Blue & Gold

Thanks! Never saw that before; didn't know it existed!

Where is Captain Kangaroo's recent post RUNNING VERBAL COMMIT LIST? I'd been following the conversation on that thread and it seems to have disappeared.

Gotta do whatcha gotta do! JD's bringing in premier talent. To get these sorts of players there often is a price to pay!Go Zips!

Thanks Hugo!!!* Moderator - edited*I'm not compliance director, but there is a concern regarding fans and alumni contacting recruits in any fashion. Just to be safe, please do not post questions to any known recruits on this site. Note: Please don't take this the wrong way...this isn't a "scolding"...I'm just being safe here. I'm glad Hugo checked in. Hope he likes us Zips fans. We're pretty decent folks.

Bring on Walt Harris!!!

Who are the other 4 not mentioned above?

Hey Captain,Are you certain about Sean Fobbs? Both Rivals and Scout still has him as undecided.Great list! Thanks for your research!!!Go Zips!

I was just on Rivals and they reported that we've offered McKinley RB Morgan Williams. It's about time!!! Let's keep our fingers crossed on Morgan! Dennis Kennedy seems to be a bit lacking when it comes to breaking the long runs and breaking tackles at all, for that matter. And with the injuries to Alex Allen and Aaris Reed and last year's big RB recruit Aaron Boone unable to qualify academically, signing Williams would be more valuable than ever!One question: Did JD wait this long to offer Williams (after 2 outstanding seasons at McK) because JD was waiting to see which school Frank Edmunds would choose? Edmunds ended up choosing Ball State and this seemed to coincide with the Zips' offer to Williams.

Great link uakronkid! It's absolutely unacceptable that the MAC is 5-7 against Horizon League opponents! It is also unacceptable that we are 1-3 against Southern Conference opponents! Frankly, I'm not certain I've ever heard of the Southern Conference!!!But that overall record may not be as lousy as it seems. The MAC is 0-3 against the SEC. 1-7 against the Big East and 0-5 against the Big Ten. No, that's not good, nor is it acceptable. But honestly, those losses are not surprises, nor, do I suppose they should be considered Bad Losses.What encouraged me was our record against the Atlantic-10! The MAC is 5-2 against A-10 opponents! The question was posed a week ago which conference one thought the MAC should get into a basketball "challenge" with, ala the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Mike Rasor was of the opinion that the MAC should challenge Conference USA. I'd like to see that! I also thought the Atlantic-10 would be a good challenge opponent. Nationally, the A-10 is considered a step above the MAC (just like C-USA) but as you can see the MAC can more than hold it's own against the likes of the A-10! The MAC is great, entertaining basketball! Showing how we fare against C-USA or the A-10 may help elevate the perception of the MAC both in the midwest and in the nation.

He had a handful of scholarship offers. His final two schools of choice were CMU and ... Akron! Ouch! He would have looked great in the blue and gold!

Make no mistake that you are getting these kids because of the future facility plans. Most kids that have committed have mentioned the $100 Million Plus facility plans they were shown. You're absolutely right! I just wish we could see those plans too!!! We're all getting so fidgety over waiting so long for an announcement and architectural renderings! I check this board everyday and the first discussion I look for is anything on the new facility.

Akron U is slang. When I was a kid (I'm only now in my early 30's, so it wasn't ages ago) and we'd play touch football in the backyard, instead of counting to "6 Mississippi," to rush the QB, we'd count 1 Akron U, 2 Akron U, 3 Akron U...

So what do they say?And they're not yellow, are they?! I think I remember some poster describing them as yellow? Can't is pee-yellow. WE ARE GOLD!!! I hope they meant GOLD and were just making a mental blunder!

Mackey is a born leader. Stokes is also a leader. I think Jabari has potential. But, sad to say, that's about it. A year ago today I was on top of the world with this team. Today, I am peeing down my leg when I think about facing OSU to begin next season! I'm having nightmares about us being completely outclassed and embarassed!But hey, at the very least, when Getsy was smelling up the field last night, it was really good to see Carlton Jackson get some great PT! Oh, wait...?

Ditto. In the past, the escape clause of being a Zips fan has generally been the fact that there were no expectations not to be lived up to. Not so this season. After a solid 10 months of hope and hype concerning this football season, I feel completely defeated and emotionally drained.

