clarkwgriswold

In hindsight, anybody would have been an improvement over the underachieving malcontent whiner Harney. That guy's my second least favorite Zip of all-time, right behind Khadim Gueye (and it's close).

22 days until the opening game. I expect to see a starting lineup of LCJ, Cheese, Banks, X and Riak, with Reece, Roscoe, Tribble and Sayles contributing from the bench. I think we could also see a conventional two guard, one center and two forwards lineup with Reece and X on the floor together with another big as X can play away from the basket and has a decent 3 point shot. I hope Tribble can be effective as the backup point rather than having Cheese there out of necessity. I'm very eager to see this team with hopes it can continue to improve. They went from 14 wins to 17 last year. Here's hoping the improvement continues to a 20 win year. These are all Groce's kids now, so we'd better see the fruits of his recruiting labor.

I get your disappointment with the current staff, but to call that group of hacks "a great coaching staff of legitimate FBS coaches" is downright delusional.

Wow.

He has to do what he can to get them in place while he has the time clock to do it, but being in that position as a team goes to team discipline.

My "are you *%#@ing kidding me?" moment last year was when the Zips lined up on the wrong side of the field for the kickoff after an opposing team TD. I had that moment today on their first play from scrimmage which resulted in a timeout before they could run the play they'd rehearsed all damn week. I don't expect wins or the type of play I'd see from a team with more individual talent. If an opponent's players run faster, jump higher and throw it farther, so be it, but I can't bear mental errors and undisciplined penalties. That needs to change, and fast.

I've been one of those on here that has consistently urged patience. Every time something happens like having to call a timeout on your FIRST PLAY because someone is out of position, or a stupid penalty is committed, a little bit of my patience is whittled away.

If they could just get those cool lanes that widen as they get closer to the baselines!

Post of the week!

I think the walk on kid who excelled in the Akron Canton Pro Am league has the potential to...........keep Marquelle McIntire from getting lonely at the end of the bench this year. I don't have much confidence in the Blue Ribbon forecast. It obviously places a lot of emphasis on last year's results.

How about Terrence Keyes, former SVSM RB now at Massillon?

Nice to see the Akron Canton Pro Am league is still stressing defense!

I get the rationale of keeping his red-shirt, but 3 or 4 years is forever in today's college football world and if there aren't some signs of progress, Arth may not survive to see Gibson as a senior.

Exactly. This team needs wins now. If Gibson gives you the best chance to win, put him in.

Pole dancers and money shooting guns. Just another wholesome family night in Lawrence. As an aside, I couldn't be happier with the embarrassment to that phony Bill Self.

George Thomas Article Preview- * Big rivalry renewed this Saturday * Arth thinks the kids are coming together * Lewis thinks OOC competition has prepared Can't well for the MAC * Anything can happen in a rivalry game * Lather, rinse, repeat PS-- GT is looking more forward to the new Star Wars movie than he is this game or the Zips basketball season.

Less that a month to the season!

Prayers from the Griswolds. That sure explains his absence.

There are some kids that will always want to go away to school that you'll never get and you'll never get the 4 and 5 star guys. After that, other than a kid who may opt to go to UC, they're no reason Akron shouldn't be in the mix for any Ohio kid. I'll give Arth a slight pass on his first recruiting class as they got a late start but they'll have no excuses next year and we'd better see his NEO connections starting to make an impact. Also, I hope to see some solid kids from the area who have gone off to big schools and not succeeded and decide to come home.

Sorry to draw out your hypocr...reality check.

PCCC could come out of Madison a little beat up. Here's hopin'.

So, just to clarify the rules here, it's okay to predict future misery and gloom and doom for a program but not a game?

UMass is very young with 7 freshmen and 3 sophomores. Looks like they graduated most of their leading scorers, other than 6-4 junior guard Carl Pierre who averaged 11.8 points per game in 30.6 minutes per contest.

Because Cedarville and Hiram were unavaliable! Actually, while not the norm, the Zips have had two non-D1s on the schedule before, like 2015-16 when they played Malone and Hiram.