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Stating facts is not beating a dead horse.I for one will not give Brookhart any credit just like I gave Owens no credit for the MAC Championship. That was Brookhart's team. If Coach I wins next year, he should get the credit because it is his team and his ideas. Calling it some elses team diverts responsibility away from the new coach and is a tool to gloss over failure as a building process.

I voted for him as well. He was the only sane choice. Instead, McCain won and he ran with that empty skirt Palin. I voted Libertarian in the general.William F. Buckley, God rest his soul, was a great conservative who guided the conservative movement in the US until his passing. Now we have Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, O'reilly and a bunch of other hysterical pseudointellectuals leading the movement. They are in fact really stupid and their stupidity leads them to hate those they don't agree with. I don't know how anyone could listen to those boobs for any length of time and feel good after listening to them. Buckley never outwardly hated anyone.

Why do you care so much about those stupid computer rankings? The only thing that matters is points scored in comparison to the other team.It's one thing to use statistics to compare various aspects of a game...it is another to use them to make it seem as if a 17 point loss was not that bad. UofA was horrible yesterday any way someone wants to slice it. The Zips were so bad, Zip Watcher hasn't even come in the board to tell us this is part of the "building process" KD sees for the team. It's either that or he is following the old rule that if you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.There are lies, damn lies and statistics.

This is a replay of the Ron Paul speech at CPAC this weekend. Ron Paul is a real conservative.Unfortunately, neo-conservatives have taken over an American political party. Neo-conservatives are big government liberals calling themselves conservative. When you turn on FOX News, you see neo-conservatives in Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, Brit Hume, etc. These guys are big government liberals who want to use government to promote their reilgious and international agenda. They are absolute lunatics.Please take 20 minutes and listen to Ron Paul to see if what he says makes sense. I think it does and I wish the guy was president.

Don't feel too bad about the wake up call. I had mine about three years ago when I moved away and started to go to ACC football games and realized how much better an even average football conference like the ACC was than the MAC. I really started to question my beliefs about the MAC and what I was actually watching. Many of my beliefs were just plain wrong. What you are experiencing is actually healthy and once you see it for what it is you can better conceptualized the direction the program should move.In many ways, I like the MAC even more since I've admitted to myself my wife was right and it is Dollar General. I don't go into a game with an illusion about what I am watching and I can just enjoy a sporting event. Try that and you will enjoy the games more. Honest to God, just try it and you will like it...sort of like smoking pot for the first time.

Thank you for coming into the forum Coach Faust. Please try to remember your days of teaching typing at Moeller and utilized the shift and space buttons.

I respectfully disagree. The athletic ability of this team is better than have seen in the KD era. From what I saw yesterday, I think there is a lack of cohesion with this team we have not seen in the past against better teams. Call it cohesion...call it rythm...call it what ever you want. I'm not sure if cohesion is even the right word, but is something intangible I can't exactly find a word for. Maybe someone out there could find a better word.

Are you harshly saying all of the "growing" and "building" is an illusion?I think we've grown, and I think we've built since Keith has been here. I don't think anyone can fairly argue that Keith's teams aren't significantly better than Hipsher's teams were, and honestly, under Hipsher we wouldn't have even been in position to get a bracketbuster game against a team like a VCU, so there has been progress. The problem is that we have stalled out all together. We've gotten to the point where we are one of the top programs in the MAC now, but we have no idea where to go from here. There doesn't seem to be any attempt to go for bigger things. We're perfectly content trying to win the MAC tournament to get to the NCAA's, but we have no plan of action after that. Seemingly every time we have an opportunity to show something outside of the MAC we fail. Apparently at this point we aren't even going to try. Just win your 20+ games against a watered down OOC schedule and your crummy West teams, try to win the MAC tournament then bow out early in the NCAA's. Again, we've gotten to a new level for this program by being able to get to and win MAC tournament titles, we just don't seem to know what to do next.I don't disagree at all. Your posts today are excellent in fact. My worry is you are right on the money. Maybe this is all there is. We are a good team with a good coach in a bad conference with a weak schedule that produces twenty wins a year. An illusion? Maybe....Today should have been a wake up call. Is there anyone out there who still believes we are anywhere near being even a top twenty five mid major? We were out everythinged today.

