GP1

ArticleAbove is an article. People can decide for themselves whether or not the ncaa's investigation is thorough.I think the ncaa is going to end the investigation here for a couple of reasons:1. The Big Ten needs a big splash this season with Nebraska coming in. The story going into the first Big Ten Championship can't be about a team on probation not being able to play in the game. The NCAA knows it and I'm sure the Big Ten is putting a lot of pressure on the ncaa about this issue. I would if I worked at the Big Ten. The Big Ten has a ton riding on this season and everyone knows it.2. OSU becoming irrelevant makes the Big Ten as irrelevant as the ACC in college football. The Big Ten needs osu to be good just like the ACC needs Florida State to be good. The ncaa knows this and will do what they have to do to protect osu.3. The real problems at osu, the con man Tressel and Pryor, are now gone and any blame can be cast upon those two since they have no forum now to defend themselves. Those two are also not required to testify in front of the ncaa now that they are no longer in college athletics.4. If you read the note above on what constitutes lack of control, osu followed the rules. The trick in college athletics is to break the rules and then install some bureaucracy over the broken rules to make it look like the school is trying to correct the problem. Repeat cycle. osu does a good job of breaking rules and then making it look like they are trying to do something to stop breaking the rules. osu and their supporters don't really want to stop cheating...if they did, there wouldn't be so much interest in Urban Meyer. osu is a dirty program and doesn't mind the dirt as long as they can appear to clean it up with the right coach (a good looking white guy people from Ohio want to be conned by).5. Lastly and most importantly, the ncaa is going to stop the investigation now because if they dig any deeper, the are going to find what they already know is out there.The ncaa investigation is not thorough for a lot of reasons. Mostly, they don't want to dig deeper. None of them are good reasons unless you are osu and the Big Ten. The Big Ten will benefit just as much, if not more, than osu when the ncaa turns a blind eye to the infractions. In this landmark indecision, the ncaa will take the bcs one step closer to having it's own division and it's own set of rules.

LinkJabari plays for Calgary. They lost a close one last night. If you have NFL Network you could have saw it. No catches but gets to play quite a bit. Two very bad teams.

Can moderators maybe do something with this guy? He doesn't seem to get it at all.LOL..Yeah, ban me because I made a joke. I made a 3 word post and then the mob decided to attack and carry it on for multiple posts.. What do you think looks worse to a potential recruit, the 3 word post joke, or the ridiculous attack that followed?On other board jokes like that are made constantly and are usually added to. Here the insecurity takes over. More proof of the insecurity here. Wow.We are Akron. I am proud of that and you should be too. Sorry you have to be so defensive. I wasn't the one that posted on the thread last year about how I won't go to any games and support the team like so many posters here did. I live in Georgia and I always plan my trips home around the Akron homes schedule so I can go to at least 2 games a year. Yet I am attacked non stop here. Any recruit should want to come here. Young rebuilding team with great facilities. As the soccer team proves, if we have a winner, support will be there. We are in a hotbead for recruiting. The future is bright here. Stop being so damn defensive and have some fun with it.I'm done here now. Let the attacks over a joke continue. word

I don't know about the English Premier League. It will be what it is and it will be something we will have to get used to watching. I blame it on Eastern Michigan University.

Some of you need to understand something. We may have no choice in the matter. It may not be us dropping. It may be us getting dropped by the BCS level schools wheny they start their own division.There are a limited number of schools with a limited number of scholarships at the BCS level. If a player wants to play college football and all of the scholarships are taken up at the BCS level, he'll have to go somewhere. Our division would be the next best thing. It's already happening.With all that is going on in college football, change is needed. Either we make the change with like schools or we get handed the change. Better to make your own change than allowing someone to make changes for you.

Two points:1. We don't compete at the top level right now. We call ourselves D-1A, but we really aren't. My 20 inch penis agrees.2. They will just ask the taxpayers to pick up the tab...and they will. We are currently killing ourselves by other means.Lastly, I'll say it for the 1,000th time. It isn't being sent to another level. We won't go back to I-AA and will be at a higher level than YSU. It will be a level between bcs and I-AA. We need to live in the world of reality.

