Captain Kangaroo

Zach, send this comment to Wistrcill. Seriously. It is very honest and factual. The AD would like to hear this and it is solid student opinion. If he doesn't give you a response then let me know and I will submit too.That's what we need...Zach to be Wistrcill's advisor.Shoot me now.

1.) Beer store directly across the street came in handy...couldn't say that for the Rubber Bowl lot. Learned never to let the wife pack the cooler ever again. Never, ever ever.2.) My son got a nice photo with Zeke, who remembered him from Summer basketball camp.3.) Great people tailgating...always the fastest 4-6 hours in the world for me.4.) K.e.n.t. seems to be horrible yet again.5.) Best field goal I've seem come off a Zips foot since 2009.

How would you rate our building process and project those thoughts into post 2012?We have torn whatever structure previously existed to the ground, but there is no visible evidence of any building yet. We're still sitting at rock bottom.

Boy, has the bar been lowered.For a 3rd-year soph, a sub-200 yard. zero TD performance doesn't wow me.

Week #2 Updated List!

Here's 11 observations for what looks to be another 11-loss season --1.) Nice tailgate weather. Great to see so many ZN.o members in the lot. The fragmented parking situation does make me pine a bit for the Rubber Bowl lot, however. I miss the mix of students and old farts partying along the fence, music blasting and all that jazz. It will never happen, but until the Zips can draw more than 10k consistently, filling Lot 9 should be a focus for UA athletics. Spreading out 7k people all across campus is a shame.2.) Were there even 7k at the game last night? By far, the saddest Opening Day crowd I've witnessed in my 28 year history in the Akron area.3.) I used the word "sad" a lot last night. I don't know that there's a more-appropriate word to describe how I feel watching the Zips play football. Jesus...we aren't even remotely competitive anymore. Week #2 is complete and I don't think the Zips offense has been in the Red Zone, let alone scored a TD. That is beyond pathetic.4.) 2.8 more years of Clayton Moore? Yippee. Did he look adequate at times? Sure. But give any D-1 QB 28 throws and there'll be a couple keepers. Overall, he's not dazzling anyone. And we need a dazzling QB.5.) Our OL is terrible. Run blocking, pass blocking...all bad. The only thing we seem to be good at are untimely penalties. Most of our OL is really young, so I didn't expect much this season. But that doesn't mean they aren't really bad. Conversely, man was Temple's OL good. They fired off the ball like a bunch of steamrollers. 6.) For the 2nd consecutive Saturday, our football Zips were outscored by our soccer Zips. The UA football staff should really be embarassed.7.) Suel is a player. He's the one offensive player on our team that can play D-1 football today. He needs to get the football in his hands 12-15 times per game. There's no excuse for him only having 4 catches...IF the Zips want to win some football games. If Ianello simply wants to make progress, get everyone some work, stay-the-course....then give Suel his 4 catches, and hand the ball off to Chisholm on every 1st down.8.) Temple Special Teams were awesome. They made multiple, absolutely vicious hits on kick coverage. And had several fantastic run-backs. The Zips special teams are no where near Temple's level. We stunk.9.) Several years ago, I was friends with a Zips OL (Owens era). He told me about the rift between offense and defense, where the O would ask the D "How many points do we have to put up this week to win? 50? Can you guys force more than 1 punt per game?" Now its the opposite. The defense never even gets to sit down before the O completes another 3-and-out.10.) Temple is really good. The Zips are really bad. Thus 41-3 was expected. But that doesn't mean it doesn't totally suck. Ianello is now 1-13. 1-14 after next week. And getting beat like a drum. Wonder if he had any angry post-game words for the Temple coach, who classlessly ran up the score calling a fake punt, up 28-3. 11.) I didn't like Ianello trotting Nicely out for 2 minutes of garbage time. BS move. PN7 did make some nice throws. Nice deep tosses...of course without #15 underneath them, there's no chance our other WR's would catch them. It appears we're going to be seeing a lot of LR8 until 2014. Yippee.Bonus: Hated the long line to enter the stadium. Longest line ever, for such a small crowd. We can't do anything right with InfoCision. We're still The Beverly Hillbillies. Massive beautiful mansion, with a handful of Hillbillies inside.Great to connect with all you Lot 9'ers. I'll update the beer list soon. As hoped, we took a big leap forward! Advancing the Beer List may be our only positive memory from the 2011 football season.

I reluctantly agree. Another phenomena that affects the small school kid now-a-days is open enrollment and transferring. 25 years ago, the best small-school kids played for their local school. Now many of the better small-town kids go to the nearest Catholic football machine to get exposure.I think the only caveat to small school kids being generalized as not-as-D1-ready as their bigger-school counterparts involves the Catholic Machine programs like Cardinal Mooney or Youngstown Ursuline. They are D-4 and D-5 by enrollment, but play at the high D-1 level.

I bet Barrett would rather spell Mattocks or Holmes than Ampaipitakwong.

Rembielak's situation seems to parallel Gary Waters?Great success at K.e.n.t. Moved up the ladder, and had moderate success. Got canned.Returns to NE Ohio and takes a downtrodden mid-major back to upper-tier mid-major status.

