blueandgold

Based on what?? Our awesome attendance and fan support or raging success on the field?I don't want to be a smart ass or a pessimist, but let's be realists. We have nothing more to offer to a BCS conference right now than the Buffalos or Eastern Michigans of the world. Our program is stuck in a rut of going nowhere right now.I don't think we have much of a chance anytime soon either. What I'm saying is that we are better overall in our sports programs than they are.

It's funny reading these other school's message boards. I noticed they are starting to talk about moving out of the MAC. They are mentioning the Big East for football and A-10 for basketball mostly. The chance of them moving to a BCS conference is far less likely than Akron's chances.

All of this is making me sick. In terms of us having two large Universities within 15 miles, I don't see why we can't make it work. What's the problem? It's been this way for many many years. I say, take a look at the state of North Carolina. How do they do it? They have Duke, NC and NC State all very close to each other and they are thriving. All of them have great sports programs as well. Also, you could throw in Wake Forsest. They are maybe 45 minutes away from the other three Universities. I'm tired of hearing about all this political makework crap.

Is there a list that shows who has been redshirted this season? If not, does anyone know which players have been redshirted?

Destro is a very good football player. He's an excellent high school RB. With the Zips I see him playing on the defense though, most likely LB or DE. At 6' 3" 235 lbs in high school you know he will only get bigger once he hits the weights and training program at Akron. He doesn't have the speed at RB we need at this level. I hope we get him.

"Back to the media market. The Philadelphia market is much bigger than Cleveland ""If Temple can get good, how long will it be before the Big East is attracted to them?"Most of what you are saying makes good sense as far as market potential is concerned. The only problem is that Temple was in the Big East for many years and the rest of the conference couldn't wait to get them out! They had no fan support and they couldn't win.Source: WickipediaThe inaugural Big East football season was launched in 1991. West Virginia and Rutgers were football-only members until 1995, Virginia Tech was a football-only member until 2001, with Temple remaining a football-only member until consistently failing to attract enough fan support and vacating its membership in 2004.

We need to throw the ball down field...period! I am so tired of the screen passes and running 70% of the time. When we do go down field we throw to Jabari mostly, but I have no problem with that. He makes plays! Jabari had a good 3 to 4 inch height advantage on the DB this weekend and was single covered many times. I'll take my chances with that matchup any day. Owen did catch a TD, but dropped two perfect passes and one would have been a TD on an earlier drive.

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What a mess over there. Be happy we have KD. He has recruited good players and good people. On a side note, how many games will Ball State win this year? Maybe 5.

That would be a hard pill to swallow. I can't imagine merging with the enemy, but you make very good points. I think this would be a much better situation for Akron than the CSU mess.

Jabari is also 6th in the nation in catches!

There will be plenty of people using that excuse for why they didn't come to the game. It's game two of the series and it's in Boston. It's not a make or break game and it's not in Clevelnad so no one should use that excuse. Our game will be done way before that game so there will be plenty of time to catch the late innings at home or at your local hangout.

I disagree. We do have one stud on the line. Almondo Sewall is a stud. He is already making an impact as a Freshman. Give him some credit. He is a LB that is still learning a new position.

Based on the way the first half ended on Saturday I would be disciplining CJ11. That was just unbelievable. Even JD said he did not listen to instructions. Bring on Rogers if neither CJ has enough discipline to lead this team!

I find it funny that this person doesn't even mention that they are going up against a big rival in Cavman from Virginia this week.

You play to until the whistle period! I don't condone dirty play, but these types of things happen in pile-ups all the time in football. Anyone who has ever played football knows this.

Looks like winning big games definitely sways recruits. Keep 'em coming!

This is what the depth chart should have looked like 2 weeks ago. Williams and Allen give us a much better chance at moving the ball.

I have two points to make. First, I was unable to come to the game when they changed the time to noon. My whole family was looking forward to coming to the game, but my son plays youth football, so that was a major conflict. Second, after his football game we drove by the Rubber Bowl to see the crowd as the game let out. I have to say I can't remember a game where I saw so many students coming out. It was great to see!!!

It's 8:12 a.m. and Zippy is #1 overall and beating Hokiebird head to head 21,949 to 21,801! Everyone, keep voting!

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"Lindy's is tabbing the Zips as second to Cant with a shot at taking the East."I think this is a slap in the face. They haven't beaten us since 2005 right?!?

I agree with just about everything you have said. I have one question. In the 70's and 80's there were many more teams running Wishbone and Flexbone offenses compared to now. Those systems definitely were run and run often type offenses with most of the QB's doing a lot of the running. How can there be less passing QB's to pick from now? I think that many of the QB's are just in offensive systems (made for passing) that just don't work in the NFL, therefore they are less prepared for success at the next level.

A better example is Steve Young. He sucked when he was at Tampa Bay . They had a team similar to what the Browns have had the past several years.We all know how that turned out after he moved on and was able to learn in a great system at San Francisco and play behind HOF QB Joe Montana. Hasselback is no Montana, but he's pretty darn good.

I heard it was closer to 61 yards.