Blue & Gold

Bowser's the man! There is no doubt about that! But this group of 4 WR's (Bowser, Bruce, Jones & D.Miller) are the best "stable" of wideouts I can ever remember suiting up for the ol' Zippers. I don't know, some old timers may remember a better WR crew, but I sure can't & I started watching Zips football closely during Lee Owen's first season (whatever year that was; 1993 maybe?)

Please, a local homeboy who wears Yankee hats to Indians games, hangs out on the Cowboys sidelines with T.O. in dallas colors during the Browns Game and then sits on the sidelines with USC at the Ohio State/USC game, not so much a homeboy to me!Uh, hello. He's not from Cleveland and he's not from Columbus! He's from, uh, let me think... oh, yeah... AKRON! Yep, he's a genuine homeboy. Go Zips!Wow, what a great answer, ask around, I am sure people will tell you they are pretty much sick of how Mr. James has been acting lately, unless maybe he likes all the attention?I don't know. LBJ may like the attention, or he may think nothing of it. Who knows? The only thing I do know is that I've loved every minute of how Mr. James "has been acting lately,"!!! Keep on keepin' it real Bron-Bron!

Wow! It looks like they're almost doubling the height of the current structure!

If/when the football schools split from the basketball-only members, will the football schools retain the name "Big East," or will the basketball-only schools keep the name and the football schools be required to come up w/ a new label?And I was looking at the list of potential candidates for the football Big East, and maybe they'd think of adding more than 4 schools? Is that out of the question? Could they add UCF, Memphis, Buffalo, UA, and for the sake of argument, UMass and Temple as well? The new conference would then have 14 members and be a pretty tough conference:CincyUConnL'villePittRutgersSouth Florida'CuseWest VirginiaUMassTempleUCFMemphisBuffaloAkronAnd don't you think Memphis may be a little too far to the west? All that travel may end up killing them.

Please, a local homeboy who wears Yankee hats to Indians games, hangs out on the Cowboys sidelines with T.O. in dallas colors during the Browns Game and then sits on the sidelines with USC at the Ohio State/USC game, not so much a homeboy to me!Uh, hello. He's not from Cleveland and he's not from Columbus! He's from, uh, let me think... oh, yeah... AKRON! Yep, he's a genuine homeboy. Go Zips!

I voted, "Better than I thought." Jac has really surprised me! He really has been playing much, much better than last season. Also, the new batch of WR's are what I had my fingers crossed they would be. I know, Jeremy Bruce didn't have a good game against Ball State, but he remains a very real threat and one of the best players on the team. Dashawn (sp?) Miller also had an unfortunate drop against BSU, but he's an excellent receiver as well. In fact, this is the best group of receivers I can ever remember seeing: Bowser, Jones, Bruce & Miller! Wow! Owen's not bad either!Also, the OL is playing much better than they did last season.And, like our group of WR's, I also believe this is the best stable of RB's I can ever remember. We're stacked on O.D? I do love watching B-Will out there though!!!

Check out Rasor's blog. He summarizes Nike's new contract w/ UA. Very interesting stuff! Once again, LeBron proves to be a truly loyal homeboy and first class gentleman! Rock on LBJ & go Zips!!!http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/zips/

In order to perk us back up after our tough loss to an incredibly talented, NFL draft-ladden, Ball State team:We've got a lot going for us in our athletic department! I think we'd have a ton to offer the Big East:1. Don't look now (well, yeah, go ahead and look now) but our women's volleyball team just beat Syracuse. That gives our women's volleyball team wins over Air Force, North Carolina State and both Rutgers and Syracuse of the Big East.2. Our women's soccer team is off to a 5-0 start! That is a very young program that apparently has tremendous upside!3. As we all know, our men's soccer program is now one of the nation's finest! 4. Our new soccer stadium will be one of the nation's finest, incorporated gorgeously with the new "outdoor living room."5. The Info opening next season! Going to be one of the nicest, most asthetically pleasing stadiums in the country!6. The fieldhouse is presently one of the nations finest facilities which is currently used by the Big East for their indoor track championships.7. Our men's basketall program is skyrocketing.8. LeBron's a Zips fan!!!!!IF, IF, IF our football team can become a MAC power, I think it'd be impossible for this university not to be coveted by the Big East.

