Zip Watcher

Biggest WINNER the Zips have ever had. Played in, and WON the most games in Zips history. Leader .. WINNER .. Great Zip.

Basketball centric post:Nate Linhart, Jeremiah Wood and Rashon Brown. The three best D-1 players to wear a UA uniform to date.Go Zips! B)

Yes, with a 3-7 record they would fit into the MAC West quite nicely. I know they're 3-7 .. but that team would cruise to the West title the last few years. This was a pretty good win for the Zips. The Flames would do quite well in the MAC .. They did dust NIU by 20 .. their matchups would cause a lot of problems, and their perimeter strength would win them some games. Just not at the JAR.Go Zips!

Frye to start against Anderson .. old foes in practice battle in the big time.Go Zips!

Do you have ulcers Zach?

This is foolishness. These guys played their hearts out for Zips Fans, including you. And you begrudge them the opportunity to realize a dream of being paid to play the game they love?I don't get it.Go Zips! B)

You're a Ken Dorsey fan?As I played hookey this afternoon and got some backyard football in with a 5 year old wearing a Browns #9 jersey .. I wondered the same thing.

Good posts here .. and I'm pretty much in line with CK on the schedule. I think it's close .. could be tweaked a tick upward, but it has a nice mix of schools on it.If I had a magic wand, I think the same teams in a slightly different order might have made this schedule make people more interested. Maybe open with some of the teams we've had in the last week or so, and then roll in Niagara, URI, APSU, the Daytona tourney & A&M .. then they'd have eaten up the dogs earlier on and been more prepared to face NC St & A&M. As it is, they played solidly at A&M .. but they weren't really ready for NC St. I suspect if they played them today rather than a month ago, it might be a different game.Generally, no big complaints from me. I do agree that the current conference makes it hard to schedule for an at-large .. but I also think they are going to win a ton of games this season. The Defense is looking pretty good, as are the ball rotations .. and with the good spacing and rotations, these guys are going to hit a lot of shots.SFU may not have been upper MAC level, but if the Zips play that game against anyone in the MAC at home, they win by 20 every time. B) Go Zips!

Fascinating to me that the guy @ IU makes less than 2/3'rds the UA Futbol coach.

Don't know .. don't care .. that game knocked 50% of the remaining players out of a survivor pool I'm playing. :bow:

We're squarely in Andy Marte territory here now.

Both teams bunkered for the second half of the games because they knew they were toast if they didn't out number the Zips in the box.This with the Zips 2 best playmakers (Ampi & Nanchoff) not playing or not at full strength.2 ACC programs played the Zips and didn't score a regulation goal. And the Zips didn't come close to bunkering in either game.I'd take my chances with the Zips playing an ACC schedule. They clearly outplayed both UVA and UNC in regulation & overtime. Do they run the table? Who knows .. but they'd have a better chance of running the table in the ACC than anyone currently in the ACC or in the NCAA for that matter.Go Zips!! B)

Me too .. perhaps you can still use the "endzone grass hill gnome" sometime though.

Zen .. can't speak for the Great GP1, but in my case:YesS-CorpAbsolutely.

This is another good indicator that Latina is on his way here too.

I sit corrected. Seems like a solid hire.Go Zips! B)

http://footballcoachscoop.com/Scoop.htmlNot surprising. We're seemingly becoming Notre Dame minus Weis as far as our coaching staff goes. But I think I like this hire. Aside from football, every sport at ND is in the Big East. We now have a Big East level S&C coach.I'll bet $10 he was the S&C coach for football only @ UND.

Sometimes, yes .. other times .. not so much. We need an applet where you can play music behind a post when someone is reading the post. This one needs the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" .. nice motivation speech. I'd have written the exact same thing 10 years ago. Might be interesting to revisit in 5, and then again in 10 years. Hope it's a prosperous 2010.Opportunity does flourish amid chaos. And that too!Go Zips! B) B)

Curtis Brown similarly.

Yep .. select "options" @ upper right and choose the "Standard" display mode.

Seems straight forward enough. Once the permanent facilities for Soccer are complete, that could open up some space in the North End Zone for a Lacrosse team .. and couldn't they play their games on Shrank Field?With the city & the U creeping to a new Basketball facility, the JAR will be improved upon as a BB practice facility and that could include Gymnastics team rooms .. the JAR becoming the home venue for Volleyball & Gymnastics, while serving as BB practice facility.

Were something like that to ever come to pass, and I'm not predicting anything of the sort .. the Big East would be adding UA (and FOUR others) to make itself a BIGGER conference. It's all about the Benjamins. They need to have 12 to have a championship game, with the TV $$ and exposure that brings .. in order to maintain / solidify their place in the BC$.If Big East only adds 1 or 2 .. I don't think UA's in play, except the remote possibility of maybe backfilling a C-USA spot. But if the Big East loses Rutgers, and comes to realization that it needs to get to 12 FBS teams (this probably also necessitates a full split of the league) .. then they need FIVE. And if they go hunting for 5, the dominoes will fall and affect MAC membership in some way .. thus affecting UA.In my mind, it's hard for the BE to find 5 new members without affecting the MAC, even indirectly. The most often shouted options at other boards for BE include: Temple, UCF, East Carolina, and Memphis. Keep in mind that TV markets / urban areas are a driving factor in BE membership. Now if even one of those teams isn't a fit or an option (maybe Temple is never back in?? .. or Memphis understands it's better to be the tallest midget in C-USA) .. where do they go? It will touch UA directly or indirectly if the BE wises up to the fact they need to have 12 FBS teams.Personally, I'm just rooting for utter chaos and a complete reshuffling of the conferences East of the Mississippi .. UA doesn't have a long history with the MAC like some schools, and they are investing in infrastructure that would indicate a commitment to moving upstream at some point .. so the chaos of a large restructuring could be beneficial. Who knows, maybe a new Great Lakes / Mid-Atlantic FBS league emerges with like-minded universities out of this? It'll be more fun to watch it happen than it is to speculate.Regardless .. Go Zips!!! B)

It fits my understanding of the vision set forth by Proenza & Thomas, and carried forward by Rhodes & now Tom: Think bigger than the current conference. Strive to be the best in the state and compete on a national stage.Well done guys .. Go Zips! B) B)

I thought you quit on the Zips? What possible interest do you have in what UA's conference affiliation is now or in the future?Go Zips!

Based on what? Source?