Zipmeister

The next to the bottom picture says Bradley. That's it, I,m going with Bradley.

How come you don't win more games by 14 points?

No, No, No. They were undersized way before they did the other three.

I'm not here to defend the coaches. Their pro style offense will never work here and the sooner they are gone the better...along with the guy who hired them, but the players need to show some pride in themselves. Move the freaking ball and stop the other guys every now and then. Why do you say that? Teams that win with pro style offenses have a lot of future pros on their team....Alabama is loaded and runs a pro style offense. They are loaded with future NFL stars. In the MAC, you get MAC talent. I don't think it takes much to make a bad team average or an average team good in college football. Success in the MAC can come from scoring a bunch of points and not shooting yourself in the foot on defense. If you can hang around long enough in a mac game, the other team will hand you the game. How do you get those points?...... CMU was very successful with the spread offense and a great QB the past four years. Cincy did the same thing in the Big East. Score a bunch of points and make teams in bad conferences try to match your point output. It's easier to do in the MAC and Big East than the major BCS conferences. CMU was unsuccessful in bowl games but beat the crap out of the MAC because the moved the ball in a spread offense. Cincy was exposed for being a fraud in the Sugar Bowl last year, but they killed a terrible Big East with the spread. I've said this before, Texas almost beat Alabama last year in the BCS Championship with an off the bench freshman QB. I see average teams win too much with the spread to think that it doesn't work. There are real reasons for the success as well....For example, it makes pass blocking schemes easier for linemen because it moves potential rushers away from the line. Same with the running game. If one OLineman makes a mistake, the whole line breaks down. Make an average line good by moving defenders away and eliminate confusion. The spread is actually a very simple offense that looks complicated. If there was a book about explaining the spread, it would be called, "Offense for Dummies". The Zips don't have time to assemble a team that would be able to run a pro offense and finish any higher than second place in the MAC East. It will take years and by then the coach will have turned over twice already. It just isn't a reality. The reality is, the spread offense turns programs around fast because it doesn't take as many pieces and parts to be successful. A pro style offense takes a lot of good players. The Zips need to win now, not 8 years from now. If we look around at teams that run pro style offenses in the midwest, how successful are they? Wisconsin?....Nice team, but the saying, "Always a bridesmaid and never a bride" comes to mind. Chronic second and third place Big Ten team. Pitt?....Third place Big East. Iowa?....Lost to Arizona who if my memory is correct, is an average team that has become good by running a spread offense. Notre Dame under Weiss?...Hello Kansas City. Stanford is having success with a pro style offense out west, but I'm not sure if they will fall into the Wisconsin and Pitt trap or not. Time will tell with them and they already play in a league with pro style offenses being played around them such as at USC. They crushed Oregon today, but I suspect Oregon will lose more by the end of the year. The spread offense isn't for everyone, but if you want to go from being poor to at least average (we would probably take that right now) or average to good, the spread has been shown to work in the MAC. We are a MAC team and we need to do what works in the MAC. CRUSHED? Is that what it's called? Oh, then we really CRUSHED N.ILL. today.

Some new Zip weaknesses will become apparent. Zips 14 Opponents 54

I won't get into all of the assumptions you made here, but at least look at your math. This year, soccer sold 750 season tickets at an average of $75 apiece, That alone is over $55,000 and that does not count GA ticket sales. And with your other assumption if we sold out every game and had 1500 students in attendance, that would still be 2700 paying customers. At $5 apiece and 14 homes games, that would be $189,000. I'm not saying it operates at a profit, but at the very least your ticket math is a bit off. Crap. I knocked off a zero somewhere. That's what I get using my phone for a calculator. You're right, my math is way off. But I was being generous with the amount of paying customers by assuming only 1500 students show up per game. In reality it's more than that. But as far as soccer operational cost, there was an article linked to Zipsnation a year or two ago that showed the cost of the top-10 non-revenue sports, with Men's Soccer at the very top. It was $600,000 per year, and ours is much higher thansk to paying Coach Porter an order of magnitude more money than most college soccer coaches (don't get me wrong, it's money well spent). Your $189,000 figure doesn't even cover coach Porter's salary. Soccer doesn't cover even 50% of the cost of the program. I think Football breaks even or comes close. Interesting thread here! Just about EVERY sport with a few exceptions make $$ at some schools. I'm sure John's Hopkins has a profitable lacrosse program (to support the Med Center). The most profitable sport at the U of Hawaii is women's volleyball with >5000 ave attendance. I suspect schools like Cal Poly and UCSB make money from men's soccer. I'll look into it further. I suspect all that sunshine is starting to rot your thinker.

And their budget also dwarfs any other sport. Unfortunately, it also dwarfs their revenue. Actually the reason the Athletic Department is never balanced or profitable, is because of the drain that is every other sport at the university. Through two games of crap attendance the football team has brought in more money then the soccer team could hope to during the entire year (well over half a million). The soccer budget is roughly 600-750 thousand a year. Which means they are still 100-250 thousand in the hole every year. Football always contributes to the bottom line. This really shouldn't even be a topic of discussion. Support all the teams and stop the douchey "which team makes more money, which one is better, who would you rather win more". It's pointless. Every team needs to win. I was extremely excited watching the game on TV, it felt great (not as good as actually being there) but the team and school looked great. Every team, every day, we are all Zips. Football contributes toward the bottom line of the athletic budget a lot like the iceberg contributed to the Titanic.

The inventor, Dean Kamen is ok... He sold the company to a pretty cool english dude. You are correct on both counts Corn. Dean IS still among us,. and Jimi IS cool (room temperature at this point).

One more little victory...Zippy didn't kill himself on a Segway which is now more than you can say for the transport oddities inventor.