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Of course they did. They only scored 53 points. Points scored compared to the other team is the most important statistic. Turnovers, steals, blocks and rebounds lead to scoring opportunities, not necessarily points.In big games, you had better be able to score points and put pressure on the other team. Akron put no pressure on VCU to perform all day.That was just plain bad in every way.Bad that the Zips came within 2 rebounds of a team that was supposed to kill them on the boards?Bad that the Zips had fewer turnovers against a pressing defense that was supposed to cause a Zips meltdown?Bad that the Zips had more steals than the team with the "more athletic" players?Bad that the Zips had more blocked shots than the team with the experienced big with the 7-foot-7 wingspan who's projected to be an NBA lottery pick?Bad that the Zips caused the projected NBA lottery pick to foul out?The Zips played like men against men. They lost because they couldn't get the ball through the hoop. It happens to the biggest, baddest, toughest men who play the sport.One thing I do believe is bad are fans who are so focused on pointing fingers at what went wrong that they refuse to acknowledge any good from the team they claim to support.Whatever you are smoking, please send some down to South Carolina.It's OK to say the Zips got their asses kicked today. It happens to everyone and it happened today. Living in a statistical fantasy world does not help.Again, the only stat that matters is point differential. VCU scored more points today than UofA.

Are you harshly saying all of the "growing" and "building" is an illusion?

Of course they did. They only scored 53 points. Points scored compared to the other team is the most important statistic. Turnovers, steals, blocks and rebounds lead to scoring opportunities, not necessarily points.In big games, you had better be able to score points and put pressure on the other team. Akron put no pressure on VCU to perform all day.That was just plain bad in every way.

Basketball and football are completely different animals. Putting 5 or 6 power conference teams on a basketball schedule would be less of an impact on the entire season than 3 BCS teams in football.It's all about percentages. The football team plays 75% of their OOC games against BCS level teams. It is killiing the program. The basketball team should in no way do the same thing. They should in no way also continue to hide from good ooc competition by playing the Malones of the world (twice) and beef up their schedule. They can only hide for so long. Reality needs to happen sooner rather than later.

Exactly my point. How or why would anyone know he went to Akron? All he talked about was tosu...Guys like CB need to get in front of the media and promote UA. It would go a long way to validating our program and then maybe he wouldn't be asked such a question...Then Thomas left, and it all stopped. UA needs to be in Blackburn's face. Give the guy t-shirts and caps. Invite him back for the golf outings and spring practices. Ditto Hixon. And Frye. And others. And if they can't make it in one season, you call them back in 6 months and try again. It's pretty simple.If you see Chase Blackburn wearing an OSU shirt underneath his jersey, I blame UA, not Chase.UofA has a lot of blame, no doubt.We had a great alumni phone campaign going under Gary Bogue and it all stopped. One year was not enough and Gary could have always done better than working with the children in college athletics. UofA gave up on the alumni in favor of the HUGE donors. Right or wrong , that is what happened.Again, I hate to put any blame on CB, he was asked a question and just responded. While I don't agree with the way he responded, it was the answer to a questions that was never followed up on. Chase isn't a rocket scientist, he is just a guy who plays football for a living.

I agree. One thing everyone should understand is most kids don't grow up wanting to play for UofA or any other MAC school. Most kids end up in the MAC because it is where they belong and they were passed over at BCS schools because they didn't have the ability to play there. It's not a bad thing, it just is what it is.....UofA shouldn't worry about what happens at tOSU. I could really care less about them and I think what goes on at UofA has very little to do with what goes on at tOSU. The only reason people think about it as us vs. them is we live in that type of society where everything has become all or nothing. Talk radio is a lot of us vs. themes...it helps people feel at home listening to the radio because they believe they are part of something bigger. UofA should put a good product on the field and play when they want to play. Put a good product on the field and the ABJ will write about them. Put a good product on the field and people will go to games. It's really not about tOSU.I diasgree. It's completely reasonable that CB grew up in c-bus wanting to go to OSU to play football. But he played at UA and he should be supporting the Zips now, not tosu. Screw Chase Blackburn!The diehards on this board bitch all the time that attendance is poor at UA games. Well, why should Joe Akron spend his hard earned money for a UA game when the players and former players don't give a damn about UA...You are correct, what goes on at UA does have very little to do with what goes on at tosu.However, what goes on at tosu has a huge impact on all other D1 Ohio schools, UA included.I know dozens of families in my community who are UA grads. And exactly none of them ever attend UA games. Yet I see all of them wearing their tosu gear...I see what you are saying. I just didn't read any negative toward UofA in his comments. He was asked a question about growing up in Columbus and being a tOSU fan. He gave an honest answer that had nothing to do with UofA. I'm sure there are a lot of kids who grew up near one school, cheered for it then went to another and still out of the corner of their eye follow the school they grew up near. I think that is natural.If UofA won, Joe Akron would go to games. If the MAC was more entertaining, Joe Akron would go to games. If they played on reasonable days, Joe Akron would go to games. If they played at reasonable times, Joe Akron would go to games. I think Blackburn's opinions have little to nothing to do with that. In fact, I'm not sure how many Joe Akrons out there, when they watch a Giants game, know Blackburn went to UofA.

