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Momentum is the key. Two posts with the same topic at exactly the same time. Great minds must really think alike.

Akron is 1-3 in the last four games with a chance to go 1-4 Saturday. Momentum going into the MACC is very important. Right now they don't have it. Remember last year WVU played poorly throughout the season and made a late season and Big East Tournament run and they made it to the Elite 8. Akron isn't on a run enough to do will in the MAC Tournament unless they win this Saturday. I like KD, but for him to down play that loss last night is just intellectually dishonest. This team needs a win Saturday in the worst way. They have played too good all season to piss it away now. Let's get some momentum Saturday! The pressure is really on Akron.

Thanks for the answer. I had no idea.What are the bulky looking suits they are wearing on gozips.com?

This question is a serious as a heart attack. Explain how a Rifle tournament works. I always see posts, but I know zero about it. I know different types of rifles are used. What are they? How do they keep score? Etc.?

I'd like to weigh in on this womens sports issue. I'm all for womens sports as long as the following is strictly adhered to:No sports that attract ugly girls. Bowling would be one of them. Some of the girls playing golf now are good looking so I'm voting for golf. Volleyball and basketball also attract the higher end looking athletes. Volleyball has always had good looking girls playing even bach when I was in school. Basketball has come a long way since Rebecca Lobo played at UCONN. I lived in Storrs, Connecticut her senior year at UCONN and people were in love with her and I never understood why.Softball is a sport that attracts some good looking women, but there is always that fat girl on every team that bats clean-up. There should be a weight limit with softball like there is with little league football.Some of you may not be old enough to remember, but in the 1980s, Akron still had a wrestling team and it went away with the lack of money. Can't State also had hockey at one time and they were in the CCHA, which is a good conference, and that went away also. If you liked hockey, the games were always fun to go to.

I hope this kid is really good. The punt is the single most important play in college football because field position is so important and teams don't score each time they have the ball. If you can out net yardage your opponent by five yards each punt in a close game and each team punts let's say seven times, you've forced your opponent to add 35 yard to their offensive total to equal your field position totals. It forces the other team to increase their offensive production 5%-8% which is no easy task. A punter can win a game for you. If you have a bad one, they can hand all momentum over to the other team.

That Jacksonville team had no focus or desire. How else can you explain the one victory? Any team with focus and desire would have NEVER allowed themselves to win one game and they would have gone 0-27.

Coaches come and go. That's the nature of the business. There is an empty peg out there somewhere that needs a hole to fit into. I'm sure JD will do a good job of finding the right one.

In recent years, our o-line has had poor games, but never as many as quite a few said. The o-line just became the excuse for lack of performance in other positions.I look for a solid season from the front five next year. With a little more depth as predicted, they will be more competitive in practice and that will carry over to the games. If we can have at least seven players capable of playing o-line, running the ball in the fourth quarter will be more easy because the starting five can get some rest early in the games.I hate to get in front of the basketball cart because they are doing such a good job this year, but I'm excited about next football season. I think we will see a better team and more wins than last season.

I wasn't talking about you. You're right though, I was proven correct and I'll be the first one to say it. The very next year the guy left school we win a championship with a team that had less talent. You do the math.Good basketball post though. Keep it up. You guys should listen to ZipsWin! when he makes a basketball comment. He knows more about basketball than the rest of us put together. That's a sincere statement too.

On most web pages, a post like this would keep a thread going for days with photos and other funny posts. This was great ammunition for a thread. Think about it, it had a fake plaza named after a former Zip, drunk fans, cheerleaders exposing themselves, vomiting and mounted police clearing away a drunk mob. In addition, Mardi Gras is going on right now so recent photos would be available. Further, I wrote the post. That means guys like Z-P could come in and cry about what an a-hole I am and JP Morgan (who doesn't know that the internet is for three things...... goofing off, j@cking off and researching information) could cry about how classless the post is like he did about my Gloria James post.Within each person is something called a sense of humor. Life is too short not to find yours. You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

Keep posting Big Zip! It's nice to see someone on this board do something other than just agree with eveyone else. That's the stuff that good boards are made out of. If you were the first to call for the firing of Owens, you were ahead of the curve. If you were the first to call for firing The Hip, you were ahead of the curve. Most still haven't forgiven me for pointing out that Charlie Frye doesn't win games. I would bet that most of them deep down inside are pissed to no end that the Zips won the MACC without Frye. Life goes on.... Keep posting.

Don't you think that Mr. Lerner has better things to do with his time than listen to the hired help about how to run his team?

