Dr Z

When you see basketball fans tailgate before AND AFTER the games like they do in football, you will know the two are on a parallel. If GP1 can have the laugh-o-meter, I can have the tailgate-o-meter.

Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings takes home a souvenir from a Bucks fan following the game against the Bulls at the United Center in Chicago. (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)

I told you so

Great job Tom. I never understood how DLM couldn't walk down the street on a beautiful day like today a do a nice story like this. Looking forward to tomorrow. I hope Thursday is Special Teams, Friday is Offensive Line, Saturday is Running backs, etc... This quote is the easy part, now the execution (hard part). But at least we have the right mindset now.

On top of enjoying a great college basketball game, I couldn't help feeling extremely jealous of Butler last night. If the goal is a ten (1 out of 10) and Butler is the goal, I think we are at a 4 or maybe a 5. I was so envious of the dribble penetration that Butler produced to get open looks at the hoop and put Duke's big men in foul trouble. Well run offense, crisp passing, drive, kick out, quick ball movement, get the open look. Very intelligent shot selection. VERY jealous of that. The defensive ball pressure that they exhibited was fantastic. With the emphasis that our staff puts on defense, I would expect that kind of play on our defense. Congratulations to Butler, but to me that game was a harsh slap in the face at how much work is ahead of our program. Good luck to the staff in getting it done. I'll be watching from the JAR next year again. PS All year long I envisioned us using Zeke on the inbound pass the way Duke used their big man. That seems like taking candy from a baby to me?!?!

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Good for Luke to be able to put it in his past and move on. That's probably one of the reasons why he will succeed.

Yep, here is the link if you would like to comment. If you type in Flemming in the search box, it comes right up. Click here for "search" directions.

We can't win a home CBI game against Wisconsin Green Bay. We have a long way to go. Yes, but W-GB was only six RPI slots worse than us. If you take our RPI and divide by the conference standard deviation and multiply by the cross-coefficient constant of statistical relevancy we actually did beat them. I knew we were doomed when Statorious D.I.G posted his prediction.

Good luck to Luke. Winner. Might be my favorite Akron QB.

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Nice, I like it. Maybe I can get a podcast of icoach and put it on my iphone!?! That could be the name of the fictitious coaches show on STO too.

Well here is sort of an answer to my question. I happen to golf with a bunch of Jackson alumni yesterday and one of the guys I was golfing with told me that the rumor is that Josh has a 40" vertical. I'm only repeating what I heard somebody say, I didn't get a chance to measure him myself, so don't hold me to this. I would hope that somebody in the media can find this out for sure. Or maybe GoZips can ask KD if it's true or not.

I'm amazed at how well Lebron has "played" out his possible free agency. He has made the Cavs front office put together a pretty good team. If he could do the same thing for the Browns or Indians, that would be amazing. Where ever he signs, one thing is for sure, that team has the most talented player in NBA to build their franchise with to win a championship. That is the hardest thing to get as a team. If he doesn't sign with the Cavs, the next front office will do the same thing the Cavs did. It may take two years though if it's a crappy team. It may not. Hope the Cavs can pull it off. Cleveland can use some kind of luck in sports. One thing is for sure, whatever uniform LBJ is wearing, that's my team. That's the guy that is entertaining to watch.

Plimpton took it all the way. Fantastic article. I'll never forget reading that story in the school library. I told everybody that would listen to me about it. I think SI announced weeks later that it was a joke. I never believed anything I heard or read again.

How did we go from having Monsters of Rock festival to wishing for Jay-Z or Dave Mathews!?!? I've seen Nirvana at the JAR, Tool at the Daily Double. What happen to the Akron music scene???

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SI's Sidd Finch article in 1985 is the ONLY good April Fools day joke in my lifetime. Everything else pales in comparison.

Hmmmmm PG for next year? EA must be reading ZN. While true, this line will make KD see red when he reads it. Watch out EA! While the schedule was set up to deliver 20 wins, the Zips failed nearly every big-game test along the way.

I'm glad they added a photo, even if it's old (aren't all photos old ) . I have a photo of AA I wanted to post, but somehow I misplaced it. Is this story gone? The link isn't working and when I go to the BJ Zips front page I don't see the story?!?

Has anybody transferred out of Akron in the last 10 years to a bigger program? No. So if somebody is transferring, they would be transferring "down" Why would a kid at Akron transfer "down"? Playing time would have to be the number one reason. So I would start my list of players with the ones that aren't seeing the floor. I'm not going to post names, but that's how my thinking goes on the subject. For me, I'm really not that interested until I see something official. I think back to when JD was let go and a few posters stated that half the team was leaving including PN7. I can wait. Bubba was an exception, but many would argue that it was addition by subtraction.

My annual golf trip is scheduled at the same time. I wish this game was recorded and replayed like bigger schools. I'm pretty sure ND does it, I wonder if Rob will bring that idea with him? Other schools spring game tv schedule

Jason Taylor? JT was home schooled and not on big time recruiting lists. bio

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Anybody follow any of the boys twitters?