blueandgold

Anytime you are ranked above Arizona and St John's in basketball it's good. Especially considering they have one more win as well. I know, I know...it doesn't really mean much at this point, but I'll take it!

Did anyone else notice that the Projected NCAA Tournament Field link further down on the page shows Akron in the tourney as a#14 seed playing Kansas? That's a good sign as well, however I would hope we could get a higher seed.

You gotta explain how the probability of losing in OT was better than 43%. I need to see that one.That's an easy one. We have lost 87% of the time this year and 90% of the time since ICoach has been here. So, whether we went for two at the end or kicked the extra point to go to OT, we most likely would still lose the game. I'm just saying that it was nice to see us playing aggressive to "try" to win at the end of the game. Let's be honest...how many other games did it look like we were trying to win?

Lol. Question the FG over Trying for TD? If we don't have the 3 there we are down 4 at end of game.For the rest. You Always question him not going for it and punting or like Zach picking the sure 3 over a chance TD, but then get mad he goes aggressive when we have chance to win the game? You are idiots. We are playing for wins now. You have a team confused, no confidence and wounded. You go for the kill!!! If we are 4-2 you go for OT, we are 1-6 so you go for the kill.Most of you need to attend the football 101 (I know it's for ladies that's my point).I agree. When you are struggling as bad as this team, you go for the win when you have the chance. In all probability, if we kicked the extra point, we would've still lost the game in overtime. That's just the kind of season we are having. We all want our team to win. I was glad to see he actually "tried" to win instead of continuing the "process" into overtime.

Redshirt him now. Why blow his Freshman year? We have a lot of depth already and by the sounds of things the players will be really fighting for minutes anyway. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, a redshirt can still practice with the team. This will allow him to recover fully without trying to rush him along and cause more problems. Once he is fully recovered he can practice and be even more prepared/polished coming into the 2012-2013 season and have four full years of eligibility.

For those who prefer a written summary, here is Tom Gaffney's article in today's Beacon.Here's my favorite quote. This is in regard to converting 24% on 3rd down. “We have had issues in that area. First and second down greatly affects third down,” Ianello said. REALLY, who knew?!?!?! Can you tell us more? Ridiculous.

The University of Akron basically IS downtown Akron.

All we can do is hope! Hope.......for Akron to suddenly have the kind of money that a school like Arizona has, which allows them to make that kind of decision. And...was this Arizona coach only 1-1/2 years into a 5 year contract? So how many here would be okay with a 5-55 record after 5 seasons if his wins and losses continue on the current path? Actually, he is on pace for 6.7 wins. :-) Okay...6.7-53.3 Now I feel much better!

All we can do is hope! Hope.......for Akron to suddenly have the kind of money that a school like Arizona has, which allows them to make that kind of decision. And...was this Arizona coach only 1-1/2 years into a 5 year contract? So how many here would be okay with a 5-55 record after 5 seasons if his wins and losses continue on the current path?

All we can do is hope!

There is really only one way to make sure the above doesn't happen...everyone with season tickets must cancel them and not renew until a change is made. I've been trying to get friends, family and even strangers to have interest in the Zips since the early 80's. Sadly, I can't even get myself to a game anymore. In all seriousness, I'm not sure I would even go if I were given free tickets. I can't believe I'm even saying this, but I can't take it anymore. The football program has become a joke and it makes me sick!

I wish.

Just saw him shooting around at Davenport Park in Ellet last evening.

He's looking for a big time football school yes, but it doesn't neccesarily have to be Ohio State. Don't always believe what you read. If no other big school came calling I'm sure he wouldn't turn down an OSU offer however. I still will cross my fingers he comes to Akron though, but not holding my breath.

I've heard he is not interested in OSU.

I know the "new stadium" thing has been used too much, I just mentioned it because this year it is actually going to be opened. I am just saying that there is no way those three schools in particular should ever be able to out-recruit us. When I look at the actual signings so far, we look decent, but once they all come in I think we will not be near the top.

I'm sorry, but so far I'm not impressed. Looking at the other MAC schools, ours has to be the worst. If we were ever going to have a great class it should be this year with the new stadium opening. I just can't understand it.If I couldn't out recruit EMU, Toledo and especially Can't. I would hang it up right now! This just makes me ill.

I have a question. I've never been able to make it to the Spring game, but may be able to this year finally. Do I need tickets or what do I need to do exactly?

I don't like the matchup with FSU, but if we can get by them the bracket is good for us. I'm not complaining, I'm just glad we are still playing!

If Can't wins, good for the MAC!If Can't loses, good for Can't! I won't lose sleep either way.

It's always nice to see someone pat themselves on the back, but you were clearly talking about some guy named Woods, not Wood.Woods DEFINITELY will play. Nick Dial told me so.LOL. Nice.

I totally agree. It would be nice to beat VCU, but that game really is of little importance in the big picture.

Next year will certainly be interesting. It's definitley going to be a new look Zips without Romeo, Dru, Wood, Dials, Cedrick or Quade. It will be interesting to see how things shake out and who steps up where. As far as I can see the roster looks like this next year.G: Steward, Roberts, McNees, Coblentz, Brooks, Sullivan, McClanahan, HitchensF: C.McKnight, B. McKnight, Linhart, Conyers, Caroll, Cvetinovic, ParrishC: Swiech, BardoI've got no idea how this whole thing will work out. About the only thing I can say for sure is that Nate will start at SF. Beyond that it's anyone's guess. Especially at those guard spots. McNees and Roberts would seem to have the edge up on everyone there, but you've got tons of talent in Steward, McClanahan, Hitchens, Sullivan, even Rydell Brooks could make some noise. The big thing I'm interested to see though is how the C spot works out. Can Bardo and Swiech combine to give us 40 minutes of beef in the center or are we going to continue to have to play small at times??? It's going to be interesting.I see a lot of 3 guard sets for next season! It would be hard to keep 6 of those guards on the bench for any extended amount of time. Wow, this is a great problem to have!

Coach D says he will not play anyone that does not play defense, B. McKnight does not play defense, if Coach D keeps his word, we wont see him anymore....Did anyone really play any defense in last night's game? It was really a team effort of bad defense. OK I will probably get slammed for this, but sometimes IMHO I think offense wins games, there I said it! This defense wins games gets old to me, if you noticed last night, offensively we shot terrible, if we made half those shots, and still played terrible defense we would of won! Ok let the slamming begin.....Obviously defense is important, but when the team as a whole is struggling with it recently, why not put all of our "scorers" on the court and have at it. It would definitley be interesting to see at least once.

Coach D says he will not play anyone that does not play defense, B. McKnight does not play defense, if Coach D keeps his word, we wont see him anymore....Did anyone really play any defense in last night's game? It was really a team effort of bad defense.