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Thankfully there are teams like K.e.n.t. who always collapse. That gives me hope for next week. K.e.n.t. always finds a way to beat themselves. But I'm getting ahead of myself.... Who are you trying to kid?......It's never too early to pile on Can't. Did you hear that Can't's library burned down?............They lost both books...............and one hadn't even been colored in yet.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for him this news hits. I'll say it again. LBJ has surrounded himself with a bunch of clowns. This question was a chance for him to admit that he made a bit of a fool of himself during LeDecision. Instead, he says there was a racial aspect to the negative view of LeDecision. Basically, he is saying there was nothing wrong with what he did and if you think he was a bit silly doing it, you are a racist. I don't see it that way. Years ago, LBJ should have been schooled by a PR person as to how to handle race questions. His people should have had him prepared for it after LeDecision. Some professionals from Nike need to step in.

I'm sticking with my prediction from earlier this week. Three road games in a row too much for NIU. Zips 27 NIU 20

I agree Brian, I wish the Zips AD was as passionate about it as Mike is. Brian Kelly is the best marketing executive UC had. The new coach....not so much. Brian Kelly = winning = marketing success The formula for marketing sports programs revolves around winning. If we win here, TW will look like he actually knows what he is doing.

None of us, including me, have answered the question. Is the improvement a mirage? I would firmly say no to that question. We are better today than a month ago in every area. How much better we will be Saturday is up to the players. I'm still holding out hope that the MAC is as bad as I believe it to be. If so, we will look even better this week. I wouldn't guarantee a win, but a win is not out of the question. I believe we will win.

The biggest piece of news in this release is one can get a world class education at Towson.

Thank you for your two long posts. You must have been up half the night boiling in anger. I'm sure if you had better writing skills, you could have composed a much shorter response. Every team that loses isn't a fraud. Good teams lose all the time. What makes a fraud is the build-up. These teams and fans think something great is about to happen after a year of winning against less than capable teams. At the end of the year, that team gets destroyed by a much better team they thought they were as good as and the fraud is complete. I have no doubt tOSU will march right through a terrible conference and be in the BCS Championship. Who is going to stop them? Michigan....we saw the Rich Rod 4-0 start last year and how it ends. Iowa (speaking of frauds)....lost to an average Arizona team. Wisconsin......almost lost to an always underperforming PAC 10 team at home and nobody should be impressed. PSU....when Joe Pa retires, they can change their name to the University of Illinois. The best tOSU can hope for is for the voters to lose their minds and actually put Boise State in the championship game. I'm sure everyone in Buckeyeland if rooting for that. Winning a national championship game after beating not a single good team all season is what is needed for tOSU. The last thing they want to see is Alabama lining up on the other side of the ball.

I saw some of this game. That low class piece of crap Tressel threw a QB throw-back with his team up 42-20 in the 3rd quarter. Karma is a bitch..... The fraud will be exposed this year. It may take until January, they fraud will be exposed. Take comfort.

Stay tuned.... The difference between the Big Ten and the MAC is the difference between a guy with a 2" penis and a guy with a 3" penis. Only one team in the top 15 and they were put there by Kirk Hirbstreit after beating an average Oregon in the Rose Bowl. They will be lucky to have 3 in the top 25 by the end of the year. The Big 10 is a second tier league and is garbage. I'm sure Buckzip will have something to say now about all of the NFL players they produce...he won't mention they never see the field in the NFL, but they are NFL players. The SEC, Big 12 and PAC 10 produce NFL stars...the Big Ten produces NFL back-up players. Second tier league....slightly better than the ACC and better than the Big East. The real question is...who will disappoint the citizens of Ohio sooner?: 1. The Ohio State Buckeyes 2. The Cincinnati Reds

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. I'm always amazed when I think about how fast the Faust years went sour. Faust deservedly takes a lot of abuse for how bad things were at the end, but there was a time in the middle when things appeard to be heading in the right direction. There were some very, very good players during that time period. There were players who would have easily started and excelled in any era since. A good topic would probably be about how the Zips went from good in 92 to horrible in 94. I think a lot of it had to do with an overreaction by the school in terms of some off the field issues. When the school overreacted, Faust did so even more because he simply was not able to deal with the type of kid who might get into trouble. It was a complete disaster.......

You will see one of the teams play pooly and execute poorly late. I think NIU will execute poorly late and if the Zips don't play worse than a team playing their third road game in a row, they can win.

Come on now akzipper....you aren't being very classy..... Yeah owning that school in every sport isn't very classy of us either. Maybe we should at least give them a chance to win something so they can stop crying! Maybe some day, but not this weekend.....

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do. I hope you're not representative of Akron fans. No class at all. If you can't take some facts, don't come around. Maybe it is the thin skin that keeps you guys from winning anything. What facts can you offer? We didn't lose to Akron because we couldn't throw the ball - the exact opposite. We got into a passing shootout. We lost because we couldn't play defense. And like I said, your fact about Harnish playing poorly against Iowa State wasn't a fact either. Actually, you guys couldn't run late after running the ball all evening and lost because you couldn't run out the clock against a poor defense with an NFL RB and a huge offensive line. Fine, throw out the ISU game. His numbers are still not impressive. You're missing the point. NIU is a good team, but not great. They are just another mac school. The difference between winning and losing in the mac is players executing in a league where the talent level is lacking compared to bcs schools. Most MAC schools don't win games, games are handed to them by the other team. Believe me, UofA has handed away more than our fair share of them over the past 20 years. If Akron makes plays Saturday, we win. If not, we lose. If we drop passes, we lose...If we catch passes, we win. If we tackle, we win....If we don't tackle, we lose. Etc..... A play here or there and you guys may be 1-3. Sorry if I'm not impressed. Would you like me to pretend as if I am impressed?.....I'm a pretty good writer and could probably drum something up real quick. Just say the word and I can make it happen.

