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Congratulations on your new baby! However, you are hereby sentenced to thirty hours of watching The Man Show and thirty hours of watching Married With Children. There is no reason for a man to miss a football game to sit at home with his wife just a few weeks after a delivery to listen to her bitch about hemorrhoids and her enormously large breasts. Come on Big Zip, it's football season already and unless you can squirt milk out of your chest, there is not much use for you around the house. I don't want to hear any storys about you changing diapers either. I don't listen to the broadcast while I am at the game so I did not get to hear Stams. I will say this though. A guy who played professional football and at NDU when they won the National Championship understands the importance of winning or at least high expectations. It's all that matters. Just a quick question though. Why is everyone so down on Getsy after one loss? Compared to last year's quarterback, his numbers are much better and nobody was ready to hang Frye (including me) when the Zips were 1-4 with losses to MTSU and NIU. I see Frye was at the game last night and the Zips lost........coincidence?

Getsy was part of the problem, but most of the blame for this game belongs to the offensive line. There were times during the game where defensive linemen ran by Akron's line like they were the scout team. Rarely during the second half did CMU have to rush more than four people because our line was so bad. What does that mean? Most of the time CMU had seven guys covering four receivers. You can do your own math as to why receivers were not available. CK asked the question about whether we were out coached. In the coaching area (it's going to kill me to write what I am about to write..........did you hear the one about the..........I my as well just say it), we were certainly out coached. JD made a decision in the second half to abandon the run and pass almost entirely. I think he out thought himself last night. His offense is a running offense and he put that aside. Huge mistake. When we are involved in a game where we throw 57 times with this offense, we are going to lose. Don't forget that CMU's coach won two back-to-back national championships at Grand Valley State. A winner is a winner is a winner. Let's get to some numbers because I think they prove the point that Getsy was not to only reason we lost last night and abandoning the running game was a mistake. First, Getsy had a competion percentage the first three games of about 53%. Last night, his completion percentage was 52.6%. Hardly a difference. Were there some poor decisions on his part? Of course, but he did not lose the game. He still passed for 270 yards last night which is more than our average per game from last season. Enough with the hysteria about the guy already. He also appeared to have a right hand injury after one of his numerous sacks. That could explain over throwing receivers. Just ask Kurt Warner what a hand injury does to your career. It landed him in Arizona of all places. There is not a QB in the history of the school or maybe in the history of college football that could have avoided the rush in the second half last night. Secondly, why take the ball out of the hands of your team's MVP for the past two seasons in the second half? Biggs averaged 4.9 yards per carry last night and rushed for 77 yards. 4.9 x 3 = 14.7. That's a lot of first downs. I noticed Biggs seemed a little banged up last night. Maybe that was a problem and if it is going to be a problem for the remainder of the season we are in big trouble. What next? Well, the offensive line needs to get their asses in gear and start to play like they know what the Hell they are doing. I know they are inexperienced, but too damn bad, it's time to start playing football. Whenever you see the offensive linemen come off of the field throwing their helmets, you know they have lost their composure. They need to stop with the helmet throwing nonsense, act like men, figure out what the problems are and execute. I see guys throw helmets at high school football games. Unless we want to go back to the Owens years where it was like high school football, let's get our act together on the sidelines. By the way, how come Heim never smells the field? One thing Marshall always did was field a huge mass of humanity in front of Limpwhich and Chad P. I think we need to consider some mass in front of the QB. Secondly, and most importantly, Biggs-Biggs-Biggs and more Biggs. He has only been the best player on the team the last two seasons. Thirdly, this is the second game in a row where receivers were wide open down the middle of the field. Last week it was the tight end and this week it was a wide out in trips. Enough of that already. Lastly, there does not seem to be a leader(s) on the team. A good leader keeps the players focused each and every week. Since there is no leader on the field, the coaches are going to have to focus the team this week. When a coach focuses a team, it makes a long week for the players. Get ready to be worked into the ground Zips, you've earned it. Losing last night puts the Zips into a horrible position in the MAC. They have to win out to win the MAC East. If they play like they did last night the remainder of the season, they may be looking at five wins total. I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet though. It Getsy and Biggs are injured seriously, I will hold the towel in my hands next week.

