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"other" is really putting on a good showing.

Stringing together a series of cogent sentences is critical in broadcasting...... Myron Cope did it for years, and could hardly get one sentence out let alone a series. Sometimes color guys can just be entertaining like Bernie. Myron Cope was drunk out of his mind most games. Faust doesn't drink. Bernie slurs his words like a cocaine junkie.........errrrrrr, I mean a guy who slurs his words for no reason other than he might be on cocaine........errrrrr, I mean a junkie........errrrrrr what have I gotten myself into?...Faust doesn't do coke.

15,000 Zip fans traveled to Detroit to watch the Zips play in a bowl game a few years ago. Yes, I believe they would get great crowds for a playoff game. Can you tell me what the crowd sizes were when we made the playoffs in I-AA? How many people were lining up to cheer the Zips on in the palace we called the Rubber Bowl? To address your second point. I really don't care about your opinions. You're really not very smart and your posts tend to drag on longer than anyone as slow minded and inarticulate as you should. When someone proves you wrong, you go on even more and make yourself look even more stupid. Most of the time I skip over your posts unless they are a reply to mine as I hate to see my great words addressed by you. I never said OSU, Florida, Texas and the rest are semi pro teams, but they are. Many semi pro teams have guys playing for nothing and some getting paid. There are guys at those schools getting paid under the table every week. To address your last moronic point, I could care less what happens to the other schools. Have a nice evening.

Interesting questions and worthy of discussion. The answer is I don't know, but however much money we have spent has not been enough to make us good at football. We have had and still continue to have some of the lowest paid football coaches in the MAC. Our academic support for football has not been enough to keep at risk student athletes in school. The new football stadium was going to happen sooner or later so I don't worry about that money. We spend money on building buildings and not building a program. I don't think question one ties with questions two. Or maybe I should say there is no evidence spending on sports has resulted in underachieving academics. It makes me happy to say that UofA is a better school today, in every way, than it was when I was in school 19 years ago. The professors are better. The facilities are better. The campus is a place for learning in lieu of a bunch of buildings near downtown Akron. The law school can boast about the highest rate of bar passing graduates in Ohio. The business school is excellent and has programs like the direct marketing school. The engineering school is top notch and at the top of that rests the polymer science school which is a world leader. The Ray C. Bliss Institute is nationally known. My brother is a doctor and says the best nurses around are UofA graduates and the BS nurses make great administrators. The Athletic Department is not harming UofA. Since it functions in the red every year though, it does harm the taxpayers of Ohio. I don't see how throwing more money at it will change the influence the NCAA has in college sports and the negative impact it has on non-BCS schools. Here are two scenarios that I think about. Scenario 1: UofA stays in D-1A football and because of the lack of support by the ncaa for nonbcs schools, we continue to function in the lower 20% of college football for the next 20 years. The money will appear to be wasted. Scenario 2: UofA moves either to I-AA and becomes a national power with fans stuffing the Big Dialer for a winning football game and playoff games to watch UofA compete for a national championship. Which is better...One bowl game every few years, or two-three home playoff games in a national championship tournament? If this happens, the money is well spent. It's all about what outcomes take place.

Stringing together a series of cogent sentences is critical in broadcasting......

Actually, I agree with most of what ITZ has to say. I just don't agree we were watching greatness during the Owens years. They were just a continuation of the same crap that has gone on here for 20 years.

Yes. We are going to win 4-6 of them.

I firmly believe I would be the best for the job in almost any way of ranking the qualities of a broadcaster. With that said, I have no interest and have already respectfully declined the position. With that said, there is one guy who is friendly and gives good interviews who is available....I think. JD Brookhart. While it didn't work out for him coaching, he left the school on good terms and like a man. He knows the players. He knows the league. I think he would be a good fit.

This is the first time I've seen her. She is attractive and seems like a nice lady. I sort of thought she might not be nice looking since you never see her on camera.

An even better article would have been about how people should turn out for charity events regardless of what a person does. It says more about the people who didn't show up than those who did or even LeBikerider. Raising money for charity is a good thing. Anyone who showed up to boo or cast a negative shadow should be ashamed.

Come aGAIN? Bucknutz likes to beat the Bain thing into the ground. Used properly, the Bain jokes can still be funny. Sort of how a properly placed Harvey joke can still be funny.

I agree. Not only do we need nastiness, we need guys who are nasty all of the time...in an angry way. That's what we need.

Why would you want someone like that? If the reasoning is true why the kicked off the team "dismissed for multiple failed drug tests." The last thing you need on a team is someone like that Guys who like to smoke a little weed don't destroy teams... guys with attitude problems and senses of entitlement do. Give the guy a chance, tell him if he fails one test he's gone, and then leave up to him to either make the best decision for himself or not to. It's a no lose situation. I have a more practical way of keeping him on the team. Tell him if he fails onee test he's gone, and then never drug test him. That's how smart schools run their drug testing. Some of you might be surprised to know how many guys playing college athletics smoke weed on a regular basis. Weed should be legalized anyhow........ I have to get my glaucoma checked.

