Captain Kangaroo

Good to see the Zips open up the offense now that Kelly's in.

You extend the contract of the MAC East winning head coach.

Only getting worse...

Or not.

11 in the box stops Manny once, but you can't stop 'em twice!

Soooo conservative on offensive. Soooooo slow and confused on defense.

FAU is trying to clown the Zips. Need the Zips to get pissed off!

Davis is fired up tonight.

And FG kicker.

We gotta get a kicker that can put it in the end zone next season.

Can the guy that just got a 10 year contract extension lose his first post-contract game to a 22 point underdog?

I think it is the Zips who would need to ask Ohio State if they would be interested in hosting us. Ohio State would not seek-out the Zips for a game. They have enough options.

We aren't. They just decided to use our name.

Kent drops below.500 with a 12-point home loss to Northeastern.

CK kiss of death alert - NIU beating Marquette on FSN1 well into the 2nd half. Look for Marquette to go on a 20-0 run soon.

In the end, the Bracket Buster was a watered-down Bracket Buster. I think home-home games with the likes of MTSU, Oral Roberts, NDSU, Drake, Valpo...those are all possible if UA wants them, even without ESPN.

The upper-mid majors (VCU, Gonzaga, Nevada, Butler, Creighton, Wichita State type programs) began separating themselves from the mid-mid majors, and backed out. With most of the bracket-busting "Cinderella potential" programs gone, I think that killed ESPN's interest.

I miss the old "Bracket Buster" match ups.

MTSU and loyal, long-time coach Kermit Davis have built the mid-major basketball program we all hoped Keith Dambrot could have built at Akron. 25+ wins per year. Winning NCAA tournament games. They've already beaten Vanderbilt and Mississippi this year. Dambrot did a great job at Akron. Davis did a better one at MTSU.

I was thinking the same thing. As of today, Akron Football is preparing for a bowl game and it appears our key recruits are Tweeting that they'll be early signees. Kent hasn't played or practiced since we beat them a 3 weeks ago, and has no coach. Word on the street is Otterbein and Muskingum are poaching their recruits.

Update on Kent's Head Coach search

Beer sales at Toledo and BG

Per Groce's post game comments last week - "We know the possibility exists that E-man will be out of the game. Sayles and Kostelac need to get better. It's our job to make them better."

Stanford has slightly better talent than the Zips, but seemed to want the win more than the Zips. They played with aggression and a will to win the entire match. For the most part, the Zips played too mechanical and tepid. They never came close to matching Stanford's intensity. I don't mind losing to a better team, and that's what the Zips did tonight. They had an awesome season... just fell a little short of a National Championship. Not too shabby.

His name surfaces every so often in the "What ever happened to him..." category. Grad Assistant at 13-0 IUP. "Franco is joined on head coach Paul Tortorella’s IUP coaching staff by his younger brother Stevie, a graduate assistant coach who is working with the defense and handling assignments like putting together the scout team playbook for the IUP players. “He played with 70 percent of the current players, so he knows how to talk to these guys and he’s a nice go-between guy between the players and coaches,” Johnny Franco said of Stevie, a former all-state quarterback at Tyrone who started for three years as a safety at IUP after transferring there from the University of Akron. “He’s helped us a lot since he’s been in the system for so long.”