Now, now Z.I.P., I didn't say high school football. I said they should create a division where we and schools like us can better compete against one another.

I was thinking about this last night. I'd have to look up the number of I-A teams and the number of bowl games, but I'm not feeling that motivated today. It seems to me that half of all I-A teams make a bowl game. At the rate teams are going on probation, there could bea chance the NCAA would have to revise rules to allow sub.500 teams to go to a bowl.The move to another division isn't far off. I don't see how it will do anything other than help college football. Ohio high school football has six divisions and a playoff in each. Good competition is created at each division and the playoffs are fun. If Ohio can have six divisions for high school, I think the United States can have five divisions for college football. When I was in high school in the mid 80s, there were only something like five divisions and we were in the middle division. We didn't petition the state to move up to the highest division because we couldn't for one thing and we couldn't compete even if we could. The OHSAA did us a favor by making a division for us. The NCAA would be doing schools in conferences like the mac a favor by making them play in another division. The mac has been in business since the 1940s. It is obvious at this point MAClike conferences can't save themselves so the ncaa has to step in and save them.

A player coming to Akron needs to understand two things:1. Winning at Akron hasn't been easy.2. Turning this program into a winner will be difficult but it can be done quickly.If a kid can come to Akron with his eyes wide open about the challenges and is willing to accept those challenges, we have a good starting point. The kid who primarily wants the new stadium, the new workout facility, etc. is not what we need. Players coming to Akron right now have a chance at making a historic impact on a college football program in two years if they can do what it takes once they get here to make it a winner. I think that is a darn good reason for a kid to come to Akron.I would hope that when our coaches recruit, they would be this honest. The kind of player we would want would accept a great challenge like this. A mac program can have a two year turn around. Finding the right kids willing to accept the chanllenge is the key. Let's stop building and start winning.

Just as negative about the mac as I've always been. The league sucks. We suck. Everything about the mac sucks. There is no reason to believe we can't be the corn kernel atop the pile of crap that is the mac.

I've heard/read a lot of Zip fans say/write this, and I have even thought it myself. BUT a quick turnover, 3 and out, some kind of score on them should take all that "pent up energy" away from them. Momentum is crazy in football. He!!, it might even work in our favor if something positive happens for us early, they might start questioning themselves if they can win without the vest and the suspended kids. Granted, there is probably about a single digit percentage of this happening, but it could.I like where you are going with this DrZ. Maybe on the other side of the ball from tous there will be a team that got their teeth kicked in the year before and is sick of hearing about it and thinking about it. Maybe the Zips will come out MORE fired up than tosu.

I blame that more on the Athletic Department than the coach. Personally, I'm not interested in getting to know any coach. I just want to watch the games and see some winning.One of the assumptions being made on this board is the coach is going to do everything this year exactly the same as last year. I don't think he will...If he does, he should be fired. If he does some things differently and players execute better, there is no reason why this team can't win at least four games. It's the MAC for crying out loud.It's July. I'd like to hold on to some hope for a couple more months.

Last year I said it would be impossible to go 0-12 because of how bad the mac is. I was right. Granted, we came in right under the gun, but we still won a game.I don't believe we will lose to a I-AA team two years in a row as it would be like losing 12 games. With teams like EMU and Buffalo, we SHOULD have two more wins. Throw in Can't State as they are what they are. CMU isn't what they used to be. Maybe we catch that Florida team asleep on a trip to Akron. Anything can happen. At a the very least, we should win four. A little confidence and momentum and we win more. At the end of the day, everything is up to the coaches and players. All of this is possible, they just need to get the job done. The mac is terrible and we should take advantage of that fact. I'm not ready to write off another season mid July.

If we can't beat VMI, we'll lose 11 again.

