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Hey buddy- I thought Meyer should have succeeded Tresey and LO should have fired Tresey after the almost loss to that D 3 team who ran it up on us in the first quarter. do you remember that game ??

Seems like 78 told me Uck left the coaching ranks and maybe was working in accounting (i think his undergraduate degree was in accouting) ! I would love to fire it up with DAZIPMAN

I agree what a wonderfully written article. Very interesting also. I had forgotten that Butchie came from Beechcroft HS down here in Columbus. I wonder shere Butchie is today? I also wonder where some of the other former players are. Obviously i know where some of them are but....

Captain, its been quite a while since i have posted something but i read each and every email alert i get. I found the article on LO very interesting and informative. Have you seen anything on the coaches up in Detroit or are they still there? Tresey however is a different matter. He was totally incompetent as a DC under LO as evidenced by the Zips inability from keeping anyone from scoring at will forcing the offense , although quite potent, to have to carry all the water. I was amazed that Kelly picked him up at Central and then it was normal for him to take him to UC with him. I happen to be a Brian Kelly fan and followed UC football the last two years. They had an amazing run to get to a BCS bowl. His firing, i think perhaps is the real deal. I remember him on the sidelines in his last season jumping up and down like a Mexican jumping bean screaming his fool head off. It was amazing that in ever TV game i watched UC olay last year, there was never one shot of Tresey. What goes around comes around, maybe he will land again at Georgia Southern.

Padre, we were both at that game along with the good Captain. It was a really great game despite the out come. I remember the comments I got from guys in the bathroom after the game about what a good team Akron was. I wish I knew how to insert a picture file because I have a good one from that game of that Hendry kid and # 78 making a hole for him. If the Zips had not gotten a bad call they might have gone on to win that game.

I was there and it was a sight that should be remembered for a long time. That kid had no reason to be back in that game and that head coach had no reason to put him back in there. I will always remember him hobbling around on one leg after throwing the ball. Of course the Zips got the bad rap for trying to hurt him which is BS.

You are the man my good friend ! Thanks to everyone.

Excellent post. Maybe (definitely) I am out of the loop, but when did Tim Crouch reenter the Charlie equation? He is the most worthless LT, ever in the history of the OL !

Padre, thank you for putting up this post and thanks to all who read and responded. I do not know if I have ever felt as helpless as I did when I spoke to her the night before the "Silver Bird" took her to Iraq. These kids (Generation Next) are so very different, its unbelievable! The thought of Katie (I call her #1) , a civilian, working for the NSA, over there, trained to use an M-16, but always wearing a Glock on her hip, scares me and I am fearless.Thanks for your prayers, thoughts and yes Padre, your Kharma. Go Zips ! Peace out !

Nippert is where the Bengals used to play and is UC's home field. It is ancient (concrete seats if i remember). One other important planning point, unless the rules have changed, they sell beer in the stadium and you can drink it in your seat. Get read for a great band entrance as they come down the steps of the stadium to the field. Go Zips

Wow, my old buddy "The Padre" weighs in and starts a great thread. Ill post just to bring it to the top of the pile. Padre, I love you Man. My info on the debacle comes from a former player. He said the Can't QB had a career day, and JD got outcoached. Additionally, Getsey does not have the mojo to make something happen like 5 could when it really needed to happen like on 3rd and long. I am still bitching about the OL. they suck and some or all of them should sit and let the young lions play who are hungry. If this staff ahd been in place at this point in their evolvement with the players in the 3rd 4th and 5th year of 5's carreer and those players and their talent back in the day, this program would be in a totally different place. Oh well, another old country heard from. Beware of the Bearcats.

Do not forget another Zip tie- Luke fickell who coached here , went back to OSU and followed Dantonio to Bearcat land.

Now listen my children and you shall hear:Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, AKA Joe PaA hundrered yard dash to the toilet door; He missed by an inch and pissed on the floorJoe, have you ever thought about Attends ????

