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Gwinnett Arena would be a good example of the type of arena the Zips could have. I went to a concert there once and it was great. In lieu of 13,000 seats, we could have 10,000 seats. Akron could draw a lot of concerts, etc. that are just not large enough for whatever they call the arena where the Cavs play now. The conference center Gwinnett has is not needed...nobody wants to have a convention in Akron.For a private arena, the question always becomes, who would go there for events? Gwinnett Co. has a huge population base and there are a lot of people there anyhow. Who would drive from the Cleveland suburbs to a concert in Akron? There isn't much proof that would take place. As long as the University doesn't have to sink much money into this place, I say move forward. If they do, don't move.

Good post Lee and if we read between the lines there probably is some frustration. If someone could see in the mind of TW, we might see a guy who believes he has done everything he can, in terms of scheduling, to make this season tolerable. I think this is a great schedule and perfectly set up for a team to have early season success and then carry that success into the home stretch. If TW is using the scientific method to evaluate the program, he is probably eliminating the schedule as one of those reasons they are doing poorly...I would. Now he has to start looking at other reasons and this is how change happens.Now the questions become: Is it the coach? Is it the players? Is it the facilities? Was it TW's decision making? Is it the band? Do we need to build a playroom for the FB players to watch TV in?

IMO, we have one of the most favorable I can ever remember and future schedules will not be this favorable. We are one game into a three game home stand with a bye week. The Zips need to take advantage of that. I know there are more reasons to feel negative about the Zips than positive, but if you look at it, we have some games we can win. We are a bad team, but it's still the MAC and we can win some games.

Maybe he is focused on winning and not facilities. Our focus has been on facilities and not winning...that's the real joke with the football program.

This league stinks. We can win 2-3 games, but will we is the question.

What would you have us do? Nobody is knocking on our door. Destined for D2? Probably not. Fantastic? It's more the natural course of things. What is happening to the MAC is nothing more than natural selection. The strong push out the weak.

If a good kid and a bad kid are playing together, is the good kid more likely to become bad or the bad kid become good. The good kid is very likely to do bad things because it is easy to be bad. That's why good parents don't allow their children to play with bad children. No thanks on the merge. I can't think of anything "world class" about Can't.

It depends on what the MAC wants out of itself. I'm not a fan of trying to break worlds records (jumping around on a pogo stick for 24 hours isn't my idea of a good time); however, in the "growing" world of college athletics, it seems to be an important goal to those working in athletics. Great miinds they are not. There are lots of ways to make a bigger pile of crap. Our distinguished colleague from Green may tell us that in order to create a Guinness Book of Worlds Records pile of crap, all possibilities must be explored and we would need a carefully thought out plan with great execution. There is no right way or wrong way. What I don't want to see is to add to the pile incrementally. I would set out to develop a plan that would maximize the time spent "growing" the pile of crap into the best and hugest pile of crap ever seen....or smelled for that matter. Probably the best way to create the "D-1A Super Crapference" would be to merge CUSA, MW, SB and MAC into one conference and pretend that conference is like the SEC or (insert BCS level conference here). Without those numbers of teams and the pretense it is something it isn't, I don't see how records can be set.

CUSA and Mountain West Merge

After the renewal deadline next summer, they have a couple of days where you can go to the stadium and pick out your seats. They mark the available seats with a piece of paper. This year, many trees were killed to make that happen. Unless the Zips have a big turn around, I'm sure there will be plenty available. Did they use toilet paper? No they used Can't State degrees. Wow, looks like they found something of less value than toilet paper...

Nice trip down memory lane. I fondly remember those days when there was only on ESPN and to play on Monday night was huge deal. Now, playing on ESPN is just another TV game.

A QB should get one ball per game knocked down at the line. It is the responsibility of the offensive line to punch the defenders in the balls when they jump up to block a pass. Believe me, fewer hands go up when defenders think they are going to get their balls racked.

Where is he making the tackles?

So would I. I watched Wake beat FSU yesterday using a spread offense with a good mix of run and pass. It's how teams with lesser talent win.

He should stick it out at Akron, get a degree and support his school in his professional career. He will have nothing to be ashamed of. I don't understand guys who transfer (unless they are forced to do so) for one year.

