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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.

If we want any chance to win, we need to come up with a turnover.

You are NEVER allowed to review or challenge a penalty. WOW we held Miami to a field goal....time for a parade down exchange street!

Is it possible to get some of these dummies from practice? Maybe use them in the second half instead of using our defense? You may not agree with me, but if you think our defense is playing well you need to get your head checked. The offense is keeping us in the game, but football is about executing on both sides of the ball. You can't expect us to score on every possession.

Our defense is an embarrassment. In reality the score would be almost the same had we not even fielded a defense for the first half. We had what, one stop? I don't know how you can even say at 1-4 you can look at this as a positive game.

I agree this would be a good idea, but are the Zips a team good enough to have people show up a few hours before gametime? Do we want the band playing in front of a few dozen fans? I think that once the RooWalk gets larger crowds it can migrate inside. Also sometimes with indoor events like that, some fans might not even realize it's happening.

The team walked through campus the past 3 years and it never worked out. The buses would drop them off by the rec and they had to walk over to the fieldhouse. It usually turned into a long period of awkward silence, and about 5-10 fans watching with an occasional clap heard now and then. I always felt like that might have hurt the team's motivation more than encouraged them. Also recruits couldn't have been very impressed watching it either. Not to mention Ianello was so dull he really didn't even acknowledge the few fans that did show up. The goal is to have the team walk through the most condensed area of fans. I really don't care if it's in the middle of campus, or in a tailgating lot. Honestly I'd have cheerleaders and players throw out tshirts and other giveaways as they walk through. Everyone loves free stuff, maybe that could help draw some crowds at first.

To be fair, other than Zeke have we had very many high profile recruits? I mean most of these guys signing with the Zips have a handful of MAC schools and Xavier as their offers. Now I'm not saying they aren't good or bad, but they aren't "high-level".

The truth hurts the OU tool. They would have lost by more than 30 points to Tennessee. Recent history has shown how the SEC is on a completely different level than the BigTen. Like I've said before, the Bobcat fans' arrogance and stupidity is an embarrassment to the MAC. Even Can't State fans are laughing at them now!

To me it's more frustrating to see a 1-3 team, when we have a conference rival at 4-0. It's doesn't matter that they have played 4 bad teams, and us only 1. People only care about records...

no it's over

just like Akron to rip our hearts out. Would have rather seen a blowout honestly

Defense looks done...can't do anything to stop them. We need to catch a break if we want any chance in this game...

There's been a lot of "no calls" for UT. Davis got interfered with so bad his jersey got ripped off the shoulder pad, hmm.

Let's just hope we don't have the same outcome EMU had today.