Zipmeister

My copy of the University of Akron Magazine arrived in the mail today. There is a nice interview with Coach Moorhead on page 14. My favorite part follows: What are the similarities and differences for you between teaching and coaching? As a coach I view myself as an educator. Anything that a teacher is trying to accomplish from a methodological and development standpoint are all the same things we’re doing in football. It’s just a different medium. As a teacher, you do your research on the material, you present it to the students, they study and then you have a method of ensuring they understand the material. In a classroom, a test is done in a quiet, sterile environment with a lack of distractions and variables. As a coach you do the same things leading up to the test. But for the test, you may do it in front of thousands of screaming people, in the rain, with people trying to rip the pen out of your hand and kick the chair out from underneath you.

I meant no disrespect to you or your famous ancestor, the 19th century pioneer, sanitation engineer, and inventor of the Jack Squat Wagon.

I have been unimpressed with the effort 247 has put into updating the Zips portal activity, but believe I have discovered the problem. When the intern in charge of this task is named Jack Squat, you can't expect much.

If true, the Zips simply must either sign a center named Cuffler or convince one of our current centers to change his name to Cuffler so that occasionally the game announcers can say "Undercuffler is under Cuiffler".

This isn't the guy I've been waiting to hear about.

This change may not increase JoeMo's ability to reshape the team with scholarship players as much as you think. My understanding is that the 85 total scholarship limit will still be in place which which could mean that some existing scholarship players will have to get theirs yanked in order bring in other scholarship players.

It appears the youngster has a lot of growing up to do.

I like that on 247 he is "cool" on the only three schools listed; none of which has made him an offer!

OK, I give up. You are correct Oakland has always sucked at baseball, and this year they appear to suck a little less because of their embarrassingly weak schedule which, as you mention, must certainly have been locked-in several years ago (after all, that's the way D1 football teams do it). However, I still think that if the Zips are looking to dump non-D1 teams from their schedule YSU and Purdue Fort Wayne would be better bus ride candidates than Oakland.

Join the club. I keep checking this thread every day anticipating that one of you guys who keeps his finger of pulse of the transfer portal will be posting about the Zips new transfer QB. Nada. What is wrong with you guys?

I'm thinking Draylen would be the committor and Tn. State would be the committee. I'm also thinking he will be a better fit there than he would have been here.

It's always discouraging when one has to explain the obvious.

The Bears cobbled together one of the weakest D1 schedules to carve out their barely above .500 record. Their current overall SOS is a dismal 285; by far the worst in the Horizon League, and their out of conference SOS is a bottom of the barrel scraping 294. The Zips should probably hire whoever does Oakland's scheduling to boost our W/L record.

The NCAAs failure to regulate NIL is sad because the solution is obvious. Limit NIL to $100,000 per player per year (or pick a different number if you like). Then any additional payments to players would have to be made below the table, just like the good old (pre NIL) days. Such a change would be extremely welcome news to scores of unemployed former bag-men.

Oakland's W/L record is even better since I mentioned them as a possible non-D1 opponent for Akron; 6-2. But W/Ls don't tell the whole story. Their current RPI is still unimpressive - 227. Normally 4 wins over Wright State would be considered quite a feat. Unfortunately for the Raiders, they are an incredibly average ball club this year.

All hail the blue and gray.

I looked. I especially like all 9 of the logos that incorporate the teams mascot better than our hidden-Z logo.

If he elects to become a Zip, I hope he gets it together. If he becomes a Zip and does not nail down the starting job, my Magic 8 Ball says to expect trouble.

What blue and gold? I see blue and gray. All hail the blue and gray!

So a logo that is close to zero on the imaginative scale reminds you of one of the most imaginative logos ever created. I can dig that. Day-old toast reminds me a lot of a prime rib sandwich.

I'm betting that even without the gold that I suggested, Mr Guthrie thinks the new logo is just peachy.

I think U and A in this same font using blue and gold would be just peachy. Recommend we put "jr. high" right below the U and A?

If we use this one, but add a second P right next to the existing P, I predict massive NIL money for every team member. Smoken NIL idea

Biologically that could only mean one thing; Zippy's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa was a Native American who got lucky with a kangaroo.