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Twenty years ago, this guy was around Ambrose's age.I don't know exactly who I want, but I want an experienced coach who understands the challenges in the MAC. Specifically, how to get good players to a MAC school, which is something a school like Toledo has always been able to do for the most part. We don't need flash. We need a guy who knows the MAC and can actually get some players of MAC talent and turn them into something.Everyone is looking for that "one guy". I think there are a lot of coaches who could win at MAC schools and they never get a shot because they aren't the right age or have the flash of others. KD was exactly that guy for the basketball program. His career in coaching was basically over, but he was a good coach with successful MAC experience and a talent for coaching the game. It would have been easy to look past him when change came.In closing, I'm not surprised to see a thread like this. I am surprised to see JZ84 started it. Things must have been really bad yesterday. Very sad for UofA, but the truth is the truth.

I think he wants to win. The problem is his ideas on how a team wins are wrong.

A problem this big isn't caused by only one person. The current condition of the Zips football program is due to a broken system. Coach I is going to do exactly what he said he was going to do in his job interview. He didn't hire himself. The AD and a hiring board of God knows who...I can only assume complete incompetents hired the guy. Firing Coach I isn't going to solve the entire problem.

What do your eyes tell you?

If this is true, TW should be shown the door. There should be weekly evaluations of performance. If true, this shows me that TW can make the easy (stupid) decision of suspending a coach who had a MINOR violation, but he can't make the big decisions. If true, he can make the easy decision of hiring a friend, but can't make the hard decision to fire a friend; or even worse, to question the decision making of a friend. He can make the easy decision to cancel a golf outing, but...I have no idea where I'm going with this one....something to do with things that don't really matter.....anyhow....Akron football may be dead and buried by then? It might be dead already and the rotting corpse is stinking up the joint. I'm serious. We don't even compete well against MAC schools. 20 points in a college football game is unacceptable. At the pace we are going, the Zips will score 198 points this season. More than last year, but less than 20 per game. They give fans nothing to cheer about. When the most fun people have is at the tailgate, there is a huge problem with the program. The real problem is there isn't anyone around to smell the rotting corpse...How many people were at the game to smell it?

There is still a chance for a D-1A Super Crapference. This Global Conference will get demoted, like Pluto, when the D-1A Super Crapference is created.

I watched Duke go 4 of 5 on fourth down conversions in the second half of their game against Wake yesterday and almost upset Wake. Some of them were even out of fieldgoal range. That's a coach who saw a game he could win and tried to win the game, not manage the game.

StatsDidn't see the game. Didn't have to. Thank God I didn't. The one stat that sticks out to me is we only had 18 first downs. As I look at that stat further, 5 of those first downs came from OU committing a penalty. Feature RB with less than 50 yards...terrible. The score was 3-3 and the Zips allow four unanswered scores...when they finally did score, there were only 35 seconds remaining in Q3...terrible. Less than six yards per pass attempt...terrible. We allow OU to convert 71% of third downs....terrible. We convert 27% on third down...terrible.We stink.

Good stuff Dr. Dr Z.Our top line running back is showing consistent improvement over the course of the season. A little stumble against FIU in production of total yards, but they were a much better team than us and we still hung in. He has had 131 against EMU and 134 against UC. I'm a believer in this kid from watching his effort in the tosu game and his stats as the season progresses.This tells me the running game is in place to create play action for a QB....something critical to a pro style offense. The passing game has to be in rhythm with the run game for winning. In order for the other team to take our passing more seriously, we have to complete more passes and there has to be a deep threat. We need the QB to get the ball down field and a guy who can get open down field in order to be successful. The first piece is in place with the RB....the rest needs to follow.

....Or, they are the most unimpressive 4-3 team in the country. The have two wins against I-AA teams. They have been destroyed in two "rent-a-win" games. The were destroyed by Toledo. They beat Akron and CMU who have a combined win total against D-1A teams of....let's see....one.I'd still take their 4 and whatever over our inevitable 1-11.I would too, but let's not get carried away about the great "building process" English has going on at EMU. A bit of smoke and mirrors if you ask me.

