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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.

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.