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Interesting post. Too early to tell. I predicted seven wins and I stand by that. Too many games for everyone to play to make a decision on the MAC East. 4-2 may not be good enough. 5-1 is an almost guarantee. As long as we either beat OU or BGSU, then we should be OK.

My understanding (not 100% sure) is when a student goes to the game, it counts as a sold ticket. It has something to do with the sharing of the money from your activity fee or whatever they call it these days.There are fewer people on the home side because those are largely reserved seats. Family Pack tickets move a lot of tickets in the GA section so the visitors section is more full. Can't fans were probably over there also so they filled up the stands.Maybe I'm not the one who should be saying this, but Akron really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really needs people to bring their children to the games. Family Packs are critical to ticket sales. The student section doing profanity laced chants does not give parents with children between the ages of 5 and 12 a good feeling. Let's not drive them away. You're all in college and should be smarter than that. The next time someone tries to start one, please do your school, and everyone at the game a favor, and blast that person in the face. It's not funny, it's not cute, it's not even the least bit creative. Please don't be stupid because it degrades my degrees.

Did you mean Butt Monkey or Buck Monkey? Either way, there are so many similarities in the genetic make-up of these two breeds of monkey, the difference can not be calculated easily.Sure is fun beating Can't.

This is too funny. Wouldn't a better alternative be to have Georgia-Pacific print up UofA Dixie cups in the shape of a shot glass so they could be thrown away after one use?

Doug Martin said two things yesterday after the game that are true, but should not be said after a loss. The first is above. The second has something to do with giving the game away with turnovers. Both are true. However, Can't didn't seem to have an answer for our defense either. Coach Martin should coach not turning the ball over better.Akron beat a very good team yesterday. We should all feel great today.

A Butt Monkey will never allow the facts to get in the way of a stupid argument.

We are talking about a Dave Wanstead coached team. An anoymous NFL coach was once quoted as saying, "Dave Wanstead will turn Pitt into Temple within five years." Looks like it may be true.We just need to keep taking care of business in the MAC, the MAC East especially and everything will be fine.Can't is a 6-6 team. It may make them special for the Can't, but not for college football.

Here is another way the station may have looking at it. It's actually more reasonable than what you presented.The Big Ten sucks and a game between OSU and NW is a pointless excercise. Since there are so many idiots stupid enough to center their Saturday afternoon around watching this stupidity, they had better get the first five minutes on before the blowout takes place and everyone turns their TV off.There is absolutely no excuse for the station turning off what was a great game for a meaningless game.

We all know who they are, so I won't call them out unless you all would like me to call them out. They are the Butt Monkeys that post on this board all the time about the direction of the program. Common personality traits of the Butt Monkey include, but are not limited to, over reactions to normal events and an unending desire to be right even if it means the team loses. The breeding call sounds something like this (I know Butt is spelled wrong):1. I hate to say this, butt I don't think this program is going in the right direction.2. I hate to say this, butt the talent level on this team is not nearly what it was in 2003.3. I hate to say this, butt we can not win with all of our players flunking out of school.4. I hate to say this, butt JD does not seem to be able to win big games.*5. I hate to say this, butt the talent level around the MAC is much better than ours.6. I hate to say this, butt our coaching staff has no idea how to make halftime adjustments.**7. I hate to say this, butt our recruits are not developing the way they should.8. I hate to say this, butt I think JD has lost control of this team.* This rare breed of Butt Monkey was rendered temporarily blind on 12-1-2005 and has no recollection of that day.** The favorite food of this Butt Monkey is a banana; however, it has never seen a banana and would not know what one was if it fell out of a tree and hit the Butt Monkey on the head.

I wasn't at the game, but the photo looks great. After about five to six years of declining attendance, it appears as if things are going in the right direction. I'm sure a lot of people bought tickets in order to get OSU tickets, but they still showed up to the game. That's fantastic. Akron should continue to play early games as they are trying. There is absolutely nothing negative about the crowd size yesterday.

http://www.gozips.com/downloads1/24909.htm...800&SPSID=47122Most people say that when two teams are closely matched, turnovers will be the difference. We had two, they had four. Zips win!

