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Honest question here .. by "save the recruiting class" do you mean:1. Keep the existing commitments we already have?or 2. Have time to recruit other players to fill available scholarships?Just wondering.Go Zips!!

The program can start by not embarrassing themselves, the fans / donors and the community. On the field, off the field and in the classroom. Zips basketball currently has a 1 game winning streak against the ACC, does it not? Good points, minus the obnoxious arrogance. Porter & Dambrot bring in winners. The guys they bring in have been successful in HS and expect to win .. know how to win .. and want to win.

I think that there may be schools with similar talent through the first 3 or 4 guys. Miami always has talent. OU has brought in some strong classes lately. What can separate the Zips from the league is the depth. For the first time in the history of UA hoops, KD has a team that goes 12 legit D1 guys deep. Not 3-4 good MAC players and some hard working role players from 5-12. He's got 10-12 guys that would play on any team in the league, and a few guys that could probably play on teams upstream of UA and the MAC. His ability to go 10 deep the whole season made the difference at the Q. Miami just had no chance to stay with the Zips in the second half. Their tank was empty.Take Parrish for example. Just 4 or 5 years ago, he'd have played 10+ minutes a game on the Zips as a Freshman. Now, he apparently felt the numbers worked against him and he's transferred out. A loss for the Zips in my opinion, but understandable.The depth of talent on the roster is what may separate the Zips from the conference.

I don't understand what the Bucs have to do with a discussion about Zips football. Other than the fact that both teams have the best stadiums in their respective leagues, there doesn't seem to be any relation.Go Zips!!

Isn't Cuyahoga Heights like division X or something? I think they only have 30 guys in the school .. so he probably does the laundry too.

Euton would be a nice get for the program. You don't put up the kinds of numbers he has in big-time AAU tournaments without a high skill level.I dream of the day when the skill and talent of the Zips gets to the point where McClanahan is only a 2, not swinging down to the 3 .. and Cvetinovic is a 3 man, with bigs like Marshall, Bardo, McKnight, Swiech .. maybe Euton, and the 2 other 2010 signees roam the middle.Having an athletic, skilled front line that goes no smaller than 6-8, 6-8, 7' .. that would be a nightmare for most conference opponents. The key to this happening will be having 2 of the 3 bigs on the floor able to guard smaller / quick players. It might mean Zeke actually guarding the 4 rather than the 5, and Nik being the 3 should be ok (see the game films of him checking Bramos last season). Also, one of the 3 has to be able to shoot from outside consistently, and one has to be able to score inside consistently. An inside out guy like Euton would be a big key to this. I think Nik becomes that type of player over time as well.It would be really fun to see KD force the matchups the opposite way than in years past. Instead of being smaller .. go big, and pound the ball inside again and again. The bigs learn how to kick out like Woody did .. and now your guards are shooting open set shots.Good times ahead. B) B)

I was commenting on you calling ZipsWin! an eternal optimist. Them's might be fightin words. Only question is whether or not he craps down his leg when he reads it?Go Zips!

Wow!

OK Review .. but not much about Cvetinovic or McClanahan.

Anyone notice Dwight Lowrey making a big play by breaking up a pass late for the J E T S against NE on Sunday?Good for Dwight!!!

It really doesn't matter to me. Missing class, practice, curfew, drinking, or worse he is still out, that won't change. "With great power comes great responsibility"--Stan Lee (corny, but true)AKA the Parable of Talents. Slightly older than Stan.Go Zips!!!

Per the Indiana Rivals board, IU sent back their ticket allotment to Akron -- after selling only 450 tickets! Hopefully they are buying them locally, because that might be fewer visiting fans than Morgan State had! How pathetic is the fan following of this opponent that says it's "of the quality of the Big Conference That Can't Count"? You know, the Big 10 could fix their logo if they just kicked Indiana or Northwestern out. Then the MAC would have someone to fill our spot when we leave.GREAT post! B) B) Go Zips!

My favorite quote in the article. This Lynch guy is on to the MAC.

TCF Bank Stadium reviews from Gopher fans.Got curious about how things went in the Twin Cities Saturday. I watched much of the game .. good game & it played VERY well on TV.So I went over to gopherhole.com to see what their postgame threads looked like .. and it seems like the Zips Nation is a much happier crew these days than the Gopher Hole.Puts it in further focus to me just how WELL everything was handled by Hunter, Tom & staff on Saturday. I haven't seen anything here about people giving up trying to get food or going to the bathrooms.I guess if the main contention from Zips fans is that tall guy in the band who didn't aim his trumpet high enough .. things went pretty well? B) B) Go Zips!!!

