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I can only offer solutions.

What is wrong with you people? Do I have to solve every problem? Listen, when I was growing up, my father missed a lot of my events because he was working and putting food on the table. I never once complained because I knew it was how we ate. Solution = Tell your kids you have to work and can't attend their games. Go to the Zips game instead. The kids will never know. If the kids complain, ask them if they like to eat. If they say yes, tell them your working is how they get to eat. They will understand. Problem solved.

I went to the Panthers game yesterday and the national anthem was outstanding. The crowd gave the guy a great ovation. Listen

Odd thing to feel good about...

That was a great college basketball game.

Or SAT scores for the class that enters next year.

I sure hope we aren't sacrificing quality for quantity. Seems like these "encouragers" may be one method of putting lipstick on a pig.

It's not unreasonable to look at schedules and not figure out leagues tweak schedules to put some teams in a favorable position to benefit the entire league. It's smart business on some level.

10 years ago, this would have been a crazy comment, but PSU is the more winnable game. Pitt has a really good young team and a very good coach.

Disneyland?

Maybe. He could also be a big fish, look at his size and you will see he is a really big fish, in a small pond. Seems to be more of late bloomer than anything as he didn't start until his junior season. A kid with that much size should have started right away at a IAA school. I think it is highly unusual he didn't start right away. Probably didn't show well in high school. Had he shown well in high school being 6' 7" and from a school like Buchtel, he could have done better than the MAC. GW may have taken a bit of a risk taking him and it paid off. The Zips weren't in a position to take a risk on players three years ago.

I love seeing things like this. It is an example of smart recruiting. A lot of fans say, "We need to get more guys from NE Ohio!". I say, What if the guys from NE Ohio are sufficient to win? When I see this, I see a coach who is finding the best possible players, regardless of where they are from, strategically targeting the best possible players and going after them. Recruiting guys because of where they are from or targeting a specific area is not a smart way of recruiting. Targeting the best players is smart.

When reading ESPN stats, are three point attempts and makes included in the overall shot attempts and makes?

It sure does. It would be nice to get some easy wins early. Easy wins not only build confidence and momentum, but they offer a team the opportunity to play a lot of players. Playing a lot of players gives experience to young guys and rest to the starters....both are critical for late season success...if a starter gets hurt, there is experience behind him. More importantly, players get hurt more often when they are tired. Rested players stay healthy.

I agree completely. There are four games there we should win for sure. Throw in a 1-AA victory and we are at five. Along the way, we should able to win two other games giving us at least 7. Who knows, maybe 8. Probably not the MAC though, but again, who knows. I'm sure there is a bowl game somewhere in the south (Hint: Alabama) that would love to have a Bowden coaching in it. I have a friend who has a place in Fairhope so my lodging is already taken care of. Our expectations next year should be to win. We've done enough "building" in the MAC and over the past 25 years. It's time to win.

Sure they have. Sometimes the answer is very simple. It is the exact team KD has always had and the players aren't playing as well as they are capable or, they are not as good as we think.....or, they are both not as good as we think and they aren't playing well. The truth is right in front of all of us. When the players play better, the identity crisis will be solved, or not depending on the competition. They are two games away from the mid point of the season. By now, teams are what they are going to be. The Zips are what they are and while it may not look good, they still won. This team isn't going to peak late and every game is going to be a struggle.

NFL owners hire one retread dunce after another to be head coaches or coordinators. He will have plenty of opportunities. However, you are right, why even take a job with a horrible franchise. Two young kids? Who cares? The guy would have millions. Sooner or later, they are going to have to move. NFL coaches families get used to the moving and millions of dollars help to make a family happy.

I like this.

It's not really anything new. Lots of opportunities for improvement in the admissions process at many schools. Schools can let in anyone they want. The ncaa sets standards for eligibility. The problem is what goes on between when a kid gets in school and becomes eligible...lots can happen between those two points.

The Browns should have Nick Swisher meet with prospective candidates.

Good article. Thanks for posting. The news isn't a group of college athletes can't read, because that is news like finding out athlete students at OK State smoke weed and have sex (the same as non athlete students) like we learned last year in Sports Illustrated. The news is nobody has measured it until now. I don't know how many of you know this, but before getting a job with the NCAA or one of its member institutions, there is a test to see how fast the interviewee can bury their head in a pile of sand. If you exceed the requirement, you are disqualified for the position.

If the problem is too many teams competing in D1A, then solve the problem by eliminating some of the teams in D1A. The better system is to have fewer teams and better competition throughout the season, not more teams and less competition between teams.

They play fewer games throughout the season (10) and don't have conference championships. They also aren't subjected to the same level of physicality as they D1 players are. I'd be OK if a fan just said they could care less about the well being of the players and whether or not they graduate. In the end, I think most fans could really care less about the well being of the players and graduation rates. The honesty would be a breath of fresh air.

IN AN AUCTIONEERS VOICE...."Can I get a 10?" My question is this. Why are more teams always the answer? Why couldn't we have a four team system that, every year, refines the way it selects teams so it becomes more perfected the next year? The quest for perfection should outweigh the quest for "more". Everyone should keep in mind that a tournament does not always crown the best team. The NCAA basketball tournament rarely crowns the best team on college basketball. A tournament sets up brackets to get a group of games down to two teams and then crown the winner of the tournament. The NFL is not in a "playoff" right now, it is in a tournament. So, let's not pretend that more teams makes a tournament better. It just makes it more of the same.

There is no retreat in college athletics. Once they start down a path, they continue until things "grow" out of control and into total idiocy. I'm in favor of the four team playoff as well; however, I know they won't stop there and sooner rather than later it will be a 16 team playoff. One year from today, there will be talking heads on TV discussing expanding the playoff to two "wild card teams" and giving a bye to two teams...mark my words. Teams making it deep into the playoffs will have to play 15 to 16 games and no college kid is going to be able to handle the punishment against high level competition. Not that ADs and fans will care, but there will be a large number of injuries to kids playing far into the playoffs...If there is money to be made, what do they care if a cripple is created here or there? There is a reason the NFL doesn't want kids showing up at 19 years old to play in the NFL. It's not just that they see college as a minor league, which it isn't in every sense, but anyhow. They know their bodies cannot handle the punishment so they want them to stay in school until their bodies develop.