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There are no classes on winning. Either you can or you can't.

I'm sure he was just waiting with bated breath to take that 50% pay cut.

The BCS "led" Pitt to a BCS game. not Tyler Palko. If you think Pitt would have received anything but an invite to the Motor City Bowl had they not received the sorry-ass Big LEast automatic BCS bid, you have at least one thing in common with Josh Cribbs (puff, puff, puff) Great win vs. Notre Dame? Wow...ND was a juggernaut last year. How 'bout Palko's riveting performance vs. Furman? UConn? Were any of his "wins" vs Rutgers or Temple? Yes, two. They also nailed mighty South Florida. That home loss to doormat Nebraska was impressive too, as was the 35-7 Fiesta Bowl beating to non-BCS Utah (quick, name another player on Utah's roster besides Alex Smith...I THOUGHT so!) Man, the Dude is a "winner." Palko couldn't hold Frye's jock strap. WOW CK, you and Zips Win are making my points for me today. The evidence you use points to the fact that Pitt did suck, which they did. If you read my post again, I never say that Palko is a great QB. All I said was that he is a winner, and the record proves so. I'll take a winner any day over a sub 50% player.

I think you just belittled him for me. Using one drive in an otherwise unremarkable OU game says a lot about what we saw the past four years. Bubbles of greatness in a sea of average play. OU absolutely stunk and a MAC QB like Limpwich would have dismantled that team with nine guys. I'm not sure if everyone gets it yet. If he was that good, he SHOULD make plays like that against OU at a minumum.

The biggest difference between Palko and "Superman" is that Palko is a winner and "Superman" is not. Palko lead Pitt, after starting the season 2-2, to a huge win against Notre Dame and a BCS Bowl Game. Where did "Superman" lead us? Quick, name another starter for Pitt last season.....................too late, you coudn't do it fast enough. Their team was crap and he lead them to a BCS Game. If you folks think I am harsh, just wait until 5 loses in the NFL. NFL fans will tear him to shreads like he has never experienced before. It will make my posts look like kids play. That's OK though, just keep the 5 excuse train running. It gives me material for my soon to be post titled "The 101 Piss Poor Excuses for 5 Not Winning". Who should be the jock holder again?

There is an post on GoZips.com today about a Varsity A reverse raffle. If there are any former varsity players reading this, go on to the web site and register for the Varsity "A" Association. A three year membership costs $60 and a one year $25. For more reasons than I want to get into on this post, not many former varsity athletes associate with the school in the same way as other Division I schools. This has to change if the Zips are to become a big time program. Register for the reverse raffle and go to it. You can't be all that busy on a Monday night in May. Then go to the golf outings in the summer for your individual sports. I am confident you will have a good time and see some old friends. I put this post on the football page because this seems to be the one that gets the most hits. If the administrators of this board think the post should be in another area or multiple areas, please feel free to move it.

Let him go. One less former LO recruit on the team.

I agree ITZ. Ferg did look good. However, he was playing against the third team defense with some of the starting OL being forced to play with the third team. The question is whether he can do it or not with the first team. As you know, things get much faster when playing with the starters.

WOW, I thought the 5 excuse making machine would wait to get running until at least after draft day. I don't know if maybe it is never to late to get started or it just never ended. Since I like this board and the people on it so much, I am currently developing a 5 excuse making cheat sheet that will greatly reduce the amount of time typing on this board. It will be numerically based with an excuse tied to each number so you can just type in the number instead of the whole phrase. I am attempting to gather all of the excuses used over the past two years to include so I am sure you all understand it is taking a lot of time. When completed, it will greatly reduce the amount of time each of you spend making excuses. Potentially, it could be the greatest post ever on this page. Please, there is no need to thank me. I feel I have an obligation to help my fellow Zips fans. Keep posted.....

I would like to thank ESPN for copying ideas out of my posts about 5 for the past nine months. The one thing they all are missing is the lack of winning. I have a brother who coached college for many years and coached at Maryland for a few. His comment to me at the OU game last year was that 5 was "average". While I think he is a little better than average, you all know I was never a true believer, I believe this ESPN analysis is exactly correct with the exception that I think 5 appeared to be much faster than his 40 time showed.

Jabari was a disaster. He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The easiest pass to throw is the bubble screen because the receiver isn't far away and the blocker makes it almost impossible to intercept the ball. Each time, the receivers had to catch the ball around their knees. Getsy needs to work on his timing, but that will come. His accuracy was good enough to make him starting QB. Remember the four most important traits of a QB: 1. Decision Making 2. Accuracy 3. Accuracy 4. Accuracy

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!! Thanks to Zip Watcher, I'm back at it again and I have a lot to say. Thanks ZW. Just a quick point of fact. We didn't win many games at all with Charlie (19 to be exact). Onward and upward.