Being an O Line fan I am likewise concerned. I recorded the PSU game but it stopped for some weird reason after it was either 14 or 17 -0. Therefore i got to see oly a few miserable series. Tim Crouch sucks, he always has. He is also a whiner, he alwasy has been. Using gutter language he is a punk and a pussy. I dont see much in him for a 4 year starter. I posted this somewhere else but he never did an adequate job of protecting 5's back side and not too much better for Getsey. I was also not impreseed with Kimmie's (RT) play at PSU. In all the series i saw he got beat on most every play. i saw him standing there as the DE went aroudn him with his hands up in the air as to say..."Coach i cant block him" or "Oh F___ where did he go" !Crouch with penalties are a function of him getting beat and trying to cheat

CK. I thought LO and KU made a mistake with him in the beginning. He was always a complainer and IMHO did not do an adequate job protecting 5's backside and now Getsey's. I really dont care that he is All-MAC Academic. They should sit his big ass and put someone in there who wants to play. We have a championship to defend in hostile territory. Those are for my little buddy Yep, I am watching

Excellent recap My Captain. I only got a small taste from talking to my son who saw part of the game on the ESPN Bonus Coverage. It also sounds like JD did some nice game management at the end of the game. Is it fair to assume that the O line did better in this game. How about Crouch did he play like a Senior leader 4 year starter? Also Kimme, did he "get it" after the PSU game? Thanks again

Crouch has always sucked and been overrated. I dont know where the poster thinks that Kemme is the best O lineman but he looked clueless and got beat most of the game. Don't think he would fare too weel on the left side. I did see some very bright looking things in this game however.

King, just like in the NFL, when you win you get a more difficult schedule. IMHO, this reflects this. My thinking is as follows: we have to play the teams in our division again and opposite venue from last year(no choice), we get the two better Michigan teams, we get Toledo (whom we have not played for quite some timeand is one of the better MAC teams year in and year out), we get a very difficult non-conference schedule , all of which we stand to possibly lose.Were you expecting cream puffs?? Should the MAC reward our year following a championship eason with the buffalo's/ball states/easterns? Yes we need W's for respectibility but we dont need Howard, Cal Poly and that other D-1a that almost kicked our ass 3 years ago. This program needs respectability and to be able to show character. Let me remind you of a few years ago schedule: Wisconsin, Maryland, Virginia Connecticut, the MAC east, and then some puffs. The program has crawled to where it is now, now its time to get up and try and walk and perhaps run. I hope you were not the suggester of playing Mount Union. By the way, I love you too man!

I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and sawThank you for that. I always thought Mark May was an overopinionated dick anyway.

Thank you for your wisdom. I think the Captain's explanation of the Mason thing makes the most sense. The Pukeye answer now that the additional game issue came up makes sense there are three, but OSU considers UC as an "Ohio" school and not a MAC school, which trhey are not anyway. But, Mark Dantonio, the head coach left the Pukeeye ship and was Tressel's former D cordinator. Luke Fickell (sic)is there with Dantonio also, or at least he used to be. So there is a connection. I missed the connection on Can't being torpedoed by USC to the gazillianth power. Can someone connect the dots for me?

Interesting questions, I will wait for an answer.

Captain, great post, lots of insight from the consummate Roo fan. I got the opportunity to watch the game with some former players ( Cummins, Hendry , Ritley and Meyer) and sat down the row from Cherry. They were all really excited but i could tell also very envious that they never had the chance to play in that environment. The venue was awesomely incredible. The fact that Comerica Park is merely across the narrow street (Brush Street) almost reminde me of Wrigley Field. Beer and food was expensive as hell though. The Zips had good seats and there we a lot of fans clapping those things together. The difference between this 2005 team and say for example the 2003 team is not talent. In fact there was more talent on the 2003 team, it is purely and simply coaching. Owens and PW could not coach the spread offence and there was simply no defensive coaching. If the 2001-2003 teams had had any coaching and a defense, their record would have been different. The base has been built. I was blown away with the "Fear the Roo " billboards in Detroit. UAMhas had a chance to wiork their magic and will keep doing it in the future. Waddell shoiuld have been named the new Boss, whomever screwed up. Good luck to the Zips

Excellent job, thank you very much

The Padre weighs in. You my friend are 150% correct in your observations relating to talent. Its all about the coaching. You are as always right again that if we could have had some percentage of this defensive strategy in the last 5 years, there is no question that things might have been different. Have a nice time in the warmth of sunny Fla , its a cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra up here.