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We need a QB that is a running threat
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Offensive guru puts up a donut against….Wyoming?
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4 hours ago, WeRise225 said:
Should’ve built a new basketball arena in 2009 instead.
AMEN!
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1 hour ago, GP1 said:
This was quite the ramble. I'm jealous.
I think that is what you said 7 years ago 😉
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I posted this 7 years ago and here we are.......
QuoteFirst of all, I made a comment on a different thread related to Coach Arth and I wanted to clarify it was not directed at him. My comment about dumbass decision making WAS SQUARELY DIRECTED at the UA Board and the ones who ultimately make decisions on spending and the hires at the executive level (including Presidents, ADs, Coaches, Deans, etc.). My comments below are not negative to any of our coaches, I have met them all and believe they are trying their best.
I was taught about ROI and analytics in business school at UA – our board seems to have forgotten what all of that means. While I love the new buildings and stadiums, things have to be done responsibly. UA is accumulating a tremendous amount of debt from dumbass decisions.
I want our teams to win and go to postseason play more than anyone and I would like to see enrollment up and even become more selective but the powers that be don’t seem to have a clue on how to do any of this.
The school has accumulated a tremendous amount of debt, period! That needs to be addressed before you go paying TWO head football coaches at the same time. There is no way anyone could justify to me firing a coach when you still owe him money on his contract? Not in the financial situation we are in. We can't afford it and Bowden was not that bad.
Regarding Bowden, if they didn't have the belief in him to begin with…why extend his contract? It was a dumbass decision to either 1- extend his contract to begin with or 2- fire him and now pay twice as much with a new head coach.
Regarding Coach Arth, IMHO it would be a dumbass decision to fire him if we would then owe him money on his contract. We have to cross our fingers and hope he succeeds for however long we are obligated to him or if he succeeds, however long he stays with us.
When did this debacle start? Around 1985. On another thread, kreed5220 posted tenures and records of our last 6 coaches. If you go back one more year you would have seen a 13-year winning record with Coach Dennison at 80–62–2 and before him Gordon Larson with a 12-year winning record of 74–33–5. Hmmm. Both of these men were loved by the Akron community and loved being a part of it. This whole skid started when Coach D was fired for Gerry Faust!! Things have never been the same. We have also gone through 7 different presidents at UoA during this timeframe ?
After all of these dumbass decisions, the board had the solution right in front of them. A gift was with Jim Tressel, Keith Dambrot, Terry Bowden and Jim Dennison on campus. They had a chance to bring in the Akron community with beloved leaders and right some wrongs.
Since I joined ZN I have posted my belief that UA would be served better by home grown leaders.....people that want to be here and not just as a stepping stone. If we would have made Jim Tressel President, Jim Dennison AD I guarantee you they would have kept Keith Dambrot and Terry Bowden. You pair those four gentlemen with Lebron James…..now we are talking some serious fundraising and enthusiasm from the community.
They are the type of people the Akron community could identify with and get behind. These are men that would have STAYED at UA and would have taken pride in solidifying their legacies in Ohio at UA. They are the type of men that could have figured out a way to get basketball the facilities it needed. They are men with common sense.
Could you imagine the reaction of a top football recruit if Terry Bowden, Jim Tressel and Bobby Bowden walked in to their living room?! How about a top basketball recruit with KD, Lebron and Tressel walking in (with top notch facilities)?
I realize this is a lot of hindsight but I have been saying this same on ZN since I joined. There seems to be panic with the Board at UA. They are making bad decisions to try to fix previous bad decisions.
Leadership is to blame. It’s kind of reminds me of the Redskins since Daniel Snyder bought the team and is now running it in to the ground. It’s all about poor leadership and financial responsibility.
So, what next? Learn from mistakes, use ROI, analytics…. Hell, use common sense!!
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9 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
Is he still growing. He looks even taller.
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2 hours ago, MarkWiley said:
If an education is not important to that player, they check out entirely, often not bothering to finish their courses. There is nothing the program can leverage against the kid to enforce his actions.
100% These players are essentially fluent throughout all schools that have a sports program. If a kid plays for 6 years at 4 different schools and tanks the last semester he is at each school, is the NCAA saying that school is responsible?!?! That is absurd!! Did we take kids from the portal that just tanked their last semester at their previous school and we inherited that GPA? If so, that is foolish. While I do think the NCAA is a hypocritical bunch, I still put this squarely on UA's administration. They had warnings and didn't address them. They should have spent less time (and $$) designing the 5th new A logo.