....Or, they are the most unimpressive 4-3 team in the country. The have two wins against I-AA teams. They have been destroyed in two "rent-a-win" games. The were destroyed by Toledo. They beat Akron and CMU who have a combined win total against D-1A teams of....let's see....one.

This sort of reads like a Hemingway passage. Well done.

I would be interested in knowing when they run. Is it on first down and second down mostly resulting in third and long distance? Or, are they passing on first down and running on second down like they do in the NFL (I like this strategy because if the first down pass is incomplete, it can shorten the potential third down pass). NFL offenses spend the vast majority of their practices in their third down offense because it is so hard to get a first down in the NFL and it takes three downs to get one in many cases. Since we run a pro offense, it is especially critical to convert third downs out of shorter distances.I'm going to the Wake game at Duke tomorrow and will be in a bar to watch some of the Zips after the game. Looking forward to seeing the Zips win.

I respectfully disagree. There is nothing wrong with going up to a guy 4 seconds before half, winning 42-7 and saying, "You know. Theoretically, we could beat you guys 84-14 if the second half goes the same way the first half did." Or, "Did you guys just find out about this game yesterday?" Or, "You guys are going to get that guy who gave you a scholarship fired." Or, "The way you guys are playing tonight is a disgrace to college football." Or, a very fitting smack for the way UCLA's defense played last night, "Is this your first tackle football game?"I'm not a fan of one player telling another, "you suck", because the UCLA players already know that and there is little creativity. The average fan might be shocked to know the amount of trash talk that goes on every play. It's hard to hurt the blimp sized ego of most of the players with a few words. It is not OK to talk smack when another team is playing well and with pride in a close game. UCLA deserved no respect or sympathy for the horror show they put on the field last night.

Do you mean the fight only or the entire 3.5 hour broadcast of the game?

Eat too many and you won't crap for a week.

This phrase should be a permanent sign on the scoreboard.

I am a proud member of this group.

Reason ArticlePersonally, I don't care if they raise the taxes of everyone in Ohio to pay for Zips Athletics. History has shown, they have raised taxes for much more stupid things. That settles it, raise taxes 5% on everyone in Ohio to pay fo the Zips. Sounds like a great idea to me. Hell, go with 10%. Go Zips!!!

I like this prediction. The MAC is a funny league. When you think one thing is going to happen, strange things happen in the other direction. The Zips get their second of three wins for the season.

That is pretty much it. There is already I-AA that falls into D-1 somehow (probably has to so with sports other than football). I don't like it when people call my idea a "demotion" because it doesn't have anything to do with doing anything wrong. In fact, I think it can create a very positive change for college football for both BCS and non-BCS schools as long as the non-BCS school can get control of their own future.

I don't see us having to leave the ncaa. This is our chance to take control of our level of football, with like schools, and do something that better benefits all of the institutions, if executed properly. We need to either leave the ncaa or start our own level of football. Either one is fine with me.To me, it is interesting how easily all of this could happen without the "guidance" of the ncaa. I also find the adjustment of leagues by teams to be as orderly as it could be at this point. Change isn't easy, but the current changes seem to be happening without the distruction of the known universe of college athletics. This change is a good thing. We should take advantage of it and change on our terms.

How about the MAC and the S.belt. Better fit. They already play each other anyway.This is the chance I have been talking about for a while. It is happening without any NCAA telling these conferences what to do. Now is the chance for the non-BCS D-1A schools to combine into one league, break up into divisions and play each other at their level, on their own terms. It could be something exciting if they would just let it happen and not worry about the BCS schools and all the nonsense that goes along with being their doormats.West coast vs. east coast, different divisions, a playoff...this could be a fun change.

They drive to blossomWould they drive to Akron in February to see a concert? No....

Some of it is. Some of it isn't.