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I got Lot 17...I guess I will have to walk across the street and party with Lot 9! Anyone else get 17?
You're welcome to stop in at our Lot #9 party any time...and stay as long as you'd like!
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There are 13 MAC schools. At 25 scholarships per year, that's 325 scholarships annually.
Many high school players have scholarship offers from multiple MAC programs.
Unless the Zips can offer 325 scholarships per year, I think we will always "lose" kids to other MAC programs.
I don't think Gabe Gilbert will make or break our 2011 recruiting class. It is August of 2010...somehow we'll recover.
I get that Captain, but I'm still allowed to not like it!
Fair enough.
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Here is my final note on this topic:
A few months ago, someone predicted this would happen:
The good news is - the "Major Donors" probably won't materialize. If the lot was 1/2 full at year's end last season, it will be even less full with a smaller sampling of the public having access. Lot 9'ers will probably get a phone call in August letting them know their cherished Lot #9 wants them back.It really sucks that someone could make a decision that pissed off, or at minimum stressed-out scores of long-time, devoted Zips fans with a pie-in-the-sky fantasy of filling a gravel parking lot with $5k+ donors. Whomever made that decision has absolutely no touch with reality. That both scares, and disappoints me. I shake my head at the unnecessary public relations blunder.
I'm back in Lot #9. I'm happy. Time to move on - drink some beer, eat some food and enjoy the upcoming college football season.
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There are 13 MAC schools. At 25 scholarships per year, that's 325 scholarships annually.
Many high school players have scholarship offers from multiple MAC programs.
Unless the Zips can offer 325 scholarships per year, I think we will always "lose" kids to other MAC programs.
I don't think Gabe Gilbert will make or break our 2011 recruiting class. It is August of 2010...somehow we'll recover.
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I would be in favor of redshirting Nicely if possible to get an extra year out of him and give him an extra year to really get the new offense down.
Redshirt = scout team
He won't learn one more thing on scout team at the end of the year that he doesn't know right now.
Not starting Nicely this year would be like not running your fastest, healthy horse in the Kentucky Derby because you want to breeze him some more so he knows how to run around the track in a circle.
No offense Zach, but offering the idea to redshirt potentially one of the best QBs in the league is an example of how comfortable UofA fans have become with losing and the "building process". The Zips have 12 games THIS YEAR, not next year. Fans have bought tickets for this year, not next year. Fans want to see winning this year. It's time to start winning. 20+ years of losing and "building" is enough for me. I can't take it anymore.
I'm not saying that's what we should do unless Nicely will sit anyway. I'm saying that if Rodgers wins the job, we shouldn't let Nicely waste a year on the bench if there's the option to redshirt. As for him not learning anything that he doesn't already know, you're telling me that he has a 100% knowledge of a brand new, fundamentally different offensive scheme that he's never played before after just a month or two of practice? He's perfectly comfortable taking snaps under center after spending his entire life in the shotgun spread?
How could anyone even fathom Matt as our QB for 12 games this year?
I've said it a million times before -- Matt is a super, super kid. Awesome. But he is the #2 QB on this team. It is a stone-cold lock.
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Matt Rodgers, comeback player of the year? If he does happen to win back the starting job, I would be in favor of redshirting Nicely if possible to get an extra year out of him and give him an extra year to really get the new offense down.
Before we do that let's count up the number of fairly serious injury free seasons Rogers has had here.
To paraphrase Steve French -- Matt Rodgers has as much chance of winning the "QB Competition" as my big toe.
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“That's speculative, but certainly plays a part in the decisions,” Mr. Rosentraub said. “But generally, these facility decisions are made in the school's best interest; these institutions are not run by people who got there by making huge mistakes.”
I dunno about that being a universal truth...
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I really have to wonder if one or both of these guys (Harney and Treadwell) will continue on their path as walk-ons. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to have all of these forwards on the roster and be so darn thin at the guard spots. For 2011-12 we would have eight of our thirteen scholarships taken up by 6'6" to 6'8" forwards (Diggs, Gilliam, Green, Egner, Euton, Cvetinovic, Harney, Treadwell) while only having one real PG (Abreu) and one C (Zeke) on scholarship. Something just doesn't add up in all of this.
