Captain Kangaroo

Not too shabby.

But that's just life in Akron... We lost CJ Mizell early in the season...arguably our most notable 2013 recruit...and his absence was a complete mystery for multiple weeks. Could you imagine at Ohio State if their #1 recruit disappeared for weeks and his whereabouts were never mentioned? Years ago I used to meet with Brookhart's staff. They were very open to discuss anything. Ianello - the polar opposite. Maybe I'll start that back up again. Bowden's guys seem to be foreword-thinking enough to understand our site can be a plus to the program.

The assertion that we're in some sort of recruiting peril is laughable. Bowden didn't get the HC job at UA until late December, and had a solid Year #1 recruiting class. Year #2 added a ton more talent. Now he has 7 kids committed in early November of Year #3, and people fret? Seriously? And the people that whine about the local HS kids...give me a break. We have Grice, Bickley, Brumbaugh, Pratt...Lane, Pittman and Moore will be playing next year...we do fine locally. And the kids from Florida and southern Ohio are panning out just fine. Pennsylvania too. Fretting over Zips recruiting in November is flat-out insane. Fretting over not getting local kids is worse. What has Bowden done, or not done recruiting-wise, to not have faith in the guy? The internet recruiting sites generate nothing but a sea of Chicken Littles.

The latter. Also - getting the ball up the court quickly and not letting the offense stagnate is a problem with a sub-par PG. A great point guard is unselfish and pass-first, but he's a threat to score if the defense slacks-off. With a great point guard, the remainder of the offense works to get open because they know he'll get them the rock. Our present "true" point guards are not a threat to score. And the opposing D can clog the paint in the half-court. And when the ball is tossed down low, there's no threat of kicking it back to the PG for a 3. That was a real strength/threat of Abreu. He kept the D honest. You contend that our roster has no high-major talent. True. But we are as loaded and anyone with high mid-major talent. Except at point guard. That is hurting us against teams like VCU and St Marys. Teams we should not be getting rolled by 20 - 40 points as we complete decade #1 of the KD Era. How would I address this issue? I make Diggs THE point guard, immediately. Give him 25...maybe even 30 minutes per game exclusively at the point. Diggs is our best ball handler, and he is a legit threat to drain the three if left open. He's also our most creative passer. What needs to change is - Diggs needs to put his wing mentality in the garbage can for the remainder of the season. He can't be the isolation guy that relies on dribble-penetration so heavily. There, he simply turns the ball over too much. Every time down the court he needs to think "pass first." If he can embrace that mentality, things will open up everywhere. The crappy Boston Celtics, who jettisoned hall of famers Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, have now won 4 straight. They beat Miami, in Miami, a couple nights ago. They are winning because Brad Stevens handed the point guard reins to Jordan Crawford, a guy with a career reputation as an out-of-control gunner But Stevens recognized he was the team's best passer. He's longer than most point guards. And his ability to drain an open outside look keeps the opposing team's D honest. [side Note - I realize most of you don't follow the Celtics, but if you click on the link and read the embedded column from a Zips/Abreu/Diggs point of view, I think the correlation between that, and the Celtics/Rondo/Crawford situation makes it applicable and interesting.] The Zips need Diggs as their #1 point guard. Not as a "hobby," but as his primary position. Diggs needs to eschew a few shots per game in lieu a few assists, for the overall team good. There is no other PG option with the upside such a move offers.

NIU 48 BSU 23

How'd it go against VCU? @BigDog and @Momager can split the point guard duties against MAC teams and the Zips still win. This thread is about upper-tier competition.

Then who is our point guard? I haven't seen enough of Evans to know one way or the other if he can run the point. I hope he can. But if he can't, our situation is way closer to "West Virginia Part II" than you might like to admit.

