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+1. He really is! I didn't think much of him last year - looked far too skinny & timid. This year he's transformed into a player who really passes the eyeball test, seems more than comfortable on the field, smooth, calm & pretty fast! A really nice combo. Plus he's got good hands. His demeanor on his TD catch over the middle against VMI was spot-on, as if he'd scored 100 TD's before that one. I like him. Good ol' A.J. Price, on the other hand, looks like it's going to take him a season to adjust.

B&G, it is on. I do believe he just Price-is-Righted your a$ CAREFUL! I couldn't find the clip sans the F-bomb!

FIU 35 Zips 10

Did Holmes play in the second half &/or OT? I don't believe I ever heard his name mentioned after half time.

Great quote from Gaffney's article here: As Chisholm attempts to become the Zips’ first 1,000-yard rusher since Dennis Kennedy in 2008, he would not gloat about the schools that did not believe in him. “I don’t like to think about that. I am here now and I love it,” Chisholm said. “The feelings I have now, I would not imagine in a hundred years. The coaches I have here … coach Ianello, I love him. Coach Miceli, I love him. They treat me like no other. “Everything anyone ever told me here has been the truth. I would not want to be any other place.” Not Hargrave Military Academy — or Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Connecticut and Rutgers.

25 years ago it did. Today is doesn't. The game is about passing (not that running isn't important). I've been saying it for year now. This is going to sound discombobulated because I don't entirely remember the context of what was said, but on some NFL talking heads program, a moderator threw out the question to two former players-turned-commentators about who their top 5-or-so offensive skill-player selections would be. They chose QB's & WR's. Neither of them chose a single running back (let alone a Fullback). The moderator was surprised & threw out the names of a few of the NFL's top RB's. Both former players-turned-commentators said to the effect that, "In today's NFL the RB is a throw-in player." Wow. Shows how the game has evolved.

@ BigZip - There are more people in my office cubical than there are at an actual game in Akron. Ooh,

Which is pathetic. I still can't believe we don't have 5500 people in the Akron area that want to come to games at the JAR. There are very few things I enjoy more than Zips basketball.

I wasn't able to see the live video feed on Saturday. Were our kickoffs any better than they were against VMI?

Anyone else not getting video?

FWIW, I could tell that's what you were getting at w/ that stat.

I saw many red shirts piled up on a table. I asked what they were going to do with them and they said they planned to donate them. Not sure how this helps lessen the red plague in NE Ohio. Im cool with it if they donate them to communities outside the country.... Very true. A few years ago I was on a mission trip to an orphanage in out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-Russia and saw one orphan kid wearing an Akron t-shirt and one wearing a Canton McKinley t-shirt. It was pretty cool.

Divying up a rivalry by respective sports is interesting. I'd hesitate to do that. It's just plainly evident that our main "rival" if you will (or don't use the word if you don't want to. "Competition" will do just fine.) for the hearts of Akron-area residents is Columbus. Can't is also a rival, and I'd say a more bitter rival due to familiarity, proximity and competition not just for sports-fan loyalty, but for potential student enrollment as well. (However, I'd rather someone identify w/ the suburb of Can't than with a city 2 hours away. How insulting.) But, what's also painfully clear is that very few in the Akron area have any self-respect at all. For them it's all about Columbus and/or Cleveland. Pathetic. Of course UA, courtesy of the product they've offered on the gridiron, has not helped the cause.

I saw many red shirts piled up on a table. I asked what they were going to do with them and they said they planned to donate them. Not sure how this helps lessen the red plague in NE Ohio. They should count them, donate an equivalent # of Zips shirts, and then burn them.

That's right. If you're smart, you can get away with lazy. If you're a hard worker, you can get away with stupid. But if you're both stupid and lazy? Your only hope is hitting the lottery.

You nailed it. It's almost like we need a section on the hill for the "Super" ROWDIES. It's really hard to get into a chant if no one else around you is joining in. As for me, my throat is sore, so I did my part... That's one of the big reasons they are separated for basketball games. We show up to the games to affect the final score, not to chat with friends and only cheer when somebody with a microphone tells us to. Exactly...At the next soccer match, can we get the "REAL ROWDIES" the spot right beside the opponents bench? Just wondering if that's possible Or is there any way that UA could make certain you guys are placed around the goal?

I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed this. The people I was with all thought the same thing. I think the Rowdies can be kinda spoiled. I'll just briefly mention that the bandwagon is much bigger for our nationally-ranked soccer team than for our basketball team - even though our b-ball team deserves the Rowdies to pack the JAR like they do FirstEnergy Stadium. I'd be afraid to see how sparse the diehard soccer Rowdies would be if our team would go .500 some year. I doubt we'd have a parade to Cub Cadet Field. Also, we've become so accustomed to utter Zips' dominance that unless the Zips are scoring or threatening to score, the Rowdies aren't making much noise. With soccer there should be a constant "buzz" coming from the student section/Rowdies. Not just when the Zips put the ball in the goal.

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Whoopsie. On the mac-sports live feed they may want to mute Frenchy during commercial breaks!

How pathetic. I'm so glad he was never a Zip. Besides, he couldn't hold Chisholm's jock strap. Garfield RB Tyson Gulley relegated Howard to picking splinters out of his butt during the Ohio North-South All-Star Game.

I still wish we'd move him to LB. I just think LB is more of a difference-making position than FB.

Ooooooooooh!!!

Those kickoffs were absolutlely horrible. Does anyone know what was going on there?

Well, that puts to rest any debate over whether or not uniform style matters to college athletes.

This was/is embarrassing. Someone needed to be taken behind the woodshed for this one.