GP1

This is the second suspension in two years for the BB team. I can't remember the last suspension the football team has had and they have almost six times the number of players on scholarship as the BB team. Sure you want to go down this road?

I'm interested to see how much fan overreaction to this story there may be. So far, all we know he is suspended. With the amount of rules they have to follow, it could be anything from missing a class to something much more serious like a law violation. Perhaps he had salmon with a bagel; however, that is only an ncaa violation, not a University violation. In big time college sports, things like this happen. I'm leaning toward shrugging this off. The MBB program has been pretty clean over the past few years. Over time, the percentages catch up with everyone and they just caught up with us.

This is reason enough. You could have saved yourself a lot of typing.

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NO. He can't recruit. His recruits don't have the base athletic talent to win in the MAC.

Would you like to go on record some more? Wow....you manned up and called him out after 2 years. Impressive. CK knows of one guy who will not post here anymore because of Skip Zip. I know 3 that won't post because of you. True story. I think ZW is man enough to take a joke. Too bad you know three guys who aren't.

We need a coach who can attract MAC level players and turn them into something. A big splash is not needed.

I don't disagree that he is a bad coach. I'm going to trust my eyes though. I see guys who have the speed of someone running in sand compared to the other team. I see guys who don't jump as high as the other team's guys do. I see guys who can't run fast enough on kickoff return to get back to block before the defenders are by them. I see both QB with weak arms. I see defensive linemen who don't have the speed or strength to get off of blocks of more athletic players on offense.A huge complaint I have is the players have quit. There is no heart on this team and there isn't a single one of them who couldn't be replaced.

That's not really funny.

Yes, it is. It's the single biggest problem this program has. Coaching can be fixed quickly....talent isn't as easy.

Would you like to go on record some more?

There is nothing funny about it.

Maybe they are on vacation this week. Covering the Zips probably isn't much of a priority at the abj right now.

I'm done watching. It's shocking how bad this team is.

I'm rooting for the Zips to win AND a new coach.

This used to be common. Not so much anymore. I think Nebraska has done it in the past. If I'm not mistaken, Wisconsin did it with Alvarez for a while. I'm sure our Basketball and Soccer coaches would have a problem with it.

Rubber chickens have a way of kicking back after every banquet.

We should all celebrate Black Friday by posting examples of American stupidity on this day. Find some of your own and post them on this topic. We could all use a good laugh today. I hope the I-Pod is worth some time in the hole.

He can make more money eating rubber chicken on the speaking tour.

I don't think you are wrong at all. This program is in such bad shape, it is going to be hard to bring in a decent D-1A assistant. It would be hard to bring in a decent DII or I-AA coach at this point. Coaches are very calculated about their careers and Akron isn't a strong career move. The following happened to our last four coachs. Faust - Never got a sniff at another job in coaching Owens - DII JD - Out of coaching for a year and now assistant at Colorado Coach I - Will be assistant somewhere Right now, Akron isn't the place one goes to for the next job. With that said, it makes Winters all the more logical choice for many of the reasons stated on the board. I always say that things can always get worse than what they seem to be. I can't believe what TW has done to this program in two years. Two years ago, JD was at least a competent coach who was struggling. Lots of odd things happened prior to his departure. The program needed a change and along comes TW with his "vision". Look where we are now...a national laughingstock. No, I take that back, we aren't even a laughingstock...we're nothing. People don't even pay enough attention to laugh at us because we are so pathetic it isn't even funny. If the boom is lowered on Coach I, I say good luck to him and wish him only the best in the future. However, there needs to be another boom lowered this week and it should be the guy who created this whole situation, TW. Coach I needs to go....TW REALLY needs to go.

I say something similar to my fellow Steelers fans when they tell me what a great coach Cowher was. The guy was no Chuck Noll. Cowher had four easy wins a year against the Browns and Bengals as those franchises were flat on their backs most of his time as coach. When Noll coached, the Bengals, Browns and Oilers were at least good teams most of the time and a road trip to one of those teams was difficult to win. Preceding Tressel, the Big Ten was a much better conferece than it is now and during his tenure. I think it would be harder to lose a game with the schedule Tressel played than to win a game. There is a big difference between illusion and reality. I have always maintained Tressel is an illusionist. If he comes here, his bag of tricks will be empty. Some people are easy to fool. The Great GP1 isn't so easy to fool. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

It doesn't matter what you have done, it only matters what you will do. Tressel has no history of success beyond lying and cheating. Where is the evidence that lacking lying and cheating he will win at Akron?

Maybe he was on his way to Can't to watch his former coach in action. Tressel is not coming to Akron. It would be like a two term President running for Congress after his time in office. John Quincy Adams served in Congress after being president and Andrew Johnson served in the Senate. Both were one term Presidents.

He wouldn't make us a Top 25 team. He could get us what OU has right now and I would take an 8-9 win season in a second. I actually think a lot of guys could win at Akron given the chance.

I respectfully disagree. It doesn't take a lot of talent to win in the MAC...It takes the right talent at the right places. OU isn't dripping with talent, yet they won 9 games so far this year. They have enough talent to win a coach that helps them win. Winters can get the right talent.