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I agree...but it is tough to dedicate the time to smoking them.C'mon CK! It's a 6:00 kickoff.

Grilled ribs? Smoked ribs?

I can see what you are saying and I don't disagree. I've never really agreed with the marketing direction of UofA and I've left many brilliant posts on this board saying that.

Wouldn't it be funny if the Ravens played the Cleveland Browns in their old Cleveland Browns uniforms in Cleveland. And I mean old CB uniforms....like the white helmets they wore long ago.

This is what my senior prom date is doing today. Can anyone top this?

I told the kid petitions were naive and misguided but if he wanted to make some money off of it I thought it was great. My wife told me I was mean......

I met the owner of this page at the All Ohio Alumni outing in Charlotte last night. Young kid from OU.While I think things like signing petitions for a guy to stay in a city are silly, I'm all for this kid making some money off of the situation.

And with our eastern pull, we would be more attractive to the Big East...... Just kidding.....

This actually looks pretty cool. There are guys I know the names of from big time schools playing.I would love to see the NFL create a true minor league. I think it would be good for the NFL and for college football. NFL and college have become very different styles of play over the past few year and a minor league would better develop players for the NFL. It would also give the players who are only playing college football in order to make the NFL an option.

On your top toolbar, click on 'My Controls' then on the left, under options, select 'Board Settings'. You can fix the time from there, probably GMT-5:00, DST in effect (for now).I didn't have to do anything. Honest to God, two hours ago it was wrong and now it is right. I smell conspiracy...

Has anyone noticed that the ZN web clock is about an hour behind?

Have any of the people complaining walked on a job site in the past few year? The truth is, there are a lot of Mexicans working in construction in the US and the other part of that is they are the only people willing to work hard enough to assemble a building on time. It was not intended to be a knock. Sorry to the sensitive.As the guy who drops the "racism card" whenever you have the chance in discussions about talent level of suburban football players, you ought to recognize a sweeping generalization when you write it.My apologies to the kids in the suburbs. I had no idea how difficult their lives were....but then again, I did see The Breakfast Club when I was young.

Just for the record, the rules of the NCAA are such that only a lawyer can understand them. In fact, the University compliance officer for athletics is a lawyer. How do we expect a football coach to know 100% of the rules when I bet the compliance officer has to look them up from time to time. With that being said, there are going to be violations from time to time and that is what the self reporting process is for.OK, so there is a non-severe penalty associated with a minor violation. Tell that to Reno....

What evidence is there of this strategy working in the past 25 years?

Let's be honest, people were critical of Mack because he wasn't Mike Waddell. Those people were idiots. Unfortunately, a lot of them still post.People are being critical of the new guy because it appears as if his first big decision was a mistake.

Yep, I mean why would you tell a person who is just forgetting to put in one bolt in each car to completely stop what he's doing until they see if it's a problem?I hate to be the overreaction police again, but here it goes. If you forget to put a bolt in a car, someone can get killed. If you forget to use the right color pen, your company might lose it's ISO 9000whatever status and you get written up. Investigation is needed for the former and not for the second. From all accounts, Reno forgot to use the right color pen.

If our procedure is to suspend coaches for extremely minor violations while the issue is being investigated, we need to revisit our procedures.When the AD throws a young coach under the bus and leaves him hanging to the point that the guy has to resign, I don't see how he couldn't have his hand in it either directly or indirectly. I have a feeling the new AD has really stepped in it here by throwing probably the only coach that could be considered a "fan favorite" under the bus.Another question...If this guy is a marketing genius, how come he could not see an overreaction to a minor situation in this case as a public relations disaster?

Momma, on the one hand I agree that we are all speculating about what happened. It's a board forum, wherein people do that. On the other hand yours is the second post that infers that the new AD is up to no good, setting up an honorable coach in order to not only get rid of him but to supply the excuse for getting rid of the staff later on. I would suggest that you are speculating just as much on that point, and I would also argue that based on the Zips' performance on the field so far, the AD needs absolutely no "other" justification to let the entire staff go at the end of the season, beyond the simple fact that after 5+ years of JD and Co, the team is a disaster on the playing field. Why would Wistrcill need any more than that to remove any of the coaches at this point?STZFans sometimes think firing a coach is like firing a regular employee where it takes months of back-up paperwork to fire them. Inreality, there are "outs" in the coaches contracts that are exercised when they are terminated. They can be fired at any time for any reason.I'd also like to clarify that my brilliant question raised on this thread. It's not that the new AD is up to no good, it may be that he is an overreacter. If that is the case, I worry about the guy being the AD. If this indeed turns out to be nothing, the new AD has made a huge mistake with Reno. Will his next big exective decision be to suspend KD for throwing an empty diet soda can in the trash instead of the recycling bin? Let's keep an eye on this guy. Something smells funny and it may be nothing, but let's be careful.My problem is that this team has become such a mess that we don't know the extent of the problems at this point. Is it in the coaching? Are the right players being recruited? Are there other currents and undercurrents that are badly dysfunctional? I think there are three problems with the team and the mess is easy to clean up at this point because there is talent on the team.1. The Zips are like the Dallas Cowboys. They have a lot of talent and not all of it is a fit for what they are trying to do. The Zips recruiting in recent years was like an NFL team that drafts "the best player available" instead of what they need. Draft what you need, not what looks good.2. JD's LOYALTY made him keep the last OC around too long and he was a drop back/traditional offense guy who didn't know what he was doing with the new offense. There is no rythm to the Zips offense and it has been years in the making. Someone else needs to come in and get things straightened out.3. JD's STUBBORNNESS with the 3-3-5 has created a soft culture on the team. It's not that the players are sissys or anything, it's that they are not being put in a position to be successful. This 3-3-5 has made the defense a "soft" defense and the offense is unable to knock anyone off the ball because the only time they compete against a physical team is in games.The Zips badly need a culture change. The problems are not in the talent on the field. The only way to get a culture change is to change the coach because he is too loyal and stubborn to change it himself.

