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Vince Hill... what an unstable flake.

This is kind of surprising to me. With 14 rotation worthy players on the roster and 5 of them being freshman you would think more than 2 would be redshirted. I can't imagine we would run with a 12 man rotation. If you're not going to use 1 or 2 of those guys why not redshirt them and get an extra year out of them?I agree. It pains me to watch a player burn a possilbe red-shirt year and yet only play 30 seconds a game. I don't think that helps the team, let alone the players' confidence & development much.

Sounds good. I take it Big Brother cannot keep people from smoking inside the new club since it will be a private establishment?

Zipsrifle, what were you speaking of with this quote. Did I miss an announcement or something, or have you noticed a trend over the past couple of years that escaped me?It's more a trend than anything, at Akron:2000: 2001: OSU, Purdue2002: Iowa2003: Wisconsin2004: Penn State2005: Purdue2006: Penn State2007: OSU, Indiana2008: Wisconsin2009: IndianaDoing a little research:BGSU:2000: Mich2001: NW'n2002: 2003: Purdue2004: 2005: Wisconsin 2006: Wisconsin, OSU2007: Minn, MSU2008: MinnesotaBSU:2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: 2004: Purdue2005: Iowa2006: Indiana, Purdue, Mich2007: Illinois, Indiana2008: IndianaBuffalo:2000: 2001: 2002: Minnesota2003: Iowa2004: 2005: 2006: Wisconsin 2007: PSU2008: CMU:2000: Purdue2001: MSU2002: Indiana 2003: Michigan2004: Indiana, MSU2005: Indiana, PSU2006: Michigan2007: PSU2008: Purdue, IndianaEMU:2000: 2001: 2002: MSU2003: 2004: 2005: Mich.2006: MSU, NW'n 2007: Mich. NW'n2008: MSUCan't:2000: Purdue 2001: Iowa2002: OSU2003: PSU2004: Iowa2005: MSU 2006: Minnesota2007: OSU2008: Miami:2000: OSU 2001: Mich., Iowa2002: Iowa2003: Iowa, NW'n2004: Mich.2005: OSU 2006: NW'n, Purdue2007: Minnesota2008: MichNIU:2000: NW'n2001: Illinois2002: Wisconsin2003: 2004: 2005: Mich, NW'n2006: OSU, Iowa2007: Iowa, Wisconsin2008: MinnesotaOU:2000: Minnesota2001: 2002: 2003: Minnesota2004: 2005: NW'n2006: Illinois2007: 2008: OSU, NW'nTemple:2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: PSU2004: 2005: Wisconsin2006: Minnesota, PSU2007: PSU2008: PSUToledo:2000: PSU 2001: Minnesota2002: Minnesota2003: 2004: Minnesota2005: 2006: 2007: Purdue2008: MichiganWMU:2000: Wisconsin, Iowa2001: Mich.2002: Mich, Purdue2003: MSU2004: Illinois2005: MSU2006: Indiana2007: Indiana, Iowa2008: IllinoisSo, yea, Each MAC school plays just about 1 B11 opponent every year since 2000. Looks like almost every MAC school has scheduled a B11 opponent for the last 4 years (including this year). When is Toledo gonna step up and play OSU? I thought the OSU signed a deal to play every Ohio MAC team? And whats with Indiana and Minnesota playing all the MAC teams? Also, I'm amazed at how WMU got Indiana at home last year and Illinois at home this year!Oh, dude, you're so right. My question was a complete brain freeze - when you said Big 11 I was thinking you meant the Big 12. Yeah, of course you meant the Big 11(10). My bad. Dumb question.

Zipsrifle, what were you speaking of with this quote. Did I miss an announcement or something, or have you noticed a trend over the past couple of years that escaped me?

Good idea. I've been saying for a couple of years now that we should intentionally try to stoke up a rivalry w/ Toledo. It's a natural rivalry-in-the-making. And, aside from the last 2 years, they have had an outstanding FB program.

Can't we ask Goodyear to fly the real blimp over The Info for our home games? It's certainly going to be a community event and I see the blimp out flying around all the time anyway.

Can Brett McKnight play the 2-guard spot? That would give us a huuuuge starting lineup:C - 6-10 SweichPF - 6-8 CMacSF - 6-8 Linhart2G - 6-5 BMacPG - 5-10 Steward

I always used to feel as if we had a shot in any game when we had a good QB (Charlie Frye), but last year's absolutely lousy QB play still haunts me in my dreams. I don't think we're going to be able to consistently run the ball against Wisky, so, yeah, I think we're in trouble. I just can't get over how disappointed I am/was in the QBs last season. I've never seen anything so poor in D-1 ball. I'm hoping that Matt Rogers is a revelation and winds up being MAC Frosh of the year. Other than QB this team is incredibly talented (w/ questionable WR's, but I'm optimistic.) But even if Matt Rogers is a revelation, Wisky will be his first D-1 game and I wouldn't really expect him to start getting real comfortable in the offense until about week 3 or 4 anyway.If we get good QB play we win the MAC; if we get the same QB play we got last year we go 0-6 in the MAC East.

