GP1

Please tell me this didn't actually happen....

I don't think we could be less competitive, but we could be as competitive....God help us if we are. In order to be less, we would have to lose to two I-AA teams, lose by 40+ and lose the wagon wheel again. Can things get worse?.......Of course they can. Will they?.......Wait and see. Both intellectually and emotionally, I still find it hard to believe we won't win a game this season. We have two games we should win and every MAC game is a chance for a win. I think the Zips can win two by the end of the year. Winning two would be a great step forward in our building process.

If the ACC decided to expand, Temple would be a logical choice. The BE should tell Nova to take the deal or leave it. Where else are they going to go?

What a great spoof!!!!!

That Michael Jordan really sucked. I think your love of James has made you insane. I guess the biggest difference between Jordan and James is as follows. Jordan is admired by almost all basketball fans for his accomplishments....it takes more than one hand to wear his championship rings. Jordan produced heroic efforts in the championship series more than once on his way to his championships. Jordan was the team leader. He is still loved by fans today...note that he can still sell shoes after all these years. Contrast that with LBJ who has won nothing and revealed himself as a choke artist in the playoffs thus far is not impressive. James is not a leader and is looking to win a ring on Wade's back. James is a great player, but not a champion. Many think this will be the year he gets his ring.....I think there is a guy in Los Angeles who will have something to say about that. The Nike silhouette of Jordan flying through the air is know throughout the world even today. I wonder what the LBJ silhouette would be....have at it LBJ haters.

Voters aren't that smart either. I think the heat is melting some brains in SC. Sounds like an easy way to get reelected, make sure you run against a homeless guy who can hardly speak. You like watching train wrecks GP1, hopefully this guy agrees to some debates. I had the chance to vote for Senate in SC and voted for Green. I knew he wasn't going to win and as long as I had a vote to waste, why not. My thinking was since I believe Washington is full of retards, I my as well vote for a real one. Made sense at the time and the logic still holds.

Now that's a darn good fan board post.

With the exception of soccer, we would get demolished in the BE.

Nice touch....of course the guy is the Messiah, he's from Ohio. That's all it takes to be a good coach (two of our three D-1A coaches were from Ohio).

I have a funny feeling about the Zips too.....sort of how I feel right before I throw-up. Seriously, it's the MAC. We can win this game.

Terminating a coach after one season is a pretty drastic step to take. I don't want to turn UofA into the Cleveland Browns. One more year if he only wins one won't make the program any worse than it is right now.

Give the man some more time. "Time" meaning till the end of the season to see if we win a game or not.

Good post. A lot of how good of a coach you are depends on the players on your team. Better players = good coach. Poor players = bad coach. If players didn't matter, people wouldn't care about recruiting. Vince Lombardi won 75% of his games in Green Bay and only 58% of his games in Washington. Same guy, worse records. Good coach or bad coach? Maybe it was the players. I've said before, my objection to Coach I is philosophical. I don't believe his style of play is conducive to winning in college football in 2010. I'm sure the guy knows a heck of a lot about football and probably more than 99% of the posters on this board. The Zips didn't need a guy to come in an go on a five year "building process". We've had enough of that. We needed and still need a guy to win asap. If the Zips don't get things turned around quickly, that stadium sitting on Brown Street is going to be as empty as a Sunday evening church service on Super Bowl Sunday. If they go 0-12, I think they should fire him not because he doesn't know anything about football, but because a guy who goes 0-12 can never get the program turned around because he will be crippled by the 0-12 record. Fans will walk away. Recruits who want to come to an 0-12 program will be slim....good players want to play at winning programs. As bad as the MAC is, I still hold out hope that we can win at least ONE game. It really isn't unreasonable in the MAC.

