GP1

I say KY doesn't beat them as bad as they could. They rest their starters in the second half and call off the dogs. ESPN Radio today in Columbia had a SEC show...they made fun of KY for playing Akron. Kentucky 56 Akron 3

You summary makes no sense. Mack left because he had a better job offer. CUSA is a better conference every day of the week. It has nothing to do with the players on the football team. My summary makes complete sense to anyone with 1/2 a brain. Rhoades road the wave of Mike Thomas' work, and parlayed it into a sweet job upgrade in Houston. Rhoades "managed the game" while he was at UA. But he did nothing spectacular on his own. Thomas got the stadium off the ground (that's why it looks like UVA's), and Thomas hired Dambrot. And the search committee that nabed Caleb was formed prior to Rhoades. Mack took credit on his bio for building the Stiles Center, even though it was completed years before he stepped on campus. The Rhoades administration took credit for a big donation to complete the Stiles Center football coach offices...but that was a donation from JD's father in law. Mack saw that JD was not not the answer, and he got the hell out of Akron while he had a spotless record. He's no dummy. He's as saavy a dude as I've ever met. Learn from me, GP1. You'll be a better person for it. You knowledge of UA athletics is pretty weak anymore. Being 400 miles from campus really shows. Your bravado is as big as ever, but you really have no clue what you're talking about. Looking at a box score and ranting about "The Big Dialer" is weak. Alot like ITZ fawning over Charlie Frye's 230 yards passing...after Frye was down 37 - 0 after 15 minutes. Can't wait for your next Charlie Frye post. It'll be your 1,000th. I'm going to have a snack after I read it. You're saying it was Mack's fault we lost to a I-AA team?

The mismanagement of the QB should be a future post. 21 passes? Are you freaking kidding me? He is the best player on offense. Let him throw the freaking ball for crying out loud. If you weren't at a Wake game you'd realize -- Nicely has NO ONE to throw to. LaFrance would be the #4 receiver on any Owens team. None of the other active WR's would even make an Owens practice squad. Did he have anyone to throw to when the score was 31-17? From the looks of the statistics, he was 5-6 for 80 yards in the first quarter. Even if you discount the long td pass, he still had arond 8 yards per attempt. He was 2-4 in the second for 22 yards. 7-10 at half for 102 yards it looks like. 5-6 is pretty good. 2-4 is OK. I don't blame PN as much as I would like to see the ball thrown more. From the looks of the first quarter stats, he can complete passes. Guys can get open. We should have won 45-17 or at least 45-21. There is no excuse for that loss over the weekend. The same talent was on the field at the end of the game that was on the field at the end of the game.

For the 1,000,000th time, because it doesn't create long term fans. It creates fans who think it should cost $2 to go to a Zips game. True, that does make sense. I guess I am just trying to think of anything that can get some people in here. I'd just rather create an atmostphere, and maybe make something happen on the fans end, then watch us lose around 1,000 people that leave after halftime anyways. The one marketing strategy we have deployed is winning. People have better things to do with their time than watch bad football. Make the football more valuable than what they would do with their time otherwise.

For the 1,000,000th time, because it doesn't create long term fans. It creates fans who think it should cost $2 to go to a Zips game.

Please demonstrate this to the board. What is his pedigree? Why is it important? Why is it GREAT? When will we see the success based upon his great pedigree?

What if they can tripple their ticket costs when they play each other and strike bigger TV deals? IMNHO, there is more money to be had getting rid of the small schools. Let's get back to the topic. Someone prove to me we are a D-1A conference in reality.

14 of 21 is a good day.

First, there are a lot of very good FCS schools with teams that qualify for the NCAA BB Tournament. Why would other conferences drop down? That's a good question and I hate to answer it with another question, but I will. What if the BCS schools start there own division or even more, leave the NCAA and have their own Super Conference? There is already an NAIA, why can't there be another organization. The MAC is in big trouble and they need to figure it out soon. That is why this discussion is on this board. It is an important question.

Actually, I wasn't surfing. My wife pointed me to it. It is the kind of thing we all wish would happen to college athletes. Former NFL/MAC player starts MBA program the right way.

We've gone from the proverbial frying pan into the fire. We ditched a defensive scheme that lead to certain failure to an offensive scheme that leads to certain failure. We just can't seem to get it right.

