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Piss away, MDZip. Welcome to the club. I have spent all day studying in an area of the country where it has already started snowing!I wore shorts, a t-shirt and flip-flops out to dinner last night. It's a little cool today so I'll probably replace the t-shirt with a sweatshirt tonight.I knew there was a reason I didn't like you!

Piss away, MDZip. Welcome to the club. I have spent all day studying in an area of the country where it has already started snowing!Yeah, but you can always saunter down to the ORIGINAL Primanti's whenever you get a hankering for fries and slaw on your sandwich I'm living in Scranton now though. :/ No more Primanti's for me for a while.

Piss away, MDZip. Welcome to the club. I have spent all day studying in an area of the country where it has already started snowing!

The real problem here is that D-1A football and basketball serve as minor leagues for the NFL and W/NBA. There isn't a lot of money in any of the other olympic NCAA sports. Soccer and hockey aren't popular enough in the US and MLB has it's own minor league system. If D-1A football and basketball were removed from the NCAA and transitioned to minor league professional sports, you'd see a return of the student-athlete and the original intentions and dignity of the NCAA would be restored. But it will never happen.I think the MAC is now officially screwed, but I also believe the NCAA is going to have a lot of logistical problems with this. They just crossed a threshold that was formerly black and white and now introduces every shade of gray and colors. IMO this is analogous to the Catholic church no longer saying life begins at conception but at some random time afterwards. This really is Pandora's box for the NCAA.

Nah, what did Joe in was that he trusted without verifying, a common mistake across the generations.Another common mistake across the generations is to trust in the belief that everything in the past is inferior to everything in the future or vice versa, again a case of trusting without veryifying....and trusted his nephew assuming blood runs deeper than cash and power.

Dave don't know Marlo. It was only Marlo's way in his world. That's why the co-op didn't last.DiG seems to be more like the Proposition Joe type to me. And clearly, that means he doesn't understand Marlo.

Looks like WVU to Big XII. I guess schools with low academic standards like Baylor and Texas will have another friend to play football with.Want to know why teams like Missouri, WVU, etc. are passing on the Big Ten? It has nothing to do with academic standards and the Big Ten passing on them. If it was, Nebraska wouldn't get in. It's because the league is crap and schools want to be part of something bigger, not smaller. Adding Nebraska to the league does nothing more than add an average Big 12 team to the league. Granted, Nebraska is still better than 90% of the Big Ten, but the rest of the league isn't very good.Academics have noting to do with the moves conferences are making.You honestly believe that WVU and Missouri took a "pass" on joining the Big Ten? Wow. They would kill to get an invite.Maybe pass isn't the right word. They looked at better options. Missouri was always rumored to join the Big Ten and they didn't because the SEC is a better league. WVU didn't go crawling on their hands and knees to the Big Ten. Outside of Notre Dame, future Big Ten expansion will be adding garbage to an already bad league. Certainly not a Leader in college football.They aren't the Legends they proclaim to be either.

Besides the Zips, the Lobos haven't played anyone. Also, NIU is #16! Looks like the MAC may get 2 teams in.It is definitely good for the MAC to get two teams into the Tournament; however, the last thing I want is to see a Zips-NIU match-up in the Regional. We will likely play NIU in the MAC Tournament and a third time would be really lackluster. It's also very hard to beat one team three times in a season. NIU is too good and we are too inconsistent this season for them not to beat us once given three attempts.Part of what gets me excited about the Tournament is that the match-ups are forced in that big name programs such as UNC/Duke/UVA/UConn/Stanford/Cal who would not play us at home are now forced to do so. These are big name schools, which in the public's eye puts us on par with them. NIU is just another directional state school in the MAC to the lay person.

I am relaxed. I thought my response was pretty balanced. And, I'm still not buying any MAC "building process".Always the bad guy / troublemaker, huh, GP1? +1 to MaxZIP on taking wins however they come.

