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Like you, I really don't want to know what he did to the rest of the stuff you were served. He wasn't serving my table. Good thing too, because the Great GP1 would have had him shine his shoes before he left......."Hey Can't grad....Go get your shine box."Right..... you have never worked in a restaurant, have you? It gives me the willies just thinking about the stuff you chewed and swallowed. Thats just what I was thinking! I used to own a restaurant, and you are asking for it if you piss off a server or cook for no reason. The Great GP1 would be advised to remember he can't see what goes on in the kitchen! Nothing from the kitchen. Just beers.

OK, I thought I heard on this board that schools don't fire their coaches during the season...(?)What did Memphis gain by firing this guy at this point in the season? It is a move short on substance and long on fluff.

I'm not sure I buy this argument. In fact, I've never really bought into the hysteria around JD's recruiting. It was a concern, but well down the list of problems. It doesn't jive with the current level of talent on the field. The assumption is there would be no talent on the field and that just isn't the case.JD's biggest problem is his inability to win with the talent on the field. The talent on the field is at least enough to win the MAC East. The kids that never made it to the field don't seem to have an impact on this.I hope the players keep their heads up. Help is on the way.....we hope.

You should also have an aversion to scam artists. The Amish are running one of the biggest rackets in the country. They should be investigated and jailed.....all of them!

Like you, I really don't want to know what he did to the rest of the stuff you were served. He wasn't serving my table. Good thing too, because the Great GP1 would have had him shine his shoes before he left......."Hey Can't grad....Go get your shine box."

I agree. He is good now. He will get better, but that doesn't make him bad now. There isn't going to be a long "building" process with this kid. With the right coaching, he should win next year.He only needs some fine tuning and he is all set. The fine tuning is what is necessary for him to go from good to great.Watching the game on TV, you get a good view of how players look during the game. He didn't look scared at all.

Yikes. It looks like the past. Actually, you are describing most of the teams in the MAC.JD won the MAC with Getsy, Biggs and Aleman. He needed those guys to round out the team.I always thought his biggest coup was winning the MAC. I'm not sure what keeping Frye around for his senior season did for the team.If they are indeed going to rebuild for a few years, they should let us know how many years that will be so I don't have to pay attention until those years come around. If they say they are going to win next season, I'll watch next season.Nothing is ever a foregone conclusion in sports. Too many things can happen that can spin a season out of control or even make a season fall in our favor.

I don't disagree with your overall evaluation. However, he does need to work on his accuracy. It is the most critical aspect of being a QB because it helps receivers get extra yards running.Also, even Nolan Ryan threw a curveball or change-up every once in a while. This kid needs to work on when to throw hard and when not to throw hard.

We give up 377 yards of passing from a freshman from Ken+, and we have a good defense?!? Not my idea of good D. I'll say for once I seen the staff try to put some pressure on the QB, but that's as far as I'm willing to go.A frustrating thing for me watching the game yesterday was we don't even mix up our coverage when we rush three. We appeared to play all zone behind the line. How about some man-to-man mixed in with the zone. A football team can only send five guys out for a pass. With eight defenders, surely some could play man-to-man with a last line of defense zone behind it. Our pass coverage is too passive.....well, our entire defensive scheme is too passive so why should I be surprised?

That is AWESOME. I wish I had the balls to say something like that. It has nothing to do with ball. Just say it. I'll never see that guy again in my life.......unless he takes the managers job at Five Guys at Rivergate.

if akron tries to throw the ball nicely will be sacked 10 times and the game will be over by haltime...line up in the I run at 'em, play field position and tell the defense(fleming) to stop making excuses and win ONE game...ain't gonna happen but hope springs eternal... Stick with documenting pay stubs.

So, I'm watching the Zips in downtown Charlotte today at Wild Wings. A server comes out of the door and stops dead in his tracks to see the the Zips and Golden Douchebags are playing on TV. He says to a patron, "I graduated from Can't State". The guy that is GP1 hears it and yells out, "With a degree from Can't State, the best you will ever do is serving beers at a bar."I hate Can't State.

