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6 hours ago, bigjim said:
I will take a 6 pack of Warsteiner to celebrate. See you in Lot 9 next year.
You are on! I will provide the Warsteiner and you keep the W's coming, next year. I'm not holding you to a miracle W over Buffalo. Let's savor this win for now.
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18 hours ago, bigjim said:
Looking for names and rumors of who will be added to the transfer portal. As of now, the transfer portal shows:
RB - Hayes Patrick
WR - Morris
DL - Meeks
TE/ILB - Wolfley
The portal currently shows that all 4 do not have a new school. Please comment if you have information that is different.
We have heard so many times argued on this site that players just want to play. Give them playing time and they will come. Proponents of the argument that UA will attract a lot of players because they can get on the field early should look at this list. All four players would have seen serious playing time, Hayes Patrick less because of Teon. Yet all have apparently opted out. Why? I feel part of their decision was based on having the chance to experience winning. If they want to leave because of discipline or character issues I have no sympathy for them, but if they want to win, even occasionally, I feel for them.
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5 hours ago, bigjim said:
Zips will win soundly in this game by at least14 points. It will be a total team effort with solid running by Dollard and Knight. I am hoping the freshmen Childs and Norells get a handoff or two to get some experience. I expect a group receiving effort by Stewart, Grimes, Mathison and Qualls, and hopefully others that will catch balls from Gibson. The young OL will rebound with a solid effort. I am looking for the DL to play neutral, not great, but not as bad as they have been playing. And, Bubba will have a career day of 20 tackles. The DBs will also have a neutral day, making some plays and getting beat on some plays. Smigel and Romenick will be clutch. This game will set the stage for 4-5 wins next year and 9 wins in 2022.
Good Lord! I love this description of the game. If this happens Big Jim I owe you a beer ..... or three, four, five, whatever. We will have a lot to celebrate. A win would feel real good.
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OK Dre, UB's facilities are better than us in their locker room, players lounge and weight room. They are awesome. I wish we had them. I like our indoor field house and stadium better. Now, not even you, with all your fantastic powers, can make their weather better than ours!☔?️?️?️
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8 hours ago, Spin said:
Interesting question.
What does everyone think of Tom and his staff as far as X’s and O’s go? Are they building a good game plan every week and making proper adjustments, but don’t have their players developed and experienced enough?
Or, is he lost in space?
I'll Bite. Yesterday there was an interesting post from Palmyra 19 discussing the quality and sophistication of DIII coaching. P19 said he was a former DIII coach and he had high regard for the coaches at that level. He went on to say that sometimes they could not improve the talent level overnight but they were more than willing to scheme up the game plan to negate the other team and play to his team's strengths. To me that is the embodiment of coaching. You are expected to find a way to win. With lousy talent that may not happen, but you still try. I have only seen enlightened scheming from this staff in one game over the last 16. That was Ohio U, and only on offense.
So can Arth and company coach? I don't know as I have seen little evidence of it over 15 games. I want to be wrong on this. I want him to succeed. Yet what I saw against Miami causes me to ask questions. And I think that is appropriate.
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"Been said on here multiple times I would hire that HS coach down the street who established a Dynasty at Hoban.
A HS coach is all we can basically afford right now anyway"
My friend I wouldn't hire any high school coach, but I would have given stronger preference to Vince Kehres who at the time was at Mt. Union. We could afford Kehres and he has legit credentials. I especially like the fact that he continued his dad's culture of winning. All the players expected to win at Mount. The staff got the talent and demanded at high work ethic. Kehres inherited a great program, but he went on to make it even better. Look at what a former DIII coach is doing at Buffalo! Their facilities do not match ours and the weather is horrendous. Yet players want to play for coaches who have a vision, can make them better and shows them how to win. Buffalo is doing that now and I believe Kehres could have done that for us. Coaching is always the key to winning programs.
