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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.

Seeing as how we'd probably have to play him when he's at Miami... do we want him to go to OSU?We'd get to avoid him, but it's kind of a slap in the face to the MAC.

I think the main point here is that regardless of star rating, Akron isn't seriously competing with any large BCS schools for individual recruits. Those schools are all fighting for the same kids, and in some part because of that, they get rated more highly. You don't see USC and OSU battling over a 1-2* recruit.Likewise, it's not as if the large BCS schools are recruiting based soley on rating... "Yes, we'd like to offer so-and-so a scholarship because we saw on rivals that he got 5 stars... what?... no, that's ok, we don't need to see any film on him, just tell us his position and we'll start him in the fall..."Having a high star rating is an indication that there is a better chance that individual will successful. That's all it is... the higher our average star rating gets, the more probable that our recruits will be studs.Can we have a whole class of 1 stars that end up playing in the NFL... I guess, but it's far less likely than if we had a class of all 5 stars.Who's arguing this?

With a name like "dlish-anything", can we assume this was started by Kevin Grant's girl?

I don't know if I agree with all this talk about going 6-0, and how all the west teams are inferior. Granted two of our conference losses were in overtime, but we're sitting at 2-3 with a young developing squad, and while looking at West teams, including the West leaders, some fans think we should steamroll them all?!If we go 4-2 or 5-1 against the West, I'll frankly be happy. As happy as the K.S.U win made me, I don't think that beating a bad Can't team (after they came back on us and were leading) and beating a weak YSU team makes me think that we're back to being a MAC elite this season.We may win the whole damn thing, and I'll be ecstatic, but I won't go crazy about this team winning two games it should have won and thinking we'll run the table.Just my two cents.

they might figure it out when "Quade Milum" actually scores more than 2 points and grabs more than 3 boards in 30 minutes of work.Don't forget 1 earth shattering dunk every 3 games

Zips rebound with a solid scoring effort. Buffalo plays a tough and dirty style... the kind of game Linhart likes. Nothing pretty, but I think he'll pace the scorers.67-59 Akron.

Thanks for the information. 5/6 out of 30 games, I guess I'll have to take it.It was so much better to see the actual game and form opinions of my own than have to listen on the radio and trust all of you to tell me how the Zips looked. (No offense to any posters).On another note, are there any Columbus members of Zipsnation that are interested in making a road trip to Athens for the Tuesday Jan 20th game?Anyone that feels like ditching work early, maybe we could get a caravan going. Let me know.Go Zips!

I went there then transferred to UA... you're dead on... you'd save 10's of thousands of dollars going to UA and living at the new apartments. Makes me sick everytime I get a student loan bill from my 2 years at Case.

Triple-double with blocks?ESPN the Mag??Holy... Crap...!

LOL... makes you wonder though, does Ditka have a post move so good that not even Ditka could defend it?

I'm bankin' dat like Nat City!oh, wait...

@Miami, always a tough, even for our best teams of the past few yearsIf we lose by alot, it still doesn't tell us much about the team because of the intangibles (road game, great opponent, first MAC game for many of these kids)If we lose close, I feel fine with that and can hope for revenge on the return tripIf we win, then I start thinking this enigma of a team has a fighting chance to win the MAC.I think we lose a close one 58-53