ZachTheZip

So many things to cover...Let's start with football. First, just because everyone does it doesn't make something ok. DO NOT EVER play the opponents fight song. It's insulting to our own fans. It's not "good sportsmanship" because last I checked, horn-blowing isn't a sport. Throw around all the examples you want of other bands doing that. They're all wrong. I don't care how many other bands do it. In fact, nobody cares. The only reason this whole thing hasn't been brought up before is that nobody cares enough to pay attention to the band during pregame outside of the national anthem. Most fans just want you to play the national anthem to the game can get started, not sit through some performance that's intended to please only the opposing fans, and then play through the all the other songs in your book with some hokey announcer trying to teach the same fans that have been going to games for thirty years how to do the cheers. Just play the anthem and get off the field so the game can start. Don't use the lame excuse that other bands do this crap as a reason to give us a performance that only the band itself cares about. The sense of self-worth there is through the roof.Second, you're severely overestimating the amount of band members who care about football. If it wasn't a mandatory thing for their education, less than a third of them would still be doing it. Most don't give a crap about the Zips. When they cheer, it is in a mocking and sarcastic manner. They're doing it to act cool to the other band members and to fend off boredom, not to genuinely support the team.Now on to basketball.The band plays constantly. Every time there's even a hint of a time out, they start up. Not every band does this. I bet our band spends 50% more time playing than what the average MAC band plays at a basketball game. Cut out some of the songs, play a LOT softer, and the gameday experience will improve dramatically. When I have to yell to talk to my friends while sitting at the opposite side of the arena, you're too loud. If you want to stay down low, that's fine. Whatever makes you feel important; just play softer. And to say that the band hasn't affected which students sit where, you're wrong. There are over a dozen Rowdies that have moved to the other side because of the band's presence. They are continuously expanding, taking over more and more seats. The trombone section stretches two-thirds across the seating section. They're blowing their horns right into the back of our heads, and I left for the other side because I don't want to go deaf before my 30s. This could all be solved if the athletic department would go through with letting all the students sit all on one side of the court in the section behind the benches, and then you could give the band the entire south lower section to have as many trombones as they like. But until that happens, play softer. Also, it gets really annoying when the band takes to mocking the Rowdies attempts to do just about anything. Yelling like goons in the middle of the "you can't do that" chant makes you look like childish morons. Interrupting cheering at every opportunity so that you can keep to your schedule is obnoxious. You have no sense of the flow of the game or how to improve the environment to make it a more exciting place. Taking teh wind out of our sails does not make it more exciting. Intentionally rubbing it in every time you get boxes of pizza at half time knowing full well that the administration would never allow us to order our own is cruel. The band is made up of childish, self-important people who have no clue how they are negatively affecting their environment.

O'er old Buchtel, Summit's gloryI know every word, every note. I sing it after the few football games that I haven't already left in disgust imediately after the final whistle.

New offer: OT Jon CipaI updated the big list in the original post of the thread.Uncommitted players are listed in the order we offered, except for JUCOs which are below the high school players.Players that committed to another school are sorted by the conference and school they picked.Recently our focus has shifted heavily toward recruiting JUCOs. Perhaps a sign that Ianello feels the need to accelerate his "process" to get some results sooner than he had planned.

Check back tomorrow.

http://www.morethanafan.net/2011/11/04/akr...ob-ianello-era/It's got to end.

Just because bands play their opponents fight song doesn't mean that it's not stupid and insulting to their own fans. I don't care how much "tradition" is wrapped up in it.

New offer: JUCO CB Olawaola Falemi

You band people are way too full of yourselves.

Still prefer keeping Ianello over hiring the Vest?

Thanks for the reports! It's always difficult to draw any conclusions from these exhibition games. VCU appears stronger than Miami, but that shouldn't surprise anybody.

They're not compressed behind the goal. The loud students are already scattered into several small groups throughout the crowd. I think they would be more effective compressed together like in basketball. One unified, loud voice instead of students being out of sync and quiet.

No problem. We were all 'blinded by the light ' last week.Not everyone.

Kinda like Miami "finally finding their running back"?Kind of like that. Miami didn't find their RB, their RB found our defense.

Looks like any "progress" we saw last week was just a result of CMU being a terrible opponent.

Does anybody know the team's record over the past six years when the pep band is in attendance? I believe that it is significantly worse than our regular winning percentage.

Doesn't matter who you play, if you don't take the game seriously you will get beat.

It's crap. The band should never set foot within the soccer stadium. Every single time they play at a soccer game, the Zips play terribly.

Title says it all.

The moronic MAC media poll picks us to finish behind a team that we will dominate

I'm just wondering if this is possible. Like we have automated the GoZips.com articles to appear on the front page once they get posted on gozips.com, could we set it up so that the youtube videos from here get embedded as they are posted?

The Vulcans are a team to follow early on. not just because of Sweich, but because they play two of our opponents in the pre-season. It will be interesting to compare this game to how they do against VCU.

Another day, another Can't State athlete shows his true colors.

http://twitter.com/#!/SoccerCTC (start reading from about 2:30 PM, Oct 31st and go from there)In short they want to eliminate the spring season and shorten the regular season. They also want to eliminate all foreign tours (for all sports, not just soccer).It hurts the development of the players. I can't imagine that there's any college soccer coach that thinks this is a good idea, and I can't imagine anyone involved with US Soccer wanting this to happen.

Short week with the game being on Thursday. How will the players respond after losing the way they did? How much longer until the coaches abandon the pro offense for the Pistol?