Captain Kangaroo

I like the new screen better than the stadium cams!

PD

Bastards!

Bet with your head, not over it.

Ryan Bain is running, and lifting weights. Looks like the Zips will take it slow with him, starting him off as a situational player.Dale Martin is pretty much fully recovered. He looks great.Alex Allen is "about 92% recovered." He expects to be at 100% by Penn State.DaVoe Torrence did not spend his off-season eating burritos with Lindale White. He's looking better-than-advertised.

If you didn't get your money's worth last evening (free event) you will never be happy. If you expected to meet the coach, you read the wrong press release. This was an event held to allow fans a tour of the new stadium, and to get some goodwill going on between UA and the public. If someone does something nice for you, thank them. If you get jerked around, then you have a right to bitch. Last night's open house is something you should appreciate.

When will the sagebrush be replaced with sod?Is this where the Visitor students sit?

What fresh concrete did you guys walk through?Let's be clear here...I didn't walk through any of it. However, there were several people trekking through the sidewalk cement on the north corner of the stadium along Brown street.Not a huge deal...it was mostly cured...but it had multiple sneaker tread marks. I moved an orange pylon to block it, but I was a few footprints too late.

On a more serious note --Thanks to all @ UA for arranging this event. Very well done. Other than not getting to tour the Level 5 and Level 6 "Party Floors," and maybe roping off the fresh concrete so people didn't walk through it, I can't think of a thing that could have been done better!

Maybe you meant "No wheelchairs will be allowed on the grass hill. The grade is too steep"?You should meet "uakronkid." You guys are two peas in a pod.

That's a tricky question, most of us Zip fans hope the answer is "no". Our coach is on record as saying he is still going to use it. Some of us have heard they are practicing other defensive sets. They switched up a few times last year and ran a four man front for some series. We might know know until kickoff. I do agree with you that PSU will run all over a 3-3-5, if it's Akron or Florida. It might even have to do with the health of the guys that play up front. Two or three guys out, and we might be forced to play the stack, if we have everybody up front I can't see how you keep four DLs off the field.Thanks for the update, Doc. This game becomes more and more intriguing: Penn State will probably pound the ball, with a few passes mixed in to settle our WRs down, and it sounds like your O is geared towards the pass. Any updates there?As you know, our secondary was considered the weakest link last year, and Wallace was expected to play a key role this year. We'll have to see if he gets his academics together in order to play in the fall. If not, Penn State may blitz or pressure a lot, in hopes of disrupting your passing timing. I would expect your coaches to anticipate that, and load up on screens, short passes, and all.If I were the Akron HC, my very first play against Penn State would be a long bomb, just to gauge the State secondary. If he can get Penn State thinking they have to protect against the long ball, that gives the Zips a chance to set up the run or short passes. Thoughts?33 days to go!!Wisconsin ran PJ Hill left, PJ Hill right and PJ Hill middle. He put up video game type numbers vs. the Zips. If I was Joe Paterno, I'd do the same thing. Zips offense will be heavy on bubble screens and short slants. Our 5th year QB is typically solid...until the 4th quarter. Our RB situation is an unknown. Alex Allen is a bad man...but he is coming off a 2nd season-ending injury. If healthy, some of Penn States heralded LB's will be hurting the day after the game. A wild card is Freshman RB DaVoe Torrence. An OSU recruit whom the Buckeyes dropped after a legal issue (Torrence was found innocent). He's a Big Ten-caliber back. He redshirted last season.The Zips will put up some points, but based upon JD's defensive history Zips fans have only faith-based hope that we can stop...slow...or even mildly annoy an upper Big Ten offense.

Looks like a really nice event. Hope it is well-attended.

Do NOT go to Thursday's unless you are under 24 years old. Or you just want a 32-oz cup of cheap beer before the game.There is a BW-3's directly across from the stadium. That will be the "hopping" game day bar. There are also some nice bars downtown, near the ballpark. They are a 15-minute walk across campus to the stadium.

Welcome to ZipNation! I'm sure there will be single-game tickets available...but I also assume it will eventually sell-out. I wouldn't hold off too long on your purchase.Stay tuned for tailgating information. The University is still drafting their 99 page code of conduct...since tailgating on a school campus has never been done before in the history of Division 1 athletics. I wish we had more information to offer, but at this time the University has told the public jack-squat regarding tailgating and parking.Also - we play the Hoosiers in soccer the Friday prior to the football game. I highly recommend getting tickets for that on-campus event too.

Heads Home (BTW - I don't recall the 4.3 speed)

Then it is free.

I think I'm going to ask ZipWatcher to add an "Agriculture Forum" to ZN.

I love the identity crisis cheer used by PSU and others .. are they afraid to forget where they parked or something?Go Zips! B) One of my all-time favorite message board posts was from a Marshall fan several years ago on the .bbs board. Apparently, while driving down the road, he saw a Penn State bumper sticker that read "WE ARE...PENN STATE" and he got pissed. He proceeded to follow the guy into a shopping center parking lot and chew him out for ripping off the "WE ARE...MARSHALL" tag line.Poor Penn State fan...he probably just wanted a burrito, and instead got some 3-toothed hillbilly yelling in his face.

I've never seen such concern over grass and lighting. :blink: I've witnessed strong concern over lighting grass...but that was in K.e.n.t.

I never said it wouldn't get us in the NIT, it just leaves a very slim margin. I said we wouldn't have made the NIT last year if we didn't win the MAC tourney. That's a fact.I think it depends upon which game we lost. We lose game #1,#2 or 3 of the MAC tourney, no NIT. If we lost in the finals, we'd have had a marginal NIT shot. Not a sure thing by any stretch.BTW - No one cares about the NIT but the UA "hard-cores." You only need to look at our last 2 appearances. Attendance went down last season after our 2-deep NIT run. NCAA or bust, baby.

I think there's a fair amount of truth in your angle.Say the Zips did schedule some really tough opponents to begin the season...and we got smoked..started the season 3-8. That would kill a lot of the momentum we got from our MAC Championship & NCAA tourney appearance. If we start the season 10 - 1, the momentum only grows, regardless of who we beat.We shall see...CSU scheduled tough...UA scheduled relatively vanilla. Both are NE Ohio mid-majors and 2009 NCAA tourney participants. You can't have a better comparison of which scheduling strategy is ultimately more effective.

And people complain that we have no Marketing?! That sentence proves them wrong!!BTW - The label on my Breyer's yogurt tremendously enhanced my lunchtime experience today.

I like the Bud Light sign residing over the student section. Very consistent with University policy.

How many layers are on those roofs?