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Yeah, right after I shelled out $6 for 2 cups for my kids. Things like this are little issues though. You probably waste more money than that a week buying soda out of a machine. It's the big things he gets wrong that scares me. What I listed are only football related issues. There are a lot of other sports where I'm sure fans have some issue with a big decision.

I always say that good teams start with good players. Especially the QB. Coaches all know about the same thing so I think they largely get too much credit when things are going well and too much blame when things are going poorly. Let me ask Urban Meyer how important a good QB is. The Great GP1: "Coach Meyer, how important is it for a coach to surround himself with a great QB at the college level?" Urban Meyer: "Excellent question. I'm not surprised that a man with your enormous intellectual ablility would see the ultimate question in football in modern times has a lot to do with the quality of QB. If you have a good one, you are a genious. If you don't, you are an idiot. Just ask any Gator fan...they all think I'm an idiot after this season. I'm the same guy, just with a less talented kid at QB." The Great GP1: "Thank you for your kind words Coach Meyer. I'm probably even smarter than you may think as you don't know me very well. Can you elaborate on your previous answer." Urban Meyer: "For such a gracious host, I'd be glad to. I started my head coaching career in 2001 at BGSU and coached there for two years. During my time, I had a really good QB named Josh Harris. You may remember him...he was one of the all time greats at BGSU. His ability allowed me to move on to Utah where Alex Smith was the QB. You may remember him as a guy good enough to play in the NFL and was one of the top college football players during my time at Utah. When I moved on to Florida, I had Chris Leak as my starting QB. He was a solid player who won us a national championship, but there were better players to follow. You may remember a guy named Tim Tebow. He followed Leak and the rest is history. I became a genious. This season, I have John Brantley. Around this time last season, I started to think about Brantley as my starting QB in 2010 and that is about when I started having panic attacks. As you have seen this year, the panic attacks were warranted. The kid is terrible and every time I look at him I can feel my chest tightening. God I wish I had retired last year when I wanted. Now I look like just another coach." The Great GP1: "Coach Meyer, what will it take for people to think you are a genious again?" Urban Meyer: "Another great QB."

Great post! What people don't understand is "corruption" in college athletics used to be far worse than what it is today.

Care to elaborate? I'd love to and feel free to add your own: 1. Reno non-issue 2. Hiring of CoachI 3. Upsetting loyal fan base prior to football season with parking policy 4. No golf outing 5. Discounting reserved seats is a landmine in my book These are just some of my problems. There are others, but I think these are pretty big missteps for a guy who has had the job for only one year.

Is there a rating system that tells us how accurate these ratings are?

Everything you see here is going on at other programs. It is out of control and there aren't enough babysitters at the big schools to keep track of the players 24/7. It's so bad the NCAA is considering amnesty to any school that comes clean with all of their violations and reports fully on what they know to be true and what rumors are under the surface. The NCAA would not have come down as hard as they did on USC had USC just confessed what they knew and punished themselves somehow. The NCAA needs to allow for payment of players either through the schools or via agents "retainers" paid to players in order to secure that player for when he is a professional. For example, Newton could sign with an agent for whatever money he wants to and he is required to pay back the money out of his professional earnings. A player can only sign with one agent during his time in college. If a player never earns a dime professionally, then the agent is out of money and he took a rish he should not have taken. Any player not signing with an agent receives $200 per month until he signs with an agent. Let the market decide. If a player is worth the money, an agent will sign him, if not, the school can pay them. If hidden money is the problem, get the money out in the open so everyone understands what is going on. Sunlight is the best antiseptic.

Good summary. Your last sentence explains exactly why the NCAA will never issue the "Death Penalty" again. SMU has yet to recover from it. Therer isn't a school in America that could recover from it.

Congrats on a good start to the season. I looked up YSU's schedule and it has been solid with two wins against MAC schools and a heartbreaking loss to the Zips. Can they keep it up is the question....

The Zips are now 1-2 against teams I've actually heard of. They could easily be 0-3 with two L's at home against in state teams. Some of you like to either hide your heads in the sand or create an illusion for yourselves that things aren't that bad and KD will turn it around. Time will tell. This schedule is not the usual cupcake schedule the Zips create for the BB program. They now have four road games in a row and two of those games are against good programs. They need to get some W's or they will be in big trouble going into the MAC season. KD rightly gave the boot to guys at the end of last season and upgraded his roster. I don't care if they are not used to playing together or not, they need to win games and the expectations of the OOC "building process" should be higher. They have a high school All American in his second season. KD has been here for a long time now. They brought in better talent. They should not be losing like they did the other night and teams like YSU should not be allowed to hang around. It's time to turn the heat up on this program.

I heard this comment as it was spoken. At the time of the remark Ian (sp?) was behind me, Jodi Kest was to my left and Keith Dambrot was across the table from me. iCoach was standing behind KD when he uttered that blunt, painful remark. It was a stupid thing to say. There is a bigger point here though. I always say that if there is a landmine out there, TW will step on it. It looks as if the one person in the Athletic Department most closely connected to TW has the same ability to step on landmines. I'll say this again as well. It has been one misstep after another since TW became AD. He's just not up for the job. It is painfully obvious that CoachI is not up for the job as well. Interesting these two are connected so closely. A good thread would be to predict what circumstances will explode the next landmine and what will TW do to blow it up.

