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I'm afraid, now that Jim Tressel has politely declined our offer, any other candidate is going to be a bit of a let down. I think Paul Winters could be very successful here.

It is a shame that The Sentinel writer lost his job at UA over the incident. However, I don't believe the article was ever posted on GoZips.com, like the writer of this piece believes. He states, "We have tracking statistics that show where the hits on our website come from and there is proof that thousands of hits on our website came via the University of Akron's website." He may be confusing ZipsNation.org with GoZips.com? They probably did receive thousands of hits from ZipsNation.org, but UA would have never put that on GoZips.com, right? Additionally, the more credible rumor has it that Tressel was at the JAR a good hour before the game, but never actually attended the game. Finally, not to be judgmental, but even if The Sentinel is correct, it's not a very well written piece. IMHO, that hurts their credibility right there. But it's rather clear Tressel was on campus a couple (few?) times over the past two weeks.

It does seem like this is a great game every year. They showed a clip of our last second TD. NIU going for the game winning FG w/ 5-seconds remaining. Frank Solich icing the kicker. Taking a page out of the iCoach playbook!

That's crazy. A WOMEN's soccer stadium?! (No offense to the ladies.) But man, they must have more $$ than they know what to do with?

They crushed UCLA by 19, in LA.

Pretty sure it's on here Oops, I posted too soon.

What would Ianello's graph look like?

Crap!!!

Ummm.... he's never turned us down? Larry Kehres on the other hand has turned a lot of people down, Can't State multiple times. He's never leaving Mount Union. Plus, the ways a D3 program, with no scholarship component and no spring practice etc., is built, is a completely different story than the other 3 divisions. I'm not sure Kehres would even have the know how on how to get it done at this level, and he probably realizes that. +1. Unlike K e n t, I would never pursue Kehres for the HC position here. However, IMHO, I think he'd make a very good OC.

Marla Ridenour for the ABJ. I always appreciate her work and wish she would cover the Zips more often. From the article: After spending 15 years at Youngstown State, Tressel can also remind UA that there are deserving candidates from the ranks of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). One who took his program from worst-to-first is Liberty's Danny Rocco, a former assistant head coach under Al Groh at Virginia. The Flames were 1-10 the year before Rocco arrived at Liberty and have won four Big South Conference titles in six years, averaging better than 35 points per game during those four. Interesting candidate. It's nice to see she's put some thought into this. Liberty is a Christian university and I know some of their coaches, being Christian men & women, consider it a destination job. I don't know if Danny Rocco is one of those guys or not.

WR coach one of the 3 most important hires? That's kind of surprising. What makes you say that?

Cleveland State sucks. Youngstown State sucks. K e n t State really sucks. Go Akron!

True. While some teams are already putting the finishing touches on their recruiting classes for this year, our Master Recruiter only had 4 verbals. Pathetic.

Good job, Vince.

I really don't get it... What is the fascination with this guy. If people want a former Zip so badly why not get Charlie Frye or Jason Taylor haha at least people actually remember them!! I'm not sure if Withers played for Akron.. Sorry with all the obsession around here about Winters, I read your post quickly and didn't realize it actually said Withers My bad! but who is Withers? Everett Withers from UNC?? He's just referencing a running joke from another thread in which a poster misspelled Winters' name as "Withers."

Speaking of George Thomas, I hope you are all aware, that Tom Gaffeny is retiring. Tom has done a nice job covering Zips football & basketball. It has been tough to write about football the last few years. Now, we will be getting George Thomas to cover the Zips. It looks like this might be a step backwards. YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!?!

+1. I'm with Lee on this one. Paul Winters is the man.

Crap, so he tweaked a knee, huh?

And long snapper! And punter. Both graduating. Isn't LS Steiner a junior? Oooh, I hope! Let me check... YES! Adam's a junior! We're set at long snapper next year! And Wags' 1st Team All-MAC honor is long overdue. He should have been 1st Team all 3 years.

Amen and AMEN!

Good idea, g-mann. Wayne State's football roster Though I, of course, want the search committee to find and hire the best coach out there, I'm pulling for Paul Winters too. I think he'd be another KD here. Or CP, even though CP's not a native Akronite, he sure is a loyal guy. Also, it'd be nice to see a coach who really goes hard after the local talent. I'm pretty sure PW would do that. He's a successful head coach who has his team in the quarterfinals. Plus he's a good guy; the kind of coach I would have loved to play for. Not one who screams/berates, but a positive, encouraging motivator. (At least that's how he impressed me.) I like him.

if the US does well in the Olympics, Caleb Porter is going to get us worldwide media attention CP

Simply tragic. RIP Chris.

Honestly, we should start a new LeBron thread because there's a lot of negativity on this thread toward the guy who has proven above and beyond loyal to Akron & gets our name in the national media more than anything/anyone else ever has. Except maybe Jim Tressel.