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I hear this alot (especially when it's posted multiple times ) . There is a problem with this logic however.What difference does it make to an established program, with an established Offensive Coordinator. That has run the same offensive style for the past 3-4 years and also has several hours of film for "real opponents" to review prior to a game.Wisconsin knows everyone knows their plays. What they don't want the other Big Ten teams to see is how they run those plays with new players replacing those that have graduated. Good coaching is much less about knowing the other teams plays and is much MORE about exploiting sub-par players on the other team. Everyone looks pretty good running the basics. Not everyone looks good running more elaborate plays. Coaches spend hours watching film not writing down different plays, but trying to find the weak link in the other team.Sorry but weakness show whether you are running a simple or gimmick play. And as far as replacement players you see more mistakes and weaknesses during base plays then during gimmick plays. And those base plays are what you set up to defend, not the gimmick, you just keep in the back of your mind and coach the importance of staying home when a play looks to be going the other direction.And coaches spend hours charting plays to learn tendencies and attempt to anticipate what play possibilities exist. Like zen mentioned, you throw in a gimmick it actually puts more work in the opposing coaches hands. Lastly you pretty much contradicted yourself about a "better" school not "opening up the play book" against us.Bottom line, any team is going run their offense as simple as they can for as long as they can. If they can win the game keeping simple they will. If they have to try non conservative plays they will. Since WI strength is going to be running the ball. They are going to run the ball as much and for as long as they can. Throwing in play action to keep us honest.

I hear this alot (especially when it's posted multiple times ) . There is a problem with this logic however.What difference does it make to an established program, with an established Offensive Coordinator. That has run the same offensive style for the past 3-4 years and also has several hours of film for "real opponents" to review prior to a game.The truth is, that when these big schools don't "open up the playbook" as you say, it isn't because they are worried that conference rivals will see their new (read same old) gimmick plays. How many "new" plays do you think exist? No the real reason they play simple is because the best advice to calling plays in football is to "keep it simple stupid." If a team can run an ISO 40 times a game, and win, that's what they are going to do. Not because they don't want a conference fow to see their Double Reverse Option Pass, but because it worked so why do something different.The other thing you have to realize is that, some of that "open" offense you talk about has very few reps in practice. Because in practice you focus mainly on the plays you are going to run 75 - 80% of the game. So holding it back is mostly out of lack of experience for that play. The last thing you want to do is try a gimmick play and turn the ball over to a team that is absolutely starving for confidence and a reason to believe they can beat you.

Well hell, I'm with zen. Let's just throw in the towel now. Shoot, I'll go one further, let's look at the schedule and see how many schools are out of our league right now, and forfeit those too. That way we can focus on the 2 or 3 games the "experts" think we can win this season.Pathetic. I'm sure no one gave us much of a shot the last time we played Wisconsin either.

I've heard that it is nearly a 99.8% certainty that we may very well play a home and away with a team that has the colors blue and piss yellow. Now I don't want to acknowledge who led me to believe that this is plausible, for fear of ruining lives and my all important all knowing sources, but I can pretty much vaguely state that we may also have a couple of games with mid minor major that is ranked like 53rd historically.

So my bad, I had not seen that post, so apologies to you. But I still stick by my no 1-AA teams. There is no reward for winning and too great a loss for losing.

I am beginning to wonder if you aren't the AD of YSU. Scheduling 1-AA teams, when we are a MAC program does nothing more then say "our team is one step away from being 1-AA" especially when our not so distant past is 1-AA. We are trying to develop a different image in this area of the program. You don't do that by bringing in YSU or Northeastern Southern West Central State Indiana University of Pennsylvania. You just don't. Because when you do, all the ho-hum OSU swinging Northeast Ohio people think, oh, that second rate 1-AA Akron team is playing today. When we have an option to bring in FAU or WKU to start the year, or play YSU, you pick FAU or WKU. If you have the option to take the program into OSU or play Liberty at home, you go to OSU. Why? Because money builds programs, and you get more money for playing OSU then you do Liberty at home. And, I would rather take a shot at beating OSU, no matter how small any of you think it is, get recognition in all of the Ohio newspapers just for playing them (let alone if we upset them), then end up on C6 in the bottom right corner of our own Akron Beacon Journal for playing some crap 1-AA school.

