Dr Z

Walk through the Muni lot on a Sunday morning. Thank goodness Lot 9 is the polar opposite.

Listed as 253 right now, I wonder what his playing weight will be when he takes his first real snap as a Zip...and how close to the ball will he be? Kid has some real lower body strength.

As long as we are in the MAC, I'll continue to say, I miss UCF and Marshall being in the MAC. UCF was the best team the Zips played this year. Storm Johnson is a load. I can see how some could argue NIU is better with Lynch, and you might be right, but I thought UCF was a better team. Would have been a better evaluation had we played them a little later in the year though. I would love to get them on future schedules. Good luck to them.

At 223 pounds, watching Presley this year, I thought he fit better as an OLB in the 3-4.

March Madness is the best tournament going for my entertainment value. Todays NHL playoffs are a close second. NFL playoffs used to be better, but the quality of play has reduced the the quality of games, dropping it to third for me. College football post season is a distant fourth, but is pretty meaningless due to the system in place. MLB then NBA (without LBJ in CLE, with, is a different story).

Possibly. Maybe just defensive lineman in general.

GP1 is correct, you Columbus fans are ultra-defensive. Read the original tweet, it actually comes off as pro-columbus. That's why George tweeted it.

Please don't try to defend that defense on ZN while I'm alive. With the proper MAC recruit, that defense can't stop the run in conference, let alone in when we play bigger conferences. I can beat that defense (in the MAC) with five play calls...and some did. The only thing a will give JD credit for is the fact that, like coach Bowden, he was trying to find what he thought would work in the MAC. I liked JD, I wish he would have adapted his defensive plan while he was here. Do you know that DeAngelo Williams still sends JD a Christmas card every year?

@GeorgeThomasABJ tweeted this.

This would up my Zips enthusiasm. I've been watching the Steelers play the 3-4 for so long, I can help with assignments. Can we make a Zips version of 'Renegade' on the scoreboard? This would change our defensive line assignments dramatically. If they did this, it would actually surprise me a little. I would expect to see some special guests helping in spring ball. I'm going to guess they use it in special situations and not as a base defense. If you use this all the time, you have to come up with new stuff constantly, or your defense gets predictable throughout the year...example Ray Horton this year. You need intelligent linebackers and safeties. This would be a great recruiting tool to excite young defensive players. I wish coach Bowden were sitting next to me right now so I can ask him about it. I need this answer. Excellent topic for an article George. PS my least favorite numbers to see in a row, 3, 3, and 5. (second worst idea in Zips football history) Some 3-4 history JD made the comment when he was hired at Akron "I'm bringing a defense that nobody has seen in the Mac", I was so excited that we were going to play the 3-4, I never considered it wouldn't be. He went on to describe how hard it was to recruit DE in the Mac. I still haven't recovered from that comment. A reason teams have switched to the 3-4 defense is personnel driven. You can take guys who may be too small to be a prototypical DE, but may be perfectly sized to rush the passer as 3-4 OLB. And you can grab large guys without the speed to play DE in a 4-3 and have them play 4- and 3-tech. This by and large is the driving force for why many NFL teams are moving to multiple front 3-4 schemes. It is a lot easier (and cheaper) to find guys who are too big or too slow to play DE at the professional level and move them around to fit their talents.

I think it's between 3 and 8 on the list. PS the MAC had as many players as the L10 did in this years first round of the NFL draft (and MAC went higher). SEC had 12 times more. A lot of teams in that league put an emphasis on speed.

link to mine. Again...

Columbus State is one of the most bet on football teams in college (along with Tex and ND), that is how the line is made, not what they think the score will be. That means they have to entice money on the other side. I'll let you read between the lines on that. CS only has six wins ATS this year, Missouri AND Auburn lead all of college football with 10. Incase Zips fans were wondering, we were same as CS, six.

One of Pete's gags

Was that the same year that Pete got in a fake fight with Lendale White and they faked his suicide?

____________________ All-MAC First Team ...restless in cowlumbus

How many teams in the SEC would be favored to beat Columbus State in a bowl game?

That was my impression as well. On the other side of the coin, I have witnessed coach Bowden listen to advice from a random fan telling him about a kid that looked good to him playing high school. Coach Bowden pulls his position coach over and says "are we aware of this kid?" Point being, coach Bowden seems like he is always ready to listen to someone, and leaves no stone unturned. I remember when he introduced himself at the basketball game and said he was going to work harder, and longer than anybody to bring a winning team to Akron. I feel like he is living up to that promise.

I think I heard a saying a long time ago "it's not what you know, it's who you know." If Rob Ryan can continually ruin NFL defense after defense and get hired...wait a minute, maybe it's a Rob thing. I cracked the code.

I thought marketing did a nice job with the preseason awareness. Now they have that job all over again with the lost momentum. We'll see how many butts are in the seats during our "second" season. Hopefully somebody learned a lesson from this ridiculousness.

The two should play in a bowl game. That, I would watch.

Most important commitment since Charlie Frye!?!?

You should have seen Jason Taylor at Akron his senior year.

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