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Mention the prospect of professional football and Grice, a junior, passes on the opportunity to even consider it. “Right now, I’m just trying to play ball and get to a 10-2 record,” he said. Ten and two? “Ten and two,” he answers. “The atmosphere around here? The losing culture is over. We’re not having that no more.” Freaking awesome.

Remarkably confident group for a team that's won one game in two years. We used to be you Miami and you'll find a way to lose this week. Zips 35 Sweaters 17.

You must not have read too closely, if you look up about four posts Balsy talked about it (and I had mentioned it an another thread).

After just a couple weeks of the MAC season it is pretty apparent there are no juggernaughts in the East including the Zips. The Flashes look awful, the RedHawks, Minutemen, Falcons and Bulls all look like they can score but have no defense (and the Minutemen made an inexplicable decision at the end of the game to lose. Down by one with three seconds to go they went for a touchdown instead of field goal. That shows a lot of confidence in your kicker). And OU just got dropped by CMU, and might be the closest team to being like the Zips but they have a much more difficult West schedule drawing NIU. So the Zips have as good a shot as anyone - we actually might be the team with a defense and an acceptable offense. Plus it looks like the top three teams in the west might be CMU, Toledo and NIU and we play none of them. Ball State does not look nearly as imposing as last year. The Zips have a real opportunity in front of them.

But not an impossible challenge, they are nowhere near as imposing as they were a few years ago. 4-4 with losses to UCLA and Cal (both in Winston-Salem) and Va Tech and Clemson. And how do they get 13 home games and only 5 away? Zips lead the all time series 3-2-1.

MAC names players of the week. Only one Zip was named and it was not Hundley, Scott nor Paul. Heartily disagree.

Nice prescience.

Well the experts did predict a big day for Conn(e)(o)r. They just didn't get the right one. How about the day from DeAndre Scott and Zach Paul? Zips could get offensive, defensive and special teams players of the week (and if Scott's pick 6 had counted, I think they would). Heck of a day.

Sound reasoning but still hope Mrs. GP1 didn't go with Pitt this week. :-)

Anyone still calling for Embick's firing?

I wasn't quite sure where to put this but wow - unbelievable this could have gotten past all quality control. Making fun of our Rival is all well and good but I hope no one is thinking of getting something like this - a "vintage" K.S.U. sweatshirt with what looks like blood stains on it. Unbelievable. Almost as criminal is the fact that it costs $129.

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.