Captain Kangaroo

I defy the apologists to top this one.

Then you need to agree wholeheartedly! Just frustrating to see this team take such a nosedive into the crapper. Hope somehow they perform some corrective action for these final two games. 50 soft floaters per game has proven to get us nowhere fast.

Those teams DO suck. Who else in NCAA D1 could these teams have beaten besides themselves or Akron? Our Tuesday game just got pulled from ESPNU? How tragic a commentary is that?

Capi was CSU, but Brown is a 100% Freshman Zips recruit. To your OSU point, Pittman was the OSU transfer, and he has had too many moments where he's lost his cool. I know Bowden sifts through transfers as well as he can. There was a transfer kid from Penn State that was penciled-in to start for the Zips as of mid-summer, then UA backed away from offering after a more-detailed background investigation. Thanks to Brookhart (off the books after this season) and Ianello, we need transfers. There's no other way to get back the "lost" Junior and Senior classes. I get that it's frustrating to watch your offense go 3-and-out all day long. But these guys can't freaking quit. They are playing the bottom-rung of the MAC programs. If you keep fighting, you'll have a chance at game's end. The only way you lose to these dregs is if you quit, or lose your attention to detail. The Zips of the past few weeks are simply going-through-the-motions. Chisholm's and William's energy we saw at Buffalo shouldn't have stood-out so much. You should see that kind of effort as commonplace. But it stood out because, inexplicably, during a bowl run, we lost our heart. This team needs to regain its early-season swagger. Ending on a 2-game win streak would be huge. And UMass and Can't suck. But at this time I really question if we could beat Howard again, let alone sucky MAC teams.

He was the one guy that looked like he wanted to win the game. I wish Capi or Brown had his heart, instead of quitting in the second half (when the game was still well in reach). It reminded me of a quote from Lee Owens years ago regarding his lethargic defense - "I might put Charlie Frye out there (on D)...at least he'd try to make a play!" I am tired of Pohl's touch-passes too. Everything out of his hand is a floater. Even his short passes look like someone trying to throw a dart at a dart board rocking back and forth trying to float one into the bulls-eye. The only decent half of offensive football I've seen in a month was from Woodson at Ball State. When he came in at game's end @ Buffalo, he played with a purpose and a tempo that at least made the Buffalo defense think (instead of easily reading everything and teeing-off). Play Woodson against UMass. Post-concussion Pohl is like the old gray mare...he ain't what he yousta' be.

I think it's interesting that we went from small guards like Dials/Joyce/Middleton/Roberts, to predominately big guards, and now we're returning to small guards.

You need a hair shirt. You come off as either being on the Bowden family payroll, or having a last name that rhymes with Fisterspill.

Keep in mind that Dave finds wallpaper paste a bit on the spicy side, Lee.

I think there will be more Zips fans in Charleston on the 20th than there will be at InfoCision on the 18th. It will be interesting to see if the Zips basketball team can hold USC to fewer points than the football team can hold UMass.

Getting him to sign was apparently not a slam-dunk

Hint - when he left, he shuffled.

I think that was my biggest disappointment of the night. Between Gladden, Cheatum, Jackson and the two Fr. guards, I was hoping to see some glimpse of "wow-factor." Instead, everyone had a pedestrian effort. It's early...we'll see how Friday goes.

It looked like a bunch of true and redshirt freshman playing without a coach. And that's what it was. Hopefully the youngsters catch on quickly, or Tree will blow a fuse in mid-December..

You could...but it would be a really poor argument. Frye will collect an NFL pension. Pohl will not sniff an NFL camp.

Then it certainly wouldn't have been fair for Bowden to put him in.

To these Elton Alexander points I can say the following: 1.) They are the same point. Looks like he's just trying to fill space. 2.) The only person who thought this Zips receiving corp was "one of the top receiving corps in the nation" was Elton Alexander. And I'll assume rocks of crack and a butane torch were somehow involved in the thought process. 3.) The only person who advertised the Zips WR's as "good" was EA. D'Orazio is good. LT Smith is ok. The rest are average-to-below average...and that's by MAC standards. Bowden needs to find some outside WR's, and pray that Alexander is something special at RB next year. We need offensive playmakers in the worst way.

It's played out. People need to take it to WebMD.com...this site is for discussing Zips athletics. At least there is now a dedicated thread to the subject, and the other threads won't get hijacked by it. Maybe this is the solution. Thanks JZ84.

Nope. Baseball and basketball. I played endless football as a kid. Last tackle football game was at age 26 in the local Thanksgiving "Turkey Bowl." Absolutely loved the game. Still do. But I was never hit by someone like James Harrison in his prime. That might have changed my love for the game. That all said - I am tired of the concussion conversation.

I don't know what topic I'm more tired of hearing...ebola or concussions. Probably concussions.

Sounds like good ref-razzing material for whatever's left of the AK-Rowdies.

I'm skeptical.

Bickley had a concussion last week. Don't know his status for this week.

Here are a few recruiting-related tidbits I recently stumbled across. Jacob Harrison, the 2016 QB recruit was offered early after a standout performance at the Zips summer Camp. Milwee apparently loves him, and Jacob likes the opportunity to be a passing QB in such an air-centric offense. Donterio Fowler and Jason Williams are both in Prep Schools and expected to enroll at UA next year. Matt Blaha, the 6' 4" 365 lb OL prospect recently spotted on the Zips sideline, is indeed walking-on with the Zips. Jerry Klue, the Medina/Northwestern DB...we hardly knew ye. He has already left the team. The "soft verbal" of Ronnie Hoggins is more porous than ever. Don't expect to see him in a Zips uniform. Shipman, Dixon, Dunkleberger and Jan Johnson remain solid verbals. The confirmed transfer list for the 2015 season includes: Jamal Marcus (Ohio State) TreVon Chapman (Ashland/Pitt) Larry Hope (Miami Fl) Rodney Coe (Iowa State) Donnell Alexander (Colorado State) Demarco Haynes (5' 8", 160lb WR - Northern Michigan) AJ Coney (Weber State) Travonte Junius is a 2015 grey shirt, as is K'von Wilson. Look for 6' 4" TE Josh McNeil at Tuesday night's BGSU game. This well-traveled, highly-recruited TE will be having an official visit with the Zips. Hopes are high that he'll be in the Blue and Gold next fall. BJ Bonner is another recruit high on the Zips list. Lunch time's over. Apologies up front for any typos. More updates will follow!

When "What's Kyle Pohl's status?" is considered a "tough question," I laugh.

It isn't a tough question. It is the most basic, elementary piece of information on the mind of every Zips football fan - Is Kyle Pohl healthy, and if so, when will he return? Why no mention of his health progress? Has he lost his job to Woodson? This is basic, basic stuff. If you are interviewing an NCAA Division 1 Head Football Coach you address this issue. Remember on Bewitched when Darrin #1 got replaced by Darrin #2? And everyone knew it was a different Darrin, but Samantha acted like it was the same guy? That's what I feel like...there's a new starting QB and everyone is pretending like nothing happened.