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Did anyone else think this comment was a bit arrogant?
''It's not a great exhibition game other than the fact Mike Moran has coached a hundred years and deserves to get a game like this,'' Dambrot said.
I think the more likely explanation is one of respect for JCU basketball. His point is that we could have scheduled a much weaker opponent than JCU.
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Punting.
You know what they say, practice makes perfect!
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I don't care how any of spins this, whether it is pro or anti Ianello. We will still have him around for at least one year and more than likely two years.
Even that is wishful thinking. I would bet that we have him around for the entire length of his contract. UA is not going to buy this contract out. They don't have the money.
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Hilltopper, I'm really disappointed that you focused in on something that was not salient to my post, which was not intended to directly compare Chizik to Ianello. I also looked at Chizik's background and saw that he had a spectacular background as an assistant coach. That wasn't relevant to anything I was trying to point out.
The salient point of my post is that, regardless of his sterling assistant credentials, Chizik was a miserable failure in his first head coaching job at Iowa State even though Iowa State had winning records two years before he arrived and the year immediately after he left.
Auburn fans apparently didn't think much of his spectacular assistant background. They focused on his miserable failure as a head coach at Iowa State, and went bonkers when Auburn hired him.
But the really relevant point of my post is how funny it can be to watch fans get all wound up in protest over a new head coach they think can't do the job when they really don't know how good the coach can be given the right conditions.
I'm glad to see that GP1 got the point I was trying to make.
Dave, my point is that Icoach doesn't have the background to be able to turn things around. Chizik may not have been successful at Iowa State, but he was a proven winner and had been around winning programs. Icoach has been with loosing programs his whole Career, its part of who he is. There is no way he is going to loose his job, no matter how poorly the team performs. We are stuck with him for the next few years, so I hope he has some kind of plan.
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so what does everyone think now? in the poll that was started on sept 11 over %50 said that we should keep him around. After all of the embarrassing losses in which we were never even close, what do you think?
Not to burst your bubble here, but there are over a million reasons why Icoach will be here for the rest of his contract. He is not going anywhere.
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As a recent follower of this site, I have to tell you that your sense of humor has me LMAO this morning. As we are all very disgusted with the current state of Akron Football which is obvious, your comments here have at least given me some small amount of joy to at least have a good laugh this morning! It does make light of an otherwise terrible situation.
Humor is a good way to help maintain sanity in an otherwise depressing situation.
Here's a funny one. I happened to be watching some of the Auburn game last night as the Tigers were beating up on Mississippi to maintain their perfect record and #1 BCS ranking. The announcers were talking about how passionately Auburn fans were against hiring current head coach Gene Chizik. They showed an old video clip of Chizik arriving at the airport to accept Auburn's head coaching position. Fans were going nuts holding up insulting signs, giving him the thumbs down and loudly booing as the aircraft touched down. It was hilarious in light of Auburn's performance this season under Chizik.
Chizik had two years of head coaching experience before being selected by Auburn to return the school to football prominence. His record at Iowa State in his only two years as a head coach was 3-9 the first year and a worse 2-10 the second year, including 0-8 in the Big 12. Two years before Chizik arrived at Iowa State, the Cyclones had a winning record. The year after Chizik left for Auburn, Iowa State had a winning record. Chizik obviously proved himself at Iowa State to be a loser as a head coach. How in the heck could the Auburn selection committee have ever picked such a loser?
In his first year at Auburn, with higher level players than he had at Iowa State, he coached the Tigers to an 8-5 record. This year, only his second at Auburn, he has the Tigers on top of the BCS standings. The Auburn fans now love the man they initially hated when they underestimated his potential based on his early head coaching record. It's funny now to watch video of how Auburn fans welcomed Chizik at the airport.
Seriously Dave, trying to compare the coaching credentials of Ianello to Chizik is like comparing apples to oranges. Chizik was a top assistant and D-coordinator at Winning programs before he was head coach at I-State. Weak Dave, really Weak.
