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When MAC play starts? The season starts in Nov....this team has a ton of talent and they will be coming off of a summer playing together where they get full time coaching. I expect this team to be good from day one.

It's the sign of a smart and creative poster.

Not directed at you BZ, but did anyone see the recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the part in it about people using or saying LOL?

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Who has been attacking you personally? Maybe you are paranoid. "Don't lie. I know lying isn't frowned upon by osu fans, " "In many ways Buckzip, I pitty you. You have been made a fool of" "You have been made a fool of by tOSU BuckZip. That pill must be pretty hard to swallow. Poop happens." "BuckZip was sucked in to it because he wanted to be sucked in." This is from only the last few pages from you. I am sure there is much more from you and some of your pals. if I cared to go back further. Go ahead and have the last word now GP1. I know you always have to. You shouldn't mistake sympathy for a personal attack. I really do pitty you on many levels.

I wonder how much sleep Captain Kangaroo is going to lose over this...

Who has been attacking you personally? Maybe you are paranoid.

Great set up!!! Between now and then, work on that chair. It looks as comfortable as sitting in GA at a basketball game. No reason to have a back injury the first game of the year.

I respectfully disagree. USC got the book thrown at them because they told the ncaa basically to f-off when they started to look into the program. The ncaa is going to do more than protect tosu. They are going to protect the Big Ten in a year when the conference is making major changes bringing on a new member and a coference championship game. The Big Ten doesn't have time to add a division, in additon to Leaders and Legends, called Probation.

Link We talk a lot on this board about how to get people to go to football games. Some of the misguided believe giving away tickets is worth it just to get people in the stadium. Others believe a price must be put on tickets in order to establish a value for the event. I actually think UofA is doing a good job trying to find methods of getting people to pay to go to games. They could do better though. Really smart people believe it doesn't matter what they charge because when the team is doing poorly, there is no reason to go regardless of the ticket prices. When this happens, maintaining some ticket value is important because you hope when the team is good and you can actually have a customer base that understands it isn't always free to go see a college football game. There is a good portion of the article that talks about the Baltimore Orioles selling tickets for $1.00 for a Major League Baseball (sort of). Basically, they were giving away tickets in an attempt to sell food and drinks. Their ticket sales didn't move. Why? Nobody wanted to go watch the crap Baltimore was putting on the field. Lesson...When demand is almost zero, make the number zero and maintain current prices for the day when the team is good again. People will pay to go see a winner. Let's win some games. Wait, let's win a lot of games.

Outside The Lines addresses this issue this morning. Pat Forde and Bruce Hooley speculate on the upcoming Columbus State penalties. Thanks for the links. Having trouble with the swimming through the sea of crap that is twitter and the Pat Forde posts. Bruce Hooley doesn't seem to have anything new. If you can offer more help, it would be appreciated. As far as the OTL report, nothing new there. It all goes back to what the ncaa wants to investigate. They are done investigating and giving penalties because that is what they want to do. tOSU AND the Big Ten is going to be protected by the ncaa. I don't see how the ncaa can go any other way. The professor from OU is correct. I would have loved for the reporter, or any reporter, to ask someone like him to comment on whether or not the ncaa will come down light to protect the Big Ten in a very important season. One of the most interesting points about what makes Tressel so corrupt is his purposeful lack of curiosity about what was going on around him. If you never ask questions, you never know. Pete Carroll did the same thing at USC. Both saw problems and did nothing to look into those problems. That is a form of corruption. It is a form of dishonesty without creating an evidence trail that would make him proved to be dishonest. The culture Tressel created was interesting as well. There are two ways to look at the whole "God and family" fraud he spewed. One way, the way tosu defenders look at it, is "God and family" is a way to create teamwork and a group of people who want to help each other out to win games. That's all well and good. Another way to look at it, and it is possible to fall into both categories, is when someone in the family does something wrong, we won't do anything that might hurt them or the family. Keep your mouth shut and keep it in the family. This is how the mafia looks at things. Tressel learned well in Youngstown. We'll use the "God and family" idea to both win games and keep everyone out of trouble. In a lot of ways, the culture Tressel created was very successful. The rule breaking was pretty severe and tosu had a hand in the rule breaking establishing early on that it was ok to sign autographs for money. Lastly, right on the money CK. Tressel was a con man and he conned almost an entire state.

This is a very good observation. Winning washes the sin of losing away. The sins go away, but the sinners remain to possibly sin again. It seems to me VCU and Akron are in a similar position. Both did not do as well in the regular season as they would have liked and fans should get upset when their team doesn't perform up to expectations. While VCU made a big splash in the post season, UofA did well in the post season by winning the MAC. Whether you are a fan of VCU or UofA, your expectations for next season should be similar. It would be inexcusable for either of these teams to perform poorly in their ooc schedule or conference schedule. VCU has momentum and Akron has talent. Both fan bases should expect big things from their teams next year starting from day one. Basketball season starts in November, not March. With the talent the Zips now have, my expectation is for them to have the best season in the history of the program. We have the best team in the MAC and we should get over on a declining league in a big way next season. Anything short of that will be a shame.

It wouldn't have matched the green and white shirt. Joe, it's blue and gold, not green and white.

What a great opportunity to learn about the program. What a great opportunity WASTED! "We're in helmets, we're going to wear shoulder pads, split squad, maximize..." Save it. B-O-R-I-N-G...Can somebody do there job and get this guy to tell the fans something that gets them excited about the season. Can we hire Emory? He knows how to fire up fans, you know why, because he is fired up. Rob needs to learn how KD excites the fan when someone puts the camera on him. I love listening to KD, I hate listening to Rob. At the minimum, he did say Go Zips?!? Coach I has Archie Bunker like excitement after a day of work. Personally, I don't care what any coach has to say about anything. All I want to see out of this team is some winning. I don't care who does it, which QB does it, which coach does it, etc. I don't even care what their names are, what year they are in or where they come from at this point. Want to get me excited? Win some games. Everything else is meaningless.

I think everyone had a case of the Mondays yesterday. The market was down 513 and it doesn't look any better today.

Do you remember the old parking at the Rubber Bowl discussions?

I'm a little confused. Some may think baggage is some sort of emotional problem. However, when I think of a kid from WV and baggage, a stick with a red rag full of his personal belongings slung over his shoulder comes to mind. Please clarify. The kid had accolades that typically net a "bigger-school" offer. But the Zips were his only D-1 opportunity. Sometimes, grades...sometimes bad attitude...sometimes an arrest...all those scenarios are familiar to upper-tier players that land on MAC rosters. You know that, GP1. He was 17 when he signed with the Zips. Maybe hanging around 23 year old players was too much for him? Maybe all the losing beat him down. Who knows. I do know he was suspended from the program last season. He was an impressive player in his time with the Zips. He showed good size, and good hands. He seemed to be capable of living up to his billing. It is a shame he is gone. He had a lock on the TE position for 3 years. Thanks for the clarification. It's just a little confusing sometimes when anything from West Virginia is involved. It could be a mental problem or it could be a suitcase consisting of a stick and a piece of cloth. I never assume anything when it comes to West Virginia.

I'm a little confused. Some may think baggage is some sort of emotional problem. However, when I think of a kid from WV and baggage, a stick with a red rag full of his personal belongings slung over his shoulder comes to mind. Please clarify.

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.