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Thanks.I hope TBA turns into I-AA.Keep Syracuse.Drop either KY or IN (whichever pays less) and pick up another I-AA team. Actually, try to drop both and pick up a non-BCS D-1A team. We need to get out of playing 3 BCS level teams in a year. There is no reason to guarantee losing three games. The cycle of losing needs to stop and it needs to start with scheduling. Let's try to avoid three road games in a row next year as well.It's time to start winning. Let's put ourselves in a position to win and turn losers into winners.

Does anyone know who we play next year OOC?

Another thing about halftime adjustments. The most important drive of the second half is the first drive. a = Zips second half scoringb = Opponents (MAC only) second half scoring vs UofAx = Zips second half first drive scoringy = Opponents (MAC only) second half first drive scoring vs UofAIf x < y, I will buy the Zips make poor halftime adjustments.If a < b, I will buy the Zips make poor in progress adjustment.If x < y and a < b, we suck.

And another thing about losing. The Zips have been losing for so long they are actually getting better and better at it by the year. The team is on a great early game drive and the WR fumbles on a routine tackle. The QB runs into the RB. The list goes on and on. The methods we are deploying to lose are becoming more spectacular by the year.BG has a smart senior QB and an NFL player in #7. Other than that, the talent level is no different. Last night was a game the Zips could have won if not for their stupidity.

What if you have a good first half and the other team adjusts to it during halftime? At that point, your halftime adjustments are worthless. Football does not function in a vaccum where only one team adjusts.I've used this analogy before. Halftime lasts around 20 minutes. Five minutes to get in the room, five to get out, five for the coaches to talk and five to talk to the players. There is actually little time at half to make adjustments. On the other hand, a televised football game now lasts around three hours and fifteen minutes. Take out 20 for halftime and the game lasts 2:55. Sixty minutes in a game with each team splitting time of posession equally gives each team 30 minutes. There is actually around 1hour and 30minutes during a game when either the offense or defense is not on the field. That time is more important than the 10 minutes at halftime. There are drives that last more than 10 minutes in real time.Each play can be adjusted for. QBs do it all the time by calling another play at the line. Defenses do the same thing. For example, why can't a coach yell to a player on defense to take a deeper drop on coverage, etc. during the game? The players are at least smart enough to get into college, they should be smart enough to think through a simple game without a coach telling them what to do. Our favorite football team had a player (Harrison) think for himself last year in the Super Bowl and made one of the best plays in SB history. I doubt Harrison has a career at NASA waiting for him when his playing days are over. He was supposed to have blitzed on the interception, recognized the alignment the Cardinal presented was exactly the same as a play another team ran on them earlier in the year in the same positon and scored a TD. Recognizing this he made his adjustment, intercepted the pass and scored a TD. Yes, I believe a smart football player can make adjustments without coaches directing his every move. There's your proof.

The culture of stupidity has created the culture of losing. Watching the Zips play has made me extremely uncomfortable because I know it is only a matter of time until they do something backbreakingly (is that even a word?) stupid.The answer to the original question is to run forward. Almost every answer to the question of whether or not to run forward or sideways is to run forward. It is what they do in the NFL and what good college backs do. Getting yards is the key, especially in the game situation they were in. Like I said in the other thread, a 98 yard TD run is almost completely unrealistic...take what they give you and live to fight another day/play.I want football smart players. But more than anything, I want players who are conditioned to win and have won. Maybe that is the same thing. There are a lot of players who are smart at football and stupid at everything else. I want some smart football players.....right now, I would settle for them not being stupid.

They should select an atomic symbol and put them on their helmets for when they actually do something smart.

I would like to continue the theme I started a couple of weeks ago noting how stupid we are. Second and whatever from our own two....we run the ball, good....our RB takes the ball, gets into the hole, out of the endzone and could fall forward to the four for some extra breathing room and a chance on third down.....what does our stupid player do, he runs backward into the endzone and then can't get out.....safety.I hate to say, "When I was in school", because it seems so long ago now, but the coaches (some are in the NFL now) talked to the players about game situations and how to think when situation "x" happened to you. Either the coaches aren't telling the players how to think, or a college student can't figure out basic game situations. I'm going to split the atom for #22....when you take a hand-off in the endzone, the first thing you need to do is get the heck out of the endzone....once you get out of the endzone, don't go back into the endzone. Go freaking forward. Almost never does a RB go for a 98 yard run so get your ass out of the endzone and stay out.To our DBs, when the other team gets into the red zone, cover closer and let the smaller size of the field be another defender for you. Another thing, when you blitz, cover closer because the ball is going to be coming out faster.The Zips play every play as if it is first and ten from the fifty. Halftime adjustments are overrated. Make adjustments as the game progresses based upon each play and what the heck is going on at the time. Every play is valuable and we just don't use common sense.Over the past 23 years, I've watched the Zips do one stupid thing after another. And it normally isn't just some mild act of stupidity, it is a crushing, game losing act of stupidity. Watching the Zips is like watching one of my favorite TV programs, Curb Your Enthusiasm. For those of you who don't watch, it is on HBO. It is very uncomfortable humor and you feel uncomfortable while watching. That's the Zips. It isn't if they are going to make a crushing mistake, it is when. 23 years of this. Bad coaching doesn't define the Zips football program over the past 23 years, it is stupidity that defines it.