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4 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
Shane doesn't have a D-1 arm. None the less, it ticks me off KSUcks beat us to the punch on this. Offering a PWO is a no-brainer; kid is a winner (career 53-3) from the #1 high school football factory in the state... which happens to be less than 5 minutes from campus.
Uh, oh. I find myself getting aggravated with Coach Arth. I don't want that!!!!!!
This is a damn shame. Shane has the ability to read defenses quickly, call the right audible and lead 10 others. He processes what he sees quickly. Inevery game this season we have at least one delay of game because our QB couldn't act quick enough. I told agree Shane has a D-1 mind and the ability to lead. He has the intangibles to win. He finds a way to win. He should have been a Zip. As a PWO Kent got a steal. Kent continues to rise and we are still falling.
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5 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
I hate to say it. I don't think we're gonna win.
Of course I've lost any shred of credibility I had as a prognosticator with my prediction last week that we'd beat Miami. So perhaps my pessimism is a good sign.
Idk, but I think the guys spirits will be down. Plus, we're so accustomed to losing Idk if we can sustain 4 good quarters of football.
I"m an Arth fan and supporter; I would have loved to have played for a coach with a demeanor and as consistently positive as Arth. But can Arth & Co. keep from losing the team through 2 straight winless seasons?
I hope I'm wrong.
Ya gotta love your optimism and support of the Zips. You are one of the good guys. Thanks for having worn the colors.
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3 hours ago, bigjim said:
The Zips are still at 121, no change from last week after the 38-7 thrashing. I am very interested in the rankings after next weeks game against BGSU.
Damn, I thought this week we would continue our meteoric climb and rise to 120.
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2 hours ago, ewbrooman1 said:
One of my main complaints about Arth was he brought a bunch of his former assistants for his staff instead of hiring a bunch of guys with DI experience. That may be coming back to bite him now.
This is a really good observation. Arth hired few coaches with strong D1 pedigrees at winning programs. He now is relying on assistants who have never had the pressure to win at the D1 level and do not know how to change a culture of losing to one of winning. The coaches are looking to Arth for leadership because they have never had to turn around a program. Arth has no experienced assistant to go to for help. I am not impressed with coach Z, both as an OC and OL coach. Our play calling sucks and the OL is poorly prepared. The theme of our OL for the last 6 years was " wait until next year, these guys are coming together". Rather than demand performance we have slipped into dreaming of the future with little evidence the staff can produce. I am not talking about winning now. I am talking about playing good football. We all know we have a talent issue. I can wait if the staff puts out a team that tries hard every play and plays with an intelligent scheme. We are not getting that.
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4 hours ago, bigjim said:
Easy sell. Do you want to see the field immediately because our talent level is low? We will have you playing in year one.
It is no doubt interesting to recruits to get on the field early, but the competitive ones still want to win at sometime. Our program cannot realistically promise/predict when that will be. All recruits want to play, yet if it were true that they want to get on the field early, no matter what, perennially losing teams would have decent talent. That is not the case and never has been. Losing becomes a culture, as it has at Akron, and the good ones want no part of that.
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Fearless Forecast:
The Zips continue to show improvement. Enough to keep us excited for the future, but not enough to win. We still show we have problems on D that will not be solved quickly. Basketball will prove to be the savior of Zip fans' mental health. That along with good craft beers.
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I'm thankful that I have something (the Zips) to get passionate about. Something that I believe stands for more than my selfish interests. Something that unites me with strangers who happen to believe as I do, maybe even more so. Something in which that my dad was a great fan. Something that represents a community and a university that I love. I think I'm lucky.
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22 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
That cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh!t Beacon Journal has never published a Zips article 1/10th this good:
Hallelujah! Holy Sh!t! Where's the Tylenol?!
B & G, so how do you really feel about the ABJ?
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3 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
AJ Kirk had a tremendous game. I've seen a handful of Hoban games this season and that's the best I've seen him play. Great game from him. (Btw, Kirk is Mike Doss' brother.)
