Captain Kangaroo

I think people forget that. OU beat us once in three games last year, and it was a victory that needed extra time to accomplish. As far as OU coming out of nowhere, our only comparison is probably what we did the year before. Strange that the lowest two seeds to ever win the MAC tournament happened in the last two years. I guess it tells us to expect anything. If the Browns beat the Steelers twice in the regular season...and the Steelers beat the Browns in the AFC Championship game to go to the Super Bowl...who was better? Who had the more successful season? Teams either get better, or get worse as a given season progresses. OU got better over the course of the '09 - '10 season. In March, they were playing better basketball than the Zips. And that's when it counts. Not January. And here we are again....back to the argument that will be waged until the end of time. Who is better? The team that played better during the course of the regular season? Or the team who played better in the conference tournament? Answer this question - Would you trade the Zips 2009-10 season for OU's 2009-10 season? If the answer is "yes," then OU had a better season.

I think people forget that. OU beat us once in three games last year, and it was a victory that needed extra time to accomplish. As far as OU coming out of nowhere, our only comparison is probably what we did the year before. Strange that the lowest two seeds to ever win the MAC tournament happened in the last two years. I guess it tells us to expect anything. If the Browns beat the Steelers twice in the regular season...and the Steelers beat the Browns in the AFC Championship game to go to the Super Bowl...who was better? Who had the more successful season? Teams either get better, or get worse as a given season progresses. OU got better over the course of the '09 - '10 season. In March, they were playing better basketball than the Zips. And that's when it counts. Not January.

This is my only disagreement with what is a very well-written piece -- OU and K.e.n.t. were better than the Zips last season. I think it is very fair, for pre-season purposes, to rank the Zips behind them.

Fair enough. I'm simply trying to point out that anyone enamored with kids from all-mighty Glenville needs to look elsewhere for their savior(s). Unless Ianello is truly the unbelievable, uber-recruiter that he's sold everyone on...he's simply going to be wasting his time at Glenville. The good kids will be gone to BCS schools. And only marginal kids, grade-wise or character-wise, with offers only from UA, Ball State, Prep schools and JUCO's will be left. He can't afford to waste that time.

He is 100% right. I hope he can fix it. Icoach is correct. No matter if it is from Glenville, Buchtel, Hoover, Cardinal Mooney, etc., we need to get some of these players to Akron. If we had all those players from Ball State...maybe we could be as good as Ball State? Whoppee... History lesson -- Anyone remember when JD nabbed 3 kids from Glenville? Edit: None completed their eligibility at UA. The Zips aren't going to get better recruiting against the big boys who so grossly over-recruit schools like Glenville and Mooney. Ianello is going to have to work harder than that, and beat the bushes. JUCO, mid-and small-size high schools, Canada, Pittsburgh, and the Akron-Canton area as well. He's going to need to find stud athletes who want to play QB or RB, but whom the big schools want to convert to safety or linebacker. He needs to take an intelligent risk on a BCS transfer or two..or three. And obviously they need to sell a kid that's considering Pitt or Cincinnati...but who's certain to redshirt there...to come to UA and play immediately. We need more Richard Hall's. Not the #21 ranked kid on Glenville...which is all we can get after Ohio State, Iowa, Cincinnati and the rest of the BCS schools have their pick of the litter.

Punting.

The famed Fried Chicken Tycoon?!

That would be a welcome surprise. He was playing the worst of any Zip at the end of last season. I like Nik...I hope the "light" turned on for him.

If I'm directing my comments at the same thing as K-Roo, and I think I am, it's a direct hit at their inability to draw attendance....whether they're bad or average. did the math and they need to average a tad over 11k for their final 3 games to reach that 90k mark. I saw the stands at the Ball State game. There were 2,000, if you rounded up. However, the box score said 16,000. With "tickets sold" being the reference number, they should have no problem with 11k/game. Local businesses are buying them up at $5/ticket, or less.

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.