belt is worse than us, they have only one winning record and the potential for only two. The WAC has two very good teams, everyone else is mediocre. Conf USA has a couple good teams and not much else. All the non-BCS conferences struggle at some point.We're a part of it, we've never been more than mediocre in the conference. Even the year we won, we were only 5-3. I'm still hopeful, but 2005 raised our expectations quickly. I think that's good, but realistically we still are in about the same boat we were in when we joined the MAC. Next year and 2009 are going to be critical years to decide if we step up or step back.And for the first time that I can ever remember there are no MAC teams listed in ESPN's "Bottom 10".

You're being a little hard on the MAC (although it is possible only one team will finish with an overall winning record - that would be bad). In general the MAC OOC schedules were not easy - would you rather have played our OOC or OSU's? And the MAC did at least get one signature scalp, WMU's upset of Iowa (at Iowa). Lets see, we beat WMU who beat Iowa who beat Illinois who beat OSU. We could have won the Big Ten if it wasn't for that sticky loss directly against OSU. At least the Sun Belt is worse than us, they have only one winning record and the potential for only two. The WAC has two very good teams, everyone else is mediocre. Conf USA has a couple good teams and not much else. All the non-BCS conferences struggle at some point.We're a part of it, we've never been more than mediocre in the conference. Even the year we won, we were only 5-3. I'm still hopeful, but 2005 raised our expectations quickly. I think that's good, but realistically we still are in about the same boat we were in when we joined the MAC. Next year and 2009 are going to be critical years to decide if we step up or step back.

Jabari (2 categories), Reggie Corner, Bryan Williams and Igor (15 of 18, that is really impressive, especially when compared to last year) are all still listed among the NCAA leaders.

Actually, they do, its just hard to find. Go to ESPNSoccerNet, then mouse over USA at the file list at the top and then NCAA | High School is the last entry on the drop down menu.

Anyone ever notice that despite the fact that you have to vote for every mascot matchup every time you vote, it is rare when all of the matchups add up to the same number? Most of the time it is only 4 of the 6 that add up the same. Just a curiousity.

Winning the next four (a fairly tall order) makes everything else moot - the CMU game might as well be an out of conference game if that happens. It will only matter if we have to go to the tiebreakers, and the way it seems WMU is going, that probably won't fall in our favor either.

Zippy's up by about 400 this morning. Still a long way to go.

I think it's great that there is only one team in the Bottom Ten. Even though the site is somewhat tongue in cheek, there are usually three MAC schools or more listed on it (occassionally three in one spot when they just lump "Directional Michigan" together. Hopefully, we get to see Temple back on the list next week (you get an automatic week off if you win, but that deosn't protect you from the foloowing week).

ESPN2 is going to replay that "College Football Live" segment again at 6:30 tonight. The play is about 15 minutes from the end of the one hour show.

The most laughable thing is the quote about "above my pay grade". Most BCS head football coaches out-earn their AD's and University presidents. What a joke!

At least we have some shot - lets convert!

I'm not happy with 3 turnovers and no offensive points, but I guess if I was given the option of a 3-2 hal;ftime score either way, I'd have taken it.