Dr Z

I'm giving all my likes to this comment. Teams are not the same from one point of the season to the next. Very entertaining watching my team score 94 points. Fun rooting for players that see a lot of floor time. I'm hopeful with all the floor time experience the kids are getting, they continue to improve with a March payoff (this season or the next...)

Saturday, December 16th at 2 pm. The Delta Devils are still looking for a win. Kent beat them by 13

Poll closes (for the season) this Friday at 11 pm, before the next (Saturday) game. The Zips will have 7 wins (my best guess) going into MAC play with at least 19 more games to get 13 wins if they were to get to 20 wins on the season.

Due to weather, the Appalachian Sate men’s basketball team’s flight was delayed. The game will be played tonight at 7 p.m. at JAR. Scouting the Mountaineers The team enters the game with a 5-5 overall record after splitting their last four games. The Mountaineers opened the season with a pair of wins (Toccoa Falls, 135-35, and Bridgewater, 95-57), before dropping a pair of contests (Iowa State, 104-98, and Western Michigan, 86-67). App State bounced back with a 76-72 win over UTEP and fell in overtime to James Madison, 105-99. In the last four contests, the Mountaineers defeated Davidson (78-62) and South Florida (84-61) and dropped games to VCU (85-72) and Western Carolina (72-71). App State averages 87.5 points per outing on 47.2 percent shooting from the floor and a 37.5 percent effort from beyond the 3-point arc, draining 10.6 triples a game.The Mountaineers have two players scoring in double figures led by Ronshad Shabazz with 21.4 points per game on 43.3 percent shooting from the field and 35.2 percent rate from beyond the 3-point with a second-best 25 made 3-pointers. He is the team leader in free throws made (47) and assists (34) while adding 22 rebounds and 11 steals. Justin Forrest follows with 17.2 points and a team-high 31 made triples. He shoots 41.1 percent from the floor and 39.7 percent from deep, while grabbing 32 rebounds and dishing out 23 assists. Isaac Johnson leads the squad on the glass, pulling down 8.7 rebounds per outing with 87 total boards.Defensively, App State limits its opponents to 73.8 points per game on 40.6 percent shooting from the floor and 33.6 percent from 3-point range, allowing only 7.4 long distance strikes per night. The Mountaineers have caused 148 turnovers (14.8 to/g) with 69 steals (6.9 stl/g), and boasts a 9.9 advantage on the glass, outrebounding their opponents 446-347.

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Same press conference as posted early, different format. Skip ahead to the 12 minute mark to get to coach Bowden.

In West Palm?

(More from the press conference posted above) Anonymous reporter to coach Kiffin, "there are a lot of rumors floating around, I guess that's the elephant in the room, I won't ask the question" Kiffin "thank you" Bobby Bowden is coming in the 17th. Coach (Terry) Bowden said "I'm known as an SOB down here in the south.......Son of Bobby." Coach Bowden had to fly down for this conference, miss practice, and had to fly back that night to make today's practice. Kato was the only player coach talked about in his opening statement. "we have a redshirt freshman at QB that is exciting and from this area" The MC said "The PGA will be the host for Akron", not exactly sure what that meant. I'm assuming that is there hotel? How do you use the extra practices? Coach Bowden "we might have practice for an hour, cut practice, and work the players that aren't playing, we will spend time developing our young players for next year. We only have 15 practices in the spring, we get a bonus by having half (more) now"

Should Jatavis Be on the Field More? The need to turn to Phillips came when Brown was dealing with a nagging injury. He has been fully healthy for a while, but with the way AP is playing and the return of Denzel Perryman, there has been no need to change what is currently working. It’s a good problem to have when a player like Brown is unable to crack the lineup.

Hmmmmm, I got that exact same printed piece, and didn't even bet anybody. Weird.

Now that fans have seen a few games, they can make a more educated guess. Discuss why you made your selection below.

Scouting The Mastodons -- Fort Wayne enters the game with a three-game winning streak and a 6-3 overall record. The Mastodons ended a two-game losing skid against Kentucky (86-67) and ETSU (83-73) with a trio of wins over Detroit Mercy (91-82), IUKokomo (99-63), and SIUE (86-71). Fort Wayne. averages 83.7 points per outing on 45.0 percent shooting from the floor and a 36.6 percent effort from beyond the 3-point arc, draining 10.8 triples a game. The 'Dons have three players scoring in double figures led by Bryson Scott with 23.1 points per game on 46.9 percent shooting from the field and 31.6 percent rate from beyond the 3-point with a second-best 18 made 3-pointers. He is the team leader in free throws made (56) and percentage (.836) while adding 46 rebounds, 31 assists, and 18 steals. John Konchar nearly averages a double-double with 13.8 points and a team-high 9.8 rebounds per game. He shoots 47.4 percent from the floor and 42.5 percent from deep with 17 triples, while grabbing a team-best 88 rebounds.. Kason Harrell adds 12.6 points per game to the mix. In addition, the Mastodons have buried 97 triples as a team with six players clocking double-digit made 3-point buckets. Defensively, Fort Wayne limits its opponents to 72.3 points per game on 42.9 percent shooting from the floor and 31.4 percent from 3-point range, allowing only 6.7 long distance strikes per night. The Mastodons have caused 161 turnovers (17.9 to/g) with 72 steals (8.0 stl/g), and boasts a 5.2 advantage on the glass, outrebounding their opponents 353-306.