That's fine...explain the other 200+ pieces of crap.

Do you use worms or artificial? Normally when I hold my breath back in anticipation, I'm holding it in bated breath. Please tell me you don't have a degree from my university....

When I saw the Zips won yesterday, I had an huge sense of relief come upon me. While I was happy too, there was more relief than happy. I can't tell you guys how big of a disaster going 0-12 would have been for the program. The mental attitude of players, coaches, administrators and fans are crushed after a winless season and it would have been hard to overcome the record. Try recruiting to an 0-12 program. I know 1-11 is terrible and by no means do I think the win yesterday was part of any "building process" the program is going through. We avoided a disaster and should be happy for that today. In reality, they Zips should have never lost to Ball State and GW, but they did and we are what we are. Every other team can turn themselves around quickly and the Zips could do the same thing. Everyone needs to get to work and get this program headed to a winning season next year. Miami did it, we can too.

I don't think it us unreasonable to expect between 4-6 wins out of the team next season. It's the MAC for crying out loud. We should have won at least three this season.

It doesn't matter what the rankings of teams are, it only matters what you do. What if the #2 teams are in fact not very good? tOSU is one of about ten darlings of voters. No matter what they do, they are always going to be highly ranked going into seasons. Schedule four cupcakes and walk through an easy Big Ten during their weekly punting festivals is how tOSU stays near the top. The illusion is much greater than the reality. Don't get me wrong, tOSU has good players and does what they have to do to win games in a bad conference and a cupcake OOC. The winning is what it is. I'm looking forward to tOSU having to play an SEC team this bowl season. It is usually a good reality check for tOSU fans. For me, my dislike for tOSU is has much more to do with their silly fans than the team itself. They produce a lot of really good NFL backup players....there, I said something nice about the players.

What about a guy who predicts the exact score of a game? What if ten guys predict the score exactly? Sometimes things are exactly as they appear.

DrZ.....it's a building process for crying out loud......

There is zero evidence to back this up. I know someone who know him personally and he was never interested in the job. It would be a pay cut. Can't would be a pay cut. Any offer he would have been made would have been countered by tOSU.

What you call apathy, I call sanity. Those people who call up WKNR day after day after day after day to complain about the Browns are actually insane. There is a certain person who loves turning on the radio or TV and hearing negativity (Limbaugh/Olberman type fans). I can't stand it myself and I wish the Zips were good so we could have some positive discussions on this board. Remember how great it was to post on this board when the Zips won the MAC and went to the Motor City Bowl? I'm not even mad at the Zips anymore....I'm just numb to the disaster they have become and in the worst way I want that to change. What keeps me numb is when I look at the leadership of the athletic department and the coach, I don't see the state of the football program changing in the foreseeable future. I really believe we are in big trouble in the next 3-5 years. That isn't negative, it's just me being rational about where we are and where we are going.....I say it without any emotion.

1. He was never REALLY interested in the job. 2. Good assistant coach? Maybe...he's more of a top assistant to an assistant. 3. What makes you think he would be a good head coach? 4. Why would he go to Can't? They might "consider" him, but he isn't considering them.

I with you. The only thing I can hang my hat of hope on now is the fact that the Miamioh coach won one game last year and may very well go to a bowl this season.

This station should call up CK and interview him once a week. I'm sure CK could break away from his desk or lock himself in his office for ten minutes. In other cities, people who own web pages are interviewed on a regular basis. One of my favorite web pages is Mondesishouse which is a Pittsburgh blog. He was a guy who started this blog and received a fan following because he had interesting things to say. He is now interviewed weekly on Pittsburgh sports stations. I'm sure CK knows more about UofA sports than these guys and if they just tossed softballs to him for ten minutes he could fill up the time. It really isn't that hard to do a ten minute interview.

It is also a little known fact that 95% of all Athletic Directors in D-1 athletics can trace their DNA back to these 18th century opportunistic pickpockets.

JD is a good example of what you are talking about. If he played his cards right, he could not work again next year and continue to live in his nice home in Summit County without any financial worries. I'm sure JD will pop up somewhere next year as an assistant.

I don't disagree. The problem with the "building process" in college athletics is (especially with UofA and the MAC in general) nobody ever defines the measurables as they relate to a winning timeline. If you were building a factory, your boss would force you to have a measurable time period in which you would have certain aspects of the factory completed and producing products. We never get that at UofA. For example, we had a building time frame that did not take into account results on the field. Call me crazy, but I want to see my team win and I don't care where they win or where they practice as long as they win. The fieldhouse had to be completed by a certain date and it did. Same for the Big Dialer. What was the time period for the team winning a minimum of six games on a regular basis and how were they going to do it? It's like we built a factory and had no idea what we were going to do with the building and production line when it was completed. Not only do we not know what to do, we hire people from different industries to run our factory (CoachI is a pro style coach in college). The mismanagement of this football program has been almost criminal for the past 20 years. We get soccer right. We get basketball right. We can't find our ass with both hands when it comes to the football program. It's what happens when you focus on the "building process" and not the "winning process". I've had enough losing.