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48 minutes ago, GP1 said:
What if they aren't dummies at all? What if they simply don't care because if they start to flunk out they can just go to another school?
That makes you a dummy in my book
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Better get some adults in the building. If you actually did the opposite of what UA leaders have done over the past decades, we’d be alright. But now we have
Declining enrollmentIncreasing debt
Empty stadiums
Horrible football made up of dummies
Total embarrassment.
We’re going to do this clip at the Info this season. What’s your name
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It’s impossible to f#ck things up more. Build a big beautiful stadium and then spend money on changing logos for Roos, Zs and settling on an A. Then you cut training table because you can’t afford it. We are in no mans land - can’t recruit against D1, hell now can’t even recruit against D3 because they are different types of student/athletes.
At one point we had Jim Dennison, Gerry Faust, Jim Tressel and Terry Bowden on campus at the same time (not to mention one of the worlds richest athletes LJ) and they f#%ked it up. Unreal!!!
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1 hour ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
Pretty obvious to most.
Yawn
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On 10/27/2024 at 6:52 PM, Captain Kangaroo said:
Any particular reason you omitted his 2 TD’s? Or was it just an honest oversight?
Not really but if you think that makes his performance great, by all means include it. I also left out the 2.8 rushing average. What was his longest TD run?
call the Heisman committee.
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16 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
Simmons was a beast today. Hope we keep riding him for the remainder of the season.
Congrats to Tahj as well. He’s had every reason to pout or mope, but he was ready when his number was called today. He was great.
2-3 passing for 36 yards
17 yards rushing
You call that great? Wow, the bar is low
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1 hour ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
And he only scored two tds on those two plays.
I’ll let the dozen or so of you geniuses carry on. Everyone around me said “where is he running?” A bunch of crazies at the game I guess.
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8 minutes ago, MDZip said:
Yep, been terrible today again. 😉
Watch the 1st td. He ran into the back of the OL twice before bouncing out. He barely got in on the 2nd. Should have cut it sooner.
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Bullock does not read holes very well. Never has.
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You fire Jim Dennison for Gerry Faust (after 8 win season and going to 1aa playoffs)
You fire JD Brookhart for Rob Ianello (while opening a brand new stadium.....iCoach, really?)
You fire Terry Bowden for Tom Arth (Bowdens are CFB royalty.....Arth was 9-13 at UTChat)
What do you expect!!!???
These have got to be three of the dumbest moves in the history of CFB and have SUNK Zips football!! Especially crazy moves from a school that cannot afford buyouts!!
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23 hours ago, Buckzip said:
Heckman, Alcorn, and Graham were terrific kickers for UA back in the day.
Klaus was pretty good as well.
Hearing French call that game winning kick against Toledo made me think he was going to have a heart attack. What is French up to now?
Klaus bombing 70 yarders in pre-game was great!
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7 minutes ago, catdaddyp said:
No idea. I’m guessing we’ve only been favored 4 times in the Moorhead era. The 3 FCS opponents and versus Kent last year.
That’s what I was thinking. And I don’t think we covered any of those (we didn’t yesterday). It has got to be a looooong time. Sorry for the tedious question
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1 hour ago, GP1 said:
Has anything become more tedious than discussing gambling stats? I'm so over it.
Tedious? It’s a simple question pal.
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Curious, when was the last time we covered the spread as a favorite?
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1 hour ago, Hilltopper said:
That's the kind of community support to expect when you have a winning program. Zips football has been such a loser that no one is interested in being part of it.
We weren't always losing (not when I played). When was the support ever good (besides an Acme/Zip game). Basketball has been good year after year and support is meh. I don't understand what goggles people are looking through.
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2 hours ago, Ham said:
Why? If the Zips care so little about their fans 2/3 through spring ball that they don't put out any information, why should I care? Closed practices? Who is going to spy on them? If you looked at your future schedule and saw a team with 5 wins in 5 years, would you even send your "water boy" to check out their spring practice? The best way to keep the Info seats empty in the fall is to keep the team a secret.
Closed practices will help them get ready for the game day experience.
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The JAR sucks, worst in the MAC. No bleachers behind the baskets makes it look like a HS gym. It’s amazing we’ve been as successful as we’ve been. KD left because of it and Groce will likely leave for the same reason.
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Game Two (Nebraska) Thoughts
in Akron Zips Football
Posted · Edited by a-zip
It poses a threat. Its another person you have to account for. We are too easy to stop. We don’t have dominant athletes.