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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

There are reasons whey we can't win. They have more money, better fan bases, better access to TV money, more alumni support, more support for their foundation, bigger stadiums, etc. When a MAC school beats a BCS level school, it says more about the BCS school than it does the MAC school. For example, Toledo beats Purdue. Is Toledo a great program (see how they did against a midlevel PAC10 school in Toledo earlier this year), or is Purdue a laughable Big 10 program? I'd go with Purdue is a laughable Big 10 program. Could someone please go see how the MAC's record against BCS schools this season? While you are at it, how did we do against non-bcs schools and I-AA schools? If this is the best schedule ever, you must enjoy 0-4 and 1-3 starts. In fact, I'm pretty certain that as a Browns fan, you have become accustomed to these starts and find comfort/enjoyment in them the way an abused wife finds some level of comfort in her wifebeating husband. I for one have seen enough losing and I don't want guaranteed wins, but I want to see some competition against equal schools. We have around a 25% chance of beating bottomfeeder bcs schools, that is not equal competition. I would go as far as to say that if we played Indiana ten times, we would lose 9 of 10. I was not a math major at Akron, but I believe in this scenario, we'd win 1 out of every 4 times, not 1 out of every 10 times That's around 25%.....

BTW, did anyone notice how IU's "building process" has turned out. They don't sell out their home games, but the expand their stadium and the new seats sit empty. Smart use of taxpayers money there. Those empty seats sit as a monument to the stupidity of athletic directors around the country. There should be a law...."Any school that cannot fill their existing stadium shall not be allowed to add to it." Actually, if you look at college football stadiums on TV these days, there are lots of empty seats even at known programs. FSU was on TV at my house yesterday and about 25% of their stadium sits empty. The USC game I went to this year against So. Miss had easily 50% of the upper deck empty. Goes to show how the current state of our economy has impacted college football. There was a construction bubble in college football as well it appears.

There are reasons whey we can't win. They have more money, better fan bases, better access to TV money, more alumni support, more support for their foundation, bigger stadiums, etc. When a MAC school beats a BCS level school, it says more about the BCS school than it does the MAC school. For example, Toledo beats Purdue. Is Toledo a great program (see how they did against a midlevel PAC10 school in Toledo earlier this year), or is Purdue a laughable Big 10 program? I'd go with Purdue is a laughable Big 10 program. Could someone please go see how the MAC's record against BCS schools this season? While you are at it, how did we do against non-bcs schools and I-AA schools? If this is the best schedule ever, you must enjoy 0-4 and 1-3 starts. In fact, I'm pretty certain that as a Browns fan, you have become accustomed to these starts and find comfort/enjoyment in them the way an abused wife finds some level of comfort in her wifebeating husband. I for one have seen enough losing and I don't want guaranteed wins, but I want to see some competition against equal schools. We have around a 25% chance of beating bottomfeeder bcs schools, that is not equal competition. I would go as far as to say that if we played Indiana ten times, we would lose 9 of 10.

We should play ONE of those bottom feeders a year....I would totally agree with that. This is just a general comment. Sometimes when I read a fan board, I wonder how often the fans go to games outside of their own team. The one thing you guys have to understand is we are lightyears away from the level of play of the three top conference. We should never schedule a Big 12, PAC 10 or SEC school. Those are the top tier conferences and we would have zero chance of winning. Once we get into the second tier, we should stay clear of the upper 75% of the Big Ten, Big East and ACC. That would get us past the BCS schools and we would still only have about a 25% chance of winning. We need to schedule two third tier teams each year. I don't care who they are, we should be able to compete against them. The level of player should be equal and we should have a 50/50 shot at winning. 50/50 is where you want to be. At that level, you competing fairly against good teams at your level and the best team that day wins.

While our OOC scheduling disaster is fresh in our minds, does anyone still believe playing three BCS schools is a good idea? Let's play one BCS, one I-AA and two D-1A non-bcs schools. Miami and BG both played nonbcs schools and won games at home. Both games were evenly matched and won by the MAC schools. As it stands now, we are 0-4 with little momentum going into the MAC schedule and we have a disinterested community. How is this scheduling working out for us? Does anyone still believe this is the direction we should be going.

I agree. It is as simple as you describe. Close games are decided by 1-3 plays...it happens in the NFL every week. The team that makes them wins and the team that doesn't make them comes up short.

Ignore the GW game, when we get to the MAC we will not be as outmatched talentwise as we have been against the three BCS schools we played. We can win mac games....if they players just play better throughout the game.

Against our pass defense, a team could find a way to get their center open.....