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Here is what I think it means. If Rodgers plays well today and the Zips win, CJ will not be back. If Rodgers plays well today and the Zips lose, Rodgers will start next week and CJ will be "working out with the team". If Rodgers lays an egg to day, Rodgers will start next week and CJ will be the back-up.I think the Zips can start out the season 1-3 and still go 7-5 and win the MAC East. They can't do that though if Rodgers can't come through when he actually gets into a game.Keep in mind the logic of "coachers" and "quarterbackers" today...."Put in another quarterback/coach and everything will be better." Coachers and quarterbackers live in a twisted world of intellectual superiority until what they want to happen actually happens. Well, the quarterbackers are about to get their chance today. If Rodgers fails, they can always fall back on another quarterback as the solution to the problem. They will fall back on quarterback after quarterback until there is nobody left to put in. At that point, quarterbackers usually turn into coachers or even worse....growers/builders.Good luck today quarterbackers. I hope you have your theory proven. My only concern is I watched a lot of quarterbackers and coachers as Browns fans when I lived in NE Ohio and I know how that turns out for them year after year.

Actually, never sweat burning redshirts if you need a player. Recruiting is about bringing more players. Over the long haul, one player for one season rarely makes a difference. If the kid is ready to play, play him.

Then he went on to win only 19 D-1A games in four years. Let's hope we don't have to live through that again or they can tear down The Big Phone Booth.

I don't like losing a senior QB the day before a big game.This just in though, Mike Rasor will miss tomorrow's game due to being stuck to his bed sheets.....

It does have to do with talent, but not in the areas where people look. The skill players at tOSU are for the most part just as fast and big as the players in the three major conferences. Where they have no athletic talent is on the offensive and defensive lines and LB positions. USC beat OSU because they created a match-up on 3rd & 17 late in the game where a far superior athlete was covered by a slow "suburban" LB from tOSU. Game over. With the addition of Pryor, they will see increasingly less skill players. Any kid with pro aspirations would not attend tOSU with him there. He can't throw the ball and the skill player would not be able to showcase his talents. Tressel is "all in" with Pryor. I'm not certain what he was trying to accomplish with him.tOSU is the best team in an increasingly bad conference. The do have to go to PSU and UofM is getting better. The Big Ten needs UofM to be good in orded for the country to take the league seriously.I've been reading the Columbus Dispatch a little this week. The coachers down there want Tressel fired for not winning big games. The truth is, he was not brought to tOSU to win big games. He was brought there to do two things: First, beat Michigan. He does that. Second, run a clean program. With a few exceptions, he runs a clean program. They did not hire him to win national championships. If they fire him, and they won't, they deserve their next John Cooper.I don't want to get into this with you, but you are very wrong. Both OSU DE will be in the NFL. They have recruited the top linebacking class the last 2 years in a row. There problem isn't defense. On offense they recruited 2 5*OT 2 years ago and one of the top o-line classes last year. The problem is Tressel and his archaic high school offense. If he doesn't get him self a real o coordinator soon, he will be gone.USC beat OSU because OSU has no offense. OSU beat USC up and down the field all night. Pete Caroll even admiited to that.USC had no answer to the OSU defense...Sow suburban linebacker. You mean like first round picks, Hawk, Carpenter and Laurainitis...Keep that crap to yourself.Sorry to discuss this guys, I am only responding to someone else.I have to respectfully disagree. Perhaps it is your obsession with recruiting and what people on Scouts, etc. say about players, but when the Big Ten (tOSU) players get on the field with guys like USC's, they are not as athletic. That tells me either sites like Scouts are wrong (and they frequently are) or there is an evaluation problem at tOSU.Like I said, tOSU has players that are just as athletic as their superiors. The problem is they don't have enough.Hawk, Carpenter and Laranitis are second tier NFL player to guys like Troy P. in Pittsburgh and the Bengals first round pick. I don't even know whey the Cowboys keep Carpenter around....he is a nothing. Hawk starts because they don't have anyone else. Laranitis, we'll see....I think he is another Carpenter. Just because a player is drafted in the first round doesn't make them a great player. Ever hear the words "draft bust". It defines a lot of tOSU players.The point I was making had nothing to do with how well these guys do in the NFL. They were selected as first round picks which obviously means they were great college players..Have you seen Thad Gibson or Nathan Williams play DE? They are faster than most USC and SEC DE.Sabino and Bell are both 4.4 guys playing lb. Athleticism has nothing to do with it. Like I said earlier, OSU ran USC over last week. The OSU offense was non existent. Not because of athletes, but because of coaching.Interesting points."obviously means they were great college players..." To whom? It kind of reminds me of when someone says, "I'm sure you will agree that..." There are more stupid owners in the NFL than smart. There are more stupid general managers in the NFL than smart. There are more stupid coaches in the NFL than smart. The problem in the NFL is scouts and GMs can not see what the great GP1 has seen for a few years now. Schools like tOSU are second tier college football teams in a second tier league. I don't think NFL scouts take that into consideration. I think a lot of tOSU players can look like world beaters against MAC schools and the junk tOSU plays in the Big Ten.Was that tOSU running over USC on the last drive when after USC picked up the key first down they ran the ball down their throat for a large part of the field. tOSU had everything it could ask for Saturday and still couldn't get the job done against a team that I think will lose two games this year in their conference (they will lose to Cal and then some piece of junk like the tend to do).If coaching lost the game for tOSU, what could they have done differently? Here are the circumstances they play under. They have a good defense that chokes on last drives of big games when the game is close. They have a QB that throws the ball side-armed. They have a running back that a strong wind could knock over. I would argue that Tressel's coaching kept tOSU in the game with a chance to win late against a national power. Tressel kept the field long for USC, they put the freshman QB in difficult situations, they did move the ball, their special teams played well, etc. With the talent level on tOSU, it was a miracle they were in the game late. Tressel should get a bonus.The other agrument is tOSU needs a new offensive coordinator. Do they? That's as stupid as when people say, "they need to hire a special teams coach to fix why the kicker can't make fieldgoals." What Tressel should be blamed for is bringing in a player with Pryor's skills and expect the entire team to conform to his talents. Pryor is what he is and will not get any better. He is a run first QB with limited throwing skills and even less intellect. tOSU will regret the day that Pryor signed his letter of intent. I know what you are thinking...."Pryor put up good passing yards against USC". He sure did, but not when it mattered. He got worse as the game went on. Close games are won in the fourth quarter. Blow outs are won in quarters 1-3.Another thing Tressel should be blamed for is the tight nature of his team. He needs to drop the 1950s sweater-vest, the tie and the Senator speak. The USC coach doesn't talk like that and his players play relaxed and respond in key situations. tOSU's players choke in big games and I think a lot of that has to do with them being nervous in addition to not having enough athletic talent. I imagine USC's coach telling his players late in the game, "Go out there and have fun." (this is exactly what he told them). I imagine Tressel telling his players late in the game, "Pull up your socks, we don't do that here at tOSU."Like in said though, Tressel was brought to tOSU to beat Michigan and run a clean program. I remember sitting in the basketball arena the day Tressel was hired (I was in Columbus for work and bought a ticket on the street) and Tressel said something like, "We will make you proud on the field. We will make you proud in the classroom. And in in X number of days, we will make you proud against Michigan." Tressel does all of those things. I don't know why tOSU fans are so upset. He is doing exactly what he was hired to do. Enjoy...you guys got what you wanted. Congratulations.

