Zips Win!

Give UA 'fans' one reason not to show...game on STO, expect a small crowd. Give them a second reason...game scheduled an evening before a holiday..expect a pathetic crowd. Yes, the student body support is a joke. However, the alumni support is even worse. How many of the 2,716 will be back after losing yesterday?

I have my doubts with this one on STO...

Geez, Gordon, maybe you should look at your own schedule before you rip on someone else's. It took 11 games into a 12 game season to crack the top 60. Nice job.. I don't know how Tress sleeps at night with such a daunting schedule.

I would love to call and have a two minute conversation about the Zips. Exactly what would I gain by asking two guys, one of which even admitted he hasn't been to a UA game when the show started, anything about the Zips. They don't know anything about UA athletics... I am not looking for a 3-hour show 5-days a week dedicated to UA sports. I realize the sponsors and listeners would not support that... I would appreciate 5 minutes a day dedicated to a review of the previous weeks games, a promotion of the upcoming games--i.e dates, starting times and location and a little effort to get a weekly guest from UA on the line wouldn't hurt. Heck, find a fan on this board and get him to call in weekly...but then the hosts would actually have to do a little UA homework or they would get embarrassed. First suggestion- get on mapquest and find the directions to Infocision and the JAR...We can build on it from there...

This may be true. But the hosts of the 3-6 pm drive show are a bunch of idiots so I put little stock in anything they say when it comes to UA. The main host is a UA grad and all he talks about when it comes to college sports is guess who? Just what I like to see, another UA grad with a platform to promote the Zips...rooting for the buckeyes.. I had it on for 5 mintues today and all they could talk about was tosu basketball. Really? A show that was supposed to be dedicated to NE OHio sports and UA is another tosu talk show. Just what I've been waiting for....more luckeye talk. The idiot (Ken) makes fun of UA and the MAC all the time so I wouldn't talk to him if I were iCoach either. The best show 1350 airs at the 3-6pm time slot is when the national guys fill in... I can't wait for the show to get canceled.

Me too, with Chief Old Grandad!

I heard it was to be joined in progress after the Cavs game... so maybe the second half..

This may be true, but Humpty will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart as he is the one who hit arguably the biggest shot in the last 25 years of Zips basketball....Good Luck to Humpty-Hump.....My daughter misses you!!!

No price change for tickets. Stop slashing the price of reserve tickets throughout the season. Stop giving away free tickets unless there is a purchase on the back end. Give away 4 GA's for the opener if they agree to buy 4 for the second game. e.g. There will be no premium home games in 2011, although there will be two home winable games, which I like better. Both FIU and VMI are winable games. Incentive to buy tickets? Guaranteed parking in the same lot as 2010. Take the plunge, put up the dough and sell football jerseys to season ticket holders. Ditto for tailgating tents. How is it that UA doesn't sell blue or gold UA tents? The sea of blue UK tents seen at Kentucky this year was unbelievable.....and they have ONE SEC win.....Make them availavble as well. Open access to all spring and fall practices held in the stadium - Tell that idiot they hire that harasses anyone that walks by the stadium during a practice to go away. Exaclty what the hell are we hiding, anyway! Just win baby!!!!

Can't say I agree with much of this post!! Play Egner- if this was the Hipsher era where we needed to save players and years of eligibility, Ok. But this isn't. I also am not concerned much with positions? Is he a 3 or 4 etc? Match-ups and defensive agressiveness many times determines the combination on the floor. I also cannot say we are "deep" at any position, but I do like the returners..and I do believe we have enough experience that we could develop more than one freshman. We all know KD likes to play 9-10 guys...I've aleady know my top nine--Play 'em! McNees Roberts Abreu Diggs McKnight Cventinovic Marshall Egner Euton

For the umpteenth time, they are a competitor of the Zips. Oh yeah, I forgot. LOL Per Jeff Sagarin....not Zips Win! Update: 75% of the season complete and the SOS is 87 out of 120. 13 Ohio State A = 86.27 8 1 65.41( 87) Good to see you are so obsessed with them and following them so much. I am surprised you aren't bashed relentlessly for it. You must not be a true Zip fan. BTW, Obsession isn't a good thing. You may want to seek professional help. Just saying....... Exactly how am I obsessed with THEM? On a weekly basis I take one minute and check out Sagarin's ratings to see how his computer formula ranks all the college football teams. I then post for you the tosu sos. Hardly an obsession... As for the Zips, I've never gone to a game!!!!