Well, better to be a BCS whore then a 1-AA bitch, because at least a whore gets paid.

Ok, um do some research, there is a trophy for the YSU/Akron rivalry. It's the Steel Tire.Second, until we are a team that can guarantee a "warm up" as all of you people are calling 1-AA schools, we should not be scheduling 1-AA schools. Bottom line is that we all 1-AA brings is a chance to have people make a joke of your team the entire season if you happen to lose. Period. It's not worth it.We should schedule how we schedule. Very plausible victories (Syracuse, Cincinatti, Army) and a money game (Wisconsin, OSU, Michigan, PSU etc).

WKU is a FBS school (I hate those letters, 1-A school) not 1-AA. Even if they are a new school, they are a good program. They would probably be stronger competition than someone like Duke, or the poor SBC schools.

Do any of you think that just maybe there were only so many founding packages? Since they do have to order a plaque of some sort with names on it. 30,000 names would be a rather large wall honoring a lot of people, that would probably never be able to find their name. they were HOPING for 5000 for the INFO...Well I just checked again this morning, and it's all back up and running the correct way.

It looks good, now they just have to fix GoZips.com.

My hope is the offensive coaching staff has progressed. That is just as important as our QB play.I think a lot of us forget that the offense last year was primarily designed with Carlton Jackson in mind. I think the coaching staff had pretty much assumed he would be the starter and decided on a West Virginia style offense. Unfortunately they were mistaken. Hopefully the have adjusted the offense to take advantage of the 3 - 4 quality running backs we have, and that Jacquemain is better play action passer then he is a scrambling qb.

Do any of you think that just maybe there were only so many founding packages? Since they do have to order a plaque of some sort with names on it. 30,000 names would be a rather large wall honoring a lot of people, that would probably never be able to find their name.

I was just basing my thinking on the feasibilty study for the Greek Village and it shows it only running from Carrol to Nash. That's why I was curious.UofA Feasibility Study

I've been noticing on my drives home that a couple of houses on the Exchange St block South of Nash and East of Spicer that several houses are being razed. Now this is completely outside of the Stadium and Dorm Project footprint and it's also out of the Greek Village footprint. So I was just curious what was going on here? I'm assuming it's University related but I'm not positive.

LOL Nice!

So EA put out it's newest NCAA Football. And yes I went and bought it, at midnight, because I am a geek like that. Anyway they touted pagentry and mascots. Well how on earth does the game retrograde to not having Zippy. She is the most recognizable mascot, she was in last year's version, she won the Capital One Mascot challenge, so it doesn't make any sense, unless it's some licensing issue.But as for real football, the offensive play book is very accurate to last years offense (read shitty). Two I formations and about 20 shotgun formations with a vast majority of the plays being lateral or east/west direction plays. It was probably the worst playbook I have ever used in the game, and sadly it's also the most accurate playbook I have ever seen. My other big complaint is that while yes the Rubber Bowl is accurate, I'm hard pressed to find another MAC school with an accurate stadium. Anyway that's my vent on NCAA this year.

Seriously, why isn't that footage part of the commercial to sell season tickets? I'm sure they are showing that to the Suite and Club seat people, but I have to be honest, that got me pumped for the stadium. I also like that you can see more details like what the light posts look like, and the fact that the bleachers will be blue and gold.

Ohio.com SnippetSo, since he has been cleared of charges. Is he still not Zips material?

Well, and that's the other big reason to have beer sales. Bidding war for pouring rights. Muahahaha.But I would be cool with Budweiser or Miller.

What impact does successful basketball recruiting/playing have on a football program?When you think about this consider two football programs, UConn and on the other end Duke. I personally think that any athletic program is only as good as the consideration it get's from it's school and athletic department.

Good job, and I agree with you on doing a rebuild of original Buchtel Hall, even if it was as a residence hall. It would be rather stunning.

It has been announced that the game at Camp Rip-off will start at high noon.It will also be televised on the Big10 Network.

Well isn't the campus fully wi-fi already? and won't the stadium be on campus?

Beacon ArticleThe reported that applications are up 17% from last year, and an there is an expected 4-5% enrollment increase for the fall. Also note in the article how Can't State says "yeah we are growing too, us too, we get students, we do, really"