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FYI Zipsnation... just received a campus email that says they'll be building a new 426 space parking deck over the parking lot just west of the exchange st deck (by Shrank and McDonalds).And the ramp-up for the new stadium continues!

Brett McKnight tip-in with (after review) 0.5 seconds left!!!!

If we get the 4 seed, and MU gets the 1st, that's the best team I'd want to see in the semifinals. We play their slow, grind it out game better than they do. I'm more worried about Can't State, Buffalo, or BGSU.

I only caught the second half... but I was pleasently surprised by Bardo's effort. I thought it was a nice, efficient half for him.I agree on this though: we need a dunker. Somebody who throws it down every chance they get. I hope Zeke is more Dwight Howard than Ilgauskas.

I think this is VERY telling of the situation the MAC is in. We can't get on TV unless it's on a weeknight, but we can't see vastly improved attendance unless we play on saturdays. People want, NEED, the saturday tailgating college football experience. This is especially true when it comes to season tickets. Playing some weeknight games doesn't automatically mean poor attendance numbers, you can still have alot of walkup sales, especially if the team is doing well, or it's good weather, or it's a big opponent.But season ticket sales is where the money is for the athletic department. People don't by season tix based on who our opponents are. It's based first on when the games are. You simply can't ask people to know whether they'll be available on a Wednesday night 6 months from now. And in a sport like college football, where season tickets only means 5 games, even one game that a person can't attend is too many... they might as well buy walkups for four games and assume they'll be able to get decent seats than buy season tickets and miss one game.What's the solution? Get the games on Saturdays, national TV viewing be damned. I'd much rather build a fan base within a 50 mile radius. If you want out-of-area exposure, start negotiating HARD to get games on FSN or STO. Also, get a real online streaming video of all games. Hell, charge $50 for the season for it. As long as people know it'll always be up and always be a good video stream, they'll pay for it.On the budget bottom line, it may make more money to get one game on ESPNU than to get 5k more people per saturday games, but for the future, it leaves us in the same spot: decreased local fan base and begging ESPNU to put us on a Weds night game.Bite the bullet for 5 years, get a strong saturday fan base, and ESPNU will be asking us to put a saturday game on TV.

About people who recognize their degree at one school but invest emotionally in another....A sales engineer and I went to lunch, he started talking about where his son should go to school and asking me for advice (since I'm just out). I was telling him that coming out with less debt from a public state school is better than a bigger name degree from a private or out of state school where the kid will be up to his eyeballs in debt.He used that as a segway to say that he went to the College of Wooster, and I said "oh, that's cool, I went to Case for 2 years and played Wooster in football."His response was to the effect of: "yeah, sometimes I want to make my kid go to OSU, because, y'know, I'm such a big OSU fan, and when people ask me if I went there, I have to be, like, no, I went to Wooster." (Italics added for the incredulous disdain in his voice)The guy has the career he has because of his education, and yet he dumps on his alma mater because people rightly see him as the front runner he is. It, coupled with Olive Garden's menu, made me throw up in my mouth a lil bit.Now, I think his kid should go to OSU before he pays to go to Wooster, but the point is, if it comes down to enrolling his son at OSU or any public MAC school, which do you think he'll choose?

I know this has been said before, and who knows if he can stay out of trouble... but I can't wait to see Devoe. I got to see him play a few games at Massilon (my buddy was coaching there) and he just wouldn't be stopped.

Ok, I literally LOL'd for the first time on this board when I read "BongCats"... I've got some friends that go to OU, and it's perfect.

Wow, I bet that was a doozy of a google search. Your search returned 3,800,000,000 pages.

The subway must have moved since your time. It's now located on the SE corner of that intersection. The place that was formerly subway is now the former home of the greatest $5 pizza that you never had to wait for... Pizza NOW!!! got me through alot of weekend benders.

Depending on your life situation (do you have a gf who wants to get married soon, are you supporting a family, etc)... my suggestion is to spread college out. First off, it's a blast, and who wants to leave that. Second, my friend and I worked part time and did school part time to stretch our last two years into 3 year round. If you take everything out in student loans, you end up paying as much in interest over the life of the loan as the loan itself. $40k in loans is really $80k in payments. I'm not trying to scare or worry you, but just saying that anything you can do now to decrease your loans will help in the long run.With you being in computer science, I think you can get a decent paying co-op/internship. I was making $15/hour at my first engineering co-op and then I took on another one as a "part-time engineer" where they were paying me $23/hour. I worked 30 hours a week for them and took classes in the late afternoon/evening. Doing that, I was able to pay half my school costs every semester out of pocket.If you're really worried about it, that's what I'd recommend. Hopefully you'll graduate in a few years when this downturn has passed with less student loans and more work experience. With a lighter course load, you'll hopefully have better grades, and you'll be much more marketable with all that experience (easier time finding a job, higher starting salary, more professional contacts)At least, that's IMHO.

