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Fantastic point!!! My concern isn't even with editorial control. It's with control in general. This is a little issue because it is hard to control a 20 year old with access to a scoreboard. The dance team song was a much bigger issue as it takes weeks to prepare for that. How many other little things are going on that add up to a big issue? The only outside of the school information on the scoreboard or videoboard should be "Scores From Around The MAC". If they want to show video of highlights from other MAC games happening that day as a new service to the fans, then that is fine. Other than that, make it about the Zips only.

I agree. Roger Staubach was another. The one question that convinces me a player could play in any era is, "What does Modern Player X do better than Past Player Y." So the question then becomes, What do Brady, Manning, Rogers or Roethlisberger do better than Staubach? Staubach could do it all. He could throw deep. He had nice touch on short passes. He could move and run fast. He was a smart guy who graduated from the Naval Academy and understood the most complicated offense of his day. He could easily understand and function in a modern offense today. He won...a lot in a very tough division at the time. He won Super Bowls. Because of that, Staubach is probably the best QB in history. I'm a die hard Steelers fan, but if a few plays go differently, the Cowboys are the team of the 70s and not the Steelers.

It's interesting to watch how the rule changes have allowed young receivers to come into the league and immediately make an impact. It used to be that a WR didn't develop into a good player for a couple of years because he wasn't physically developed enough to get off of the line. Back in the day, teams only had one good WR and you could put a physical guy like Mel Blount on him and he would physically dominate the guy to the point the WR couldn't do anything. When people talk about the great Steelers defenses of the 70s, they always talk about Joe Green and Jack Lambert. Many were great players, but Blount was the most important of them all. If you couldn't pass, the Steelers were waiting for your running game with a great front seven. Today, a teams draft guys like Brown, Sanders and Wallace who are fast as can be and skinny as a rail. Since you can't touch them, they are free to use their speed to catch balls downfield. It makes for a much more exciting game.

Two weeks from the Super Bowl, or as my fellow Steelers fans call it, Week 21. I think this is going to be a great game with each team having as good of a chance as the other to win. The winner will win in an unpredictable way, but not in a cheap way. 2-3 plays will decide this close game. Obviously, I believe that team will be the Steelers as they have a team of guys who have been there before. The Steelers just find a way to get it done. If GB wins, it will be the coming out party for Rogers like we saw Montana have when "The Catch" was made many years ago now...sort of a transition in team power within the highest levels of the NFL. I think Rogers is a very good player who can run, throw from the pocket and throw on the run. Very dangerous and a good leader. A guy like Rogers can tire an aged defense like the Steelers very easily. The two weeks off is more important for the Steelers than the Packers in that respect. Lots of MAC storylines from with Ben Roethlisberger being the biggest MAC story in the Super Bowl this year. It should be a fun couple of weeks. Enjoy the run-up to Week 21.

Charlie Coles. Multiple MAC Championships (one against KD). Coles does more with less and isn't scared to put his team up against top level teams. We do less with more and don't play anyone. This needs to turn around. The rabbit is behind the liner in the hat..... That all sounds nice, but since KD has been coach of the Zips, CC has one MAC title & exactly ZERO post season wins. It's not as clear cut as you'd like us to believe. Both are good coaches. It is when it matters. There are three types of people who watch a magician. The first type of person, someone like the Great GP1, understands it is a magic show and is very skeptical of what he sees. The second person, Capt. Kangaroo and DrZ are quietly good examples of this person, enjoy they show yet over time grow wooly ove what they see. The third person, Zip Watcher, believes the magician has supernatural powers and the tricks are real. I'd rather be like DrZ and CK, but since I can't, I'm happy realizing the guy pulling the rabbit out of the hat isn't all he is cracked up to be.

If UCLA does not make a leap forward next year, Mike will be one and done at this job too.

Charlie Coles. Multiple MAC Championships (one against KD). Coles does more with less and isn't scared to put his team up against top level teams. We do less with more and don't play anyone. This needs to turn around. The rabbit is behind the liner in the hat.....

