UAZipster0305

The Zips are 1-0 today!

One of these days, we are gonna get together to enjoy some Zips action together!

Not over yet, but we are cruising now!

I was being facetious. It's the MAC...everything sucks except the Zips.

It's a dog fight tonight! Gotta stop UJ21 if we expect to win the second half.

While it might not be true most nights in the MAC, a win by one point tonight will be good enough. This is a trap game with poor shooting and mediocre officiating...just get the W and move on! Let's go!

Listening from my basement in Maryland...Go Zips!

I know my comment doesn't necessarily belong on the football page, but... I wonder where we are on this list for men's basketball? Despite not joining until 1992, I imagine we are near the top just below Ohio, Kent, and Miami. Believe it or not, we are among the Top 50 all-time in Division 1 wins (#48, tied with Creighton and ahead of Wisconsin-Madison): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_with_the_most_victories_in_NCAA_Division_I_men's_college_basketball Though I doubt most of those wins were against D-1 competition.

The only thing the concerns me come NCAAT time is that we get matched up against a team that has a great offense or defense (or both) and they are bigger than us. Bigger, stronger, and faster is very difficult to outcoach or outplay when all else is nearly equal.

I do not know if this is true or not, but it will become a real problem for the NFL if skill players at the college level are getting paid more due to NIL. Imagine a scenario where a player chooses to stay in school because it is more lucrative than the NFL. That's where this is headed.

There's some throat stomping going on!

I can't see Rob Senderoff and not think of Paul Giamatti as "Pig Vomit" in Private Parts.

Zips are confident, organized, and selfless. Kent looks lost. Flush the Flashes!

Without insider facts, it is impossible to say what the right course of action is, but I appreciate your thoughtfulness and perspective.

It's been a while since I have checked in with this thread, but never have I been more disappointed in my fellow UA alums and supporters, and not just this particular post. I say this as an alum and someone who is STEM faculty at a major research university (not Duke). Academic departments do not exist to serve industry nor vice versa. Rather, both coexist and grow in a complementary manner to serve an economy and create a community of support. UA's expertise grew out of the rubber industry, and because it was on the cutting edge of innovation (which all top STEM departments are), a whole new economy of polymers emerged. UA supplied intellectual property and graduates with advanced research training that allowed new companies to form and grow. This is why ACS and companies support the program, and it is the reason NEO is known as polymer valley. Now, did polymer science and engineering need an entire college unto itself with the associated overhead of administration?...almost certainly not. Being a department within the college of engineering enables the same productivity, thus it is almost certainly a better value having been consolidated. However, a drastic reduction in faculty and the commensurate decrease in intellectual property, research funding, and graduates is as bad for surrounding industries as it is for the university itself. These losses are substantial too because polymer science and engineering was one of only two nationally ranked programs at UA, along with I/O Psychology. Do you enjoy seeing UA diminished on an international or national level? I certainly do not. Do you want to see UA become exclusively a regional state university? I do not. The truth is, UA WAS the Berkeley of polymer science and polymer engineering, and Proenza was 100% correct for celebrating this fact. To Hilltopper's comment, the professor to student ratio is likely out of proportion for the polymer science and polymer engineering programs because they are primarily graduate programs in which faculty salaries are paid more through research grants, contracts, and endowment than teaching. It takes a lot more resources to mentor a graduate student to being a top scientist because it requires so much individual attention, whereas thirty undergrads can be taught in parallel via lectures and with the help of graduate students. Nearly all other departments have both undergrad and grad programs, so apples and oranges. To adzip,yes, many of the students in polymer science and polymer engineering are not Americans, but that is the result of having an internationally-recognized program. It has international reach, and the program requires students with international-level credentials, experiences, and distinctions to maintain. How many STEM faculty at any university are international? How many of our best soccer players over the years have been international? Why is this a problem? The only justification for such a reduction in faculty should be that resources previously available to support salaries were no longer available and this financial limitation was impossible to overcome through other means that were extensively explored. In any case, the loss of that many faculty in one of UA's few nationally and internationally recognized programs should cost executives their jobs. Finally, the logical disconnect between so many posters here at ZN desperate for national recognition for sports but to not care about even maintaining international distinction in academics and research is astounding. Without a doubt, the latter is easier, especially in the current landscape, given the less even playing field in athletics, which is now further exaggerated by NIL

Our leadership for the past fifteen years has to be some of the most incompetent at any Ohio university all-time. Sadly, this example demonstrates it's just continuing.

I thought that was about a decade ago.

Agreed. There was actually some respectable football played BY THE ZIPS at the end of November. Who knew it was possible?! O and D looked very good, fundamentally, most of the time the past two games.

And like you always say, @GP1, it's the MAC, you can count on teams to beat themselves. Toledo beat themselves tonight every bit as much as we beat them, but I will take it.

There you go, @tomzip! D wins us the game!!!

The D could yet win us the game!

No, Zips D is dead tired. They played well tonight. The coach has to help them out and give the offense more and better opportunities so the D stays off the field.

Great play!!!

Did our kicker from the IU game last year transfer to Toledo?

When you play conservatively (not to win), you lose.