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Great video DrZ. Probably one of the best videos of a local news cast in a long time. Good thing for the internet or not many people would have watched it. I didn't vote because none of the candidates reflect my emotions about LBJ winning a championship. Basically, I have no emotion because I didn't watch 30 minutes of the NBA playoffs this year. I can't remember the last time I spent more than an hour watching an NBA games for a while. LBJ is a bit of a jerk the way he left Cleveland. He also admitted he left Cleveland the wrong way. How much longer does the guy have to hang on the cross for it? Deadspin had a good take on LBJ.

UCONN is the real name here.

GoZips.com Do your friends really not know where to look? Or, are the just too lazy to look? Do they not know how to use Google? I live four states away and know when every game is with little effort on my part. It's 2012. I find it almost impossible to believe that if someone wanted to go to a game, they couldn't find out when the next one was going to be within a few minutes.

The Zips play a I-AA team in the first four games. They won't start the season 0-4. I'm not so concerned about the losing as much as I am about seeing a QB find some success in a season that is going to produce a lot of bumps for him. If there is almost no chance of him finding some success next year, he shouldn't play. If there is a chance for some success and for him to improve his game greatly between his frosh and soph seasons, then start him. I don't want to see baby steps with players from year to year. This isn't high school.

Give it a year or two. Another coach will be getting job offers better than Duquesne.

I'm totally in agreement with this strategy. It also isn't just about him getting more practice snaps. It's about the other guys who will be on the field with him getting game experiece before he starts. More than anything, his freshman season can't be a disaster and experienced players around him will help his development. Wake took a similar direction with Tanner Price a couple of years ago when he was a freshman and it worked out great for him. While he didn't start in every game, he played in every game and the freshman will need some experience before getting on the field. Even if the Zips get blown out by Tennessee, he could play in the fourth quarter. There isn't much difference between Tennessee's low back-ups and the MAC competition he will face later in the season.

There are a lot of quotation marks around a lot of the article. KD wrote a lot of it for him. He should have never taken the interview if he was going to be that honest. I'm not sure how I would take this article if I was one of his players.

How many people are watching it? Does anyone know the ratings the Can't games are getting? I think it is a neat story in some ways, but I don't buy into the CWS having a major impact on a school. South Carolina won last year and everyone was excited for about five minutes...then they started to think about SEC football. Five minutes after Can't is finished, everyone in Ohio will start to worry about whatever football team they watch. Don't get sucked into the hype. America isn't talking about Can't baseball.

Strange to say the least. KD doesn't come off good at all in this article. Should have never given the interview considering the circumstances.

There are a lot of ways to look at this. People have to watch something in bars. Can't is a local story. People will watch a local sports story before they watch anything else. Can't baseball is a fad right now. It will go away like disco.

It was a no brainer for them. They did a study and found the number of house fires drop the last two weeks of June and figured they had to keep their crews busy doing something. Every TV station can send every crew they have to Omaha...hardly anyone is watching.

Paragraph 1: Sounds like government employees. Paragraph 2. At least the NFL players have three reasons for playing, not just two.

This is a serioius issue. Don't turn it into high school debate club.

Are you saying the NFL knew about the head injuries and the long term danger? If so, the NFL is in worse trouble than I think they are. If DiG is correct, the NFL is still in trouble. Either way, the NFL has a huge problem. Personally, I believe the NFL knew the long term dangers of head injuries for a long time. I also believe they know there may be a connection between PEDs and head injuries and possible depression from players trying to get off of steroids. The NFL got fat off of abusing the bodies of their employees in a way far beyond the limits of acceptable risk for the sport. They are really going to have to cough up some money for that.

I'm not interested in watching flag football either. I'm also not interested in watching football turn into cockfighting. Football is a physical sport. When it goes from being physical to violent, it becomes pornography/cockfighting. People who call it violent don't understand what violent really means and have a limited vocabulary. Pornography isn't just dirty movies, magazines, etc. Pornography is also a visual designed to bring out an emotional response in someone. Watching guys loaded up on PEDs take cheap shots on defenseless players doesn't make me happy. It doesn't take a tough guy to hit someone in an effort to harm them when they can't see it coming. It isn't good for society to have a sport promoting that activity. The reason the NFL needs to settle the class action case is so they can establish a fund administered by someone else that will handle all of the cases the former players are already filing. There are currently over 2,000 cases filed. The NFL can't afford, both politically and literally, to take every one of them to trial. This issue needs to get out of the headlines asap for the NFL, and the settlement is the best way to do it. Companies do it all the time with issues such as asbestos and the NFL needs to do it as well.

I don't know about timing, but a good source told me a Freshman is going to start next year.

When you guys had Q&A time with Coach B at the golf outing, did he mention he was planning on starting his freshman QB? George Thomas, Have you heard this?

Did it run before or after the house fire story?

Maybe they are just now finding out the risks. Jacob Bell now has a better understanding and walked away. It isn't unreasonable to believe players thought they had less risk because of helmet technology improvements. The increased protection can't keep up with the size and speed of players due to the amount of guys taking PEDs. Nobody talks about that being the problem, but it is really the case. Unless the NFL and college football adopt serious PED testing programs, the head injuries aren't going away. Real PED testing will result in smaller and slower players....basically, shrink players down to what a normal person can do without help. Is it a slippery slope? Yes. The NFL needs to settle a class action case ASAP, set up a fund established by a judge and let an administrator hand out the money....right after they start a real PED testing program.

Your summary is correct with the exception of one point. As long as there are old people with a desire to watch a story about a house fire before turning out the lights for the night, there will always be the 6:00 evening news.

Maybe on a local level, but there is no way on the national level. Nobody watches local news except for old people who watch the 6:00 evening news before going to bed. There is no way a school gets more national coverage for the CWS than for the Elite 8.

There is media attention and then there is media attention. Another harsh reality is very few people watch the local news so the attention is almost meaningless. Can't was on a nice run, but they were completely out classed yesterday. The run is coming to a close in the near future and the players will fade into the background of college athletics where college baseball is mostly played. I'd take a national championship in any sport compared to that outcome.

Agreed, which is why it should be on campus. If someone wants to go to a game, they will go to a game. If the possible sites for the games are less than 1 mile, it won't impact a decision by a fan to go or not to go.

I say good luck to him. He did everything the Zips asked him to do for four years and earned a degree. What's one more year of football? At some point, we all grow up and maybe this was that point for him. Playing college football really isn't a "grown up" thing to do because other people tell you how and when to do everything. You're really treated like a child. A little time away from it provides reflection and insight into another part of life as a grown up. I don't think he was much of a candidate for the NFL and I think he knows the same thing deep down inside. He is a hard working, smart guy. I believe he will do well in anything he decides to do. Again, good luck.

I guess I could have asked the question of any school. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the same number of students with a higher quality of student entering the school? For example, Harvard has 27,000 students.?.? Since this is a sports forum, I'll put it another way. Wouldn't the MAC better off with fewer, high quality teams than adding teams like UMASS? More isn't always better. Dr. Proenza is a smart guy, but this is a backward way of thinking.