Who said that?? Oh yea...YOU. So I am to assume that is your OPINION as I looked it up in the the dictionary and even Googled it and nothing like that came back. Please send me the link if I am mistaken. Wow. I thought we plays to win. I thought we practiced to win. I thought coaches are brought in to win. Apparently my opinion is bunk. It is bunk. We don't do anything to win. Didn't you know that? Everything we do is part of a building process.

What turned it around for JD his first two years was Brett Biggs. He was willing to make a change and had a player who could immediately impact change in the program. Who is Coach I's player who could immediately make change in the program?

Schedule and Results Mack's got himself a nice season going on with his football program. Very favorable schedule, which is a sign of a good AD. Undefeated with a win over UCLA (not that beating UCLA is that hard). Two wins were very close, but they pulled them out. Next three games look favorable as they are at home....I saw ECU play and they have loses to USCarolina, UNC and VA Tech....in the game in all three. If Houston can win this game, the schedule gets easier and they may crack the Top 25. If they go on a nice run, we may see Mack at another school in the future depending on what opens up. This is just speculation, but Mack is a clean cut guy and there is a HUGE school in Ohio that needs to clean up its athletic department by getting rid of the AD....Hmmmmm. Actually, if Mike Thomas would have just waited one more year, he could have fallen into that job easily.

The BCS conferences could leave the Big East behind tomorrow and start their own division. The quality of competition would be increased by not allowing those schools to have 2 rent a win games a year. Better competition would create more viewers. More viewers creates more ad money, which is why these schools are doing what they are doing. Waiting for the next TCU to come along is a waste of time for them. TCU lived through a period where they had lightning in a bottle. Now that that gingerhead QB is gone, they won't be as good. They have already lost to Baylor and SMU....SMU. They may have had their day. It's one thing to play New Mexico, BYU, CO State and UNLV every week. It's another thing to play Oklahoma, Texas, they already lost to Baylor and the rest of the Big 12 every week. They will be a middle of he road Big 12 team.

And for Homecoming, Captain Kangaroo will be visiting the room where he took his first MUM class.

I watched a team with an terrible passing game that had a great running game and a good defense get one game away from the super bowl last year. While it's not popular, it can be done. Someone can always point to the exception. In business, a bad manager will look at an isolated success case and believe it can happen everywhere in lieu of asking why it happened. A one quarter jump in market share can be a result of one unusually large project going your way. If the bad manager believes that level of market share is sustainable because a miracle will happen and another project that size will happen again, he is kidding himself and that is why he is the bad manager. Everything averages. I want to be the team that doesn't have to take the hard road each time it leaves the house. I don't believe the road has to be perfect, but driving over the MOon hasn't been much fun. The University needs to start using its brain in lieu of wishing something unusual would happen. Make a wish or crap in your hat, see which one fills up first. We have a hat full of crap we have been filling for the better part of 20 years. It's really starting to stink around here.

TCU tells Big East, "Just kidding". Looks like they will go to the Big 12. Developing..... A while back, I used to tell everyone the MAC would be better off if it reduced the number of teams in the league to around 10. Is the Big 12 going to be better or worse losing Colorado and TX A&M and replacing only one school with TCU? I say yes...a smaller, more competitive league is always better than a big non-competitive league. Let's be honest, these moves are being made for football, so let me ask the following. How is the competition in the SEC better with TX A&M? How is the Pac Whatever better with Colorado? How is the ACC better with Pitt and Syracuse? I'm not saying they are worse, they just aren't more competitive. The Big 12 is the only conference that got smaller AND better/more competitive by adding TCU. They may have just positioned themselves to be the winner in this game of musical chairs. I still don't understand why the MAC isn't trying to get smaller. My only concern is if football is driving college athletics, we might be one of the schools on the outside looking in. We all understand these moves are not about creating better competition; if they were, the leagues would be looking to get smaller. They are about creating more games which creates more television money.

25 years ago it did. Today is doesn't. The game is about passing (not that running isn't important). I've been saying it for year now.

That's a pretty fancy shirt. I guess if a career in life is to become a drug dealer, one of the goals has to be ending up in jail because so many do. I guess congratulations are in order for reaching a goal. Career Stats

Until the guy named "Other" shows up.