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I agree completely. We are always waiting for tomorrow on this board. There are 12 games this year. They need to get going now. For those of you who think UofA can be a good Big East program or something like that as college football changes need to understand that if this team doesn't win now, they are more likely to end up in a second tier division in the next few years than whatever D-1A will look like if they don't start winning. Winning is everything. It brings in money. It fills stadiums. It gets you noticed nationally. It makes other conferences look at you. We need to start winning.

So does GP1. It's the thought that some of that money will be going to Ashland University that gets me excited.... If there is any doubt as to how horrible some of the starting QBs in the NFL are, take a look at the list of bums Oakland had in camp competing for the STARTING job. These four guys are an absolute joke. Frye gets the best of both worlds in this injury. By being placed on IR, he is guaranteed his pay for the season as players on IR can not be cut. He also won't see the field which will prevent other teams from being reminded about what an incompetent he is and next year he can find his way to another team as a back-up based upon the illusion he may know what he is doing because of his experience. The key to being a career back-up in the NFL is not actually ever getting on the field so your team sees how terrible you really are.

I agree. Let's win first and then see what happens.

I don't know exactly why I'm posting this article but I am. I guess if it is interesting to the Great GP1, it should be interesting to everyone. I am, after all, the most interesting poster on the board and the fact that probably only 4-5 of you actually knows what I look like makes me even more interesting. The only thing most of you are missing by not knowing me is not knowing my striking good looks. A few years ago, I was at the AIA convention in some city somewhere (now that I'm out of corporate America, I don't travel every week and the repeated weekly routine of drive to airport on Tuesday for 6:00 AM flight, fly to some city, rent car, see customers, go to hotel, go to dinner, repeat for two days, drive to airport, return car, fly home, pick up car from long term parking and then proceed to get drunk as a skunk on Thursday night seems to be a distant memory and I'm glad for that) and they gave out a free book called Nine Shift. The authors were the keynote speakers at the final dinner. It was a great book about the future work place and the changing society. A lot of what they wrote in the book has unfortunately come true. For some reason, this NY Times article made me think of the book. I find 20 somethings living at home somewhat depressing and I'm sad for them this is happening. Maybe the change will be a good thing and only time will tell. I would never have wanted to live with my parents after college. Those first few years out of school were a blast. Working hard, going to happy hour on Thursday night and not going home until Friday morning and then trying to work a job with a huge hangover on Friday was actually fun looking back. Going back to happy hour on Friday was always fun too. College fades into a memory, wives are met and adult life really begins at around 29. Time goes fast. Well, I'm going to rest up for the Zac Brown concert tonight. The rest of you can enjoy your day with your pain in the ass kids and nagging wives.

UofA spends around $25 million the last time I checked. They bring in around $15 million in revenue. The last time I checked, $1.4 million in TV revenue wouldn't make up the difference.

I'd like to provide some more perspective on this issue if I may. Someone in the Athletic Department should be responsible for the golf outing and a women's day. In real Athletic Departments, someone in marketing handles this. "You're full of crap GP1, no school would do that. Stop putting down the Zips."...... Anyhow, Wake Forest has a person named Mike Odom. His title is Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing/Special Projects. How do I know this? He put together the 13th annual Women's Day at BB&T Field where 200 women participated in a three hour football clinic. Quoting the Gold Rush, "The proceeds from the event benefit the Coach's Kids program, which provides tickets to home sporting events to underprivileged and at-risk children in the Piedmont Triad area." WOW!!!!! They're combining expanding the fan base with a good cause. They are just splitting the atom up there in Winston-Salem. There are some real good quotes about how the ladies feel closer to the program, etc. after attending the clinic. Getting back to the main point. I think it is great that UofA had a Women's Day this summer, but we should have been doing this 10 years ago. Golf outings should be handled by the Athletic Department staff and not coaches. This is a marketing function and not a foundation function as well. It is moronic and little league to ask a coach to organize a golf outing. It is the job of the Athletic Department to do these things, not the coaches.

I swear to God, I think Martin has been trying to get fired for the past few years and the administration just won't pull the trigger. What else does this guy have to do to get fired?

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Brown Street is where we all used to live. At one time, it was considered modern living on campus. Christ do I feel old. I wonder what landfill they put Brown Street in? Did you play in the era when jock dorms were still legal? Yes. Some of you might be shocked to know what went on in that place. Please share..... I'm in Myrtle Beach and going to dinner. Not much time. I'll just say this. A lot of college is/was about sex, drugs and rock & roll. Take all of that in extreme forms and you will understand.

This is another example of the insanity of the building process. We all have to wait until things are 100% in order before we can act or expect anything good to happen. Are we 100% certain the horse will be able to run around in a circle in the Kentucky Derby?....of course not. Nothing is certain. Nobody knows 100% of anything. I am 99.999999% certain of this. In a couple of weeks, there is going to be a football game. PN is going to be on the field with his hands under a sweaty man's ass. He had better be ready to go, because in a split second a football is going to be in his hands and he is going to have to do something with it.

