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His story is amazing too...Blackburn was starting to substitute teach in Columbus mid-way through the season when he was called back to the Giants. Although he was already a Super Bowl Champion, this really is a dream come true. And what an ideal story for UA to share with the public...especially given all the prior negativity surrounding UA football. This one is nothing but positive and continues the momentum of excitement following Coach Bowden's hiring and of signing day. And let's not forget Hixson's acrobatic touchdown catch to win the Giant's first game of the season. Though forced to retire, what a way to go out, and he's still a Super Bowl Champion this season. He should not be left out of the story.

As I said last year, I love seeing us beat big-name BCS schools in any sport. It helps that tennis is relatively good, but the scheduling is highly intelligent too. MSU and WVU are the bottom dwellers of their conferences yet these appear to Joe Akron to be huge wins (i.e. if Joe Akron cares about or notices woman's tennis). Nonetheless, beating BCS bottom dwellers demonstrates that we at least belong in the conversation when it comes to being competitive at the BCS level and discussions of conference realignment. I would like to see basketball take more of this approach. It has already been the topic of another thread, and I digress... Akron woman's tennis is now very good and is an uppity sport. I wish we had the commensurate indoor and outdoor facilities on campus in place of the parking lot behind the field house. A men's team would also be a nice addition.

Typical. Then people wonder why we have an inferiority complex about OSU and why many of us consider Cleveland to be an adversary. There was no mention of this in the Leaking Urinal and worst of all, OUR OWN ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT has not made a related media release. If we don't promote ourselves, who will? Sad.

4 tackles, 2 assists, and that stellar interception...great all around game by Chase in spite of getting beat on one TD play. Very exciting. Congrats to Blackurn, Hixson, and the Giants! Very cool that I had class with both Dwight Smith and Blackburn too!

It is impressive to see how far out EMU has had to defend because of our hot shooting early. Without the deep bench and our good ball movement, I think this has exhausted them and led to weak knees and poor shooting when they were on offense. A great example of good offense being one of the best defenses. Dare I ask: Is this what Coach Porter would call Dominant Basketball? The intensity is there for us tonight. Some careless turnovers, but overall pretty solid. Let's hope our poor streak of free throw shooting is an anomaly. If we are the same team coming out of the locker room, we should cruise to the W.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/...tion-akron-zips Great to see this getting national media coverage. Was headlined on ESPN. Very exciting!

IMO, Toledo played their absolute best tonight, and we played average. The 14 point difference says a lot about the relative talent levels. Pearson had some ridiculous shots over Zeke. That guy is fun to watch!

Did CK ever post his magic Harney number for this game? If so, I missed it.

In the same way that CK is indifferent about Dan Lefevour?

If it's one of these, , try to drink it to medium empty but keep it maintained at medium full!

I wouldn't take any of the rankings seriously. How have Temple's recruiting classes been ranked? And how many MAC Championships have they won? I trust Coach Bowden's abilities as both a recruiter and a coach. Regardless of the talent, it will be coached up.

I think what CK means is that Marquette will be taking the bus to Akron.

Very professional. This is excellent. Great training for future broadcasters from UA as well.

Joe might not even notice until we beat OSWho.

We won't know for four years. Temple's prior top recruiting classes are yet to win the MAC. Sad, especially considering they are in contention for a BCS-level conference upgrade.

I stand corrected. Kudos, wadszip.

According to gozips.com, UA is 4-0 all-time against Oral Roberts. I hope KD is actually interested in winning this game. I could be wrong, but I don't think we've won more than one Bracketbuster game during his tenure. It drives me nuts that KD's approach to these games is similar to that of the rest of the OOC schedule...who cares, the MAC is a one bid league anyhow. Certainly not the attitude that will (ever) get us an at-large or inspire Joe Akron to check out a Zips game. Come on, KD, let's win this one and continue racking up the W's heading into the MAC Tournament.

http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page4754.htm "For four consecutive seasons the Zips have lost a big time goal scorer but it hasn't presented a significant problem since someone has always been on board who was capable of filling the gap. It went like this: Steve Zakuani to Teal Bunbury, Bunbury to Darlington Nagbe, Nagbe to Darren Mattocks. Zakuani left in 2008 after his sophomore season to enter the professional ranks. Bunbury did the same in 2009 after his sophomore season. Nagbe followed suit in 2010 after his junior season. Mattocks completed the cycle when he elected to take his game to the professional level in 2011 at the end of his sophomore season. The success that Zakuani, Bunbury, Nagbe, and Mattocks achieved at Akron speaks well for the program but the exit left enter right scenario of big time goal scorers looks to have at least temporarily come to an end heading into the 2012 season." I don't know who is next in the pipeline, but I believe someone will step up and leave yet another legendary impression.

I completely agree! And likewise, losses to the likes of MTSU, Valpo, and Duquesne look like terrible losses to Joe Akron even though the programs are at least respectable (Valpo and Duquesne) or having an unusually solid season (MTSU).

I actually think in most games, our bench has been better than the starters. That's insane! What MAC team in recent memory could say that?

On another forum today, DiG made a reference to statsheet.com. A few days ago, a reference was also made to a website of all archived college football scores by season. I enjoy these sites but never remember or book mark them. I would appreciate it if the moderators could make a page in the IPSbeyond pull down menu or another tab. I encourage other members to post here regarding web pages similar to those above that would be valuable to concentrate. Perhaps when the list gets long enough, we can segregate by sports. I'll start the list: www.statsheet.com www.realtimerpi.com (perhaps defaulted to the Zips' page?) www.collegesoccernews.com

You never know when Nitro might get hot though. If/when he does, it could be a crucial time for this team. Imagine the opponent that is prepared for the other 8 guys on the roster and then Nitro starts torching them. Talk about being demoralized by an unexpected secret weapon! This could very well happen in the post-season and put us over the top in a few contests.

And that is keeping the perimeter open for AA. Ah, the benefits of having a team and not just one superstar! I don't think BSU can stay competitive with us for the whole game. I think they will get worn down in the second half.

I count 3 Zeke blocks and an offensive rebound. Great to see him be so productive early even if he isn't scoring. Game Changer!

Perhaps there should also be an option for no university affiliation at all? Green High School BS Chemical Engineering, UA '03 MS Biomedical Engineering, UA '05 3rd generation UA legacy. MS Bioengineering, Pitt '10 PhD Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon '11 My athletic loyalty lies with UA. Go Zips!