Or that we rarely play great opponents in back-to-back games. Think of our usual OOC schedules and our weak conference. Oh OK, KD deserves no praise at all. Get real. He deserves praise, but the point RFR44 makes is valid. Maybe he doesn't word it in a way that softens his opinion, but it is still a valid point. Early in his career, KD stated that he was not going to play a lot of high level teams because he wanted to create a culture of winning. It worked and he deserves praise for that. Several 20 win seasons based upon an easy schedule KD designed were completed. The Zips were used to winning and went deep into the MAC Tournament and won one (although they should have won more). That's just a fact. The flip side of that is some fans may not look at that as a great accomplishment, but a good accomplishment and want something more. The Zips are still playing an OOC schedule that causes people to question when the "building process" will come to an end and when the next level will be achieved. How about another MAC Championship or even two in a row? If Can't can do it, we can do it. Coach D is a good coach and this is still a good program. He isn't a great coach and really isn't the best coach in the MAC. He isn't even the best college basketball coach in NE Ohio as that position belongs to the coach at CSU. There is still some illusion associated with this program in terms of the 20 win seasons and fans are realizing that. Zips fans are looking for substance at this point and not illusion. Watch a magician enough times, and you figure out the illusions. Zips fans have seen this act before and they are growing tired. When fans start to look behind the curtain, it becomes hard on a coach. The Zips have a high school All American who is developing slowly and that is unacceptable as players like him don't come along very often. The Zips gave the boot to some playes after last season. When you give the boot to someone, whether in business or sports, you are saying you can find someone better...Are the Zips better this season? The Zips are losing the same way over and over again. Beating BG would be a good dose of substance fans are looking for. If substance is not created, we have to rely on faith in the "building process". I've had enough building watching Zips sports to last a lifetime and I want some substance.

YOU SUCK!!!!! I was just about to write the same thing.

Want to drive the big schools out of the NCAA and have them start their own league? That is exactly what would happen if they did this. I don't want to "hurt" any school for spending years being successful. There is an old saying that if you took all of the money in the world and divided it equally, at some point, the rich would figure out how to be rich again. If you divided all of the schedules equally, the non-BCS schools would find a way to screw it up and the big schools would still have a money advantage.

Or, they can create their own division between D-1A and I-AA. I think it would make a good division.

What makes the Steelers a great defense is they don't give up the big play and they play better as the game moves forward. They do the same thing on offense. They had 20 TDs scored on them this year and 26 FGs. In the modern game, I'll give up fieldgoals all afternoon. You are right, 12th isn't all that great for a pass defense. Teams move the ball on the Steelers through the air. I'm OK with that part of it because it is a passing league now and teams are good at moving the ball some. The Steelers don't give up a lot of TDs and they force fieldgoals when/if teams get in the red zone. The 60 yards per game on the ground does not matter as it is no longer a running league. In the end, all the Steelers defense has to do is keep the team in the game so Ben can win it in the end. I have a good feeling about this week. NY playing their third game on the road in a row on the road.....

I understand you are kidding on some level. Zips fans have high expectations because in recent years we have seen the program play better and win the MAC Tournament. I don't believe a program can be judged by one year, but you have to look at a three year trend and then decide on the range you believe the Zips are perfoming in. I believe the Zips are still performing in the "good" range (good-average-poor are my groups) over the past three years with this year as one of those three years. Capt. Kangaroo made a good point that the Zips should still go 10-6 in the MAC. I agree. If they do, they are still in the good range. Keep this in mind though. 10-6 is dangerously close to 9-7 or worse yet 8-8. At that point it becomes an average season. Another season like that next year and the program goes from good to average. When a program moves from good to average or average to poor, serious questions have to be asked about every aspect of the program. I for one will be rooting for the Zips to win every game to keep us in that good range. "Coachers" are the worst type of fans and I hate to see them on this board. The Zips players can keep the coachers off of this board by performing better for their coach.

