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I love it! This is a good example of why readership is down in newspapers. They don't use enough color when they write. The author should have typed, "Derrick Williams ached to get back on the football field so much so that he cried like a tenth grade girl who just got dumped by the guy who broke her cherry while watching one practice from afar." I guess newspapers get what they pay for.I hope Penn State if full of mental midgets like this guy whey we play them next year.

This is a serious question......Did he whistle and dance?

Anyone not reading the signature line of Quickzips is really missing something funny.

Thanks for the old schedule DrZ. Jeff is a good friend of mine and introduced me to Mrs. GP1 (redhawk). Ten years later, she still thanks her luck stars she met such a great guy and I really can't blame her. I crack myself up.

Not to sound too "pos"..............but we're the defending MAC champions and I think we are infusing a lot more overall talent in 2006 than we're losing from 2005. Unless you're Can't, every college program loses some key seniors. Don't waste your time arguing with an idiot like M-B. This guy wants nothing more than for the football program to fail so he can say, "I told you they should have never fired Owens and not hired UAM." Some people love misery and he is one of them.Anyhow, I just came back in to agree with you that this schedule is not so bad. Rhoades had his hands tied as far as what he could do. It isn't his fault......and there is really no fault to assign to any current or former Athletic Department employees. Anyhow, what else could he have done. By contract, eight of the games scheduled were scheduled before he got here. Playing CMU on the road should not be a surprise because we played them at Akron last year. I'd rather play them early in the season before the weather sets in to upper central Michigan. With the exception of three months in the summer, they experience two types of weather, bad and worse. Akron wins....maybe.I see no reason why Akron can't be 3-2 after the first five games. By the way, I just looked at a press guide and while Thomas was at Akron, those schedules looked very similar to this schedule. This is even better because we tricked another D-1A team to come to Akron to play us instead of teams like Cal Poly and Howard. Nice work Mack Rhoades.Cincinnati was a game Rhoades had little to do with. Teams don't schedule games by pulling names out of a hat. This game was scheduled long ago. This game had to be scheduled early in the season so it would not conflict with the Big East and MAC schedules.A really good thing about this schedule is an OPEN date on 10-14. The Zips did not have a free week last year and I think it really hurt them mid season. If you all remember, Getsy had a sprained thumb during the CMU game and I think a week off would have helped him to get healthy and prevented us from watching some bad QB play mid season last year. After the OPEN date, they play Miami. Perfect timing. We get to play a divisional team at home a week after a week off. The odds of a Zips win just skyrocketed. Akron wins.I love the fact that we are playing Toledo. This game also should not be a surprise. Toledo is a top notch team and we should be playing them. Who else would you want to play......Eastern Michigan , NIU.......Again , Ball State.....Again ? I'm not one bit scared to play Toledo. I also like playing them at the Glass Bowl. The Glass Bowl is the best place to see a game in the MAC and they draw great crowds. To be the best, you have to beat the best....this is our chance. By the way, I heard from someone at the Athletic Department during the NIT when there was still a certain employee employed at Akron that they were going to play at Toledo. To say that this game would have never happened is just being intellectually dishonest. Toss up, but a great game to watch.Then two games at home to get us into the championship run, BGSU and Buffalo. Both teams will be bad next year. Akron wins both.Then OU on the road, another bad team. Akron wins.WMU at home, another bad team Akron beats to sure up the MAC East.Zips worst case, Akron goes 6-2 in the MAC and still ends up in the MACC. I really see this as a 7-1 MAC season. What other MAC East school is going to have six conference wins and wins over Akron, the best team in the MAC? See everyone in Detroit. :macc:

All right!!!!!!!!!!! You'll still be my bitch Z-P. In fact, I am going to call you M-B from now on for My Bitch.

Where were you when I lost the election for the biggest A-Hole on the board? Thanks for nothing.You people are just humorless. I'll be back in the fall when football starts. I can't take it any further......

I can't decide which is more funny, Adam Morrison crying or this response to my post. I think ZipAnalyst is on his period.I think ZipsNation may be on my side on this one.

http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/24/adam-morrison/I'm putting this photo galary up for two reasons, first and most important, it is really funny. Second, I want to make a point about the feminization of the American male. Enough said about the funny part, the photos speak for themselves.I am absolutely horrified by the amount of crying I am seeing from athletes in general these days. It makes me want to already. Every game I watch, there is some kid crying at the end of the game after a loss. If they can't find a kid crying, they find one with his head in his shirt pretending to cry. It's really become silly already. I would urge all television directors and newspaper editors not to show this silly behavior. It only reinforces it and makes is seem OK.Adam Morrison wasn't just crying, he was blubbering like an 8th grade girl who just got dumped by her boyfriend. I hope he is embarassed by this rediculous display. Next year, the veterans on the NBA team he plays for are going to have an absolute field day making fun of him with these photos. I developed an instant dislike of Adam Morrison after watching his silly display last week.I used to see this stuff at my nephew's high school football games and I think the parents think it is sweet when they cry. It's not! Thank God my nephew never cried like a little girl. If I was a high school coach, I would have a long talk with the kids about crying after losses before the season started. If any kid was crying after a loss, they would run the next day until they had something to cry about. Not only would the kid run, but the other kids would have to stand there and ridicule the crying boob while he ran. I think one day of that would put an end to crying the remainder of the season.The American male needs to become much more masculine. Stop with the crying. Stop with the shaving your arms and legs like girls. Be men already.

He can always get a job returning kicks for the Browns in a couple of years.

