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Could someone please look to see how many either blocked punts or missed snaps on the punt we have had in the six games the Zips have lost? I can think of PSU and last night for sure.

I ate there one night and drank some draft beer. The next day I could have shit through a screen door.

Week night ESPN games have become nothing but promotional items for ABC/ESPN weekend games. They aren't even trying to hide it at this point. They could care less about the game in progress.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.htmlEverything is OK for this year's (next year acutally). Just take a drivers license.

Thanks for the question. Two years ago, all the hand wringers came onto this board asking the same types of questions you are after the 2004 season. They are good questions. I will answer with a question again. Do you really think we can't improve upon what we currently have? I thought we could then and I think we can now. Remember the MAC Championship we won and the bowl game we went to without the seniors from the 2004 team? What did those guys ever win?Many of the young players that are not playing now are not ready to play on many levels. These players have a lot of natural talent and will be trained in the weight room and in spring practice and in fall practice to get ready for next year. They will develop both mentally and physically into good players. CJ is a good example of this. He is still kind of a skinny kid and doesn't carry himself like he is "the man". Next year he will be more confident and will have a bigger body. So will the other young kids. There is enough talent on the team and competition in spring and fall practices will improve the players greatly. Winning the starting position in spring practice and in the fall (assuming he will win it) will improve CJ's confidence and he WILL be "the man".Have some faith and think positive. Good things happen when you do so.

I'm not 100% certain. I can't find the e-mail my company sent out so I can't check. The best thing to do would be to check the government web page.

If any of you think we may go to Toronto and you would go, you MUST get your passport now!!!!!! My company sent around a notice about the changes in border security and the need for a passport after January 1.Google "United States State Department" and it will direct you to a location near you to obtain a passport. There is one right by UofA if you live in Akron. If you wait until the last minute, you may not get one in time.

Thank you for doing this CK. I'm sure it was time consuming. I'm with you in that the glass is half full with the talent we have. For example, we have a really good #2 running back (I love the way the kid runs) who would have been #3 if there was not an injury. That's really a good sign.With the talent they have, they should be able to either develop an extra linebacker or slim down a defensive lineman and move to a 3-4. We really need to add a larger player to our front seven and become a more physical team. A change in one player can really make a big difference.JD is doing a good job with the program. We are more competitive than we ever have been since moving to D-1A. I hate to talk about next year before the season is over and we are still technically still in the MAC East race, but there is enough talent for us to have a 9-10 win season next year. As the players and talent improve, the talk of a lack of leadership and discipline will mysteriously disappear.

Last year I predicted two would leave and three did. Three is A LOT. It's a strange profession and there will be some turnover.Here is something interesting to think about. If you were JD, would it be difficult to fire an assistant if you had a feeling they were not going to leave and you felt others would? If three assistants leave and another gets fired, it would be a huge task for JD to replace four assistants in recruiting season. This would really be a difficult decision.

If this is true, I'm happy. JD is a good coach and we needed to do something to keep him here. I had a strange feeling that he may be leaving.....glad I was wrong. He could still leave whenever he wanted to, but doing this helps recruiting. Now we need to come up with more money to help keep assistant coaches around. Three went to other schools after last season and that is a lot.

All I saw was a giant green light pole!

Louisville won by passing the ball. WVU couldn't stop the pass. With 5 db's stopping the pass, they should have had more success. The linebackers were getting destroyed covering the middle and deep middle. They would allow the catch and then attempt a tackle. WVU put a lot more pressure on the QB than we have been able to, but the play action froze the defense. The pound the ball claim didn't happen. Louisville had 127 yards on 29 attempts for a respectable 4.4 yards per attempt. I don't think Slaton hurt the team by not being in there. His inability to hold onto the ball cost his team two touchdowns and any momentum they may have had. That and the pass defense is what hurt the team. If he can't hold the ball, why would anyone want him to play? Both teams have good offenses but neither has any semblance of defense and they will be overmatched against the elite Big 10 competition. I think we agree. In fact, I think in your first paragraph you could substitute the word Akron for WVU and you described our season perfectly. They didn't have a huge night running, but they did run the ball effectively when they needed to do so.Where we disagree is Slaton. He is one of the top players in the country and should be out on the field late regardless of how he played early. With the season on the line, he has to perform.

