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Unless the waitress spills a beer in your lap... No ill wishes though, let's all enjoy this game and I hope to be watching the Zips on Sunday.I employed this exact logic last night. I drove the two hours to Raleigh, went to dinner at the Oyster Bar and went to Tobacco Road to watch the game on high def and have a few more beers. I'm actually going to try to go to the game tomorrow.

FB? Tight end? What are these?They are players that get teams first downs, but not touchdowns. They are the type of player that people from the suburbs are obsessed with because they typically look like them so we get threads like this. The real question should be, Who are the big play wide receivers going to be next year? WRs get touchdowns, TEs and FBs get first down. The MAC tends to be a high scoring league so we need to put up points and show some ability to play defense. Nicely has a HUGE arm and they need to use that arm to throw the ball downfield to playmakers. Anyone can dink and dunk, but I think Nicely has the potential to be an NFL player if he improves his accruacy. They need to use him like an NFL QB.Perfect example happend last weekend. Jason Witten (TE) of the Cowboys had a personal career day with 15 catches and 153 yards. I'm sure suburban fans around the country were swooning at what a great accomplishment it was. They were the two most overrated statistics of the day. What they missed is he scored ZERO points. Let me repeat that.....he scored ZERO points. One more time....he scored ZERO points. His team lost. Amazing? No because football games are won with big plays on offense.Every time I read one of your completely clueless posts, I think that was the dumbest one yet. However, you always prove me wrong and post something even more ridiculous. My post points out:1. The TE is an overrated position that people have mistakenly fallen in love with even though there is little evidence for it doing much more than getting first downs.2. We should worry about a position that really matters (WR) and can win games more effectively than the TE with a good QB. We now have the QB.3. A concrete and recent example of the failings of a team that throws to their TE too much.I understand how badly fans want to believe that a slow plodding player can win a game. Americans love the underdog. Some will even be able to provide the rare example for it happening. Most people are slow and plodding so they relate to it personally. I really do get it. Humans tend to relate to others similar to them. For example, many Catholics voted for JFK because he was Catholic. Others voted for George Bush because he was from Texas and so were they (presidential candidates almost always win their own state). Others may have voted for Obama because he is black and so are they. Fans are just part of society.In closing, get the ball to playmakers and score points...not first downs.

FB? Tight end? What are these?They are players that get teams first downs, but not touchdowns. They are the type of player that people from the suburbs are obsessed with because they typically look like them so we get threads like this. The real question should be, Who are the big play wide receivers going to be next year? WRs get touchdowns, TEs and FBs get first down. The MAC tends to be a high scoring league so we need to put up points and show some ability to play defense. Nicely has a HUGE arm and they need to use that arm to throw the ball downfield to playmakers. Anyone can dink and dunk, but I think Nicely has the potential to be an NFL player if he improves his accruacy. They need to use him like an NFL QB.Perfect example happend last weekend. Jason Witten (TE) of the Cowboys had a personal career day with 15 catches and 153 yards. I'm sure suburban fans around the country were swooning at what a great accomplishment it was. They were the two most overrated statistics of the day. What they missed is he scored ZERO points. Let me repeat that.....he scored ZERO points. One more time....he scored ZERO points. His team lost. Amazing? No because football games are won with big plays on offense.

Oh my, emotional college kids are swearing.....Amazing.Dennison would hand out 20 lashes for swearing, but he looked the other way while allowing rampant steroid abuse to take place and guys getting drunk the night before games. If that's winning the right way, I'd like to know what winning the wrong way is. The legend of Dennison is much greater than the reality.

The decision shouldn't be left up to him.If we have a schedule like Fresno St., we can suffer through five more years of losing seasons. If we schedule sanely, we can enjoy some winning.

The stadium cams don't seem to be working.Unfortunately, this thread still is......

If you really want to do something fun and you own a shotgun. This is a good gun club out by the Research Triangle.

Raleigh is actually close to Pinehurst. Lots of great golfing around Pinehurst besides the main club you see on television. Around Greensboro is a place called The Grandover that is very nice but a bit of a drive. Basically, you are surrounded by good golf courses there.