It does have to do with talent, but not in the areas where people look. The skill players at tOSU are for the most part just as fast and big as the players in the three major conferences. Where they have no athletic talent is on the offensive and defensive lines and LB positions. USC beat OSU because they created a match-up on 3rd & 17 late in the game where a far superior athlete was covered by a slow "suburban" LB from tOSU. Game over. With the addition of Pryor, they will see increasingly less skill players. Any kid with pro aspirations would not attend tOSU with him there. He can't throw the ball and the skill player would not be able to showcase his talents. Tressel is "all in" with Pryor. I'm not certain what he was trying to accomplish with him.tOSU is the best team in an increasingly bad conference. The do have to go to PSU and UofM is getting better. The Big Ten needs UofM to be good in orded for the country to take the league seriously.I've been reading the Columbus Dispatch a little this week. The coachers down there want Tressel fired for not winning big games. The truth is, he was not brought to tOSU to win big games. He was brought there to do two things: First, beat Michigan. He does that. Second, run a clean program. With a few exceptions, he runs a clean program. They did not hire him to win national championships. If they fire him, and they won't, they deserve their next John Cooper.I don't want to get into this with you, but you are very wrong. Both OSU DE will be in the NFL. They have recruited the top linebacking class the last 2 years in a row. There problem isn't defense. On offense they recruited 2 5*OT 2 years ago and one of the top o-line classes last year. The problem is Tressel and his archaic high school offense. If he doesn't get him self a real o coordinator soon, he will be gone.USC beat OSU because OSU has no offense. OSU beat USC up and down the field all night. Pete Caroll even admiited to that.USC had no answer to the OSU defense...Sow suburban linebacker. You mean like first round picks, Hawk, Carpenter and Laurainitis...Keep that crap to yourself.Sorry to discuss this guys, I am only responding to someone else.I have to respectfully disagree. Perhaps it is your obsession with recruiting and what people on Scouts, etc. say about players, but when the Big Ten (tOSU) players get on the field with guys like USC's, they are not as athletic. That tells me either sites like Scouts are wrong (and they frequently are) or there is an evaluation problem at tOSU.Like I said, tOSU has players that are just as athletic as their superiors. The problem is they don't have enough.Hawk, Carpenter and Laranitis are second tier NFL player to guys like Troy P. in Pittsburgh and the Bengals first round pick. I don't even know whey the Cowboys keep Carpenter around....he is a nothing. Hawk starts because they don't have anyone else. Laranitis, we'll see....I think he is another Carpenter. Just because a player is drafted in the first round doesn't make them a great player. Ever hear the words "draft bust". It defines a lot of tOSU players.

