Dr Z

Give me your source. Not some bs "I heard" PN16 has the starting job locked down at a Div I school as a sophomore. Why would you leave that? Can you imagine a better situation at that age? If there is any truth to "what you heard", he is getting bad career advice and needs to reevaluate.I'm not a big fan of your subject "what you actually heard" How about what we know. As of right now, here it is:Wistrcill said a national search for a coach will begin immediately. He said a decision will be made soon about whether to hire a search firm to help or whether a suitable candidate can be found independently.source

The end of the stack "defense" after tomorrow.

Boo Kevin Allen, how hard is it to get a current photo of Zeke in Akron gear?

I bet they are ready for their conference play after those games.

I like going back and reading what people say or predict. I hope we aren't doing the same thing next year, because going backand reading what I wrote LAST year, is just how I feel this year. I won't go through another season watching this, it's too predictable.I just want to win.

Steve is a nice guy, but remember, he gets PAID to do it. The fans pay to watch. Feel sorry for the FANS.

It's harder to watch the team lose. I'm sure JD will land on his feet.Don't feel sorry for JD, feel sorry for the dedicated Zip fans that go to all the games and just want to see the team win.

I would like to be the first to congratulate Jimmy on his first bucket of the year.

if Romeo will come and coach the D, I'll take it.

I see the bumper stickers on semis once and awhile.

Zero points in 15 minutes against NC State. FIVE fouls!!!Zero points in 6 minutes against Drake, but he did only get 2 foulsSo far in three games Conyers is averaging almost 4 fouls a game with NO POINTS.

Each play? What Zips team have you been watching? Name any adjustment you have seen in a game that happened after "each play"? My point is that we have been playing a decent first half against most teams this year. We go into half time and come out attacking the same way. The other team makes adjustments to what we have been doing successfully and stops it. Our second halves this year stink. After leading at half yesterday, we were outscored 27-10 in the second half, 21-0 against Temple, after leading 10-6 against NI, we got outscored 21-0, tied at half with Buffalo, outscored again, leading against OU, outscored again. I watched it most of this staffs time here at Akron. If we just take the time at half time (because that is when you have the most time to analyze. A lot of teams do it, check it out) and look at what offensive plays were successful for the opposition and try to stop those particular plays, I like our chances much better. I would feel a lot better about this staff if I witnessed one game where we were down by double digits, did something different in the second half, and come back and won a game. Unfortunately there are too many opposite examples of this.

When did we start putting stars on our helmets? I guess I go to most of the games and can't see them from the stands, but yesterday was the first day I noticed there were stars on our helmets. I'm guessing they are for good plays like every other team?? I noticed Andre Jones, Wagner and Alexander had plenty. I also noticed Nicely had none???Freddie Barnes is awesome. He knows how to get open, has great hands, and knows how to get yac. I'm thinking he will have a shot at the next level. I would have never let him get off the line clean yesterday, he would have had our most physical DB in his face for 5 yards and then released to a cover DB. Especially since we have so many on the field. Although I did see a few four DL sets yesterday.BG's run defense is as pathetic as ours! My gawd, what coach thinks those gimmick defenses are good ideas? I just don't get it.I saw my favorite offensive play of the year. Nicely fakes the WR bubble screen to move the d backs up and hits Jones before the safety can get there on a fly. Beautiful design. I'm surprised as many as these WR bubble screens as we see in the NFL now a days, I haven't seen this call in the NFL. And I watch a LOT of NFL games. My second favorite play; Nicely under center, two TE and a full back, off tackle leftt for 3 yards on a 3rd and 1. OMG, I fell off my couch when I saw it. It looked as easy doing it to BG as it looks when teams do it to us...stupid defense.I'm surprised as good of hands as Andre Jones has that he was ever considered on defense...yes I know why he was there, but still after watching his hands on some catches yesterday, he looks special to me. We need to use him the way BG uses Freddie.Kudos for our defense on the 4th and 1. Poorly run by their QB, but way to make them pay. While I'm handing out defensive praise, I'll give Kevin Davis a notice. One of the few times I have seen our DB's up at the line and he held contain all the way across the field and held the RB for a short gain. It works one out of 10 times. I think it was Matt Little that had a nice knock down at the line of scrimmage too. I think coach Okruch saw something on film, because I don't remember our LBs jumping so much at the line of scrimmage as I saw last night.Was it me or did the hash marks on the field seem like they were too close to the sidelines? There were some instances it seemed like when the offense lined up they didn't have enough room? Maybe it was just me.When was the last D1 game that we come out of a half and dominated offensively and defensively? We continue to get out coached in the second half.

Rivals Defensive Coordinator Power Rankings From the beginning of the seasonI would give Narduzzi and Tenuta an interview from that list (both familiar with the MAC). Maybe Bennett.

Another WR coach??? PLEASE get a defensive guy!

I know this is the official thread and all, but there are some other thoughts previously stated on the matter. This thread was started Nov 2ndMitch Browning has ties to our new AD as CK previously suggested back in late October. Many other thoughts in that link also.

Somebody that's willing to take the high road and has a thick skin on a sports forum?

We should just run a penalty killing line with Zeke, Humpty, Bardo and McNees. Short handed goals galore!

I didn't get to see the game yesterday, so read this with that in mind. IMO there is no excuse for a loss like this...BUT, I'll offer this, I have watched some of my favorite teams where I wish they would have lost a game so they can address the problems that exist. Sometimes a narrow victory hides your problems and a coach continues on without changes because the team won. Maybe this early loss will cause some change that will make them a better team in March.

One game in, the answer is "no" FOUR fouls in seven minutes and ZERO points!?!?

So how would you defend it?

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