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Logged on at the in-laws, so will keep it brief. Went from looking like a great afternoon to turning out to be a stinker. Just went to gozips.com to get stats and read JD's postgame quotes. NOTHING. Did anyone even travel with the team from sports info? Thats pathetic. The game story is two lines long. Now click over to gobearcats.com. Full game story, quotes, notes, and audio interviews from their coach and 5 players. Worst part? I lost a bet and had to take the in-laws out to dinner tonight. Nippert was a nice stadium. The building next door (Lindner?) was awesome. Walked around a bit before kickoff and was impressed bigtime. Saw UAM and MT. Saw Tommy G doing his pregame show. Good showing of zips fans. I am whipped. Will post more tomorrow from home.2-4

Cincinnati - LMiami, OH - WToledo - LBGSU - WBuffalo - WOhio - WWMU - W7-5. Probably not enough for a 2nd straight bowl.

Tommy G interviews JD & Kris Kasperek now on the lead story on the bearcats website.Click Here

One more thing, my brother-in-law tells me Tommy hosts a pre-game show outside the stadium. I suggest we all go heckle him a bit.

Good catch THOR. Talked to the wife, and we are making the trip down Friday, spending the weekend with the in-laws, and going to the game Saturday. Thinking of tailgating. It looks like they have lots to do it in and have a pre-game thing going on outside the stadium, cattitude. Sound familiar? Smells like Zipsfest on steroids to me. Hope to see lots of Akron fans at nippert stadium!

UA Fan......I agree on both points. Really wish we could get similar features on the NEW gozips.com, but as it looks, we don't get much besides a bad looking website. Also kind of funny to hear tommy g on the other side interviewing our guy. They have done interviews together before, but it is weird hearing his voice talking about being at UC. From the looks of the website, Mike is keeping Tommy pretty busy down there.

Now that I am pretty sure I am going to the game Saturday I decided to kill any chance of being productive this afternoon by doing some research and find out how many people at UC have Akron ties. Here are the results:Mike ThomasMike WaddellTommy GJemaul GroceTommy G's ColumnMT's forumI know, I know.....nothing better to do. But in my effort to get excited for Saturday I started reading up on the Bearcats.

As the day goes on starting to feel more like making the trip south to cincinnati. Will discuss with the wife tonight. As far as tickets are concerned.....Scott Hogue messed up my orders on more than a few occasions. I heard differently on why he left (through a friend who knows some folks over in athletics, so take it for what its worth), but I was told he was more or less forced out. Got a new job in NC to save face. Either way, a loss against cincinnati would mean major home attendance issues the rest of the way. Thats a problem regardless of who is in charge of the ticket office.

Just talked to my brother-in-law, he says as far as he knows kick-off is still at 3:30. I am pretty sure 6-6 makes you bowl eligible this year with a 12 game schedule.I am also pretty sure 6-6 won't get us in a bowl game.

That game made me so sick, I couldn't even bring myself to post all weekend long. Took the family and expected a great day. Came home feeling ill and THEN remembered that I have to wear a Can't State tie to work this week because I lost a bet with a co-worker. Trying not to panic, but 0-2 in the MAC with a loss to Can't STATE stinks. Was going to take the family down to Cincinnati this weekend to see cousins and the Zips and right now don't even want to. Maybe I will regain the enthusiasm to go later in the week. Does the ticket office have an allottment of tickets? My brother in-law is a big Bearcats fan and said he was there last weekend and the team ran the ball well and shut down the Redhawks on offense. We NEED to win this game. Enough ranting from me, anyone else headed South?

According the the Zips game notes, McClain will be wearing #80, but he is not on the 2-deep. CLICK HEREThe soccer team plays Friday night and it looks like mcclain has started every game this season so I imagine he will catch up with the football team after the game against WMU?

I guess that means no soccer broadcasts this year. Not like it matters, they aren't our best program or anything.

Zips lost to UCSB today 5-0. Caleb got a red card in his Zips regular season debut and now has to miss game number 2. Report on gozips.com says the refs were bad, but 5-0 is embarassing! Ken Lolla's zips never lost by 5!!! Does anyone know what happened?

I see per Rasors blog that someone has been hired to replace Tommy G. Does anyone know if the new guy is going to do soccer? Unfortunately, I am on the road a ton in the fall and feel like I am going to miss a lot of games. Tuning-in on the web would be a nice way to keep up. Does anyone know?

Did a little research and as speculated before, Gelehrter is in Cinci. Click HereIf you go to the football page they have practice report interviews up. Looks like UAM is wasting no time putting Tommy to work. Wish we had practice interviews on gozips.com. Guess I can forget about listening to the game this weekend. Ah well. Wife will probably be happy I won't be glued to the computer while on family vacation. Such is life.