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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.

Thank you for your interest. Please go to as many things as possible.

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.

I'm so helpless with withdraw that I've taken to watching Arena Football. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Passing will be better. I'm more interested to see if any of the running backs can play with the toughness that Biggs played with. The offensive line will be better, but I don't know if if there is anyone willing to run into the line as fearlessly as Biggs did. Akron uses a power running game similar to an NFL team and the back must be willing to run into the line instead of to the outside.

My first year out of graduate school I lived in Connecticut and absolutely fell in love with Big East basketball. It was Donyell Marshall's last season at UCONN and I was able to go to a bunch of games. Later, I was able to go to the Friday session of the Big East tournament that year and stayed the night in Manhattan and did it up right. Cincinnati, Louisville, Norte Dame, Marquette, et al have no business in that league and they will never be able to compete in that league because the best high school basketball is played on the east coast and those kids to to the old school Big East schools. Night in and night out, the competition is brutal.Boston College almost won the ACC their first year in the league and they probably would have not made it past the semi-final game of the Big East tournament.Any Big East team that made it to the semi-finals would win the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC tournaments. Iowa is good? Ohio State is good? Florida is good? Kansas is good? These teams would be average Big East teams.

I agree. The game tomorrow is not as big as the game Friday against Toledo for a lot of reasons, but it is a big game. They need to get in the swing of winning big games.

Thanks for not making me the first to have to say it out loud. The lack of athletic talent will be on full display in Philadelphia this week. Get ready for an ugly one the way this team has played since the Nevada game.How about some more harsh reality. The reason we did not get a home game is that our stadium is so small compared to Temple. We've never even sold more than 4,000 tickets for an early MAC Championship game. Temple could have 4,000 walk ups buy tickets. The NIT needs to fund the tournament so they give games to teams with bigger stadiums and play the percentages.

You write this like Toledo was some kind of defensive machine or something. Akron choked the game away against an average team. Akron went all defense the last five minutes of the game and didn't put the best offensive players in to match the scoring of Toledo. I think the word choke is way over used in sports, but it does fit what Akron did last Friday. Defense means nothing if you can't score when you get the ball. The phrase "defense wins championships" should be "defense is the side show that gets the ball to the offense so they can win the game". Defense means nothing if your leading players miss foul shots late in the game. Defense means nothing of players half ass it around the floor late in the game. Defense means nothing if your shooters are taking bad shots. Defense means nothing if there is a lack of concentration that leads to your point guard making wild passes. Defense means nothing if you have a coach who refuses to put guys in the game who can score when you need to break a scoring drought. Toledo didn't play great defense Friday, we saw the biggest choke job in the history of the school.