I remembered reading your comment when I was watching the game last night.Did you notice how many WV players were on the line of scrimmage during predicted running plays? Yes I did. Did you also notice how throwing on first down across the middle 5-10 yards exposes all of the blitzing players? UL did everything to WVU that teams have been beating us with all season. Think of the Can't game and the Toledo game. Both did to us what UL did last night. The 3-3-5 relies on blitzing, which is basically guessing. Nobody really wants to blitz. In a battle of Reason vs. Guessing, Reason will win every time. It's too hard to guess right all the time.The halftime score was 16-14 in favor of Louisville. UL went on four scoring drives to WVU's two. If you and I know how to beat the 3-3-5, then everyone else in college football knows also. This defense is a gimmick that has run out of shelf life. There is no reason for a team to score as many points as WVU did and lose the game. turnovers also killed WVU.Another thing that was amazing to me last night that I have to get off of my chest is how Slaton let his team down with his little boo boo on his wrist. Rodriguez should have taken him aside and said, "Look, we are playing for the national championship here. Quit squeezing your stress ball and get your ass in the game." Jack Youngblood once played a playoff game with a broken leg. Chris Sims played a game with a ruptured spleen. I think Slaton could have carried the ball with his other hand in a game of that magnitude.Man, all of this typing has made me thirsty. I could sure use a Yuengling.

I wonder if 100 sacks gets you into the Hall of Fame similar to 3,000 hits in baseball.

Looks like Patty and Selma are still posting.

Very interesting! If we gave out awards for board members, DrZ would easily win the most underrated poster. Always good stuff. MSU would be making a big mistake though and not because the guy at UC is a bad coach. I think they have an even better candidate right up the Rt. 127 at Central Michigan. I haven't had the chance to look it up, but I believe CMU is in first place in the MAC West. If they win the MAC West and win the MACC and then win a bowl game, what else does the guy have to shoot for at CMU? He would have had a successful career at Grand Valley State outside of Grand Rapids and a successful short career at CMU. He should make a hard run at MSU.

Anyone have a clue? Johnson averaged 27.2 attempts per game in his run offense and Charlie averaged 29.0 in his first two years and 33.3 his last two. Those pesky facts always getting in the way.................................... You can use all the statistics you want, but I still think MJ was just as good as Frye and would have been just as successful if not more successful than Frye on Frye's teams. In defense of MJ, teams tend to throw the ball a lot in the fourth quarter when they are behind. MJ was always playing from behind and throwing late in the game to try to come from behind.Dancing around the calf is an internet term that I don't have time to explain right now. It's Biblical in nature.

I'll still take MJ.I'll give you the last word.

He did that already, leaving Pitt for Akron.Why do you see JD as such a quitter? What...three years into his rebuilding @ Akron...with a new stadium on the way...great facilities...two top recruiting classes...and he's off to be offensive coordinator at Colorado or Missuri? No chance.What makes him such a hot offensive coordinator commodity? His one bowl loss in a 7-6 season? The fact that his teams score in one or two quarters each game and disappear for the other two or three? Maybe it is his mastery of the red zone? Come on.He needs to prove himself at Akron and that will take a couple more years. .500 coaches at Akron who can't score points aren't on any "big time" school's hot list - be it a head coch position or as a coordinator. If Akron ultimately turns into a "coaches graveyard" for JD, he only has himself to blame. He'll have done no better than a Lee Owens, but with better facilities and recruiting tools. That's not so hot.I like JD. He's in year 3 of his program. The vast majority of the players he has recruited are Freshmen - either redshirt or 1st year. Thus he's still playing with a lot of the cards Lee Owens left him (And, Owens final few recruiting classes weren't all that stellar). Thus he should be judged accordingly. I want to, and likely will see what JD can do once the players are fully "his." I'm guessing Mack Rhodes does/will too. I don't see JD as a quitter. In fact, I think he is a real good coach. You must have been typing while I was typing my second post on this topic.Capt., you are an intelligent and logical man and you should not apply the two to college athletics. You'll drive yourself crazy doing so. Having a good enough name and reputation can get you a good job as an offensive coordinator regardless of the results. People can explain a lot in job interviews.The other thing is that these coaches have friends all over college football. There are only so many schools with so many coaches with so many coaching positions in college football. If the right coach fell in the right spot at the right time, JD could easily get another job as an offensive coordinator at the end of this year if he wanted to do so. A reputation at Akron has nothing to do with getting a job. My oldest brother coached at Maryland and he got the job because he knew someone on staff, not because of his coaching genius. All the coaches know the same things and it really is not what you know, but who you know. Really it is not different than any other job.I just tried to test myself in naming offensive coordinators around college football and I could only name two, Akron's and Buffalo's (coach Carr was the QB coach at Akron in the late 80s). The point is that nobody knows or really cares who these guys are or where they come from. I had been to several Pitt games the year before JD came to Akron and I had no idea who he was when they named him as coach. I just assumed Walt Harris called all the plays.

