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Since we are sticking to the facts here...Santonio has some yellow teeth...That's all I'm saying...

Whitlock does not work for ESPN. Whether or not he is a hack, can be determined by his bio. Link

This was well worth the 20 minutes. Thank you for posting. Nothing better than listening to Thayer Evens be called "simple minded".

I saw the story and I'm shocked to see that kids in college are smoking pot, a substance legal in some states now, and becoming legal in more states down the road. I was also shocked to see that some players also used drugs harder than pot, because God knows this doesn't go on with any other subset of students in schools. I was also shocked to learn that there are some schools that "fix grades". Who would have thought that something so outrageous goes on? Lastly, I was shocked to read that pot, a drug low legal in some states, was the drug of choice. News flash...when I was in college, there were guys on the Zips football team in the late 1980s smoking weed. Is this really shocking or a news story? I'd go out today and buy some weed and smoke it if I knew where in the heck to go buy some.

To me, this is more of a story than the OK State story. I actually learned more from this one line than the OkState story. I think it is great that the Zips once had a coach who coached in the Middle East.

Good posts Dr Z. I would be surprised as well if they continued to run this "story". The "story" is no longer about things that happened ten+ years ago,it is about SI running a story about nothing. It's really about the humiliation of the "Old Media" trying to make themselves relevant in 2013. The next couple of weeks of SI may have this content, but I feel confident we may not see all five issues of the story. SI has egg on their faces and they are probably trying to write other stories as fast as possible. What would make it a relevant story? Maybe if today OkSt had players consorting with known drug dealers and a coach who wanted to cover it up. That is a story worth writing. Guys taking money ten years ago?...No. Thanks again for the great links Dr Z.

If you have never been there, you will be surprised at how flat the stadium appears to be. It goes out, not up. If you are not close the the field, you will feel further away than you normally would at other stadiums. AA is a fun place and if you are spending the night you will have fun. If you don't, you weren't really trying.

This story is outside of the limits for the ncaa to investigate. In fact, this isn't even a story. What is the news that is so relevant to 2013? What is revealed in this story that people don't already know. Players getting money?...Goes on at almost every big program. Over zealous booster?....Stand outside of the Michigan locker room Saturday and look at the number of middle aged jock sniffers standing around to get a glimpse of their favorite 19 year old. Players using the money to buy clothes, etc.?....Yes, that's what people do with money. I've heard a couple of real investigative reporters talk about this story on the radio yesterday and absolutely slam the writers for their poor reporting on this "story". Investigative reporting is not standing outside of a Bible study waiting for someone to come out so you can ask him a question and you don't take note the entire time...that's the nonsense that goes on in the 6:00 news in a ratings grab. Serious investigative journalists contact people and let them know what they are investigating so the person is prepared to answer. The job of the reporter then is to poke holes, if possible, at the answers or tie those answers to things he has already learned. It won't be long until the real investigation becomes about the poor reporting of the "story". This story is about one thing and one thing only. SI trying to generate clicks on their website. This is what the 6:00 news does with the clowns who go around and ask people questions trying about something that is barely news to get ratings. SI has been successful in doing what it wanted to do...generate hits for its website.

Doughnut vs cupcake. You may have stumbled upon a hotly debated topic.

You hit the nail on the head. I'm not 100% sure, but soccer doesn't use instant replay. My rule would be..."Any player found to flop shall have his hands tied behind his back and the player accused of striking him shall have the opportunity to punch said flopper (sp?) in the face no more than three times." or "Any player found to flop shall be required to wear a Pinocchio nose no shorter than 12" strapped to his face for a minimum of five games." Both would be preferable as the sport is full of such a bunch of floppers, half the game would be spent with half the guys wearing Pinocchio noses punching each other in the face. Give me this level of entertainment and I might actually watch a game.

So, let me get this straight. He was running a straight line and hurt his knee while running.?.? Hmmmm.... It sounds like something that almost never happens, especially to a highly trained college athlete. Did his foot fall into a sink hole or something? Did he get his foot suck in a gopher hole, or some other type of animal hole? Was he tripped up by an invisible beam of light generated by an experiment being run in the Physics Department? Does he have a history of knee injuries that would have resulted in this type of injury? George Thomas,when they told you he hurt himself running, was it hard to hold the laughter back?