It does have to do with talent, but not in the areas where people look. The skill players at tOSU are for the most part just as fast and big as the players in the three major conferences. Where they have no athletic talent is on the offensive and defensive lines and LB positions. USC beat OSU because they created a match-up on 3rd & 17 late in the game where a far superior athlete was covered by a slow "suburban" LB from tOSU. Game over. With the addition of Pryor, they will see increasingly less skill players. Any kid with pro aspirations would not attend tOSU with him there. He can't throw the ball and the skill player would not be able to showcase his talents. Tressel is "all in" with Pryor. I'm not certain what he was trying to accomplish with him.tOSU is the best team in an increasingly bad conference. The do have to go to PSU and UofM is getting better. The Big Ten needs UofM to be good in orded for the country to take the league seriously.I've been reading the Columbus Dispatch a little this week. The coachers down there want Tressel fired for not winning big games. The truth is, he was not brought to tOSU to win big games. He was brought there to do two things: First, beat Michigan. He does that. Second, run a clean program. With a few exceptions, he runs a clean program. They did not hire him to win national championships. If they fire him, and they won't, they deserve their next John Cooper.

UofA has covered in Weeks 1 & 2. I didn't pick them to win this one, but I feel confident they can.

Is it patchouli or petulie oil? Google found both.

Each time I read this quote I start to laugh.I get this strange visual of the few Can't graduates and students who can actually afford a car piling in and trying to make their way to Indianapolis. Pot smoke pouring out of the windows, break downs every few miles, begging money for gas, trying to smoke dried up corn stalks....I could go on. Five days after starting out they finally reach Indianapolis, they douse the NCAA Headquarters with petulie oil and try to set it on fire with the one last match they have left from their five days of smoking pot. Nothing catches fire.......just like Martin's career.

Why don't we just do it anyhow?

It looks like your sources are correct. On ticketmaster right now you can buy seats in 210 (priority reserve chairbacks) and right next door in 208. Looks like there will be about 20k there.How many GA seats remain? Are there 5,000 seats remaining right now or if they sell 5,000 between now and Friday there will still be 5,000 remaining. GA seats sell faster than Reserve so I wouldn't judge on Reserved alone.On a hopeful note, UofA has always had a pretty good walk up crowd.

That is lot 34. The 20 ft. beer bong and beer relays were in that lot. The University should release a parking map that that can be read.35 foot beer bong now...it's being improved at this moment in my garage.If you were any kind of an engineer, the improvements would include an interchangeable funnel and pipe end with "cooling pool". You could patent it, get Tommy Chong and Lindsay Lohan as spokes people and market it on QVC. Now that's a marketing idea and a bong we can all get behind one way or another. Reach for the sky!

Captain Kangaroo,I just received an e-mail from LeFevour. He says he is preparing a special note for you after the CMU vs UofA game and asked that I keep a look out for it and pass it along to you on this board when I get it. Stay tuned....

This is probably true; however, the ones that remain up all season are the people who give the extra money for every game. I have a customer only about a 1/4 mile from South Carolina's stadium and they leave theirs up all football season. It does look odd, but there are thousands of them and it would take too long to put them up and take them down after every game. Most big schools do this now.

At some schools you can buy a seat back with a cushioned seat that attaches to the bench. This requires some sort of extra donation to the alumni fund. These seats are placed out at the beginning of the season and remain all year. Some schools allow you to "rent" one for one game for five or ten dollars and leave the seat attached to the bench at the end of the game and someone else comes and collects them when the stadium is empty. I think this is a great way for the University to generate additional income. Did UofA offer anything like this?

While I wasn't at the game, I did have a look at a fellow poster's photo log from the game. The photo that touched me the most was of the large crowd in the walking mall in the old intersection of Brown Street and Carrol Street (sp?). It showed how really alive the campus was on game day. I thought that was awesome. The other thing that struck me was how many people were smiling. The Rubber Bowl was a depressing place and it was hard to smile there unless something really good happened or if you were really drunk. Just looking at the pictures gave me a good vibe.I think a big congratulations should go out to EVERYONE at the University who made Saturday a great day. It's been a long time coming. I'm looking forward to coming back for a game later in the year.

