GP1

Of those on the list, Dwight Smith is the best. He could do it all. Ints., blocked kicks, returned kicks and played offense. Single handedly won games. Chase Blackburn was a better player than both Frye and Hixon.

I guess it would be fair to say that is ONE reason. The main reason we don't draw fans is our team has been so bad, nobody can stand to go watch them lose time and again. If Tressel came to town and lost at the rate we have been losing the past 20+ years, nobody would come to the games.

Interesting thought ZW. I'd think Tournament MVP goes to the best player that weekend and normally to a guy on the winning team. If Miami doesn't make a miracle shot, we have another Tournament MVP, etc. The season MVP goes to a guy who displays excellence over an entire season. Of the three above, Marshall has the most potential to be the best all time. Next year needs to be the break-out year. He needs to average 15+ points per game and 8+ blocked shots per game the next two years to be considered one of the all time greats. I don't think it's asking too much for a high school all American, seven foot tall and a one day four year letterman to average 15+ points per game in the MAC in his junior and senior seasons. In fact, that production should be easy to get.

I'd love to know how long that 30 day tag has been on that car.

Great questions. I like guys who are good leaders and help the team succeed in spite of maybe not having the best athletic ability (see how much I like Brett Biggs in football). For basketball, this guy was Dru J. Too small, too skinny, to slow, not a great shooter, but he won and was invaluable to his coach. I know he isn't the greatest player ever, but he deserves a mention in this topic. No Marcel Boyce? ZipsWin! is going to have something to say about that.

That was yesterday at a players only meeting according to fox Cowlumbus. Nissan 350z My bad. ESPN is reporting it like they broke the story...like they always do (read God Save The Fan to learn more).

Instead of agreeing, you should slap them in the face and call them a bunch of bitches.

I would never say something like this. Teams get enough practice. We need to make more shots when they are presented to score more. It's about team performance during a game.

ESPN is reporting Pryor showed up to tOSU football complex today in a new car with a temp tag on it. Either he isn't coming back to school, or he is the most stupid person in the world. Listen and listen good. That tat shop is going to be baby poop compared to the car dealership issues that are still waiting to be examined.

Worse than we sabotage our own program? This is unrelated to zen's post, but a guy who wrote an article for SI yesterday was asked if it is possible to win at the highest levels of college football without cheating, and he said no. Even Boise State of all schools was hit with NCAA penalties this year for problems there. I think on a lot of levels he is right. The NCAA is out of control to the point they can't get it back under control. They need change and fast. tOSU was too good for too long not to be cheating.

Do you guys think if I wrote an article about Tressel titled, "Stupid Guy Gets Caught Doing Something Stupid" it would get published? Am I the only one who thinks the guy is really stupid to have something this bad happen and try to cover it up?

Me too. It just goes to show, most people want it one way, but it's normally the other way.

The narcotics staff at Akron PD isn't large enough to handle the volume.

Why can't you believe it? When Tressel was at YSU, the same thing was going on the AD had no idea.......What?.....He what?.....Really?.......OK, Tressel was the AD at YSU when his problems happened there as well. Where was the compliance department? Probably filling out NCAA forms that have nothing to do with compliance. The life of a compliance officer is similar to that of a guy who works middle management at a large company for 40 years. On his last day, he is given a golden eagle (frequently called giving him the bird) and he is sent on his way. 40 years for nothing. That's the life of a compliance officer.

I had no idea Andy Staples was Captain Kangaroo. Article

You're not kidding. And hope is going to get squashed by the NCAA.

That's a lot of people gambling. I think it is more related to community support and actually asking for community support.

WARNING: The above statement is an example of the "building" mentality killing the Zips. We have been investing. There are no results. If there is football, they won't try? Amazing. I guess after waiting 20+ years for something to happen, what would another 20 years be while we wait and see?

There are doing this for one reason, to raise cash! And NO it would not work here on a large scale. Would the Die Hards pay? Of course, but must fans are too cheap to "pay, just to pay" Doing it to raise cash? EXACTLY! That's the purpose of the Marketing Department, Development Staff and the entire reason for selling tickets. If we can't do things like this here at Akron, we don't belong in Division I-A football. I hate to keep bringing up UNCC (I really didn't notice them until my wife pointed out their internet marketing of PSLs), but all they really have (they have other sports that nobody pays attention to) is a basketball team and a I-AA football team that won't be on the field until 2013. This link takes you to their Foundation site. They raised $64,000 in ONE golf outing. It takes us two to reach that dollar limit. They raised $90,000 at a womens lunch. They raised $200,000 at their Gold Rush Auction. We can do things like this, we just don't even try. Step one: Put a winner on the field.