After watching the Coastal Carolina game, the St Mary's match up is definitely a concern. Point guard may be worse than I feared. Diggs? His return was exciting on many levels, but any new-found ability to run the point was conspicuously absent. Anything beyond spot duty (maybe 5-8 minutes per game) does not bode well. Evans? Meh. We'll see if he gets acclimated to the D1 game soon. He's our best chance. But he didn't show much in his D-1 debut. Betancourt? He improved his conditioning and tattoos in the off-season, but not much else. Shaky defense, shaky ball handling, and no offense. Ibitayo? He's the same guy as year 1 and 2. The Conyers Award can be placed back in the closet. Harney? I'm sure he tears up Betancourt and Ibitayo in practice (when running the point), but St Marys is a different story. Also - I'd like him a lot better if he'd quit shooting the three. Stay around the glass, Nick. There were times Saturday when I thought this Zips team was as good as I'd ever seen. They reminded me of the old K.e.n.t. teams of the early 2000's. But those spurts came from the pressure D and fast breaks. Once the Zips tired, then Coastal would rally hard. And as deep as our bench appears to be...without any significant production and leadership from the point we will struggle against the elite opponents. How ugly was it when Coastal pressed us? And their press wasn't anything special. Hope KD can figure it out. Hope Evans' improvement is on a fast track. We're 80% of the way towards being a legit tournament-advancing team.

We never win at Buffalo.

My favorite was Leikeim Dunkle Weisse. Every sip was better than the previous one. Keener: You've drank around 200 different beers in the last 8 weeks alone! You're a Casanova of Fermentation...there's NO WAY you'd ever settle down and "marry" 1 beer!

Did any Rowdies steal the Penn State uniforms prior to the game?

Next year there will be roughly 32 minutes/game freed-up based upon Diggs' graduation. But, Dambrot will likely use his one available scholarship to bring in a point guard, and that kid will likely eat into a good chunk of those 32 minutes. So...add in Ibitayo's 4 minutes per game...and we'll have three redshirts vying for a handful of those newly-available minutes against a boatload of Juniors and Seniors. I don't see the 2013-14 redshirt kids getting appreciable court time until 2015-16. Unless of course, someone really underachieves this season. The 2014-15 Cheatham/Forsythe "battle" for PT will be interesting. Depending upon Pat's early motor, it might even occur this November? We'll just have to sit back and watch how it all plays-out.

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Edit completed. Which beer did everyone like the best?

Please not 10am, please not 10am, please not 10am....

He's the healthiest guy in the history of college football ever to have needed to sit out an entire season, yet played in every quarter of every game for an entire season. Dalton Easton's loss is our gain.

Bowden has signed some great recruits despite a selling point of "Three Consecutive 1-win seasons." And in year one, he had all of maybe 5 weeks to recruit? Now that we are officially out of the "dregs" column, I can't wait to see his Signing Day commits!

+1 I've seen QB's play hurt. Pohl may be dinged-up, but no more so than any other QB's in week 10. He had several strong runs...designed runs...over the last two games. You don't draw up such plays if your QB is seriously injured. Paraphrasing Bowden on this week's Coach's Show - "Jordan Lynch gets hit harder and more often than anyone in the nation. And he doesn't complain. It's football. You're always going to be a little hurt."

It's not like he'd be a non-qualifier. He still practices with the team. I doubt he'd do anything but dramatically improve his physical condition.