On the line Darryl Peterson is Hoban's best and he was the best last night as well. He really dominated whomever he played over. Darryl is a Wisconsin commit, and another "Did You Know?," is the son of former Zips basketball great Darryl Peterson. (I am getting old ? )
Hoban uses Luke Bauer as a DE/outside linebacker - sort of how the Zips are using Ryan McClain. Luke generally lines up in the 2-technique on the line at the DE position - usually on the left it seems. He was matched up all night with Massillon RT Terrance Rankl, whom is a Pitt commit. Rankl's the real deal at 6'5" 290. I thought the matchup was a draw. Rankl didn't allow Bauer any sacks last night (though I saw at least 2 plays where holding could have been called and Bauer was in on a couple group sacks). Also, Massillon was never able to simply run behind Rankl like they pretty much have all season and Bauer made a few plays behind the LOS. So we'll see. He's already got a full-grown-man's body at 6'1", 245 and I'm glad he's going to be a Zip.
The Zips have also offered Kharion Davis, whom I believe was named Game MVP. Could Kharion be the lockdown corner we so desperately need? He shut down OSU commit Jayden Ballard last night (though the best pass defense is a good pass rush and that's what we saw last night.) Covering Ballard one-on-one, Kharion was step-for-step with Ballard and then aggressively cut through Ballard's body for a big INT at Hoban's 10-ish yard line. He outfought Ballard for the ball... but that's not really saying much; Ballard is extremely athletic but awfully soft. Hopefully the Zips can land Kharion!
Coach Arth should become best friends with Hoban's Coach Terrell. Lol. (And, while he's at it, with Massillon's Nate Moore as well; loads of talent on both teams - though a few of Massillon's best players this year were from... wait for it... Buchtel! Lol. What's up with that?!) Go Zips!
I watched the game too and was very impressed. I've seen Hoban play about 10 times in the last 3 years. There is great talent there and I hope Arth can get some of them to stay home and help rebuild the Zips. I'm most impressed with coach Terrell. He has always had his team prepared in each game I've seen. I've never seen him out-coached. He develops players. His play calling stands out as unpredictable, creative and able to take advantage of what the D gives you. In other words the complete opposite of Milwee (I'm still deeply scarred and get nightmares thinking of his offense). I would love to see Arth add Terrell to his staff and further build a relationship with NE Ohio H.S. programs. With his success he would help build a consistent culture of winning at Akron, something we sorely lack.
Luke Bauer will find a place on the field and I hope Kharion Davis joins him in the Akron colors. I like their kicker too.
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2 hours ago, LZIp said:
Can't blame him. He wants to do more than block and it is clear that in this offensive scheme he will not see the ball. I think this is regrettable because 1) he could have been a good TE and 2) we should us the TE as a weapon, not always blocking. With the emergence of a running gain the threat of a TE actually catching the ball presents cover problems to the defense thus freeing up our WR's and RB's. I wish him well but I truly hate to lose him. Loved his name. I always felt it fit the Zips family. It is becoming more than suspicious that Arth wants to build only with his own recruits. I hope I can wait until he can produce on the field. I'm thinking it will take another two seasons before we begin winning consistently.
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My Take....
There is reason for hope. We can build on many things: OL, WR's, Teon, team attitude (they never quit), improving special teams.
What bothers me is the D and its coaching. I know, as everyone on this board does, that we lack the talent on D, but we have to go with what we have. Coaching has to make a difference. Maybe we won't win but we can play better. I believe the DL will get better. Bubba and McClain come to play. The rest is troubling. DB's need an overhaul. Riley needs to be sat down. He can't cover, tackle or anticipate. He may be a very nice guy and we know he is young and can recover. Yet he has not performed. Don't give up on him, but expect more while trying others. Coach him up.
I do not find hope in Gibson. His decision making is poor. He has a delay of game penalty every game. That's on him, not the coaches. His shot put passes are totally unacceptable. Since we have seen them in three games they are not going away. They are worthy of benching. When he runs his first few steps are slow, no quickness. I don't feel that because he is a R Fr he will automatically get better with time. Many of his weaknesses are innate and nearly impossible to coach out of him. Perhaps Cato's time away due to injury will make him more coachable and a better alternative.
