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White helmets. Or, flat blue helmets

Not really. Brian fulfilled his obligations to UofA in his graduating. Sort of like me dying. If I died, my wife is free to marry anyone she wanted. Granted, she could never find anyone as great as the Great GP1, but the option would be there. Good luck to Brian and again, welcome to alumni parties in 2013.

Surprisingly good point Zach.

Oh well. I'd like to welcome him back to any football alumni party the Zips will be throwing in 2013. I saw something on TV today about De'Quell Jackson being a tackling machine as well. Every highlight showed him making tackles 10 yards downfield. Jacksone = Wagner. We needed Brian back, but at the end of the day, he is an above average college LB who isn't really a difference maker. Life wil go on.

This is awesome. The Zips are using the coach talking to thousands of people who may never have heard of him in lieu of a golf outing to the same people every year. Granted, in the next 30 years, he could have had the same crowd at the golf outing, but this is good anyhow. Good job Zips. Thanks Coach B.

A quick, really quick, look at box scores shows that Diggs has been up and down recently. Good game last night. Some not so good games coming into last night. Also, his production seemed to go down a lot when AA was not playing. So here are the questions. How come he isn't starting with all of that talent? Is his game really as dependent on AA as the stats might show? He gets plenty of playing time and I'd like to see his production to be more even in lieu of up and down.

Don't sweat it. It's a 32 game season. Everyone is going to have one bad night. Think of it like this....One game is only 3.1% of the season. If a player struggles for 3% of the season, that's a pretty good player. "Some days you get the bear. Other days, the bear gets you." - Unknown

Welcome! Some really good new members have joined recently.

Millett was built as a multipurpose arena for basketball and other events.

College teams tend to shorten their bench in conference play. Now that the MAC schedule is upon us, who will get hit hard with less playing time? How short will the bench be?

It's especially lacking behind the basket. The sides are about as good as a multi-purpose arena can be. Not sure how to fix that other than not having a multi-purpose arena, which I'm not for. If the Zips are looking for a new place to call home, I want it to be their own and not a rental, or even worse, a time share.

Gwinnett Arena Take 3,000 seats out of it and it would be perfect for Akron. Multi purpose arena for basketball, hockey, wedding receptions and corporate events in the arena alone. All the other stuff at the complex isn't needed. Google it and you can see images. Take out the seats above the suites and it would be enough for Akron. Saw a concert there once and was extremely impressed. Hotels, restaurants and the Braves AAA baseball stadium all within walking distance.

These players need to be taught to take the nickle if caught.

I think we now have coaches on our staff who know how to handle at risk players. The guy went to FSU for a pretty long time without anything happening. My bet is nothing happens at Akron. Guys steal items of much more value out of the book room where scholarship players have to turn their books in at the end of every semester and nobody ever finds out about it.

18 is pretty far down the list. My guess is the after the first five or six, nobody really takes a close look at the players. A lot can change between now and next year, but what won't change is he is only 6' tall. He is going to have to really impress on special teams...something he has never stood out in at Akron. Blackburn was a very good special teams player at Akron and got his chance because of it. CB was also a huge guy who could fight it out in the trenches of the NFL once he got his chance to play LB. Not getting drafted isn't the worst thing that could happen to Brian. He'll get his shot. A non-drafted marginal player can select a team instead of being forced to play for one that picked him. There are no guarantees for draft picks. Brian is going to have to be smart about his choices and he will have several to make in the next year. The first smart choice he can make is staying at Akron for another year and play for Amato.

The draft isn't something someone should take a shot at. A player is either ready or they aren't. Frye stayed for his senior year because there was a good chance he wouldn't get drafted. Even after his senior year, he was a third round pick to the only team stupid enough to draft him. Frye was a more attractive NFL player than Wagner after his junior year and he might not have gotten drafted. There is no way Wagner gets drafted this year. He would be a fool to try and I think he knows that. A lot can change, but I don't see him getting drafted after next year regardless of where he plays.

Good points. Maybe he can get the Browns up to 6-7 wins a year in the next three year.

If I was TB, I wouldn't care less how someone did in another offense. I'd care more about how they do this spring in his offense when they get a chance to show what they can do.

I was a little skeptical of your position here, but after looking at the stats, I can't put up much of an agrument against what you said other than that he pitched for a long time. Went five years without a winning season at the start of career and only had two 20 win seasons. I had no idea and would have thought the numbers would have been better. The baseball HofF rewards guys who can play for a long time as it is a statistical driven sport more than most.

Sure enough. However, NE Ohio writers have an ability to come up with the most extreme bad ideas formed into words (See Pluto's "idea" that LO should be on TB's staff). Flynn is one of those examples.

This is what is wrong with NE Ohio sports writers. They are as desperate as the fans. Like Newt Gingrich, they think all of their ideas are good ideas and feel the need to put them out in public. Most ideas aren't very good and shouldn't be said. Flynn being the starting QB of the Browns is one of those ideas. Why? I saw this comparison on Deadspin the other day and it fits well. If a .500 journeyman pitcher throws a perfect game, does that make him a Hall of Famer, or does it make him a guy who had a really good day on the mound? Flynn is the journeyman pitcher who threw a perfect games. Making him something other than that is desperation thinking. As a Steelers fan, I can say I like the idea of the Browns picking up another QB who won't do anyting because the entire franchise is crap. So YES Browns, give him $10 million a year. He's worth every penny...look what he did in that one game and you know he will do that every week. Ignore everything else.

Pays a lot better than most jobs.

No, I don't think he is delusional. I think he is a guy with a unique opportunity to look at a college season beyond the ones he singed up for when he was 18 and wants to explore his options. He is breaking no ncaa rules and has completed his course requirements for graduation so in a technical sense, his obligations to UofA are over. I believe his best option is UofA, but there isn't anything wrong with exploring. The NFL? Who wouldn't want a shot at the NFL if they had one?

I don't know the answer to this, but how many NFL LBs did WVU produce while Rich Rod was the coach? Brian is the kind of undersized kid Rich Rod looks for in this type of defense, but that may not turn into NFL success. The most logical step Brian should take if he is interested in the NFL is to stay at Akron and play for the new staff.

I'm torn between Wexner being a neoconservative and giving us this.