Lee Adams

some idiot on the CSU website says Brookhart has lifted Akron 'to unprecedented heights'...!!!!!????talk about no expectataions...No. The unprecendented heights was referring to our MACC in 2005 and our first bowl bid. I do not recall LO doing this!Comparing Brookhart to Owens means you have NO expectations of better performance...

Negative talk on this board? You make it sound like it is a crime for wanting more.......no expecting more, because that is what we should be doing. Sounds like you want us to sugar coat things. We both want success but you can't get there unless you acknowledge your weaknesses and mistakes. We wanna be big time you gotta act big time, expect big time, but at the very least you should minimize mistake, no holdings, dropped passes, redundant screens, etc. These are all easy fixes!!!!!I remember when Bill Snyder Kansas State's head coach at the time, came into our locker room after we just got our heads kicked in by his team, said that they were once where we are, and to stick to doing the right things,work hard, and not just believe but know you are better than your opponent, don't EVER settle for less.If you are used to a Faust 1-11 season a L.O. 2-10 season saying 7-5 is great is settling, it's settling for good when you should strive to be great. Saying stuff like *in a mopey voice* "Well we were 3-2 at half with OSU and barely lost to Temple, Buffalo, Miami, and Central. We could be 8-4!!Could be 8-4 don't sell tickets, get better recruits, or go to bowl games!!! The teams 8-4 or better like OSU, Indiana, UConn, Central ya know the teams we lost to?!! Go to bowl games, get better recruits, and don't have to fudge ticket sale numbers to keep D1 status. Teams like Louisville, Kansas St. Boise St., Hawaii, stop settling. Like we should too.Actually at many of the major schools, if a coach has too many 8-4 or 9-3 seasons he will be fired.I don't think anyone is asking for a NC or even a top 20 team. We are merely asking for a respectable and entertaining team to watch. We are aksing for a team that consistently beats the teams they should beat. Yes, there are upsets. However, there isn't usually 4-5 the same season. Once that happens, they aren't upsets.Here at Akron most of us would be happy with 8-4 and crazy about 9-3. I don't think that being negative because we aren't even a 500 team is a bad thing unless you are used to losing and accept it.We finished 2005 at 7-6 after the bowl game. Everyone called that a great year for Akron.........Talk aboiut being happy with mediocrity.If any national powers had consecutive 7-6 seasons, the coach would be gone in a heartbeat. Here at Akron we are happy about it.7-6 should be a down year/rebuilding year at UA. Not a good year. I couldn't believe early in the year when people called this a rebuilding year. What?????????????????????????????????? Did we go 8-4 or better last year? Did we win the MAC?How can you have a rebuilding year after a year that you were not very good? That is a losers mentality.We really need to change that. I am not calling for JD's head. He is a young coach that I think is learning on the job. Many great coaches took more than 5 years before they started winning. To call out posters and say they are being negative is absurd.If you want to see negative, go to other teams boards that are whining because they only beat a team by 21 points when they think it should have been more. Or they lose one game and are calling for a coordinators head. Not all negative talk is bad. Some of it is reality.THANK YOU!

some idiot on the CSU website says Brookhart has lifted Akron 'to unprecedented heights'...!!!!!????talk about no expectataions...

ya, i'm not sure how many more 'best in the MAC' recruiting classes we stand...

how's this...footballscoop.com has Fleming going to Rhode Island as HC...looks like somebody will be moving...

Pease is an ass...he would...

IF this is true Matthews has a great pedigree if nothing else...defense oriented..lengthy assistant AND head coaching experience...coached under Jim Donnan(Marshall...Georgia)...has consistently been .500 or better at JMU... AND the best part...he's from TEXAS...now would a guy like this want to come here just because its D-1,state of the art practice facility and soon to be brand new stadium?...unless he thinks Akron is a graveyard,why not?

right now Scout.com has Temple's recruiting class has best in the MAC...Brookhart's current recruits are way down the list...

RIGHT ON!!!!

Marx said something to the effect that the proletariat would rise up and govern for the benefit of all...i know the USSR is gone(but its making a comeback)...we the fans are the proletariat...eventually w/o OUR support the whole thing falls apart..the Athletic Dept is a dictatorship...anyone can be purged at any time...whethere its now or later the purge will happen..

I don't see a problem with going for two on the last TD. It made no difference if we had made the two or missed it (as we did) in the final score. I have questioned Brookhart's reasoning at times, but I am not at the point where everything he does is wrong. The quarterback situation is a problem, neither CJ11 or CJ17 is the answer at this time. This loss, as with last week's loss to Miami, is representative of our entire season.only saying that 1 point was obviously not going to make ANY differernce...CM was moving the ball at will...the Zips HAD to score more...

uakronkid, good observation...i remeber watching the Faust era come to an ignominious close also..Faust was an overly hyped high school grade coach...Brookhart is an overly hyped, pseudo assistant..if he is seeking out faust WE are in trouble next year...USE THE NEW STADIUM TO RECRUIT A COACH WHO HAS A GRIP...

please! not another year of CJ11...please?!

Congratulations to Mackey!!! He did the most with what he had111

just got back from the BOWL...SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL BROOKHART ITS OVER HERE( how stupid to go go for 2 on the last TD)(and once again no CJ7 when it was ONCE AGAIN obvious Jacquemqin had no clue)...SOMEBODY PLEASE GET JACQUEMAIN OUT OF HIS SCHOLARSHIP(he is truly clueless most of the time)...next year is going to be ugly AGAIN with this crew around...oh ya...thankfully Davanzo Tate is gone too...see ya next year!!!

its a shame that a kid at that level is still throwing the ball that way...can you say COACHING!!!???

Whether its KC, CJ11, CJ7 there is WAY too much uncertainty for next year to be any good. Ya ain't gonna win with QB who has never taken a D-1 college snap! And unless one of the CJ's miraculously transforms between now nad next September,that position is the 500# gorilla in the room...sure would like him to be your friend,but ya just don't know...lots of losses on the D side mean lots of holes there too...wait until when?!

Thank you RACER...RIGHT ON!

and 2-3 years after the new stadium opens the Zips will be drawing squat if they keep putting a bad team on the field!

to paraphrase an old TV show...your wife is wise beyond her height...IF the ZIPS were 8-3 consistently and beating the best teams in the MAC you could play on the runway at Fulton AP and draw at least 20K...when you can't beat Temple and are only .500 or worse in your conference you are INSIGNIFICANT...

Racer is right CJ11 is no longer a soph...he has not shown significant improvement AND he will NEVER be MOBILE...JD said it himself you need a mobile QB!...hell the ZIPS can't handle one...too bad but i think next year is also going to be a LONG one...

WE DO NOT NEED A HIGH SCHOOL COACH IN HERE!... REPEAT ...GET SOMEONE WITH COLLEGE COACHING EXPERIENCE!!!

AND he is too slow...

If JD is smart, he leaves after this year before he ends up in the graveyard.that means next year we and whomever is the coach start over with ANOTHER unproven QB...

Well i guess SOMEONE BETTER take a good hard look at MR. BROOKHART if thats the truth!