All is working well now.

You beat me to the punch Zipsrifle. I think they stand to draw a good crowd that day as a lot of people take the day off of work and will be looking for something to do. If it appears as if the Tuesday game against OU will have a disasterous crowd, they could move it back to Saturday. I can see the Zips being 4-2, if not 5-1 if we play well against NIU, after six games. The following week they play Miami and I'm not convinced this Betts kid is all that good and maybe an upset could be in order. I like our chances against OU, Can't and Army. I think Ball State will be looking to kick our ass after what we did to them last year and we could have trouble there. I've been saying this for months, the Zips are going to win seven games next year. Write it down. If they are in the race next year at the end of the season, the long layoffs between games at the end of the year will benefit the team. A lot of this will also depend on the quality of the MAC next year. I see no evidence that the league will be better next year, which is encouraging because the Zips will play better. Oh, by the way, I just heard on television that silicone breast implants may be coming back. No debate on this one, that is a good thing.

The money will be too great. The most he will probably ever make at Akron is $350,000 per year. He could make a minimum $700,000 per year at a bigger conference. Akron will not have the money to pay him.

In Division I sports, things don't just happen. He didn't sneak into the equipment room and get just the right size equipment for football practice. They don't have players in uniform and on the practice field just for fun. Spring practice is a very serious part of the year, and too serious part of the year to have a guy out there just having fun. There are also legal issues such as injury, insurance policies and scholarships that have to be dealt with as well. My guess is that there was a tryout for the kid and after practice(s) the discussion with the football coaches lead told him he could not start on the football team next year. At that point, RT decided to stick with basketball. The coaches reply to the question was probably just a nice way of saying "We can't use him and we don't need him". If I am correct, this is good sign. It says that the Zips have good enough talent on the team that they don't need to get kids from outside of the football program to help them. If a basketball player is your answer to the football teams defensive problems, then we really have problems. That sigh of relief you heard was KD.

$2.75? Since when did they start making change?

I thought it was something you had to pay $20 for on Howard Street.

LOL I thought the same exact thing. My wife asked, "Where are we supposed to send the money". I said, "Don't ask.....".

I think the people at the Plain Dealer and the Beacon Journal compete against each other in the Special Olympics.

See you at the game. I agree, it was a good jesture by the University. I'll probably even upgrade to reserved tickets this year because of the Can't game and the Army game.

I can. I disagree. We've won NOTHING. Where are the MAC championship banners? Nowhere? Where are the Bowl trophies? Nowhere. Where are the big OOC victories in football and basketball? Nowhere. Where are the 9+ win football and 22+ win basketball seasons? Nowhere. We haven't won squat in comparison to just about anyone in the MAC since we've entered the conference. We beat Marshall during the football regular season. Six of the 12 teams Marshall played this year beat them. We beat Miami during the basketball regular season. So did woeful Marshall. Big fat hairy deal. "We went on a tear at the end of the basketball season"? confused.gif We choked-away the MAC title at season's end losing two of our last three. One of those losses was to our rival, and local hoops measuring stick, Can't (for the second time, I might add). Some "tear." rolleyes.gif Then we bowed-out in the MAC quarterfinals...woo hoo. I was in Can't 7 years ago when we beat them in hoops for the first time in 31 years (in Can't). Us Akron fans sat in the Can't student section behind a hoop. There were plenty of empty seats. That game drew about 3,000 fans. 2,000 were Akron fans...it was like a home game. It was that year that Can't began their "run", winning 20 games for the first of what's now 7 consecutive years. Now Can't gets 5,000 of their OWN fans at most home games. And they've done that for about 6 straight years. How did Can't go from 1,500 fans to 5,000 fans? It wasn't by winning a few regular season games. It was by winning 20+, by consistently winning in the MAC tourney, by winning in the NIT, then winning in the NCAA's. THAT'S what draws fans to games. That combination of a winning tradition and a fan base is what gets you an NIT bid. If you really think that fans should be flocking in to see the Zips because they are simply competitive...you're nuts. I'll be at games...the rest of the guys on this board will be at games...but you aren't going to pack the house in football or basketball until you win championships. Personally, I feel we have the coaching staffs in-place to win championships, but almost two decades of football and basketball futility...essentially a generation...cannot be overcome with 6 or 7-win football and 19-win basketball seasons. Can't argue with that either......

As a Steelers fan, I hope the Browns do draft Frye. As a Zips fan, I just hope he gets drafted and makes a lot of money for himself and sends some back to the school.

Can't argue with that.....

Andy Alleman at guard is a surprise to me. The guy lettered at least one year at Pitt on defense. Are we that thin at OL or do we have good depth at DL?