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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.

The 3-3-5 defense had nothing to do with the off the field turmoil. You can't let teams march up and down the field at will. College football has become high scoring, but at times, you still have to stop people or at least hold them to a fg try.

ND would sell out. The cost would be too high. There are plenty of non-BCS level teams that would produce a great crowd if the Zips were good enough for people to spend their money on.

Call me crazy, but I have an idea for getting more PD coverage. If the Zips win more games and put a better team on the field, the PD will be forced to cover them. Let's win more games. When the Zips are 4-8, there is little more interest in Cleveland for the Zips vs. MAC Team than there is for BW vs. Case. The local media did a really good job of covering the Zips when we went to the MCB. It can happen again if the Zips would start winning. The local media is not the enemy. They are mostly stupid, but they are not the enemy. We have met the enemy and we are us. If we keep losing, there will be no coverage. If we win, there will be coverage. It's very simple. We really need to start winning.

Once again....nobody is excited to go watch Marshall. These home and homes need to be against fairly significant teams in order to gain the local interest. If we cant get it from Syracuse and Indiana, we surely wont get it from Marshall. What if the Zips put such a good product on the field, that it doesn't matter who they play? It seems to me that the "savior complex" of people in NE Ohio shows itself when talking about future OOC home games. Instead of bringing in a team to save the match-up and produce a good crowd, how about if we make the Zips the team people want to go see? If the Zips suck, nobody is going to the games regardless of who they play. I see it like this. Indiana and Syracuse are bottom feeder teams that never play in bowl games and have little interest in their own fan base. On the other hand, Marshall has become kind of good again and made a bowl game last year. People know Marshall as a good team really worth going to see if the Zips are good as well. They see them on TV playing in bowl games. People know Syracuse and Indiana suck and will find something else to do with their time and money other than going to watch them play.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that moderates are more subtle than extremists. I think you confuse being a moderate with being open minded. An extremist can be open minded as well. William F. Buckley was a solid conservative, but was open minded enough to discuss his ideas with those he didn't agree with. Byron York is a modern day Buckley. By definition, a political moderate is generally open to a wider range of ideas from both the left and the right than a political extremist, who typically follows primarily far left or far right beliefs. William F. Buckley Jr. was an intellectual conservative who evolved away from his early extremism (support of segregation and McCarthyism, for example). He was more moderate and less extreme in his later years, becoming an eloquent spokesman for mainstream conservative principles that are accepted by many moderates. By whose definition?

Top to bottom, RI has better players awaiting him. JD had Frye...IMNHO he was a joke. Frye is a long line of piss poor QBs who masquerade as NFL qbs these days. Had a career losing record at a MAC school. Blackburn...solid player. Much better pro than college player. Hixon....was on defense and JD turned him into an NFL player. Brookhart should get the credit for Hixon. I don't remember number four. Corner? BG transfer. Without the guys JD brought with him (Biggs, Getsy, AA), the team is a joke his second year. Besides these four players, there was garbage left behind by Owens. Owens pissed all over the program on the way out.....JD didn't.

Can the Zips beat all three? No. Can the Zips beat two? No. Can the Zips beat one? Maybe, but I'll lean to no. If they lose all three, it is not the end of the season or even something to be concerned about. The Zips have enough talent to compete well in the MAC. I don't know what the final record will be, but I am pretty certain we will not be run off the field against any MAC team.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that moderates are more subtle than extremists. I think you confuse being a moderate with being open minded. An extremist can be open minded as well. William F. Buckley was a solid conservative, but was open minded enough to discuss his ideas with those he didn't agree with. Byron York is a modern day Buckley.

But, he didn't score a point in a high school playoff game. Not to get off the Zips, but DA took a team that Charlie Frye shipwrecked in the first game of the season and went 10-5 the remainder of the season and had the Browns within a hair of making the playoffs. DA wasn't great, but he was a decent qb on a really bad team. Back to the Zips.....

What if ND fans, Illinois fans and Rasor are all morons? Let's face it, time passed ND by years ago. I'm not sure what their fans expect. At this point, neither do they. Illinois? Well, they are used to watching Illinois, which is a mid to low level Big Ten team. Zook is a bigger problem than their dc. Rasor? Nice guy, but kind of caught up in the neo-conservative politics of the Republican Party. Most are mentally unstable. Only in towns like Stow could he get elected. Probably made a good intramural volleyball player, but that is about it. I don't take his opinions on football too seriously. He is a liberal waiting to happen. However, since he is a UofA graduate, I wish him luck as he progresses towards being a liberal like all neo-conservatives become. Actually, neo-conservatives are in fact former liberals....sort of comes full circle. Be careful of what you read on the internet.

I'm sorry, but this is not the direction the University is going. Nor should it go this direction. UofA can look like UofA and still be a good research institution. We don't need to do what they do in California or anywhere else. The direction is good. A branch in Stark Co makes no sense when you are trying to attract students to live on your campus. If they want to do refining technology and chemicals research, fine. Send graduate students to the companies to collect samples and bring them back. Better yet, have the students/professors do the research and then use this thing called "e-mail" to send the results to Akron for study. UofA does not need another "building" 20 miles from campus to pay for and maintain. They have plenty of room in Akron and if they need more, they can take over another vacated building downtown.

Like most of your posts, I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Moderates have no opinions, that's why they are moderates. Let's see. Like so many, kid has sex in high school. Sperm finds it way to egg and fertilizes the egg. Nine months later, girl has child. How many of us could that have happened to? How many on this board looking down their nose at this kid could that have happend to in high school? That's my point. It has nothing to do with the kid in question. I'm not sure about the gray area in science or the probability/outcome factor.