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I find myself scratching my bald head as well. I only hold out hope and try to find reasons for hope. Miami turned things around in two years, but I don't know where their classes were talent wise. Could the guy at Miami coach or did he just have underrated recruiting classes?...I don't know. What I do know is with all we have we cannot seem to get any momentum and some of our better sports teams are losing momentum. Something seems wrong in Zipsland.

What hard working team do they support that doesn't win? No one's expecting them to got 13-0 and win the MAC. They don't have to a pull a soccer team and win national titles, but like the 03-05 teams people came to see them. Yes they won more than they lost, but I wouldn't exactly call a winner, except for 05 of course. If the athletic department is willing to give away tickets to the games the way they were in those years, I'm sure you are right and people will turn out. I don't want to have to give away tickets to games. If we are back to giving away tickets, we have done absolutely nothing during our 20 year "building process". The athletic department functions on money and it needs a lot of it to just break even. Winning a lot is the only way they will be able to get people to BUY tickets. There is support for a team, and then there is meaningful support. Freeloaders are not providing meaningful support.

What hard working team do they support that doesn't win?

Article Say what you want about the off the field problems during the Faust years, but at least we waited to get on campus before being arrested. Tressel now has guys getting arrested on signing day. Well done Jim. OSU should do everyone at the Columbus Police Department a favor and fingerprint all recruits on their recruiting visit to save the CPD some time after arrests.

Let's see how they all do and may the best man win...and then let's get the program winning.

Here are my thoughts on this recruiting class......I could really give a crap. I don't care where these guys came from, how many stars they had by their name on some internet recruiting blog, what their grades were or anything else for that matter. I've suffered through almost 25 years of horrible football at UofA. We need to start winning ASAP. If this is the class that gets the winning going, then God bless them. I'm more interested in what they do on the field rather than what they look like on the internet. This program needs to start WINNING!

Interesting pieces and topic. The kid has talent and wins....that's what we need. Has he grown up?....maybe....he has had a lot of reality dumped on him the past couple of years. Reality is sobering. Here is my prediction. He came to Akron because he believes he can START next year. The QB job is open for the taking and I don't think CoachI has a favorite on the team. If he is the starter, it will be good for the Zips. We need winners on the field. 21 more winners would be even better. If he doesn't start, we will be reading stories about him at his fourth school in four years next year.

The donor is almost completely to blame. Should the AD have stroked his ego? I don't know. The AD has a job to do and he has to live with that job and the results of his decisions. His decisions involve a lot more than just the ego of one man. I'm sure the blowhard who wrote the letter doesn't think about UCONN athletics all day. The AD does. Whenever I think about guys like this donor, I think about the readings from Ash Wednesday: Jesus said, "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." We have too many people in this world who are impressed by themselves and their actions. It's too bad.

Wasn't this reported on zno a couple of months ago?

This is like LBJ leaving the Cavs. There was a right way and a wrong way to do it. The letter was clearly the wrong way to do it. According to DIG, there is insufficient data. How much more do you need? A tree worth of paper was used to print the letter. I think the donor expressed himself pretty clearly. He wanted this to become public as he copied everyone except the governor's bathroom attendant. Unless he is a complete moron, he had to have known this was going to make the internet. The personal attacks toward the AD were over the top as well. If he had a problem he should have picked up the phone and chewed him a new a-hole if that is what he wanted to do. It takes more guts to chew someone out in person than it does to write a letter. The letter was gutless. If he doesn't want to donate further, it is his right to do so. The next time this guy donates money, he should think about whether the donation is for him or the people it is supposed to help. The ex-player puts a good spin on what college athletes really think, or how they don't even think, about the big donors at a school. It is funny to see one admit that is the case; especially when it was directed at this Burton guy so soon after the letter. There are some ideas I have always lived by. There is always someone better looking. There is always someone smarter. There is always someone richer. So don't worry about those things. There are some extremely rich people in CT. Somewhere, someone out there in CT is going to donate a bunch of money to the school just to stick it up this guy's ass. Somewhere in CT there is someone richer than Burton and would like nothing more to make a fool of him in public. We will know that someone before next football season.

Buffett falls off stage Video. Get well soon Jimmy. I have tickets for your Charlotte show in March or April or something.

Maybe someone posted this already. If so, sorry for doing it again. NIU has a player worthy of 5 NBA scouts coming out and only had 771 people at the game. That's just terrible.

This story is very interesting. Read both the letter and the response by the UCONN player and tell us who the better person is. My vote is the donor is the a-hole of a child and the former player is the better person.

[quote name='Dr Z' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:44 AM' post='135042' Steelers DB's held Jets receivers Santonio Holmes and Braylon Edwards to only four catches in a Championship game with a hobbled and somewhat ineffective Polamalu. My biggest concern about the Super Bowl is Rogers playing in a dome on a fake field. Lots of good passing games have trouble in cold weather and last weekend was an example. The Steelers, Packers, Bears and Jets all have better passing attacks than what they showed last Sunday. The last time the Steelers played the Packers, Rogers had something like 360 passing yards. If he does that next weekend, they beat the Steelers going away. The Steelers defense is too old to be on the field very long getting exhausted by a good passing attack. They were really tired at the end of the game last week and I was worried that if Ben doesn't pass for a first down, NY would have marched down the field on them and scored. However, Ben being the winner he is didn't let that happen. I have no "feel" for this game which makes me really excited. It isn't very often that the outcome of an NFL game isn't realtively predictable. Anything can happen next week. It's going to be fun.

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.