Pretty flawed argument, GP1, when you consider who the Zips hired as their last three coaches. Faust was retirement age and had already been at ND. Owens...well, whoever thought it was a good idea to hire a HS coach got what they deserved. Brookhart?....good heavens, his credentials were about as poor as Ianello's. And Ianello?....no one will come headhunting for him either. That speaks more to the flawed UA selection process. The right man could come in to this market and awaken a sleeping giant. You really think RI is that man? Fickell would've connected with people from Day 1. Do I think RI is the man? Hell no! IF this team goes 0-12, he should be fired, along with the AD who hired him, at the end of the year. Other than being from Ohio (I'm not sure why that matters), what would make him a great coach? He was a defensive coach at UofA during the Owens years....Remember how the defenses played during those years? Did anyone ever think we get the quality of coaches we get because it is all we can get? Why is UofA an attractive position? Why would a guy like LF come to UofA?

This is as close as I could get to an article stating LF had any real interest in the job at UofA. It only says he was a candidate. This could mean anything. The interesting thing is it is in an article about tOSU coaches getting raises. Was he interested in UofA, or was he interested in getting a pay increase? $100K difference between assistant coach at tOSU and head coach at UofA. What would you do? UofA has yet to produce a coach that goes up the ladder after UofA, earning it the Great GP1 name of "The Graveyard of Coaches". I would have done exactly what he did.

Good post. This is the best part. ND just isn't bad, they are terrible and void of any talent. Navy has better talent....NAVY. I watched Wake almost beat Navy this season and Wake is terrible. Getting back to a question I asked earlier. What evidence is there that LF is even interested in the program beyond the fact that he has a connection to UofA through his professional career? I'm sure he would like to see the Zips do well because he coached at UofA, but is there any REAL evidence he showed a level of interest beyond just a passing glance? Someone please provide that evidence.

I agree it is a disgrace and embarrassment. I demand an explanation.... What evidence is there that this guy wanted the job?

There is no great anything on this team. However, there is a lot of "good enough"....good enough not to go winless.

We have basically the same level of talent that won three games last year. They shouldn't go winless.

This rumor is false.

I can't. I also don't remember who was looking for coaches last season. The real question is, "Who else was interested?" There are always discussion on this board about who we should hire. The more important question is, "Who is interested?" Hire Bowden?....What if he isn't interested? etc. Despite there being twenty-two FBS schools looking for a new coach after last season, only two were interested in Ianello: Akron and San Jose State. I didn't state the questions clearly enough. I should have said, "Who else was interested in Akron?" I know because of confidentiality reasons they can't say, I'd like to know who else was interested or even who else was contacted to see if they were interested. You can only hire someone who wants to be hired.

You guys aren't going to believe this, but I have a button on my frige....

If you limit it to the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB then it is probably true. However, basketball is played in many countries that have professional leagues other than the NBA and those leagues are very popular. The interest in the NBA in China, the fastest growing economic market and largest population, is huge. Let's see where soccer is in a few years. My guess is basketball will give it a run for its money.

You are not looking at everything. Compare TV ratings in each and it tells the real story. Soccer is a niche sport that not many people like, but those who do like it really like it and have the money to go to games. I'm sure millions of US viewers watched "Some of the World Cup". I did and I hated every minute of it. We watch it not because we like it, it's because it was forced down our throats like the Little League World Series and the WNBA are forced down our throats. MLS can out draw NBA and NHL because it has bigger stadiums and fewer games. Did MLS even break 2.0 million fans last year? The NHL will be played in an NFL stadium this year and there will be 60,000+ fans watching it. What that tells me is if the NHL had as few games as MLS and played in bigger stadiums, they would average more than MLS.....same for the NBA. Please stop with how popular soccer is in the US. My entire life, I have had to listen to how soccer is becoming more popular and it is still a niche sport played by kids who couldn't make the baseball, football or basketball teams. It is also painfully boring to watch and Americans won't put up with that.

Obsession is a bad thing. But if it makes you feel better about yourself, so be it. Maybe you should check SOS at the end of the year. I doubt you will post it then. Do you think they will rise into the top 70?