September Beers are Officially Complete! 1 -- Anchor Liberty2 -- Anchor Steam3 -- Anchor Summer Ale4 -- Becks Octoberfest5 -- Bell's Two Hearted Ale6 -- Black Jack Porter7 -- Boulder Hazed & Infused8 -- Breckenridge Autumn Ale9 -- Breckenridge Vanilla Porter10 -- Brooklyn Oktoberfest11 -- Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse12 -- Bud Light13 -- Budweiser14 -- Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale 15 -- Burning River IPA16 -- Christian Moerlein Lager17 -- Christian Moerlein OTR (over the Rhine)18 -- Columbus Pale Ale19 -- Corona20 -- Corona Light21 -- Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre22 -- Du Boucanier Red (Belgian Pale Ale)23 -- Flying Dog Classic Pale Ale24 -- Founder's Porter25 -- Franziskaner Hefeweizen26 -- Geary's HSA27 -- Geary's London Porter28 -- Geary's Pale Ale29 -- Geary's Summer Ale30 -- Goose Island Harvest Ale31 -- Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold32 -- Great Lakes Edmund Fitgerald Porter33 -- Great Lakes Elliot Ness34 -- Great Lakes Nosferatu35 -- Guinness Black Lager36 -- Harpoon UFO Unfiltered Pumpkin Ale37 -- Hoppin Frog Barrel Aged Boris Royale38 -- Hoppin Frog Double Pumpkin Ale39 -- IC Light40 -- Intercourse Blue Ball Porter41 -- Iron City Light MANGO42 -- Labatt Blue43 -- LaBatt Blue Light44 -- Lagunitas Pale Ale45 -- Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey46 -- Lefthand Polestar Pilsner47 -- Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat48 -- Litigation Lager49 -- Michelob Ultra50 -- Miller Genuine Draft51 -- Miller High Life52 -- Miller Lite53 -- Ohio Brewing Buckeye Blonde54 -- Ohio Brewing Cardinal Ale55 -- Ohio Brewing Verich Gold56 -- Paulaner Hefe-Weizen57 -- PBR58 -- Port Republic Lager59 -- Red Hook Copper Hook60 -- Red Hook Longhammer IPA61 -- Red Hook Pilsener62 -- Rogue Dead Guy Ale63 -- Sam Adams Boston Lager64 -- Sam Adams Irish Red65 -- Sam Adam's Summer Ale66 -- Saranac Adirondack Lager67 -- Saranac Black & Tan68 -- Saranac Black Forest69 -- Saranac Brown Ale70 -- Saranac IPA71 -- Saranac Pale Ale72 -- Shiner Black Lager73 -- Shiner Kosmos Reserve74 -- Shiner Oktoberfest75 -- Shock Top76 -- Sierra Nevada California Common77 -- Sierra Nevada Juniper Black Ale78 -- Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA79 -- Sierra Nevada Tumbler80 -- Sierra Nevada Weizenbock81 -- Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale82 -- Stone Levitation Ale83 -- Thirsty Dog Barktoberfest84 -- Wychwood Hobgoblin85 -- Yuengling86 -- Yuengling Black & Tan87 -- Bakalar Doppelbock88 -- Bud Light Lime89 -- Duvel90 -- Epic Brewing Imperial Red91 -- Fosters92 -- Heineken93 -- Heineken Light94 -- Hirter Pilsner95 -- Höfbraü Oktoberfest96 -- Magic Hat Hex Ourtoberfest97 -- Magic Hat HI.P.A.98 -- Magic Hat Humble Patience99 -- Magic Hat Number 9100 -- Michelob Amber Bock101 -- Modelo Especial102 -- Primator Maibock103 -- Rolling Rock104 -- Sam Adams Octoberfest105 -- Sapporo Reserve106 -- Sprecher Black BavarianCombined Weekly Totals --Week #1: 5Week #2: 42Week #3: 4Week #4: 36Week #5: 0 Week #6: 19

That's blazing fast enough for me.No Heisman's just yet for the kid with 13 carries for 26 yards.

Several seasons ago my tailgate group's theme was "100 Beers for 100 Years of Zips Football." We had to drink 100 different beers over the course of the season. I think we hit 100 by week 3, but it was a fun 3 weeks!I thought it would be fun to log all the different beers drank by Zips tailgaters this season, and keep count. The final number would give us something to shoot for in 2012, and beyond. Starting with Ohio State, please list the beer brand you drank (home and away game beers count). Beers must be drank in the parking lots, or inside the stadium. What you drank while listening to Frenchy doesn't count!Cornbread -- Can you do the honors of starting us off?Do we hit 300 as a group?Note - No duplicates! Once a Miller Lite is registered, it's off the board.

I don't know if it is safe to say Rossi isn't an "Alstott" until you see him run.

Why would you want two fullbacks as our backfield? Chisholm is one of our gamebreakers...we need speed, not plowhorses.Ever see Mike Alstott go into the endzone?I still haven't seen enough of Rossi to know if he's an inside-the-5 runner, but his stats show he's big and fast. I'm guessing he isn't a lumbering plow horse. We shall see...