Did your friend a Rotary mentiion anything about Dwight Smith Mardi Gras Plaza? I would rather have that than a Winking Lizard........

Just what they need, more slow people on the court.

I've just heard from a reliable source that there is going to be an additional feature to the new stadium that nobody has talked about yet.It is going to be the "Dwight Smith Mardi Gras Plaza" in honor of him playing for the Saints. The following will take place on the plaza. Starting three hours before each game, fans will be served watered downed hurricanes full of the worst type of sweet drink mix and cheap rum possible. Once the fans are boozed up, they will all be given blue and gold beaded necklaces. Each time the Zips score a TD, the cheerleaders will flush their b**bs towards Dwight Smith Mardi Gras Plaza and the drunken fans will throw the necklaces to the cheerleaders. At the end of the third quarter or after each fan has thrown up , which ever comes first, the plaza will be shut down and a team of horse back police will clear the plaza.It's true.............well, only as true as the speculation we have about the stadium.

Good point. There is not nearly enough athletic talent on this team to sustain success.

The make up sex between mwilly and Big Zip is going to be great after this thread is over. Anyhow, I am still hopeful about the remainder of the season. We learned some real good lessons about what Akron needs to do if it wants to compete outside of the MAC.First, Akron has enough athletic talent to compete in the MAC and win the MAC, but they don't have enough to compete against really good programs. On a less ass kicking scale, Can't did the same thing to Akron a couple of weeks ago that Nevada did last night. More athletic players beat slower players almost every time. There is nothing more KD could have done to win the game last night, the team was just out-playered.Secondly, Akron needs to have more consistent shooting. The only solution to this I see is playing Peterson more. Good shooters need to shoot to get a rythm and he needs to be given the chance.Thirdly, Akron needs size badly. We got killed last night in side (in addition to everywhere else).I say burn the tape of last nights game, unless you want a lesson on how a more athletic team beats a less athletic team then watch it all day. There are still a lot of games to go and I still think as long as Akron does not have to play Can't until the finals of the MAC tournament, they have a good shot of winning it all. Can't is the only team with such superior athletes that they worry me against the Zips, but in the finals anything could happen. The last game of the season will tell us all a lot.

This is the best report on the project yet. The facts are almost 100% correct (the seating will be a little bigger).

WOW, this is a stupid idea. ZA, you should be ashamed of yourself. It was such nonsense that I actually had to go read the article to make sure Pluto didn't really write it, because it is just the type of stupid idea he would have.When did UofA become the class reunion spot for former St. V. players? To be quite honest, I could have cared less about The James Gang when they were all at St. V. I didn't waste any time going to the games then and watching Akron play a game against an NAIA school in order to satisfy the over-bloated egos of St. V. graduates amounts to nothing but a waste of two hours plus the cost of the ticket plus travel time. No thank you!

Rick Minter is a good coach and someone who would be good to learn under. He is doing a real good job at Notre Dame. I think this is a good pick up.MTSU was a real athletic team last year. I'm still amazed we beat them. For all the carping everyone did last year about losing to Ball State and Army, MTSU could have easily been a loss given the talent they had.

I don't believe for one second that adding additional seats will bring out more people. That would just be 2,000 more empty seats.I'll be interested to see how the attendance improves when more weekend games are played. We had a lot of weekend games early in the season and they seem to have tapered off the last two or three weeks. The last weekend game I went to was on a Saturday when the football team was the halftime event and the place was packed.There is no excuse for students not going to games. I really can't put my finger on that one other than general apathy. Maybe with the student Rec. Center and other improvements on campus, they are offered more options for how to spend their free time. The snow Wednesday may have hurt the attendance. It was snowing pretty hard prior to the game and during the game.I go on weekends because I travel for work Tuesday-Thursday, but I also refuse to go to a game and sit in the seats high up. If I can't get two chair back seats down low, I'm not going to break my back for two hours sitting up high. So far, I have been able to sit down low each game I attended.One thing they (UA and the Beacon) should stop doing is talking down to the general population around Akron about how there is no excuse for them going to games. People don't like to be told how to spend their free time and money. It is the same as me telling one of my customers, "Look how great my product is. You're and idiot for not buying it." I can't see that improving my sales. Akron just needs to keep winning. The rest will take care of itself.

I must have missed those glory days...... Only TR would be stupid enough to believe 19 wins in four years is great.

You can have it....

All you guys are talking about running up the score. Hell, at this point I would take a one point victory.