Captain Kangaroo

Wow...I'm in the Top 0.1%? Sweet.

Hope Cventinovic wakes up from his walking coma, or the Zips will get thoroughly embarassed on the court. Which would add to the embarrassing string of off-the-court embarrassments. Which is getting old.

Bad, if you are Ole Miss. Good if you are PN7.

If we were hiring Neuheisel, I'd agree with you. I look at Johnson's complete football resume, and it is pretty impressive.

No way Ole Miss wins any QB battle where Ianello isn't involved. It's like thinking Bryan Hipsher would start at any basketball program where his dad wasn't the head coach. Either Nicely is the QB in 2012, and we run the spread. Or some new JUCO is our QB.

He's been involved with professional football for over 20 years. It would be the biggest gift in the history of Zips athletics if he chose to return to Akron to coach Zips football. I don't see an NFL coach having any difficulty convincing high school kids to play for him. Or convincing blue chippers that, if they follow his lead, he can give them the shot at the NFL that all D1 kids think they have. A former professional quarterback and coach, coaching against the peanut-brained small-timers of the MAC? It is a slam-dunk. Take Mike Johnson asap. Mondo props to Gerry Faust for getting Johnson to even consider being our HC.

I'm inclined to agree with you, Dave. In fact, I think I already did FYI - I deleted Dave's post today where he reminisced about Hipsher.

Wow, that was some extensive search, good thing they brought Tressel and everybody else in. How long does it take to type in z-i-p-s-n-a-t-i-o-n-.-o-r-g? End of search. No wonder he has time to answer emails. The right hire is the right hire. Props to TW. As Lee Corso would say: "No so f@*king fast, my friend." Props for what? I will save my props, if any, for the hire. And I also will want to be certain he actually had something to do with the hire. I have a feeling Proenza is only letting him do YouTube Videos (granted, his specialty) and answer fan email. And cut paper snowflakes with round-tip scissors.

UMass and Memphis coming to the MAC in hoops? Take another toke...

Only one pick!

Enough with bashing of KD's player decisions. Whomever said "The KD Haters will come out" was absolutely right. Memo to the ZipsNation Sarcastically Impaired (hereafter abbreviated to ZSI) - There is an element of sarcasm above.

Thursday December 8th is your day to pick who you think will be the next UA Head Football Coach. I am giving everyone a free Paul Winters selection. Thus every ZipsNation member can say "I told you so!" if Winters is hired. Please enter your pick within this thread. No further explanations are necessary. I pick: Narduzzi

Historically...because The University of Akron has no clue how to run a successful D1-A football program.

We have Ole Miss. We don't need a QB.

BTW - Thanks to you I can't get this f-ing song out of my head today!

The post-game interview of that Buffalo game was the best radio of all time. It went something like: "#&%# #&%# Ball....#&%# #&%# Bosley....#&%# #&%# Andrick.....#&%# #&%# referees!!!"

Fordham is Moorhead's alma mater.

#1 from Kirtland is a player. Lightning quick. The combination of #1 and #34 for Kirtland was devastating. Tough to tell if #34 has the foot speed to be a D1 player due to his bum ankle. But he passes the eye test. Big, tough kid and a winner too. And that's what we need on the Zips.

Other than Walt Harris, has any D1-A coach ever been fired 2 years into a 5-year contract?

Terry Pluto would not be a happy camper.

IMO - this game is HUGE, if anyone cares about getting butts in the JAR over the course of the next month. A win over CSU will get us a lot of nice local press, and cheer-up a fan base reeling from the post-Mississippi State string of "L's." Another 20-point loss would be a major, major disappointment.

I don't see keeping our 3 or 4 commits as a major priority. And I don't see Ianello dropping from HC to Recruiting Coordinator. Beyond that, I can't see a new HC wanting the old HC on his staff. Unless we get Charlie Weiss.

And if your job is college athletics, shouldn't TW, or, for that matter, any other D-1 AD, pretty much already know who the consensus hot commodities are? Look at our last football HC hire. Do you really think Wistercill has a pulse on today's hot coaching commodities? $50,000 to keep TW out of the search loop would be the best 50k the University ever spent.

I could see Wistercill at the podium...bragging about how he "stole" YSU's 9-13 coach.