His initial full-time coaching job was as the defensive ends coach at Middle Tennessee State University. He served in this capacity from 1990–1991. In 1990, the Blue Raiders won the Ohio Valley Conference championship. His next assignment was at Stephen F. Austin, serving as their linebackers coach from 1992–1995. SFA advanced to the Division I-AA semifinals in 1995.[3] He was then promoted to the defensive coordinator role, which he held from 1996–1997. He then served as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach for Central Florida from 1998–2001.While at Central Florida in Orlando, Chizik frequently visited practice sessions of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers studying the Bucs' defensive scheme developed by then-Bucs head coach Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and linebackers coach Lovie Smith.[5]
Chizik later employed a very similar scheme at Auburn, where he served again as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach from 2002–04. During this time, he had some of the greatest successes of his career to date. He coached in three bowl games, the 2003 Capital One Bowl, 2004 Music City Bowl, and 2005 Sugar Bowl. His 2004 defensive unit led the country in scoring defense, giving up 11.3 points per game,[6] and the total defense ranked 5th, which is the same ranking the 2003 team recorded.[7] He garnered the 2004 Broyles Award, which is given each year to the top assistant coach in the nation. The 2004 Auburn Tigers football team finished 13-0 that year, won the SEC title, and defeated Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl. It placed second in the final AP and Coaches polls.[8]In 2005 he was hired by Texas Longhorns to serve as their co-defensive coordinator, assistant head coach, and linebackers coach.[9] During his time with the Texas Longhorns, the team won the 2005 NCAA Division I-A national football championship by defeating USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl.
For two years, Ianello was tight ends coach at the University of Wisconsin, when he then moved to the University of Notre Dame to be receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.[3] Ianello took over at interim head coach after Notre Dame fired head coach Charlie Weis. Ianello was coach at Notre Dame until Brian Kelly was hired -
Had a chance to stop by, it was definitely a nice event. Best "meet the team" night they've ever done.
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(Edited and accepting of my place in the ZN Hall of Shame
)Thanks for seeing the light!
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Columbus Northland standout PF Jalen Robinson has opened his recruiting back up after originally committing to Bob Huggins and West Virginia. He has an offer from the Zips.
It looks like he looking at Big 10 schools instead. He seems confused in this story
“Schools I’m considering are Wisconson, Iowa, Cincinnati, DePaul, Nebraska, Michigan and Xaiver,” said Robinson. “Wake Forest and Georgia Tech are in the piscture as well.”Robinson also made an unofficial visit to West Virginia a few weeks earlier and maintained the Mountaineers are still a school under consideration as well as anyone from the Big East.
“I do still plan to play in the Big East,” he added.
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Since I only have a little bit left, I'd rather not waste it on a lost cause.
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I have some magic dust that I sprinkled on the 50 yard line of the Rubber Bowl at the end of the 2004 season. It must have worked, because look what happened the next season. I still have a little left. Now all I need to do is get access to the field and maybe our fortunes could change again. I'm not joking.
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I keep seeing references made in the other threads, to a story about the rowdies(or at least some of them) being removed from the stadium yesterday? When I arrived, I was shocked that there appeared to be almost Zero students at the game.
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Our band really kicks #@%$!
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We know that "Can't"Coach hates the Rowdies...because why else would on tuesday night, when they're lining up at the outside of infocision for the zips soccer march vs Michigan, some guy comes oveer and tells them that we can stand on that side of the road because football practice is going on and we're "spying" on them...oh yeah...we really want to "spy" on an 0-8 football team instead of lining up for a rowdies march for the #1 team in the nation in men's soccer.
After watching Icoach on video, these clips seem appropriate.
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I miss Lee Owens.
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Harrison is a thug and many others agree. The guy is just another poster boy for Can't state athletics. ESPN Dirty Player
"A hit like that geeks you up," Harrison said. "It geeks everybody up -- especially when you find out that the guy is not really hurt -- he's just sleeping. He's knocked out, but he's going to be OK."It didn't geek Patti Drake up. She was a kind of surrogate mom for Cribbs at Can't State, where he was, believe it or not, a teammate of Harrison's.
"It sickened me," she says.
You know what would geek me up? Harrison out of the game. Because as much as I abhor the way he plays, I don't want the day to come, 10 years from now, when he starts suffering depression and slurred speech and all the other goodies that come with these massive crashes. Because no amount of sleeping is going to make everything OK then.
Not only that but I am really starting to wonder about Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin's judgment.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin defended Harrison, saying he's a "model" for young players to imitate. Oh, yeah, he's a peach. Fined $5,000 for slamming Vince Young into the ground. Fined $5,000 for unnecessary brutality against a Cincinnati Bengal. Had to go to anger management and undergo psychiatric counseling after being charged with assault on his girlfriend. Owned a pit bull that bit his son, the boy's mom and his masseuse. When's he running for Congress?Just like his buddy on the Can't State basketball team, he likes to mix it up on every play.
