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Quote from the article: "... the Keydets were upset by Delaware State (24-21) in their opener, then were beaten at home by William & Mary (24-7) and at Richmond (34-19). Notably, William & Mary is ranked No. 5 and Richmond is No. 7 this week in the FCS coaches poll."Hmm, VMI's 0-3 record may be a bit deceiving?

Wow! Alabama in 4 of the Top 10?! Roll Tide.

I am impressed that you take the time to influence young kids. How many kids will you be taking to the game??I'm expecting around 10 kids.

Since I was too young to remember or to even take notice, I don't know what it was like around here when I was a kid. But for literally as long as I can remember the Akron area has had no self-respect. It's all either Cleveland or Columbus.

The Hartville Giant Eagle has a plethora of O$U, Browns, Indians & Cavs garbage. No Akron Zips merch.

"...a roster makeup that has 46 freshmen, redshirt freshmen or sophomores out of the 76 UA scholarship recipients."Linky

Zips win by 14 or more.

You may not be going to games after the next five years and it won't be anything the University has done right or wrong. In fact, when you go to MAC games, you aren't seeing the highest level of competition as that level is reserved for BCS teams. Nobody likes to hear it, but that is the truth.It is hard to project the past on the future as the future is quickly becoming much different than the past. I don't even see it as the University or MAC dropping down...I see it as more of them being left behind with the changes. We'll still get mostly MAC level players, but the general landscape of college football will be different. Other than a couple "rent-a-win" games we play in early against BCS teams (those may go away), the competition will be the same as well. We may just be in our own level of football that includes a national championship playoff in addition to our league championship game. The big changes going on right now are at the BCS level and don't include conferences like the MAC.If everyone would open their mind to it, these changes happening in college football could really make things more exciting for Zips fans down the road.Should this scenario play out, I sincerely hope you're right GP1. But right now I'm still w/ Dr.Z - I'd rather be ranked #25 in the country & win a mid-level bowl @ the D-1 level than be national champs in D-2 (or whatever they'd end up calling it).

DiG, BRILLIANT! Thanks for the inspiration. Seriously, I'm going to take this angle.

I know. I know. I had actually cancelled the trip & was planning on flying solo (I even mentioned me scratching this outing in another thread). But the kids were disappointed and really wanted to go, so we're gonna go. I'm afraid of an empty stadium, negativity from the few die hards who are there, and a loss to a IAA, not to mention the 40% chance of rain.

This is an interesting thought. I'm just wondering why do you think ND would sooner join the ACC than the Big 10?

I'm bringing a group of middle school students to Saturday's game & can't find the price of a single-game youth ticket on GoZips.com.I'm hoping (though I perused the site for about 10 minutes) that I was simply overlooking an obvious link. However, knowing UA athletics... Does anyone know the pricing?[Edit]: Found it!

This is our no-win scenario game. We're playing an 0-3 D-IAA team. IMO it's unacceptable to win by less than 28.

ABJ article on the Cincy abominationFunniest RI quote: "There are some things we have to tweak,..."

I take it all back. I wrote the above before the game. They will tell their children they belonged to the science club and served food in the University cafeteria.That's hilarious. Welcome aboard and welcome to the life of a Zips' fan!

Good, Frenchy just tore into them. Amen.Hmm. Tyler Williams' red-shirt is now burned.

Poor Frenchy. At least he's paid to watch this product.

35-0 w/ about 7 minutes left till the half. Wonder if they'll try to hang 70 on us?

Just logged on to 1350 & Zips already down 7-0. Jeez, I thought I'd just miss the pre-game.

Temple really looked like the better team.

+1. Middling OOC and sweep the MAC = you're the talk of ESPN's College Gameday every day in November. Of course they'd be talking about why you don't deserve a BCS bid, but the talking heads would be talking about you none-the-less. You'd also be water-cooler talk for every college football fan in the country.Oh, yeah, and you'd likely be selling out your stadium.

We've been jealous of UT's recruiting classes for at least the past two years, perhaps, IIRC, that past 3. We're now seeing the fruits of those labors (wow, does that sound nerdy).And btw, I was watching the futbol match, so I didn't see what happened to UT's starting QB. Anyone know why he's not in there?

Good investigative reporting, DiG!

Clayton Moore a.k.a. LR8 talks about the transition from JUCO to DI-A.