It's not all doom and gloom. That's coming from a guy who was ready to string up this staff. They are building, it shows in recruiting, Teon, the OL and WR's. Yet their work continues. Sadly, we have to live with the memory of 69 points put up on us from Kent. Sheeeesh!
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23 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
+1.
I hate losing to Kent. So I most certainly dread the possibility of getting blown out on The Mother Ship. Keep it close & make Kent sweat.
I rewatched the OU game and boy does Gibson have A LOT of moxie. I love it, but I don't think he's quite ready to lead us to a victory in this game. Crum may be the best QB in the MAC. Jordyn Riley is going to have to have a whale of a game.
Riley did have a big game. Big for Kent that is. He was terrible. Gave up big receptions and TD's. His tackling was inferior. He got so scared to get beat deep that he lined up far off the receiver thus giving up automatic first downs. He is an experiment whose time has come to stop. Try someone else and work with him to rebuild his confidence. He is lost at corner.
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2 hours ago, bigjim said:
DL is young, but it needs to play Brendan Smith and Bryce Wilson in addition to the players listed above. Smith put on 35 lb from last year and is ready to contribute. Maybe rotate in Julius Hawkings. I agree that Logan Hawkins needs to be in the mix.
I support your linebacker analysis, but I think they need to get some minutes for Juan Jarett and Michael Snowden. with the rules this year, they will not be charged a year of eligibility. Give them some playing time.
I agree that Snowden is a talent, but his play against WMU showed he's not ready. Still I'm with you that he needs to get experience, especially in a year when he won't lose eligibility. Work him in gradually. This is the year to do it. I know Arth loves the guy's attitude and he has the size we need from our future LB's. In our strength program he will grow to be a force.
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3 hours ago, Zipmeister said:
The 8th best builder in the Universe Championships would not make the finals, but with over a thousand professional body builders the 8th best builder would be in the top 0.8%. The Universe and Cy Young are similar in that nobody other than the most diehard fan is likely to remember who finished anywhere other than 1st in either event. Being ranked in the top 2% of all pitchers in the AL isn't bad and he didn't have to wear a skimpy bathing suit to accomplish that ranking.
I vote Zipmeister for Mr. Olympia. He's got guns and all. ?
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8 hours ago, Dr Z said:
I got this creepy image of iCoach sneaking in my head when I listen to Loeffler. ?
Quick, get an exorcism! There is no time to lose ?.
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1 hour ago, LZIp said:
Arth mostly provides your standard coach speak so I don't get much out of him talking, but Scot Loeffler (who I believe some here wanted) is in a similar situation and was pretty direct regarding questions about progress/building the program at BG.
Damn, I like him!
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7 hours ago, dre22era said:
Even though I can't stand this coaching situation
I also have to echo others thoughts.
The Zips kept me tuned in last night.
I saw more fight and what stood out the most to me was Tom Arth still appearing up beat and trying to keep the players motivated after crucial turnovers and missed opportunities.
Dre, it must have killed you to say this but I appreciate that you did. You are a stand up guy. It appears we all have reason to hope and that's a good thing!
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After last week this was a huge improvement. OU is no WMU and it showed. Last week I was depressed; this week there is reason for hope. My biggest concern is Gibson. I questioned his decision making against Western and I saw little improvement tonight. You cannot win with a QB who turns over the ball. Around him the team has gotten better. Love Dollard, love Bubba. The OL showed it can grow and learn. The DL showed flashes of talent. Riley is out of his depth, he can not cover a #1 receiver. The coaches stepped up their game and had the team ready. My compliments to them. Looking ahead Kent looks good and BG can be our first win. Hope so.
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2020-21 Zips Women's Basketball
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Jordyn has a lot of the street in her. She needs to mature more and show she can handle the other team getting into her head or at least trying to.