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We had a former NFL DB as a graduate assistant and then position coach under Brookhart... it didn't do much. Great former players often don't make great coaches... it's two completely different skill sets. See Mike Singletary.

Great idea, then it would look even MORE emptier. First of all, it's "more empty", and secondly, the idea is that eventually we'll have a winner here and there will be butts in those seats. Though with the current incompetence in our program, that may be an impossibility more than an idea.

It's a lot easier to "execute" when you are faster than the guy across from you. Offenses like Oregon's work by creating mismatches that the defense is powerless to control. Our offense basically says we're going to line up, let you match up, and we're just going to be better than you. We don't play anyone we're good enough to do that to and win a majority of the time. I'd rather give ourselves a stategic advantage to move the ball, even if it does create some problems when you are 1st and goal inside the five. Spread offenses might struggle close to the goaline, but I'd rather move the ball to the goaline and score some of the time than not move the ball and never score at all.

It's just a hurry up version of the spread. It seems to me it requires some speed at the skill positions, a quick QB, and a shifty RB. The offensive line doesn't have to be gargantuan, just quick. To me, that's a perfect formula for a MAC team. Good skill players are easy to come by and many fall through the cracks of the BCS schools. We've certainly had plenty of them. Mobile QB's with decent arems are pretty easy to find too. Quality offensive lineman are the hardest to come by for mid-major schools, but there are a lot of quality, athletic offensive lineman in high school who might be sitting at 240-250 and aren't going to get recruited by the big boys. If I was any incoming MAC head coach, I'd find an offensive coordinator who knew and could run this system. Of course RI will remain commited to his philosophy of line up and play football and may the best team win. Unfortunately 11 out of 12 times we're not the best team.

Not even the locker room stalls had doors at the Bowl. Nothing like giving a wink and a nod to a female trainer walking by while you're droppin a deuce.

For me, I think I would've gone ahead and built stands in the endzone instead of the grass to give the stadium a look of being connected around. Stands on two sides looks kind of high school. It would've also made a nice student section.

Auburn 37 Oregon 20 Cam Newton 195 passing yards, 1 TD, 145 rushing yards, 2 TD

I think Dr. Z meant JD didn't have a long term plan for building Akron football, not his personal livelihood. JD married right and wouldn't have to worry about anything for the rest of his life if he didn't want to coach.

http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB...TCLID=205057156 If anyone has previously posted this news, I apologize, I didn't see it on the board. Interesting that he had decided to leave football permanently and run a Christian Missionary organization. Having had some interaction with the guy, I couldn't see him being too happy doing that for long. Despite his shortcomings as a head coach, he did have an intense competitive fire that doesn't just go out when you decide to leave the game behind.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?S=145&F=3...6951974&P=1 Awww.... wittle Buckzip had his wittle feelings hurt in here so he had to go make himself feel better and have a little circle jerk with his Suckeye buddies.... How cute. Seriously dude, what a sign of the weakness of your manhood. Because you were losing the argument in here, you have to take the argument to a bunch of people who will agree with you. And where are all these facts you claim no one responds to that you supposedly present? It's easy to make such a claim when no one will challenge you over there huh. And then you sit back while a bunch of Suckeye fans bash Akron. You're a weak weak man.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?S=145&F=3...6951974&P=1 Awww.... wittle Buckzip had his wittle feelings hurt in here so he had to go make himself feel better and have a little circle jerk with his Suckeye buddies.... How cute. Seriously dude, what a sign of the weakness of your manhood. Because you were losing the argument in here, you have to take the argument to a bunch of people who will agree with you. And where are all these facts you claim no one responds to that you supposedly present? It's easy to make such a claim when no one will challenge you over there huh. And then you sit back while a bunch of Suckeye fans bash Akron. You're a weak weak man.

I wish the we would ditch Adidas and go with Nike. I like a lot of the stuff we have now, but the sweetness factor of Zips gear would increase 20-fold under Nike.

I agree, I think we're the only 2 on this board that would choose option B. I think if you polled fans and players on this question, you'd get two very different results. I hate Can't State with a passion and cannot fathom the pain and embarrassment that would come with losing to those fairies 5 years in a row. Any joy in beating Ohio State would be greatly overwhelmed by the humiliation of being beaten by that joke of a program for 5 straight years. I can handle and live with losing to Ohio State. I cannot handle the thought of being dominated by the Flushes. Losing to them in my senior year was honestly the most crushing defeat of my athletic career. Losing to Ohio State two years earlier sucked, especially when I felt like we had the opportunity to win that game, but I got over it very quickly.

I agree with GP1 on just about everything except his implication t hat the SEC is not clearly the best conference. You can't ignore 5 national championships in a row and an undefeated record in BCS Title games since they began. And it's not like it's just one team dominating either. Since the BCS' inception in 1998 FIVE different teams have won national titles. In this latest run of soon to be five in a row, four different teams will have taken part. That's four different teams who have dominated college football in the last five years. In twelve years of BCS title games, seven national champions are going to have come from the SEC. It should've been 8, as Auburn went undefeated in '04 and would've smashed either of the pretenders in the title game that year if they'd been given the chance. Regardless of how bad Vandy is, the fact that so many teams are national powerhouses cannot be ignored. Even the second-tier SEC teams like Arkansas, South Carolina, Ole Miss, and Mississippi State have their years of national prominence. Ohio State fans are about to discover the talent gap between themselves and even these second-tier teams. Believe me, Jim Tressel and the OSU athletic brass are not looking forward to this exposure. I honestly believe that the SEC champion should be given an automatic national championship bid, because they are the best team in college football every year. That's shown by the fact that when the SEC champ is given an opportunity to play in the title game, they're undefeated. If college football went to a playoff system, an SEC team would be the national champion every year. This is an unbiased opinion based on observable facts. I'm a Midwestern guy, I have no ties to the south. I'd love to say we play the best football and have the best athletes in this region of the country. The fact is, we don't. In fact, Ohio State and most other Midwestern schools have to go into the South to try to steal players in recruiting. How many Florida and Georgia guys do you see on Big 10 rosters? A lot. How many Ohio/Michigan/Pennsylvania guys do you see on SEC rosters? Mark Ingram is the only guy that comes to mind. Zero on most SEC teams. The Big 12 is second to the SEC, and then the PAC 10 in some years. There's a huge drop off after that. Nebraska made a great move getting into the Big 10. They're schedule just got a heckuva lot easier and they will be playing in a lot more BCS games in the coming years. Facts are facts.

