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Ken is a phenomenal person and coach. I am pretty sure his team will be playing in the tournament this year. That said, I like what we have going on at Akron right now under Caleb and I think the Zips are going to keep growing to maintain a consistent presence on the national level.I hope everyone comes out and supports the Zips on the 16th!Looking forward to it. My son and I will be there. I never attended a soccer game before this year. This will be my 3rd and I'm hoping for a couple of more after that! I was sorry to see Lolla go but Porter has stepped in and done a nice job so far.

Maybe 3-4,000 to start. Maybe. About 300 at the final whistle. Too bad no one could clear the stadium of the leaves for a nationally televised game. I thought it was kind of embarrassing for Akron. On the plus side, we had plenty of room to stretch out.The leaves ... I was sitting there thinking the same thing. Could have been done earlier in the day pretty easily. If you saw them and I saw them then our ESPN friends could see the small piles here and there as well. I understand not wanting to put any money into the Rubber Bowl but spending a few bucks to have someone tidy up the place as much as possible before company comes over shouldn't be too much to ask. You can't polish a turd but ...

Any thoughts from the board on Solich's time-out with 4 seconds left to get one last play (a TD)? A little pissed at Akron for scoring our last TD to push the score out to 48-31 or just playing all the way to the end?

I just took another look at the men's basketball schedule and noticed that game time for the 1/17 home game against OU is 9PM!?! The game is scheduled to broadcast on ESPNU and my guess is we're the lucky ones who get to be game #2 of a Thursday night ESPNU double-header (Bowling Green plays at Buffalo at 7PM but neither lists ESPNU on their schedule). Isn't 9PM WAY past the bedtime of many who regularly snooze in the lower blue chairbacks? Should be a fun one ... I hope the snow stays away this year!

Captain ... any opinion or word as to whether Swiech will red-shirt or not?

Upper chairbacks are still $175 PLUS ... a $5 handling fee

Thank you ziptrumpet87. Nice find and thanks for sharing with the rest of us. Too bad you had to go all the way to Cincinnati to get info on the scrimmage held here in Akron. Excuse me for not checking our local crap newspaper but was there ANY mention of the scrimmage at all in the last few days in the Leaking Urinal? If/when the ABJ goes under, I hope "Disdain for The University of Akron" is listed as one of the causes of death.

We get Gonzaga this year? I thought it was Wyoming at home.

Damn it ... BG interception and return for a TD. 31-6. Put TWO forks in them ...

4:10 to go 2nd. FG BGSU. 24-6 BG.Would have been another easy TD if not for a nice tip of a pass by Mackey.

Touchdown Bowling Green!!!!! 21-6 with 8:40-ish to go in the 2nd quarter. Has anyone seen our defense????

WHOOPEE!!!! Another Akron FG. 10 and change left in the 2nd quarter. BGSU 14 Akron 6.

WAY too frickin' easy. 14-3 BGSU with a few seconds left in 1st quarter.

I agree. What do we have to lose at this point in the season?

Field goal ... whoopee! Hit the left upright but went through. BGSU 7 Akron 3. 4:11 left in the 1st quarter.

Wow ... easy drive for a touchdown on the opening drive by BG. 12:02 left in the 1st quarter. 7-zip BGSU.Looks like "little" Ryan was pretty fired up before the game. After the easy TD, he probably just a little po'd ...

CJ7 starting in place of suspended CJ11 (unspecified team rules). CJ11 will only play if CJ7 gets injured. Kicker Domonkos also suspended (class attendance/grades) for the rest of the season.BG's leading rusher, Geter, is out as is their #2 receiver.Sure would like to get the win tonight.

Akron 78BGSU 63 I HATE when I do that. That is my basketball prediction (both games).BGSU 31Akron 24CJ7 does a bit better but our defense gives up too many points ...

I LOVE our size this year and I'm really looking forward to the basketball season. I'm going to seek therapy if they treat me like the football team has this year! :chair:What do you guys think the chances are that Swiech will redshirt this year? Do Wood and McKnight help out at center with Bardo or do we end up playing two freshmen at center in Bardo and Swiech and leave the forwards at the forward position?

I sure hope Lou and ESPN2 Company take the time to use the men's restroom as WE know it. A trip to the vererable (i.e. old, delapidated, crappy, etc.) Rubber Bowl wouldn't be complete without it.I'll bet our athletic department can't WAIT for the OU game to be behind us. The product on the field and the field/stadium itself are both embarrassing ...

Another one bites the dust ... Zippy is now a perfect 7 - 0. Way to go everyone. I think we finally got some help (respect) from the others this week.Here's my take on how we vote in Week 8. As always, chime in if any of you see it differently ...BIG RED (3-4) over Monte (3-4)Both are 3-4 but Big Red trails by about 3400 votes overall. Monte is also a previous overall winner.JOE BRUIN (4-3) over Goldy Gopher (3-4)Joe Bruin actually has a better record BUT UCLA is a smaller school (38000 vs. 50400 at UM; UM is #4 in the country in enrollment) and it may be time to start shaping who we want to go up against in the playoffs. Send Goldy into the tank so he misses the Top 6 cutoff?SEYMOUR (2-5) over Hokiebird (3-4)Poorer record and also behind the bird by about 3500 votes overall. Hokiebird "played" us tough earlier and is probably another mascot that we don't want to face in the playoffs.CAVMAN (4-3) over Cocky (3-4)Another chance to knock a former winner out of the Top 6. SC's total enrollment is also about double (39000) that of Virginia's (20000). Cavman also trails Cocky by about 2400 votes overall.ZIPPY (7-0) over Cosmo (4-3)Go Zippy!OTTO (3-4) over Hairy Dawg (3-4)Both 3-4 but University of Georgia enrollment is double (33000) that of Syracuse (16000). Syracuse fans are also VERY apathetic right now regarding their football program and their mascot is just a big orange blob. Give me Otto in the playoffs over Hairy Dawg.

Sucks to be behind this morning (I think). Is anyone else getting an error when they try to access the capitalonebowl.com web site? I'm assuming Zippy is safe since she was up by almost 1200 votes when I went to bed last night around 11PM. Sure glad this wasn't one of those Mondays where we had to mount a big push. Here's the junk I'm getting ...Server Error in '/' Application.Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --><configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web></configuration>Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --><configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/> </system.web></configuration>

I'm serious when I ask this. I really find the whole recruiting thing borring so I really don't follow it....What makes those web pages experts? There are hundreds of potential players out there. How do they know who is good or not? How does a player get on their page? Who decides who is good or not? What do the different "star" levels mean?A-M-E-N GP1!

As someone commented in another thread a while back, Akron probably isn't in a financial position to terminate JD now. Would love to be a fly on the wall in Mack's office.

I think she is being buoyed by our men's basketball and soccer programs. There is no way football is getting it done.Pretty bad when your mascot has a better chance to go bowling than the football team!