You got me. It was me watching Tulsa from the moon through a telescope. And we will score 4 goals a game from hear on out. At least that's what I here.

Great point on the quick, possession passes. I thought the same thing at the time. It seemed to settle him down. In the 1980s, Playboy Magazine rated the top ten party schools in America. For the first time ever in their rankings, WVU did not come in first place and was not in the Top 10. They placed a note at the bottom of the rankings saying, "Sorry WVU, we do not deal with professionals." I feel the same way about ZipsWin!. He is a professional Zips fan and should receive NO award as such. With that said, he is a Hall of Fame Zips fan if there ever was one. Two cents worth: As I recall it was Wisconsin who failed to make Playboy's party school top ten because they were professionals. The decade actually ends in three months (unless of course you incorrectly believe the first year in the Gregorian calendar was year zero).

I didn't even know dreal was sick, but he must be dead cause now gp is channeling him.

Two other possibilities to explain the choice of Rice: 1. The kid is a genius and figured out Houston is a better place to spend winter than Akron (if this was his reasoning he probably should have gone with Santa Clara). 2. He saw their mascot and thought the place was the biggest Hooters in the world.

I think Northern will beat Minn and Temple should do better than the current 14 point spread. GO MAC.

Given that we are going to win the game by 14, it would be prudent to take the points.

You pretty well hit the nail on the head right there. I agree, outside of Cleveland State and YSU which bring some regional excitement, the home OOC schedule is a real yawner. Unfortunatly we are just good enough that the truly good teams are extremly reluctant to come to our place. It offers them no benefit in terms of RPI or national perception. If they come here and win, no big deal, they were supposed to beat us anyways. If they come here and lose its a negative headline and provides a hit to their tournament resume. As a fan I'm just happy that it at least looks like KD is softening his stance on the whole, "we won't go play at your place unless you agree to come play us at home" deal. It at least gives us some chances to beat some of those good teams on the road which could in turn generate enough interest to get a few more of the non-die-hards out to the JAR to watch us hammer Bethune Cookman. I think YSU basketball brings about as much excitement to the JAR as Wright State baseball brings to Lee Jackson Field. It is a guaranteed win... an easy-to-schedule annual home-and-home for Dan Peters (former YSU coach)... an easy road trip for the Zips faithful... but there is no amount of lipstick you can slather on the pig that is YSU basketball. People in Youngstown don't care about YSU basketball...and people in Akron care even less about it. Football would obviously be a different story. I think YSU brings more excitement to the JAR than Wright State brings to Lee Jackson Field. At least we can beat YSU in bball. Them Raider boys own us in baseball: they lead the all time series 25-10 and it's been years since we got one of those 10.

With that slight blemish on Tulsa's record, I am predicting a larger Akron victory margin. I'll go with the Zips by 14.

The CU mascot is a real Buffalo and would be unable to respond in an intelligible way to the question. Plus I think he was attending a Colorado game at the time and probably did not witness the incident.

Him and Bain Speaking of wasted years..... not a lot of monster hands input so far in 2010!

I'm stumped. I have no idea whether to take this post seriously or not. Someone help me ... How ironic! I am thinking the same thing re your post.

Additional examples of doing stuff correctly.... Both the B school and the the soccer team notified their alums of big festivities for the N.Illinois game weeks ago.

The mismanagement of the QB should be a future post. 21 passes? Are you freaking kidding me? He is the best player on offense. Let him throw the freaking ball for crying out loud. If you weren't at a Wake game you'd realize -- Nicely has NO ONE to throw to. LaFrance would be the #4 receiver on any Owens team. None of the other active WR's would even make an Owens practice squad. Did he have anyone to throw to when the score was 31-17? From the looks of the statistics, he was 5-6 for 80 yards in the first quarter. Even if you discount the long td pass, he still had arond 8 yards per attempt. He was 2-4 in the second for 22 yards. 7-10 at half for 102 yards it looks like. 5-6 is pretty good. 2-4 is OK. I don't blame PN as much as I would like to see the ball thrown more. From the looks of the first quarter stats, he can complete passes. Guys can get open. We should have won 45-17 or at least 45-21. There is no excuse for that loss over the weekend. The same talent was on the field at the end of the game that was on the field at the end of the game. Typo or Yogism?

Shame on all of you for continuing the myth of the ACME-Zip game. Justin is really going to believe that old urban legend now because of you guys pulling his leg.

WKU is in the ESPN bottom 10 at number 1 after week one. Wonder if the Zips can take their spot away? My brother went to WKU, so now the two of us can see who has the worst FBS schools of 2010. Too bad they don't play each other to see, but I think Akron has better talent and of course WKU MUST have a better coach. My prediction based on what WKU did against UK: UK - 63 against WKU, I'll pick 56 against Akron. WKU - 28 against UK, I'll pick 13 for Akron (2 TDs, 1 missed PAT, plus 2 missed field goals). Based on the scores I came up with, WKU is slightly better than UA. I'd take UK and the points too, its a shame I'm not in Vegas to place that bet! We will have to learn you about the Internet some day. Zips pull off a major upset: 24-10.

Flood Proenza's office with letters, emails, and phonecalls. In fact, someone should organize a Zipsnation. "Email the President" day to voice as a solid block of fans our dissatisfaction and refusal to accept the mediocrity of that entire operation over in the JAR. Yes, this forum is looked at and from my previous post this is NOT going to be fixed overnite. ACCEPT it or find something else to do this fall. JD left us and coach I bare and this will not be COMPlETELY fixed this year COMPlETELY fixed. A two word phrase consisting of an adverb and an adjective meaning to totally repair using a dish baked in pastry-lined pan.