Yep. Pitt, 'Cuse, Louisville & Cincy. I agree; those are exactly the teams we should be playing.

How could you have missed MALONE?! Come on, now!

I was thinking the same thing. I'm the same size as this kid. When I go to a D-1 college football game I want to see skilled position athletes that blow me away! I want to pay money to see athletes that leave me in shock-and-awe; athletes that cause me to say, "Whoa! How on earth does someone that size move like that?!?!" I'm 5'8" 175 and pretty athletic (if I do say so myself ). But I have no doubt that this kid could certainly run circles around me. But I wanna see WR's that can run circles around me and that are 6'2". I want to take friends to Zips' games that normally don't go to Zips games and have them be blown away by the athletes on the field, not look at the roster and say, "Man, he's small." It just adds to the area's disgusting misconception that, "ANYONE can play at Akron, right? A 3rd stringer from McKinley could start at Akron, right? Massillon would beat UA by 4 touchdowns, right?" Maybe this dude will be another David Harvey (athletically - not academically!). David was an underwhelming physical specimen but, man-oh-man, a flat-out player. But 5'9" 170 just doesn't pass the D-1 eyeball test. Sounds more like a Malone, Walsh, Mount Union or Can't WR.

Thanks for the invite, TexanMark! I'll reply too, so you don't feel shafted... but I'm not going to be able to make the 'Cuse trip either. I'm pretty busy on weekends and don't often have the ability to make road trips. But again, thank you for the invite & have fun!

Wow, what horrible news. I was planning on making a couple CVCA matches this year to see Ben play. Here's to a quick and full recovery.

He is so the man. What did we, the good citizens of this city, do to have the good fortune of having the greatest basketball player on the planet also be the most generous homeboy one could possibly imagine?

I think the Akron/YSU rivalry would be a good thing. A great way to start the year. I'd be more excited over that rivalry game than just hoping we can keep it close w/ Wisky for 3 quarters. We'd probably win 8 out of 10 games w/ YSU. They'd win once in a while, which would be a good thing for the interest of the rivalry.

Though there is a lot of disagreement about this on the board, I've thought for years that we should open up each season, AT HOME, against YSU. 1. It gives us another good weather home game - not many of those to be had in Akron, 2. Start the season w/ a W instead of an L. 3. YSU would make a natural rival w/ a good attendance 4. College programs don't get to scrimmage, or have pre-season games, so IMHO going off and playing your 1st game of the year against an elite program is just asking for a loss. Play YSU 1st, get some of the bugs out, and then go on the road to Wisky or OSU.

Yup. If we get good QB play we win the MAC. If we get poor QB play we'll be lucky to get to .500. Easy as that.

Thanks Gamechanger!!! Go Zeke! Go Zips! Can't wait to see Zeke in the blue & gold LBJ/23's!!!

All we need is a QB. Without one we're gonna be lousy again this year; with one we'll win the MAC.

No Great Lakes. Great Lakes is a Cleveland micro-brewery. I know that the BJ thinks Akron is a suburb of Cleveland, but not me! If we go w/ a special brew go w/ an Akron micro-brewed product.

If our QB play isn't drastically better this season we'll end up on the bottom. Buuuuuut, if the QB play is much improved, then we should be the best team in the league - bar none.

For convenience sake, I just wanted to move this back to the top; hope others were thinking the same.

They were motivated to play. They're human beings. They're athletes. When you get athletes together they are motivated to win at anything and everything - bowling, golf, poker, uno, duck-duck-goose, etc., etc. Athletes are ridiculously competitive like that. It doesn't matter what you're doing, you want to be the best - let alone if you're playing basketball - the game in which these athletes find their identity. These guys are not professional athletes that play so many games throughout the season that they hardly know what city they're in on any given night. Pros do often take a game "off" here or there and then kick it up a couple notches for the playoffs. That's one reason I love college sports - those guys ALWAYS want to be out there and they're out for blood. And then to not protect your home court? Pleeeeaze, those guys were motivated as all get out. The Zips were just a better team.

I can't see them keeping loge owners from brining in their laptops. They may object to me having my laptop in the lowly General Admission section though!