Because any effort spent on getting him to Akron is a waste of time.

I hear this question a lot. It doesn't make a difference or not if it goes on at even one other place. Tressel has a history of breaking the rules. He was caught and lied to his boss and caused his boss to be untruthful to his boss. The culture of corruption he created at tOSU is going to cost that school millions of dollars....including his buyout. I have a relative who is close to the tOSU program and very close to a couple of starters. We talked this morning. The car dealership is a HUGE problem and when that poop hits the fan, it is going to make tatgate look tame. This entire story is just getting going. I wish Dave in Green would report on this real story instead of the uninteresting Auburn/State of Alabama story. There are real dots to be connected in the tOSU story.

sorry Johnny but I can't side with you on this one. he did request to have his suspensions extended to match the players. Maybe he was hoping the extended suspension would cover up his lies.

seriously GP1? someone lost their job today and this is how you're gonna act about it? Yes, he made a mistake, but for the most part he was a stand up individual. Why don't you set your OSU jealousy aside for a little bit and show some class. This is one giant jealousy circus and you sir are the ring leader. You make it sound like he "lost his job" at some factory because of the slow economic times. Just some poor middle class guy who will struggle while he looks for another job. He didn't lose his job, he resigned in disgrace because he built a dirty football program. The depth of how dirty the program was hasn't even been revealed yet. Mistake means one. He ran a dirty program at YSU and continued from day 1 at tOSU starting with MoC, followed by Troy Smith and now Tatgate. Now we all are going to have to listen to how he was a "really good person". Tressel is just another college football coach and is as dirty as the next. There is nothing special about the guy. All the tainted wins aginst Michigan, the national championship, the Big Ten championships don't look so good now. Tressel can go coach a positon in the NFL next year in a second. Guys do it all the time. Cooper went to work as a consultant for the Bengals when he was fired. Tressel could work for a lot of NFL teams next year.

This is how you treat the community and small business owners who could buy tickets to your events. I belong to an organization that has nine meetings a year on various topics in the construction industry. I'm in charge of putting together the dinner presentations next year. After our discussion last week, the idea of having the AD at UNCC speak on the planning of the new stadium. On Saturday morning at 8:46, I sent the note below to the Athletic Director UNCC: Dear Judy, I am writing on behalf of the Charlotte Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute. We are a Professional organization in the construction industry. Our members are the architects, specification writers, contractors and manufacturer's representative that work together to build structures in Charlotte. We are currently planning our membership meetings for the Fall of 2011 and Spring of 2012. At each meeting, we have a dinner presentation relevant to something interesting going on around Charlotte. I believe the development of a football team along with building a new stadium would be of interest to this group. The presentation would be to 40-60 professionals and would last 40-50 minutes leaving time for questions. Would you or someone from your office be interested in speaking to our members about your new football stadium and some of the planning that went on around this new structure? At 9:22, the following note came back: We would be happy to present. I assume you want one of the architects,general contractor and myself. What dates are available and where do you meet? Organizations like I belong to struggle to get speakers to come to dinners. There will be 10 owners of large architectural firms around Charlotte at this one meeting. There will be many people interested in sports and many UNCC graduates of their Architecture Department at the meeting. The AD at UNCC knows how valuable these types of meetings are and will come herself and make her architect and general contractor come as well. She responded in less than 45 minutes. That's how you treat the community. That's how you sell PSLs. That's how you have a successful program two years out from even having a team. She's coming to the meeting herself, not having a low level employee do the speaking. The UofA grad in me even gave here the option of sending an employee of her department thinking she wouldn't do it herself. You guys say it can't be done. I say it can be done. Gaining public support is the most important thing Akron could do right now. We built a new factory (InfoCision Stadium). You have to use the factory to make money or the factory was a waste of money to build. If we could just get that darn team fixed....

Since we never tried, how would we know? UNCC is selling something. They are selling a I-AA football program that doesn't even exist scheduled to play in a bad conference, in a major city that shows little to no interest in any sport other than NASCAR. All they have is a new coach, a new stadium and an AD who is working her ass off to get the program going. If we can't do this type of marketing in Akron, everything I have ever said about UofA not belonging in D-IA is true.