Zipmeister

As much as I dislike the Flushes, I like to see them and Akron both competitive in the East...makes me hope that spanking them for the Wagon Wheel can also mean a trip to the MAC title game one of these years...doubly sweet. I hope K.e.n.t. loses every game by 50 points. I hope they draw under 9k, instead of their goal of 90k. I hope they continue to arrest their alumni who tailgate at homecoming. I hope they get busted for multiple major recruiting violations. I hope 45 K.e.n.t. players get arrested in an ugly, drunken street brawl that makes national news for 5 weeks. I hope Doug Martin gets another contract extension after a 2-10 season. F K.e.n.t. I hate K.e.n.t. Now I admit that I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box so I could be wrong, but I'm beginning to get the impression that you are not a huge fan of the Golde.n F,lashes.

Here in the Carolinas, we know tourists by the way they tuck their golf shirts into their jorts. Here in Ohio we know people are from the Carolinas if they call shorts, jorts.

Wow... the kid chose YSU over Akron or Ken.t because YSU was closer? Does his mom still hold his hand when he crosses the street? Do not let the petty jealousy spewn forth on these pages diminish your Penguin Pride one bit equin. You guys are the greatest and the only reason you don't win the Superbowl every year is because the NFL is afraid to let you in. Red and White forever!

That's a shame. Even though he's a little tall for the position the football team could have used him as a defensive back.

I'd like to nominate 'the Kid' for Giving up on the Zips Hall of Fame. In my humble opinion his performance over the last 6 months has pushed him right to the top. Who is "the Kid" ? Zach used to be UAkronkid and had a habit of saying so much stupid stuff people made fun of him a lot. So he reinvented himself as Zach and stopped saying stupid stuff for a while.

The Canadian dollar / American dollar exchange rate in September, 2003 was approximately 1.36 to 1 so if you apply this rate to the 19 year old Canadian, Jabari was only about 14 American years old for his redshirt freshman year.

1. Yes. I believe he will fail. Every Zips football coach since we left the FCS has failed. Ianello will be no different. 2. Akron is not a mediocre program. We're worse than that right now. And the quotes are about teh strentgth of teh coaching hire, not the program. 3. I don't believe that. The quoted source said that. But yes, the coach is responsible. If talent alone won games, we would have been in a bowl game last season. 4. Notre Dame fans had nothing good to say about the assistants Ianello brought with him. Illinois fans rejoiced when we took their DC. If you want to ignore their complaints with blind optimism, after they spent years watching those assistants, be my guest. 5. I believe it. Rasor believes it. Ianello says he has a multi-year plan to win. That usually means he has given himself, or the AD has given him, a few years before he has to win. He has no pressure, and will use this year to build towards his future plan at the expense of winning this year. If you don't believe that, you've already given him an excuse for losing. 6. He has alienated his team. One incident got published across the country. It was more than a mis-fired text, because it indicated that he talked behind his players' backs instead of addressing that player's concerns directly. That's not soemthign you only do once, it's a type of behavior. As for giving him a chance, I can't. I can't because I already gave a coach just like this a chance, and his name was JD Brookhart. I can't because he was not the best coach available, and was chosen more due to his past connection with the AD more than his ability to lead a team. I can't because he's making the same mistakes that got Brookhart fired, and doesn't see a problem with it. I can't because all I see is five years of failure and another coaching search, history repeating. So, I'm going to mark UAkronkid down as "undecided" on will ICoach be successful at Akron.

You'd be surprised how many student-athletes have kids. Not if you think it is still the 1950s. ??????? Since you ask........ I sometimes get the feeling that we have a group of Puritans posting on this board who believe that any sign of what they see as immoral behavior should be cause for stoning. They live in a world where if a kid gets a girl pregnant in high school, then that is a sign of bad character. I'm sure that if the sex odds had turned out different for a lot of us, we might have been in the same position as Mr. Howard in high school. I believe you have the Puritans confused with Muslims, and your explanation does not address the "connection" between confusion regarding the correct identity of the current decade and being surprised about how many student athletes have kids.

Ianello is an alumnus? Wow we really should pay attention to what these guys have to say. That is certainly a fact left out. If by "a fact left out" you mean "a myth included," I'm with you 100%

You'd be surprised how many student-athletes have kids. Not if you think it is still the 1950s. ???????

You'd be surprised how many student-athletes have kids. I'm sure your right about that. I just don't understand why this kid is making things difficult for himself. A baby is just one more obstacle and distraction. He has talent, but I question his work ethic and priorities. I'm fairly certain at the time he was doing the horizontal hokey pokey making things more difficult for himself was not at the top of his thought process.

More news (and this isn't in the "now that's how you schedule" thread).... Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

While i agree with the first 98% of what you said, i think we will at least win 4 or 5 games. We have too much talent to not get lucky a few more times than twice. If you guys keep this up you are going to depress dreal. The next thing you know he will be saying we are not going to win every game we play by 4 touchdowns. Stop it.

