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There's something really wrong if he isn't.

ESPN runs promos for college sports and they sometimes call it "Judgement Saturday" or "Rivalry Saturday". Don't turn this Saturday into "Cremation Saturday" with grilled ribs. Just like I expect the Zips players to step up their game Saturday, I expect the same out of you guys. Someone needs to step up and make a rib worthy of eating. Below are the steps to success: Step 1: Take the day off of work today. Step 2: Rent a smoker. Step 3: Buy 5 cases of beer because it is going to be a long night and day. Step 4: Sleeping bag Step 5: Put the wife and kids to bed and leave wife with to do list for tomorrow. Step 6: Lot 9 at 9 PM Friday and set up. Step 7: Let the smoking begin....and not just the ribs. Step 8: Take home best of show rib award for your smoked ribs. Step 9: Go watch the Zips win. Step 10: Eat cold ribs after the Zips victory. Step 11: Wake up Sunday and try to remember what you did Saturday. Get er done.....

This is why LBJ needs to can his entourage. They are amateurs and he now needs professionals. LBJ is no longer in Cleveland where the media threw softballs and ESPN would have never asked a question that might trip up a player. LBJ didn't have to be as polished as say a Michael Jordan was in Chicago. Maimi is a different story and he has acted in a way where some in the media will be looking to knock him down. He needs to tighten up his interviewing skills. He should can his manager and let him move back in full time with his mommy.

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.