ZachTheZip

Coming to the MAC is the perfect level for Tressel to make a return. If he wants to stay low-key like Solich then it works. And if he wants to get back to a top program we're only one step away, as opposed to a high school or D-III team.

Because they have more entertaining things to do than sit and watch a team they don't connect with practice against a bunch of scrubs.Like I said, I don't understand that at all. They need to learn to connect. When I was in school, I never missed a game and that included driving my POS Pinto to the RB.Something needs to be done. Obviously winning will cure most of this, but just getting the students to tthe game will help.Maybe a University wide extra credit for students that attend games, or something like that. Get the students there, they have a good time and want to come back.In soccer, the team connects to the fans. Even when there were only like 20 of us at the games five years ago, the players and the coaches went out of their way to thank the fans that were showing support. The players celebrate with the fans after they score, and the coaches are friendly.In football, the players isolate themselves from the rest of the student body and the coaches resent the students, even the ones who do show up. And then they wonder why they don't see any support. Ianello and the assistant coaches needs to show up to university events like the occasional student fairs held on the commons and talk to people. They need to be sociable. Even if the head coach is busy they could send out some position coaches. Same thing goes for the players: talk to your classmates. Show some pride and show the students that you're worth caring about instead of being that miserable quiet kid in the "football clique". This isn't high school anymore. The students need to be recruited by the coaches and team, just like prospects. Give them a reason to care, get them invested in the team.

Are people still opposed to this?

Because they have more entertaining things to do than sit and watch a team they don't connect with practice against a bunch of scrubs.

Not just the men's team. The Lady Zips just put up 4 goals at FAU today.

...Well?

You don't want to know.

Ohio State ain't looking so impressive right now.This game is turning into a must-win. The rest of the MAC is progressing at an incredible rate and Ianello's 5-year "building process" will end up with us left in the dust. Compete now or else.

http://m.philly.com/phillycom/db_/contentd...ll=true#displayTemple's plan is to block Brian Wagner. Good luck with that.

Going to your link I get a "sorry, that page does not exist" msg. So, what did the msg say?It said that Dambrot was at Reggie's football game.

Dambrot enjoying Reggie's football game today.I miss the days of great multi-sport athletes.

I've had that feeling since they beat Toledo in a bowl game last year.

Temple players seem to have the Zips confused for a program that's actually competitive.

Those OSU players took actual cash. Not from the event, but from a booster. The gift bags were not the issue. The compliance department also didn't approve the players to go to the event. This is a failure on the part of the compliance department for not informing the players of the proper procedure for attending an event such as this. And it's a failure on the part of the Athletic Director for running what increasingly appears to be an extremely ineffective compliance department.

Here's a great update on how our new coach is doing.

Tough road schedule, laughably easy home schedule. Can't we ever get that to be the opposite?

ABJ: Ianello hopes the players will learn from the loss.So that's what we were doing all last year. Learning. At what point will the players be allowed to put all that knowledge into practice towards winning games?

We're definitely going to have to grab a Puerto Rican flag next season with Abreu and 'Melo.

There was a search committee. They twice recommended that we hire Luke Fickell out of a pool of some great candidates. And twice, Wistrcill overruled them to bring in a coach that wasn't recommended by anyone and was only approached by one other school who was more desperate than we were.

Weren't you watching the OSU game? His playbook doubles as his underwear, and that absolutely deserves trashing. As far as his playcalling style, I've been questioning that since his original press conference when he was introduced. I got sick of everyone telling me to "wait and see" how that approach worked when I knew it was doomed from the start, so I moved on to other things.

Most other assistant coaches aren't journeymen recruiters like Ianello was. It was the only skill he claimed to have, and he made sure to only work for coaches that made his skill look better than it would be if he had to stand on his own.

Ianello established his recruiting credentials before he went to Notre Dame, not at ND. In fact, that's probably one of the reasons why he was needed at ND, which can no longer draw players to the school name the way they used to. He may or may not turn out to be a good head coach. But his recruiting abilities as an assistant coach were established over many years at several different schools. Many different nationally recognized schools with nationally recognized coaches. Sounds like an easy career path to take. Latch on to something successful and claim more of the success as your own than is warranted. But when it's time for him to stand on his own merits all of that vanishes.

WBB team picks up a new recruit for 2012.

Too bad we whiffed against CS-Fullerton. The #1 spot was ours for the taking.

I think we should hire him and find out.