Excellent! If only all statistics cited on sports forums were this well documented.Go Zips!!

All,I have removed all of the posts and banned permanently the offending user for yesterday / today's infraction.Also, I have unlocked the topic .. please keep it respectful. I've gotten more complaints in the last 2 days on the Band topic than pretty much anything else in the last 2 months.Go Zips! B)

Option 4: :D Can't State (alternating H & A, last regular season game), 2 Other BCS or CUSA / MWC (1 Home / 1 Away), Service Academy (Alternating).Always 2 home & 2 away, plus 4 conference home games .. 6 game home slate every year. Maybe add a MAC or Sunbelt team in place of the Service Academy game every 3rd year or so. No games at Brown's Stadium .. it's a dump compared to the Info. B) B) Go Zips!

The kicking game will be fine. I'm chalking it up to first game jitters .. and a little bit to the fact that the scoreboard incorrectly indicated 3rd down just prior to the first attempt. The special teams did not have their usual time to get set .. the first kick was rushed. The 46 yarder? ... no comment. Kickoffs were improved over last season.

If a politician is a Republican, they get a pass from their own party on things like cheating on a wife or soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. I don't think a beer bong will hurt his career.Rasor has all he needs to be a successful politician in northern Summit County suburbs. First, I believe he goes to The Chapel. The Chapel, like many new Christian churches, is as much cult-like social club as it is a place of worship. It falls right into the Republican's playbook of "us vs. them". "Us" means those that believe what we do and belong to our little group. "Them" means....well, I'm not certain they even know what it means. These churches also serve as recruiting tools for the modern day Republican party which has become more liberal than FDR with guys like Bush 43 and follows the intellectual lead of lightweights like Sean Hannity and neo-conservatives (code word for big government liberals). There was once a time when great thinkers of small government like William F. Buckley were the intellectual leaders of the Republican party (Buckley would have vomited out his bong water on neo-conservatives). Now, high school graduates and Sunday Christians have taken over that role. I honestly don't believe many modern day Republicans believe the childishly legalistic theology they are forced to spew for political purposes, which makes the party thoughtless and pandering to the most intellectually vacant, shrill masses. In a lot of ways, it makes them dangerous. The Republican Party has turned itself into a cartoon of itself. Like a lot of good cartoons, it is both funny and uncomfortable to watch......like South Park.Secondly, he writes about sports in an area where people love sports.I think this politician is a good guy. I hope he doesn't use his chance in politics to force others to behave and act as he may believe they should based upon his religious beliefs. Instead, he should think about freedom and what that means. Freedom is for everyone all the time. Not just when it is word that helps someone get elected.Let freedom ring!Go Zips!All,There's a place for politics .. and if you MUST do it at ZN.O .. do it in THE OFF TOPIC FORUM .. please do NOT do it in the midst of a sports discussion.Thanks & Go Zips!!! B) B)

Thanks to the moderator who fixed the link. Can you explain the "tinyurl" thing to us non-expert users?Sure .. it's been posted before .. but probably time again.If you have a long url or one that might get jumbled, you go to www.tinyurl.com and enter the long link in a box, and it gives you a modified small link that will redirect people to the same place. It's particularly useful for things like mapquest directions & winkflush sites ..Go Zips!

One reminder that this is a Zips board, and the original poster asked for feedback on Saturday at the Info. Please don't hijack the topic for your love or hate of some other school. Much more, and it'll be moved to the off-topic forum.Go Zips!!!

Sure hope that photo doesn't end a promising young political career before it got started.Go Zips!!

:wall: After your first post, I elected not to reply .. but seeing how you've completely missed my point, I thought I'd follow up.Your comments are noted. Clearly we can't have big disasters happen at the Info and hope to impress the casual fan. But you keep saying to the Zips Staff to do it right .. my point to you is: As the diehard FANS, we also can help make sure that those conversations on Monday are positive .. and that those little images you mention above are good ones. As you said above .. the experience is about far more than the facility. The surrounding fans can add or detract from the environment and experience.We can choose to be ambassadors for the Zips and try to make a positive impact on the entire situation .. or we can take the approach of asking to be catered to and searching for something to complain about and someone to blame for whatever we think isn't perfect the first time out.A pretty simple choice, IMHO. B) Go Zips!

Rumor has it you may get your wish. :lol: :lol: Post of the week!Go Zips!

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