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Or people are looking at it from a rational point of view and realize that you don't go from the worst team in D1 football to marquee wins over night. Building a program takes time, believe it or not. I want more than just the MAC. Im sure we all do, but you have to start somewhere and build off of it.

Still 3/4ths of a football season left.

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.