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Pretty disappointed. Game was very reminiscent of the OU game last year. Let's give credit to Marshall though (something nobody seems to be doing). They are a damn good mid-major team.Probably the best in the country at our level. I expect either an undefeated/1 loss season from them. Granted a very easy schedule. Interesting that they avoided playing a power 5 conference team. I just expected more from the team. Maybe they aren't as far along as we thought. Two weeks to prepare. Complete blah mood. Left before the half I was so disappointed. In other news, Pitt lost to Iowa today. Definitely a game we can get next week, but tall order nonetheless.

My tailgating beer of choice. Go Zips!

Cliffs is hardly a top performer.

Good work ZTZ

Obviously a long time. Don't really understand why it's being brought up..Just saw LJ fam foundation has invited 2500 people to attend the game. Love it!

I do not think setting the sights a little smaller and targeting the conference is an issue. BG = reigning MAC champs and expected to be good for a while. That's what I mentioned the Sentinel (their local paper). Checked their site out and couldn't find a quote. Awaiting a reply to my email.

add me to the list.. Grew up a huge OSU fan. Was leaning towards OSU, then visited Akron campus and made my decision that day. Grew up two hours south and I never even heard much of Akron besides that they had a pretty decent business school from word of mouth.

Im in for $50 in the Sentinel Tribune if we beat Marshall.

I like to think I know a good bit about football, but I admittedly have no clue what this is intending to mean. 5 wide? If so, doesn't seem like big news really.

Yes.

well written piece by Marla. Very informative.

@MockingTheDraft The MAC has more wins against power five teams than the Big Ten

no clue what thread to put this in. too much work to search through which thread where the Ianello discussion was in..but I thought we all would enjoy this Bruin Report Online @BruinReport · 14m So UCLA wins the toss and elects to defer. And then Texas chooses to kickoff. So UCLA will get it twice.

we last played them Ianello's last year..which seems like 2011 to me. I wonder who they picked up in place. Should confirm/shut down any thoughts of them being 'afraid' of us.

i might have taken the time to read the novel if we were mature enough to use the proper name of the team.

thats pretty cool Hilltopper. Would have loved to see your reaction to that.

what year(s) were dropped?

Huh? ESPN doesn't miss a chance to rag on the B1G and OSU as much as they can. You must have missed the 20 minutes or so of it today on College Gameday.

Those are some strong words. I'll admit I have no clue about him, though.

The current coach of the soccer team appears to be doing more damage to the program than the Browns practicing on the field for a few weeks ever would.

May be mistaken, but I thought the MAC champion destination bowl has been the GoDaddy bowl?

You could sneeze on Travis Benjamin and he would have some injury.

My research has inspired me to do some more research regarding other mid-major OOC schedules, specifically mid-majors who have made runs in the NCAA tournament runs the past few seasons (SFA, FGCU, Dayton,Mercer, Davidson...the list could go on and on). You'll find at least 1 thing in common between all of them..they all played at least 1 really good team in the OOC. Coincidence? I'm not so sure. You can't convince me that going on the road for big games doesn't help prepare you for the NCAA tourney regardless of the outcome.

Agree to disagree then. Also, while it may end the 21 game/season streak or whatever it is, one game against a good major program won't make them a mediocre or .500 team.Just did a quick look, and it appears programs we aspire to be like (VCU, Creighton, etc) still cant even get big time opponents to come to their place. Its just unrealistic expectations. I even looked at Stephen F. Austin and they went to Texas last season. If you want it, you have to go out and get it. Just my two cents.

I think experience against playing against top teams (who they would be playing in the tourney as a low seed) can't be a bad thing. In your post above, I noticed you didn't list any games as "probable losses". I kind of see it as a disservice to the team if we aren't giving them real tests. I see it as very important to have a game or two like that in the OCC, especially with how meaningless the OOC is in basketball compared to something like football. I wonder if OU fans/players would have rather played Coppin St or OSU last season. Same can be said for Toledo and Kansas. You learn more from losing than you do from winning. About to go on a little GP1-esque off topic rant. Back in high school I played football and my class was pretty good. We lost something 9 game in our HS career (5 of them my freshman season). We played in a weak conference, but would blow teams out 40+ to nothing 6 or 7 games a season. We played maybe 1 or two challenging games per regular season, and won only 1 playoff game in 4 seasons. Looking back, I wish we would have played tougher teams in the regular season to help prepare us more for the post season. We would have been better conditioned as well as better overall from the experience of playing top quality teams. I would have rather went 7-3 or 8-2 and have some post season success than to go 10-0 and lost a close first round game because we weren't used to the big games. As for the teams that turn us down, you can only do so much investigating, especially at a school who isn't really under the microscope like UA. You seem to be in the know, so would you mind sharing some of the teams who turn us down and give important details. Ex- Pitt turning us down because they don't want to do a home and home is understandable. Pitt turning us down to even come play at their place is something I could take issue with and see your point, but looking at prior year MAC team OOC opponents, I don't see that being the case. Thanks for sharing, Dave. Excited to have some new blood in the program.