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Paul Simkovich's is pretty good. Several others are good too.Click MeAnyone for payback?

Congrats to Brion! He's been a great player since day 1. We'll miss him next season.

I doubt it. It makes total sense. Williams is a hell of a back, and seems to be making things happen. Kennedy isn't. Allen is also solid in short yardage situations, so he's going to some of DK's red zone carries. We have a lot of depth at RB now, so unless DK is putting up monster numbers, his carries are going to go down. Maybe in the long term it helps him? He should be fresher, and perhaps more motivated when he enters the games.

There's your answer right there.They switched over to 3 minutes of commercials.Guess what, those were sponsors who very likely paid a higher rate specifically for the OSU game airtime. Not to cut away would probably have cost the station.... who knows... tens of thousands?When you run a station, it is not about viewers. It's about advertisers.You need the audience to attract the advertisers, obviously, but the advertisers are the endgame. The audience is just the lure to get them. If that's true, then why, in a million other instances, do TV stations find a way to juggle games that run over? Somehow, some way, you always see a "We will join the Team 1/Team2 game immediately following the conclusion of the [insert existing teams] game." If the game is a blow-out, OK. Cut away. But it wasn't.We moved that game to noon strictly for TV purposes. If there was a chance that it would have run over, they should have started it at 11:30am. Who could have expected they'd switch to a commercial in the last 1:30 of a tight game?There were 50 different ways they could have appeased advertisers and not stiffed the local fans. Does channel 5 really think the OSU football fans watching the end of the Akron/K.e.n.t. game aren't going stick around and watch that game's commercials when K.e.n.t calls a time out? Were the OSU fans going to turn off their TV, and only turn it on at the exact moment the OSU/Northwestern game came on? The end of that game would have had ratings just as high, and probably higher, than that of the OSU pregame. The commercials could have been worked in. The NE Ohio station that carried the Akron/K.e.n.t. game made the decision to screw us and I won't forget it.And someone please tell me Gib Shanley didn't do a commentary where he told Akron/K.e.n.t. fans angry at Channel 5 to "get a life." That was just a rumor, right?

I disagree -- He's pretty much played EXACTLY like the same running back we saw last year. A short yardage specialist who doesn't have "home-run" moves or speed. I've always liked DK inside the 10 yard line. But other than that...he's never been too impressive.

Actually, they switched over to about 3 minutes worth of COMMERCIALS, then they made sure no one missed a minute of the all-important OSU/Northwestern PREGAME.What a bitch-slap to the 50,000 UA and Can't State students, and 100,000 or-so alumni in the area. Channel 5 joins the ABJ on my media "F-you" list.

Thanks for checking in! The guy that put together the tailgate info is an animal. Holy cow! I will put it to good use.On question: As of right now I'm staying near the University. I like a University environment better than the city (which I know is a lot closer to the stadium). Is there a "can't miss" bar area around the University? A nice, dirty place that has a big microbrew selection and a near by pizza or wing joint? The BW-3's of the world are nice...but they're a dime a dozen. Any tips on a good, unique-to-UConn campus bar area is appreciated.

I will be at the game this Saturday. If anyone is looking to participate in a pre-game tailgate party, let me know (use the board's Personal Message option). Over the years I've met a lot of great Zips fans at these road games. But due to a lack of any coordination, we only meet in the stands...the Zips' pre-game parties are typically spread out far and wide. The game unfortunately begins at noon, so my wife and I will be in the parking lot with Zips flag flying by 8am! UConn seems to have two active message boards. One on Rivals, and one on Scout. The links are below:Click for Scout.com SiteClick for Rivals SiteObviously a few of their members have already located our site.

I only worry about it because I don't want 20 squad cars hassling the Akron fans about garbage. No better way to kill a tailgate party. If the University and City feel the garbage is a cost of doing business, then it is fine. But University's and City's have been known to overreact to this stuff in the past.Only 3 home games left in 2007 anyhow...and thanks to the brilliant scheduling, two are on weekdays, so the attendance & subsequent garbage won't be near what we saw on Saturday.

I can't blame anything on K.e.n.t. fans. We outnumbered them 20-1 in that lot. Maybe more. If the place was a wreck, it is our fault. I agree with Bleacher Bum -- We have it pretty good in that lot. The environment was AWESOME Saturday. We need to keep the place in decent order or the Administration will enact some stupid policy that screws us. It should be common sense to keep the lot clean and bag your garbage...just like it should be common sense for guys in my office to lift the toilet seat when they take a leak...but apparently a lot of people are just flat-out slobs. My solution: Have the parking attendants mention "Keep the Lot Clean" when people pull in the lot. Put up a sign or two too. And if someone next to you is being a slob, hand them a garbage bag.

You're a genius. And someone had complained there was no humor on this board?

Beware washing the shot glasses. The letters peel off as soon as they get wet.

All pretty legit points.We beat K.e.n.t. with:* A Soph QB in his first start* A Center in his first start...and an OL where Kemme was the only player with any experience* A WR corp that had lost 2 of our top 3 players from '06Our offense is SO unbelieveably young. Yet we put up 27 points against the MAC East's *allegedly* #1 defense. No Nate Robinson on D...and he had a tremendous start to the season. (he'll play at UConn, BTW). No John Mackey.We basically went into the game and beat K.e.n.t. with one hand tied behind our back! This was a game where Brookhart shines over Lee Owens. No way in hell an Owens' led defense makes that stop at game's end. Our offense is a sometimes-ugly work-in-process...but the defense is steller, and that should win us a lot of ball games this fall. BTW : UConn WAXED Pitt in Pittsburgh last night. I turned it off when they were up by about 30 pts. Our offense is going to need to play like they did in the 2nd half vs. K.e.n.t. if we're going to have a shot.BTW2: CMU got blown out by a 1-AA team on their home fieldBTW3: Miami got blown out 42-0 at Colorado...after losing by 37 at home vs. Cincinnati

Just because they merited coming back to the top. Nice job everyone!

Gary Waters and Keith Dambrot on the same sideline! We'd RULE in hoops!

Nice work on the board thusfar Bill!

Cracked me up!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:ROWDY REEFER!!

Toadette Jablonski from the F.lash Alumni Association Tailgators sent me a personal message letting me know their group "Wished the Zips the best on Saturday," and said "Ya'll can stop over at out tailgate party at anytime!" Here's a pic Toadette sent:I didn't realize they made those temporary tattoos in XXXL?

Click me to read first-hand how vicious one's head can be bitten off! Absolutely SAVAGE!

His post meant: YSU doesn't have a BCS ($700,000) pay-out game scheduled for 2009. Thus there might be an opening to play the Zips. While the Zips would only pay about $175,000-$200,000, it would be a bus trip for YSU and a good recruiting tool for them in Akron. If no BCS school picked up YSU for 2009, it would make a lot of sense for them to come to Akron. If they find some BCS school who'll pay them $700,000 to get mauled, they should probably take it.

It is (or, would be) a 7th home game. And it would be a sell-out.We will have a brand new stadium and you don't want to use it? I don't understand.We need to finance our stadium somehow. We need to funnel money to the new businesses surrounding the stadium. If we have the opportunity to utilize the facility, and sell the facility out, we MUST take it. It is smart business.

If YSU came to Akron in 2009, that would give us 7 home games for the inaugural season. How can anyone complain about that? That would include the following guaranteed sell-outs:K.e.n.tYSUIndianaObviously the other games would draw very well too.A seven game home schedule with three guaranteed sell-outs would be a great way to open 2009!