Good to know, that's exciting. Hope it's packed. I watched the North Texas game yesterday, and the stadium looks nice. The Zips should add palm trees and sunshine to their stadium. Singletary is first in the nation, OU's QB Rourke is second. Click here to see how the Zips handled Rourke. You are correct in reading the stats on rushing D, the stat you are missing is the Akron defense is pretty successful in the red zone (25th in the nation). The character of the defense this year has been giving up yards, but limiting points in the red zone, bend, don't break, as some like to say. Thanks for taking the time to register, and post.

Missed it by a few weeks, but with Lane's history of trick plays, and extra practice time, maybe it inspires coach Milwee in a few weeks. President Wilson really wanted this one. ?

Good info, I wish the article included before and after weight, and a photo of Daniel. August 2017 ___Image from @danielutomi September 2016___Image from @danielutomi Music to me ears....“I’m just thinking about getting to the dance, to be honest,” he said. “That’s one goal we haven’t really achieved … all the other stuff I couldn’t care less about.” (quote from the GT article)

Mykel is rehabbing his knee right now and planning on playing next season. His attitude is off the charts positive. He is also currently working on his masters. He has been at every game, and is involved in every timeout huddle. He'll be in Boca, if they show a sideline huddle on tv, I bet you'll find him. Photo below is from Saturday at Ford Field.

From a trusted source, when asked about FAU's offense against North Texas: "What I did notice was that every player that had the ball and was tackled did a great job of locating and firing the ball back at the ball-spotting official. You could tell that was drilled into every single player on that offense. No one just dropped the ball or did anything other than get it into the hands of the official..." Good idea, replay found here on WatchESPN Attendance was 14 thousand for this home championship game, can't image more than that for the bowl. Watching this game for a tad, there is no way the Zips defense will be able to make their typical substitutions during a drive. I'm glad they have a bunch of extra practices to prepare for this. #derailthetrain

Here is a November article about FAU's offense. Can an FAU fan give their opinion as to how accurate this is? Their passing game is baaaaaad. The Owls’ passing S&P+ is 111th in the country. They started with Daniel Parr at quarterback, but they moved up Jason Driskel. Driskel has also not been effective, nor is he a very sophisticated runner. How are they doing this without a passing game and without an elite running quarterback? They play faster than anyone in the country (No. 1 in adjusted tempo), they have the best running back that you’ve never heard of, and their offensive line is a bunch of maulers. The running back: Devin Singletary. The sophomore running back is averaging 160 total yards per game, and he is special.One aspect about the Kiffin offense that I’ve loved is that he has a pretty small base package of plays that he runs very often at high speeds, but every base play has a followup. If there’s a jet sweep, there’s a jet-sweep reverse. They don’t mess around. They get to the line and snap the ball. The running game is built on playing with tempo and fooling the eyes of linebackers and safeties. The passing game is built on creating easy throws for Driskel. It felt like 50 percent of all their passes were different styles of screen pass. Even the Owls’ defense has gotten in on the act: The Owls have picked off opposing quarterbacks a nation-leading twice per game! I wonder how coach Amato and coach Stroud will handle the Owl's offensive tempo? They like to do a lot of mass substituting and that may not seem possible against this offensive style. ------------------------------------------------------ University of Akron students will receive two (2) free bowl tickets with a valid University I.D. Students must call or text the ticket office to reserve a ticket. They must also provide a student I.D. number. Additional student tickets may be purchased for $20 each. Student tickets will be held for Will Call pick up from the Akron table on the day of the game.

Warren's unfortunate injury is only thing that kept me, Zipmlady, zipsoutsider and Balsy from correctly guessing all questions.

Zips Wins - 7 (over) Warren Ball rushing yards - 332 (under) Reception Leader - Tra’Von Chapman (50) Defensive sacks - 21 (over) It looks as though @zzx is going to be our only winner, unless Coney (41) passes Tra with a bunch of receptions in the bowl game.

No winners. FWIW, the attendance was 16,225

Sunday to Thursday on Spirit. Not the greatest flight. I did this last February, it wasn't awful, just bad. You need to set your expectations LOW on Spirit.

I might be driving from Miami International the day of the game to be there right at game time. I'm following the traffic now, should I believe an hour drive time?