For the umpteenth time, they are a competitor of the Zips. Oh yeah, I forgot. LOL Per Jeff Sagarin....not Zips Win! Update: 75% of the season complete and the SOS is 87 out of 120. 13 Ohio State A = 86.27 8 1 65.41( 87)

I forgot to update. The schedule is indeed geting harder. Up to 81. Not bad for the vest... 13. Ohio State A = 85.85 6 1 66.42( 81)

Here is a great place for you to post this kind of stuff. Stop it here. Thank you. But all the crying is here. They don't do it over there. Believe me, they would ask you to go away if your name was Zipbuck and you talked Zips football on a tosu board.

Please, enough with comments like these. You are hurting Buckzips feelings...GP1 was right, the Vest should have scheduled Urbana instead of Wisconsin and he would be sitting atop the polls at 7-0.

Zips Win! not in attendance for the first time all year therefore: Zips 24 OU 20 The jinx continues...

Update- SOS 117 out of 120 D1 programs... 15 Ohio State A = 85.08 6 0 63.45( 117)

I thought he was a graduate of the University of North Carolina!!

I would make this a $10K donor parking lot once the building comes down!!!!!

Thank you for your two long posts. You must have been up half the night boiling in anger. I'm sure if you had better writing skills, you could have composed a much shorter response. Every team that loses isn't a fraud. Good teams lose all the time. What makes a fraud is the build-up. These teams and fans think something great is about to happen after a year of winning against less than capable teams. At the end of the year, that team gets destroyed by a much better team they thought they were as good as and the fraud is complete. I have no doubt tOSU will march right through a terrible conference and be in the BCS Championship. Who is going to stop them? Michigan....we saw the Rich Rod 4-0 start last year and how it ends. Iowa (speaking of frauds)....lost to an average Arizona team. Wisconsin......almost lost to an always underperforming PAC 10 team at home and nobody should be impressed. PSU....when Joe Pa retires, they can change their name to the University of Illinois. The best tOSU can hope for is for the voters to lose their minds and actually put Boise State in the championship game. I'm sure everyone in Buckeyeland if rooting for that. Winning a national championship game after beating not a single good team all season is what is needed for tOSU. The last thing they want to see is Alabama lining up on the other side of the ball. LOL. I wasn't boiling at all. Actually I was laughing at you. SPS is funny to read. Once again you are showing it here. "Terrible conference, not beating a single good team" wa, wa, wa, wa....More foolish, ignorant comments by you. I just like to express myself and give responses to all ignorant points. Unlike you, I prove my points, rather than just throwing out uneducated, jealous jibberish. Actually i agree with you on certain things. It's the way you say it that is ridiculous and reeks of SPS. I don't think OSU goes undefeated this year. I think they lose to Wisci and Iowa both on the road. You can call me a lot of things, but homer isn't one of them. Secondary is not good IMO, and the running game is lacking. Carry on. My luckeyes come in with a strength (weak) of schedule of ....NINETY-NINE.... College Football 2010 through games of October 2 Saturday the BCS uses the ELO_CHESS from here HOME ADVANTAGE= 3.01 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | ELO_CHESS | PREDICTOR 1 Alabama A = 97.96 5 0 73.46( 26) 1 0 | 2 0 | 97.87 1 | 97.56 1 2 Oregon A = 92.58 5 0 68.39( 57) 0 0 | 1 0 | 90.79 6 | 94.23 2 3 Boise State A = 92.57 4 0 70.35( 38) 0 0 | 2 0 | 92.86 3 | 91.80 3 4 Florida A = 90.61 4 1 75.30( 14) 0 1 | 0 1 | 90.89 5 | 89.84 4 5 Oklahoma A = 90.11 5 0 75.28( 15) 0 0 | 3 0 | 95.66 2 | 86.28 12 6 Ohio State A = 89.87 5 0 63.81( 99) 1 0 | 1 0 | 90.07 7 | 89.18 5

I would ask iCoach if a bowl game was out of the question. Or if 0-12 is a real possibility? Even after the beatdown on Saturday I still had my hopes up to beat Ball State...Now, not so much. In retrospect, I find it interesting how many of us thought we would be somewhat competitive with the 17 starters back. Even I thought four wins were certain. But if anyone was at the Spring game and saw how bad it was, our 0-5 start really isn't that surprising. In a game set-up for offense, the defense killed the offense. The offense could barely move the ball. We love to rip the 3-3-5 defense and rightly so, but all we did from last year is rearranged the chairs on the titantic and it's sinking fast. We couldn't stop anyone in 2009 and the same goes for this year... We need better players.....and fast...

