Blue & Gold

Exactly. This is like Christmas morning - or a wedding day - to these young guys. Today is THE big deal. Look at Western Michigan's twitter: https://twitter.com/WMU_Football?lang=en Bowl game should have ZERO to do with this. A week or two ago UA should have had a tweet ready to go for every recruit so today they could just have some intern (or even the janitor) tweet it out when we receive the LOI. I'm certainly absolutely positive they will do this. There is absolutely positively no way conceivable that they wouldn't. Right? :/ (Btw, I know Gavin Blunt isn't signing till 2:30 this afternoon.)

Good find!! I know Jest will be back on campus in January. I suppose he'll participate in spring ball.

Link? Who's recruiting these guys for them?

Anyone know if there is going to be any Early Signing Day coverage on GoZips.com?

Miami Herald: High school star (Kato Nelson) coming home in hopes of leading a major upset at Boca Raton Bowl

Hmm... according to Rivals dot com and 247Sports dot com we're Lyle's only D-1 offer?

ABJ: Injuries to top running backs have put freshman quarterback Kato Nelson in the spotlight

That was a highly unusual and highly annoying year

ABJ: Officially the starting quarterback and playing near home, Kato Nelso ready to lead Zips Looks like GT has a little repository of articles he wrote prior to going on vacation.

I like the FAU fellas here. They seem pretty cool & it's making me more excited for the game.

Click the link and what do ya know? A human interest story. How novel. Why, O why, have we been cursed with the bush league Akron Beacon Journal?

This was mentioned in another thread, but I'll reiterate here, Gavin was named 1st-Team All-Ohio D-2 at safety for a second consecutive year.

This is where I'm at in my thinking. I'm just having fun thus far watching our chemistry develop and watching a new system. Man, are we athletic! Next year, good grief watch out!

Today he was giddily lighting up twitter about the Cleveland Browns :/

My hand's not raised. I'm thrilled with how our freshmen are playing. I forget how many times I noticed last night we were playing with 3 freshmen and a sophomore complementing either Ivey or DuVivier. I haven't seen a player as legit as Utomi in a Zips' uniform in I don't know how long. I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment & say "ever." But... Sayles is a full grown man. The foul should have been called on his dunk attempt (with under a minute left, I believe?) He went up strong and deserved that call. As LittleRooDude pointed out, I love that our big men go up strong. It's refreshing & why people buy tickets to watch b-ball at this level. Go up strong & dunk the ball or force the official to call the foul. E-Man's confidence has quadrupled this season. He wants the ball down low. Even hit a short-mid-range jump shot last night! At the end of the day, however, I think our season is going to go as DuVivier goes. Which makes sense; he's the starting PG & our only senior. It seems as if when DuVivier has his jump shot we win; when he doesn't have his J we lose. Of course, DuVivier having/not having his jump shot also presently correlates with our home/away games thus far. So we'll see. DuVivier/Utomi/Ivey is an outstanding 3-man combo & should give the MAC fits. If all three are on... forget about it.

So... has Stanford given college soccer a blueprint for how to beat the Zips? Not being educated in the game, I'm still a bit perplexed at how thoroughly we were handled last night. In the past I've wondered why teams didn't press us more on defense & make our ball handlers uncomfortable. My thought was that it must be physically impossible to keep up pressure like that for two 45-minute halves. But Stanford did.

ABJ: Zips bounce back after loss with 83-79 win over Fort Wayne

+1. UA should be flooding social media with that picture of the b-ball team in the weight room. It's sick! Definitely looks like a football team. Basketball players didn't used to look like that.