1 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon 2 21st Amendment Back in Black 3 3 Floyds Alpha King 4 3 Floyds Apocalypse Cow 5 3 Floyds Artic Panzer Wolf 6 3 Floyds Brian Boru Irish Red 7 3 Floyds Dreadnaught 8 3 Floyds Gumballhead 9 3 Floyds Jinx Proof 10 3 Floyds Moloko 11 3 Floyds Pride and Joy 12 3 Floyds Robert the Bruce 13 Abita Lager 14 Abita Purple Haze 15 Amstel Light 16 Anderson Valley Steinber 17 Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Ale 18 Atwater Detroit Pale Ale 19 Augustijn Triple Ale 20 Augustiner Munchen 21 Avery IPA 22 Avery While Rascal 23 Ayinger Bräu Weisse 24 Beck’s Sapphire 25 Bell's Java Stout 26 Bell's Porter 27 Bell's Special Double Cream Stout 28 Black Box 2012 IPA 29 Blue Moon Rounder Belgian-Style Pale Ale 30 Boddingtons 31 Boulder Planet Porter 32 Boulevard Bully! Porter 33 Boulevard Dark Truth Stout 34 Boulevard Pale Ale 35 Breckenridge Avalanche 36 Brew Kettle 4 C's American Pale Ale 37 Brew Kettle Dark Helmet Schwazbier 38 Brew Kettle One Eye Jack Porter 39 Bud Light 40 Budweiser 41 Cellar Rats POC Pilsner 42 Coors (Banquet Beer) 43 Coors Light 44 Corona 45 Corona Light 46 Dale's Pale Ale 47 Dark Horse Kmita Kolsch 48 Dark Horse Thirsty Trout Porter 49 Dogfish Head Sixty One 50 Dogfish Head Theobroma 51 Dominion Oak Barrel Stout 52 Dragon Mead Final Absolution 53 Duvel Tripel Hop 2013 Sorachi Ace 54 Elevator Brewing 1810 Oktoberfest 55 Elevator Brewing Heiferweizen 56 Epic Imperial Pumpkin Porter 57 Fat Heads Oktoberfest 58 Fat Heads Oompa Loompa 59 Fat Heads Spooky Tooth 60 Flat 12 Half Cycle IPA 61 Flat 12 Hello My Name Is Amber 62 Flat 12 Pogue's Run Porter 63 Flat 12 Upside Down Blonde 64 Flat 12 Walk About Pale Ale 65 Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA 66 Flying Dog The Fear Pumpkin Ale 67 Fort Collins Brewery Dopple Bock 68 Fort Collins Brewery Maibock 69 Founders Dirty Bastard 70 Four Horsemen Hop Rush IPA 71 Four Horsemen Nugget Head Hoppy Wheat 72 Franzikaner 73 Full Pint Night of the Living Stout 74 Goose Island 312 75 Goose Island Christmas Ale (2009) 76 Goose Island Honkers Ale 77 Goose Island Sofie Saison 78 Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout 79 Great Lakes Alchemy Hour Double IPA 80 Great Lakes Burning River 81 Great Lakes Christmas Ale 82 Great Lakes Commodore Perry 83 Great Lakes Dortmunder 84 Great Lakes Lake Edmund Fitzgerald Porter 85 Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster 86 Great Lakes Nosferatu 87 Great Lakes Oktoberfest 88 Great Lakes Rye Of The Tiger IPA 89 Green Flash Double Stout 90 Green Flash Saison Diego 91 Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest 92 Harpoon Oktoberfest 93 Harpoon Pumpkin UFO 94 Heinenken Dark 95 Hobgoblin Dark English Ale 96 Hofbrau Hefeweizen 97 Hofbrau Oktoberfest 98 Hop City Barking Squirrel Lager 99 Hoppin Frog Amager Chocolate Wheat Stout 100 Hungry Bee Rehive Ale 101 Iron City Light 102 Jacko Travler Shandy 103 Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale 104 Keystone light 105 Killian's Irish Red 106 Kona Pipeline Porter 107 LaBatt Blue 108 Lager Heads Kilt 'Em All Scottish Ale 109 Lagunitas Hop Stoopid Ale 110 Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin 111 Left Hand Nitro Stout 112 Left Handed Polestar Pilsner 113 Leikeim Dunkle Weisse 114 Leikeim Kellerbier 115 Leikeim Weizen 116 Leinenkugel Summer Shandy 117 Leinenkugel's Hoppin' Helles 118 Loezn Boer (Sucked…was flat. Bad cork.) 119 Lost Coast Downtown Brown 120 Lvivske Minske 121 Magic Hat Circus Boy Hefeweizen 122 Maumee Bay IPA 123 Michelob Light 124 Miller High Life 125 Miller Icehouse 126 Mönchshof Kellerbier 127 Mooshacher Schwarze Weisse Dark