@trimmy10, the above statement makes it clear that you believe that Ianello would rather win than lose. This was not clear from your exchange with GP1: I think he wants to win. The problem is his ideas on how a team wins are wrong.We can agree to disagree. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter because the outcome is still the same.Right. I don't think he cares about winning now. That is not to say that he would prefer losing to winning.I'm not going to continue arguing semantics though; you made your point, DiG. I'll try to be less ambiguous in the future.It's a sad state of our program when that's what our post-game discussions involve.

I'm a bit disappointed in you, DiG. You're one of the most solid, logical, and level-headed posters here, and I've never known you to put words into anyone's mouth but that seems to be what's happening here. What ZtZ and I have essentially said is that there is no emphasis on winning because we're still in the building process. The current attitude is that if we happen to win while playing a scrimmage style game, great. If not, no big deal because it's all about developing the players, schemes, etc. A NE Ohio sports fan should easily recognize this mantra from Cleveland professional sports...always rebuilding...and all the fans continuously drink that Kool-Aid, which just perpetuates the cycle.However, this is a far cry from saying iCoach would rather lose than win. Where did you come up with that notion anyhow? It was never stated implicitly or explicitly.

if Ianello (or maybe the OC, I don't know who calls the plays) preferred winning, we wouldn't kick a FG when down 20. Whether you make it or miss, you're still down by three scores. It does absolutely nothing to help you win. It's just basic math. So you should go for the TD because if you get that you can cut it to two scores and then the onside kick is actually meaningful. Our players aren't dumb, they can do the math. They saw that by choosing to kick a FG in that scenario our coach chose losing over winning. To a person with the mindset of our coaches, purposefully blowing the chance to win with plenty of time left gives the staff the opportunity to run the plays that they feel need to be evaluated in a game situation. Halfway through the season they're more concerned with putting together schemes than winning. They're doing the stuff that should be done in the spring and pre-season while other teams have successfully completed most of that stuff by the second week and are putting it into practice to try and win games.This says it all for me, DiG! iCoach is complacent about winning because he seems to think he has at least another three seasons to do so.

I think he wants to win. The problem is his ideas on how a team wins are wrong.We can agree to disagree. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter because the outcome is still the same.

A problem this big isn't caused by only one person. The current condition of the Zips football program is due to a broken system. Coach I is going to do exactly what he said he was going to do in his job interview. He didn't hire himself. The AD and a hiring board of God knows who...I can only assume complete incompetents hired the guy. Firing Coach I isn't going to solve the entire problem.It's not a system, it's a process. Call it what you want, it's not working. And iCoach has no intention of winning...his play calling and game decisions are all the proof you need of that. Where are all the commitments from these 3/3+ recruits that our "recruiter" of a coach should be landing? A gorgeous fall day of football and the best part is the partying that takes place a few hours BEFORE the game!And to anyone supporting the program after this year, you're just contributing to the problem. I hate to say it, but the only thing that will get iCoach out after two seasons is a concerted effort from the fans/alumni. From the end of the season forward until iCoach is gone, that is likely the best thing we can do to show our support and to improve the program.I am amazed that the players remain motivated to still play hard. And whoever said that on an individual basis, we match up evenly on talent with most other MAC teams is spot on! It's the coaching that is lacking and preventing these players from performing well as a team.

A decent win, but we need to snap out of this complacency...when playing a good team or in poor weather (such as the other night), we won't have the luxury of easily turning the game around for a comeback.

The flood gates are open. I was really worried about this one when it was 2-1.

Thanks for sharing the video feed.The ball seems to play very quickly on the turf. With precision passing, this should be to our advantage.UB has a terrible venue for soccer.Are we in the white or blue? I really hope the blue because possession is too one sided otherwise.

I appreciate you doing this too, mes102.

Damn...what do they say at OSU, Muck Fichigan?This is a tough loss to take.

Am I able to follow the game anywhere other than the Big Ten network?

I hate to say it, but a tie against a struggling program is the equivalent of a loss.

We really need to pull this one out. A tie against a weak Michigan program isn't going to look good on the resume.

Are we down 1-0?

28-17 OU wins. Chisel goes for 125 and 2 TDs, and LR8 has nearly as many rushing as passing yards.

+1.