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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/standings Check out the Conference DOA standings. The team we bitch slapped out of the league on national TV is circling the drain of this bad conference. Good thing they left for better bowl exposure.........Wait a minute, don't you have to beat six D-1 schools to go to a bowl? I crack myself up! Oh well, if it doesn't work out, they can always go to the Sunbelt Conference. I've been to Huntington though and by the looks of their women, they need to join a conference called the Ugly Belt.

Hey InTheZone! How about an update?

Zips still shell shocked from loss last week and the coaches kicking their asses this week. I think it is going to be close with Akron winning 24-10 in a closer game than the score appears. 10-3 Zips at halftime. Late Zips TD puts the game out of reach for Buffalo.

Excellent post ITZ, again. If you ever find out who I am, I'd be glad to buy you a beer at the end zone beer garden (is it really a garden if there are no plants growing in the area?). I thought I was the only one to have Getsy's back. Let's hope those injuries aren't too bad.

This explains a lot. Bad thumb, can't throw. Bad head, can't think. Could be a big problem this week.

I don't. Maybe if you said Brett Biggs you would be more accurate. I rarely bring up his name first. I just respond to others on the page. Mostly, I'm really pissed off at everyone bashing Getsy and the only way to respond is to compare him to past players we have all seen. Would you rather I compare Getsy to Andy Kubik? That would make this page REAL fun.

I watched the game again last night. I'm concerned there is something physically wrong with Biggs. Also, Getsy seemed to have his throwing hand hurt. What's the deal with these guys?

Not really, but you already answered. Believe me, the Charlie Frye excuse machine called Zipsnation.org will be spewing excuse after excuse for eternity for why he could not win. That is not my main point and I could really care less about Charlie Frye. The point is that everyone is ready to throw Getsy overboard after one bad game. It's just wrong and silly at best. The guy performed very well the first three games and we should expect more of that type of play the remainder of the season and not what we saw Saturday. Turning on the guy now is just counterproductive. I'm not certain how you can say Getsy is not a good leader. Good leadership breeds good results. Aside from last Saturday, the quarterback has produced this season in a huge way. I'm more interested to see how Getsy takes the criticism. I took a leadership class in college through my fraternity and one of the sayings I remember the most was, "Criticism is the price of leadership". Statistics are also an important part of sports and should not be disregarded. The most important is winning which is completely measurable. So far, Getsy is doing well with that statistic. In order to evaluate a players performance, other measures must be taken as well. Looking at the QB, you have to look at things like completion percentage (the only statistic Frye is better than Getsy in so far), yards per game, touchdown passes vs. interceptions, yards per competed pass, etc. When you ignore the statistics in a comparison you are depending on circumstantial evidence to make your case, which ignores reason and lends itself to the black helicopter crowd.

We have been dealing with good/average quarterbacks for the past decade. Numbers don't lie. So far, Getsy is playing better than both and he was average as well Saturday, and only so far Saturday ONLY. In every statistical category, Getsy has outplayed Frye this season. Most importantly, he beat NIU and MTSU....two teams we LOST to last season. Not only did we lose to NIU last season, they made us their bitch......MTSU beats us at the Rubber Bowl. We played well against a Big Ten team this season, PSU and Virginia also made us their bitch last season. Our offensive line is much worse this season so you can't use that as an excuse for Frye's inability to win. Don't kid yourselves, Frye doesn't win that game Saturday. Do I really have to bring up the Can't game two years ago when Frye couldn't even get a first down at the end of the game? I really don't understand why everyone is badmouthing Getsy and the same people thought Frye was a Heisman candidate last season. Let's at least have some intellectual honesty on this board. Frye won ONLY 19 D-1 games as starting QB.....spare us all the comments about him being the difference this season.

Absolutely. They players are really to blame for last nights game. They are all adults and should be mentally ready to play.

Nice post Sloopy. I can't believe the amount of crap I'm reading on this board today. I'm very disappointated in everyone.

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.