MAC Week One

[GP1]

Here are the results from last night. Thoughts?BGSU (Home Team) 31Troy 14Villanova (I-AA) 27Temple (Home Team) 24Can't State (Home Team) 18CCU 0NTSU 20BSU (Home Team) 10I'll try to find the silver lining. It could have been worse. BGSU puts on a good performance. Temple....laughable. Can't State.....regardless of who they play, they are laughable. BSU....the loss of future Arena League great (oops, that league went under)......the loss of future CFL back-up Nate Davis is killing this team.Let's see how the rest of the weekend pans out. These results are giving me hope for this season. All I want the Zips to be is the best team in a bad conference.I'm looking forward to the Zips vs. Indiana game in a couple of weeks. It could be a big win for the Zips based upon IU's showing last night.

[ZachTheZip]

BG surprised me, especially considering how abysmal their attendance was for the game.Temple lost the only person on their team capable of winning a game. They're in for a really bad season, right when they needed to make it to a bowl game to convince the MAC to keep them. Good riddance.Ball State will be mediocre, and I think they got caught off guard by North Texas. Maybe a 4-win season for them.Can't sucks and i have nothing more to say about them.

[johnnyzip84]

Ball State's loss really wasn't surprising at all. They probably should have lost by more, and THAT was a little surprising to me. I understand they were not expected to contend (by most) for the West this year, but perhaps there weak start is indicative that the East/West balance of power will be a little more even this year than many have thought. It'll be interesting to see the results from the games on Saturday.BTW, GP1, if you are atternding the Wake/Baylor game tomorrow (hey, I'M the one who brought it up.....so please no GP1 bashing about Wake ) I'd be curious to get your assessment of Bear QB Robert Griffin.

[skip-zip]

The BG score surprised me since Troy WAS considered by most to be the best in the Sun Belt this year. Can't judge from just one game, but maybe...just maybe...the MAC can claim to be better than the other bottom-rated conference in D-1A.There's might not seem like there is much to conclude from the Can't State game, considering the level of opponent. But, I did find two things very, very interesting. They were 1-13 on 3rd down conversions, and were only able to rush for 3.6 yards per carry. Very, very interesting.

[GP1]

BTW, GP1, if you are atternding the Wake/Baylor game tomorrow (hey, I'M the one who brought it up.....so please no GP1 bashing about Wake ) I'd be curious to get your assessment of Bear QB Robert Griffin.

I will be going to the Baylor game tomorrow (I guess since some on the board are too thin skinned to read the words "Wake Forest", I can not say Wake Forest. We don't want to offend anyone who is offended by the words Wake Forest. Wake Forest could mean something in another language so I don't want to say Wake Forest too much. The words Wake Forest may cause some sort of a wake that will not allow people to see the forest through the trees. I'm not sure, but we want to make certain we stay away from the words Wake Forest at any cost. Even interesting comparisons between the Wake Forest and UofA are not allowed even though there are amazing similarities between the two schools on some level. So when I say I went to the Baylor game, keep in mind they are playing at Wake Forest. And by "at Wake Forest", I don't mean Wake Forest, NC. Wake Forest, NC is a city around Raleigh where the original Wake Forest started before some very wealthy person built a campus in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest is a school in Winston-Salem, NC that has an angry, mean faced minister as the mascot. If Jim Grobe doesn't get better play calling this season, that minister is really going to be mad at him, but like most ACC schools, Wake Forest is a basketball school first. It's funny, in the wake of that last sentence, it makes me think that the average sized person playing basketball at an ACC school might think they are standing in a forest because the players are so tall.). The plan is to watch the Zips play at the Fox & Hound in Winston-Salem then head over for the 3:30 Baylor kick off.I will put a special post on the board tomorrow with my thoughts.Going to Baylor games are fun. It will be interesting to see if the team they play will continue their slide downward since their last ACC championship.

[Zipmeister]

BTW, GP1, if you are atternding the Wake/Baylor game tomorrow (hey, I'M the one who brought it up.....so please no GP1 bashing about Wake ) I'd be curious to get your assessment of Bear QB Robert Griffin.

I will be going to the Baylor game tomorrow (I guess since some on the board are too thin skinned to read the words "Wake Forest", I can not say Wake Forest. We don't want to offend anyone who is offended by the words Wake Forest. Wake Forest could mean something in another language so I don't want to say Wake Forest too much. The words Wake Forest may cause some sort of a wake that will not allow people to see the forest through the trees. I'm not sure, but we want to make certain we stay away from the words Wake Forest at any cost. Even interesting comparisons between the Wake Forest and UofA are not allowed even though there are amazing similarities between the two schools on some level. So when I say I went to the Baylor game, keep in mind they are playing at Wake Forest. And by "at Wake Forest", I don't mean Wake Forest, NC. Wake Forest, NC is a city around Raleigh where the original Wake Forest started before some very wealthy person built a campus in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest is a school in Winston-Salem, NC that has an angry, mean faced minister as the mascot. If Jim Grobe doesn't get better play calling this season, that minister is really going to be mad at him, but like most ACC schools, Wake Forest is a basketball school first. It's funny, in the wake of that last sentence, it makes me think that the average sized person playing basketball at an ACC school might think they are standing in a forest because the players are so tall.). The plan is to watch the Zips play at the Fox & Hound in Winston-Salem then head over for the 3:30 Baylor kick off.I will put a special post on the board tomorrow with my thoughts.Going to Baylor games are fun. It will be interesting to see if the team they play will continue their slide downward since their last ACC championship.

You could use a special code to avoid offending the thin skinned. How about every time you would normally write Wake Forrest, write Fake Worest instead. They will never be able to figure out what's going on. You could also switch the first letters in Demon Deacons so they can't figure that out either.

[UADavid]

BTW, GP1, if you are atternding the Wake/Baylor game tomorrow (hey, I'M the one who brought it up.....so please no GP1 bashing about Wake )

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