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Last night I turned on ABC to watch Dick Clark ring in the new year, something came to mind. It happened when he stated the following sentence..."Yieag hmhey mo mowhf blathl." While most would just consider this statement pearls of wisdom to live by, I decided to use them as a tool to change my ways.I could say something like, "What's next, Dick hosting the show with Corky from Life Goes On next year", but I won't.Or I could say something like, "Great, now we have to watch Baby Boomers make fools of themselves for the next 20 years on television", but I won't.Or I could say something like, "I bet the guy running closed caption is having a Hell of a time tonight", but I won't.Or I could say something like, "So much for eternal youth", but I won't.Or I could say, "Does anybody else find Dick Clark douche chilling or is it me", but I won't.I hope that when I am old, my loved ones will preserve my dignity by not allowing me to go on national TV in that state so some jackass can make fun of me on a web board.....

I want to weigh in on this arm strength issue between the two. If it was a contest between the two of them throwing the ball from their knees, Getsy would win. The game isn't played like that though.To piggy back on the physics theme CK put up early in the week, we all know Force=Mass x Acceleration. Frye is extremely fast for the position he plays so when he is running, it adds to the acceleration part of the equation and he can throw the ball really hard and he also has good accuracy when he runs which is a huge part of the NFL game. If you can force him to stay in they pocket, he is easy to beat because he does not have the stand and throw arm strength required to win long term in the NFL.Charlie will waste away in the graveyard that is Cleveland for 3-4 years. It will be interesting to see who wants him after that though. Just ask Tim Couch. Maybe he could marry a hot Playmate fo the Year like Couch did and they could retire together, count their money and argue over who has the hotter wife. Not bad work if you can get it.

I don't think "people" are down on Frye. I think one person is...and that person likes to type alot...so it looks like many are. I don't like to type a lot..................I LOVE to type a lot.

The University should build the stadium without help from the City or the Convention Board. If you build it with them, they have the right to tell you what to do with it. I love the idea of a dome though. With a dome, truely fair weather fans have no excuse not to come to games. The dome should be next to the fieldhouse. Ther ewill never be a dome though because it will increase the cost of the stadium too much.If the Univeristy wants to rent the dome to any convention coming into Akron, that would be fine because the convention would have to pay rent to the school and it could be a good source of money.Welcome aboard ZipsNation.

Boise State nearly beat BC on Boise's home field. Boise State...not Penn State, not Ohio State, not Florida State...B-O-I-S-E STATE. I remember similar "we're going to lose 65-0" cries when we played Virginia Tech at the Rubber Bowl several years ago. We almost beat them.If Boise State can take BC down to the game's final play on their home field, the Zips could do as well or better in 2006. We could certainly also do worse too...but that is the same regardless of any team we'd play. Be careful of what you wish for. Akron needs to bring in a Cincinnati or a Kentucky or Vandy or someone like that. Boise State destroyed a MAC school, I just can't remember who it was, this season in Boise. BC is a good team this year and they are going to be even better next season. I'm fearful the MAC is on the decline after the Leftwich and Roethlisberger years and nobody realizes it yet. Most people are drinking the leftover punch from Roethlisberger's senior year when the MAC did very well nationally. Bringing in a team like Temple actually makes the conference worse, not better. We'll see if the MAC can improve the nonconference performance next season. It wasn't very impressive this season.

Look Einstein, we all know how scheduling works and teams playing at alternating fields. I know how you think football was invented at Toledo, but those of us here in Akron aren't your little students to teach lessons. My point was BUGS could have been scheduled at Akron this season. Do we have an advantage next year, of course. Look, the MAC offices hate Akron and if you ask anyone in the Athletic Department, they will tell you the same thing. Now that Akron has proven it can take a large crowd to a bowl game, they should ease up on giving us the shaft. I'd love to continue to win just to stick it up the ass of the Commissioner.I wonder if you thought the MAC East was weak when Marshall and Miami were winning it year after year?All that matters is what happens on the field, and this I know for sure. Akron beat that overrated team (NIU) from the overrated Division (MAC West) twice this season. We have a trophy in our building to prove it. Don't think for one second that we all sit over here scared of the MAC West. The "C" in MAC West stands for chokers. Maybe Toledo Tom could win a hot dog eating contest and bring a championship trophy home. 2005 isn't over yet. How long do you think his whistle would last if it was made of butter?Since you are all knowing about how "things at this level work", how are the rest of your athletic programs doing? In the fall alone, we won the MAC East football, the MAC Championship game in football, went to the final eight in the European football and our gals won the MAC Cross Country Championship. I think Akron is operating at a pretty high level, can you say the same thing? Or are you just going to go on and on about how many people go to UT games? If you ask me, I'm glad we don't operate at your low level. Fear the Roo bitch.