They don't need a 4-3, they need a 3-4. Mackey is not big enough to play a position that needs a medium sized player.To say that Akron has not improved under JD is just silly. As a team, there is more talent on the field than ever before. We are actually competing well against Big Ten schools.JD has shown a willingness to change when he changed QBs this week. A lot of coaches would rather be right than win and he showed yesterday he does not think like that. He needs to give this defense the same hard look at the end of the year. Don't just throw in the towel and say we can't recruit D-Linemen. We can. OU has, why can't we?

I was. See paragraph 4 of my original post. We are basically saying the same thing.I'm not one bit shaking in my shoes about Can't next week. They don't have nearly the players IU does.

I agree completely. Why is this board so scared of Can't's QB? They snuck up on people unexpectedly last season and by the end of the year fell apart and ended up only 6-6. You guys make it sound like they were some powerhouse.

Before the board goes stupid with complaining about halftime adjustments, let's put those ideas to bed and focus on the real problem which is the defensive scheme we play. There were adjustments, you guys just didn't pick up on them. Please don't see this as bashing the defensive players...they are in a no win situation.I've been complaining about this defense for three years now. It's junk and it gives up too many yards to teams that play against it. We don't have the type of offense WVU does that can match teams score for score and still play a bad defense. The two biggest problems are: Reason 1: It operates on extremes. Why? Reason 2: The players are too small.An old rule is to blitz early and if it works, keep blitzing. When we blitz, we have to send a ton of guys because three linemen and one undersized LB are not going to apply enough pressure so we end up sending an extreme amount, six. This creates one-on-one match-ups that IU exploited. Small players getting exploited because they have to function in the extreme...see the trend? If blitzing doesn't work, then you have to try to cover. Keep following, it gets better. Our run blitz worked well early until they play action passed it to death. On passing downs early, we blitzed and were burned by either the feet of the QB or poor open field tackling after a completion to a "hot" receiver. To say we didn't adjust out of this at halftime is just wrong. Akron couldn't continue to do what they were doing and they didn't. The second half, we rushed three (again, an extremely small amount), because three is the number of linemen we have, and mostly tried to cover. We covered OK, but the lack of linemen up front allowed the IU QB to run like crazy. As good as Robinson is at holding the line on running plays, he is equally as poor as a pass rusher. Time after time he was out of his lane opening up the middle for the QB to waltz through. We have to have much more discipline rushing the passer next week.It's not the adjustments, its the defense we use. Changing a completely unproductive QB was easy for JD to do. Changing an entire defensive scheme is something that can not be done mid season. If we are going to play this junk defense, the players have to tackle better when they blitz and we have to play almost perfect. We were in perfect position at times and poor execution hurt us. Akron just doesn't have a killer instinct. When we were up 17-10, we let them march right down the field and score. I knew at that point we couldn't win.I will say this though. I feel good about our chances next week at home. Benching that empty set (math reference { })Jacquemain was exactly the spark the team needed. You could see it in the way they played. There is zero "up side" to Jacquemain and he should not see the field again unless Jackson gets hurt. This reminds me of when JD benched an unproductive running back his first year and put in Biggs. The team took off from there. Can't State was not all that great against a D. State team regardless of what the score looked like.GO ZIPS!!!

It's just your opinion (and it sux)... listen closely, yo...Time will prove you wrong... You can speak like you are some sorta expert, but that doesn't make you right. Actually, time is proving me correct.

Excellent point. I've never looked at it that way. Normally the watering down point is made about baseball.People wonder why southern and western colleges are doing so well in football now. That's where the population has moved. The greater the number of people, the greater the chance of getting good players.

I can't think of a single NFL team other than Cleveland Frye could have started for the past three years. There are a few teams where he would have been cut by now. Playing for Cleveland may have been the best shot the guy ever had to prove himself.As far as Jim Zorn, all he can do is coach. He can't play. Frye needs to prove that he belongs in the NFL. You make it sound like Zorn's job is to develop a #3 into a starter. Zorn may not even know the name yet of his new emergency QB. Probably as we type, Frye is running the scout team for Seattle trying to help get the defense ready for Sunday.Locker rooms can be cruel places. I'm sure Charlie has had his balls busted quite a few times this week in ways that make what I type about him seem like compliments. These players are the perfect combination of mean and stupid, and they will say whatever they are thinking. Don't think for a second that the other players don't know he is the first QB ever to start opening day and then get traded the folling week.There is something all of you need to understand......listen closely. Charlie Frye will NEVER be hired to be the starter for another NFL team. His career is on life support right now in Seattle. The best he can ever hope for is to be a career back-up. Charlie needs to save Charlie. Nothing is going to be handed to him again. There is no shame for Frye in being a career back-up either. Again, it's better than getting a real job and it pays a heck of a lot more.

