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If I could see what they look like, I'd offer thoughts, but without jacking my resolution to 640x480, I'm not really sure what I think.

1 vote in the coaches poll as well.Time to go out and have a strong week.

Nice post bobcatt & welcome to the Nation. All anyone can do is wait for it (if anything) to come to light. Otherwise it's all speculation at this point.

The RSS is feasible. I've found a modification to the Invision board that makes that work. I can't tell you when that will happen, but it's now officially on my list.Unfortunately, a lot happening now .. I'll get to these improvements soon.Thanks for the input.ZW

What he said there about recruiting sounds strong to me. UA needs a guy who's been living in and around the college cup .. and all 4 of these guys seem to have done that a lot recently.

I can say with confidence that noone's ever seen that phrase in print.Nice poetry! I hereby nominate CK as the first ever ZipsNation Poet Laureate.

I've got full confidence in KD. Both his coaching and recruiting.I'm not going to be surprised to see these guys (Linhart & Rybak) develop into John Reimold types down the road. We've got some good athletes on this team. Don't forget about Cedric .. and please don't dismiss Jimmy .. he'll be a Zips star. But you need to have BASKETBALL players in there too. Athletes don't always make a winning team. Linhart's a ball player, and I think we'll all be thrilled if he turns into a Reimold or Yost down the road.Trust in KD. The Zips are 9-3 and just getting started. This is YEAR 2!

I have to agree with CK .. Peterson was clutch as a freshmen .. as was Wood.Ball as a frosh was pretty solid.Andy as a freshman was crazy though. I remember thinking after he made Marshall or someone look crazy at the JAR that we were looking at the first real chance at an NBA player from UA in a long time. He could have been awesome. What a matchup nightmare he was early on. That damn game at Western Kentucky will always be one of THE darkest days as a Zips BB fan for me. Hands down.Damn shame .. he had anticipation and vision that you don't see too often.

I think that's a VERY important point that most of us are overlooking during our FB induced haze at the moment. Go check out the Convo at CSU for a game this year. Bring a friend.Hell, bring 8,000 friends, they'll all be able to find a seat.Even when the thing is full, it's an average home court as far as home court advantage goes.I'd much prefer a re-do to the Jar to eliminate the corner posts and bring the upper seating closer in, and maybe bring capacity up to about 7,500 or 8k. I know this is easier to write than to pull off, but I'd rather have a JAR that is full and is a crazy band box than a new gym that doesn't fill but for some big games against Can't State, Miami, OU and maybe BG.Let's get a new FB stadium built, and then take care of the JAR when the dust settles. Fact is, if the JAR is full (6k) of Zips fans .. it's a good homecourt advantage. It can be improved and be a great home venue. We don't need (and I don't want) a big cavernous BB arena.

He's eligible after completing 1 full academic year at OU. Since they're on quarters with that early start in the fall, he can play as soon as grades are posted in november. He shouldn't miss more than a few games next season for them. He threw away over 20 games of his college career by transferring mid-year. Doing it at the end of the year would have allowed him to play the full slate and then play 2 complete after he transferred. As it is now, next year will be his Junior season, and he'll have most of 2 seasons at the convo. OU fan seems prety pumped about this over at bobcatattack.com.FYI, on the year thus far, Bryan Hipsher is averaging more rebounds and about the same number of steals as Bubba was here, in almost exactly the same amount of minutes. This might be a huge loss defensively.

I'm with GP on this one. :macc:

Nice poll, GP .. funny stuff.I don't have a strong opinion on this one, since this game wasn't on in my house yesterday. I'm pretty sure the best outcome if I was watching the game would be a power outage that cancelled the game, and a holdup that prevented both teams from getting their payouts.I did see this girl on Cold Pizza last week though ... one of my boys calls 2-1 odds this chick ends up dropping her clothes for a skin mag in the next 2 years. Seems a bit like a glory hound to me.IMHO, about the only thing less interesting than this game would have been if Can't State was involved somehow. There were no winners on that field. ND OSU Can't State IU UMass.... I guess I have a long list.Go Zips! ----> :macc:

Agreed and well put! Sort of like Temple in the A10 generally.

I have a group of 10 or so that will be congregating at the Detroit Beer Company starting around 2:30 or so. Heading out now .. see you all! Go Zips

