Captain Kangaroo

Reminder to self -- Corona and Corona Light (not me). Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse Shiner Black Lager Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale

The arena was packed for Lebron's St. V teams. Bring Akron a real winner, and people will sit on a bench for 2 hours. Go 10-6 in the MAC, and there aren't too many people who want to sit with their wife on a wooden bench on a Saturday night.

That's a nice complement. I appreciate it.

I'd probably wait until tomorrow morning. Sounds like you have a winner. JZ84 is correct - Seafood isn't as robust as pork or beef...if you marinate shrimp or scallops overnight, they'll turn to mush. 1/2 hour is all the marinating time it needs before going on the grill.

The team has added some more high-flyers to their roster in signing the top three finishers from the 2011 College Slam Dunk Contest: • Jacob “Hops” Tucker of Illinois College, the Slam Dunk Champion. At a mere 5-10, the Carlyle, Ill., native sports a 50-inch vertical leap, and his YouTube video of dunks that has seen well over four million views helped him get invited to the Slam Dunk Contest. Anybody seen that? Never heard of Iliinois College -- wonder what state it's in. I saw that slam dunk contest. The kid is an absolute freak...he jumps like a tick.

Further straying off the topic of Sconiers (why not...we're actually talking some football for once?)-- I hope Ianello brings in several JUCO's next season. We need "mature/seasoned" help at a lot of key positions. IF we want to win some games in 2012. If we are committed to The Process and wins don't matter...bring in 22 freshman and redshirt 'em all.

No. A 5 yard catch, with a 20YAC, looks like a "deep" 25 yard completion if you rely on the box score. Yes, I know it was a rhetorical question. A damn good one.

Request considered, and declined. There's no reason to delete the post. It is relevant to Zips athletics.

You look at statistics. I look at the game.

It isn't asking too much to see a D-1 QB throw a nice deep ball. You don't need to be Favre or Marino. Or thread the pass through a donut hole. LR8 hasn't thrown any decent deep pass this season. That lack of a deep threat hurts our offense. I don't care if he's throwing late...gets too much air under the ball...throws it too short...<insert whatever deficiency here>. He's shown no ability to stretch the defense thusfar.

Good generalization of the QB situation as it relates to the WR's. LR8 can evade a rush. He can get a 1st down with is feet...although he's no where near an Edelmann-type running threat. His short range passes are "ok." His arm strength is a few yards short of "ok." He gets balls swatted-down too much. Nicely's accuracy is suspect, but not any worse than LR8 has shown thusfar. He can't make any plays with his feet. But he stands tall in the pocket, and throws a nice deep ball. A few nice deep passes would really loosen-up the defense and help Chisholm's chances of busting some big runs. LR8 is Ianello's guy. There's no debate. But he's no better or worse than a 2010 Nicely. Just a completely different skill set.

John Carson - dead. Emmanuel Smith - dead. Hollingsworthless - jail That should elevate Hipsher to be the odds-on successor to Senderroff @ K.e.n.t.?

He and Russell were indistinguishable last season. Sconiers has elevated his game a bit, but Russell appears to have leveled-out. Too bad Suel isn't healthy...Sconiers/Suel wouldn't be a bad #1, #2 combo. Opportunity for Jarrod Dillard to earn some PT. He's getting better too.

FIU 41 Akron 16

And for Homecoming, Captain Kangaroo will be visiting the room where he took his first MUM class. Or, the room where I took Calc I for the 3rd time ("B+" on the 3rd try, baby!).

I predict we see 170 yards passing this Saturday. That's 510 feet!

McDonald kids have been huffing Sriracha down by the old abandon steel mill for years, Z.I.P.

Whenever the OU band is discussed, I'm compelled to take a short trip down memory lane...

I am in the camp that Nicely could be more-effective than Moore. I haven't given up on PN7. But - I also figure that beating that dead horse on the Internet would be embarrassing to PN7, and actually work against him ever seeing the field again. So I sit and see how the LR8 experiment plays out. And, I wonder if D'Orazio is any good.

The soccer team out-scored the Zips Tailgate Drinking Team last weekend. For shame... Next thing you know, Zach will be posting a poll calling for my Lot 9 ouster.

This has all been beaten into the ground in the past, but to really pack the JAR the Zips need to get on an early-season roll. And sustain it. Beat a BCS opponent. Start whipping the other opponents. Start the season 13-2...beat someone like West Virginia and/or VCU...beat CSU...that gets butts-in-seats. "Nice" seasons, where we beat no marquee opponents and have 4 to 7 MAC losses are proven to get us 3,500 butts-in-seats for about everyone except K.e.n.t. That's just the way it is.

@ BigZip - There are more people in my office cubical than there are at an actual game in Akron.

I don't see all that many fans in their stands @ halftime? Poor Flag Line play. Hopefully the Flagger second-from-far-right was a sub?

While I don't have a marinade recipe (I usually just go with a feel), I would suggest any recipe that has olive oil, lime juice and hot pepper as a gauge. Add some sugar or honey, garlic powder and salt to Johnny's three ingredients above, and you are in good shape. If you have no lime, go with a vinegar. My hot pepper choice is Sriracha.

The bar for a "signature win" has certainly been lowered. But FIU is a solid team that won a bowl game vs. a MAC program last December, so I will bestow the "signature win" moniker upon them. The truth is...we will be an underdog in every game we play for the remainder of this season (maybe K.e.n.t. is a pick'em), and for all of the upcoming 2012 season too. Any D-1A win is a signature win. I don't see Moore doing anything but 50% and 200yds. Unless we're down 40, like Cincinnati. Then he can put up some respectable 4th quarter stats and give the faithful's Kool-aid Bong™ some fluid. If Moore is any good, FIU is a break out game for him. We have a chance. If he's Moore-of-the-Same, we get waxed.