Redshirt = scout team He won't learn one more thing on scout team at the end of the year that he doesn't know right now. Not starting Nicely this year would be like not running your fastest, healthy horse in the Kentucky Derby because you want to breeze him some more so he knows how to run around the track in a circle. No offense Zach, but offering the idea to redshirt potentially one of the best QBs in the league is an example of how comfortable UofA fans have become with losing and the "building process". The Zips have 12 games THIS YEAR, not next year. Fans have bought tickets for this year, not next year. Fans want to see winning this year. It's time to start winning. 20+ years of losing and "building" is enough for me. I can't take it anymore.

Beat me to the punch JZ84, I was just about to put a thread up about Wagner. Rasor went to practice and got some quotes from some players. Wagner was quoted saying, "We just need to win". He uses the word "need" not "want". I love that. There are things I want to do that I never do. There are things I need to do I get done. Everyone puts more focus on the things they need to do and less on what they want to do. It tells me this team is focused on winning. I'll say it again. This team is not short on talent or hard work. The had a talented team last year that worked hard in a hopeless situation. The focus on winning is something they badly need. That one quote alone has me more excited about this upcoming season than anything I have seen thus far. They can be a good team THIS YEAR.

Female hormones my ass. This girl has been using testosterone. Look at all of the hair on her arms.

Brown Street is where we all used to live. At one time, it was considered modern living on campus. Christ do I feel old. I wonder what landfill they put Brown Street in? Did you play in the era when jock dorms were still legal? Yes. Some of you might be shocked to know what went on in that place.

I thought Paula Poundstone used up all of her eligibility in the 1980s.

Brown Street is where we all used to live. At one time, it was considered modern living on campus. Christ do I feel old. I wonder what landfill they put Brown Street in?

I'm not sure they could put Dan on the radio. Great guy and love him to death, but I have a feeling he'd be a little too honest... and shall we say... forthcoming with his opinions on what he's seeing on the field. That's exactly the guy we need then.

Love country music. Love Chesney. Not a fan of the song. Not a fan of the song being on the radio 100 times a day. A little too pandering even for Chesney. Kenny Chesney is going to be my generation's Jimmy Buffett. The last event I went to when I lived in Ohio was Kenny Chesney concert at Browns Stadium.

They are both schools of 14000 with nothing going on around them for miles (closest to Youngstown is Akron some 50 miles away). YSU was "selling out" for national champion teams with a whopping 17,000. (They added 3000 seats in 97 after their "run"). Marshall (50 Miles from Charleston) played to packed crowds in an 18000 seat stadium, until they moved to D-1 and built the 38,000 stadium they have now. The University of Akron is twice the size of both schools. We are a D-1 school, they had to give a way free tickets to get people to go see D-2 and 1-AA football. Moral of the story, even if you are a good 1-AA school no one really cares. Akron has a much larger opportunity to draw fans from a 50 mile radius. Not everyone on the Akron side at the MCB was a UofA grad. There had to be some interest. Winning draws people. Nobody lives in Boone, NC. Explain the large crowds. If you sell out your stadium, how many more tickets could you have sold is the questions. We already have a stadium that only gets filled once a year at best. I don't think it is a stretch to believe raising the attendance from at 17,000 sales to 24,000 would take much more than a winning team with a shot at winning a national title. Want to use the stadium more? Make the I-AA playoffs and you can have a couple of playoff games.

How far away from the firehouse are the dorms? The firemen work full time and the only cost should be the gas to run the engine. The electricity to run the garage door can't be too expensive. Paperwork, but they are full time employees with little else to do.

Didn't he go on to own The Odd Corner?

It was because every grocery bag you received at Acme weeks leading up to Acme-Zip had coupons on them that were free tickets to the game. The University spent decades training an entire region that purchasing tickets to a Zips games was not necessary and should be expected. Any other questions? One last thing. They pack the stands at App State and used to pack them in at YSU when they were good and Marshall (when they were I-AA). A good team draws a crowd. I believe the people of Akron will turn out for a national championship contender. The soccer team packed their stadium last year for a sport as exciting as watching paint dry. People will turn out for a I-AA winner.

Your kidding right? The guy is a walking cliche. I feel dumber after listening to him. Gotta love Reghi. He is the human tongue. I really don't know what to say about his. Is there something you want to confess?

Now your just trying to make me mad. Cope is the only football announcer to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and the recipient of the Pete Rozelle Award for "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football. Cigarettes took Copes life. Cope gave the rights to The Terrible Towel (one of the greatest marketing ideas in NFL history) to the Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The school provides care for more than 900 people with mental retardation and physical disabilities, including Cope's autistic son. Proceeds from the Terrible Towel have helped raise $3 million for the school. He was like Herb Score, you turned your tv off and listened to the radio because you wanted to hear what he had to say. He was a little more than "drunk out of his mind." He was all of those things. In addition to them, he was a guy who liked to get drunk while broadcasting games. I actually see that is sort of a positive.

"other" is really putting on a good showing.