Captain Kangaroo

Are we in any discussions regarding expansion of the Gateway Conference? Probably...

I'd take a loss by less than double digits at this point...an offensive TD...an offensive drive longer than 30 yards...that's my football "bar" right now. Porter's team laid a colossal egg on Saturday. In American Football, it's pretty much the equivalent to Ohio State losing to a 5-5 MAC school. I wouldn't get to bent out of shape with his "Sorry about that" tweet. He was embarrassed, and felt bad that his Zips let the fans down.

I agree. F D'Aundray Brown.

Even that is wishful thinking. I would bet that we have him around for the entire length of his contract. UA is not going to buy this contract out. They don't have the money. Tough to buy-out $350k - $950k worth of contracts, when you are selling 4k worth of tickets in a $62 million stadium. UA Athletics is definitely not swimming in excess cash right now. Can we get Jim Tressel to donate $1million to buy out the contract, if we let Luke "The Messiah" Fickell take the reigns?

Having been to both I can tell you, it's not. It's not really even fair to compare the two, they are not really the same, close, but not the same. Especially since one doesn't even exist. I think the people that made a stink regarding the football golf outing attended the basketball golf outing. Thanks for checking in TW. I bet if the football team still had their golf outing they'd be undefeated right now! my point was that when a pointless event gets canceled everyone around here cries, but when a good event goes on no one gives a crap. Always go for the negative, you waste your time complain about parking spaces and ticket prices when there are a lot of positive things happening. Ignorance is bliss. God bless you.

Having been to both I can tell you, it's not. It's not really even fair to compare the two, they are not really the same, close, but not the same. Especially since one doesn't even exist. I think the people that made a stink regarding the football golf outing attended the basketball golf outing. Thanks for checking in TW.

Our offense, again, was out-scored by the soccer team. Wait...was this a "positive,' or "negative" thread? I got lost following all the salient points...

Thanks for posting it. I was curious to see what their fans has to say. They seem like they have a knowlegable, solid following.

Journalism standards have fallen...somewhere, Zipmeister is weeping...

Who cares about Jim Tressel. He offers to make a donation, so his "guy" can get the job? If he's bribing AD's, can brown paper bags full of cash on recruiting visits be far behind?!

Owls 65 Zips 14

There's no excuse for the Zips being the worst team in college football. And we are the worst team in college football. No, JD didn't leave us with a championship team. But he didn't leave us with a team that should be giving up 30 points in the first half. Or scoring 3 offensive points per game. We're at 8 games now...what was our best offensive drive of the year? I can't think of one offensive series the entire season where we looked like anything but a Chinese fire drill. By comparison, our opponents have 4 or 5 great drives every HALF! There is no way we're getting the most out of the talent we have. And while no one wants to say it -- If Jacquemain and Bowser play 12 games last season, we win 6 games easily. Probably 7. Yeah, I know..."If." But it is true. Can you imagine winning 6 games in a season? I forget what it's like to lead after 1 quarter, let alone after the 4th.

You apparently weren't at the spring game?

Huskers should stick to football Omaha Game Point of View Blue Jay Message Board -- No posts in over a year?

If he talked to the football team, it would go something like this: "Larry presented us with a series of challenges during his short presentation that really got us all thinking. He told us that prior to the game we should already internalize the fact that we had already won the game and act accordingly. The next challenge Larry asked of us was to determine how many points we were going to score the next night. Larry got down on his knees and got right up in the face of Rob Ianello and asked him simply "How many points are you guys gonna get if you are in the red zone tomorrow?" Without hesitation, Ianello replied: "Either zero, or three."

The Heat looked like last years Cavs to me. LBJ and the rest of the team. I don't know a whole lot about the NBA, but I have watched a lot of LBJ in the NBA. It looks like his team will be the same. He tries to get everyone involved in the first half, then when/if that doesn't work, he tries to win it by himself in the second half. All the talk about which one of the three guys (LBJ, Wade, Bosh) will do this or that, it looks to me this is still LBJ and the rest of the guys on the floor. I figured I would start watching the game and get bored or mad and shut it off, but I ended up watching and enjoying the whole game. I guess I still enjoy watching LBJ play. LeBron's commercials are hype. The Heat "Big Three" are hype. To win the game, you do it on the court. The Celtics are great because of Rondo, Big Baby, Kendrick Perkins, and guys like Nate Robinson and Shaq. In 2008, guys like Eddie House, PJ Brown and James Posey. Without them, Pierce, Garnett and Allen go out in Round 2. With them, they will play for championships. The Heat have absolutely nothing beyond their Big, Over-hyped Three. Hype-to-Production, they have a chance to be the Dallas Cowboys of the NBA. They'll win a lot of games because there are a lot of NBA teams with far less talent. But the Heat spent too much on three guys. Their next-best 9 players wouldn't make the Celtics/Lakers/Orlando 2-deep. That won't win a ring. Oh -- and wait til one of them gets injured.

Celtics 88 Heat 80

I don't like "negative." You can be negative, and just be a jerk. Gaffney has the access to ask legit, tough questions to Ianello that have nothing to do with being negative. "Did you consider using a wildcat RB formation at games-end with one of your existing players, rather than pull Potts' redshirt?" "How could #83 be so wide open up the middle on virtually every passing play?" "Why do you always go for a field goal when your offense needs a touchdown?" "Did you see that lowly Presbyterian ended the nation's longest 1-AA losing streak, beating Gardner Webb, at Gardner Webb?" Ok, maybe I was being a jerk with the last one.