I don't see how JD can save his job.With that said, he deserves a big thanks from everyone on this board. The team was prepared to play today.In fact, JD has a great record against the scumbags from Portage Co.Thanks JD.

I can't believe this team is 2-7. After watching every play today I feel great about the future. The talent is there.Another thing I can't believe is Can't is 4-1 in the MAC....they are terrible......actually, they are laughable......really....really really.....laughable.

Can't's QB is more Keith Partridge than Spencer Keith.With the exception of a couple of mistakes that take place in football games, our QB is much better than theirs.

The success at Cincinnati has been pretty simple to explain.First, they have made themselves one of the best teams in a conference that nearly isn't as good as it used to be. They also get BCS money and the great Basketball money from being in the Big East. Cincy joined the Big East in the 2005-2006 season. Around that time, VT, Miami and BC exited the league for the ACC. Good teams remaining were WVU and to some extent Pitt. Every league needs a team that can compete with the top two and Cincy filled that void well...Cincy and WVU will be a great game. The timing of the jump to the BE could not have been better.Secondly, the hiring of Kelly was not as much genius as it was obvious. At the time, Kelly was a star on the rise and he got out of CMU before the black hole that is the MAC could destroy his career. Kelly knows one thing for sure....you need a qb that can run his offense and run it well. Mauk and Pike fit that offense to a T. CK's favorite player at CMU fit it well also. The program Kelly took over wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible either. There was something to work with and our next coach will have something to work with when he gets here. I reamain optimistic about UofA being the best team in a bad conference in the near future.Thirdly, one of the P's of marketing is product. What is Cincy selling? Winning is now one of the things. Good players are easy to sell. Oh, and by the way, ConferenceDOA is not one of the things they are selling. Being at the BCS level opens up the door for huge paydays and national coverage. A school at least goes from being being the Tuesday or Wednesday night game to prime time on Thursday and then tonight is another BE game on ESPN. Nobody in Cincy wants to go watch Tulsa, Marshall, Tulane or any of the other pieces of crap C-DOA is selling. I don't see the difference in Tulsa or Central Michigan as far as my interest level.Where is UofA? Well, we need to become the best team in a bad conference. I believe we can. Second, we need a guy like Kelly who can come in next year, win immediately and then move on to his payday. The talent is there. The problem UofA has is they are in the MAC and it is where they belong. The MAC is a bad conference and the only move we can make is to a league like C-DOA which is what we would be upon crashing in that league.Here is where reality sets in and it's more than just saying, "Enough is enough". I hate to use Rosa Parks as an example because the struggles of minority groups in the 1950s pales in comparison to the struggles of UofA football, but here it goes. Rosa Parks just wasn't some lady who sat on the bus and said no. That day was carefully orchestrated by civil rights groups. The country was at a point where people were beginning to see the world and minority groups differently. Blacks served and fought in the Army in WWII and the Korean War yet they were still held back by a large part of society. Over time, blacks realized they had a lot of power in society and exercised it through marches, boycotts, etc. They may not have had a lot of money, but they had justice and morality on their side.What does the Rosa Parks analogy mean for the MAC. Change happened because people were listening, and not just black people. Who is listening to the MAC? There is a better chance of ZipsWin! missing a home MBB game than the country beginning to care about the MAC. People cared about the injustice black people were experiencing. Nobody cares about he injustice the MAC is experiencing. Not only does the country not care, but I'm at the point where I don't even think the NCAA cares about the MAC. Why should anyone care? College football as it is now is exciting for the public, making money for the big schools which is exactly the way the NCAA wants it and making money for the networks which is exactly what the NCAA wants also.Can the MAC boycott and what would they boycott? The MAC is the prostitute of the NCAA along with the other Tier 3 conferences. MAC schools have to accept paydays from BCS schools because they need the money. Even if they boycotted, nobody would care and the BCS schools would just dip down into I-AA schools for their non-conference games. Nobody at tOSU cares of they win three games against Akron, Can't, OU or YSU, Indiana State, Eastern Illinois. The stadium will be filled regardless. Enough is enough alright. Sometimes a doctor has to cut off a leg in order to save the patient. It's time for the MAC to move to I-AA if it wants to stay alive. "Growing" by adding more bad teams to an already bad league is not the answer. Jumping to conferences like C-DOA is not the answer and I have no idea why the Big East would want a MAC team to join their league.I wish it was different, but wishing again takes me back to something my mother once told me, "Make a wish or s#!t in your hat. See which one fills up first." 20+ years is enough. It's time to live in the world of reality.Your Rosa Parks analogy will be appropriate when people start watching the MAC because they are too tired to switch the TV away from a MAC game. I have actually talked to Rosa (no joke) and according to her there was no orchestration by civil rights groups behind her bus incident. She told me she was just to tired to move to the back of the bus.Try again.....

