Captain Kangaroo

We smoke Notre Dame 3-0, yet ND stays in the top 10. If we'd have lost 3-0 to ND we wouldn't have seen the Top 25 for a month!

Does the lack of an official announcement mean the hoops-scheduling Fat Lady has yet to sing?

Continuing on the MAC vs. Big East topic --Zips men's soccer beat Big East Notre Dame, Zips women's soccer beat Pitt and Zips volleyball beat Rutgers. If we can beat Syracuse this week in football, that would round-out a pretty nice OOC run vs. a BCS conference.Seal the deal, JD!

The team played hard. Losing two of our top 3 DLs hurt big time...we just couldn't stop the run.Other than the two passes following the 2nd and 2 I thought the play calling was good. MUCH improved over last year.I like our chances the rest of the way out.Overheard that Bain is not improving. Doubtful for Syracuse. Lively should be back.Bowser and Bruce are the real deal.

WOOO HOOOO!!!Fans here are sweating it out! LOVE IT! Jack is playing great. The Wisconsin QB is on the.ropes. I wish our almost totally Fr DL can pull together for 2 quarters. Laube and Campbell are playing great. LOVE the move of B Will to DB.GO ZIPS!

Tailgating in a lot about 2 blocks from the stadium. Quietest tailgating ever...tons of people but no music anywhere? Back to the beer.

I was right...8am ain't fun. Gotta rally...hoo my....

Just got back to the hotel...Jesus I've never drank so much bovine-named beer. UW campus bars are PACKED at 12am! As the night wore on, more and more Badgers reponded to the Zips gear. All good fun. The 8am tailgate is gonna come WAY too early, I think.

We've drank several great micorbrews thus far. Spotted Cow seems to be the favorite. People seem oblivious to my Zips gear.I said "Go Zips" to a 70 year old guy wearing a Zips hat...he stared at me like a spotted cow. Being a Zips fan ain't for the bandwagon lovers, that's for sure.More later...

I'm at the airport. Flight is on time. Go Zips!I'll make you proud, Z-P (formerly Z-Pastie)!Send my best to Zip Dude and Auntie Barb!

You go, Don Quixote. You go.

I agree. That's a great, great step up in radio visibility!

Here's hoping his debut is a complete and utter debacle

You don't see too many athletes leave a mid-major for a "major," but she did it

I'll go one step further regarding Elton -- About 2 months ago he wore a nice feature on Zeke. In it he mentioned ZipsNation. Well he did, except for one thing...he made a conscious decision to NOT say "ZipsNation." Instead, he chose to say "the Akron fan message board."Elton had a chance to score big with us if he wanted. It wouldn't have hurt anything, and I believe he mentioned Scout.com and Rivals.com in the same column, so it isn't like there's a policy against direct mentions of sports web sites. But, he elected to pass. Thus I'm not going out of my way to help the PD any more than I already do (by links, content, etc.). Beyond that, Elton has been a real jerk to the Zips in the past. Hence why so many people tag him as "Ellen." He's not a real "lovable" guy. He kind of relishes being a poor man's Steven A Smith. Good for him. But it rubs me the wrong way.

We will have a group of four Zips fans in Madison this weekend. If anyone would like to get together prior to the game, please PM me and we can exchange cell #'s. It would be great if we could get a group of 10+ Zippers together. We've done so @ MTSU, NC State, OSU, Maryland, Wisconsin, etc in the past and it is always a great time. Met a lot of great people!

Well, I was going to hold back, but after seeing your softball team lost to a team captained by Mike Rasor I feel nothing but contempt.*Moderator deleted bullshit*With that said, school is now back in session. Instead of going around and playing in golf outings, you should be out scouting middle schools far and wide for a softball team you can beat. Mike Rasor? Are you kidding me? You can't beat a team with a future lawyer on it? The shame must be unbearable.To answer the softball question -- The guys on my team are 97% guys I went to UA with 15-20 years ago. Our average age is 42, and Mike's team probably averages 26. If pretty happy we're competitive with them. They have a really good team. Regarding the deleted section of your post -When you are at your best, GP1, you have some funny and insightful posts. That's maybe 70% of the time. The other 30% ruins you. Everyone here is tired of the 3 GP1 shticks -Shtick #1: The "everyone on the board is a racist…"Shtick #2: The "Charlie Frye…"Shtick #3: The "Mike Waddell…"The deleted shtick fell under category #3. Except you went WAY over the line in fabricating lies about the moderators. That's bullshit. If you want to continue participation on this board, stop it. It is as simple as that.

