GP1

Nice subtle confidence, if the Zips end up as a 14, they can go to DC (please, please, please), Chicago, Tampa or Tucson. 15 seed would mean Charlotte, Tulsa or Denver. I hope it's Charlotte. I already have tickets for next weekend.

Do you guys think the NCAA will ship Akron off to the west coast again for their first round game after they win tonight?

I have a real good feeling about tonight. But then again, I always have a real good feeling when the Zips make the finals. Tonight is going to be a great basketball game.

To what end? MAC officials have always been terrible and you can send e-mails till you are blue in the fingers and it isn't going to change anything.

The consistency of the team hasn't been what it has been in the past.

It used to be that in our society, when a person was caught doing something wrong and it impacted those within his organization, the person did the dignified thing and resigned from their position. Today, you hire a lawyer and play the public relations game even when you are wrong. The truth is, Reno probably couldn't buy much with his check or could go out and get a job a Home Depot making about the same amount of money. There is a bid difference between that and the millions Tressel is making. Reno did the dignified thing. Tressel is playing the same scumbag game he has been playing for ten+ years now. There is a huge difference between what Reno did and what Tressel did. Reno didn't carry on a lie to save a football season or worse yet, his own ass like Tressel did. Reno also didn't have a potential National Championship season on the line...it's a bit easier to walk away from Akron's situation. Reno also never owned up to his wrongdoing, resigning instead. I guess it depends on perception...and on a forum full of anti-OSU sentiment, I know I'm not winning there lol. Let me get this straight. You are saying it is OK to lie to the president of tOSU, your direct supervisor (the AD) AND the NCAA if you have a potential national championship season ahead of you? On what planet is this OK? It has nothing to do with tOSU. At any other school, in any other job, these actions would get an employee fired. Only at tOSU could this go on. The SEC has nothing on tOSU. Reno took more risk. He gave up a low paying job for no money. What would Tressel give up?....He already has millions. Resigning from tOSU wouldn't hurt Tressel. To quote or paraphrase: 'If you ain't lyin' you ain't tryin'... I think it's, "IF you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'" Tressel was cheating to win. However, when caught, he should have just admitted he cheated in lieu of telling a fib.

I hope you were typing this from some high ground. The earthquake in Japan may create a wave in your neck of the woods you don't want to surf on....

My wife and I talked about the same thing last night. When a team has a big lead, you have to expect the other team to come out swinging like crazy in the second half. It happens in the NBA all the time. The key is to keep your composure and weather the storm. The game may have gone into OT, but it looks like the Zips did just that. All you have to do is win and it doesn't matter how you do it. I'm sure that game was well worth the price of admission for anyone at the game last night. The last time the Zips won the MAC, they did it in a season when they shouldn't have. I have a feeling this may be one of those years. The Great GP1 guarantees a win tonight (don't ask me about Saturday yet) for the Zips. Take it to the bank. I feel as confident about the Zips winning tonight as I did yesterday late in regulation.

Reminds me of VCU the other night. Didn't see VCU. Even when Miami was coming back, I had total confidence the Zips would win. Being down 28-10 or whatever the halftime score was is extremely difficult to come back from. It's like being down 1-0 at half of a soccer game...the mountain of point is too hard to close the gap on.

Today was a good example of how hard it is to come back from being behind by a ton AND win. A team can come back, but it is physically and mentally exhausting to do so.

I do. I'll say it again, the Zips WILL win.

Akron WILL win.

Let's just hope it isn't their own blood they are smelling.

Akron is equally matched against every team remaining. In a game between two equally matched teams, one team is more likely to blow the game than the other team winning (See Steelers vs. Packers). ZW is right. Not making mistakes is the key. Playing hard and not making mistakes puts pressure on the other team to perform. Pressure makes college kids stumble, especially in the MAC. Just don't make mistakes and they Zips go dancing. Make mistakes and the Zips go home. It's that simple. It's up the the players on the court at this point.

Reno and Tressel are not the same. Reno is a guy who committed a minor offense and resigned in lieu of harming his organization. Tressel is a liar, cheat and a phony because he lied to his boss about a major NCAA violation, cheated by having players on the field who shouldn't have been there and a phony because he falsely portrays the image he is a clean cut guy. The differences between these two people are vastly different. One is a good man, the other is a liar, cheat and a phony.

Thank you for your terrible advice.

