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Good news.

Rah, rah, rye! Kick 'em in the eye! Rah, rah, ree! Kick 'em in the knee! Rah, rah, rass! Kick 'em in the other knee!

What does that entail?

I like what I am seeing, but watching this game reveals how big of a jump it is from a D2 school to a D1A. This looks like a glorified D1 high school game. We should be happy the Zips didn't play either team this year. Sadly, I think you're right.

7-3 WSU @ the half.

Bump. Kick off time.

I wondered how you had heard of an ogoh. Lord knows I hadn't. Wikipedia: "Ogoh-ogoh are statues built for the Ngrupuk parade, which takes place on the eve of Nyepi day in Bali, Indonesia."

To whom? To most Zips fans, obviously. I've never seen the ZNO board light up like it did last Tuesday w/ all the Jim Tressel rumors. Maybe it as just the "savior complex" kicking in. Just because there is a mob, doesn't mean the mob is right. For sure. Just saying most Zips fans will be let down by almost anyone after having dreams of Tressel. I think Paul Winters could be great here.

Here is the link for today's Wayne State -vs- Minnesota Duluth game. Just click on the game & it'll take you to the live stream page. 1:00 p.m. [Edit]: You may want to keep in mind that Minn-Duluth is the #1 ranked team in the country, so Wayne State is the decided underdog. I guess Minn-Duluth is a powerhouse, so this may not be the best game to watch to get a first impression of a Paul Winters team.

We're lucky we didn't have to play either NIU or Toledo this year. The WMU game was abysmal enough.

When I heard the rumors I always figured it was just pot & that he just needed to grow up. Now it's obvious that he needed professional help.

To whom? To most Zips fans, obviously. I've never seen the ZNO board light up like it did last Tuesday w/ all the Jim Tressel rumors.

Btw, it's 10:00 a.m. Saturday 12/3 & on Yahoo.com's homepage "Jim Tressel" is the #1 trending topic. Click "Jim Tressel" & the first two stories that pop up are related to him declining the UA offer. Idk what's up with that, being it's a few days after the fact.

Nice.

Akron Beacon Journal

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.