Do we know what number he is going to be? If there are no jerseys available, does it matter? There is a Zip football jersey #8 hanging in the brand new Beef O' Brady's in Wadsworth. That was his high school number. It might be his college number too. I sure hope so cause that would set a new team record for the most guys a single number has been assigned to at the same point in time.

Sad or Angry? Based on your comments, you sound a tad.... Angry, and irrational.

WOW. That is some pretty in depth reporting work you have done there. I had no idea about the mud wrestling incident that almost ended Ianello's career. The Enos move from bicycle racing to football is amazing. What did they do with the toes that were removed from Quinn? Keep up the good work.

very informative. I agree 100% with Dave... Games, especially for a running program like YSU, are won in the trenches. Our weak spot coming into this year is our OL.... I wasn't disagreeing with Dave. I was applauding him for command of sports slang and his willingness to explain something as vague as "in the trenches."

I haven't been to Cahoga Falls (that's the way people pronounced it when I was there) in decades. So I'm wondering if people have failed to mention the number one tourist site in the Falls so they can dazzle you with it later. don't miss this

Last year's Zips squad proved that height doesn't really matter. I doubt this is the case with Akron getting these two, but most colleges will often choose to go after players who are big-bodied and play physical kick-the-ball-forward american style soccer instead of shorter ones who know how to play the beautiful game. I don't think that's what Akron is doing here, as I said. I just don't see the need for taller players in soccer outside the keeper position. Think corner kicks.

Paying the players is soemthing that gets thrown out there all the time as a solution to some perceived problem. But what problem does it address? Players being too greedy? If they're greedy, they'll still take money illegaly, get their rent payed for by boosters, and all that stuff. Paying them won't change that. They'll take all the illicit stuff and pocket the school's paycheck. Another argument I hear is that the schools make all sorts of money from athletics, so they should pay the players who bring in that money. There are 1080 schools in the NCAA. 18 of them actually make any money from athletics. At any given time, the top 25 in football has at least 10 schools in it that are losing money. And you think they can pay? $1k a month... every month of the year? Only during the season? If so, what about spring practice? What happens with Title IX? Do you have to pay 82 women athletes the same amount, too? Or extend it to all sports, so the men's rowing team and the women's golf team and all the other sports that don't bring in a dime of revenue get $1k per athlete per month as well, costing the school many millions? Somebody will sue for inequality if you don't. The $1,000 per month could be for those who don't sign agent contracts. If a player isn't worth a crap, $1,000 is what you get. If you are any good, an agent would be willing to pay you for future earnings. Let the free market decide who is good and who isn't. If schools can't afford their athletic programs, they need to look into cutting some of them. The gravey train is over. It's 2010 and our society has learned there is no free ride over the past 3 years. People will understand now more than every if cuts need to be made. If we instituted the Great GP1's Super Duper Division in college football, we could only pay those players. Those 40 schools would make plenty of money to spread it around to the players. 85 Scholarships x $12,000/year/player = $1,020,000. Around a 7% increase in funding for UofA (who wouldn't make the top 40 schools) and a drop in the bucket for BCS schools. Schools flush more than that down the drain each year in salaries for coaches and bloated athletic departments. Outlawing paying college players is like outlawing marijuana. Nobody is really hurt by paying players. Nobody is really hurt by people smoking pot in private as long as they don't drive while under the influence. In reality, we are taking up large amounts of space in our jails for pot smokers and dealers costing states millions. In reality, universities have to spend millions trying to police kids between the ages of 18-24 who are already taking money and nobody is really being hurt by them taking money. Who was really hurt by Reggie Bush taking money? Nobody. Reggie Bush won the freaking Heisman Trophy and he was taking money. He wasn't hurt by taking money and he didn't give less than 100% while taking money. The fans enjoyed his play so fans benefited while he was taking money. He's making millions in the NFL. USC benefited from his athletic ability so they weren't hurt by him taking money. The guys who came up short in the Heisman weren't hurt, they werent' as good as him so they didn't deserve the trophy. Does anyone really think the finalists for the Heisman Trophy from that year weren't getting some under the table money? The teams they beat had players on their team taking money and they just weren't caught so I don't see how they were hurt. They weren't as good as USC. The only people who believe they are hurt by Bush taking money are bitter jackasses who live in a fantasy world of how they think college football should be, yet never has been. In reality, these people aren't hurt because they love being bitter jackasses and Bush taking money actually makes them happy because they have something to be bitter about. Pay the freaking players for crying out loud. USC could pay every school's players for at least a decade if we follow your original suggestion, but designate any funds that they can't "give back" (because guys like me lost their receipts) for that purpose.

very informative.

Well if they decide to follow your suggestion I hope they kept all the receipts because I tossed mine out.

Not surprised to see my old high school classmate, Steve, started the whole mess.

This is especially true in baseball and tennis where 7 on 7 drills result in the field seeming fairly empty or the court quite full, respectively.

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