clarkwgriswold

It's a forum. A place to exchange thoughts and ideas. That's going to occasionally involve criticism, e.g. Groce should mix in some zone; Arth needs to recruit more transfers and jucos; player B needs to control his emotions on the field... That criticism can result in a reasonable and productive adult discussion. What it shouldn't be and can't be is a place for juvenile name calling hissy fits when there's a disagreement and mods need to get that stuff quickly under control, and fast, or you'll see the decay of the site.

I was there for a final four a while back and the city did an outstanding job.

Girl? Yikes. With respect to this ongoing p!$$Ing contest, Arth was left with little to work with. If Bowden's recruits were strong, he'd still be here. That being said, Arth has now had 2 recruiting classes. While he was late to the dance on the first one due to some foot dragging, we'd better start seeing some positive results of his recruiting efforts pretty darn soon.

If I had a drink for every time Dustin Fox said "they really like this guy" I'd still be sleeping it off.

It's year 2. We should start seeing more impactful players from the staff's recruiting efforts. It doesn't help that the arch nemesis, a mere half hour away, is on the trajectory we hoped for. 2 wins-, 7 wins, 4-0. The good news is that Lewis won't be there long.

It's like Bubba and 10 blocking dummies.

Defense is pretty darn brutal.

I wish Dustin Fox could shut up for 5 seconds. He must think he's getting paid by the adjective, double for hyperbole and cliches.

Lord, that was easy.

Received an email from the NCAA today that they are working on relocating all of the regional tournament sites with an eye towards sending all 68 teams to one site- the Indianapolis area. The master plan would be for all of the teams to be within a manageable area with sufficient housing, practice facilities and arenas.

Just saw Stewart passed. Just awful. He had a lot of Akron connections.

FF- PCCC has its largest crowd of the season.

iCoach always seemed like he was imitating someone he'd seen and liked or was acting like he thought people wanted him to act. Just never seemed genuine.

You can take the boy out of Barberton....

I don't always agree with Dre, but one thing I will say is that he mans up when he needs to. He can on last year and admitted he had been wrong on Groce. Hopefully, Arth can make him do it again some day.

I love Loeffler's fire. That kind of passion is easy to get behind. It's also nice to hear his plan.

Groce's means of accomplishing that was a topic of discussion on the 20-21 basketball thread today. Groce came in and kept the program treading water with transfers, jucos and guys he knew weren't long term answers. He knew it wasn't the long term plan but used it to getting up and running until he could build a program that could attract top notch incoming freshman. With each recruiting class, we've seen more incoming freshman. Like you, I think that could have helped the football program come together a little faster.

The most painful thing about that QB list is that number 1 is from Stow and number 2 is from Midview. Number 1 (Vantrease) got no interest from UA. Not sure about number 2 (Crum).

I think that's the sign of a sound plan by Groce, one that we hoped for early in his stay here. Build it quickly to a successful program with transfers and jucos in the mix making it more and more attractive to top notch high school seniors that stay with the program for four years. I don't think he'll ever stop turning over rocks for top notch talent, but the math is pretty simple- 4>1 or 2.

Well, that was much more encouraging than last week's abomination. It's a good point that the fact we're encouraged by a two TD loss against an average MAC team is a sign of how far the Zips have fallen, but there was improvement over week one. There also seems to be something there to build upon.

I;ve never seen highlight tapes like his, 3 second snippets of dunks and layups! I am looking forward to the kid in a Zips uni.

I'd have surrendered both (of yours). ?

As I understand it he can't get clearance to play due to a back condition, but he's a great kid with a great attitude that they want to keep around for his and the team's sake. Somebody closer to the program may have better info.

Fearless forecast- we see someone at QB for the Zips that's not on the roster as a QB (due to the on roster QBs getting obliterated).

I'm just glad he's more than 100% committed. That's apparently very important these days.