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NZF Part Deux

I hear what you're saying 87, but I was told that Boyett is just not ready to play ball.

I totally agree with Dave. Lee has been providing some great commentary and is much more eloquent than I. A number of us have been irate with the way things are going and have grown very impatient with those telling us that we are on the right path. . .that Bowden is the best coach Akron could ever hope of getting. . .that the defense is good. . .that being critical of Bowden is unacceptable. . .yada, yada, yada. Bottom line is this. You are what your record says you are. Our record says we are a bad football team. I started watching football in 1974. I was 6 years old. My life revolved around collecting Topps football cards and watching games on Sundays to see the guys on the cards play. In my 40 years I have heard way too many times to count that the hallmark of a well coached football team is that they improve every week. When I played ball in high school our coach preached to us over and over and over again that we had to get better every week. If we stayed the same we were going backwards because everybody else was going to get better. I bought into this as being truth at a young age. The Zips have not gotten better. The Zips have regressed. The strategies of this staff are not working. The emphasis on transfers has failed because you bring in transfers to win today. Today not tomorrow. I heard that somewhere, I think. 2014 was the Zips "Time to Shine", I heard. Does anyone recall the Play 14 graphics and don't forget about #play14. We were all sold a bill of goods about this team being much better than what it is. A lot of us bought in. I know I did. Even though I watched the same Spring game you all did. Even though I went to a few practices and saw that same offense that couldn't punch its way through a wet paper sack. I gave way too much credit to the defense. Almost any defense looks good against our offense as we have seen the past 4 weeks. A lot of us were irrationally exuberant. The book is out on the Zips. Every staff seems to know what to expect from our offense and how to attack our defense. All of our deficiencies have been exposed and exploited. Meanwhile, we do the same thing every week. Like someone said, we just keep on pounding the square peg into the round hole. It is beyond frustrating to watch. Good coaches find ways to win. Good coaches utilize their personnel to accentuate their talents and limit their liabilities. Terry Bowden took a big risk in naming A.J. Milwee Offensive Coordinator because he clearly did not have the experience and qualifications for the job. I think almost everyone gave the coach a free pass on that one on the hope that A.J. was some kind of wunderkind prodigy offensive genius. This is clearly not the case. We have almost two years of proof now. It's not just A.J., though. Just singling him out is unfair. Return teams have been atrocious and our receivers can't get open or catch a cold. You would think we would have seen a little progress here in the last 2 1/2 years. I realize the staff knows far more about the game of football than I or anyone else on this board does. They have made the game their life's work. I think that they can still get on the right track but that will mean making changes. I hope they are all doing some soul searching and honestly assessing where the program is and where it is heading in an honest non-delusional manner. I hope the players are doing the same and the fans as well. Right now Terry & Co. are 10-24 and that ain't good. The promise of a 4-2 start with 2 poor teams next on the docket leading up to a showdown with BG was intoxicating for a minute. 4 straight losses sobered me up right quick. It really blows and it kind of makes me mad at myself because I committed the Zip fan's cardinal sin: I got my hopes up. I am tired of always waiting for next year. I am tired of excuses. I am tired of losing. Reality is a cold-hearted bitch.

Great post, GP1. You pretty much nailed it. The only thing I disagree with you about is the offensive gameplan/playcalling. There has been no change in this area at all. We continue to pound the square peg every week just hoping that we eventually play a team bad enough that it will finally work against, I guess. If we continue to travel this path, I will go out on a limb and predict 2 more losses to close out 2014. Doing the same things over and over expecting different results is the definition of insanity, right? If so, the Zips offense needs to be committed.

That's a shame too, because he probably could have caught 5 or 6 passes a season here.

Is this the look of shame?

To just name one simply & obviously: P.J. Fleck. He is a tool but he has Western winning today not tomorrow.The free pass that you give Bowden is just crazy delusional. Perhaps, if there was any semblance of a legitimate sports media presence in NE Ohio, some appropriate questions could be asked of Bowden, giving him the opportunity to acquit himself from the train wreck that is the 2014 Zips. Instead we will get more of the same old bullshit Q&A which is all we deserve as fans because our fan base is so pathetic. The only heat that any Akron coach will ever feel comes from this board. I am tired of being made to feel like I am a fair weather fan by pointing out reality. You can continue to blame everyone but Bowden. You can continue to pretend the defense is good. You can do whatever you need to do to rationalize in your mind the implosion of this season. But here's the bottom line. The buck stops with Terry. If he is not willing to make some changes on his staff, he's got to own the wheels coming off. Mr. Lee Adams wanted to talk about Terry's quote in the BJ about putting players in bad positions. You blew him off saying there was nothing there to talk about, just some coachspeak. Well, I can tell you today I hope it was a legitimate hint dropped that Terry at least sees some of the problems and is going to shake things up. Hopefully today not tomorrow.

Yeah. Not quite sure where we go from here. Gotta wonder if the wagons can be circled or not. I would like to think that the team would summon up enough pride to win the last two games to avoid the losing season but I am very doubtful. Such a terrible finish to a promising season.

Just in case anyone still cares at all, the terrible 2011 team only gave up 51 to Buffalo.

Some people saw what was going on after the Ohio game. My guess is a lot more might see what is going on now. Some will continue to live life in delusion.

Does the coaching staff have any effect whatsoever on this team? This is playground football.

Missing Moses.

Hopefully that makes the Buffalo losers think about losing.

I think the correct term is hypist.

Let's keep it positive. The Zips can still win this game because Buffalo could still blow it. As a matter of fact, Buffalo blows donkey so bad they belong in a Tijuana side show. Keep hope alive.

Those helmets though.

I am afraid they have quit and will mail in the last 2 games also.

I missed the memo. Are we still pretending the defense is good?

The tipped passes made me have a horribly nauseating Clayton Moore flashback.

Glad we called time out.

Ray, I think A.J. kinda puts all of us in mind of Jimbo.

Buffalo is shit worthless but yet they are making us look foolish.

Absolutely. Complete with a purse museum.

http://deadspin.com/mac-commissioner-squirms-out-of-questions-about-espn-tv-1656711202

Probably wouldn't be fair to them at this point.