Blue & Gold

+1. Keep it classy, Akron.

+1. He's huge. I wish he were lining up @ LB for the football team.

I haven't read through this thread, so please forgive me if I'm just reiterating what has already been posted. However, this topic comes up occassionally & I usually post - more-or-less - the following: I'm of the belief that D-1A school administrators essentially consider athletics a large part of their advertising campaigns. Accountants don't combine the two, but that's how I'm sure school administrators feel about the athletic programs. Schools - outside of the Ivy League, I suppose - almost always receive more "free" publicity over athletic, rather than academic, accomplishments.

What time? And I'm assuming it's open to the public?

Tender feet I'm glad he doesn't have an agent to suggest that he not play and risk further injury to jeopardize his career. So he didnt start because of tender feet but he played the rest of the game? I am glad he was able to play but then why start off the game with three straight runs? Script plays to take advantage of...the #2 running back. Great plan. He didn't finish the rest of the game. He ended up with only 12 carries. Plus, our #2 - Karl Bostick - is pretty good in his own right.

Oh, that's right! I had forgotten about that.

+1 Still one of the most ridiculous, classless things I've ever heard of. Love that Nano ran over to the student section after the game winner, ripped off his shirt and taunted the crowd. Typically not in favor of that type of stuff, but they totally deserved it. Umm, inside joke? What are you guys talking about?

10/10/11 ABJ

"A lackluster win for FIU Golden Panthers over Akron"

Oooh. Just heard Frenchy state that FIU has 400-some yards to our 160-some. Ouch.

Down by only 3 heading into the 4th! Good, competitieve game! I'm pleased! Man, I wish I could be there. What a beautiful day!

Ahh! I see we scored again! Could someone tell me how we scored our second TD?!

I've missed most of the action d/t a wedding. Did I just hear Frenchy say we only have 5 first downs? That simply will not do.

I thought it was just my laptop... that does suck. +1

I'm in & out here. How did we score our TD?

Here is Tom Gaffney's ABJ gameday article.

ive noticed that... but doesnt that also call for the demolition of the decrepit tennis courts? any source for info there? You guys are referring to the proposed garden-area to the north of FirstEnergy Stadium, right?

+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.