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Those last few posts gave me a headache...

I agree he had the most successful season in Zips Football history. Nobody is taking away from that. But since he put Milwee in charge the team sank back down to the bottom. He also owns that. 2-6 in the MAC. Great coach. Helluva guy. Would love to sit and talk with him all day. But you can’t pretend he let the program fall right back into the hole he took us out of. Comparing his last couple years to Arth doesn’t help his case all that much…

I’ll throw out another thought. How much has the belt tightening affected recruiting? Coaching? It looks like they can’t even afford to keep the website up to date. Let alone improve on recruiting, etc. We’re hearing about deep cuts in education, that’s gotta have an affect on the athletics budgets.

Good idea. This is football country where the NFL was formed and had 3 teams at one time. And a rabid fan base for another in-state college program. The potential is there. Just waiting for someone at the U to not step on his junk with promotions...

Bowden was here 7 years and had one winning season, one mediocre season, and five losing seasons. He got fired after going 2-6 in the MAC (read that twice) and we're STILL paying for his complete lack of recruiting the second half of his stay here (how many upperclassmen do we have on the roster?). If you're that infatuated with him, follow him to the Sunbelt basement. A match made in heaven, Bobby Bo and Rich Rodriguez (the most popular UM coach in Buckeye history, at least for now...).

To top it off he's a Hoosier honor roll student.

I was thinking that too. It would have looked good in the 1950's.

Yeah, that’s not gonna happen… curb stomp victims think this game is an embarrassment. Way to represent there Kent Sux.

My Ohio division 5 high school football team has rosters and depth charts all over the internet. My NCAA Division 1 FBS alma mater? crickets chirping. Don’t get me started on their marketing “effort”…

The other Major League Zip is on the 10-day injured list with a right thumb contusion. https://www.mlb.com/player/jt-brubaker-664141

Yeah I'm wondering how this will affect the weekly Zips Football and Basketball shows. The first move they made when they took over the Fox local networks was axing the Cleveland Monsters hockey games. Gone the next day.

How decimated was the roster that was turned over to Tom Arth? According to Our Lads, there are THREE SENIORS on the current depth chart. Add 8 juniors, 17 sophs, and 20 frosh. Someone tell me I'm reading that wrong...

I listened to the press conference on Sirius and they talked about preserving the conferences and marketing, and scheduling. I got the impression they were going to schedule other schools in the alliance for non-con games. Which probably sounds interesting to fans of those schools. And while playing other G5 schools would make for more interesting non-con games than getting Cornhuskered by 60 points, it’s going to be a big hit to the athletic department budgets without the annual football sacrifice(es).

Perry Kitchen likely out for the season after having back surgery. Columbus Dispatch article

"Bassitt suffered a displaced tripod fracture in his cheek and received stitches for two facial lacerations."

It's a new NCAA Mercy Rule...

Picking on a non-white isn't "white privilege". It's being an Equal Opportunity A hole. Something I'm well known for. And in getting it back.

Chris Bassitt pitched against the Tribe today giving up 3 hits in 6 shutout innings to take the win, final score 17-0. No wonder Terry Francona took the rest of the season off...

Yes

Bowden took us to places we've never been. After that he did a horrible job recruiting and/or coaching. In 2015 the Zips went 8-5 and won their first FBS bowl game. In 2016 the Zips went 5-7 In 2017 the Zips went 7-7 and lost the Boca Raton bowl In 2018 the Zips went 4-8 and he got fired. He had one season above .500 and since then the program declined. Now, my question about Coach Arth. My understanding is, your play makers are usually seniors. Does that mean we're not going to see Tom's recruiting and development until year four? We're not talking about 5 starters like basketball or 11 starters like soccer. In football you're looking at 22 traditional starters, plus situational subs, and special teams. With that thinking we should see some flashes from his recruiting classes this year, and next season have a much better picture of his recruiting and development.

It's not in the budget.

But can the MAC schools survive without the ass-kicking at the hands of the BCS schools? That makes up a significant part of the athletics budgets. Do those left behind drop to 63 scholly's and join FCS? Drop to 36 and play D2? Competition-wise the programs could benefit from downgrading, except maybe soccer (we don't know how bad the budget cuts already made will affect the program). I think some retrenchment was inevitable after the U had the recent pre-COVID money problems. As it turns out, several of our MAC rivals could be going the same route.

So this year our colors are dark dark blue and white? But the schedule has dark blue and old gold. It's like a perpetual identity crisis.

Chris played the Tribe strong, after giving up a homer to Bradley Zimmer on the first pitch. He went 7 innings striking out 8 and giving up two more earned runs on 6 hits. Of course with the A's batting prowess, that resulted in a loss. I shot a couple graphics that were shown in the game.... What that kid could accomplish on a team that can hit itself out of a wet paper bag...

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