I'm friends with one of his daughters. This was an extremely unexpected passing. The Link Wednesday, December 21, 2005 Alana Baranick Plain Dealer Reporter Peninsula - John A. Lahoski, a Peninsula businessman and North Pole Express elf, collapsed Monday evening while lighting luminaria on the Ohio 303 bridge across the Cuyahoga River. Lahoski, 63, had been helping his wife, Judith, decorate the Peninsula bridge for the holidays by lighting the candles that stand in open, sand-filled pa per bags. "Then he was going to go down and be an elf for the evening," his wife said. Lahoski, who ran Terry Lumber and Peninsula Hardwoods in Peninsula, was taken to Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. "It must have been a heart attack," his wife said. For the last 12 Christmas seasons, Lahoski's lumber and hardware business morphed into the North Pole for the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad's holiday train. Now called the North Pole Express, it was known as the Polar Express before the Chris Van Allsburg story of the same name was made into a motion picture last year and created copyright problems. The Express, like its fictional counterpart, carries pajama-clad, cocoa-sipping, cookie-eating youngsters and their parents from boarding sites in Independence and Akron through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. Lahoski, dressed as Santa's white-bearded, lantern-carrying chief elf, greeted tiny tots with their eyes all aglow and noses pressed against the windows as the train pulled up. "When you see those little faces, it tells you something about Christmas," Lahoski told The Plain Dealer in 2003. "It gives you strength to believe in some of the things that have gone by the wayside." The North Pole Express made its final run of the 2005 season Tuesday night. The annual attraction is so popular that tickets for the November-December runs are sold by lottery in September. Order forms for the 2006 North Pole Express lottery will be available in August, according to the railroad's Web site: www.cvsr.com. Lahoski, born in Boston Township, was a longtime resident of Peninsula. He chaired commissions in the 1980s and 1990s that unsuccessfully sought to merge the two communities in which he had lived his entire life. He graduated from Boston Township High School and the University of Akron, where he excelled in football. Primarily a fullback, he rushed for 766 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Zips as a senior. He also made an impression as a linebacker. He had the distinction of being named All-Ohio Conference running back and linebacker his senior year. Lahoski received Akron's James Horrigan Award for Male Athlete of the Year for 1963-64 and was inducted into the school's sports hall of fame in 1976. He was a teacher and head football coach at Woodridge High School in Peninsula for many years. He left the classroom and the football field in 1981 to join his wife's father, Terry Montaquila, in the family business. In addition to his wife of 39 years, survivors include his daughters, Lori Reagan of Broadview Heights and Beth Jimenez of Spain; sons, Terry and John J., both of Peninsula; seven grandchildren; a sister; and two brothers. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, 6034 South Locust St., Peninsula 44264. Donations may be made to the church; the Terry Montaquila Fund, P.O. Box 216, Peninsula 44264; and Peninsula Village-Valley Fire District, Peninsula 44264. Arrangements are by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home of Hudson.

My thoughts exactly Z-P. I hope they use their brains and make UAM the Senior Associate Athletic Director WIth Thick Wallet. There's room for both of these guys here for awhile, but I would have like to see UAM here long haul.

Check out the following from the Fort Worth Star Telegram: They have great facilities and they put players in the NFL! Read the kid's quotes, and you'll see that he sees UA as a real move towards playing on Sunday. Interesting line of thinking. :macc:

I was wondering the exact same thing ITZ .. why not use this image instead .. I took the liberty of sanitizing the image for your / our protection.

Beat me to it, CK. Sanders was awesome in HS.

That just ins't going to get old very quickly ... just love seeing that in print. :macc: :macc: :macc: :macc:

I'm starting to look forward to this matchup from a pure "great football to watch" perspective. Seems like the coaching & strategy are going to rule the day here .. should be fun.

Nicely put! :macc:

What is this show? Local access? 45/49? Never heard of this .... UA related or no?

So the Zips currently have 2 TV outlets .. the Time Warner local cable angle, and ONN for statewide broadcasts. Perhaps there's another outlet here that maybe soon available to pimp the Zips in blanket coverage of NE OH. New Regional Sports Channel .. Check Me Out! This is from the PD today. Seems the Tribe has realized they can bank more $$$ by running their own regional sports network. They're partnering w/ Time Warner which will soon own the majority of our cable homes, with the recent / pending acquisition of Adelphia. The network will aparently be included as a part of basic cable with no additional fees and they are working to make it available on Dish & DirecTV. Now THIS smells like a huge opportunity for UAM to work his magic again. They're starting a network for the Tribe .. great news. But how much programming (especially offseason) can they really devote to Indians only coverage? Don't you think they'd like to leverage some other local sports of interest to keep advertisers happy in the hot stove months? What better way than to become the regional cable home of the Zips! Tribe in the summer, Zips in the fall and winter. The network will already have the road crews and trucks, so they can start broadcasting all of the road games for us and the rising Zips Nation!.. No chance for FSN to control what we see & when .. it will be dialed in locally. UAM for AD!!! Regardless. Go Zips! One other thing -----> :macc:

I'd have to believe at some point BC needs to stop playing 1-AA opponents. Based only on your information above, they have 3 1-AA teams (Maine, Can't and UMass) .. oops .. Can't State is 1-A, I forgot .. or rather one 1-AA team (Maine) and one sesspool of an opponent that has no redeming qualities (UMass ..... I happen to be a UConn grad and can fill you in later). Dropping UMass or Maine would leave them still with the easiest schedule in the ACC I'm sure .. that is until you add the Zips to the slate. I saw something over on one of the flush boards that says that Can't State is hosting Minnesota to open the season. Perhaps that requires them to drop BC. Who knows .. could be interesting. Might need to make that road trip work.