So that he can win some games. A coach gets about three years before the "graveyard" catches him. If Coach I is still here after three years, his career is over. Faust never coached again. Owens is at a D-II school where he continues his second place finishes and let's face it, D-II is like coaching high school. Too early to tell about JD....my guess is he could sit on his $250K this year until something better came along.

They may not have savage front sevens, but they still have better players than Akron. Throw early to set up big plays down field. Try to get the lead. The run out the clock if you can.

Play action only works if you can run early. I want to see some big plays passing out of PN7 being set up by an effective short passing game. I don't think we will be able to run on BCS teams.

He may be all of those things, but this video doesn't make him look like that. He just looked like a guy who finished a practice on a hot summer day and was going through the routine of answering questions for a web page. Sounded like "coach speak" to me. One encouraging point of his interview was there was a time during practice when the offense was getting the better of the defense. That is unusual for an early practice. Could be a good sign.

I would take Akron also. The Orangemen will be one of the worse teams in the country this year! No they won't. Syracuse will be a solid middle of the road BE team that probably gets back into a bowl game come December/January. Their new coach is doing good things up there, they had a solid recruiting class, have some JUCOs that are gonna help out, and have some talent returning. They'll be hurt Week 1 without Carter, but let's remember, we were one of the worst teams in the country last year, and we're going into our first game with two completely new systems on both sides of the ball. There will be miscues and indecision, take it to the bank. If I were a betting man, I'd take Syracuse with this spread. I see Orange 14+... but I hope I'm wrong. If what you say is true, I like Akron's chances even more. I think TWO completely new systems on BOTH sides of the ball will be too difficult to implement effectively early in the season. The major difference is this is the Orange's coach will be in his second year. There should be some level of stability with them.

There has been a lot of talk on the board about there not being a golf outing. My stance is it is not the responsibility of the football coaches to put together a golf outing. It should be the responsibility of the Athletic Department to put it together. I just got a mailer from Wake Forest about National Deacon Club Day, August 30, 2010. Not up on their internet yet. While their direct mail pieces look terrible this year, it gets the message through. Golf outing at 10 AM at Old Town Club. $115 per person. 88 person limit. Tennis Tournament 1:30-4:30 at the Indoor Tennis Center. $20 per person. Box lunch included. Tournament style. Social & BBQ. 7 PM BridgerField House at BB&T Field. Includes Walk of Champions and special medallions given out to freshman student athlets commemorating their acceptance into Wake. This is what UofA should be doing. Let the football coaches coach football. Let the basketball coaches coach basketball. Let the Z-Fund folks put outings on. It doesn't narrow down the activities to golf. I can't stand golf and I never played in the outings because I hate the sport so much. I probably wouldn't go play tennis, but I would go to the BBQ if I lived near Winston-Salem.

Good advertising can be powerful in the long term. Bad advertising is easily forgotten. This billboard will be easily forgotten. Without going back to look, I can't remember exactly what it says or what it looks like. That's how easily forgotten it is.

Thanks for the link. As much as I think LBJ has been an a-hole during this process, I think the billboard is a bit of a cheap shot. Strikes me as sort of childish and phony. I don't think it is reasonable to believe that someone out there is so enraged with him going to Miami that they felt the need to buy this. I think he is a jerk, but I'm not made angry by the thought. It is the kind of thing we see a lot these days. Everyone is trying to out fan the next guy. The billboard says more about the person who bought it than it does LBJ.

I could care less about his feelings when he looks at a map. How is LBJ going to put Akron on the map and why does Akron need LBJ to put them on the map? Akron and NE Ohio in general have been in a steady state of decline since LBJ went pro how many years ago now. How has he helped Akron again? How has he helped UofA in a way that we could not have done so ourselves? Between playing basketball, endorsements and lap dances in Las Vegas (not that there's anything wrong with that), how is he going to have time to put Akron on the map? It would seem to me that a guy looking to put Akron on the map and has a pile of cash would at least fly some strippers in from Vegas and have his party in Akron. Personally, I don't see how a guy with limited intelligence is going to save a region. The guy is a Hell of a basketball players, but not exactly ready to split the atom. It absolutely amazes me that there are still people out there who think LBJ is some savior that is going to save an entire region through his basketball playing skills. When LBJ retires, he will be gone and his influence diminished. Jordan's contributions to Charlotte basically consist of running a bad basketball team, keeping cigar shops in business and eating once a day at a different fine restaurant.

I'd like to see him play a whole game instead of the YouTube videos they put up. From what I see he looks like a good player. I'd like to see how he plays against a good team and a really fast running back. One thing about these videos is how unorganized many high school teams are. He is clearly the best player on that defense and the number of times he is unaccounted for is amazing.

Doug is looking to inspire the team after losing three games by a total of 12 points. "12 More Points" could be the inspiration they are looking for, but the way Doug coaches, they will lose three games by 13 points. There is nothing this loser can do to make his team a winner.

Here in the Carolinas, we know tourists by the way they tuck their golf shirts into their jorts.