Jabari was a very good player, but I was thinking at the time that maybe it isn't a good thing to have one receiver who's light years ahead of the other WR's. If he's so much bigger, or so much faster than everyone else then it probably means 1) if this guy isn't actually an all-pro, then our other WR's are just weak, and 2) when it's crunch time and the QB is scrambling before a sack, is it really a good thing to lock on to just one guy and throw it to him come hell or high water?I think I'd rather have 3, 3 star WR's than one 5 star and a bunch of stiffs.

If our defense improves as much as the offense did last year, then we're the undisputed MAC champs, we probably win our bowl game and we win every game by an average score of 42-7. The offensive improvement was that good.

As far as a new stadium goes... if we build one, do we go with turf or grass? I ask this obviously based on what we went through this past year. Traveling to NW, in admitedly worse weather conditions, but their field was in playable shape because it was turf.I know grass is better to play on, and the NCAA frowns on turf for soccer, but if it means costing us a home playoff game in the future I think we should say eff what the NCAA frowns on, we're doing this for us.Can a new grass stadium with a proper drainage system really prevent what happened last year? Because the biggest slap in the face would be to build a grass stadium with an excellent drainage system and have the same thing happen to us during a big storm.

Shoot, with that many DT's, here comes the 5-2

Don't worry, it amounted to a 6" penalty... there is justice in the world

This just in: Guiton is now a 17 star on Rivals

I saw that article, it's easy to find on the buchtelite website. He's actually making the point against ED... that the stadium isn't appropriate for ED.I recommend the read, it's remarkable how he butchers his own arguments in the first few paragraphs, and then it turns into this rambling piece about being better citizens and limited government.The kid does point out that he's a football player, and looks forward to playing there, but that he has to take a stand for his beliefs. He's apparently a conservative, albeit one who is misguided about how his conservative principles should apply to this situation.

i dont know why not. i seen him play a few times and he was an outstanding back. also played some DB.Only so many scholarships and starting to get deep at RB?Then again, raw athletes never hurt a team. You could move him to DB, KR, PR, etc.

It looks like most on here are conservatives... must be a correlation with being a Zips fan: make no excuses, fight for everything you get, so that you earn it, it isn't handed to you.That, and conservatives have high speed internet.

Here, Here!!!(Is there an emoticon of a Ben Franklinesque smiley face rapping his fist on a table in approval?)

Ewww.... stop hugging me.

MAC Elite? Any mediocre mid major should run the table against this:Western Michigan 7-12Northern Illinois 6-11Central Michigan 5-12Toledo 4-15Eastern Michigan 3-17Ball State is @ the JAR, and they've lost their best player.Anything less than 5-1 against these guys is grounds to jump off a building.If they're all that bad, then the MAC isn't even a mediocre mid-major conference, and any truly mediocre mid-major team, would thump everyone in the east too, which we aren't.I expect 4-2 or 5-1... we're better than those teams, but I'm not ready to say that this team of freshman and sophomores is light years ahead of everyone in the west.Should 4-2 happen, please don't jump... I need football recruiting updates.

Well, I think the main MAIN point was that a kid should run faster than a 5.1 at 230 lbs.I don't think anything refutes the validity that a kid can be better than his rating, much as anything can't refute that he'd end up worse, or exactly at his rating. I bet that if you were able to map out success levels for 1 and 2 star recruits, that the accumulated statistics would end up centered right around 1 or 2 stars.

I don't know, I understand taking their hippie money, but something does irk me about the balls it takes to advertise in our paper.BTW: Buchtelite Liberal Bias? I tried to do something about that like 4 years ago when I complained and told them I'd write a conservative slant for them. I emailed a letter to the editor and I was told they wouldn't print it because it didn't seem like the facts were right. I had already forseen this, so I emailed back a typed up page that listed all my fact checking. Solid facts and websites: DoD, DoL, etc... and they told me "ok, we'll print it"... I waited two papers without seeing it, emailed back and was told that it wasn't going in because it didn't reflect the views of the paper.Basically admiting that they had some sort of agenda, an agenda that my piece didn't fit.The lib who made the call... Krista... Kristen... something like that was her name.Mike, do you remember this? I know you were there at the time. We talked about it at a bar or a game or something.