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You enjoy watching us be down 20-0 at halftime? At some point people get sick of losing, and I'm freaking tired of it!

Where are all the "this team is fun to watch" people at now? Even Ianello's team could put up 20pts against Ohio. Whether you want to admit it or not, we are going backwards.

Have to assume OhioU is going to score on every drive, just digging ourselves a bigger hole. Has Williams completed a pass yet?

Typical pathetic Akron start...might be turning this game off after the 1st quarter

As much as I would like to see us beat them, I think both the offense and defense will need to play. It seems like every week only one side shows up, and other weeks neither does. My estimate is Ohio 35 Akron 10.

I like them, but no Akron logo on them like the past?

UA wouldn't have made the deal if it didn't feel that InfoCision was a good company, and if they fell that it could end up hurting our image I'm sure the name would be changed. It happened when the Astro's ballpark was changed from Enron Field to Minute Maid Park. Ianello did much more than just damage our football program.

I think that we have a solid rotation of good players, but not really those stars you need to make a run in the postseason. It doesn't seem like we have a guy who can score in double digits on a consistent basis, but rather rely on a team philosophy. While it's good to not have to rely on one player to win, it hurts when we have those games that the team doesn't mesh and struggle to score. They star of our team is Zeke, but more for his defensive ability. I really hope someone like Harney, Tree, or one of the new players can step up and really put points on the board. It makes for more exciting basketball.

In all fairness Rob Ianello did more damage to the Zips image than InfoCision ever will.

I've had the same problem at the JAR. But there have been a few times, that I have had reserved tickets and the ushers actually came up to me and asked if I belonged there. Just because I look like a student, doesn't mean I'm not allowed to sit there. I paid for my seat and they really have no business bothering me about it.

Thats what she said

Every team has injuries. You don't see us using injuries as an excuse for losing games. The fact is you are squeaking by, barely beating bad teams.

Well just like that we're down by 7, soon to be 14. Can't wait to see how you guys will consider this a "positive" loss.

Ohio U playing close games against terrible teams. But seriously feel like their luck has to run out eventually.

Bowling Green 45 - Akron 35 Only way we can win is if the defense shows up

Isn't the WAC going to be dropping football within the next few years? If not this is a terrible move. Smaller FBS conferences are going overboard adding schools that have no business playing at this level. Do we really need over 120 schools? Does Utah Valley and UTSA deserve to move up? I guess I wouldn't care as much, but it really angers me that a school like Charlotte will be joining CUSA. Doesn't give us much hope, when a school yet to establish a football program is already in a better conference than us.

Funny you brought up the Browns. Since 1999 every fall I found myself looking forward to watching the Browns play on Sundays. Other than Infocsion's opener in '09 I really never looked forward to watching the Zips. That completely changed this year and the Zips are easily more fun to watch than the Browns. I may be ZipsNation's most negative poster, but I have never had more fun watching the Zips. I just wish we had some W's to show for it.

I feel like they are shifting away from a unified brand, to having each season/sport unique. For example football this year uses "Bowden Ball", baseball used "the Mob", and basketball is using a "bigger" campaign. I think having "Fear The Roo" as the main slogan works stronger, then have each sport use something specific per season as a secondary slogan. "Fear the Roo" may be kind of cheesy but I've always loved it. Maybe because I was at UA when it started, but it was really the best thing to happen at UA since the new Zippy logos were introduced.

Bowling Green? Do we know if the game is on TV yet?

Really we only have two options to move up, the Big East and CUSA. Both are much better than the MAC. We are NEVER going to be an ACC or BigTen team, so it's a critical time to take whatever we can get. I'd rather be playing Houston or SMU on saturdays, than the crappy Eastern Michigan, Buffalo, and Bowling Green schools of the MAC. Fan travel really isn't something that worries me. Right now do we have to worry about fans traveling to Boise, when they don't even want to travel to InfoCision to watch a home game? I think CUSA is the only conference that would take us at this point. But the BE has added the markets of Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Memphis, and Philadelphia with their recent expansions. I'd would make sense to add Cleveland/Akron to that list.

It wasn't very smart to use up our timeouts earlier in the half. They were used on a 3rd-1 and 3rd-4, both times it backfired and Miami was able to get 15+ yard plays to convert for first down.

Competitiveness doesn't get fans to come to the games. There were plenty of games over the past few years that we only lost by a touchdown or two. Just because the offense is scoring more points, it doesn't make up for a terrible defensive performance.

Don't see any way that Ohio U loses to UMass.

There is no way you can blame the refs, you let Miami score on every possession you deserve to lose. A huge step backwards for this team. Yes, there were two 15 yard penalties on that drive. But how is that any different than the defense giving up 15+ yard passes on every play?

Competitiveness doesn't show up the in the win column. At the end of the day we're looking at a 1-4 football team.