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You guys are missing a big point about our games against OSU and IU and to some extent UCONN. If these teams wanted to beat us by more, especially OSU, then they could have. In fact, I think OSU was doing their usual hiding of their plays until they play a major conference team.There is no doubt they stunk yesterday. I'll say it again though, it's a long season and Akron will be in position to win the MAC East late in the season.

This thread is Butt Monkey Central.

Excellent, excellent, excellent post. As bad as I want JD and the team to succeed, there are those on this board that would rather be right than to win.

A guy who has won nothing. (Sorry Coach D.)

Based upon the performance of the MAC so far this season, we are one of the best teams out there. That's my nice way of saying we are the one of the best of a lot of poor teams. We lost to a good Big East team yesterday and that conference has become one of the best in the country.Akron competes well the remainder of the year and wins the MAC East.

WARNING....BUTT MONKEY ALERT.I hate to say it, BUTT the style of defense we play is the reason we have been out scored 44-3 or something this year in the third quarter. That's giving up 11 points per third quarter. Please don't anyone tell us how good this defense is or throw out statistics. This defense is too easy to figure out and teams go into the locker room and come out in the third quarter and kill it. Our defense allows for little adjustments as they are either all in defending the run our all in defending the pass. By the time we figure out what other teams are doing, it's the fourth quarter and we are fighting for our lives.We will continue to do well with this defense against MAC schools because they aren't very good. WVU uses the same 3-3-5 defense and looks good against bad schools. When we play good schools, we are depending too much on guessing or the other team making a mistakes. I don't like guessing.The non-conference schedule is now over and we will look better on defense next week because the teams aren't as good in conference as non-conference and we will be able to control the ball more on offense.Again, it's too late to do anything about it this year. This style of defense has to go. I've been saying it since the MACC two years ago on this board.

yeah...kinda killed ourselves at the end of that half. JD, give CJ a chance...please? Halftime adjustments kill us...just like against indiana. BUTT MONKEY WARNING! Who the hell are you calling a "butt monkey"? Reference my great and funny post from last Sunday. It will make you laugh.

yeah...kinda killed ourselves at the end of that half. JD, give CJ a chance...please? Halftime adjustments kill us...just like against indiana. BUTT MONKEY WARNING!

AMEN!The only person who would like what JD is doing right now is some 80 year old crank who thinks making a point is more important than winning. Depending on what CJ did, the point was made after the first quarter. After that, CJ must have done something pretty bad, or JD would rather be right than win (a sickness of many coaches), or he just doesn't want to get CJ killed during a non-conference game.At this point, JD should just leave Jacq. in to finally prove how impossible it is to win with him.Go mow your lawns guys. I have nothing better to do or I would as well.

How come every team in the world can stop everyone else on 3rd & 10 or more and we seem to magically give up the first down every time? Answer to use our case: On third and sixteen, every other team has a picket line of defenders at sixteen yards and does not allow the other team to get the distance. We somehow don't have a defender in the TV screen when the ball is caught.I don't care what the numbers say, this 3-3-5 defense gives up too many yards at key times all at once.Touchdown. This game is over. Go mow your grass or something.

I hear you. He doesn't make mistakes, but over the course of the game, he doesn't do anything to win the game either. I dunno. I'd call holding onto the ball WAY too long and taking 3 or 4 big sacks mistakes.You don't have to turn the ball over to make a mistake. agreed

I hear you. He doesn't make mistakes, but over the course of the game, he doesn't do anything to win the game either.

Only if they want to win the game. Jacquemaine does absolutely nothing. Impressive numbers, but too many sacks and lost yards.

I wonder which Frye jersey will have more dirt on it by the end of the year....this one or the real one.Interesting that someone would buy this jersey in lieu of a Zip that is actually making an impact in the NFL.

To answer the original question, I'd probably use him at quarterback..........

Actually, they switched over to about 3 minutes worth of COMMERCIALS, then they made sure no one missed a minute of the all-important OSU/Northwestern PREGAME.What a bitch-slap to the 50,000 UA and Can't State students, and 100,000 or-so alumni in the area. Channel 5 joins the ABJ on my media "F-you" list. I had no idea this was the case. Makes it even worse.I could see if the station was under contract to move to the OSU game, but these quotes give no indication that was the case.zip81, you're right, I was too hard on the messenger, but the little snarky remark about not being "big boys" really me. Little snide comments like that, in addition to reporting falsehoods, are what got that reporter in Oklahoma in trouble with the OK State Coach Saturday (By the way, all reporters should be exposed to public ridicule like that on a regular basis).

