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2 hours ago, 72 Roo said:
MD, no confusion here. If there are no smart-assery comments then it clearly is not from my friend Zipmeister. He is incapable of not tweaking the reader's nose. We played on the same Zip team years ago and I have been tweaked many times. It's his way of showing love.
He's mellowing out in his old age.
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1 hour ago, Dr Z said:
Someone should make a poll.
Sounds like a good idea.
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12 hours ago, LZIp said:
Per @Blue & Gold' list on the first page, we currently have:
QB: 1 Jennings (HS)
RB: 2 Wiley (T), Kellom (HS)
WR: 1 Jacquez-Louis (T)
TE: 1 Banks (T)
OL: 1 Banes (T)
DL: 3 Robinson (T), Harper (T), Jones (T)
LB: 1 Terry (T)
DB: 2 Threatt (T), Martin (T)
Note I removed Dixon and Leopold. Their twitters or 247 may show as committed, but I don't see it happening based on the other recruits no longer having offers. How many more transfers do we think we get/need? I'd thinks something like 1 upperclassman QB, 1-2 OL, 1 WR, maybe 1 LB and 1 DB? With all of that, we're at 18 scholarships. Leaves room for up to 14 additional freshman. Something like 2 WR, 2 OL, 2 DL, 2 LB, 3DB is only 11. The new rules along with where the roster currently really gives the staff a chance to significantly improve this roster in one offseason, even with them getting started late.
Probably no more than 10 freshman total. Expect JoMo to hit the transfer portal hard again after NLI day when more players jump in after seeing the possibility of loosing PT to talented newcomers at their current school.
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10 hours ago, kreed5120 said:
I wonder what the MAC protocol is? How many positive players before they cancel?
You need to have 7 healthy players.
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I would expect to see between 15-20 transfers and 5-7 highschool seniors signed in this class. The majority of the transfers on the defensive side.
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53 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:
Good points, but as an aside, I'm not sure GT is actually there for some of those pressers. It sounds to me like some kind of speaker phone at work.
Pretty sure that COVID protocols established by UA and his employer have prevented him from attending the pressers and many games.
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The Record courier does a better job covering KSU womens BB than the ABJ does covering the Zips mens team.
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13 hours ago, NWAkron said:
I listened to some of his questions to Groce after the game. I think GT is rude. I don't like how he calls him "John" instead of "Coach." You know Groce is biting his tongue and wants to respond, "What an effing stupid question, GEORGE!"
Groce is a very personable guy and I doubt he finds it disrespectful that George calls him John instead of coach. I'm just a dumb fan and I call him John in our conversations. I think he is just happy that there is at least someone from the local paper there to ask him questions no matter how dumb they may be.
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I would love to see March Madness become a play in tournament this year. Since so many games are going to be cancelled just stage a tournament like they do for highschool. Just start with every team in each conference playing a single elimination tourney and just carry it through to the final 4.
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1 hour ago, TheZipCat said:
Don't need to remember every intricate idea to have (and advocate for) a basic level of competency in understanding/seeking out information. You don't have to remember what Red-Queen Hypothesis is in Evolutionary theory to understand the idea it describes. It's okay to not remember too. What's downright depressing is when people arrogantly assert they know more than those who actually do. And it's embarrassing when they are University of Akron alumni. Ala @Hilltopper's dissuasive comment.You're trying to hard. You're ascribing all kinds of things to my statements that just aren't there. I guess it's just the way I live my life that I have this optimism that overrides the fear mongering that is so prevalent today. Keep it up though, it's entertaining.
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8 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
Article by Brad Bournival. Might we have a new Zips' beat writer? 🙏🙏🙏
GT always takes some vacation time off at the end of the year. He will be back soon
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1 hour ago, TheZipCat said:
And?Just because something will be with us forever doesn't mean you should/can treat it trivally, especially in the initial phases of novel viruse's adaptation to the human immune system and our immune system to it. There's a saturation point to adaptation which you hope to reach a stable, predicable, rate of mutation. This is why H1N1 (which is the chief culprit for the 1918 pandemic) is not as deadly today. It reached its mutable saturation point to which there's only a limited scope for which it can mutate, and our immune system has a wider ability to adapt to those mutations...and we learned how to treat patients to increase survivability. With the 1918 pandemic it wasn't the virus that killed you, it was your autoimmune cytokine shock that killed you. You literally drowned in your own autoimmune response of trying to fight the virus. If given enough time, most people fought it off. The problem was...they drowned long before that could happen.
The original projections back in February 2020 based on the rate of mutation, to reach a point of normalcy was at the earliest 2022...latest 2025. We're right on track for that projection. Huh, it's almost as if science works or something.Thank you Dr Fauci! It's an honor to have you as a contributing member of ZN.o!
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On 12/29/2021 at 9:02 AM, TheZipCat said:
Please stop comparing SARS-CoV-2 to influenza and flu-like viruses. It's not even close to a similar comparison. Rhinoviruses, RSVs, and Parainfluenza viruses are responsible for "the common cold" and comparing them to Coronaviruses is laughably ignorant. Like, not even the same phylogenetic branches of the viral clades, or in how they interact with our cells and how the immune system develops antibodies for them.
Having similar symptoms does not equal similarity.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/health/covid-omicron-lung-cells.html
This virus is going to be with us forever. Forgive me for hoping that Omicron becomes the dominant strain.
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1 hour ago, NWAkron said:
And now allegedly open the MAC against Ohio on 1/4. Groce clearly isn't getting it thru to his players that they need to think of their teammates and the program and be careful. Unbelievable. I think Toledo and Ball State didn't miss a game last year because of COVID on their team, not that it helped them much in March
MAC is still using the outdated Covid guidelines. Expect that to change soon.
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2 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:
Ugh, and the beat goes on.
....and largely unvaccinated.
Not really. I have multiple vaccinated employees that have caught Omicron. That includes me.
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2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
EDIT: it's behind a paywall 😞
Synopsis; You can't put a price tag on family.
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Omicron is basically a very contagious common cold. Most of the people who are filling the hospitals right now have Delta.
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1 hour ago, Zipmeister said:
I concur.
All those comfortable seats with backs and not a bad sight line in the house can get really irritating.
And it only cost Erving 2 of the 40 mill construction cost to get his name on it.
Cool people refer to it as the Nut House.
I'm sure if you came up with $2mil to help renovate the JAR Charles could get your name on something. Zipmeister Arena has a nice ring to it!
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JoMo will be calling his own plays. Money saved on not hiring an OC will be spent getting high quality assistants for other positions.
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38 minutes ago, Dr Z said:
Would be a nice transition to FBS football for JT.
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