I'm going to say it again. Fireworks at college football games are bush league and low class. Have you ever noticed all the nose pickers and filthy people who show up to fireworks nights at Aeros games and downtown on July 4? I doubt anyone has ever left a game at the Rubber Bowl saying to themselves, "Self, I'm going back next week to see those fireworks that you can't see because the sun is still up when they go off. Man, that was great". The gun is a good thing though because it gets the ROTC involved in games.

I really need to weigh in on this fireworks nonsense. I'm about to reading the comments to bring them back. At big time college football games, fireworks are not set off while the team runs onto the field, after a win or after a score. To do so makes a program silly at best. When a team scores, the school fight song should play unobstructed by the sound of fireworks as we had to agonize through in the past. When the team runs onto the field, the school fight song should play unobstructed by the sound of fireworks as we had to agonize through in the past. At the end of a game in which we win, the school fight song should play unobstructed by the sound of fireworks as we had to in the past. I can't think of another school where fireworks are set off during or after any of these events. Fireworks are for minor league baseball games and make the program look "bush league all the way". They should take whatever money they would waste on fireworks and put it towards a new stadium.

Why? We need something to wake people up. Good football doesn't seem to be enough. As far as the whistle, I hardly noticed it.

Just a couple of things. First, CK mentioned Akron was D1 in 1986. It was actually 1987. Secondly, if you refer to winning, Dennison did run a respectable program. Other than that, I knew some of the guys who played for Dennison and there was little respectable about the program other than the winning. I'm still wondering how Dennison is in the ring of honor at the school and Mike Clark is not.

Did we get a new coach?

I'm not sure what you guys want. You complain when they don't write articles and you complain when they write articles. This is a good team and there are plenty of articles yet to write. It's only week four. These are two VERY good articles, especially the BJ article. By the way, the identity Morgan is writing about is the toughness of the team. Both physical and emotional toughness.

The prevent defense did not hurt Akron on Saturday. They would have been fine had they not allowed NIU to march down the field in a little over a minute at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter. The purpose of the prevent defense (which ITZ is correct, Akron was not in) is to prevent quick touchdowns. NIU would have run the clock out on themselves if the Zips could have forced them into a three or four minute drive at this critical time of the game.

I think after last week there will not be anyone overlooking the Zips. NIU is a solid team and I would be shocked if they lost more than one more game the remainder of the season. BGSU is really the team to beat in the MAC East. I don't care how bad they played last week, Boise is a good team and makes a lot of teams look bad on that blue rug.

Indians have rescheduled this weeks game on Saturday for 1:25 so more Zips fans can go to the game. This will be a good test of my theory.

It's good to see one of our old friends down there at #92 and soon to be falling even further.

I reserve the right to comment on this post at a later date. There are a lot of misperceptions about Dennison and Huggins I would like to add. Keeping them was not as easy as you might think.

This season, I heard of two promotions for other schools to get students into games that I thought would be great for Akron. The first one was at MTSU. All students swipe their student ID when they go into a game. At the middle of the fourth quarter (they must still be at the game to win), three names were picked and those students received White parking passes. I think these passes basically allow you to park anywhere on campus. Second, Miami is running a promotion that will give a student a free trip to any Miami away game with the team if the student attends 50 varsity athletic games. They also swipe their student ID to track this. These are great ideas and something the University should look at.

You are asking too much this day and age. I can't even go to a bar and listen to music during a game because the idiots insist on hearing the play-by-play on television. Why? How do these people actually watch a game in person? Don't they understand the sport enough to watch it and follow along with the graphics or the motions of the umpires? Hell, there are so many graphics on TV now you can hardly see the game.

