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I do. It's a fan webpage, not the Roman Senate. Some see the board as a serious discussion. I see it as a fraternity party as it is mostly a place to have fun and at times have a serious discussion. ZN.O it is a fun place to post and discuss the Zips. One of the things that makes it fun is with the exception of ZipsWin! and CK, I have no idea what anyone looks like. I met DrZ once, but I wouldn't be able to pick him out of a crowd now because it has been so long. I saw a bald guy who looked like JZ84 Satruday and I went up to say hello. When I saw his shirt it said Can't State so I knew it wasn't him thus avoiding an uncomfortable situation with someone at a football game. I have no outlet in my life for discussing the Zips other than this board. When you live 600 miles away, you lose contact with the folks who really care. This is a place where people really care so why not discuss the Zips with them.

I agree with Dave. Some other questions come to mind as well. Why would a guy with a degree from ND come to Akron to play football for a year? It would seem to me that player would be better off getting a job through the ND alumni and starting what can be a very good career for most because of the degree. It doesn't make sense to me.

Why? In the Preseason Coaches Poll, West Virginia received 13 votes, Mississippi State 11. Our win is every bit as impressive as theirs. Don't look at the polls. Look at the teams. The Zips are defending MAC Champions and are better in every way than last season, unless I was watching a different game than everyone else last week. While I haven't seen Can't play, I doubt there is a team in the league with the talent on the floor that the Zips have.

Maybe it was the 12 pack of Diet Coke he consumed on a daily basis.

It can get worse, and it can create a mess that even a great coach down the road wouldn't be able to come in here and clean up. I agree, it can always get worse. However, if we have 8 guys come in a produce all conference results, it would be a lot better than the numbers we have producing "All Blocking Dummy Team" results right now. I'd take the 8 all conference and risk the disruption. Heck, the winning might bring the team together.

Zips have a tough three game stretch from Nov 28 to Dec 10 with all three games on the road against WVU, MTSU and CSU. This is an awesome challenge for the Zips and I believe they will be up for the challenge.

It's a horrible idea if it doesn't work. Great idea if it does work. My guess is the lockerroom dynamics are probably pretty broken right now with all of the losing. In terms of the remaining guys, they aren't showing me much so if they want to pout around, let them. In fact, if they want to pack their bags, then so be it. This team is on pace for another 1-11 season so I really don't care what upper classmen think of change. It's called competition. Playing on a college football team isn't a union job. You don't get to play because you were willing to sit on the bench for years and it becomes your turn. It's this type of entitlement we don't need on the team. I say bring in the best guys possible and create competition. It could be a stud freshman or a fifth year guy in a transfer situation. No free rides. The best guys play, the guys who aren't, sit.

I'm old enough to remember the 1980s young man. They had a much bigger win back when I was walking uphill both ways to school and cars were still driving through campus.

Nah, I'd pay to watch this Zips team scrimmage. You would or you did?

I listened to some of it this morning while working out. Had to turn it off. Very disturbing.

This is becoming a problem now with Coach I. Owens' teams were in a position to gamble with something at stake. Losing 35-3? Any Ianello gambles are typically penny-ante by comparison. +1 Imagine how bad it would be in seven years.....

Had I had extra time, I probably wouldn't have gone. I really don't like rent-a-win games. You guys had your money stolen from you.

This is becoming a problem now with Coach I.

You know, I remember quite a few people who still post around here celebrating the dismissal of Lee Owens after my senior season over on the old angelfire board. That man was fired for a 7-5 season which included a top 10 offense and a near upset of a top Big 10 program. What would you all give for 7-5 now? I'd be nice, but not as nice as the 7-3-1 season Faust gave us or the MAC Championship season JD gave us.

I don't anticipate seeing them this year during the regular season or MAC Tournament. However, when they make the NCAA Tournament, and if it is close, I would probably go. I may have gone this week if my wife and I weren't trying to squeeze the holiday season into three days.

No. I will not attend rent-a-win games.

One of my all time favorite Zips football players was Brett Biggs. I find it funny I like Diggs so much. Maybe there is something to a name.....

Someone please make it stop!!!!!! While watching the Zips game last week, I noticed MSU called their floor, "The Hump". That's all well and good; however, it made me think of that stupid song from my youth called The Humpty Dance...or something. I couldn't get it out of my head. Just as this song started to get out of my head, I went to my nephew's wedding Friday and the song played. I couldn't get it out until this morning. Now it has started again with this tread.......

This beer list is the only thing, directly or indirectly, related to this football program that is worth following at this point in the season.

I saw Boomer Esiason. A good QB who will never do anything because the franchise around him is so bad.

I walked in in the third and left about the same time. I don't know how anyone can sit through an entire season of that.

Doesn't have anything to do with a comparing the two so you are taking it wrong.

A couple things. First, I thought the defensive like, in the first half of the osu game, played better than they did yesterday. Second, I don't see the RB running as hard right now as he did at the beginning of the season.

This team is worse right now than it was at the beginning of the season. A lot of people look at the results from year to year. I like to look to see if a coach can make a team better during the course of a single season and this coach is falling well short of expectations.

Good points. I like the term re-tool. The original plan wasn't working to his satisfaction, so he changed and it is working great.