The Zips have covered the first two weeks of the season (wasn't the line in the 30s last week or something?). I look for them to cover again this week in The Big Phone Booth. Could the Zips be that team that quietly covers all year and makes some Zips fans happy? It's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you cover the spread...

Just in my time at the University we have had two kickers sign contracts with NFL teams. It isn't THAT hard!?!?NFL teams bring in kickers like American Legion Posts bring in kegs of beer. As good as Derr was, he didn't make the NFL.I stand by what I said. There aren't very many good kickers out there to pick from.

Answer: A good consistent kicker.Kickers are extremely hard to come by. Watch the vast majority of high school football games and one has to wonder how colleges ever make a fieldgoal. It is also hard to judge one because in HS the goal posts are more narrow in college and HS kickers get to kick off of a tee.surely you meant that college field goals are narrower than HS field goals.... right?Yes. Thanks!

Answer: A good consistent kicker.Kickers are extremely hard to come by. Watch the vast majority of high school football games and one has to wonder how colleges ever make a fieldgoal. It is also hard to judge one because in HS the goal posts are more narrow in college and HS kickers get to kick off of a tee.

If a politician is a Republican, they get a pass from their own party on things like cheating on a wife or soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. I don't think a beer bong will hurt his career.Rasor has all he needs to be a successful politician in northern Summit County suburbs. First, I believe he goes to The Chapel. The Chapel, like many new Christian churches, is as much cult-like social club as it is a place of worship. It falls right into the Republican's playbook of "us vs. them". "Us" means those that believe what we do and belong to our little group. "Them" means....well, I'm not certain they even know what it means. These churches also serve as recruiting tools for the modern day Republican party which has become more liberal than FDR with guys like Bush 43 and follows the intellectual lead of lightweights like Sean Hannity and neo-conservatives (code word for big government liberals). There was once a time when great thinkers of small government like William F. Buckley were the intellectual leaders of the Republican party (Buckley would have vomited out his bong water on neo-conservatives). Now, high school graduates and Sunday Christians have taken over that role. I honestly don't believe many modern day Republicans believe the childishly legalistic theology they are forced to spew for political purposes, which makes the party thoughtless and pandering to the most intellectually vacant, shrill masses. In a lot of ways, it makes them dangerous. The Republican Party has turned itself into a cartoon of itself. Like a lot of good cartoons, it is both funny and uncomfortable to watch......like South Park.Secondly, he writes about sports in an area where people love sports.I think this politician is a good guy. I hope he doesn't use his chance in politics to force others to behave and act as he may believe they should based upon his religious beliefs. Instead, he should think about freedom and what that means. Freedom is for everyone all the time. Not just when it is word that helps someone get elected.Let freedom ring!Go Zips!Thanks for showing us all what a bigot you are GP1. I'm sure you have some twisted rational for your opinions, but this is a sports message board. I for one, would appreciate it if you would take your convoluted wisdom to some other teams fan site. Perhaps one of those vaunted SEC or ACC teams you talk of here on the Zips message board so often. The fine folks at the Chapel will continue to contribute and invest their time, energy and money to make the Akron community a better place. People like you who think its ok to fire some cheap shots while hiding behind a computer screen are not needed as the only thing you contribute, is a sad twisted life view. Perhaps you should not post to this message board if you have to put someone else down in order to get your jollys. You now have the honor of being the first member on my ignore list.Don't spill your punch..... You might get some on Knute's Rolex.

What is wake forrest? There is a school in Winston-Salem called Wake Forest, but no wake forrest?That school down there where people who can't get into Duke or UNC go to.Wake, Duke and UNC have some fine qualities, but they are no UofA.

Thanks for the great photos. Everyone should have a look.Having the ball parachuted into the stadium reminds me of a funny story from last year. Duke was going to do the same thing before a game last year. At the same time a few miles away, North Carolina was preparing to start their game at the same time. The out of town jumper and pilot looked out the window of the plane and saw a football field with people in the stands and the jumper jumped out and delivered the ball to the stadium. The only problem was he jumped into the North Carolina field in lieu of the Duke field. True story...

Harris was successful at Pitt before being let go. I know they didn't renew his contract....that means he was fired. In fact, they went 9-2 and to a BCS game his last year.Wasn't Monty on staff at Miami when they finished in the Top 10? A lot of coaches make it good somewhere else after getting fired at another program.I don't think Harris would be coaching right now if his home in Pittsburgh wasn't getting remodeled.