Dr Z

Loud booming firework in the sky ever hour on the hour with blue and gold smoke starting at noon to "wake up" Joe Akron on game days. Night games should have a Zips logo being shown like the bat signal in the sky. In a certain city nearby they like to say "It's a hockey night in...." We should adopt something like that. It's a football day/night in Akron. Advertised throughout the city on the sides of buildings the day of the game. Downtown buildings leaving the lights on certain offices that spell out ZIPS. Try to get people excited. Once again, this all helps when we have a quality product.

I like your "suggested" schedule better than the current Mac. Ever since Marshall and CFU left, I haven't liked the Mac (excluding Temple).

Your using politicians to make a point about lack of intelligence in the world? I agree with all your reasoning as to why our attendance should be over 20k tomorrow. I'll guess 22,222.

"They're picked to finish last....but I think they have a good chance to do better than that" CK is right, go back to writing. I wish I learned something watching this. He could have won me over when he was speaking of last years defense and said "some Zip fans didn't like" and changed it to "Dr Z hated"

I just got word, they won. The band wanted to thank ZN for the votes.

Jason Taylor gets a lot of camera time in this weeks episode. Some of it is humorous. Commuting adventures. If you ever wondered what a GM negotiation with a player who is being asked to take less money is like, this weeks episode is for you. This is my favorite show on tv right now, I'll hate to see it end next week. Replay tonight: 6 pm HBO East

I agree with the guys, The Daily Orange is doing a good job of pumping out opponent articles. Ianello’s 4-3 defense is the third defensive formation Akron has played in the past three years??? 4-3, 3-3-5 and....???? JD quote when he got hired "I'm bringing a defense to the Mac that they have never seen (3-3-5)" What is this third defense? Don't say "stack" either, same as 3-3-5. PS There is a Mac team playing the 4-2-5 this year (serious).

I hope somebody advertises this more than the GZ little link.

Great piece! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Coach Porter's theory on scheduling, I wish he would have a long talk with the basketball coach on the subject. After seeing footage again of that kick ball competition from last year, I still want those hours of my life back. As long as I live, I'll never forgive myself for that.

I'm shocked that ZN members didn't ask any good questions!?! That was my favorite thing about the football outing, I got to ask questions I didn't know the answers to. But sometimes there is that one guy that tries to monopolize the coach's time and ask him dumb question after dumb question and you can't get quality time. "Hey coach, you think Zeke is going to be better next year?", "Hey coach, how's the schedule look?", "Hey coach, are we gunna win the Mac this year?"....

I got to watch this show last night. Worth while for any ZN reader. I get why Stams moved on to tv. He and Underwood were good on the show. Well shot, well edited, good graphics and informational. Great job STO. Check it out: Today at 2 pm & 6 pm Tomorrow 9/3 at 2 am

Both old schemes would suffer in the wind, our new schemes favor poor weather conditions. With that being said, I hope it is 71 degrees and sunny on Saturday.

Football Golf Outing is the same idea. Get to talk to the coach, staff and players AND, get to play golf. That's why so many were upset that it was scratched.

I like the parlay of Akron on the money line & the over. $20 bet will win you $128

I guess LBJ still has some work to do.

That podcast works nice. Thanks for posting.

Come on man, they come up with this 300 x 250 pixel ad they run on the sidebar at Ohio.com, what else do you want? iCoach is also doing his part (see end of video) We could go the other way, and run this ad and try to get Akronites excited about Syracuse!?!?

Zips get big kick on top with soccer coach Caleb Porter

I noticed the weather forecast changed for Saturday. Yesterday it said 70 and partly sunny for Saturday. Today it says 63 with a 30% chance of showers.

Uh, I'm pretty sure the Syracuse staff knows what kind of defense the Zips will play. I bet they even played against it before.

I totally disagree, it's time KD wins a big OOC game!

Nice job Tom. Good Q&A. I think I agree with all.

Without ever hearing Andy do a game, I like the choice. Anybody have news on what Stams is up to? Wiki says City Manager of Brunswick?!?!? PS Anybody actually subscribe to the BJ? Where have the recent Zip football articles been appearing? Front page of the sports section, or buried?

Yes, he was. link