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Precisely what I do ☹️☹️???

I sincerely think we can win today. (I hope I'm not jinxing the team.) We played Miami tough last year so our team (defense) will come into the game with a lot of confidence. Keep feeding Dollard and control TOP. Use Gibson to keep Miami's D honest. Keep Miami's offense off the field. Miami's defense has been able to stop neither Ball State (giving up 31 points), nor Buffalo (42 points). While Miami's offense hung 38 points on Ball State, they were held to 10 points by Buffalo. I still don't know what to expect from our young team, but again, I think we can get the W today. Go Zips!

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Go on... ?

Currently the GoZips.com schedule lists the January 1st game -v- Buffalo as being carried by CBSSports but all other games are currently listed as TBA. But I agree that they’d have to at least be on ESPN+.

Just saw on twitter that our first game should be (cross fingers) at home (not that it matters) on Saturday, December 5th -v- Marshall. Then we're presently scheduled to play St. Bonaventure on Tuesday, December 15th at the Quicken Loans Arena Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.

A glimmer of hope - the article says we bowed out over COVID concerns, not that we had to bow out because we had one, or more, positive tests. Idk, I may be splitting hairs. Stay safe, young guns.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! That's the women's schedule^^

But wait!!!...

LIIIIIIIIES!!! ???

Ranked ahead of Southern Miss. & Rice, and just behind WKU (...who has a record of 4-6?? ?).

Yeah, baby!!

That cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh!t Beacon Journal has never published a Zips article 1/10th this good: Hallelujah! Holy Sh!t! Where's the Tylenol?!

Very interesting. To say the least. You smokin' something, Hilltopper?! Lol I'm gonna go with: 1. LCJ 2. Trimble 3. Dailey 4. Reece 5. Currie Next 5: 1. Tribble 2. Dawson 3. Ali 4. Marshall 5.Edwards

If anyone is interested, the game is now available to watch free of charge. Link should still work.

AJ Kirk had a tremendous game. I've seen a handful of Hoban games this season and that's the best I've seen him play. Great game from him. (Btw, Kirk is Mike Doss' brother.) On the line Darryl Peterson is Hoban's best and he was the best last night as well. He really dominated whomever he played over. Darryl is a Wisconsin commit, and another "Did You Know?," is the son of former Zips basketball great Darryl Peterson. (I am getting old ? ) Hoban uses Luke Bauer as a DE/outside linebacker - sort of how the Zips are using Ryan McClain. Luke generally lines up in the 2-technique on the line at the DE position - usually on the left it seems. He was matched up all night with Massillon RT Terrance Rankl, whom is a Pitt commit. Rankl's the real deal at 6'5" 290. I thought the matchup was a draw. Rankl didn't allow Bauer any sacks last night (though I saw at least 2 plays where holding could have been called and Bauer was in on a couple group sacks). Also, Massillon was never able to simply run behind Rankl like they pretty much have all season and Bauer made a few plays behind the LOS. So we'll see. He's already got a full-grown-man's body at 6'1", 245 and I'm glad he's going to be a Zip. The Zips have also offered Kharion Davis, whom I believe was named Game MVP. Could Kharion be the lockdown corner we so desperately need? He shut down OSU commit Jayden Ballard last night (though the best pass defense is a good pass rush and that's what we saw last night.) Covering Ballard one-on-one, Kharion was step-for-step with Ballard and then aggressively cut through Ballard's body for a big INT at Hoban's 10-ish yard line. He outfought Ballard for the ball... but that's not really saying much; Ballard is extremely athletic but awfully soft. Hopefully the Zips can land Kharion! Coach Arth should become best friends with Hoban's Coach Terrell. Lol. (And, while he's at it, with Massillon's Nate Moore as well; loads of talent on both teams - though a few of Massillon's best players this year were from... wait for it... Buchtel! Lol. What's up with that?!) Go Zips!

If anyone's interested in watching what should be a great game and Zips commit Luke Bauer, here is the link for the game. It costs $9.99 to watch.

Arth postgame presser GT asks some good, pointed questions. Asks how Kent's receivers were so wide open. But Arth is really a master of coach speak, so he sort of skirts the questions. But I'm still grateful to GT for asking questions which held Arth's feet to the fire. GT also interviews Teon Dollard (who unfortunately gave Kent bulletin board material for next year saying he felt they didn't want to tackle him. Lol.)

GoZips dot com has our first game as being -v- Kent on December 19. Our first game is still a month away? That sucks.

Do we have any non-conference games?

The MAC East is absolutely stacked. Jason Preston is elite. Of course I've got to pull for LCJ to repeat as POY, but Jason Preston, man... whew.