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How about the MAC Championship? How about beating BCS school Syracuse? How about beating Top 25 Marshall?.......As far as what fans at a HS football game are saying, I could care less. What else do people from Youngstown have to talk about....the weather.....the great economy...the booming downtown...the beautiful landscaping?

It seems as if your logic is since the team was 3-9, the players aren't any good. I think the players are good and just need a new coach.I'm only concerned if a player is a top notch talent. If the player is a dog or easily replaced by another, I'm not concerned.The Zips will be fine. I'm not looking down the road any further than next year. The expectation should be for a coach to come in and win right away. Next year the coach will have "his team". Calling it anything other than "his team" is already making excuses for losing.

I go almost every week. Next week when I'm there I'll stop by. Is it in MB or Conway?

No, this is the best time of year on the Carolina Coast because it's not boiling hot with 98% humidity every day. Congrats Hunter, but you're simply swapping our crappy winters for their horrible, never-ending muggy, buggy summers. Ughhh.Interesting. I live in SC and we get two months of fall, two months of winter (including two days of snow), two months of spring and six months of summer. I'll take that any day over six months of winter. I will confess that there are two months that are EXTREMELY hot (the first year was the worst, but we grew used to it), but that is about the time in Ohio when it is extremely hot as well (we call that season "no bra" season because it is too hot for the ladies to wear bras). Outside of that, there is something to be said for spring flowers coming up at the beginning of March, going to the last Wake game in November in shorts, comfortable tailgates for college basketball, going to the ocean for Christmas/New Years and girls in summer dresses year around. I just got back from eating dinner and I have shorts on. Don't need a snow scraper in the car. I'll take that.I took the "swap" almost three years ago and would never return.

Come on Zip37, it's completely unfair to hold Wistrcill accountable for a past that he had nothing to do with. Those of you who are skeptical at best, or expecting some coaching calamity, what will that look like to you? No D-1 wins in entire calendar years instead of one?The thing about coachers is they are left in a strange position when a coach is fired. They spend their entire lives wanting coaches fired and they feel some sort of affirmation when it happens. However, until a new coach is hired and actually loses a game, there is no coach to blame for everything so they look for short term alternatives. Reliving the past is one of their short term alternatives.I'm sure if we lose our first game next year, Zip37 will be posting....."Coach X is a < .500 coach".

Did he give you any indication on what the lottery numbers will be Saturday?

Hunter seems to be walking into a good situation at CCU.Last night I was in Myrtle Beach and the CCU TV network is on local TV. The had an alumni weekend for the homecoming game and sold out their golf outing. They also had 300 alumni show up to a pregame party outside of their stadium.TAKE NOTE UOFA: Their alumni association had a woman speak about generating alumni interest around the country and starting alumni chapters. It has been very successful. Here is how they do it. The do a geographical search to find at least 250 alumni names in an area. The do an e-mailer and snail-mailer to that group. One person always volunteers to be the first president and they go from there. That person organizes the first meeting. Once a year, someone from the CCU meets with the chapter to give them an update on what is going on at the school. See how easy it is UofA. Try harder! "Building" doesn't always have to come in the form of a literal building (or parking deck).

Excellent post! Mt. Union gets a ton of players trying out for their team....I once heard they have around 200 players. I'm sure he can find 22 good ones from that group.A coach needs to at least have experience managing scholarships.

If you start out your thinking, like the Great GP1 does, that most people in athletics administration are stupid and deserving of little confidence, the fall isn't that bad when it happens. I don't have much confidence either, but I didn't have much to begin with given his nutty start with Reno.

We have had one injury after another for the past few years. It's time for a new strength and conditioning coach. Maybe he is a nice guy, but maybe it is a time to change that person also.

Good for Hunter! I'm going to be spending the night there tomorrow night. This is the best time of year to go to the beach because all of the locals are out having a good time and there are much fewer people. Hunter is going to love it.

He would make an interesting candidate. How many schools have a coach that can fly themselves to recruiting visits? I didn't realize he is from New Castle, PA Would he pick Akron?He's looking for the rest of the large pizza he ate the night before....

I think we need to worry more about the number of TD passes we did not complete to our WRs before we worry about the most overrated receiver position in football (it is an important position, it's importance is overrated though). WRs get TDs, TEs get first downs. Give me big plays to WRs all day over dinking and dunking to the TE.

OK buckeye honks, then please inform me of the "successful" Tressel coaching tree over the last 5 yearsDantonio went to UC and all he could talk about was getting home after UC games to watch the Buckeyes..Then watch Kelly take the program to a #5 ranking...Mark Snyder--Just fired.No Buckeye assistants at Ohio D-1 programs.....80 million dollar football budget vs. 15 million equals a reality check and a one-way ticket back to c-bus begging for your old job back..Never thought of it that way. Speaking of begging for a job back, maybe Heacock from YSU (part of the Tressel coaching tree) will be begging for his back now.

He would make an interesting candidate. How many schools have a coach that can fly themselves to recruiting visits? Maybe we could "build" him his own hanger out at Wingfoot Lake.

Why can't they be both? We have too many lawyers in our country so everything has become an either/or proposition.

