Zips Scrimmage at Summa Field

[GP1]

Regardless of their difficulties, I do expect an Akron coach to recruit and RETAIN the best players in the confrence

Here is the question. It is the job of the coach to retain good players, but with every organization there is a degree of turnover that happens naturally. So what is an acceptable turnover rate? If we cut our turnover rate down to 4 per year and then the next year they have 5, then the "the program is going in the wrong direction so fire the coachers" (these are the same people in corporate America who have Six Sigma black belts or Browns fans) pop up their heads in an effort to try to be right about something. I think losing five scholarship players in a season is within the "acceptable" category of turnover for a football program.It is silly to believe there aren't going to be a couple of players a year who flunk out. UofA does not have the resources to keep every player from flunking out. It is also silly to believe there aren't going to be a couple of players a year who want to leave UofA because they just don't like the school or are unhappy for what ever personal reason they may have. Some may just not want to play football anymore and they stay in school because they like it at UofA. The turnover rate will NEVER be zero and some people need to get over that.

[GP1]

I went to the scrimmage and the QB play needs to be addressed. The coach needs to make some hard decisions. At the end of the day he has to play the best guy or suffer the consequences.Go Zips!

It is interesting when talking about team captains, Alex Allen comes up first (not a surprise) then JD made a comment about 4 OL and named a few others. Jacq wasn't one of them. For a QB who is going to be a 3rd year starter and is a senior, I was surprised.

Maybe Jacq is just what he is. I still like the idea of a senior QB. The MAC is a high scoring league and points are hugely important. In a lot of leagues, that would mean the last one with the ball wins the game. In the MAC, the mindset should be, "the last one to make a mistake loses". Jacq can't be the last one to make a mistake.

[Buckzip]

Why is Igor getting worse each year? Does his coach suck or what?

You Browns fans are funny. A guy flunks out....the coach stinks. A guy misses field goals....his coach stinks. A player continues to throw ints in the red zone....the coach stinks. At what point are the players to blame? The players are adults getting paid (yes, a scholarship is real money worth thousands a year) and they need to start earning their money. One thing I know for sure. We are on our third coach in the D-1A era and one thing remains the same....the PLAYERS don't perform in key situations over and over again. Let's fire the coach though....I'm sure the fourth coach can solve it. If not, we'll hire a fifth coach.If the Zips don't win at least seven games this year, I'll be the first one to open the door for JD to leave. At some point, the players themselves must start to perform. Coaches don't really get coaches fired unless they get caught having sex with female interns, etc. It's the players that get them fired. If the Zips don't win at least seven games this year with the talent on that team, it is the fault of the players and not the coaches. JD will pay the price, but that is just the way it goes in sports. Maybe we are just a losing program and the players themselves have passed on losing from one generation to another. Many will say that if you peel our onion of losing, there is more to the problem when you get through the various layers. In my experience, things are almost always as they appear to be. When you peel an onion, you get more onion. When we peel the onion of our losing, we just get more onion. We tried new coaches and the onion remains the same. New ADs and the onion remains the same. New fieldhouse and the onion remains the same. We'll see if the next layer of onion, the new stadium, reveals anything other than more onion this coming season. No coach in the world can change the onion.The best thing we have going for us is we are part of an even worse onion in the MAC. Try peeling that onion since 1948........

Uhhh, I asked did his coach suck. I didn't say his coach sucked. There is a big difference...

Could you at least have the balls to stand behind what you write? We all know what you mean, so do what the Great GP1 has done for years and stand behind what you write. Honest to God, your comment reminds me of a guy who farts in a crowded room, blames it on someone else and then lecturers the room on the evils of farting in a crowded room.

Nice try at attempting to defend your reading comprehension. However, I asked a question. You may be able to speak for everybody by saying, "we all", but you don't speak for me.Get over yourself.

[Zipsrifle]

Regardless of their difficulties, I do expect an Akron coach to recruit and RETAIN the best players in the confrence

Here is the question. It is the job of the coach to retain good players, but with every organization there is a degree of turnover that happens naturally. So what is an acceptable turnover rate? If we cut our turnover rate down to 4 per year and then the next year they have 5, then the "the program is going in the wrong direction so fire the coachers" (these are the same people in corporate America who have Six Sigma black belts or Browns fans) pop up their heads in an effort to try to be right about something. I think losing five scholarship players in a season is within the "acceptable" category of turnover for a football program.It is silly to believe there aren't going to be a couple of players a year who flunk out. UofA does not have the resources to keep every player from flunking out. It is also silly to believe there aren't going to be a couple of players a year who want to leave UofA because they just don't like the school or are unhappy for what ever personal reason they may have. Some may just not want to play football anymore and they stay in school because they like it at UofA. The turnover rate will NEVER be zero and some people need to get over that.

Understood, no matter what you do, you will have some turnover. JD early on, however, did not do a good job at retaining top talent, which I think burned us here the past few years. It appears that this is changing...time will tell.