ZachTheZip

Cuse hurting bigtime.

The MAC has left Fox Sports, and signed on with STO. I think this is a positive move. MAC Announcement about STO. They'll show at least 33 basketball games, up from the 20 that we had on FSO. MAC Game of the week package. WEWS sticks up for Akron and Can't.

And what if Ianello chooses Rodgers to start at QB?

Not just Elton. That's the whole MAC media. And can anyone think of a good reason for them not to rank us last?

Warsaw senior-to-be Nic Moore said he has new offers from Akron, Illinois State, UNC-Asheville and Western Illinois, but he added that IPFW is "at the top of the list of mid- majors" among his offers. http://www.indystar.com/article/20100730/S...awing-attention Rivals Profile

The interviews are starting.

At least wait until you see it in person in two weeks.

Might be good, might be bad. Really need to step up in getting a variety of corporate radio sponsors.

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.

A better question would be "Can the Zips beat any of them?"

I like it. The old acronym was pretty unwieldy.

George Van Horne - Associate AD for Development http://twitter.com/RickMcFadden http://twitter.com/CoachDambrot Rifle coach: Officer Newt Engle

Yeah I saw it. http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-king-txt,0,780109.story

Looks like they made it to the finals. And would anybody get the idea that height is not an advantage in soccer? What I said was that many colleges consider height to be more important than actual skill when recruiting and that i hoped that Akron wasn't falling into that.

Jay-Z says his piece.

They all do well, for some reason. Put one somewhere on the north side of campus with a drivethrough. There's plenty of room (and traffic) on the corner of College and Market Streets, and it could serve both students and lots of downtown commuters.

Remember Rasor's 6-month assessment of the coach? he mentioned this: "But back to the important interactions. Word among current players is that Ianello has not hid his desire to start a rebuilding process. That means that contributors from last year won't necessarily be contributors in 2010 if Ianello believes there is a younger guy with more upside. Sources have told me that at least two starters from last season have sought to redshirt over fears that their final season won't yield the playing time they hoped. (I'm not sure why redshirting would solve that problem.)" That means that he won't necessarily be playing the most talented players this year, instead benching starting-material upperclassmen for younger players to get more experience for next season. He's already writing off this season as a rebuilding year, despite having enough talent on the team to challenge for the MAC East title. He's not playing to win, and that's a loser's attitude and something that will permeate through the program. What about the players, who are seeing this guy have the attitude of not caring whether they win or not for a whole season, essentially writing off a quarter of their college careers as a gigantic practice session?

Possible football coaches on Twitter? http://twitter.com/CoachIanello http://twitter.com/rpowlus http://twitter.com/Frisman88

Coaching analysis by the people at coacheshotseat.com They rate Ianello as Mediocre/Unknown

Ianello's recruiting tactics are as follows: That's great when the school is nationally known. You don't need to tell the recruits about all the great things your school has because they already know. That approach will fail at a school as unknown as Akron.

You list 31 examples (and Barry Alvarez twice). 26 of those (Miles, Saban, Peterson, Walker, Alvarez, Smith, Petrino, Tiller, Leach, Mangino, Bob Stoops, Friedgen, Pinckel, Pelini, Tuberville, Jones, Schiano, Dantonio, Golden, Mike Stoops, Erickson, Tedford, Richt, Hill, Davis, Edsall) were at least offensive or defensive coordinators before becoming a HC. Something Ianello has never done. 9 of them (Miles, Saban, Petrino, Friedgen, Pelini, Schiano, Hill, Davis, Edsall) coached something in the NFL along with having coordinator experience. 2 of them (Barnett at Fort Lewis College, Davis at Tulsa Rodgers High School) coached as a HC at a lower level first. Out of your list, only Shembechler, Fry, and Neuheisel started off going from a college position coach to a FBS head coach. If you go back and look at the threads that were around during the coaching search, you would find that I was not opposed to hiring someone with coordinator experience but believed that head coaching experience would be the preferred option. At least coordinators deal with half of roster (40 or more players) and call plays in game situations instead of just coaching 8 or 9 guys as a position coach. Ianello has never been more than a position coach. He can recruit for easy-to-recruit schools and he can sort of coach WRs. What he can't do is call plays or recruit for a school that doesn't sell itself.

Looks scaled back, but easily expandable. Maybe we have to wait for the baseball stadium to be built before expanding any further. I like the east stands being raised on a platform by about 4 feet above the concrete Solves the problem of trying to see over the students.

PD article.

I believe he was rated the top player overall in the state of WV by Rivals and fourth in the state by Scout. I wonder why he wasn't offered by any other school. Could it be his school's team record not being that great? It does look like the state of WV isn't heavily recruited, and so good players might slip through the cracks easier. I wonder if he'll see playing time this year with the move from a 3-man front to a 4-man creating a need for more defensive linemen, or if he'll redshirt to allow him to physically mature since he's a year younger than normal.

Not a game, but here's a 5-minute commercial/highlight reel. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=747412352506