Trust me...Elton Alexander is on our board daily. I hope he appreciates us linking to his column.Commenting on his column on the PD site won't change anything. Our coverage is what it is.

How do we know QB is bad? Maybe the guy has improved? I know...and monkeys might fly out of my butt too. But Jack is our QB, and he's had 9 months to mature. I'm going to see what he can do in 2008 before burying him. Maybe...just maybe he surprises us all?

"0" = 100% guaranteed loss. 1 = 100% guaranteed win.Wisconsin - 0.05Syracuse - 0.4Ball State - 0.45Army - 0.6Cincinnati - 0.4Ke.nt - 0.51BG - 0.6EMU - 0.5Toledo - 0.55Buffalo - 0.6OU 0.45Temple 0.45On paper that's 5.61 wins...I'll round it up to 6.To me, 6 wins is what we SHOULD get, based upon the highly complex algorithm utilized above. The only essentially sure loss is Wisconsin. Syracuse is at the lowest point in their history. We have a really good shot at them if we're healthy and prepared. Nothing would please me more than to see the home town Zips hang an "L" on Delone Carter's squad.We have a great shot at Cincinnati. But I am really dubious that we can score enough points, and sustain enough drives to beat them. Someone wrote that the hallmark of JD's era was the comeback. I think it is the ability to hang tough with decent teams...even stomp on them for the first quarter or two, then rack up astronomical amounts of 3-and-outs. We did it at Cincinnati a couple years ago. we did it at the Motor City Bowl, we did it at NC State, UConn, Temple...you could even throw the Ohio State game in if you were so inclined. We LOVE to compete early, then disappear. The only way we beat Cincinnati is if we don't offensively go stone-cold after about 18 minutes. We'll see what the staff can do about that.K.e.n.t sucks. Forget Phil Steele, forget whomever writes that, after 35 years of futility, THIS is K.e.nt's year. Ken.t blows, and we should beat them. But we blew the last time we played in Dix, so I'm leery. I hope JD pounds those hillbilly bastards. The K.e.n.t. loss was a watershed mark for Lee Owens. IMO - this is a game JD MUST win.BG lost 65-7 to Tulsa in a bowl game. That is the most embarrassing loss in MAC history. The Zips moved the ball with ease against BG last year...but Fumbles McLollypop yanked defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn. I don't see that happening in 2008. At home. On homecoming. In front of 4,000. I thing 50% of BG's defense in in jail this fall, and that will be a big help too.EMU - They're bad. But it is a road game. Flip a coin. We SHOULD win...if we're a good team.Toledo - They haven't been a factor in the MAC for a couple seasons. Too bad, because the conference misses having a "marquee" program very badly. But, "it is what it is," and Toledo is...bad. Buffalo - Those guys still suck. You know how JD was the hot coaching commodity 2 years ago? Then dropped off the face of the earth? Look for Gill to follow suit. No way Buffalo beats the Zips in consecutive seasons.OU - Maybe the team should stop in Lancaster to have some lasagna with the McKnight's on the way down to Athens? We always play like crap down there. If we were a good team, we beat them. OU won't be anything special in 2008.Temple - It is a coin flip game that's at their house. Gotta give the Owls the edge. That said - Temple stinks. We should have shut them out last season if our offense wouldn't have gone into the "prevent." Could be a big game for JD...7 wins is a "lock" to secure his spot running through the tunnel at Infocision in September 2009. The Temple game may be make/break for a contract extension, or termination.Lock-ti-up Prediction of the Season:Our defense will have three of the top 12 defensive players in the MAC in 2008. Bain, B. Williams and Sewell will be game-changers. Kevin Grant is on the cusp. 3-3-5...4-3-4...it doesn't matter. The Zips D will be awesome this year. No worries at DB whatsoever. Fattest Question Mark of the SeasonCJ11/"Jack" - If Rodgers is our QB this season...no offense to him...but we're in trouble. We need Jack to step up. He's a 4th year Junior. If a redshirt Fr. beats him out, that's bad.Jinx of the SeasonWe haven't been this stacked at RB since Hendry, Payne, Basch, Gray and Co.Long Shot "Impact" Freshman - Hassan Hazime. This kid can play. I didn't see any camp to know if he'll emerge this season or not, but he'll be awesome.Less of a Long Shot - Aaron Williams. He's an awesome athlete. We'll see how quickly he adapts to defense.Wish I could write more, but lunch is done. Maybe I'll finish tomorrow.

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Elton on a roll...

Me neither.

I'll tell you after Saturday.