I would hope this doesn't happen. BC looked really good last night and they really have some top tier players playing for them. Remember, players win games and BC has much better players than we do. BC will destroy any team in the MAC next year at any MAC stadium.

If this is our schedule next year, the Zips win seven easy. I think they beat Miami and BUGS. They split with NIU and Toledo. That's eight wins, but an upset will give them seven with a 6-2 MAC East record. The MAC East will be soft next year. Early prediction is we'll see everyone in Detroit for the MACC and with the crowd we took to Detroit, Alabama won't be that bad in December.In ToledoRockets usually moronic way, he provides locations for NIU and Toledo game. I doubt this schedule happens though. Akron was screwed with road games to Miami and BUGS this year and I would like to think the league wouldn't do that again. I also don't think they will have us play NIU for a fourth time in three years next year. Toledo is a possibility and probably at Toledo for a Tuesday or Wednesday game. The more logical choice is CMU on the road since they came to Akron last year. Look out for CMU next year! They seem to be getting their ducks in a row.As far as attendance, ToledoRockets once again proves he is a truely stupid person. Akron averaged more than 13,000 this season with a team that at times didn't give the fans much to cheer about. The Zips will do much better next year drawing people to games.Maybe ToledoRockets is stupid from looking up at NIU and Akron for the past few weeks and he is a little dizzy. My advice would be to get used to lookinig up at Akron who you may want to start referring to as Daddy from now on.

There is also a chance that Terry Pluto's hair will grow back........

There is no way on God's green Earth that Toledo is going to move to the Big East. I can't believe Toledo Tom would tell such a lie to his recruits. Where would they play? How would they possibly compete in other sports? It would be a disaster for their program. Can you imagine UCONN rolling in with their basketball program and beating them 100-50 every year?I can't believe I'm about to write this, but the only program in the MAC with existing facilities to be even considered for the Big East would be Ohio. Maybe Ball State.Do schools like Toledo really want to move to the Big East and become a door mat, because that is where that train would head? Toledo couldn't win the MAC this year and the MAC Champion was beaten by an average Conference USA team. Toledo would get killed against the likes of WVU, Louisville and Pittsburgh week in and week out.I love the MAC, but any talk of teams moving up in conference is just laughable. None of the schools have the finances or talent to really move programs to that level.

ToledoRockets did make one good point and that is the average ticket price is up at Toledo because of a small stadium. Supply and demand at work. If Akron builds a 30,000 seat stadium and they sell out, they can raise the ticket price and ask for more money for the foundation for really good seats. More money for the school and program is a good thing.

This board is awesome. For me, it allows me some outlet to be someone other than who I am normally.I'm like rifle, I really don't know much about BB so I just read what others write. ZipsWin! can pick up for me in basketball. He has a well infomed opinion of the sport.Keep up the good work Mods.

Toledo is the program everyone wants to be? Until last season, Marshall was the team in the MAC everyone wanted to be. Now, everyone in the MAC wantst to be Akron.