Momma, on the one hand I agree that we are all speculating about what happened. It's a board forum, wherein people do that. On the other hand yours is the second post that infers that the new AD is up to no good, setting up an honorable coach in order to not only get rid of him but to supply the excuse for getting rid of the staff later on. I would suggest that you are speculating just as much on that point, and I would also argue that based on the Zips' performance on the field so far, the AD needs absolutely no "other" justification to let the entire staff go at the end of the season, beyond the simple fact that after 5+ years of JD and Co, the team is a disaster on the playing field. Why would Wistrcill need any more than that to remove any of the coaches at this point?STZFans sometimes think firing a coach is like firing a regular employee where it takes months of back-up paperwork to fire them. In reality, there are "outs" in the coaches contracts that are exercised when they are terminated. They can be fired at any time for any reason.I'd also like to clarify that my brilliant question raised on this thread. It's not that the new AD is up to no good, it may be that he is an overreacter. If that is the case, I worry about the guy being the AD. If this indeed turns out to be nothing, the new AD has made a huge mistake with Reno. Will his next big executive decision be to suspend KD for throwing an empty diet soda can in the trash instead of the recycling bin? Let's keep an eye on this guy. Something smells funny and it may be nothing, but let's be careful.

Don't you mean, "Other than Brett Biggs"?

Two things.....I trust the Captain on this one..... and I don't like the saying, "Ready, fire, aim".Is anyone going to ask whether or not the AD overreacted to this at the onset? If he did, what does it say about the new AD? Is the new AD level headed enough or does he make quick and poor decisions.The problem with a potential overreaction is he is potentially destroying the career of a good person in order to look good. Just like the KD story at CMU, this will unfortunately follow Ferri for the remainder of his career as long as there is an internet. Right now, the new AD doesn't deserve any slack because he hasn't earned any. We should be carefully watching for more of this in the future.

I think JD wanted to stay one more year regardless of the outcome because of the opening of the new stadium. Six years is a good number of years at a job for a football coach. Coaches live a very nomadic lifestyle. Ambition is the driving force. The comings and goings of a coach should not get fans upset.You're right, from what I have heard, JD has had offers in the past to be a position coach in the NFL and turned them down...if you have one offer, you can get others. Maybe I looked at a post wrong, but I think JD is the third lowest paid coach in the MAC....he can get third lowest paid coach money in the NFL as an assistant.After this season, JD's tombstone will be along side Faust's and LO's in the graveyard of coaches. There is no way he is going to get another D-1A head coaching job with his record at Akron, but he is a good position coach which makes him a good candidate for the NFL or BCS level college. I don't know JD, but I bet he knows he will never get another shot at coaching a D-1A team. The guy that was fired from Cincy a few years ago will never be the head coach of a D-1A team and he had a better career at UC than JD at UofA. A MAC football coach needs to have success early and leave ASAP if they want to move up the coaching ladder to a BCS school. JD didn't do that and he is where he is today.As far as taking medicine, the pile of crap a coach has to eat after getting fired really doesn't taste that bad. It usually involves a buy out and a new job around January.As far as leaving after one good year....that's all it takes. There are far more "builders" out there that would see the one good season as a sign that the guy stayed and "built" a great program against all odds, than people with common sense. Never underestimate the stupidity of hiring committees and people working in athletic departments.

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What I am most pissed off about this year is I thought there were going to be changes after last season in terms of the style of defense and creativity in the offense. My opinion was if he committed to make changes he should stay...If not, he should go. There really haven't been any.I'll throw this out there and maybe I'm completely wrong. I think JD went into this year thinking that regardless of how the season went down, 2009 was going to be his last year at Akron. He would have said anything to stay one more year. If we had a good year, JD was going to leave. If we had a bad year, he would get his buyout and be on his way. Either way he was going to do what he wanted to do when he came here regardless of the outcome.

Does anyone think Temple can win the MAC East? Good MAC schools pile up the points against their competition and Temple did that against at least the defending MAC Champion.Last year I thought Temple could be really good in time, but not this soon.