I want it to be known right here and now that I did not write this e-mail!!!! I think you are refering to the bubble screen as the out pass?.? but I'm not sure. Anyhow, Luke really needs to be more accurate with this pass. It is too easy of a pass to be thrown as poorly as we saw it thrown Saturday. It throws the timing of the play off. Frye had a much better completion percentage than Getsy has so far (70% vs 53%). Probably due to Frye having better mobility and more able to run the ball when there was nobody open. Getsy is much more likely to chuck the ball out of bounds than run so it drives down his completion percentage. While Zips Win! and I were talking at halftime, he made a good point that the players need to keep getting better for the program to move forward. If Getsy is better than Frye, then good! The past three QBs the Zips have had have all been really good. I think Butchie was just as good as Frye and he had a short career in the CFL....whatever. From his short career as QB, Sparks was just as good as Frye, but the Zips needed to get their best 11 players on the field and his QB position was sacraficed to Frye. Frye set a bunch of school records while at Akron (most TDs in a game was broken Saturday by Getsy 5, if Biggs gets one more yard in OT, it is 6). Getsy seems to have taken the position to a different level. I don't have time to go into how many things he does right, but there are plenty. I think he handles the offense better than Frye and passes down field better. This is probably largely due to the fact that Frye had less than 9 months in the offense and Getsy has had going on four years in the offense. The bottom line is that the team responds to him and they are winning so far. Winning is the most important thing. I have to get this in though....Our success so far this season has noting to do with Frye vs. Getsy, it could be quarterback X vs. quarterback Y and it wouldn't matter. Once again Saturday we saw a small little kid from Florida provide the spark for the team when we really need it. Biggs had 156 total yards in the game. I have been saying for the past two seasons that he is the best player on the team and I will stand by that now. The evidence is becoming too overwhelming.

JD is a very young man for his position. He has a wife and three young children. If he takes a job for $1 million instead of the $150,000, or whatever Akron is paying, he has a moral obligation to take the $1 million. He would set his family up for life. I say after JD wins the MAC in the next two years, he will be gone to another school. When Akron builds another football stadium, something in that stadium needs to be named after Mike Thomas. He has created a real first class culture in the Athletic Department.

The Zips are putting a great product out on the field this year. Why were there only 13,000 at the game? I've been thinking about this and here is what I think. First of all, OSU is not the reason people do not show up to Akron games. I could really care less about OSU, but I'm not going to blame them for the attendance problems. Hell, they played at noon Saturday. Akron is competing for what I consider to be a "casual" sports fans time. There are very few die hard fans like us. People have a lot of options now with TV offerings being what they are. They may feel they have a better option on TV. The reason I think the crowd was so small Saturday was the Indians are doing very well. They had a better crowd last year for the first game and the Indians were doing poorly. If the Indians are in post season position next week and then they make the post season, Akron's attendance will be small. Casual fans want to watch the Indians. I guess that puts a lot of you northeast Ohio natives in a bad position. Do you want large crowds at games or do you want the Indians to do well? Secondly, watch the Miami vs. UC game Wednesday night. I bet Miami only has about 15,000 at the game. Attendance is a problem throughout the MAC. Also, in years past they had the Acme Zip game where tens of thousands of tickets were given away for free knowing that everyone would not show up. Basically if you went into Acme and bought a light bulb you received a ticket to the game. None of those fans were bought into the program because they had to spend nothing to go. We probably had as many paying customers Saturday as we used to get for Acme Zip, and I'm gald the school is not giving things away now. Thirdly, the Rubber Bowl has never looked as bad as it does now and it is getting worse by the day. I'm lucky I take a Can't State seat cover into the game (Why Can't State? So my big butt can be placed squarely onto the head of that stupid bird) or I would have ended up with a piece of fiberglass in my leg like my wife did. A casual fan does not want to sit in a place like that. People want their sports entertainment dollars to be spent on what they believe is an event, not just a game. If part of your event takes place in an area of town where there are no bars to go to before the game within walking distance, the tailgate area is next to a run down airport and you risk bodily harm in the stadium from the stadium, would you want to go to that event if you were a casual fan? In addition, Zips Win! and I were talking at halftime and he told me that only half of the prepaid parking spots were filled. Just a suggestion to UofA. Next year, tripple the price of those spots. They will still sell out and you will make 3X mor money. Also, the more people pay for the spots, the more likely they are to go to the game because they are invested. Go Indians?

