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GT Courtesy of the ABJ. I appreciate how George begins his article: "The score of UA’s 43-3 loss to Ohio speaks volumes. It says that the offense stunk, the defense played wretchedly and the special teams followed suit. Time to compartmentalize, forget, blow it off and move on." It's so refreshing to have a Zips' beat writer who tells it like it is and holds the team accountable. For 20 years Terry Pluto would write, "Hey, it's just the Zips. They tried hard. Nobody cares anyway. Now, about those Cleveland Browns/Ohio State Buckeyes..."

Well, he's no Dri Archer, but I like how DJ Jones looks carrying the rock. He may not have the home run potential of Chisholm, but he hits the hole more quickly and harder and more determined and runs north-south. DJ seems okay if he only gets 5 yards, whereas Chisholm tries to dance around & hit the home run every time. Consequently, he never hits it.

Great Homecoming weekend @ UA. Football - L Soccer - L Volleyball - L Women's Soccer - L When's Rifle season begin?

Agreed and agreed. ESPN3 is great. The games have sucked.

Um, yeaaaah... so, if you could go ahead and get all of our players compliant before the season begins... yeaaah, that'd be great.

George Thomas courtesy of the ABJ. In the article Coach Bowden states he is/was expecting the QB to contribute to the running game. This runs contrary to his previously stated ideal of not having the QB run, no? Also, GT gives an intriguing suggestion: in goal line situations, put Cody Grice @ RB. Cody was an RB in high school. It could be our own version of The Refrigerator (I'm dating myself).

Thanks for the update. I'm fine with that. The lot across from Canal Park is crying out for development.

it concerns me that Coach Bowden says that BG "overpowered" us. Link. We're not going to get much bigger than DT's Caponi (SR 6-3, 278), Grice (SO 6-1, 283), Hollis (JR 6-1, 295) & McCray (SR 6-2, 318) or DE's James (SR 6-3, 250), Capi (SR 6-3, 249) & Presley (SR 6-2, 223). Looking at all of those Seniors, if our DL is getting "overpowered" this year...? Uh, oh.

In recent year's past we would have won 3-0. So the win is great but the lack of being able to finish still has me concerned.

Very discouraging loss.

Agreed. If you can't run it in on two tries from the 1, then the other team deserves to win.

South Carolina beats UCF by 3. 28-25.

You guys are lame if you are underwhelmed by a 6'10" 300-pounder bringing down a backboard. Talk about hard to please. What were you expecting, a 1st-ballot Hall-of-Famer Shaq dunk?

Of course not undefeated, but who do we play every year whom we do not dominate? Who would our neck-and-neck rival be? We don't have anyone on our annual schedule who consistently beats us.

If this is our standard, then we can't have a rivalry with anyone, as we dominate everyone.

Someone had to be recording that, right?

The video feed is not working. I enjoy our annual drubbing of Columbus & I've been looking forward to watching this match (online) since the schedule was released.

Nico Caponi is not listed on this week's 2-deep Depth Chart. Someone mentioned he got hurt last week, but I've neither heard nor read anything about it since. [edit] Hmm. Surprisingly, CJ Mizell is still not listed on the 2-deep.

Wow, what a run! I'm looking forward to a great game.

I'd be ready to run through a wall!

Thank you.

Yeah, gotta give a lot of credit to Michigan there. They really did blow that play up.

So what happened to Nico Caponi. He got hurt? How severely? While watching the game, I did notice that Austin Bailey was playing some D, but I didn't noticed that it was Nico that he was replacing.

^^^The emergence of Jamel Turner is something else that was beautiful to see last Saturday that hadn't been mentioned yet. Watch Justin March's 1st interception near the end of the 1st half & watch how JT absolutely destroys Michigan's tight end. The poor guys could hardly get off the field after the play.

The above post was in the context of why Bowden didn't go for the first down and instead opted to try the field goal toward the end of the first half. I had the same thought as posted above. I actually saw Bowden's decision to go for 3 as a sign of confidence. He saw that we didn't have to gamble & run trick plays to stay in this game. We just had to play our game & go toe-to-toe with them.