For the LOVE OF GOD, would you people stop using the damn quote button when you're responding to the person right above you!!!!!

A ) See the Zips beat the Suckeyes next year, but lose to Can't State for the next 5 years.. or B ) See the Zips lose to the Suckeyes next year, but beat Can't State for 5 years straight.. Just a little offseason fun. I'm curious to see some answers.

WAKE UP! This isn't a soccer game!

Hmmm... perhaps the reason no one says anything about SEC teams out of conference schedules, is because those teams actually play someone IN CONFERENCE. Are you seriously going to try to sit here and dog the SEC when they've won FOUR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN A ROW, and are about to make it FIVE, and its been done by FOUR different teams?? Wow, you're dumber than I thought. 0-10 baby. I don't hate OSU. I just hate the OSU fan who is delusional enough to think you're one of the elite national programs . And those guys who get their panties in a wad... well... I guess you are one of them after all, evidenced by that chapter you wrote as a response

I'm glad you can laugh at your 0-9 record against the SEC like the rest of the country does. Most Suckeye fans get their panties in a wad when you bring it up, it's a real sore subject apparently. I give you props for accepting reality and taking it with a smile .

I find it interesting that EVERY YEAR I hear of OSWho having one of the top couple of recruiting classes. Yet, they aren't winning national titles. Honestly, doesn't that leave you to question your coach? If they are indeed getting the best players, but aren't winning the titles, isn't that a no-brainer to classify that as an "underachieving" situation? You could ask that same question of USC, Texas, Florida, and others They should win them every year if recruiting was all that mattered and the rankings were always accurate.. OSU rarely has the #1-5 class. Usually they are between 5-10. They are consistent top 5 finishers having appeared in more BCS games than anyone else and has a winning record in BCS games. ... and 0-9 against the SEC, going on 0-10. Despite the delusions of OSU fans, you aren't a big time program in this country, because you can't compete with the BIG TIME conference. Arkansas is maybe the 5th best team in the SEC, and they're going to spank the Suckeyes with no problem. Having double digit wins every year when you play a pattycake OOC and then go play a bunch of other teams in the Big 10 that have no national significance either means nothing. The Suckeyes would be a middle of the road team in the SEC, if that.

Like I previously stated, the NCAA has no authority to suspend these players for a bowl game. Bowl games are not NCAA events. They are privately staged and funded exhibition games. Now if Ohio State had had the good sense to suspend the players themselves for the bowl game, the NCAA probably wouldn't have come down so hard. But because they basically gave the NCAA the finger, and continue to do so, the NCAA took them to the shed. The NCAA should be applauded in this instance, not criticized.

Tressel still has knee pain from his recruiting of Pryor. Maybe others will get that one on the drive home.

BINGO!!!!! This is really the problem with what TPryor did. He earned income....Did he report the income to the IRS? The problem with players taking large sums of money under the table or selling things is it is unreported income and ILLEGAL not to report it. Let's get the money in the open where we don't make criminals out of college athletes. I more meant "illegal" not in its literal sense, but rather in violation of NCAA rules, but you do raise an interesting point about the unreported income aspect of all of this.

Here's the thing: The schools do provide the players with some "pocket money", and it's hidden in the scholarship checks. The scholarship checks for guys living off campus are meant to include all "living expenses" (rent and food), but Universities purposefully overestimate how much living expenses are. The University basically pays you the amount that it would've spent if you stayed in the dorms and had a meal plan. Well, those dorms and meal plans are very overpriced, as I'm sure many of you know. Staying in the dorm is the equivalent of paying about 600 a month in rent, and the meal plan comes out to around 25 dollars a day, or more. We used to take those checks and rent houses in the hood that is the Southside of Exchange, and pay about 200 a month in rent when divided amongst all the roommates, turning a nice profit. And even eating well, we made a nice profit from the food allowance as well. I always had plenty of money leftover to take girls out and drink my face off on Saturday night. The only guys that ran into problems were the morons who immediately took their scholarship checks upon receiving them and headed up to Chapel Hill mall to buy the latest Jordan's and Playstation games (that'd be Playstation ONE for you youngsters). Granted, these were normally the guys that came from underprivledged backgrounds, but it wasn't because they didn't have any outside monetary support, it was because they had never had anything and didn't know how to handle money. I grew up middle class, but my parents didn't give me a dime during college. I still lived prettty well. If universities would get a tighter reign on how scholarship money is distributed and spent instead of handing a bunch of 19-22 year olds (freshman normally have to stay in the dorms) who have never hand anything a nice big check and letting them be respnsible for budgeting it, I don't think we'd see as many guys out there trying to make money in illegal ways.