Good topic, but I wouldn't want the coaches to base decisions on states. I would want them to look at the best players possible regardless of their home state. Your suggested states do seem to fit with what the program is doing though, but they seem to get quality from the mid-atlantic states as well.There is no evidece that recruiting only local or native Ohio players serves any benefit to the program. It did not increase attendance and it did not increase winning during the years prior to Brookhart.Marshall won a heck of a lot of games in the MAC with kids from all over the country. We should do what Marshall did. They were the best program for most of the time they were in the MAC.If you want to take it one step further, look at Ohio State. Regardless of opinions about them, they are one of the best college football teams in the country. Look at their roster. They draw players from all over the country because they want the best players.

I was flipping throught he boob tube the other day and I noticed CNN has a show called The Situation Room. When the talking head stands on the set, their body blocks out the "m" in Room and it looks like the show is called The Situation Roo. Coincidence or is CNN catching Zips feaver?

Now THAT is extremely well said / typed!!Go Zips! Fair enough.Have a good weekend eveyone.

The Onion is a really funny web site. That was great. Another web page that does things like that also, if you like that type of humor (I do), is www.sportspickle.com

If there are people out there making decisions based upon what us knuckle heads write on this web board, we are in deep poop. Fear The Future if that is the case.

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One other thing. No D1AA teams should be scheduled. The MAC should expand the conference schedule to nine games. Watching Akron play 1-AA schools is a waste of my time and money.

ZipWatcher,I have to respectfully disagree that it was a bad 48 hours for ZipsNation. I thought last weekend was one of the best moments in the history of ZipsNation. Since I started coming on this board about a year and a half ago, the quantity and quality of posts has improved drastically. Last wekend Zips fans said, "We're mad as Hell and we're not going to take it any more!". Instead of going home mad and sulking until next season trying to gain some hope from the early season wins against Dennison and a bad conference this season, Zips fans stood up and let their voices ring out. I've been through enough losing in my years with Akron sports and I want some winning of championships. That means having a team show up and show some balls against a bad team like Toledo. If the players and coaches can't take some fan criticism, they should go to a DIII school where nobody gives a crap. I would bet that there are some posters out there like Captain Kangaroo, Zips Win! and King Zip that are almost as pissed off today as they were last weekend. Thank God for people like that.Nate Linhart? Will he improve? Probably. Does he have the natural ability to make significant improvements? Probably not. I asked the question last weekend pertaining to whom he could get playing time in front of at Can't State. I'm still waiting for an answer from anybody who thinks he could. Nate, because he was on the all MAC freshman team now has a bullseye on his back from every team we play. If you were another team, do you think he would be a difficult guy to shut down? As he gets older, he will need to become the "go to" guy for Akron. Does the prospect of that make anyone comfortable? Akron doesn't need a steady influx of "suburban" (you said white, not me) kids lacking the athletic talent to take them to the next level, they need studs who even on an average day are still better than the nonathletic players. We saw the benefits of "suburban" players during the Owens years in football, nine years of that misery was enough.

If you ever meet me, ask me about the plane that crashed during practice or the car that drove through the fence at the top of the stadium and was hanging over the part of the stadium that said Rubber Bowl.

A few moreMost sections of bleachers codemned and covered by tarpMost likely to have bathroom temperature over 100 degreesMost likely to have pole block your vision on any given play Nice work zipboy!

HuuuH? Say what?? That's the next department on campus that needs to have someone kick their Roo into the 21st Century! They are really just in the past six months really starting to get things going. Please help them.

Are you f*cking kidding me? First off, Mount Union is D3, not 1-AA. Any D3 school would get absolutely ass raped by any D1, 1-AA, or D2 school. If Akron played Mount Union, first of all, it would be unsafe for the Mount Union players because it's an entirely different kind of player and skill level. Secondly, it'd be 56-0 or worse by halftime. 1-AA schools can sometimes compete with a 1-A school. But Mount Union would not come close to Ashland, much less Akron. Amen! Mount Union probably couldn't get more than two first downs. I doubt they could get the ball across the 50. Akron would score every time they have the ball.This person has never watched a DIII game. The talent is nothing compared to D-1. There is a reason those guys are there and not here.

If you have played football at Akron and have NOT received a letter from Coach Brookhart outlining three alumni events, you are not on the mailing list and need to get on the mailing list. It's really easy, just send a note to Gary Bogue, Assistant Development Director - Athletics, at gbogue@uakron.edu and he will be happy to add you to his mailing list. Gary is new with the University and is really putting a whole ass effort into developing alumni lists for all sports and coordinating events for those sports. Please help him by contacting him with your information. The upcoming event during spring practice looks real fun and you should participate. You might be shocked at who shows up.Anyone reading this who may have played another sport, please contact Gary as well so you can have your name added to that sports mailing list.Akron is really starting to do things the right way with alumni relations, but they need your help also. Please help.You can PM me on this board if you have questions, but you really should direct any questions to Gary.Thank you in advance for your taking action on this matter.

Clearly this survey was rigged to have someone other than Akron win. I would like to suggeest the following categories that would catapult Akron to the top of this list by scoring at the top of the category.1. Most likely to cause a rash due to fiberglass skin irritation.2. Most likely to cause a player to have an allergic reaction due to mold in dressing rooms.3. Most likely to leave a fan in a coma due to concrete falling from above.4. Most likely to have lights go out during a night game.5. Most likely to have cars parked in an illogical manner.6. Most likely to not have all of the lights on the scoreboard working.7. Most likely to have a goal post fall over if a ball hits it.8. Most likely to have a fan break a leg when they step on a bench and fall through.These are just a few poll topics I was able to come up with in about two minutes. There are probably many more. Feel free to add your own. Let's get the Rubber Bowl to the top of this survey.

It was a good season. A lot of wins is always a good thing. They provided a nice distraction between the end of football season and the beginning of football season.Now get to work on winning the MAC Tournament next year.