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Good point. It's 2011. If you are good, you get found. Coaches and players today can put together a film and send it out via e-mail. That e-mail can reach 200 coaches in seconds. It's not 1980 where you have to put together individual films and drage them off to the post office.

Thanks. I was serious about not being able to remember a more favorable schedule. If there has been one, I can't remember and would like to be reminded. I've complained a lot in the past about schedules, but I really can't do that this season. The schedule is a gift and we need to do something with it.

I'm not sure what to make of it either. I know this. We may not win the mac, but the schedule is set up for us to do well if we take advantage of the opportunities presented to us early in the season. If we can just beat Temple the second game, we could set ourselves up for a good start to the season the first five games, carry that momentum into a favorable home stretch and then who knows what could happen. Can anyone remember a more favorable schedule the first half of the season? I hate to use the cliche the season is riding on one game because it isn't that simple, but I really think the Temple game will set the tone for the remainder of the season. It's all right in front of us if we can just take advantage of it. There are a lot of good reasons to pick against the Zips, but it is still the MAC and stranger things have happened. Why not us?

God, I wish I had written this...

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This is proof to everyone that if you set your goals high and give it your best effort, everyone can be a champion at something.

This is a terrible joke.....and I still laughed.

I agree. This trip could be the start of what I hope is a long winning streak at the beginning of next season.

Granted. However, going into the game, there was a better chance of msu winning than a mac school beating a Big Ten school. It's about why teams are playing these games. They are playing them for the money, not because there is a chance they might win one. The bcs schools play them because they are easy wins on their way to six wins and a bowl game and a chance at an 8 home game season. I don't see how that is good for college football. I also think a lot of top level bcs teams don't want to play more difficult teams because they might lose.

I was one of those idiots. Because I like college football. I would like to see it changed so that my main experience at one of the games was more than just "feeling good" because my team was playing in a big stadium. How would you change it? See my posts on a 40-60 team division carved out of the existing bcs schools.

I was one of those idiots. Because I like college football. I would like to see it changed so that my main experience at one of the games was more than just "feeling good" because my team was playing in a big stadium.

Not an odd choice at all. Any gameday experience that involves driving your boat to a game is a good one. The same can be done at Tennessee.

I voted Nebraska vs WI as the game that is going to be the best this season. The others don't seem that interesting at this point. Patterson at TCU is to the best coach. Look at where he is, where the program came from and his results. I did vote for the MAC. I like jump around. All other traditions are old and don't require much interaction. Mississippi is the best gameday experience. Anyone straight man who has walked The Grove know what I'm talking about.

Even if I lived in Ohio, I wouldn't go to this game. A day or two at Put-in-Bay would be time and money better spent, but don't tell that to my liver. I could care less about whatever they feel they need to restore at osu. I won't pay to go see what I believe to be a fraud perpetrated upon college football fans. That fraud is the BCS conferences OOC schedules and their playing non-BCS schools in order to pad their wins/pockets. People who pay to go to these games are part of the problem in college football. The schools do it because the fans are stupid enough to purchase tickets to this nonsense. I'd gladly pay to see the Zips play any MAC school or even FIU. I refuse to have my money stolen from me. Go Zips!

It should be called the "Tunnel of guys with nothing to do on a Saturday."

This guy is my all time favorite gunner.

The word "rebuilding" implies they are going to build it back up to what it was before...God help us.

Are you sure it's not Andy Staples or Michael Rosenberg? Now the cat is REALLY out of the bag. The Great GP1 is in fact a shape shifter. I'm all three of these people. Seriously, they are good reads and anyone with an open mind should read them. I said a long time ago now that UofA and schools like UofA need to decide their own future before the bcs schools decide it for them. They need to do it sooner rather than later. If the bcs schools start up their own league or division or whatever, we will be left out in the cold because they won't be looking out for our best interest. Schools/leagues will panic and panic makes bad decisions. I want us to make a change with a clear head.

All ugly memories. Vs DE St., we threw three pick sixes and had a punt blocked in the endzone for a TD. It was brutal....just brutal. 28 points off of TOs. Do the math, without the TOs we win. Brutal...but not the worst.

I guess the cat is out of the bag. My real name is Dan McCarney.

There is plenty of evidence that teams can have quick transitions within two years. It doesn't take two years of transition then more "building" on top of that to win in the mac.

I was going to say that maybe there was a real good fat farm there, but it doesn't look like Mangino wants anything to do with a fat farm.

Do you know how many Zips are playing in the CFL and with what teams?

Both teams weren't very good the other night. I've found that with CFL games, they are really entertaining or they are really bad. On the whole, I really enjoy watching the games when there is no college or NFL. Sort of the same way I enjoy watching the Arena League....any port in a storm I guess.

They investigated and threw the book at USC because USC did not cooperate with them. All a school needs to do is break the rules, self report, adopt a policy that says they won't do it again and they are largely off the hook for serious punishment. The ncaa is going to go easy on osu because they want to go easy on them. They aren't going to find anything else out because they aren't going to look for it. Like I said before, the Big Ten has a lot riding on this season. Nebraska is coming in the league and they are having their first championship game. The ncaa isn't going to let their fourth best league flop around as they ring in a new era. The story can't be about osu and if the ncaa continues to investigate, it becomes about osu's problems and not what they really want to focus on.The ncaa can do whatever it wants to do. There are no laws governing the ncaa so they can make them up as they go along. I actually think we are entering into a time when the ncaa will be handing out less stiff penalties to teams that break rules.Taking scholarships away from osu wouldn't hurt them. Would a coach rather have ous's 65 scholarship players or Minnesota's 85 players? If the ncaa really wanted to hurt them, they would take away a bowl game or two. There is a lot of stink around the osu program. Taking away bowl games keeps the story going for a year or two. The ncaa, big ten and osu all need this story to go away. It is larger than osu. I'm sure schools like LSU and Auburn are watching closely and expecting a light punishment as well.