I agree. Getsy will never play in the NFL. Maybe a tryout, but never with a team. But then again, isn't that bumb Rutheford playing on the Steelers practice team and didn't he play in the exact offense at Pitt?I also agree that Frye will be in the league for a number of years because teams need guys like him and there aren't many around. He will become the league's next Kelly Holcomb. He is the type of guy who can come in and rally a team for a couple of wins a year and keep a team afloat while a starter recovers from injury.Z-P's initial post was not about who is or isn't in the NFL, it was about a comparison of the two players. Apparently, winning is not your top priority and making the NFL after Akron is. Myself, I like to see Akron win and I want winners on the team. Luke has proven himself to be a winner. Everyone should just step back for a minute and think about how much fun it has been the past few weeks and then remind themselves how miserable the years leading up to that were. JD and the coaching staff, Luke, Hixson, Biggs, Kiki, Jay R. et al have proven themselves to have the guts to make this program a winning program.If you are a Browns fan, worry. I'm a Steelers fan and I can tell you first hand that defense that destroyed the Browns Saturday is average at best. That team probably will not beat Cincinnati in the first round of the playoffs. What they did though was serve a lesson to the rest of the NFL on how to stop Frye. Blitz from the corners so he can't run, cover the crap out of the short underneath passes and make him try to throw deep passes with his 10 cent arm and even worse accuracy down field. Good luck Cleveland......you're going to need it.

I think 23 did play himself out of a draft pick. I would be surprised if he made an all star team in January. Missing passes and not catching punts does not impress NFL scouts. As far as Getsy, I think he understands this offense better than Frye did, but he does not have the running ability Frye did. It really hurt Luke mid season when the offensive line couldn't figure out who to block. With a good offensive line next year, look out for Getsy! Getsy was helped by the defense, but he still moved the ball when he had to. They may not have scored every time, but they did pick up first downs with a balanced attack and a very efficient offense. You guys know my opinion of this subject. I'll take a winner any day over an underachiever or a guy who can't win half his games. Luke wins, Frye/Superman (whatever ) didn't. I was at the Browns game Saturday and one of the moronic Browns fans (Do you really have to use the word moronic when referring to Browns fans? Isn't it just assumed?) yelled out after Frye pooped down his leg for about the 20th time, "Go back to Akron!". I immediately felt the need to defend my school, so I yelled out, "No thank you, we don't need him. Four years of losing was enough!". Don't ever say I don't have the best interest of U of A in mind. Not to make excuses for Charlie though because he received enough of that over the years, but it is hard to beat the Steelers when they have home field advantage.

You could have said this about any player on the defense late in the game. Those guys were finished. I'm glad the offense went to the hurry up offense, but the thing about the hurry up is if you score too fast or don't move the ball, the defense is exhausted. Someone said something about team speed. We do need that, but more than anything, we need big players like Memphis had.

If he is placed on IR, can he come back for the playoffs? Heck, I don't know if the Giants are in the playoffs...are they?

Let's say he is not the top QB in the MAC next year if Jacobs returns. Do you really think there are three or four guys better than him around the league? Come on, the guy stunk up the field at times this year, but he's not that bad. Had Frye had the game Luke had Monday, 40% of the posters on this board would be lining up to give the guy a blow job, 40% would be lining up to kiss the mouths of the guys who delivered the blow jobs and 10% would be jerking off while the blow jobs were being given like perverts at a peep show. Luke, warts and all, has the potential to be the best QB in the league next year. You guys should really embrace the guy.

I'll go with 30-40,000 because you don't have a category for 27-30,000. Akron could pack in a stadium like that on a regular basis if the team was good. They also need some boxes to get money from local businesses.