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/9973171.htmlI'm not exactly sure where to start so I'll just make some points.First, local paper or not, this guy has no idea of the difference between a good football game or a bad football game. A seven point game with one minute to go and a team driving to tie constitutes a better game than OSU vs. NW for a lot of reasons. One, NW stinks and the first minute of that game was going to be the only time the game was close all day. NW lost to Duke the week before and helped Duke break their some 20 game losing streak.Second, are the egos of OSU fans really that fragile that they are going to call to complain about missing five minutes of what I would hope they know is going to be a bad game? I'll say it again. Anyone centering their day around watching OSU play a terrible NW team is a loser. Anyone who went to that game needs immediate psychiatric help. Had the Akron game gone into overtime, it would have been even that much better than the OSU game.Third, it's the fault of the Big Ten Network that the Cleveland ABC station is full of idiots? I'll let someone else explain the logic of this one. I can't.Fourth, Big Ten football is "big boy" football. I think the fans of the SEC and PAC 10 would have something to say about that. The Big Ten is currently a second rate major conference that is closer to being like the MAC than the SEC or PAC 10. I'd go as far as to say that OSU couldn't finish in the top three of either the SEC or PAC 10. One of the least competitive games Florida played all last season was against OSU. I realize that the MAC is what it is, but I'd take a close game over a blow out any day.MAC fan or not, this article is just insulting to anyone with half a brain. I just can't believe how stupid sports writers, and journalists in general, are.Take it away guys.........

We have to do what we do for now. The position is really designed for a strong safety so the replacement is probably picked already from that type of player. Actually, the replacement was picked during training camp. It is a physical position so the risk of getting hurt is greater than most DBs. I can live with a #2, but if that person gets hurt we could be scraping to find someone. Regardless of the size of school, there is a big drop off from #1 to #2.....think of how bad it could be if we had to go further or really move some people around and disrupt everything.

Actually, last Saturday was probably the last big crowd EVER for a Rubber Bowl UofA game as we will play Can't at Can't next year and the following year the new stadium will be open. Doesn't seem to be much interest in going to the Rubber Bowl to watch Akron play anyone other than Can't.Everyone, please don't worry too much about the trash situation at the Rubber Bowl. Within two years, that place should become landfill as well. Twenty cops are not going to interrupt their overtime Rubber Bowl Coffee Talk to come swooping down to disrupt the tailgating.

Excellent point. We should all remember that the University has an Alumni Department, separate from the Athletic Department that is in charge of alumni relations. They also have an Athletic Development Department that is charged with raising money for Athletics....not alumni relations. The two departments do different things by design and my understanding is the University wants it that way. There is no coordination of alumni events by the Alumni Department for anything that goes on outside of a sporting event.To put it another way....I go watch the Zips at a local bar where I live now. That same bar is the home of the local, College From Central Ohio Alumni Chapter (I had no idea it was their home, I just wanted the best sports bar around and that was it). Two years straight they have won the Outstanding Alumni Chapter Award from CFCO (they bring the awards with them to the games) and they probably get a minimum 100 alumni per game. They only deal with the Alumni Department at CFCO and not the Athletic Department. The local president of the CFCO alumni chapter runs a 50/50 raffle at each game that makes hundreds of dollars for CFCO Foundation. He's a real nice NE Ohio guy. Ten dollars to get in the raffle and everyone does it, even the non CFCO alumns, because they want to try to win some money.....and we hear complaining about $5.00 parking. Yikes....Here's the question. If anyone wanted to do this for UofA, does anyone have a clue as to how to get it done? There is almost no communication between the Alumni Department and the Alumni beyond the Akron magazine I get monthly. I'd do it, I could put some of the time I waste on this board and put it into that effort. Even if I did do something, would any alumni support it or would it be a waste of time (as if my time on this board isn't a waste of time).

Who cares how the lot looked? It's owned by the City of Akron. They have been choking the University for decades for every last penny they can squeeze out of the U. Between making the U pay for it's parking spots they sell in advance and the permits to erect every little tent, they should have plenty of money to clean up. Screw them. Let them get their asses out there and clean up some trash. It's the cost of doing business...big crowds make big messes. In a couple of years, we will have our own lots and you guys can worry about another important parking issue such as trash clean up then.

http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/zips/Looks like Mike graded the offense before the Advil kicked in.

I'm not that worried about UCONN. The biggest problem we have is we have always played so poorly when we play there. Taking an inexperienced team on the road is very difficult.Someone told me that two weeks ago, UCONN was given a gift by the referees that allowed them to barely beat Temple. Beating Pitt doesn't seem to be that difficult these days. UCONN still has to prove they are a good team and someone people should worry about.With that said, I'll continue to bask in the afterglow of beating Can't for the remainder of the week. The coaches and players have to worry about UCONN....I don't.

You're a genius.

Are we talking about Doug Martin or Lee Owens Version 2.0?Can't fans think they can see the light at the end of the tunnel. What they don't see because of the cloud of pot smoke around their heads is that the light is an oncoming train. Can't is to the MAC in 2007 what the Cincinnati Bengals are to the NFL in 2007........a pretender with a lot of promise. Everyone has figured Can't out and the party is over.