Spring practice needs to be brutal next year and it should. It's time to find out who wants to play and who doesn't. You find that out in the spring.

Will they?....Time will tell. Should they?, YES.If I hear one single peep out of the new coach or AD pertaining to another "building" process, I'll barf. If they want four years to build, they should let all of us know so we can stop paying attention for four years. I know I've seen enough building over the past 20+ years. I want some winning.

At least we have gotten beyond people saying that high school Coach X might be a good fit. Shows some maturity in the fan base.

That's the real shame of it all and why there needs to be a change. It's more about mismanagement and not really about coaches who really don't know anything about football.A good manager puts a person in a place where they can be successful. Bad managers don't. Our coach is a bad manager of talent.I'd be really upset if I thought there wasn't any talent becuae I would worry about the near future. I am actually very bullish about this program if there is a change.What happened to the coaches don't play, the players play? The inability of this coaching staff to teach is the weakness of the team. The team can't tackle, block, run or catch the ball. It's as simple as that. No fundamentals. Throw in a little lousy offensive and defensive schemes and you have the 2009 zips football team.It is about players. We have the players....we are not using them right.

I want a coach who believes there is currently enough talent on the team to win next year and has a plan for how to change the culture of the team and a plan for turning losers into winners. No gimmicks wanted.We should not discount a coach because he had a similar background as our other coaches. One thing to understand is we could get a guy with JD's exact background and get different results. It's all about the vision for the program.

That's the real shame of it all and why there needs to be a change. It's more about mismanagement and not really about coaches who really don't know anything about football.A good manager puts a person in a place where they can be successful. Bad managers don't. Our coach is a bad manager of talent.I'd be really upset if I thought there wasn't any talent becuae I would worry about the near future. I am actually very bullish about this program if there is a change.

Sorry guys. I just don't agree that Gonzaga is a great program or even a Top 20 program. I will admit they are a great mid-major program though. Here are their 2008 results. 25-5 looks good on the surface, but they started out the season 9-4. Whenever they play a Top 20 team, they get beaten badly. Wins against Akron and W. Kentucky in the Tournament do not really impress me much either.Back to the main point. The Zips are a good mid-major program. We have a long way to go before being considered a great mid-major program. The proof will be what the Zips do on the court. Not their rankings or their opponents rankings.

Did anyone see Outside the Lines this morning (it's Sunday)? They did a story about crazy football coaches attacking their wives and co-workers (don't get me started on how stupid most high level college and NFL coaches are in real life).The story about the nut coaching at NM mentioned he got into an altercaton with a coach from Illinois named Mike Woodford in Nashville at an NCAA coaching convention. Mike Woodford was on staff during the early Faust years at UofA. If anyone remembers, Woody was the coach who won $27 million in the lottery.

Deploy larger players and they will be strong enough to bring down the other team's players when they run the ball. The players we have on the field are too small. Use a defense that places larger players on the field and all will work out.