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In honor of Beavis and Butthead coming back on TV this week, I'd just like to say.....Uhhhhhhh he said sniff....Dude! I had almost forgotte that. It is going to be epic. Just that 5 minutes of them watching Jersey Shore slayed me.My wife saw a scene where there are watching 16 and Pregnant and Butthead says to Beavis, "Hey Beavis. I just realized this girl isn't a bad actor, she's a bad person." Our society is so in need of this show it isn't even funny. Thursday nights on MTV.

On a MAC level, I believe if the University had ANY clue, Faust could have done much better than what everyone saw at the end at Akron. Faust had nothing and had the highest percentage winning season in school D-1A history.What we don't know about Tressel is if he can win without cheating. Anywhere he goes, the NCAA is going to watch him like a hawk...which is why he'll never coach again.For those of you who think Tressel would come to Akron....dream on. It's about the same chance of Urban Meyer going to tosu.Emphasis on the word NOTHING. We didn't even have grass practice fields back then, even though we played many opponents with grass fields. There had to be high schools that were better equipped than us to elevate to 1-A. I think we've only now begun to understand what Gerry accomplished with meager resources at the absolute infancy of our D-1A era.Even worse, the University had no idea as to what to do. People can say what they want about Faust, but he was at ND. He saw what needed to be done...maybe he didn't know exactly how to get there, but he knew what it should look like.

In honor of Beavis and Butthead coming back on TV this week, I'd just like to say.....Uhhhhhhh he said sniff....

Browns fans have been doing this for years. How is that working out? They have big egos, but they are also smart enough to see an empty stadium and understand there is a problem.The time you spend making signs could be better spend doing just about anything else.

I wonder how many pages were in the NCAA rulebook 40 years ago. They can regulate salmon on bagels, but they can't figure out how to get more money to those making the money for them.1903 the Wright brothers flew the first plane...1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic. A little over 40 years later, man lands on the moon. Seems to be easier to build more advanced flying ships than changing the NCAA.Bye, bye NCAA. You did it to yourself.

This is a very good post. It's not the losing...It's the not being competitive. When I go to a game, I want to see teams compete at a high level. The Zips don't do that right now and it is a killer for any fan because the hope is gone. Tom Jackson said something last night about being upset when he watches a game and one team or both isn't living up to the "professional standard". I'm sure a lot of Zips fans feel upset the Zips aren't living up to even "MAC standards". It's the best reason to not go to a game.

I used to get notes like this all the time from people on this board. Never responded. I got sick of the notices so I turned off my PM function.it doesn't bother me in the least....but something keeps urging me to teach morons like this a little life lessonJust enjoy the game. There are too many morons in the world to correct all of them. It's a losing battle. Go Zips!

Reality always makes for good smack. Well done!

I used to get notes like this all the time from people on this board. Never responded. I got sick of the notices so I turned off my PM function.

On a MAC level, I believe if the University had ANY clue, Faust could have done much better than what everyone saw at the end at Akron. Faust had nothing and had the highest percentage winning season in school D-1A history.What we don't know about Tressel is if he can win without cheating. Anywhere he goes, the NCAA is going to watch him like a hawk...which is why he'll never coach again.For those of you who think Tressel would come to Akron....dream on. It's about the same chance of Urban Meyer going to tosu.

I am relaxed. I thought my response was pretty balanced. And, I'm still not buying any MAC "building process".

None of them had access to Tressel's payroll.

This coach is a jerk and is killing any chances his kids have of being recruited. Not only that, the guy should know better. Go to any high school football game and the parents and fans will believe there are 5-6 D-1A players on their team. If they are lucky, there may be one, but that's OK because they are fans and parents. A decent high school coach should know what a D-1A player looks like. He's acting like a parent. He should in fact have serious conversations with these kids parents about their abilities and what their expectations should be.Think of how stupid this logic is. Akron needs to recruit more in Stark County so the kids can get more scholarship offers. Does that sound like a good use of resources for UofA? Stupid....just plain stupid.Also, if the kids are any good, they get found and recruited. It's too easy to get information on someone because technology is so good. If every school is taking a pass on the a kid, it is because the kid doesn't have it, not because the local university isn't recruiting him.What a lot of people in NE Ohio don't want to admit is high school football around Stark Co. has fallen off quite a bit in recent years. Massillon? Every kid I knew on the team from Massillon when I was in school wasn't very good and certainly not nearly as good as they thought they were.

Are we trying to run up the middle at all? Sometimes when a team is struggling to run, it can be helpful to just line up and go forward with limited thinking. On OLineman doesn't have to be the most talented to smash up on someone.

I don't have a problem with running to the short side of the field if they can make the blocking numbers work. I don't see the games, but if we are having trouble blocking the strong safety, then lining up strong to the field and running backside isn't a bad idea if they can make it work. At some point, player have to perform. OU has always been good at counting the numbers and running away from the strong side. Looks like we aren't as good as them at doing it...or much else.

Is that all?Let's assume that with attrition, there are 4.5 years worth of players on a team. That's 19 people per class year with 85 scholarships. We play a four man front so we use 9 linemen counting the 5 offensive linemen. That's 41% of the starting 22 players on offense and defense. Only recruiting six is between 1 and 2 fewer than we need to recruit just to keep the numbers even. TW might want to rethink that answer.

Dave WalkoskiThis is the kind of guy we need. Long time coach at MAC level and in the MAC. Comes from the Toledo program which was successful. If not him, would Toledo Tom want to get back in coaching?

I don't want the guy from App State. I was just trying to tie JZ84's example to him.

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.