I think you worry way too much about something that's -
A.) A huge positive
B.) Going to work itself out anyhow
We had Dru Joyce as our only PG for 4 years. It worked out fine. I'm sure we will get someone to spell Abreu. Be it an existing player, or a TBD newcomer.
Of the bigs you've listed above, one or more will not pan out for one reason or another. If by some miracle they all survive the next calendar year @ UA, it is a much bigger blessing than a curse. You can kick some serious ass in the MAC, and beyond the MAC (OOC), if you have depth with your bigs.
We need someone to spell Zeke for maybe 10 minutes per game over the next 3 seasons. That can easily be accomplished by an athletic 6' 8" guy. Especially in MAC play.
Could Zeke or Abreu suffer some season-ending injuries, or academics, and expose a lack of depth? Sure. But it's -
A.) statistically unlikely (in the last 6 seasons, who have we lost to severe injury or academics...Wood and Steward?)
B.) irrelevant, because we probably aren't doing any damage with back up PG's or C's anyhow. It's just our bad luck if something catastrophic occurs.
Smurf-ball is a thing of the past. KD has potentially formed the best roster I've seen at UA since the McLaughlin/Boyce/Buford/Roberts era of the mid-80's. Love it.
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Beat me to the punch JZ84, I was just about to put a thread up about Wagner.
Rasor went to practice and got some quotes from some players. Wagner was quoted saying, "We just need to win". He uses the word "need" not "want". I love that. There are things I want to do that I never do. There are things I need to do I get done. Everyone puts more focus on the things they need to do and less on what they want to do. It tells me this team is focused on winning.
I'll say it again. This team is not short on talent or hard work. The had a talented team last year that worked hard in a hopeless situation. The focus on winning is something they badly need.
That one quote alone has me more excited about this upcoming season than anything I have seen thus far. They can be a good team THIS YEAR.
I like this quote from PN7 -
Predicting the Zips to finish last in the division, the media doesn't share Nicely's confidence.
"They're basing their stuff off last year," Nicely said. "They're not in camp. They don't see how hard we're working. If we don't get to a bowl game with this kind of talent . . ."
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We're in. You in the AM round?
Yes!
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We have our team, comprised of 4 ZN members.
I say we get some action going on the ZipsNation foursomes? Is a buck a man too rich for anyone's blood?
But is isn't really about the dollar... it's about 365 days of ZN bragging rights, and the coveteted Jakubik Cup trophy.
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haha have at it...I'm not here to play mind games with some random people on the internet
it couldn't possibly matter less to me whether you choose to believe me or not...I got the info last week, am new to Akron, came across the site and figured you guys would like to know
when the information comes out, you guys will understand (maybe) but until then, have fun doubting or doing whatever it is you guys do here...i'll take my info elsewhere
I appreciate the information and look forward to learning more about this mystery Zip.
When this information does become public, feel free to return to ZipsNation and tell any doubters -- "I kinda...sorta told you so!"
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Dan Basch............broadcasting novice, but never short on something interesting to say and really knows the game............tune him up in studio and he'd be great by game 3 IMHO
I'm not sure they could put Dan on the radio. Great guy and love him to death, but I have a feeling he'd be a little too honest... and shall we say... forthcoming with his opinions on what he's seeing on the field.
I vote for Mrs. Basch over her son Dan. Better overall football knowledge than Dan, and brutally honest and forthcoming.
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Jawon Chisholm passes summer class and gets called up an hour later by UA.
Should be here by tomorrow.
ESPN recruiting site had him down with 40 time of 4.86 and no other offers - wonder why the Zips are so high on him??
Look at the "Interest" schools on the Scout and Rivals site. He's probably the most highly-recruited kid in our 2010 class?
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Seniors:
DB Tyler Campbell - "Sleigh Ride Campbell" - Named after his 17 tackle game @ Wisconsin, where #48 was drug all over the secondary by Badger RB's. A common occurrence for Zips safetys in the 3-3-5 stack.
LB Viktor Rajek - European Olympic bobsledder. Great story. Not so great a football player.
WR Richard Sandilands - Walk on WR.
OL Jason Sekinger - Massive OL from Minnesota. Rarely, if ever played.
Juniors:
P Eric Lee - Never heard of him.
LB Da-Von Moore - More injuries than Evil Knievel.
WR Shawn Roberts - One of Bob Huggins better power forwards. Did not know he had eligibility remaining?