As far as I know, the only people chirping at the Rubber Bowl were a group of three of us... and we all sat in General Admission around the 35 behind BSU's bench. By the way, that area was almost ENTIRELY BSU... That's the reason we were sitting there...The vast majority of the comments we said were directed at our own team. Hell, we were sitting back predicting the exact play Hoke would call for the majority of the second half because he randomly goes on riffs of conservative offense that is EXTREMELY frustrating and predictable to watch. Shoot we were doing the chirp, singing the fight song, and other assorted BSU-related things...Is that to say we didn't launch a comment or two at Akron? Of course we did. The cheerleaders spelled Akron wrong after yall scored a TD (it was spelled "Akorn"). And the people who left early obviously got an earful, and we do that at home games. BSU was one of the worst teams in the country three years ago, and I never left early. Hell, I didn't even leave when CMU throttled us last season.And for the record, we were really going at the fans wearing OSU gear because I think wearing that at another school's game is unacceptable. We deal with that bull at our games too except its both OSU and the festering pit that is Notre Dame (especially).Yeah, I was sitting toward the top of that section, just above you guys, and all the Ball State fans I saw were totally cool.

P-Mac is very fair in this story, telling everyone how talented Ball State is and mentioning that Akron's wideouts should have come up with a number of passes that were dropped. Also mentions 3 deflections for INT's. http://www.ohio.com/news/top_new/28353164.html

Head injury?? leg??Don't know yet. :blink: HIPAfter the game I guess he was on the sideline in street clothes talking w/ Joe Dunn. His hip's not broken - as they first feared; don't know how long he'll be out though.

I know, I'm disappointed too. I'm beyond sick of losing too. I'm actually glad I couldn't get any of my friends to come to the game with me today (weather.) But I'm not giving up on JD yet. I don't know what to think about the 3-3-5. In my mind, I just consider it a version of the 3-4. But I do know that the D-Line has been decimated and that if we had Bain and Lively in there it may be a different story. Looking at the youth on the roster I also think our D-Line is poised to be good for years. Ditto for RB, OL, QB, DBs & WRs. I think we're in good shape but have played the most difficult part of this season's schedule under-manned.

Oh, well. Can't win them all. We'll drop a few spots but hopefully not too far. Caleb has turned this program into a consistent Top 10 club in the 3rd most significant sport in collegiate athletics! You can't buy publicity like that!

Where are the locker room facilities in this new stadium?

Unfortunately, the weather forecast for 1:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon is 70% chance of rain. Wear a poncho!

Walked around the stadium sight today. It's looking beautiful! You can see the cement stairs/tiers in the north-west section and they are already putting red brick and sandstone facing on a structure in the concourse on the western 50-yard line. The red brick is a great shade of red and the sandstone looks classy too! It's going to be gorgeous!

I may be wrong, but I think that those $17 jerseys are the old white jerseys left over from the Lee Owens era - when they still used yellow instead of gold. If not, please correct me because I'd buy a $17 blue & GOLD jersey, but not a blue & yellow one.

You may want to hold off on your purchase for another year. Odds are, we're gonna have new jerseys next season to open the Info, right?

You'd think someone on here would have caught wind of the commercial before it aired. What, is their production top secret, or do they whip a commercial like that together so fast that they may have just flown Zippy out there a day or two ago? I'm just surprised we didn't know a month or two ago that Zippy may or may not be in a new ESPN commercial.

I saw that too! He's waiting patiently to see Adrian Peterson but Peterson's personal assistant tells him that, "He'll see you when he sees you." Zippy just sort of silently sighs. And yeah, you can plainly read FEAR THE ROO!

Btw, just for kicks, what would the possibly-revised Big East look like?

Add Louisville to the rivalries list, and also don't forget our new soccer stadium - which may be the most attractive soccer stadium in the nation!

You're right. I think the 'Cuse Nation is going to be disappointed when they only rush for about 30 yards this week against Penn State.

Here's a McManamon story on the potential ramifications of the Zips win over Cuse from today's ABJ. Good story.http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/28042249.htmlPM references the media's shock and the Cuse's whinning about how they lost to Akron. He defends Akron well by stating..."Syracuse can talk all it wants about its failures, and there were many, but UA did not win because Syracuse did a Fosbury Flop. UA won because it did a lot right and deserved to win."And I think McManamon is spot-on with his view of what this means for the Akron program..."But whether the game is a new low for Syracuse — as King wrote — or the most recent new high for the Zips pretty much depends on how things go from here."

Here's a link about the story from today's ABJ (9/9/08).http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/28042329.html