It does run through downtown.

Sounds like you are softening your stance on your man Charlie. LOL. If Frye does indeed make a mil per year, he better catch on quick or he will be gone at the end of the year. Good point and I normally would agree, but from what I saw last Sunday out of NFL QBs, there is no reason to think Frye can not stay on with Seattle. The first thing he should do if he wants to stay on is renegotiate his contract down to a level of #3 with performance clauses in case he makes it to #2 and actually gets to play. If his salary is too high, he stands a much better chance of getting cut. He could be Seattle's Brian St. Pierre. That stiff has been the #3 in Pittsburgh for a long time now. Making the league minimum is much more than he would make on the outside working a real job like us hacks work. I would still like to know if Cleveland is picking up part of his salary. Frye should rent and not buy in Seattle though.The NFL is littered with bad QBs drawing a paycheck and this trend is moving quickly in the wrong direction. There is no reason to believe Frye can't continue to draw one as well. What in the Hell is happening to the NFL?Just for clarification, my main arguments against Frye remain the same:1. Doesn't have the tools, either physically or intellectually, to be an even average QB.2. Doesn't win or do things to help his team win because of his style of play.Quick Seattle joke: How do you know when the sun is out in Seattle?.................................................................The rain is warm.

Jocks and Jills on Tryon.

In the 1970s, successful teams were very run focused. The birth of the run and shoot offense and the west coast offense happened in the 1980s and quickly found a place in college with a lot of southern teams. The better NFL QBs come from passing offenses from their college days. Brady - Michigan, Manning - Tennessee, Hasselbeck - Boston College, Quinn will show himself to be well prepared for the NFL in the next few weeks, etc. It seems as if college is getting away from NFL type offenses to run the type of plays WVU and Florida run.I absolutely love the NFL, and I think the league is becoming less entertaining because the players are not prepared to play in the league. I worry about the quality of the league in the next few years. One of the worst things the NFL has done is close down NFL Europe. They really need a minor league system to develop players.

How about a little break from the norm to discuss a topic semi-related to the Zips as we have a college team?After week one, I can only say that the NFL is becoming a league of three types of teams. The A Teams are most probable to win the Super Bowl...New England, Colts, maybe San Diego are examples. The B Teams a most probable to make the playoffs...Bengals, Eagles, Steelers, Denver, Cowboys, etc. A & B teams constitute about 12 of the 32 teams. There are actually some NFC teams that make the playoffs that are horrible and would never make it in the AFC. The C Teams absolutely stink and you can throw whichever 20 teams you wish into this category. I don't think this is the parity the NFL was hoping to achieve. Why is this? I can think of two reasons and feel free to add your own.First, successful college offenses are now much different than what you see on Sunday. The teams are much more spread out than before and the players are not being prepared for the NFL in college any longer.Secondly, does anyone fear for the future of NFL quarterbacking other than me based upon what we see on Saturday afternoons? The QB is the single most important player on the field for every NFL team.....hands down. With the exception of west coast teams, college QBs now run instead of pass and NFL scouts are just stupid enough to pick up on these guys. Case in point, Michael Vick.I really don't think college football is to blame. I just wrote that to spark interest. Colleges do what they have to do to win games.

"Potential" is a key word. "Dominant" is the other. They are just not telling the truth when they say dominant. It's too over the top.Dominant players don't come around very often. If they truely believed he would have been dominant, they would have drafted him in the first two rounds.A lot of guys have potential. Very few pan out. Frye is not panning out, but he still has NFL life left in him.Here is what Seattle should have said. "We believe Frye has the potential to be a solid back-up quarterback for this team. By adding him, we give stability to the position as we expand our offense to include Wallace in more of it." I think this is a more reasonable statement.

Looks like this story is going to have a fairly "happy ending". And I don't mean the type of "happy ending" Z-P is getting in those Asian bath houses either.