Here are my thoughts. I'll start with the negative first. 1. Good players win games. Memphis had bigger and faster players at almost every position. Ultimately, the talent level they had over us won the game for them. Case in point, even when we played the halfback throw perfectly, the bigger receiver was able to catch the ball over Corner who played the pass well. Akron needs to recruit bigger WRs and DBs. Marshall dominated the league for almost a decade with big players in those positions for years. We should take that play from their playbook. If Memphis and Akron played ten times, Memphis could beat them at least 7 times in 10 based on talent alone. 2. I HATE THE 3-3-5 DEFENSE WE PLAY. We don't have the talent level or the size to run that defense against really good teams and stop them the way we need to to control the game. Late in the game, our linebackers were absolutely dominated by a larger and just as athletic line. Next year, I would hope they move to at least a 3-4 defense so we can get more size on the line and eliminate a lot of the guessing the coaches have to do. 3. I'm not going to mention any names directly, but we had too many wide receivers dropping passes and killing drives early in the game. Seniors need to play complete games and come up with difficult plays. 4. SOMEONE PLEASE AT LEAST FAIR CATCH THE DAMN PUNTS. At least if you are having trouble catching the punts because the ball is not kicked directly to the returner, put and extra guy back there to get the balls. Special teams hurt us badly. Now for the positive. 5. I think each week this season, our offensive line performed better and better. They weren't great yesterday, but Luke did have enough time to complete 30 passes for over 400 yards. 6. Here are my thoughts on Biggs playing his last game for the Zips. 7. The play calling was balanced and overall it was good. Coaching didn't lose the game, we just lost to a better team. 8. I love the way the Zips played hard till the end. This team now has JD's mark on it. They played like they could win until the very end. If they continue to play like that, they will win a lot. 9. I sense there is some reluctance on the part of some writers to give Getsy his props after that game yesterday. Especially those of you who wanted to perform the program killing move of QB shuffle in mid season that could have set the program back years. Those of us who know better forgive you for your emotional outburst and we thank JD for not allowing stupidity to take hold of him. No hard feelings. Getting back to Getsy. He had one of the best QB performances in school history yesterday. Going back to the OU game, he has done everything necessary to win the MACC and make the game close yesterday in the end. What QB in Akron history has led the team to a MAC East Championship, MAC Championship and a bowl game on ESPN? Luke Getsy. I for one am glad he is coming back next season. A possible Player of the Year candidate for next season?..............Maybe. 10. I was so impressed with the size and energy of the Akron crowd yesterday. I sat behind a guy who graduated in 72 and he flew all the way back from San Diego to go to the game. Prior to the game, Akron was well represented at each and every location around the city. The Detroit paper put the crowd around 45,000. That may be a MCB record. 11. There was a Coach Faust sighting at the game. I hope in some way he felt some sense of accomplishment during the game yesterday. I know things ended horribly for him, but he is really a good man. The more I think about it, he sort of knew what a D-1A program should be like, he just never had the overall support of the Athletic Department or University to make it happen. Things were never going to work out for any Akron coach until a man like Mike Thomas took over. If Coach Faust had a man like Mike Thomas behind him, we would not have had to wait 18 years for yesterday to happen. 12. I saw some people at the game yesterday I had not seen since I was in school and everyone was so happy to see each other. It was what a Homecoming game should be like. 13. Overall, yesterday was a win-win for Akron. Had they won the game, it would have been great. Losing the game is not going to hurt the program. The only thing that would have hurt Akron yesterday, and it didn't happen, was a poor showing by the fans. I'm sure Akron will not be passed over again by a bowl because they don't think Akron will bring everyone. 14. The Motor City Bowl is the best thing to happen for the Zips. I would much rather them go to that game than have to march down to Alabama before Christmas. 15. Go Zips!

The pooch kick was fair caught on the 30. It had nothing to do with the outcome of the game.

This will be my final visit to ZipsNation.org until after the game Monday. I'd just like to say Merry Christmas to one and all on ZipsNation. Travel safely and see you at the game.

I do know the University has had several inserts in the Beacon Journal the past couple of weekends with just that type of add. Maybe someone from the University could post that electronically since I'm sure they bought the advertisement.

And what do you expect to get from this other than a well crafted, politically correct report? Huh? Do you really think the other candidates would like that published? Not sure why you would make this post.......There are many factors that are obvious for Macks hire. Are you questioning Dr. Proenza? For this job, EVERYONE interviewed is qualified. Hiring and interviewing is an art not a science. Cmon Man, be happy. We have a great new A.D. and Associate A.D. I have no problem with the hire, I just have a personal connection with Mike and I would have like to see him get the job. Dr. Proenza can do whatever he wants to do. Time marches on. The reason I want the report is that the local media will not ask deep enough questions and I think an explaination of a decision of this magnitude should be explained to the public in detail. As far as confidentiality, I explain that in my original post.

Never! You own a gun and know how to use it. An upstate Michigan guy once told a friend of mine from Bloomfield Hills, "Sir, every man should own a dog and a shotgun." Words to live by.