I've read this BS statement on this board umpteen times and have never commented on it once. After watching this year, this statement now brings my blood to a boil! I'd give my left pinky for another "lucky" year. Lucky. Lucky we beat NIU TWICE that season. Lucky we had a team that stomped K.e.n.t. to clinch it.

I think is is simple to look at this Saturdays match up between the Zips and Broncos and say, "Man, the Zips S-T-I-N-K." But that really doesn't do justice to how bad this Zips team is actually performing. A better gauge of what we're dealing with in the big picture can be seen in the epic Presbyterian vs. Gardner Webb match up this past weekend. In that game, the Blue Hose...yes, you heard it correctly, the Presbyterian Blue Hose snapped the nation’s longest losing streak in the Football Championship Subdivision at 20 games and spoiled the Gardner Webb Bulldog's Homecoming 26-24. This really hit me in the gut because after the Zips-GW game, I slunk into our parking lot, post-game, thinking, man...Gardner Webb was bigger, faster and executed better than the Zips...these guys are going to do some 1-AA damage?! Nope, they stink. So to all of you clamoring for the Zips to move to the 1-AA (FCS) level I say... baby steps, my friends. Let's work our way up first. Rob Ianello, a graduate of Catholic University, could not be reached for comment as of Blog Time today. I would also like to take this time to clear up a misconception that ZipWatcher's "Quit on the Zips Hall of Fame" is not adding new members due to limitations in ZipsNation's available bandwidth. Like Matt Rodgers presence on the Zips sideline in the first half...or big foot sightings...there's absolutely no truth to it. Stop it with the rumors. I think the best zinger from the crowd came as the girl's golf team received some recognition on the field immediately after WMU's first TD pass. "HOW ARE YOUR COVER SKILLS? WE NEED YOU!" rang out. Even though it came from the upper deck, the snickering girls on the field seemed to hear it pretty clearly. I thought it was interesting that everyone who shook TW's hand after a 1st half ceremony made a beeline for the Purell dispenser? Odd... Bagdad Rob continued to stay-the-course with his field goal fetish. Like K.e.n.t, like Syracuse, like OU, he faced a dire situation where the team was in need of some hope...some confidence...something meaningful to build on...and down 35-0 before the end of the half....he trotted out the field goal unit. 35-3 at the half. Yippee. I saw several ex-Rowdies, now alumni, get the boot from InfoCision. What a shame that we're putting on such a horrible show...and now giving the boot to some of the few that showed up to watch the debacle. Did you know -- the Zips led in time of possession Saturday? Please take this next statement for what it is and nothing more -- The Zips played at a noticeably faster speed with Potts in the backfield taking the snaps. While it might hurt our gaudy time of possession numbers, I thought the faster pace kept the defense more honest. Yeah, we moved the ball against 4th-stringers on a mediocre MAC team, but we at least attacked. Running PN7 out in the pro set and watching him get snowed-under within 2 seconds has officially run it's course for me. That offense is a slow death. Could we have ran Pride or Burney in the wildcat and saved Potts' redshirt? Since it is gone, I hope to see more of him. Note - Had Potts played on special teams prior to Saturday? I thought he had, but I could be wrong. Speaking of slow death, I turned another corner watching the game Saturday. I went from being angry, to just flat-out being sad about what's become of an Akron Football Saturday. Watching the Zips bungle every offensive possession, while getting stomped into the ground and scored upon every defensive series is like watching a loved one dying on the operating table. You have to be there for support, but it rips your heart out to see that monitor work it's way from beeping, to the inescapable flat-line. On the less-morbid side -- I think the best on-field moment Saturday came when the Jumbotron showed Brian Wagner on the sideline after his TD rumble. He had a big smile on his face. It was cool to see a smile coming from our sideline...I couldn't recall the last smile I'd seen on the home side. Speaking of #34...on the off chance that we ever get inside the 5 yard line again this season, can we give him the rock? He'll score. I guarantee it. And speaking of not scoring inside the 5. I feel terrible for Alex Allen. A healthy AA circa 2007 would have scored 4 out of 5 tries from that spot. He's one of my favorite players. It's too bad it's ending this way on the field for him. As usual, we had a great tailgate party. Chili is a great social food...you can just walk up to everyone's pot with your empty bowl, it gets filled up and you shoot the breeze (so to speak) for a while. It was fun to taste everyone's different takes on the American classic. Sausages, smoked meats, ground meats, 10+ varieties of peppers...if you like home-style food, it was a great event. Hopefully it grows next year. Always great food and great company in the Lot...the Zips Tailgate is the one thing YouTube Tom can never kill. Even though he's tried... Lunch is done. I hope we can hold Temple under 65. And since Buffalo lost to Temple 42-0, I'm looking at November 26th as a mighty big day. Oh - and a final note to TW: Do iCoach a favor and stay away from the Blue Hose on our 2011 OOC schedule.

I told YouTube Tom to do THIS back in May 2010, but he was too busy kicking season ticket holders and Z-Fund donors out of Lot #9 at the time (...for "5k and up Donors," as I was told by UA Athletics). If your AD believes in unicorns, it is not a good thing. I wonder what You Tube Tom promised Proenza when he was interviewing for the AD's position, and how close he is to delivering on those promises?

Rodgers wasn't on the sideline in the first half, and he wasn't ever warming up. You may be old, but your eyesight remains keen, Dave.

How's that new football coach doin'?

...to NOT play Purdue. I'm sure Spencer Keith is excited to get his head removed in Alabama, rather than have a shot at a competitive match up in West Lafayette. *Moderator note - Deleted a duplicate post on this topic from ccoon44 (I think we hit the post button within 30 seconds of one-another).

Branching out from YouTube?