Another daunting week of games for the almighty medium ten!!!! I hear Illinois refused to play Glenville, so they have a bye this week..... Central Michigan @ Northwestern Toledo @ Purdue Northern Colorado @ Michigan State Bowling Green @ Michigan Ball State @ Iowa Austin Peay @ Wisconsin Temple @ Penn State Eastern Michigan @ Ohio State Akron @ Indiana Northern Illinois @ Minnesota

Latest Sagarin ratings in the USA Today: 187. The Unoversity of Akron at 0-3 188. Gardner-Webb at 2-1

If the SEC isn't the best conference, which is? I would lean to the Big 12...you probably disagree. The Big 10 lost 2of3 against the PAC10 yesterday and was an extra point miss away from possibly losing 3of3. The Big 10 and the darling of the Big 10 and Kirk Herbstreit, tOSU, will be exposed for being frauds by the end of the season. I wouldn't put them at the top. I'm not a big 10 fan, but I would like to see an SEC school play tOSU in the shoe in the winter time. those guys never have to play in cold snowy weather and because of that have an advantage over schools who have to have game plans that involve cold non speed conducive weather. I would like the medium ten to stop scheduling so many MAC schools and Marshall. A middle of the pack SEC school like Tennessee (similiar budget) would dominate the medium ten. If only the Browns could play Tressel's schedules, they would dominate. Texas, USC, and Miami Fl. agree with you. That is who OSU has had on the schedule the last 5 years and they have won their share of them too. On the other hand Florida playing all of the little sisters of the poor also agrees with you. Some of the ignorance on this board is utterly amazing to me. You guys attack a team you hate, but ignore the fact that other teams you compare them to do the same things and even worse, but you don't mention that. Some of you guys really let your hatred cloud your ability to make a rational post. Yes, many of the B10 teams play MAC teams. That is a regional thing. Just as the SEC, PAC10 and all the rest play out of conference games against weaker opponents. Look for yourself at the SEC teams pre-conference schedules. The B10 has 6 teams in the top 20 right now. I hardly call that Medium10... It is true though that the SEC doesn't come north to play games? Tennessee would domimate the B10..ROFLMAO. More ignorance and not having a clue about college football. Funny how Minny, Wisci, Iowa all went out west this week to face top 20 teams. When was the last time Florida, LSU, Alabama did that? When was the last time any of them came north? I do agree though that if the Browns played a college schedule they would dominate. That takes an intelligent being to state the obvious. I won't even visit this thread anymore as I know the morons will come in full force now. Others start the crap, I respond and then the idiots all attack me. To this day, I have still never, ever started an OSU thread. Yet, I have ignored many. I apologize if some of you are too intolerant to accept someone that has 2-Alma-Mater. I would defend UA on the OSU boards if I had to, but posters there aren't as ignorant as some here. They usually say good things about UA and want other Ohio teams to succeed. Same old, same old. Thanks Big Zip. After spending an entire weekend following the Zips: Soccer game on Friday, the long drive down to Lexington for football and then back on Sunday to catch the soccer team on Sunday, the last thing I look forward to is clicking on Zipsnation only to read about who “Zips” fans think the buckeyes should be playing in the winter. Sorry, it has no place and as long as folks post about it, I will rip back. As for BZ, thanks for making most of my points. You mention the five tough games over the last 5 years. Great! Five quality opponents out of 20 (non-conference games) A tough game 25% if the time. As I mentioned, if only Mangini (Browns) had the luxury of three guaranteed wins in the first 4 games every year, he would be hailed as a savior in c-town. Of course the MAC-BT is a regional match-up. However, tosu doesn’t play MAC schools because it’s regional. They play because they are guaranteed wins. Period. The BT having multiple teams in the top 25 is nothing new. The six teams in the top 25 have played a collective 18 games. TEN of the 18 games were versus non-BSC competition. Let’s all get excited! How is using a large budget, quality program, middle of the SEC, school like Tennessee as a barometer for BT success ignorant? Minn, Wisc and Iowa did go play fellow BCS schools- And two of the three teams LOST with UW getting a lucky win. If you traded more of those non-bcs games mentioned above for BCS games, there wouldn’t be six BT teams in the top 25. I need some of what you’re smoking if you truly believe that OSU fans want the other Ohio teams to succeed! Of course, that depends on how you define success. You could not find even one buckeye fan who was excited to see UC rated ahead of them last year. Every one I heard was jealous and wined the tosu was better and would beat them if they played. When buckeye fan is king turd on sheet mountain, everything is great. If not, they riot. I would love to be able to view the college football landscape with your red and silver glasses. I don’t. Never did, never will. My view is with my blue and gold glasses. And asking that I don’t have to hear about buck nut nation on the Zips message board really isn’t asking for too much.

He looked pretty bad. However, he's still a better quarterback than Rogers is...Do you recall how awful he was at CMU last year?