clarkwgriswold

The Herd lost by 1 in overtime at previously 8-1 Toledo Saturday night and beat 3-5 Morehead State by 12 tonight (Monday). Just the name Morehead State takes me back to the OVC. I'm thinking the Zips will have their hands full with Marshall.

Wow, so Dear Evan Hansen is coming to Playhouse Square! Go George!

When you get cut by a basketball team in the province of New Brunswick, it may be time to take your life in another direction.

That's when there's not poker. It seems the NCAA would be smarter than to throw it up against the NFL game of the week too. Yesterday would have been ideal with major college football on a break.

The Zips new athletics motto under the the zipsoutsider administration- "Aim Low." "Accept mediocrity" was already taken.

Let me say first that I am not a big soccer fan. Even from that perspective, the NCAA men's soccer final deserves better than ESPNU. Instead, on ESPN and ESPN2, we get something called "Bowl Mania" and a repeat of last night's boxing card. Awful. The men's lacrosse final gets more attention.

If he is 40% successful after 8 years, it will be time to do so.

I saw the picture of the people in the upper reserved and figured that was it. Did they not pull out the bleachers?

Could anybody explain why one might need chairs or blanket for the watch party at the JAR, per the email?

Do they have a really good assistant they could send us?

Going to all those bowl games in a financial drain on the fans Captain!

Well then, I get to throw out Silich's first season which was one of his only two sub- .500 seasons in 14 seasons. That's two sub-.500 seasons in 14 years as opposed to 5 out of 7 for Bowden. I can appreciate that you think Bowden should not have been canned, I just don't think Solich is a good comparison or analogy.

You had me thinking right up to that line. There' no comparison between Terry Bowden's 35-52 record at UA to Solich's 105-75 record at OU. We could only wish Bowden was "Our version of Frank Solich." He'd still be here and we'd think we had Paul Brown.

As critical as I have been of the Bowden administration, I do have to concede they've left the program in a better condition than they found it.

I heard they're bringing in 4 guys. Other than Arth, I have no idea who they are.

Zips are averaging 9.9 per game while the Herd averages 9.9. Wow, what a coincidence. My math skills are poor, but I'd put the under/over around 20!

Always appreciate your insight on here captain, but might there be some utility to the players fearing their coach a little or respecting him as opposed to liking him?

Mike Hughes led Duquesne in the win with 20 points. Tavian Dunn-Martin played 14 minutes and failed to score.

The final straw for me was late in the BG game when BG scored with about 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter to go up two scores and the Zips kicking team trotted out to the wrong side of the field for the kickoff. A small thing, sure, but damn, that was a sad commentary on the team and coaching. I agree that Kato going down hurt. That being said, anyone can hand the ball off and the Zips averaged 2.9 yards per carry. Even without your starting QB, you shouldn't get beaten by a 2 win team at home on senior day. With him, you shouldn't get clobbered by .500 MAC teams at home, squeak by a 1 win team or......aaaaaah hell. I'll stop before a real rant gets rolling.

...and yet you came back to share your misery. You just can't quite let go...

He has been a pleasant surprise. Aggressive with the ball in his hands. I hadn't even thought of him as a rotational player coming into the season.

After a break for exams, the Zips face the Thundering Herd at the JAR on December 15th. The fast paced and entertaining Herd are led by All Conference USA 6-3 senior guard Jon Elmore who scores 21.4 ppg, leads the team in assists and is second in rebounding. It seems like he's been on that team for 10 years. They are coached by Mike D'Antoni's brother, Dan D'Antonio and play a very fast paced offense averaging 87 ppg. They are 5-3, having lost to Maryland, OU and Duquesne.

Good point Kreed. I think Banks and Jackson are decent from 3 but no one else is better than average. Cheese had a little streak going there, but his shot is wildly inconsistent.

Frustrating night. One that should have been in the win column. This team appears to be a streaky one with periods it can't get a bucket and they got bogged down and periods where they move the ball and score in bunches. Hopefully, that will even out a little.

One positive from that article is that Arth fired someone with the last name of Harbaugh.