"If you watch the game film, (Harrison) was doing that to everyone on every play," Mack said Thursday. "People would be on the ground and he would try to spear them. There's a play on film where (running back) Peyton Hillis is tackled and he comes up and spears him. It's like you're being cheap, you're being dirtyBut using true Can't state logic, Harrison sums it all up.
Helmet-to-helmet hits involve two helmets. But when somebody asked Harrison whether he was worried about the long-term effects on his own brain, he scoffed. "That's the risk you take," he said.An answer that begs the question: What brain?
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Well, it's going on again tonight. Late night EST -- but prime time in the Hawaiian time zone. Also, one post that I made disappeared when I refreshed the thread. Server error?? I notice I've been the only member logged in the last two hours.
Most of us are asleep when you are prowling the forums.
'Z.I.P.' date='Oct 21 2010, 02:29 AM'
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suspend head-hunting harrison.
the NFL's mandatory removal of the game of Cribbs and Massaquoi rewards helmet to helmet headhunting and it's really stupid.
I understand the safety issues with concussions, but we already have pink-skirt rules in the NFL anyway. Harrisson should have been flagged on the first shot on cribbs, and ejected for the second shot. Two players removed from the game because of that crap.
Even some Browns call them clean hits.
Whats that saying? The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree?
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/r/23517483/detail.html
The mother of Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct Tuesday in Akron, Ohio.Harrison hasn't done anything wrong. I'm not sure what the referece to his mother has to do with anything.
I saw Harrison at a hockey game once. Between periods, he said hello to and took photos with anybody who asked. He isn't a bad guy, just a hardass....the kind of hardass any Browns fan would love to have on their team.
It looks like your wrong again.
http://www.ohio.com/sports/browns/105274173.html
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...mp;sportCat=nfl
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I predict that we will win some games we should lose and we will lose some games we should win. I predict that we will be playing at the Q for a trip to the big dance in March. Its going to be a great ride and I will enjoy it thoroughly.
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suspend head-hunting harrison.
the NFL's mandatory removal of the game of Cribbs and Massaquoi rewards helmet to helmet headhunting and it's really stupid.
I understand the safety issues with concussions, but we already have pink-skirt rules in the NFL anyway. Harrisson should have been flagged on the first shot on cribbs, and ejected for the second shot. Two players removed from the game because of that crap.
Even some Browns call them clean hits.
Whats that saying? The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree?
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/r/23517483/detail.html
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Looks like GP1 stumbled onto the fermented grape. He babbles like a brook. Wad he say?
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I agree that we need more WR, but I can't think of any position that we are strong at.
The d-line is a huge concern for me. Yes, we have depth today, but most of them are juniors. We have no separation in elegibility. In 2 years we will be starting an all freshman DL or close to it.
Bowers leaving is bad. He looked like a future stud. Hopefully Alexander returns to form next year.
We may already have the QB in Potts and D'Orazio(sp) that you are talking about.
Thin at LB, thin at safety, thin at OL and DL.
I don't care how good of a recruiter coach I supposedly is. If the team keeps playing like this, nobody will want to come here. To recruit you have to win. To win you have to have good recruits. It's the chicken and the egg logic.
I've been following this kid,Dylan Brumbaugh, this season. He looks like a player. He is tall and has good feet and quickness. He has a big frame and should be able to bulk up with no problem. He has a good motor and doesn't take plays off, he plays o-line also.
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I apologize... I guess I always post with the mindset that I'm talking to a bunch of grown men who have heard everything under the sun anyways, but I understand that it's in the best interest of the site to remain "family friendly." I'll try to do better.
Thanks, my 11 year old reads these boards.
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Delusional
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My Uncle played with Cliff and sent me a black & white autographed 8x10 for my birthday when I was little. I'll have to dig it up and scan it, maybe that will convince him to come to Akron.I remember watching his father, Cliff Stoudt, during his playing days at YSU.I did some research into dads record at YSU. He hold the records for most career starts, most rushing touchdowns by a QB, most interceptions for a career, most interceptions in a season. His record was 21-18, with 3 losses to the Zips, including a 24-3 loss his senior year.
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