The mismanagement of the QB should be a future post. 21 passes? Are you freaking kidding me? He is the best player on offense. Let him throw the freaking ball for crying out loud. \\ This is what you get when you run a pro style offense in college. Pro offense work because the players playing in the pros are great. They don't work at UofA because there aren't enough good players to run it. I like that Coach I changed the defense. Unfortunately, as I said months ago, he runs a pro offense during a time in college football when the spread offense makes poor teams average, average teams good and good teams great. You have to have Alabama type talent to make a pro offense work in college. You know who has Alabama type talent?.....Alabama, not UofA. Smash mouth football does not work unless you have the players to smash someone in the mouth. We don't have those players. We do have a group that would do well with a spread offense.

Thank you for your reinforcement of what I have been saying for a while. Great research. We just need to admit to what we are so we can move forward. ITZ provides no evidence in contradiction to my theory. Next..............

I'm sorry Captain Kangaroo, but this is complete bullshit. How many returning starters are there who won at least three games last year?...they won't win more than two this year. Were we talentless when we were up 31-17? The game should have been a blow out to the tune of 45-17. It isn't about talent...it's about a fear of winning. It's about a program that never experiences winning so they enjoy losing. There is absolutely no excuse for what happened yesterday.

i totally agree on the point about Biggsy...w/o him the '05 team never does what it does...there ARE players on this team who SHOULD be able to step up and lead...plenty of sr's here...maybe Ianello is not encouraging that,maybe the guys who have been here aren't comfortable stepping up...hard for me to believe there are not 1or 2 guys who are capable...AA seems to be a 'rah,rah' type active on the sideline..hope someone steps up because the majority of the team is not behind this staff yet.. Agreed. There are plenty of players who played on a team that won at least three games last year. We have how many returning starters? I don't see them winning another game this season, which is why I'm so confused by Captain Kangaroo's post about the lack of talent. There is talent and there is experience. They should be better.

You summary makes no sense. Mack left because he had a better job offer. CUSA is a better conference every day of the week. It has nothing to do with the players on the football team. I to am sick of the losing. Even more so, I'm sick of the "building" bullshit we have had to listen to for over two decades now. You guys are wasting your time and money going to these games....and it kills me to say that.

Buy outs typically involve one year salary and a termination of the contract. We are still paying JD $250K for not coaching.

Well, you guys are going to hate this, but here are the facts thus far. A poster posted this on the Miami board. The scientific method tells us you prove a theory true by disproving all other possibilities. I have a theory that the MAC is a I-AA conference and the players are I-AA players. I know what they are registered with the NCAA as, but I'm more worried about reality. Prove to me they are not I-AA.

I agree. We are not a I-A team in a I-A conference. We are a I-AA team in a I-AA conference. More on how bad the conference is in a while.

How about....no?

Adjustments my ass. We were playing a I-AA team. We should have been able to line up in our base defense and win the damn game. It has nothing to do with adjustments and more to do with the players on the field who are scared to death of winning.

This sounds like the type of jibberish I had to listen to when I was working in corporate America around those Six Sigma lunatics. It sounds good, but is in fact lifeless. Does the coach need a plan? Yes. They had one. In fact, their plan gave them a 31-17 lead. If it gave them a 31-17 lead, it could have given them a 45-17 victory if they PLAYERS execute the plan. I don't feel one damn bit sorry for the players. They are adults with full scholarshps so they need to be held accountable. The players blew another game...and I don't mean just this year. We can have a rotating head coach position from now to kingdom come and change our names to The University of Akron Browns, but unless they players decide they have had enough winning it isn't going to change. The players need to be called out.

Attendance was 10,086 of which half were present. Next home game we will get 3,000. These are the lowest of days to be a Zip. Sad. We were better when we had bad facilities and a crap stadium. As the facilities get better the team gets worse. Pathetic. New facilities, same losing attitude. Facilities don't win games, players win games. We don't have a winning attitude and never have. Some teams find ways to win, we find ways to lose.

Here is a question I have about the Zips since I don't get to see them play. Do they look nervous under Coach I? Nervous in a way that makes you think they are scared to make a mistake? One might call it being loose. The reason I ask this is Coach I coached under that fat slob Charlie Weis who brow-beats players into submission and poor performance. Maybe he is Charlie Weis Jr. There has to be some fun in playing football...not all fun and games, but some fun.

It really is and the schools of the mac need to decide what the Hell they are going to be. It sure as Hell isn't a D-1A conference. I went to the Wake vs. Duke game today. The game as exciting, but the quality of players is not even close to what other BCS schools put on the field. Both Duke and Wake would easily win the mac.