The ACC is one of the top two conferences in the country. I don't know where NC State will finish, but they are a good team in a great conference. I didn't expect much more out of the Zips than what happened today.The Zips will be fine.....

I go to that area at least once every two weeks. The county Myrtle Beach is in is a very nice place. After the summer season is over, it is a great place to be a local. The school is a nice place and they have upgraded a lot of their facilities. The football stadium looks great and the are building an office building next to it that will allow people to sit outside and watch games.

This paper was written by a professor at UC Berkeley on fourth down decision making by NFL coaches over a three year period.New England's coach is a big fan of this paper. One more foot against Indy and he is not the goat he is today. The paper basically says coaches kick too much on fourth downs. I really don't care what the paper says, I'll take an easy three or change in field position over the risk. College is much different than the NFL also....I'd like to see the same study done on college football with a larger universe of teams than the NFL and a different flow to the game than NFL.

UofA gets plenty of NE Ohio kids. That isn't the problem. Being on the news with BW is not the problem. The problem is UofA is not giving someone from Cleveland or Lakewood or Lake Co., etc. a reason to drive 60+ miles to watch a football game. The product is bad. When they do, people from Cleveland will come. There are enough people in Summit and Stark Cos. to draw from...heck, there are enough alumni in those conties to draw from.We go through cycles where Zips fans think bringing in more NE Ohio kids will draw bigger crowds. Each time we have tried it, failure has followed. Let's bring in kids who are good enough to win in the MAC and want to win....not play in a new stadium as their primary motive.

It's amazing they make as much as they do to do what they do. From what I've heard, there are only a couple of these firms and all you are really paying for is confidentiality. Athletic departments around the country a full of blabbermouths and word would get out as to who was looking at each job. These firms keep things quiet for as long as possible until the process moves forward to the point where a small group of candidates is comfortable with their name getting out as a candidate.Loose lips sink ships and they also cost athletic departments a ton of money in finders fees.

You haven't been back for a game yet, have you? I of course use the term "game" loosely.Please tell me we didn't build a $65 million stadium without doors on the bathroom stalls.......

That's just crazy talk. Everyone knows a Amish man wouldn't own a computer..... He would use his next door neighbor's for free, but he would never own one. I thought more people might think playing a preseason game in Memorial might be interesting.I want to see a leather helmet "throw-back" game between UA and K.e.n.t. next year at The Rubber Bowl.Wouldn't it be just as easy to remove the doors from the bathroom stalls at The Big Phone Booth?

That's just crazy talk. Everyone knows a Amish man wouldn't own a computer..... He would use his next door neighbor's for free, but he would never own one. I thought more people might think playing a preseason game in Memorial might be interesting.

NC State does something that I think would be cool for UofA to do. On their schedule, it shows their first game against St. Something being played in "Reynolds". Reynolds is their old arena on campus. They now play off campus in the same arena the NHL team plays in. Am I the only one who thinks UofA should play their exhibition game in Memorial Hall? I've been away from campus for a long time.....Is Memorial Hall even still standing?

They could if they heard news that we don't have access to. Players are the first ones to know when a coach is going to be gone.I'm sure they had figured that one out long before last week.

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I drove up to the NC mountains (near Western Carolina University if anyone knows where that is) to take a train ride and watch the leaves change. Part of the ride takes you buy where they filmed the scene from The Fugitive with Harrison Ford where he jumps from the train track and the train crashes into the prison buss. The two trains they crashed are still there stuck in the mud with the two buses painted Illinois Department of Corrections.When I think of this season, I'll think of that train ride and the trainwreck we saw.I really don't think the kids have quit. They were completely overmatched last week by a team that had more talent and a ton on the line. Temple is on a roll and things got out of control. They don't go from playing their butts off one week to giving up the next week.

OOPs. I guess if I would have looked at the link it would have helped.$10 million seems like a good deal. One of thise artificial fields with nothing on it runs around $800,000. I'm sure they will get a nice one. Earth moving, bubble construction, air pumps to hold bubble up, sidewalks to and from bubble, lights, water, drainage.....$10 millions sounds about right.

It could be a lot of money or it could not. They didn't need a stadium, but at the same time 9.7 mil isn't much money to build much with a cover over it. I'd be interested to know what they are spending the money on before I make up my mind.

Apology accepted.

Didn't your parents ever tell you to watch what you put in your mouth?

Thanks UAZip0510. To the point, the answer is "no". The point of Zip Watcher's post was to not just blast me, but send a point out to anyone who might disagree with him and his line of thinking.I did not read his post that way at all.how did you read it? what would cause such a severe response to a pretty harmless post? keep in mind, zw is a moderator.

Thanks UAZip0510. To the point, the answer is "no". The point of Zip Watcher's post was to not just blast me, but send a point out to anyone who might disagree with him and his line of thinking.