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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.

I would encourage you to go read many of my posts this year on how proud I was of the team and the great future they have in front of them with Zeke and many of the other good players they have on the team.

Let freedom ring!!!!!!

They are going to get a "learning experience" all right......

It's one thing to take a bag to a game (I really don't blame anyone), but punching holes in it will only allow the vomit to pour out.There should be signs around The Big Telephone Booth saying: "Keep InfoCision clean. Don't punch holes in your barf bag."

By the case? I guess we all have our secrets......If you are a fan of Zips athletics and you don't own a case of lube, then then the Lord blessed you with either a very loose, or very wide orifice.I must assume that when a strong wind blows past the Great GP1's posterior, a sound similar to that found in a jug band is produced. With all the losing I've watched, it's more like a foghorn.

The PM feature is lame. I think the overreaction to a very mild post about the game yesterday was odd and filled with a lot of pent up anger. I have been more than supportive of the BB team this year and I think they can do much better than what they did yesterday. They have a lot of talented players and should do better than what they did yesterday. I think KD is in agreement.I will continue to call them as I see them, not as others think they should be seen. I hope that ZW's response to my post does not make any other posters hesitant to express their views on this board even if they may be different than the mainstream.Go Zips!At this point it seems entirely clear that the beef is between you and ZW and has nothing to do with the rest of us or the Zips in general. It see no need for it to be aired out publicly on this forum.With the exception of being called a Browns Fan, I have no beef.

The PM feature is lame. I think the overreaction to a very mild post about the game yesterday was odd and filled with a lot of pent up anger. I have been more than supportive of the BB team this year and I think they can do much better than what they did yesterday. They have a lot of talented players and should do better than what they did yesterday. I think KD is in agreement.I will continue to call them as I see them, not as others think they should be seen. I hope that ZW's response to my post does not make any other posters hesitant to express their views on this board even if they may be different than the mainstream.Go Zips!

Mine is an observation as well. You are a douchebag. Nice response.

This isn't last year's team and last year is now officially on the shelf. This is 2009/2010 with a team that experienced winning last year and understands how to win now. I expect more out of this team than the usualy "building process". The real BS is reverting back to losing to teams we should not lose to and excuse it away as part of a "building process".No team has run the table since the 1976 Hoosiers. So every team the last 33 years loses games now and then. No one is excusing it away, it's a bad loss .. but some folks, like the Great GP1 are making it out to be more that it is.The Great GP1 in the past few weeks has exposed himself to be nothing more than a contrarian and a prejudiced one at that (see the Amish thread and others where he's the first to drift into off-color sweeping generalizations). And lately, he's also clearly established his agenda at Zips Nation .. the contrarian pot-stirrer. Take the opposite opinion of the majority and make it suit your need with self congratulatory keyboard diarrhea .. mix in some elitist drivel implying or in your case outright stating that anyone who doesn't agree is just too dense to really understand. Congratulations, you have a web persona .. good for you.Which is it, GP1 .. do you want to root for teams that are perennial losers like your beloved Demon Deacons, or teams that (apparently unlike WF) play every game in the season .. win some, lose some & try to move forward with lessons from both that lead to growth as a team and improved performances? You probably already know that Browns Fan would never know what to do if he wasn't calling some drive time sports hack in September demanding the ouster of a coach who's been on the job for 6 months and 3 games. This is the same Browns Fan who'll be calling the hack back on Tuesday morning if a miracle occurs tonight, singing the praises of the new coach and dreaming of 8-8 seasons in the future with the guy he currently thinks is the worst coach since Bill Belicheck. Well, I'm here to tell you that in the Zips Nation, you are Browns Fan. In football, you find a way to take a single D1 FBS victory over a mediocre to bad opponent and turn it into some optimism .. nay CONFIDENCE .. about the future of the club. But in hoops, you're here to tell us that losing a game in November is reason for alarm and that you don't want to see a team improve over the course of the year or think that they can.What the Great GP1 and Browns Fan (redundant I know) lacks is the patience or interest to observe the process that a full season is. My recommendation to you is to just buy a paper or check the scores online in mid-March and save yourself from the season, because clearly you're not really interested in the team or the season. You only care about what it says at the end, and how you can spin it to make yourself feel better and smarter. You could just save the rest of us the trouble and check in when the season's over.The unfortunate part of the Great GP1 and his two-faced agenda is that he does have a way with words and his metaphors are entertaining. It's commonplace to laugh out loud at one of his posts. It used to be for his humorous observations and creative writing skill. Lately however, it's more like laughing at the poster as he struggles to keep his stories straight and disagree with everyone, painting himself in one post as a protector of minorities and exposing himself in another as a prejudiced generalizer. Truly unfortunate, but humorous. B) Go Zips!Wow, personal attacks after the first loss. Everyone else should take note that if you dare to lay any criticism on this team, this is how you will be treated.I will stop asking more out of the defending MAC Champions. It is now OK to lose to AP.You are a real douche ZW. I always thought more of you as a poster.