It used to be that in our society, when a person was caught doing something wrong and it impacted those within his organization, the person did the dignified thing and resigned from their position. Today, you hire a lawyer and play the public relations game even when you are wrong. The truth is, Reno probably couldn't buy much with his check or could go out and get a job a Home Depot making about the same amount of money. There is a bid difference between that and the millions Tressel is making. Reno did the dignified thing. Tressel is playing the same scumbag game he has been playing for ten+ years now. There is a huge difference between what Reno did and what Tressel did. Reno didn't carry on a lie to save a football season or worse yet, his own ass like Tressel did. Reno also didn't have a potential National Championship season on the line...it's a bit easier to walk away from Akron's situation. Reno also never owned up to his wrongdoing, resigning instead. I guess it depends on perception...and on a forum full of anti-OSU sentiment, I know I'm not winning there lol. Let me get this straight. You are saying it is OK to lie to the president of tOSU, your direct supervisor (the AD) AND the NCAA if you have a potential national championship season ahead of you? On what planet is this OK? It has nothing to do with tOSU. At any other school, in any other job, these actions would get an employee fired. Only at tOSU could this go on. The SEC has nothing on tOSU. Reno took more risk. He gave up a low paying job for no money. What would Tressel give up?....He already has millions. Resigning from tOSU wouldn't hurt Tressel.

It used to be that in our society, when a person was caught doing something wrong and it impacted those within his organization, the person did the dignified thing and resigned from their position. Today, you hire a lawyer and play the public relations game even when you are wrong. The truth is, Reno probably couldn't buy much with his check or could go out and get a job a Home Depot making about the same amount of money. There is a bid difference between that and the millions Tressel is making. Reno did the dignified thing. Tressel is playing the same scumbag game he has been playing for ten+ years now. There is a huge difference between what Reno did and what Tressel did. Reno didn't carry on a lie to save a football season or worse yet, his own ass like Tressel did.

This guy was the lawyer sending notest to Tressel. If it was Paul Cicero, nobody would have found out. Interesting theme in all of these stories....There is mention of this guy being suspended for something. Isn't it funny that stories involving even people around Tressel have the word "suspended" in them? The funny thing about Tressel is this....You can take the boy out of Youngstown, but you can't take the Youngstown out of the boy. While he didn't grow up there, he picked up a lot of stench.

Since reporters don't actually investigate anything anymore in sports, I would say yes. It's OK to jut admit I was right.

Last April...... At a minimum, the following should happen to tOSU: 1. In ADDITION to the two game suspension, Liar, Liar pants on fire Tressel should be suspended by the Big Ten for five Big Ten games. 2. tOSU should have to forfeit all games in the 2010 Big Ten season for playing not one....not two....not three, but SIX ineligible players during the season. 3. Split equally among all Big Ten programs all BCS money earned from the Sugar Bowl. 4. Probation from bowls for at least one year. If the NCAA does not step in, this will reflect terribly on them. It will tell every coach and school it is OK to lie in an investigation AND continue to lie even when found out. What tOSU needs to do is fire Tressel, because it is going to get worse. ESPN hasn't moved on to another story so there must still be something out there. We have had this talk already this week. The Steelers fans believed they couldn't live without Cowher and they were able to replace him with a better coach. No tOSU fan should think for a single second Tressel can't be replaced. Everyone is replaceable. There is always someone out there smarter, with more money and better looking. tOSU is a football factory and the factory can run with or without Tressel.

I was the one who said it was great reporting....and I was right. Care to respond? Yep, I do. He cited one anonymous source (the cardinal rule of reporting is you have at least two), didn't tell the whole story (like including the actual evidence), and only gave Ohio State/Tressel three HOURS to respond to the report before being published. Bush. League. He had the biggest story since the steroid baseball stories 100% on the money. That was major league reporting.

I was the one who said it was great reporting....and I was right. Care to respond?

Holy cow is that a good article. I'm shocked someone from Ohio wrote it. Read the comments...OSU fans are killing the guy for telling the truth.

It isn't a court of law and Constitutional protections don't apply. There is a difference between an annonymous source in a basketball player deciding to move to Miami and say someone who might work in a US Attorney office. I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of the folks from the US Attorneys office in this case. Someone there knows something. It all starts with a report than unfolds. The author made a good point that Yahoo states it as fact and not an allegation. I wonder if Tressel is going go say the now famous words, "I did not have relations with that woman,"....sorry, wrong cover-up.