I was pleasantly surprised by the attendance! Friday afternoon at 3:30 is an awfully odd time for a football game. But the weather was beautiful! Hard to imagine the Blizzard Bowl of last Thanksgiving! The weather is so unpredictable around here! But I would guess there were between 8 - 10K in attendance. Again, with both a winning team and a new stadium as attractions, I'll bet we could easily average between 25 - 35K. But with last nights' absolutely pathetic offensive performance, a winning team seems farther off than the new stadium!!!

I think that I would have a good chance of seeing more PT than Rybeck!!!I was only able to stay for the first half of the Tiffin game, but I noticed 2 things:1. McKnight and Rome look like identical twins.2. I hate to say this, but Conyers didn't seem to offer much. Is this simply a learning / feeling out process for him? Or is he overrated?

Here are two disturbing quotes from JD:#1: "It's hard to pinpoint why things went the way they did," he said. "You want to say your kids weren't playing hard, but they were. You want to say it was the scheme, but it wasn't."Uh, Coach, maybe the 'kids' were playing hard, but they sure weren't playing either smart or well! And as far as the scheme not being a problem?! It was (and still is) a major problem!!! Out with the 3-3! And this is not to mention the horrific absence of in-game adjustments, which truly belongs in the same conversation as 'scheme'!!!And this one just made me sick to my stomach:#2: "If you change a few plays, we're looking at 8-3," Brookhart said. Hey Coach, THAT'S PURE LOSER TALK!!! DON'T WANNA HEAR THAT EVER AGAIN!!!

Dang! We Akron Zips fans cannot relate with that at all!!! Only in our dreams, baby!

Per The Buchtelite, The University of Akron's football team leads all of D-1 football in penalties! When I read that I was truly dismayed, but far from surprised. What worries me even more is this quote I was disappointed to read from JD: "We keep getting answers back (from the MAC), that say 'No that was not holding, it shouldn't have been called," Brookhart said. "We are not a 10 penalty a game team."IMHO that's a bullcrap answer! JD needs to quit apologizing for his underperforming squad and start whipping them into mental shape for next season! Take a lesson from our basketball coach! Dambrot would have had NONE of that! KD would have busted some heads and planted butts firmly on the bench for many of the knuckle-headed plays some of our football players got away with ALL YEAR LONG! During a televised OSU game (Illinois?), after an untimely OSU penalty, the announcer commented, "That is uncharacteristic of a Tressel-coached ballclub." I wish the same could be said for the Zips. Untimely penalties almost came to be expected of us this season. Ya can't win that way fellas.

BRINSON HASN'T TAKEN THE SAT/ACT YET?!?!?!?! Good grief.

Does anyone know how we are planning on utilizing Gary Pride and Ryan Brinson? Is the coaching staff thinking of them as DB's or RB's?

I don't want to knock on the D either. I think we've got better talent now than we've had since I've been closely following Zips football, which is just towards the end of the Faust era. What I am criticizing is the defensive scheme. I ranted about getting out of the 3-3-5 and moving to a 4-3. Others on the board suggest the 3-4. I surely wouldn't argue with that! Anything BUT the 3-3!!!These are most of our LB's for next season:Michael Alphonse 6-0 244Mikey Baker 5-11 225Al-Teric Balaam 6-1 228 (I wish we were seeing more of him this season)Kevin Grant 6-2 245Tevlin Petit-Frere 6-3 210 (what the h%ll kind of name is that?!)Brion Stokes 5-11 220Doug Williams 6-2 234Shawn Lemmon (?)This is a strong group of players, enough to run the 3-4 with a 2-deep! We've gotta do SOMETHING! DOWN WITH THE LIMP-WRISTED 3-3!!!

Next season, to face any D-1 opponent (let alone OSU for crying out loud!!!) we've just simply gotta get rid of this pansy 3-3-5 defense!!! I know West Virginia runs it, but they've been labelled as "soft" too because of this defense. For all intents and purposes the 3-3-5 is nothing more than a NICKEL package and is only employed by most teams in near-obvious passing situations. We can't stop the run anymore! We've got to switch to a 4-3 and get a new kick-ass attitude! With Dantley Cline (6-2/290) and Nate Robinson (6-5/315) and the addition of Wallace Pendleton (6-1/310) and Jerell Stoudamire (6-5/285) and hopefully Antwon Hight (6-3/290) we'd have plenty of size and depth to employ TWO defensive tackles! This cream puff 3-3-5 just has to go.

Ouch! And to top that off, Nevada just beat Oregon State 75-47 this past weekend!