I'll reserve judgement on the ND defense in this game until the end of the year. They had a tough game on the road at prime time. Tough on any team. The Michigan offensive line hasn't had time to gel yet and it could become a scary good group as the season progresses. A good OL can provide variety to an offense that keeps a good defense on its toes and that might have happened to ND Saturday. We'll know more by the end of the year.

Akron should be a four win team. Lafayette is now 0-2 with blowout loses against a couple of average to below average BCS schools in Arkansas and Kansas State. We are bad, but we aren't that bad and we should beat them at home. No excuses to lose this one.

Michigan moved the ball on the ground well against a very good ND defensive line with a couple of future NFL players on it. Their offensive line is big and physical. 166 yards rushing in total. Mix in a good QB with the ability to throw and it spells trouble for the Zips. Michigan will cover any line at or under 37.5.

It's in the ABJ story.

It's such a stupid thing to put yourself at risk doing, it makes your statement seem true. As foolish as it sounds, someone who hurts himself celebrating, in some way, may be trying to hurt himself and the coaches have to discuss it with players to protect them from themselves.

So, didn't get to follow the game yesterday, so I was reading about it on the internet. Did we put a QB in the game who got injured celebrating and then couldn't return to the game? When I was growing up, I never read a story of a player getting hurt celebrating. It seems now, we can't go a week without reading a story about a player getting hurt celebrating. If this had happened to a player when I was growing up, that player would have been subjected to so much ridicule from every angle, nobody around the country would get hurt like that again...but it seems to go on...Our society has gone from ridiculing idiots to feeling sorry that they were injured. Here is what I really want to happen. The "Celebration King", Hirschman, should be ridiculed in front of the entire team today for being so stupid he gets hurt celebrating. Unfortunately, what used to be common sense, is now a coaching point. The coaches will now have to take a small amount of time out of their limited time with the players to discuss this issue. Please stop hurting yourselves celebrating. It's hard enough to win a game, let along having key players get injured celebrating. Just freaking stop already!

Winning = Good Losing = Bad Yesterday was a good day. A team that wins 0-3 games is horrible regardless if they go from winning 1 to 3. A team that wins 4 games breaks out of that horrible category. The win yesterday might be the difference between 3 and 4 wins this year. It was a badly, badly, badly needed win for the program.

Which is why the colors will be black or gray smoked. Marketing people in university athletics all go to the same seminars and they do the same things at almost every school. I don't know what it would be called, but gold in the chrome look would be great with me. Have the "Z" logo running to the back bottom of the helmet with a tapering design towards the back. I'll let the graphic designers take it from here.

I don't know what the Hell you guys are talking about. It looks like a brown box with the word "Riddell" written on the side to me. Not sure what this has to do with football.

This is all things coaches say in press conferences that they don't really mean. Of course they want to limit turnovers...what coach says, "We want to go out there and turn the ball over five more times than them."? He states the obvious...the RB is not getting the job done and is on notice. We want to play them close...translation...we are going to throw the ball around and try to score 50 on them. Bowden is a master with the press. He isn't going to reveal anything before a must win home opener through the media. Never give the other team bulletin board material.

We don't know yet if they have an unknown player who can spark winning because that person has yet to reveal himself.

Good post CK. It is an absolute must win game. Fans talk a lot about death nails, etc. I don't think a loss this weekend would be anything other than a death nail for the program. How do you recover? If any coach goes 1-13 and loses to a I-AA team, there is no way to recruit decent players and it only gets worse because there is no credibility with the staff. If they lose Saturday, it validates every opinion that Akron can't field a winning team and all the advances in terms of stadiums and practice arenas have been a waste of money. There is a ton riding on the game Saturday. I'd go as far as to say this needs to be a minimum 4 win season.

Great news.

Wouldn't it be funny if one of the Lot 9ers found themselves in this position after the JMU game? The headline could read, "Lot 9er, between the ages of 25 and 90, found walking pantsless in campus parking deck." It would be even funnier if the mug shot was taken with the Lot 9er wearing Zippys head.