You assume Vrabel wants to coach.If Tressel is going to retire in 5-6 years, the safe bet for LF would be to stay there as DC and take over as HC if he can get the job. There is much more risk in taking the Akron job than waiting out Tressel.

As a season ticket holder for an ACC school, I can say that the Big Ten is below the ACC.......and the ACC ain't all that good and the Big Ten is terrible.We'll see what tOSU has in the Rose Bowl, but I don't think they could win against GA Tech, Clemson or maybe even VA Tech. Hell, they lost to Purdue.The Big Ten is a second tier conference.BTW, if Luke F is interested (He would be better off waiting for Tressel to retire) I would be interested.

Check your PMs.Post it! It doesn't matter now.

All of them.The overall athletic talent on this team is good enough to win in this sorry league if it wasn't for the mismanagement of the coach. The problem is the talent was used in the wrong way because JD's strategies were destined for failure. Using different schemes will bring out the talent in the team. It happens frequently. A good swift kick in the ass from the new coach will do wonders for the kids as well.When Owens was fired, my biggest concern was the lack of talent on the team (Owens would have had one more 6-5 year under his belt and then the wheels would have fallen off). JD had to come in and clean house. Most were so bad they couldn't even make Ashland win their conference after transferring there. The new guy won't have to do that. JD left enough talent behind to win in the MAC....the next guy needs to win sooner rather than later.I hope you're right. It makes me wonder why JD did better with LO guys than his own?Biggs, Alleman, Kemme, Getsy and pulling Hixon from defense to offense. Four of those five were JD's guys. Hixon my as well have been since JD saved his career. The myth is JD won with LO's guys. The reality is his guys took the Zips from a second place team to MAC Champions.One other thing everyone seems to forget is JD lost some key assistant coaches in the first couple of years. Arron Alford is doing well at Utah and the LB coach is doing well at Air Force. I think these guys were key losses to the program.I agree that those guys were "His Guys", but why wasn't he able to attract anymore of those types of players after that initial wave?I respectfully disagree. Nicely is a potential future NFL player if his accuracy can improve. Wagner is a solid player. We have a very good group of young RBs. Harvey was a future NFL player if he wasn't so stupid. We have talented kids on defense who have been put in a hopeless positioin. The talent was/is there. The coaching did not put the talent the team had in a position to win.

Fax machine? What is this, the 1990s? Anybody who faxes in their resume should not be looked at. I want a modern offense, not the wing-t.

why play a I-AA school?...its not like we are going to go out and win 8 other games...play a D-I school that you can compete with...sunbelt...low level cusa...how many of you go to the morgan state game if its in october and not the Info. opener?+1If you want to think small, expect small results. We can 'play with' any team. Can we win, probably not, but that doesnt mean we wont try. I'd rather see a historic DIV-1 team here than a historic IAA team. B-O-R-I-N-G. Besides, dont the wins again lower conferneces not count?I want to see winning and going to bowl games. Beating I-AA teams gets you to a bowl game. Losing gets empty stadiums and our current scheduling guarantees three losing games a year. When the Zips get really good, the scheduling could take them from 7-5 to 9-3....fans get excited about 9-3.Also, I-AA teams guarantee not only wins,, but home games. The Big Phone Booth was built for watching football, not to sit empty while we play away games.

All of them.The overall athletic talent on this team is good enough to win in this sorry league if it wasn't for the mismanagement of the coach. The problem is the talent was used in the wrong way because JD's strategies were destined for failure. Using different schemes will bring out the talent in the team. It happens frequently. A good swift kick in the ass from the new coach will do wonders for the kids as well.When Owens was fired, my biggest concern was the lack of talent on the team (Owens would have had one more 6-5 year under his belt and then the wheels would have fallen off). JD had to come in and clean house. Most were so bad they couldn't even make Ashland win their conference after transferring there. The new guy won't have to do that. JD left enough talent behind to win in the MAC....the next guy needs to win sooner rather than later.I hope you're right. It makes me wonder why JD did better with LO guys than his own?Biggs, Alleman, Kemme, Getsy and pulling Hixon from defense to offense. Four of those five were JD's guys. Hixon my as well have been since JD saved his career. The myth is JD won with LO's guys. The reality is his guys took the Zips from a second place team to MAC Champions.One other thing everyone seems to forget is JD lost some key assistant coaches in the first couple of years. Arron Alford is doing well at Utah and the LB coach is doing well at Air Force. I think these guys were key losses to the program.

All of them.The overall athletic talent on this team is good enough to win in this sorry league if it wasn't for the mismanagement of the coach. The problem is the talent was used in the wrong way because JD's strategies were destined for failure. Using different schemes will bring out the talent in the team. It happens frequently. A good swift kick in the ass from the new coach will do wonders for the kids as well.When Owens was fired, my biggest concern was the lack of talent on the team (Owens would have had one more 6-5 year under his belt and then the wheels would have fallen off). JD had to come in and clean house. Most were so bad they couldn't even make Ashland win their conference after transferring there. The new guy won't have to do that. JD left enough talent behind to win in the MAC....the next guy needs to win sooner rather than later.

All good moments.JD couldn't do anything with the players he brought in here even though they were very talented. I remain bullish about next year because I really believe they should have a winning record with the talent on the field. Good days are ahead.