What has he done to earn your trust?1.) He actually interviewed the candidates, rather than only look at won/lost records on a school's web site, or idiotic comments on fan forums. 2.) He didn't look at Central Michigan and think "This is the only possible way to have success in the MAC."3.) He released a coaching staff that was still under contract for a year. In these economic times, he could easily have said "Hey, my hands are tied...we have to keep the guy." But he made the tough (monetarily) call. 4.) His own career advancement depends on it.Look - I have a long way to go before I buy into YouTube Tom part-and-parcel. The way he handled Reno's dismissal was absolutely wrong and he has a mile to go to make up for it. But he knows better than anyone on this board whether or not Ianello was the best candidate for the Akron HC job.Below is my rebuttal to your strained logic (number correspond to numbers above):1. Isn't it his job to interview the candidates. Why does that deserve respect?2. I guess you have a point there.3. Making obvious choices does not deserve respect. It's like saying Mike Thomas was brilliant for hiring Kelly when in fact it was the obvious choice.4. People in college athletics advance their careers in all sorts of ways. One of those is hiring their friends so incase they need another job they have their friends to fall back on. I think this is lazy management.Maybe it's my natural dislike for authority and honestly it is still early in his UofA career, but the guy makes me nervous in a way that Mack and Thomas didn't. I think he is a ready...fire...aim guy.

What has he done to earn your trust?What has he done to lose your's?Trust isn't given, it's earned.1. Reno raw deal.2. Taking the easy road and hiring a buddy.3. Giving away tickets to the final football game.Now go cry to the moderators and have them make you another sign, sign bitch.

What has he done to earn your trust?

You're right. I hate the "building" nonsense. You don't build a program....From day one, you improve a program. I expect this team, next year, to be improved over last year. Building implies..."Give us a couple of years". No thanks.

I'm a patient man, so I'll wait and see while eating the same pile of crap I have been for the past 20+ years. I have a feeling I know how this story is going to end.

My roommate played college football and is now a medical doctor. Another from my suite on Brown Street is a doctor. Another is a pharmacist. I have a masters degree. Another suitemate has a masters degree. I know guys who are MBAs, CPAs and lawyers. It can be done and there are plenty of examples. The kid just didn't want to come to UofA.

I'm disappointed too. However, this is what I expected. People in college athletics have almost zero creativity. Tom could have taken the difficult road and hired someone highly qualified. Instead he hired a buddy from a past job.......lazy. This is typical.....sad, but typical. Guys like Tom don't care because they always have their eyes on the next job.The only thing I disagree with is us having everything we need to go "big time". We have everything we need to win the MAC, but not even enough to win a second tier conference or even compete in one.

We had one already. His name was JD Brookhart. 2005 MAC Champions.

Smug as always...i hate UNC.and whiners. Seeing it first hand is amazing.

I have a customer who is an NC State graduate and has seen this soccer complex. He said it is awesome!

Pregame and post game Friday? Again, 42nd Street Oyster Bar is great.

I'd just like to remind everyone that regardless of how cold it is out or how hot it is out, it's always 72 degrees on a barstool.

The problem with HS coaches is this. A lot of parents look at how many players the coach places in D-1A as a benchmark for how well they are doing their job. This puts coaches in a bad spot. They don't sit enough kids down and tell them and their parents they are not good enough to play D-1A football. Most kids know, the parents are the problem. Instead, coaches let the parental pressure get to them and try to talk college coaches into taking their players. When the coaches see the tape of the player and his lack of talent, they develop a sour opinion of that coach and do not trust what they have to say....that's where the relationship fractures.We don't live in an honest enough society.

Thanks for he link. Both of these sound very familiar. It all starts with talent.The second is extremely familiar. Every fan board out there says they have a bad offense and the coach can't make adjustments. There's nothing new about that complaint. The first complaint stems from the fact that fans watch the team every week and they get tired of watching the same offense. The lack of variety in play calling stems from the lack of variety in team viewing. The second complaint about adjustments stems from people who want to complain but can't really thing of what to say...."The coach is losing the team" is the same type of complaint.The bottom line is the guy continues to win and we should at least interview the guy.

Nice!!!

I don't know when they will be given out, but are Lily and Grandpa attending this year?

An offense has to be able to game plan for a variety of defenses as well.Asking a defensive coach for advise is like asking an Amish man for advice on how to build a nuclear powerplant. They are nice people and all, just not very sharp.......and lacking in the looks department........and tend to live with their mothers too long......and generally unclean.