I can only hope you were drunk when you wrote this. 10:11 AM is really never too early. Believe me, I've been there.Exactly what is the ACC league procedure for making sure their best teams lose the conference championship? Make sure there are not black helicopters around your home when you respond.I don't know if Butler would win the MAC tournament since anything can happen in a one and done situation, but they would be the best team in the league.

I'm using this line at some point of my life before the end of March.It was the line of the month.

I agree. One thing everyone should understand is most kids don't grow up wanting to play for UofA or any other MAC school. Most kids end up in the MAC because it is where they belong and they were passed over at BCS schools because they didn't have the ability to play there. It's not a bad thing, it just is what it is.....UofA shouldn't worry about what happens at tOSU. I could really care less about them and I think what goes on at UofA has very little to do with what goes on at tOSU. The only reason people think about it as us vs. them is we live in that type of society where everything has become all or nothing. Talk radio is a lot of us vs. themes...it helps people feel at home listening to the radio because they believe they are part of something bigger. UofA should put a good product on the field and play when they want to play. Put a good product on the field and the ABJ will write about them. Put a good product on the field and people will go to games. It's really not about tOSU.

I can't believe these words are actually being typed on this board....and they are true.I'm simply amazed at the job JK has done at UofA. Hats off to Mack as well for sticking with her when it would have been easy to fire her. Someone in the know should put her down for a raise.

Why would anyone be excited about a home and home with Marshall? They are a shell of the program that they were in the MAC and nobody really came out to watch those games. I just dont get it.+1-1How can anyone say no one came out to the games...unless you want to lie? Every Marshall game a the Rubber Bowl drew GREAT crowds. Every game was exciting. Their fans travel great.Marshall beat a 9-3 OU program in the Little Caesar's Bowl in December, so obviously they are not a shell of their former self. They would have won the MAC East in 2009.C-USA is head and shoulders above the MAC in football. Home-Home vs. Marshall is a great "get" for the Zips schedule. The game will sell out. Easily.I totally agree. Marshall will travel well so there will be a big crowd. Since they are a shell of the team they used to be, a win in front of a big crowd with a known team will do wonders for the interest in the program.I like what I hear from the AD. One BCS level team a year is enough. That would be 25% of the ooc schedule. If we need to play more than one a year for the money, we are making mistakes in other areas of the athletic department. One 1-AA team. He can do whatever he wants with the remaining two games.

And Charlie Coles celebrates a hard earned 29-28 victory. After the game, Coles will be quoted as saying, "I was a little concerned our offense was scoring too many points, but in reality we scored just enough."

I just looked up the stats. There were 72 FTs taken in a 50 minute game. Only 59% of them were made. FG percentages were terrible. I have to give you guys credit. If you could sit through a game like that, you could probably teach the CIA a thing or two about how to survive waterboarding.

It was lacerated last season against Boston College. When the doctors went in to fix it, they found he was born with only one kidney.That's interesting. What is even more interesting is when doctors cut into the heads of Can't State graduates, students and faculty they only find half a brain.

Did he lose a kidney or did he have a laceration that was repaired?If he is down to one kidney, I find it hard to believe even a school as stupid as Can't State would allow him to play.

Looks like this isn't the only board with coachers and builders on it...