Akron covers easily....

Come on now akzipper....you aren't being very classy.....

It's amazing that when a person posts about another team on his home fan board and gives evidence as to why his team should win, he is described as lacking class. As a point of fact, I believe the Zips can win Saturday and my evidence is not unreasonable. I agree with CK, people who talk about "classy" fan boards don't understand fan boards and are in fact douchebags. I didn't see my name on their board (didn't look that hard either), but I have no doubt that when the Great GP1 was in sixth grade, he could have posted a more interesting post than what is on their board. Very uninteresting people....just like their offense. Here's to another second place finish for NIU.

I just hope nobody puts up a billboard around his house in Florida.

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do. I hope you're not representative of Akron fans. No class at all. If you can't take some facts, don't come around. Maybe it is the thin skin that keeps you guys from winning anything.

He put up what would be considered "huge numbers" in Faust's offense. Nothing like what average QBs put up today, but very impressive for the time.

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do.

Mike Johnson named 49ers OC today. I wonder why Mike's name has never come up as head coach at UofA. He only has NFL experience which would come into question, but other than that he is a good coach. I wonder if being head coach at UofA would be a pay cut for him and UofA couldn't pay him what he could make in the NFL.

Great point on the quick, possession passes. I thought the same thing at the time. It seemed to settle him down. In the 1980s, Playboy Magazine rated the top ten party schools in America. For the first time ever in their rankings, WVU did not come in first place and was not in the Top 10. They placed a note at the bottom of the rankings saying, "Sorry WVU, we do not deal with professionals." I feel the same way about ZipsWin!. He is a professional Zips fan and should receive NO award as such. With that said, he is a Hall of Fame Zips fan if there ever was one.

I can't find the link where we discussed it specifically, but a friend of mine filled me in a little more about the people behind this billboard. It brought it all together for me. At the time, I said the billboard was more about the people who placed it than LeBron and man was I right. I had no idea who they were at the time, I just kind of said it. The people behind the billboard is a company called The Omada Group. This company has ties to InfoCision....yes, that InfoCision that bought our football stadium with money collected from little old ladies $25 at a time and the one who pushed the LBJ Appreciation Day and now has egg on their faces from it. The people who own The Omada Group are ex-InfoCision employees who still do business with InfoCision. InfoCision is a fundraising firm for Republican causes/candidates and The Omada Group does the same thing. Both companies are everything you would expect from telemarketing people...sleazy. I got to know a lot of these people while living around Akron and believe me, that group at InfoCision is about as sleazy of a bunch as you can get. They are as morally bankrupt and intellectually dishonest as you can get. I don't care how many jobs they create around Akron or how many departments they create at UofA, it is dirty money. Their piety is about as phony as the day is long. I can't believe our football stadium has the name of such a sleazy company on it. Lastly, I've written negative things about InfoCision on this board before and it gets deleted. Do not touch this post.

Bingo. niu does not have a crappy qb, but he is also not impressive. Completed less than 50% against a terrible isu team for 93 yards. Only 146 yards against ND. They did have a huge running game that day. 19 of 25 against IL and not a single TD throw. 11-17 against MN for 81 yawning yards. The QB for niu protects the ball and has not shown an ability to do anything spectacular. We need to stop this rb from killing us and see if their qb can win a game. I think when you put a mac qb under pressure to win a game, there is a greater chance of him falling apart than winning the game. Just keep the niu rb between 150 and 170 yards and the Zips win. Big plays downfield win football games and niu does not do that. We could if our WRs would catch passes.

I say bring him on. The Zips get their first win this week and iCoach breaks his cherry in his fifth game just like JD broke his in his fifth game. niu is 2-2 and I'm not impressed by their accomplishment. They lost at ISU 27-10. There is little difference betweenn isu and indiana or syracuse. They are a bottom level Big 12 team and niu got smashed by them. They beat North Dakota 23-17. A play or two goes differently and maybe the lose to a I-AA school like we did to GW. They lost at Illinois. Illinois is 2-1 beating a MAC school and a I-AA school. They lost to a mid level Big 12 school the first game of the year. They are a bottom level Big 10 school the same as Indiana. Once you get past tOSU, the Big Ten is garbage. They beat Minnesota. It's a good thing MN put all of that money into "building" their program with a new stadium. New stadium, same crappy program. Should have stayed in the Homer Dome.....at least the fans would be dry and warm in October. MN lost to one of the Dakotas also. It is a laughable program. MN wouldn't win their division in the mac. This win says more about MN than niu. We did the same thing to NC State the year we beat them then their coach got fired. We finished that year 5-7 I believe. I'd love to see how often in the year a bcs school loses to a mac school that the coach of the bcs school is fired by or at the end of the season. How many times do those schools have winning records? What all of this shows me is niu can be as inconsistent as any other team in the mac. They can play well in wins against MN, but let teams like ND hang around and allow themselves to get blown out by a bad isu program and lose to Illiinois. Do not be overly impressed by them. The key to winning in the mac is forcing a passing game. Stop this RB for niu and they will fall apart. Akron needs a better defensive game plan coming into the game though than they did last week. Akron has the players to compete and win against niu. They need to go out and do so this week. Stat of the week: NIU will be playing their third road game in a row. Anyone who has ever gambled on a football game knows this spells disaster for the visiting team in most cases. It's hard enough to win the second road game in a row let alone the third. Look for an niu let down and a Zips step up. Close game all the way, but niu is tired at the end from the travel. Zips 27 NIU 20