This is why it is being called. I saw something on TV about the crackdown of elbows. If I remember right, the elbow can not be above the shoulder or something like that. Then how does one grab a rebound or shoot or dunk or defend over the head passes or...? I have no idea. It's just what I saw on TV.

This is why it is being called. I saw something on TV about the crackdown of elbows. If I remember right, the elbow can not be above the shoulder or something like that.

They are saying all of those things. I can handle that. However, can a guy get a break from it for a couple of hours to watch a basketball game?

I'm sure KD has no problems communicating his expectations to the players. Even though more than 10 guys dress for a game, there are probably only 9-10 who actually belong on the court at this point. Playing walk-ons is not how games are won. It sounds as if they tried to do things differently. The defense KD deploys is good for the MAC. Most nights in the MAC, if you force the other team to take shots from the outside, you are going to win because there aren't very many good shooting teams. Periodically, you are going to run into a team that shoots well like OU did and you will struggle. It doesn't mean you can't win, it just means you will struggle. At the end of the day, even the kids need to understand (and they probably do) this is not the best avenue for them winning, but they have to play better. When any of us go to a game, we aren't guaranteed winning. We should be guaranteed good effort. I heard an ex-NFL guy once say, "I didn't always do my best, but I always gave my best effort." If the Zips played their best against OU and still lost, credit OU's players. The other team is allowed to play good too.

Dear GoZips.com, The schedule section of your site reads wrong. The OU game was not 79-70 (W). Change the W to an L. Make check payable to "The Great GP1" and send it in the mail. Cheers, The Great GP1

+1 I'm the first one to blame poor performance on players. At the end of the day, they are the people on the court who matter the most. He also shouldn't blame them in public. He has been doing it ever since he became head coach. It's one of those personality traits about KD that I find unappealing and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The one hing KD needs to understand is he can take all of the blame all of the time. The soccer coach and KD are untouchable. Just take the blame KD, you are the one who brought the players here and you are the highest paid coach in the Athletic Department. Make them better. It's your job.

I really don't care for bitters in my drinks....

There's an old saying. "You make hay when the sun is up." This guy may never get this chance again and he is going to cash in. I'm not saying it is right or wrong, but the sun is up for this guy.

In football, Stanford normallyis to the Pac10 what Northwestern is to the Big Ten, what Vandy is to the SEC, what Baylor is to the Big 12 and what Wake/Duke are to the ACC and what Columbia is to the Ivy League (I have no idea where I pulled that last one out of). At times they get good, but most of the time they are average at best. I guess on some leve I respect them, but I wouldn't be stupid enough to be a season ticket holder to one of the......wait a minute, I am a season ticket holder to one of them.

Maybe they look at the rosters of the schools in the south and figure they won't get on the field. If you are good enough to be offered a scholarship to an SEC school, you are probably more likely to get on the field sooner at a Big Ten school. Kids want to play. The same kid might sit on the bench for a couple years in the SEC and then get bounced because of oversigning. One point about the SEC that nobody has made. This is going to come off as mean, but here it goes. You can be a near retard and get a scholarship to an SEC school if you are a good football player.

Good point. ESPN recently did an Outside the Lines story on this. There are a few legal cases pending pertaining to oversigning that will prove to be very interesting.

Where to start..... First of all, I don't blame anyone for complaining. I'm not exactly a guy easily offended, but our society is already so vulgar I would like to think that someone going to a basketball game for two hours would be a nice break from the vulgarity. I guess UofA can't even spare a guy that. Secondly, the note above. Is this guy the boss of the Athletic Department or not? If not, who is? If so, this guy is asleep at the wheel. His response should be as follows..."I also find the music offensive and I have addressed this matter with my staff in charge of the Dance Team. This music will not be played at the next game. I apologize for this matter happening." This guy is such an absolute joke I don't even know where to start.