Captain Kangaroo

Good for you.

While not Zips-related, I though this was an interesting college football article. Whoda thunk Randy Moss' kid would have his head screwed on straight? Kudos to him...wish his character wasn't an anomaly nowadays. Turns out any temptation to play elsewhere was no match for an increasingly scarce characteristic in college sports: loyalty.

I’m sure he thought the same thing. When you enter the portal there’s a decent chance there isn’t a pot of gold at the end. Sometimes it’s a smelly old CSU jersey.

Wonder 4…5…6 years after the Arth era how many kids graduated, and if they didn’t, who it reflects poorly on? This is a good litmus test for our new AD. Will he have a knee jerk response and be swayed by collegejocksniffer.com’s click bait and memes? Or will he perform a real investigation and make meaningful changes? If tomorrow he says “Hey, I didn’t hire that coach” be very afraid.

If this was 2014, I get it. But nowadays...how do you even calculate who is credited for a player's graduation after they've been at 4 different schools? We get 40 new kids every season and the NCAA is complaining about them not graduating? Who knew? When Joe signed on, at his press conference he stated "I don't just want kids to get degrees...I want my kids to get meaningful degrees (not just major in eligibility)". That noble goal lasted about 47 minutes, then the portal concept blew up and put the kibosh on any football-academic fantasies. The bulk of today's players are no longer in college for an education. It's a job. Their goal at UA isn't to get a degree, it's to perform good enough to get noticed by a bigger program. Along with the training tables being cut last year, was the academic support staff reduced too?

I overheard Guthrie designed our OV background? Just a rumor tho...

3rd school in 2 years?

Rats. If the Zips played the Baha Mar Rumrunning Jerk Chickens it would have been so cool.😢

I expect to be adding Baha Mar to this list in November.

Try again.

LT Smith Start watching the video at the 10:25 point -

6’ 6”, 340 lbs. Zips have had 3-4 serviceable OLs in any of the past few seasons. They should be 2-deep with options this year. We should have a legit team and a manageable schedule this season. Gotta at least go 6-6. I’m feeling 7-5, which is insanity. I’ll make my stone cold lock prediction after I see an August scrimmage or two.

Much better fit for him than Ole Miss.

This is about as excited as I can get over a back up QB. He was a really impressive player out of HS. He will be a big improvement over Bullock. Strong, athletic kid. His dad is probably the most accomplished UA football player ever, if you look at the breadth of his overall football career. He played in the USFL and has coached high level positions at P5 and NFL staffs. His name usually pops up whenever the Zips decide they need a new HC (about every 3 years) He came to the Zips from Arizona State while I was at UA. He used to wear a burgundy corduroy jacket around campus that was swag from being on Arizona State's Rose Bowl team. Great player. To be eligible to play for the Zips in the fall I recall Mike Sr. had to take something insane like 24 credit hours over the summer, and he did it.

Watch that YouTube video at your own risk. The "reporter" extends what should be a 1 minute and 30 second story into a 30 minute diatribe. Funny to see former Zip Zach Gibson trying to catch on with the Orange. Akron to Georgia Tech to Georgia State to Syracuse?

I guess Purdue was out of scholarships?

Time will tell. Guthrie was a joke that did nothing at UA but place an Arby’s blight on it that probably can’t be scrubbed away for a decade. And he bamboozled many into believing he was better than the sack of garbage he was. Even after he shirked his promises made to UA and bolted for Fordham some still make excuses for his profoundly forgettable tenure. The only positive from Guthrie is Fordham basketball’s probation. Karma is a bitch. Go Goodrich. If you focus on getting the football program to respectability instead of joining the “I wouldn’t have built that stadium” unimaginative losers, you will have piqued my interest. We’ll build off of that.

You sell yourself WAY short.

Probably best not to hold the event if it’s just going to be a practice. The spring game is yet another casualty of the portal. Yet another cool thing about college football relegated to the history books…

This is more a practice than a scrimmage. Not like the past 2 Saturdays so far. Bummer.

Shor must be short for Shorts. He’s at the spring game but in his #75 jersey and sneakers.

Tailgating with my wife, The Unluckiest Woman in the World, inside my pick up truck as the rain pours down in Lot 10.

I was just told - "Outside if the weather is ok. Inside if it's not." Since the practice facility is right next to the field, it can be a near-game-time decision. Postponement or cancellation isn't on the table.

I haven’t seen anything official, but if the weather is bad it’ll be played indoors. Or maybe they postpone until tomorrow.