Captain Kangaroo

ShelDon Miller - Monessen Lions Club's Student of the Month for March

I recall that too. It was a Wallaby, not a Kangaroo. I think it died. You can find it in the biology lab now.

We can't win a home CBI game against Wisconsin Green Bay. We have a long way to go.

If all it takes is shooting 31% for the game, and 24% in the second half, the Zips are well on their way to national basketball prominence. We just need to get Brett McKnight a few more touches.

Sound theory.

I hope and pray the dorms are complete. That would mean Lot #9 will remain Tailgate Central! And Nerds are welcome to join us!!

If he wanted to transfer, I'd take him. X vs. Kansas State: One of the best college basketball games I've ever watched.

I hope the 4th guard is a JUCO. I can't see a Freshman guard, who hasn't signed with anyone even though Signing Day is long since passed, coming in and making the impact we need. It can't be a transfer, because he wouldn't be eligible until 2011-12.

Or, the talent was overestimated.

Now what am I going to watch on January 8th!?

It's funny...Dave in Green complains the ZipsNation moderators let everything go. He hates that the board is so recklessly under-moderated. RFR claims the board is some extreme dictatorship where every controversial post is censored. I'm sure both are 100% certain their opinion is 100% correct. Even though they are totally opposite. A few quick notes about the moderators: I pay for this site. ZipWatcher has also paid for a portion. In addition, he dedicates a lot of time to the board's technical and aesthetic upkeep. By paying for, and constructing ZipsNation, we get the privilege of moderating it's tone. Unlike most people who've whined and groused about Zips sports coverage over the years, we actually did something about it. We constructed ZipsNation. And 100,000 posts later, and over 1,000,000 views later, we feel is has been highly successful. The moderators take pride in the Zips program, and the image of the Zips fan. That's why we created our board independently, unlike K.e.n.t., who piggy-backs off the MACbbs board. We wanted ZipsNation to be "a cut above." We feel we've been successful. If a member posts something ignorant, or which reflects poorly on the image of a Zips fan, we reserve the right to delete it. RFR yukked it up on ZipsNation when someone hit a girl in the face with an ice ball after the K.e.n.t. game. He followed that up with a rant on the May 4th shootings, which has no place on a Zips Sports forum. Both posts were deleted. They reflect poorly on ZipsNation. Deleted or modified posts are extremely rare. Issuing a "warning" happens every one or two years. D.I.G is correct...we let pretty much everything go. We typically go months without touching a post. If your post was modified or deleted, you crossed a line. To summarize - If you don't like ZipsNation, no one is forcing you to read it. Or post. Since you didn't pay a dime for it... just walk away. We'll survive.

I bet Butler is pissed that aren't a mid major anymore.

Florida's 2 National Championships would disagree with you. I love to watch the 3-3-5 blitz packages. You can literally send people from anywhere. We did not execute it. Brings to mind an old John McKay quote: Reporter: "Coach - how do you feel about your defensive execution?" McKay: "I'm in favor of it."

+1. Join the club. The Notorious D.I.G. claims another victim.

It was interesting to see Gary Pride listed as an RB. I would think the new staff has to be exciting for a guy like Pride, who probably wasn't ever going to move from his Special Teams role under the previous staff.

Anyone notice how poor a 2009-10 Darryl Roberts had...until the final two games...when he knew he was going to get the lion's share of minutes due to Humpty's injury? All the sudden he reverted to the "Florida State" Darryl Roberts? The Zips have struggled to find any player to embrace the 6th man role, except for maybe Steward. People talk about Linhart's leadership and scrappy attitude being missed. I miss the fact that he'd come off the bench and bust his ass. No one filled that role this season. BTW - What was the over-under on floor burns for the Zips this season? 5? Last year it was about 50.

If we get better offensive line play this season, and SOMEONE produces out of the backfield, PN7 will rule in 2010. His only major flaw is ball security...he holds the ball loosely when he runs, and subsequently fumbles too much. That should be easy to fix.

PN7 is - The Man. MR5 is a super kid. He'll be successful in whatever he does in life. But he's the #2 QB on this team. PN7 is - The Man.

The picture is actually pretty small and simple: It was the subject of a lot of conversation two years ago...but it isn't any longer. Why? Because the change has proven to be irrelevant. A two year sampling of hundred of teams and thousands of games has proven -- the 12" 3-point line change has done nothing to widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots". What's that GP1 line? Something like "...you want it to be one way, but it's the other."

Jabari Arthur looks to bounce back after missing the '09 CFL season.

Lower-level D-1 teams could never compete with upper-level teams. They lose by the same ridiculous margins today that the lost by prior to the rule change. The rule change affected nothing. Mid-major team compete just the same as they did before. In two years I've never heard any coach complain that the new rule affected their approach to offense or defense. The 12" movement of the line affected no one's ability to defend in the paint. High school girls with 95 lb bench-presses regularly shoot 35+% from 19' 9". 20 year old D-1 male athletes with 200 lb bench presses shoot equally well from 19' 9" or 20' 9". The shot is very easy.

It is easy to do. Look at the results. When steroids were eliminated in baseball, home runs visibly dropped. When the 3-point line was moved in college basketball, absolutely nothing happened.

Man...that really sucks for ZipWatcher. If Butler makes the Final Four, he doesn't get the $50.00 from woot? To be perfectly honest...Northern Iowa was ranked in the top 25 all season, so they exactly a mid-major either. That leaves St Mary's and Cornell. If Zach has any arguments to support these two not being mid-majors, woot might just be able to put the Ulysses S. Grant in the mail this afternoon?

Warning - Concise statement-of-the-obvious will follow: Movement of the 3-point line has had absolutely no effect on the overall ability of a mid-major to knock off a major program. Thank you.

I would like the Zips on-court performance put your opinion to the test one day.