Zips Win!

Agree. What a waste of what some are saying is the second best football player ever at that school and the best all-around athlete ever.

Thanks. When I get my 2 downs and 9 seconds back from the big ten, I will rewatch. Until then, I trust your analysis.

Or his keyboard got locked up accidentally. But then again, when you post every five minutes who knows what happened.

Baloney- But keep typing my man. Playing a bunch of guys doesn't give you depth. It may give you a loss, but not depth. Playing a bunch of guys that can contribute will give you depth.

Really? Five on Five in the second half was much better than three on five in the first half.

Be careful for what you wish for or think is better! With an 8-team playoff, you honks will need to win 3 games against very good competition. When was the last decade you played three very good teams in one season, let alone in a four-week time span.

A simple solution to this thread would be to permanently have the posts of Legend, LZip, Buckzip and DFG all get routed to either the trash or an OSU site. Bragging about the SEC has zero impact on the Zips or the MAC. Likewise, I have no idea how a better big-ten helps the Zips! What I want is for players to realize they can come to UA and play immediately...over shitty teams like Iowa IU and Illinois, etc... And yes, I will continue to take shots at OSU fans posting on a Zips message board. Root for them all you want..just take it elsewhere. That 3-loss SEC along with four others in the SEC would have gone undefeated with OSU's schedule. Likewise, OSU playing any of the SEC schedules would have 3 losses. The hardest game OSU had this year was vs. Northwestern...and they went 1-7 in conference. Laughable. My stance has been the same for 30 years. It's all about scheduling. Pick the best teams playing the hardest schedules. And if OSU would qualify, so be it. But they don't, and rarely do with the easy schedules. Ohioans love the computer rankings for high school football. When it comes to the various computer rankings for college football, reality sets in. The Sagarin rating has OSU 7th-where they belong. They also have that 2-loss Oregon team in the top 5 due to a harder schedule....I could go on....As for NIU, they are rated 20 something I think.....but their SOS is 134. I love the 4-team playoff- (as long as SOS is a main factor). Too bad we don't have it this year!

1.) We are in competition with tosu. For dollars, respect and if we can steal even one player from tosu maybe the NIU and UM games are wins and we go bowling. It matters! 2.) That 2-loss ASU team and that 3-loss LSU team would roll tosu. ASU probably has two losses because the schedule they played this year is the 4th hardest in the nation. LSU's stands at 27. 3.) As for MSU, they blow. 4.) You can take your insightful comments along with typy-typerson and find a board that appreciates a bunch of nothing.

This is where your idea of a BCS division (playing only each other) and Non-BCS division (playing only each other) is halted. At least for the next 5-7 years, if not longer. While I find the idea intriguing for the Zips to have a chance to play every weekend with a realistic chance to win, good luck finding enough BCS level schools who will be willing to go 3-9 every year at the hands of the upper tier teams. Eventually IU and Vandy and about 30 others will get tired of losing. The BCS schools will continue to find a way to make sure there are enough winnable games on their schedules (by playing non-BCS schools) while keeping more and more of the money for themselves. So while it is a clever idea, the BCS schools at large will not let us break apart.

You can add a variable to the equation: Good team + bad conference + horrid occ schedule = BCS Champioship game vs. a team playing without it's starting QB. Gene Smith is a genius.

Playing easy schedules for decades made many years of success possible. Just ask the Browns. Difficult schedules year in and year out have the Browns nowhere even approaching the .500 mark and what do you know, NE Ohio is flooded with Steeler fans. We can talk about recruiting, recruiting, recruiting. Winning in college football is scheduling, scheduling, scheduling....

My hats off to the AK-Rowdies. There were 43 Rowdies who devoted their entire Sunday on an 8-hour bus ride to Marquette to support the Zips, returning back at the JAR at 5:15AM. The Rowdies were absolutely tremendous in their support of the Zips on Sunday evening. They were fabulous! Their support, school pride and constant cheering was a treat for this old-timer. A big THANK YOU for supporting our Zips.

And on what planet is there another conference that the Zips can compete for championships in?

It was that superior leadership from the MAC commish that got us this wonderful seed. Now, if it was NIU football, he would be all over it!!!

Did anyone see Belmont vs. NC yesterday? Very impressive- have a big lead, lose it, then come back and execute a perfect last 1.5 minutes. I cant wait for the Zips to duplicate that performance.