Wheat 128 Mother Earth Dark Cloud 129 Mt. Pleasant Train Wreck Ale 130 Mythos 131 Natural light 132 Newcastle 133 North Peak Viscious Wheat IPA 134 Ohio Brewing Buckeye Blonde 135 Ohio Brewing Company Steel Valley Stout 136 Old Milwaukee Light 137 Ommegang Take the Black Stout 138 Orval 139 Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale 140 Oskar Blues Ten Fidy 141 Pabst Blue Ribbon 142 Peoples Mr. Brown Ale 143 Queen of the Night IPA 144 Red Hook Pumpkin Porter 145 Revolution Eugene Porter 146 Revolution Fistmas Christmas 147 Rince Cochon 148 Rivertown Pumpkin Ale 149 Rivertowne Old Wylie's IPA 150 Robinsons Iron Maiden Trooper 151 Round Barn Brewery Oronoko Cocoa Stout 152 Sam Adams Imperial Stout 153 Sam Adams Porch Rocker 154 Samuel Adams: Fat Jack 155 Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo 156 Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout 157 Schafly APA 158 Schafly Extra Stout 159 Schafly Oatmeal Stout 160 Schafly Porter 161 Schlafly Kolsch 162 Schlafly Pale Ale 163 Schlitz Malt Liquor 164 Sheaf Stout 165 Shiner Oktoberfest 166 Sierra Nevada Belgian Black IPA 167 Sierra Nevada Flipside Red IPA 168 Sierra Nevada Hoptinum 169 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 170 Sixpoint 3 Beans 171 Sixpoint Autumnation 172 Sixpoint Sweet Action 173 Sol 174 Southern Tier Harvest 175 Southern Tier Krampus 176 Southern Tier Porter 177 Southern Tier Pumking 178 Sprecher Black Bavarian 179 Stella Artois 180 Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale 181 Stone 17th Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA 182 Stone RuinTen 183 Stone Smoked Porter 184 Stone Suede Porter 185 Stoudt's Oktoberfest 186 Stroh's 187 Sun King Osiris Pale Ale 188 Sun King Sunlight Cream Ale 189 Sun King Wee Mac Scottish Ale 190 Sweetwater 420 191 Sweetwater Blue 192 Thirsty Dog Barktoberfest 193 Thirsty Dog Cerberus 194 Thirsty Dog Citra Dog 195 Thirsty Dog Old Leghumper 196 Thirsty Dog Rail Dog 197 Thirsty Dog Siberian Night 198 Three Barrel Pemba Sherpa 199 Trappistes Rochefort 10 200 Trappistes Rochefort 8 201 Triton 4-Barrel Brown 202 Triton Deadeye Stout 203 Triton Magnificent Amber 204 Triton Railsplitter IPA 205 Triton Sin Bin 206 Troegs Dream Weaver Wheat 207 Troegs Mad Elf 208 Troegs Nugget Nectar 209 Tucher Helles Hefeweizen 210 Two Brothers Resistance IPA 211 Tyranena Bitter Woman IPA 212 Tyranena Chief Blackhawk Porter 213 Tyranena Headless Man Amber 214 Tyranena Rocky's Revenge Brown 215 Tyranena Sheep Shagger Scotch Ale 216 Tyranena Stone Tepee Pale Ale 217 Uinta Black Lager 218 Uinta Dubhe Imperial Black IPA 219 Uinta Hop Notch IPA 220 Uinta Punk’n Harvest Pumpkin Ale 221 Unibroue Maudite 222 Upland CV Pre-Prohibition Lager 223 Veldensteiner Zwicklbier 224 Warsteiner Premium Verum 225 Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen 226 Weihenstephaner Korbinian 227 Weihenstephaner Pilsner 228 Widmer Bros Milk Stout 229 Zatecky Gus

Obviously he had a great Momager.

Anyone know why the Zipper was removed from the helmet for the K.e.n.t. game?

Several years ago K.e.n.t. State decided to crack down on tailgating at Dix Stadium. I girl I worked with...K.e.n.t. alum...went to the Flashes homecoming game and was arrested in the parking lot for open container (beer in a plastic cup). She will never again return to the K.e.n.t campus. Nice job Can't State. Arresting alumni at Homecoming. Moral of the story - Police and Universities can be stupid with regards to tailgating. Especially @ K.e.n.t.

I have to believe it is a big "recruiting" game. It will be as electric a crowd as we'll have all season at home, and a win will be a blast to celebrate.

AWESOME!!!!!