LB Aaron Williams - Broken arm last season. An undersized LB at 205lbs, but he was pretty tough.
Sophomores:
DE Abdullah Homayed - Had a lot of promise. Fingers are crossed that his omission was a mistake.
OL Adam Bice - Never played.
WR Nadir Brown - transferred to Nassau CC - Great WR body, but was definitely a raw project.
DB Thomas Miller - Total unknown.
LB Nate Schuler - Punishing hitter at the Division VI HS level. But unlike Brian Wagner, Schuler was unable to elevate his game to play with the big boys.
DB Norman Shuford - transferred to Grand Valley State. Just didn't fit in @ UA.
RB Devoe Torrence - transferred... somewhere? Wrote his own ticket out of Akron. Very high-maintenance player.
QB Jared Wackerly - Walk on
A handful of minor-contributing scholarship players and several scout-teamers. Not a big deal.
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Ianello cannot lose to Can't. It simply isn't an option.
If you go strictly buy the betting line, the Zips will be an underdog in each of their first four D-1 games leading up to K.e.n.t. on October 9th. If things play out as Vegas predicts, the K.e.n.t. game will be a must-win for two teams owning only a single 1-AA win to their credit. The loser of that game will be crushed, and fall into the abyss that is the bottom of the MAC. The winner will be 1-1 in MAC play, riding a HUGE momentum surge.
The two times in the past decade that the Zips have lost to K.e.n.t., the K.e.n.t. QB went nuts. If the Zips can contain Spencer Keith, and prevent him from going Julie-anne Edelmann/Josh Cribbs on us, we'll win.
Keep it close, and K.e.n.t. will always find a way to choke it away.
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Watching the Zips play Penn State last season, it was really frustrating to see the ultra-mega-conservative JD pretty much run out the clock from the get-go, and try to get out of the game without any injuries.
Conversely, Penn State tried the fake kicks...went for it on 4th-and-1...threw the ball down field...etc.
We had a nice lead @ Cincinnati a few years ago, and JD went into his offensive shell. We were down 3-2 to Ohio State in the 3rd quarter, and JD was happy to run it up the middle 3 times and punt. We were pounding NC State, and he let them come back by coaching conservative. Only when we had to score at games-end did he loosen things back up and drive the ball.
I'd rather see the Zips lose to K.entucky 52-27, trying to win, than lose 31-3 with Zach Campbell punting 14 times.
I think September's BCS games will give us some great insight as to what type of coach Ianello is. I hope he tries to win every game.
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I wish I learned something from reading that.It only took every single other school creating multiple interviews before Akron did their first one.
My favorite response:
1. Why did you choose Akron?
I chose Akron because of the opportunity that was presented.
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Does anyone remember when they send typically send out season tickets?
I was told yesterday that season tix will be sent out on the 9th.
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Since when has Atlanta been relocated to Cleveland?
He's a writer for the Examiner, which has sections for every major city. But sometimes the articles can appear in other regions. What region it appears in to you depends on where your IP address tracks back to. My work connection shows him as based out of Wachington DC.
He is based out of here, though: http://www.examiner.com/Cleveland-Sports.html
I read the top portion that said "Examiner.com Atlanta." The detail/Bio Link does not say anything about location.
He is actually with Examiner.com Akron.
Does it matter? The coverage is good for the Zips no matter where he's from or where it's posted.
Guys like you jumping down people's throats are why I rarely post....
I'm out.....
For what it's worth, I appreciated the post.
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I'd like to see him play a whole game instead of the YouTube videos they put up. From what I see he looks like a good player. I'd like to see how he plays against a good team and a really fast running back.
One thing about these videos is how unorganized many high school teams are. He is clearly the best player on that defense and the number of times he is unaccounted for is amazing.
The video is also from his Soph. season!? He looks like a good one.
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Info courtesy of Johnnyzip84. I moved the info out of Zach's minute-by-minute offer update thread so it wouldn't become lost.
Zips land PA H-Back Nick Rossi. He's a 3-star recruit who also played LB and had offers from WVU and Temple.
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More on Steve-O....we're The University of Akron and Akron University in the same article!
Not to divert the thread, but I thought it was funny that I received an invite to a University-sponsored event a few weeks ago. The University-sent email referred to itself as "Akron U."
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No way these kids redshirt, after already sitting out a full season to gain eligibility.