ZachTheZip

Will we still be running a pro offense by the time he is ready to see the playing field? Probably, since he's very likely to play this season, being from Ianello's HS and we know how Ianello loves to reward people with connections to himself. I think he might end up playing WR, where we are very thin on both experience and depth.

Thanks for the update. June seems like a strange time for an all-star game to be played. I don't think he'll be a QB for us, since we run a Pro offense now. We'll see though. No position should be safe after the disaster our coach led us to last season.

Patience. Time will seperate the truth from fiction (although time will get a helping hand from the NCAA investigators). I just hope that all this gets resolved before we play them in September. I wouldn't mind having a dozen of their players suspended and half their coaching staff (and Can't's new coach) under fire for negligence when we take the field against them

New offer: OT Jason Emerich

I'm sitting here at work in Cleveland, listening to these two OSU fans rationalize everything to each otehr. It's taking everything I have to not correct their assumptions. They "know" that every school in the NCAA makes millions of dollars in profit on athletics. They "know" that every athlete at every school get offered free cars and such, right down to the women's rowing teams and volleyball teams. We have to win our game against them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6623466 SEC presidents override the coaches to ban oversigning. Coaches voted unanimously to keep it. They also eliminated basketball divisions, something the MAC should look into.

New offer: WR Danny Larkins OT Kyle Williamson verballs to Cincinnati

Of course they are not the problem. The coach is. You're being cynical, but it's the truth. Bangston made bizarre personnel and lineup decisions that limited the teams effectiveness.

Too bad we couldn't vote for the Nanchoffs as a package deal.

Two new offers: WR Jehu Chesson OG Quaison Osborne

John Heisman, QB.

S Tyvis Powell verballed to Ohio State. Lured by the promise of no oversight and free cars, no doubt.

Two new offers: WR Tyrone Williams QB Perry Hills

Here's a non-traditional preview of the 2011 Zips season. A complete statistical breakdown of Zips football. Aside from assuming we still play in the Rubber Bowl which shouldn't affect any stats they look at, they seem to know what they're talking about mathematically.

You make it sound like those are mutually exclusive.

The NCAA has this habit of putting sanctions on a coach as well as a school in situations like this, and those sanctions follow them around to whichever school hires them. At the same time, we might have an opening for a Defensive Line coach, as none of our current coaching staff is listed as such.

You think SI would listen to us about recruiting violations Tressel had like Erick Howard now? just saying...lol...might as well put more wood on the fire while it's still burning... If you can contact them, I think they would be interested in listening. Maybe ESPN would like to get their hands on their own exclusive story, and you could be the one to provide it to them.

If you look at the reactions from recruits, the in-state players still have the blinders on, but the out of state ones have lost faith. I think a few more of these bombshell articles will have to come out to erode the grip OSU has on this state.

The NCAA has said the death penalty will never happen again. I honestly believe that the biggest thing the NCAA could do to hurt OSU would be a multi-year TV ban. No TV, and no revenue from TV.

If 27 football players were involved, I think the odds are high that some of the star basketball players were in on it, too. In fact, I would be shocked if they weren't. If I did the math, at least 16 (Tattoo 6, plus the 9 active players mentioned, plus one who was suspended for something else) OSU players should be suspended for our game against them.

You've got to read this whole article.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/maga...p;sct=hp_t11_a2

That's a lot of people gambling. I think it is more related to community support and actually asking for community support. Maybe it's a combination. How long has it been since the coaches and players (many of which are local and have ties to the community) have actually gone campaigning around Akron and its suburbs? The occasional speech at the Hall of Fame luncheon doesn't cut it, nor does going on a sports talk radio show every other month. That plays into the mentality that the area has developed in regards the program. It takes a large combination of things working well to get a strong fan following. It takes community support, winning, media coverage, the list goes on. The question is, what comes first and what can we do to get that going? Winning is obviously the big one and the least dependent on the others to get going, but community support helps facilitate that by generating a home field advantage and pumping money into the program. Media coverage stems from winning, but also from a community that demands coverage, however coverage can also create the community that supports the team. I think the answer comes down to doing everything we can on all the fronts. If we sit around and hope that fixing one thing will solve all the other problems, we'll never get anywhere.

Yea... Winning lol The only reason he won a national championship is because he managed to keep Maurice Clarrett's problems under cover for a season. He kept going to the Rose Bowl with Troy Smith who was accepting cash. He won the Sugar Bowl because he knowingly played five ineligible players. If he ran a clean program, would he have still won? Would he be able to attract the talent that he used to get to the BCS consistently if they knew they wouldn't be getting under-the-table handouts? Would he win the Big Ten every year if all the players that were doing illegal things weren't allowed to play?

Puts things in a different light doesn't it? Or if you saw through it all from the beginning, the exact same light.