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Your points are all stupid...just the kind of stuff you expect from a non-Zips fan who rarely attends games and sucks most of their information from the tetes of Roger Brown, Ellen Alexander and Tammy Pluto. Your use of #5 as the poster child for Owens' great recruiting is laughable. Hey...Faust recruited Victor Green and Jason Taylor...so he was a great recruiter, right? Back to Frye....let's look at some of the other members of Charlie's Class of 2000. Kris Williams - JUCO. Minor contributor Eric Culberson: JUCO. Kicked off team before completing elegibility Marcus Whattley: Never played a down. Jermaine Warren: Never played a down. Rick VonBergen: Transferred to YSU (1-AA) Maurice Taylor: Transferred to Northern Arizona (1-AA) Doug Sutton: Appears to be elegible for his senior year after missing a year for bad grades. Jesse Scott: Never played a down Keenan Johnson: Never played a down Matt Carter: Quit. Duane Griffin: Played one year and flunked-out Aaron Feller: Dropped out If someone complains about Owens' recruiting...how can you argue? The only way to argue is to be ignorant of the facts. Then you can argue till the cows come home. I've wasted enough of my time with you, DVD1. Thanks for stopping by. You added alot to the board.

The University's Football Program will surely suffer from your decision not to attend!! Good to see Ashland Obsessed still has internet access!!

Just so you know, there are 3-somes for this event (two threesomes tee off at each hole - shotgun start). I know ZFF was a free agent a few weeks ago...not sure if he got picked up or not?

I'll be there. Sent in my $$ Saturday.

Yeah, this stuff is funnelled through Ellen Alexander to Roger Brown...but Ellen's "contacts" are former Zips coaches. Or, maybe a relative that's still close to the team? When are they going to give it up? ********************************************************************* Roger writes: Those who say University of Akron star quarterback Charlie Frye goofed by sticking around for his senior season - and not turning pro - offer this as further proof: New Zips head coach J.D. Brookhart is making dramatic changes in Akron's offense, which could affect Frye's numbers this fall. ********************************************************************** Now THERE is some condemning "proof." "....changes in Akron's offense that COULD affect Frye's numbers." There you have it...these changes COULD affect his numbers!!! If they do affect his numbers...and we win...I'm sure Charlie won't give a rat's ass. The word is out that MAC QB's can play. The word is out on #5. If he hits his receiver's in the belly this year he's gonna have nice numbers. Charlie is a 3-4th rounder today. If the Zips have a great season, regardless of his personal numbers, his status will only improve. I assume that JD's "dramatic" changes might have something to do with protecting #5, so he doesn't endure the beating he took in 2003? That's a positive for #5. Maybe not putting him in the shotgun every frigging down? That's a positive for #5. Maybe a different backfield set because he lost #42...the best blocking/protection RB we had last season? That's a positive for #5. Maybe generating a more balanced attack, so the opponents simply can't tee off on #5? That's a positive for #5. There are no changes JD could implement that would hurt #5's draft status. JD isn't stupid...he knows #5 is the Zips' meal-ticket in 2004. He'll be utilized to his fullest potential. Roger Brown is a sock puppet for Ellen Alexander, and some former Zips player/coach. The only thing that will shut him up is to win in 2004. F Roger Brown in the skull.

Is that the same Roger Brown that said #5 was definitely entering the NFL draft...and that numerous Zips were going to follow Owens to Ashland? Man, that guy has a great gig.

Click to see a kid who'd be fun to watch in a Zips uniform So far, I haven't found where he's going to end up (likely a JUCO).

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Wouldn't it be sweet if the Zips picked up 100.1 FM after Can't dropped them? Man, I'd dig hearing the Zips on FM!

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The University had demanded success from it's coaches and teams...as long as it was obtained "on-the cheap"...for years. We've been fighting with bows and arrows while the opponents have had machine guns forever. Tennis...football...track...hell, even at the intramural-level, you name it, facilities were the pits. The new rec center changes all of that. We will never really know what the "old" coaches would have been able to acheive given the appropriate training facilities. Personally, I saw Owens' "suspect" game day decisions and inability to nab a decent DC and I can honestly say 7 wins is the best you would ever get out of him regardless of facilities. Hipsher's all-too-frequent collapses were also not facility-related. Would Parks have fared better if she were hired now rather than 1997? Beats me. Seems to me WTennis is around strictly to fulfill Title 9 requirements?

Hmmmm... Asking to return to the "old" board style? Using "...........'s" Z-P: You aren't masquerading as Da ZipMan, are you??!! :blink:

Seems like, with the exceptions of Mens' Soccer and Women's Volleyball...we're mid-to bottom in all MAC standings. If you invest the $$ we've invested in all the new athletic facilities, mid-to-bottom isn't acceptable. Good to see the bar has finally been raised.

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I hope that not the same UA official that told me in 2001: "We'll win 10 more games with Derrick Tarver than without him" (at the time there was some doubt if Tarver would play because of the possible heart problems). Then again...who knows...maybe we would have only won 4 or 5 games total in 2002 and 2003?

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I said it before...I'll say it again...Johnny Long @ WR. He's awesome...either that or he has the best film editor in HS football history. Although Reggie Corner isn't a Fr., watch him too.

One Board Suggestion: Is it possible to re-format the board so more "Topics" are seen on the top? When I bring the board up on my screen, I see "Football," "Hoops" and "Others" as the topics. I need to scroll down to see the other topics. I specifically started my "License Plate Poll" in the "Other Sports" section because, if I posted it on one of the more appropriate sections below, I don't think nearly as many people would have seen it. Can we format the existing topics "2 across, 3 deep" so recruiting info (+ something else, like Z-P's aforementioned "fun" stuff) is immediately visible when the screen pops up and not buried below? I think this would help a little in generating more traffic. As a side note: If you look at the other boards with seemingly "more traffic" the content is pretty weak: Joe Fan: Post - "Go Hoos!" Response 1: "Yeah, Hoos rock!!" Response 2: "Can't wait until that first game!!" Response 3: "Yep...lotta 'Hoo Brews' goona go down that day!!" Response 4: "Hoos all goin'?" etc...etc...etc... I'm glad we don't have to sift through that crap on our board. No offense to Hoo fans...just a name that came to mind.

Dude: I recall your response to a similar Z-P malaise on the old board last year...something like "Relax...take a few Midol...I'll be over in a few days!" Remains one of my all-time favorite posts!

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Dials was a walk-on. My take is he feels he deserves a scholarship, and O'Brien isn't willing to part with one. I would think he'd be an asset to the Zips.

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Click me Seems like JD is bizzy in WPa?

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