Different players. Different circumstances. Different year.The northeast Ohio sports fan's mantra for 40+ years. As I said before, I will believe it when I see it.Hope springs eternal. Like I said, I reserve the right to change my mind later.

Different players. Different circumstances. Different year.

I reserve the right to change my mind later. This score is close though.OSU will not put up 55 on us. They could put more than 35 up, but I don't think they will. The loss of Pryor is going to hurt their offense badly, especially against top level teams. OSU is replacing a lot of players this season and that will show itself the first couple of games. Maybe we can get a couple of turnover to go our way. Combine that with the guys out because of the NCAA, the game become more competitive.Right now, I look for a 28-14 score. I don't see us being in the game in a meaningful way. A further prediction will be at least ten fans of either school will fall asleep from boredom. One half of these fans will hurt themselves as a result of the fall.There are so many questions about this team. We'll learn more about them the second game against Temple than we will against OSU. Temple is a more meaningful game than OSU. We need to come out ready to play and get our first MAC win of the season. I don't just mean compete well against Temple, I mean win the game. We'll be playing at home, at night and the crowd should be good. Anything can happen in the MAC. Temple may only be the second game of the season, but if there is such a thing as a must win, this is it.I learned from Bill Cowher that the most dangerous team is one with confidence and momentum. If we can beat Temple and VMI going into EMU, we can beat a bad program and come home for three straight. If we are 1-3 going into EMU, anything can happen because there is no confidence or momentum. Lose at EMU and we have a huge problem again. If we start out the season 1-4 with zero D-1A wins, look out...it will be a long season.

You'll never make it to the game. Kangaroos are very immobile in the snow with the giant feet and all. He will be falling down the whole way.

Do we really have 13 returning starter? I thought we had something like 17 returning starters going into last season and most were seniors . The numbers don't seem right. Help?

Great question! While the author did it in jest, there is a serious point to be made. That point is how little there is upon which to predict. The Zips lost a lot of seniors after last season so a lot of players on the field will be new. 34 is the best player on a defense that fell apart against a I-AA team last year. The QB situation is up in the air. Lots of new starters. Not a lot of information flows from the Athletic Department or football program. Given all of that, on some level I understand why the author wrote what he did. A paragraph joking about Zippy is more interesting than the team at this point. Makes me sad typing that. Want a better write up? Have a more interesting team.

NICE!!!!Here are some quotes you may enjoy.

UofA is a better school than X, Mount, Oberlin, John Carrol. Case and Carnegie Mellon are on par in many areas. CMU generates good engineers, but so does UofA. UofA is a very, very good engineering school. Case has a good business school, but I think the top students at UofA business school could compete at the same level as the top kids at Case.It isn't about how smart you are going in, it's about how smart you are coming out.

I'm probably not smarter than everyone else, but I'm smarter than you.

Excellent question. Here is what you are missing. Lots of people fall for this con so please don't feel bad. Most of these schools quality is based upon how difficult it is to get in. Granted, Akron is a public school and they have to let a lot of people in so things like average SAT scores and GPAs are lower. What they don't measure is what is in the head of a person when they graduate. I'd take the knowledge in the head of a UofA graduate upon graduation rather than a graduate of Kenyon College any day of the week. The kid from UofA will be better adjusted, smarter and more worldly than some spoiled kid from one of those small colleges. A kid from a small college is likely to spend his summer in Europe "traveling"....spare me. A kid from UofA is likely to spend his summer working or doing a co-op or an internship. A kid from UofA knows how to work when he/she gets out of school.There is a lot more to college than a comparison of SAT scores. I'll match both of my degrees, what I know and what I can do against any douchebag from one of these small schools. I fart in their general direction.

Please name a college at Mt. Union that is better than what UofA offers.The truth is and with the exception of the Ivy League, kids of average ability go to small liberal arts schools so they can be pampered by the low student/faculty ratio. Kids who want to compete at a higher level attend a larger institution with publishing professors who challenge the students with current information and are challenged by the other students. With the exception of Can't, I can't think of a single Ohio MAC school that Mt. Union would be better than.