I couldn't disagree more! Screw the moron of a commissioner we have. I am tired of getting screwed with the schedule. NIU gets an easy schedule every year so they can make a BCS bowl. I was pissed last year, but didn't complain too much. Now that we got screwed again, I am done with this d-bag. And I am off the NIU win one for the MAC bandwagon as well. Tired of getting NIU, Ball State and Toledo while NIU gets a cakewalk. Have a rotation and make the schedules fair. Think if we get EMU, CMU and WMU instead this year and we have a commish that would stand up to the big10 after we get screwed the 2 downs and 9 seconds in the shit house, who knows where this team might be. Tired of getting walked all over. Someone needs to stand up for the Zips for once and tell the dude where to go.

Wow! Talk about hitting the panic button early! In no way, shape or form would I move QD to the point. To say I completely disagree with this post is an understatement. While I clearly see we are struggling at the point, to compare NE to AA at this point is unfair. Even Alex struggled early on. Yes, Q is a capable passer. But to say he can handle the ball under duress better than Evans is a stretch. In fact, even CB can handle the ball on the perimeter. What we need is a distributor in the paint and no way do I see Q doing this effectively after having to handle the ball through pressure for 20-30 seconds every possession. Keep him on the wing making passes, drives or shots. Do not make him the point. Here is what I do. Q, Tree and Harney (if healthy) need to understand that they need to be ready to play 30 minutes a game. We have plenty of time over the next month to get in shape if need be. Like football, the motto needs to be -Faster, Faster, Faster. Evans needs to be named the point guard for the remaining non-conference schedule. In fact he needs to understand that he will play the first nine minutes of each half, take a 2 minute break and then be back in. So, do not pick up any perimeter touch fouls. CB gets 4 minutes per game. DI4 needs to move to CB on the football team. (not my idea, but I agree with it) Wasting seven precious minutes per game is an issue. It’s like wasting second half timeouts in football. Maddening… Pat, Big Dog, Kwan, Reggie and Jake get the other minutes. If Gladden or Jackson can help win even one game, then play them. We need to win now! Faster, faster, faster.

I thought there were a series of fouls missed late, but what the heck. I offered to buy Larry, Moe and Curly a beer at BW's after the game but they declined because they were not old enough.... MAC refs still blow!

I'd settle for some insightful information regarding the Zips. Not the filler we receive.

Game is also shown locally on channel 5.

We'll take it, but that was brutal. Clearly, we play to the level of our competition. MU is atrocious and we kept them in the game. Sure it beats walking out of the stadium losing a 70 yard hail mary, but come on, we are better than that. 1. Where the hell is McCray, Mizell and why isn't Turner getting in a LB. Any why the hell doesn't anyone in the media let us know why these guys aren't playing. What the hell does Pud Dunn do all week. Dude has never given any meaningful insight into the team. And he has a radio show. Only in America- actually only in Akron. 2. Why does every drive start out with a nice pace and end like every drive under JD with the QB looking over to the sideline. FASTER, FASTER, FASTER. 3. Stop the fumbling. 4. Dillard needs to make that easy catch early on which would have changed field position and probably negated MU's first TD. 5. With a minute to go in the first half with the Zips having first and goal at the 6, we hand off to Hundley who is running in for a score- or at least to the one. A flag is thrown and the play gets dead. What the hell is with the no foul on the play yet we do not get the results of the play. Garbage. How can it be just a do-over? Two plays later we fumble. MAC refs still blow. Geez, we had two illegal formations and a sideline penalty in the second half which made 1st and goal at the 5 a heck of a lot harder. A TD puts the game away, yet we could only get 3 that possession and MU was still in the game. How big was MU's personal foul on the onside kick. That extra 15 yards enabled us to go for it on 4th down. Without it, we are punting and who knows how it ends. To think that my drive to EMU in stinkin' 2008 was the last road win...5 years later the streak ends... Let's play above our competition on Saturday and bring home another W.

I bet we get the same grey pinstripe suit.

LOL. Now that is funny!!!

Please add: Killian's Irish Red Thirsty Dog Old Leghumper Porter Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald I.C. Light

Just saw this on ESPN. Not buying it. Are there instances where the players are at a disadvantage and need some $. Sure. These guys are given an allowance for rent and food. Stop blowing your money all month on stuff and then you can eat. Put down the $100 per month phone, high speed internet connection and every other subscription that everyone is entitled to nowadays. Sure the day is coming where there is a stipend. Good. Send them all a 1099 at the end of the year for the value of a scholarship and the stipend and make them pay taxes. Then what? They will want even more...