The 9:30am baseball game puts me in a bind for pre-game cooking. We'll see how it goes...Based upon the Philly opponent, I think I will go make cheese steaks and soft pretzels, while Ohio's Pride plays in the background.

Can you tell that to Zach?

Golden was 9-4 in his 3rd year in the MAC. Temple was an Independent in 2006. So my original criteria stands.Golden also won 4 games in his 1st MAC year, after that 1-11 inaugural season. That's what I expect of Ianello. At minimum. Good discussion.

Good luck finding any text where I say Al Golden isn't a good football coach. I'll give you 25 years to check...starting...now. You act like, just because we seem to be following the Temple Plan, that we are guaranteed "Temple Results." Just because Ianello "devoured" a book by Vince Lombardi doesn't mean he's Vince's second coming.Other than gutting the team, and being 1-11 last season, there's no tangible evidence that we're on track to make a Temple Turnaround. You've followed Zips football as long as me...maybe longer. How can you question anyone being skeptical. The guy is 1-12? How is a Year 5 Championship such a slam dunk? It wasn't in shambles. "Shambles" is what Owens inherited, where only 3 of a 25 kid recruiting class graduated. If Jacquemain doesn't stuff his backpack full of locker room goodies, we're .500 in what turned out to be his last season. Brookhart beat a bad 1-AA team 41-0 at home, with apparently terrible players. Ianello lost to one. You mean when Faust turned the team over to Owens? In Owens first year he went 2-9. After than, 4-7. In my post I state 4 wins is expected of Ianello in year #2. Why is that so insane? Owens did it with worse players, in the Rubber Bowl, with garbage facilities! Or, UA couldn't afford to eat his contract.To be clear - after 6 years, it was time for Brookhart to go. The topic isn't Ianello vs. Brookhart. Caring, and knowing what you're doing are two totally different things. Proenza is a genius. But he knows less about football than Zach. He's entrusted Wistercill to pick a winner. If he was wrong, we will not have good football @ Infocision until 2018, at the earliest. The same 25 year time frame to find where I said to fire the coach applies. Start the clock whenever you'd like. On paper, yes. But on paper, everyone that attends an expensive motivational seminar will be a successful CEO.The statement stands: There are no excuses for bad football any longer. Great practice facility. Great stadium. The dude needs to start winning this season...even if it is only 4-wins. The winning needs to start.

It should really help our RPI?I heard KD wanted to beat them 3 times in their place in a single season, but Senderoff would only agree to two.

Lucky me...do you know how many football building processes I've endured over the past 25 years? The thought of waiting another 3.9 seasons is nauseating. Especially for a conference like the MAC. A good coach can turn a bad MAC program into a +.500 program in 3 seasons, maximum.A bad one can turn you into EMU or K.e.n.t. State.There are no excuses for bad football any longer. Great practice facility. Great stadium. The dude needs to start winning this season...even if it is only 4-wins. The winning needs to start.I did like how iCoach responded to the O$U clown that asked: "So who from Ohio State stood out to you?" That reaction made me like him a tiny bit more than before the video.

Jared Province and Nate Schuler are examples of recent small-school (D5) "studs" that didn't last 2 seasons with the Zips.D'Orazio looks like a keeper.Coming from a D-6 HS that has been a elite program since the dawn of high school football (at that level), I can say you get a D-1A player through your doors maybe once per decade. In my senior year, our QB got a scholarship to OU. The McDonald QB from last season took a track scholarship to K.e.n.t. State. In between...a 26-year span...I don't think there was another D1-A player. Several played for YSU, and D-III schools like Mount Union, but no D-1A.

There are some posters seem to scan the ZN. for "personal attacks" with a fine-tooth comb, and hit the panic button way, way too often. Finding phantom attacks where none exist. I don't use the roll-eyes emoticon for sarcasm. A well-written post doesn't need it. I am thinking of making our board automatically turn the words "personal attack" into "fluffy bunnies," much like K.e.n.t. turns into Can't. I think it would make the board a better place.

Someone needs to start a "Why the Zips defense is better" thread. It will be a bright spot for the Zips this year. I can't do it all around here. Like you, I think most level-headed posters are waiting to see how the Zips fare in game #2 before making any substantial observations on the defense. The Ohio State match up was a really bad barometer. The Temple game is a lot like the Marshall games of several years ago. The Zips are a sub .500 team, and Temple should be seeing some votes in the "others" group for Top 25 consideration. But a good game plan, execution and a home crowd gives the Zips a great shot at an upset. We should not get blown out this week. We should give the Owls all they can handle.

Amen. It is so refreshing seeing a more tough-nosed defense w/ 4 DL. If we get shoved around w/ 4 DL, so be it; our opponent deserves to win. But I was so sick and tired of watching our 3DL D get shoved up & down the field year-after-year. Seeing 5 defensive bodies on the line of scrimmage on 3rd and short, instead of 3, was a dream come true. I almost cried.

Solid posts by BigZip ad Zip_ME87. You get a free beer at my tailgate Saturday.