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Why go for any of them when we can go for a friend of the AD? FTW

Being #1 in college soccer in the US and even going to the national championship game last year got relatively sparse coverage, but after we almost did it, I believe that there were quite a few members of the regional media who noticed it and realized they missed a story. Both the soccer factor and the Akron factor (alluded to above) contributed to explain why that happened. But I think they remember and I think they are bidding their time, and you will see more coverage this year as post season heats up. That's my prediction.

0-12 COMBO BREAKER! lol, someone brought up politics in this thread... and this is mine. First off, the "slow downward spiral" is debatable. I mean, I actually tend to agree with you, just because of the feel of things that I got off being a fan of the team through those years, but those records show some ups and downs and overall remain marginally average. 0-12 is a completely new ballpark... it's not a "downward spiral", it's an instantaneous thundering thud.

The Owls are coming off a 42-0 victory at Buffalo last Saturday in which they had a 397-161 edge in total offense and scored touchdowns on four of their first five possessions. This could get UGLY

Did you guys hear that they are handing out Delonte masks in Boston tonight?

daym! WTF happened? Loox like they got some sort of voting campaign organized for Irwin.

That's actually a damn good message, even though between the lines, it's making excuses. It's a great point, because you can't make everyone happy, and you'll go insane always bending to pressure. It doesn't change the fact that he played cleveland all wrong.

as crazy as this would have sounded a year ago, I'm starting to think that brookhart was a genius

I vote for Ampai and the two lowest guys so as not to help the close competition. Am I evil?

I don't really care if he "hurts players" either. In fact, to me, that IS football! I don't mean causing serious injuries is football, but hard hitting is. However, that all misses the point. The point, in my opinion, is how the current rules reward head hunting. Personally, I think that the "leading with a helmet" rule is a joke. But, I do not think that intentional helmet-to-helmet collisions is a joke. That's a completely different animal. I hope the difference is not subtle. But when you throw on top of that the fact that the league now mandates that anyone who get's up slowly from a shot to the head be removed from the game, you now have a circumstance where head-hunting is effectively encouraged. [edit-add players may face suspensions

Browns fans sure can cry up a river. This is not about the steelers, doofus. It's a legitimate point. Take the colors of the uniforms, and it's still true. The current circumstance REWARDS head hunting... plain and simple. In the old days, head hunting may have occurred, but it was only rewarded (so to speak) if you hit them hard enough to make them leave the game for physical reasons. Now, you simply have to hit a guy helmet to helmet enough for him to be slow to get up, and wham-bam-thankyou-mam, player is out of the game. If they are going to continue this policy to protect players from playing with concussions, then they need to flag players who knock other players out fo the game, and eject them if it occurs repeatedly. Otherwise, you are encouraging head-hunting, which I assume is the opposite of what the league's concussion policy is meant to do.

suspend head-hunting harrison. the NFL's mandatory removal of the game of Cribbs and Massaquoi rewards helmet to helmet headhunting and it's really stupid. I understand the safety issues with concussions, but we already have pink-skirt rules in the NFL anyway. Harrisson should have been flagged on the first shot on cribbs, and ejected for the second shot. Two players removed from the game because of that crap.

If this is true, then it suddenly adds a lot more credibility (in my eyes) to the allegation that Wistricil closed-mindedly pulled for one of his old buddies/associates.

That's pretty cool. I would have asked Sam if he keeps a frozen clone of Brian Sipe that he can thaw out for the zips and coach. Dave Logan and Ozzie Newsome too.

This was the best one yet... the second silver lining about these losses are CK's blogs

I was tempted to ask zipmeister put me on the quit on the zips list (it was he who made that list, right?) after the kÉnt game... but to be perfectly honest, I'm pretty sure I'll still be watching this year. The point is, an O-fer season should never ever ever have happened, because we have Can't on the schedule ever year. This is shameful and disgraceful. The gardiner webb game was bad, but it was still meaningless. If we can't even beat Can't, then it's not a question of winners or losers, we are failures.

I disagree.... just because the people near the centerline have some room in front of them doesn't make the design inferior. It actually makes the design geometrically superior. Everyone with front row seats is almost exactly the same distance from center court. So, the guy with front row seat 3 sections down is just as close to center court as anyone else, but he isn't any farther from the far basket than a square design.... and the great thing (again) is the sight-lines, because that guy 3 sections down from center doesn't have to crank his head nearly as far when the game is at the far basket than he would on a square arena.

seatbacks are nice... I love the circular design. Every seat seems to face center court.

I doubt anyone would share their rub recipes, but what kind of smokers do you have, and what do you smoke with?

Yeah, I have a feeling some people are not differentiating between gross revenue and profit. I'm not saying whether or not soccer could turn a profit (or a larger one) over football, but it would be interesting to find out. The point is not whether the Info exceeded $800 in ticket sales (for example), because the football budget of expenses could be much higher. What is the bottom line of each program?

wow

That's the difference that I am talking about. If we scheduled BCS teams and won some of them, that would actually help recruiting. If we shedduled BCS teams and lost almost all of them, that actually hurts recruiting. Whether or not scheduling cupcakes and winning helps recruiting is debatable... but I still think no one wants to join a loser. We need to ease up on the scheduling a bit until the ball starts rolling.

but your recruiting slowly erodes when you don't win. Football players want to win. They don't want to walk off the field into that locker room a loser. If the wins come on the head of un-prestigious opponents, that's something slightly more nuanced to deal with. Talented players (just like all players) want to go somewhere and be apart of something great and something fun. It's no significant consolation when someone is recruiting you for a mid-major that has a consistently losing record to have them tell you that they are playing more BCS teams than the other guy who is winning. Over-scheduling is a good thing if you overschedule within reason. Get the winning started first... even if you have to underschedule first to do that. When the ball is rolling, then set the bar higher.

Maybe if Coach Heacock, or Hiccup, was still here, but not anymore lol! YSU is off to a 3-1 start after winning three in a row at home against the defending Pioneer, Northeast, and Missouri Valley Conference Champs. In 2012 and 2013, I believe, the FCS teams have 12 game schedules due to the # of Saturday's during the regular season, perhaps we can meet up then! I figured I could unlurkify you.