My thoughts..

[xu9697]

1. I am not a fan of the spread. Never have been. Watching this team for 3 weeks, I am beginning to DESPISE it. Now, obviously the spread works better when you have a QB that can run (and/or a coach that lets the QB run), a QB that can make the best decision and a line that can get in the proper spot to protect. 2. Since the spread will be here at Akron for at least 2009, please tell me they will at least work a little bit on under the center stuff for short yardage situations. It's one thing for the spread to be your main set. It is another thing for it basically being your ONLY set! Even IU mixed in some power packages with the pistol.3. IU is better than the 11th best team in the Big 10. My father-in-law and sister-in-law went to IU, and with my wife being from Indianapolis I have followed the team over the years. I think IU is going to finish btwn 6 to 9 in the Big 10. I believe they are better than Nwestern, Minnesota and Purdue, and they can hang with some of the other mid-teams.4. Rome was not built in a day. This is really year 1 in trying to build something. There is no reason that this team shouldn't win the rest of their home games at the very least. With that being said..5. This team lacks "special" players. I see 3, Wagner, Sewell and Bowser. Not having a special player at the RB or QB (Nicely could be that guy, but not this year) is a killer.6. Even in the spread, Harris, JD and Montg. need to do 2 crucial things= get Rodgers out of the pocket and use an extra blocker in drop back situations. 7. IU doesn't have the name, even though they are Big 10, and OSU/Toledo also played a part in the poorer than expected attendance. Once again, this thing is going to take time.8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

[RowdyZip]

1. I am not a fan of the spread. Never have been. Watching this team for 3 weeks, I am beginning to DESPISE it. Now, obviously the spread works better when you have a QB that can run (and/or a coach that lets the QB run), a QB that can make the best decision and a line that can get in the proper spot to protect. 2. Since the spread will be here at Akron for at least 2009, please tell me they will at least work a little bit on under the center stuff for short yardage situations. It's one thing for the spread to be your main set. It is another thing for it basically being your ONLY set! Even IU mixed in some power packages with the pistol.3. IU is better than the 11th best team in the Big 10. My father-in-law and sister-in-law went to IU, and with my wife being from Indianapolis I have followed the team over the years. I think IU is going to finish btwn 6 to 9 in the Big 10. I believe they are better than Nwestern, Minnesota and Purdue, and they can hang with some of the other mid-teams.4. Rome was not built in a day. This is really year 1 in trying to build something. There is no reason that this team shouldn't win the rest of their home games at the very least. With that being said..5. This team lacks "special" players. I see 3, Wagner, Sewell and Bowser. Not having a special player at the RB or QB (Nicely could be that guy, but not this year) is a killer.6. Even in the spread, Harris, JD and Montg. need to do 2 crucial things= get Rodgers out of the pocket and use an extra blocker in drop back situations. 7. IU doesn't have the name, even though they are Big 10, and OSU/Toledo also played a part in the poorer than expected attendance. Once again, this thing is going to take time.8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

What about that punt that appeared to clearly hit an Indiana LB and then recovered by the Zips? Anybody take a look at that on video?

[zestycoyote]

1. I am not a fan of the spread. Never have been. Watching this team for 3 weeks, I am beginning to DESPISE it. Now, obviously the spread works better when you have a QB that can run (and/or a coach that lets the QB run), a QB that can make the best decision and a line that can get in the proper spot to protect. 2. Since the spread will be here at Akron for at least 2009, please tell me they will at least work a little bit on under the center stuff for short yardage situations. It's one thing for the spread to be your main set. It is another thing for it basically being your ONLY set! Even IU mixed in some power packages with the pistol.3. IU is better than the 11th best team in the Big 10. My father-in-law and sister-in-law went to IU, and with my wife being from Indianapolis I have followed the team over the years. I think IU is going to finish btwn 6 to 9 in the Big 10. I believe they are better than Nwestern, Minnesota and Purdue, and they can hang with some of the other mid-teams.4. Rome was not built in a day. This is really year 1 in trying to build something. There is no reason that this team shouldn't win the rest of their home games at the very least. With that being said..5. This team lacks "special" players. I see 3, Wagner, Sewell and Bowser. Not having a special player at the RB or QB (Nicely could be that guy, but not this year) is a killer.6. Even in the spread, Harris, JD and Montg. need to do 2 crucial things= get Rodgers out of the pocket and use an extra blocker in drop back situations. 7. IU doesn't have the name, even though they are Big 10, and OSU/Toledo also played a part in the poorer than expected attendance. Once again, this thing is going to take time.8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

What about that punt that appeared to clearly hit an Indiana LB and then recovered by the Zips? Anybody take a look at that on video?