It was one of the most active student crowds I have ever seen at a game. The answer to your question is no. As the Rubber Bowl continues to fall down, they are just going to cover up seats until there are none left. At that time, they will either need a new stadium or they will have to close up shop.

This really should not be news to anyone.

In addition to downtown, you could stay in west Akron near Summit Mall. There is a Winking Lizard (sports bar) there that can get just about any game you want.

Nice report CK. My wife and I were parked near the Hixson's as well, but we did not stick around for the tailgate. There was a bar near by called The Boro that had all of the day's games on it so we went there. I think we have the same opinion of the game. It was a nice win, but not that nice. In fact, one could say that the offense played better against Purdue than they did against MTSU. The defense played lights out though. At a minimum, the score should have been 26-7. My biggest concern of the game was the lack of discipline when the offense moved at least into field goal range. Too many penalties moved them out of FG range and forced punts. Also, the execution of the offense broke down inside the 30 and the team was forced out of FG range. I also think you are right about Getsy forcing too much of the action. I like a QB to take a risk, but I would rather him not in a close game. Maybe he figured they had a ten point lead, MTSU couldn't move the ball and he figured "why not?" because he did not take the same type of risks against Purdue. There was one play in particular that impressed me the most about Getsy. The Zips had the ball on the right hash mark moving toward the stage set up in the one end zone. Getsy threw a 20 yard out to the opposite side line and the ball was completed on a rope. It was at least as good as the guys on Sunday throw. I don't think Getsy is an NFL player, but on that one play, he sure looked like one. I say a lot of good things about Biggs, and to say anything else would just repeat what I have said in the past. The guy has been the spark that has supported the teams winning for the past two seasons. Enough said. The most important thing the Zips did this game was control the ball. Akron had the ball most of the first half and even though the score was close at half, MTSU's defense was tired already. It was only a matter of time until the Zips scored on them again. The running game really took off in the second half because of a tired MTSU defense. JD manages this team similar to how an NFL coach would manage a team. Get a lead, control the ball and run the clock out with a strong running game against a tired defense. I loved the first TD play call and it certainly fooled me. One of my favorite plays is the QB draw close to the end zone, but I would not run it with Getsy because he is too slow. When he took the snap and faked the QB draw, I could feel my face get red with anger , but when he pulled up and threw the pass to Biggs, it was all good . JD always seems to have a good wrinkle around the goal line early in the game. As a quick history lesson for the northeast Ohio fans of the Browns, the QB draw was invented by Paul Brown when Otto Graham (sp?) played for him. As you may well know, Brown was one of the great innovators of the game. Otto was considered a great running QB at the time he played. Brown invented the play to be run between the 5-15 yard line to take advantage of a strong rush by the defense. When you watch games and they run the play outside of the zone Brown intended it to be run it almost always fails. That is because most coaches today don't understand the history of the game or how plays were initially conceptualized. Anyhow, my wife and I made a mini-vacation out of this trip and had a real nice time in Nashville and then at MTSU. Thanks to everyone in Tennessee for being so welcoming.

Thank you. And thanks to all of the folks in the Boro for being so welcoming. It was nice to see after last week's rude fans at Purdue.

Is there anyone out there who is going to Tennessee this week and would like me to post on things to do in Nashville? I am not going to waste time doing this if nobody is interested.

I think I have found my replacement for the most bitter poster on this page :angry: . I pass the torch to you zip37 .