What exactly is your point? You're so results oriented. These are their respective stats at the qb position. Your statements are absurd. Mike was a good qb, Charlie has been our best qb to date by a country mile. Faust ran the ball continually as it was a different time in college football and he had a offense that was running back centered. Frye had QB centered offense, especially his junior year so he could more easily run up the statistics (with the exception of wins of course). Frye had way better players around him than Johnson did. In the end, neither won anything. I appreciate your statistics, but I'll stick with MJ as they don't tell the whole story.I just like to break up the party when everyone starts dancing arond the calf. Charlie is a starting QB in the NFL. Mike Johnson's skills never got him anywhere but the CFL and NFL Europe. 'nuff said. Cleveland is the only place in the NFL he could start.

I see your point. I should have been more clear.The gravitational pull of The Graveyard of Coaches is much greater than the gravitational pull of Cincinnati. The mass that creates the gravitational pull for Akron is lack of community support and alumni support. In fact, if the mass of our lack of community support and alumni support was actually real, a gram of it could create a black hole.If you look at the history of our coaches, the future was limited for them after Akron. For all the talk about Dennison being a great coach, he went nowhere after Akron, Faust....enough said, Owens.......Division II.I don't want to see JD leave, but I'm trying to put myself in his position. He is a young man with a young family he is responsible for supporting to the best of his ability. I don't know if I would be willing to take that risk.

What exactly is your point? You're so results oriented. These are their respective stats at the qb position. Your statements are absurd. Mike was a good qb, Charlie has been our best qb to date by a country mile. Faust ran the ball continually as it was a different time in college football and he had a offense that was running back centered. Frye had QB centered offense, especially his junior year so he could more easily run up the statistics (with the exception of wins of course). Frye had way better players around him than Johnson did. In the end, neither won anything. I appreciate your statistics, but I'll stick with MJ as they don't tell the whole story.I just like to break up the party when everyone starts dancing arond the calf.

That's right, he did it all himself. You are deluding yourself and I think it's really quite funny. How long did it take you to come up with the two girls crack? Truly one for the ages. Well done! Thank you! My pleasure.

I agree with a lot of your post, but if a coach doesn't have good players (talent), it doesn't matter how good they are.JD has an interesting choice to make in the next few months or 18 months. Does he stay at Akron and get sucked into The Graveyard of Coaches, or does he leave to be an assistant at a big time program? At this point, I don't see any reason for him to take the risk of staying. With little community and alumni financial support, he is going to be in a revolving door of replacing assistant after assistant. This is a very time consuming process. Mintier (sp?) had a similar problem at Cincinnati and it ended up hurting the entire program and getting him fired. He is doing a good job now at Norte Dame as defensive coordinator and if thing continue to go well for them he could get another chance at possibly a bigger school than Cincinnati.I think the smart move for JD at this point would be to cash in his chips and become a coordinator at a big time program or assistant in the NFL. Either way, there will be more money in it for him and probably more exposure.

How many other pearls of wisdom could we repost? You two girls can post whatever you want while taking breaks from your praying toward Cincinnati, but Luke is still the only QB in school history to win a championship. I'll take that any day. Results are the only things that matter.Mike Johnson played with absolute crap at Akron. He actually transfered from a JC that he went to after transfering from Arizona State after a family situation. The guy was a rock solid QB on a horrible team.Have a nice day girls.