I was also curious about that punt. I honestly can't say I saw it hit an IU player, but I had been distracted during that entire play. I would imagine it was at least worth a review from the booth. It seemed like a big play that could be detrimental to IU was never reviewed, but Akron's interception by their own goal line for instance was reviewed. I call biased officiating based solely on those two plays.

[akronad]

Don't blame the loss on those calls. The bottom line is we stunk the place out. Defense was on the field too long. Offense was unimaginative and couldn't keep good consistent drives going. Special teams gave up a score, but at least, they scored and also blocked a field goal.It seems as if the whole tema, coaches included, don;t have anidea of what is going on or to do. Halftime is when you make adjustments from the first half. In typical Jd fashion, it looked like nothing changed.

[MDZip]

8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

Are you trying to plant subliminal messages?

[RootforRoo44]

1. I am not a fan of the spread. Never have been. Watching this team for 3 weeks, I am beginning to DESPISE it. Now, obviously the spread works better when you have a QB that can run (and/or a coach that lets the QB run), a QB that can make the best decision and a line that can get in the proper spot to protect. 2. Since the spread will be here at Akron for at least 2009, please tell me they will at least work a little bit on under the center stuff for short yardage situations. It's one thing for the spread to be your main set. It is another thing for it basically being your ONLY set! Even IU mixed in some power packages with the pistol.3. IU is better than the 11th best team in the Big 10. My father-in-law and sister-in-law went to IU, and with my wife being from Indianapolis I have followed the team over the years. I think IU is going to finish btwn 6 to 9 in the Big 10. I believe they are better than Nwestern, Minnesota and Purdue, and they can hang with some of the other mid-teams.4. Rome was not built in a day. This is really year 1 in trying to build something. There is no reason that this team shouldn't win the rest of their home games at the very least. With that being said..5. This team lacks "special" players. I see 3, Wagner, Sewell and Bowser. Not having a special player at the RB or QB (Nicely could be that guy, but not this year) is a killer.6. Even in the spread, Harris, JD and Montg. need to do 2 crucial things= get Rodgers out of the pocket and use an extra blocker in drop back situations. 7. IU doesn't have the name, even though they are Big 10, and OSU/Toledo also played a part in the poorer than expected attendance. Once again, this thing is going to take time.8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

What about that punt that appeared to clearly hit an Indiana LB and then recovered by the Zips? Anybody take a look at that on video?

I was also curious about that punt. I honestly can't say I saw it hit an IU player, but I had been distracted during that entire play. I would imagine it was at least worth a review from the booth. It seemed like a big play that could be detrimental to IU was never reviewed, but Akron's interception by their own goal line for instance was reviewed. I call biased officiating based solely on those two plays.

If that ball didn't hit a WHOsier than i must be going crazy. The play was right in front of me and im very sure it did.

[Z.I.P.]

What about that punt that appeared to clearly hit an Indiana LB and then recovered by the Zips? Anybody take a look at that on video?

You know, I'm glad someone mentioned this. I saw that play, in the second quarter on TV, and it looked to me also like it hit a Hooser player. However, the announcers didn't mention it. None of the Akron players raised a finger, and no one on the bench said a word, far as I could tell. I figured it was some kine of optical illusion! Now I wonder if you and I are the only ones who saw it. Then later on, in the second half, there was this cigar-shaped shiny object hovering over the rec center. You saw THAT didn't you?

[xu9697]

8. You can point to MANY things in yesterday's game, but the killer was going from 2 & 4 to 1st and 31. I think there were about 5-6 minutes in the 3rd quarter, and we were moving the ball nicely. Should have been 24-21 or 24-17 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. That was the killer moment.

Are you trying to plant subliminal messages?

Yes..and no. Right as I typed it, I thought..."would anyone pick up on that"? Nicely work!!!I'm not ready to give up on Rodgers yet. CMU might be rough, but 2 weeks to prepare for OU and the rest of the season will hopefully prove very beneficial for his development.