Who should be the QB for the rest of '05?

[InTheZone]

Luke Getsy- stick with him, show confidence in him, he's our guy, he'll come out of this

or...

John Ferguson- Big guy with a cannon who can make any throw on the field, something Getsy can't do

or...

Jabari Arthur- Move our former #1 back to his natural position and inject a little athleticism into the position. He can run, he'll keep D's on their toes, and he can't possibly throw the ball any worse than Getsy

or....

Chris Jacquemain- Take the redshirt off and make the future NOW

or....

Carlton Jackson- Take the redshirt off and see just how much athleticism he really has

[Buckzip]

I would love to see Jackson. However, I would hate to burn s redshirt now.

Give him this year to learn the system, the off season, and spring ball to work on his game. Then I would like to see him start out as the QB next year.

[zipsbandman]

how about anyone except the first choice.

[Z-Pouch]

There was no QB competition in the Spring, none in the summer and there is no QB controversy now. All signs say that Getsy is the best available and gives us the best chance at a run at an unbelievable still open championship race.

Captain -- Please provide usual edits......

University of Akron football

Getsy's job safe despite offense's woes

Brookhart gives backup more time in practice

By David Lee Morgan Jr.

Beacon Journal sports writer

Very little went right for the University of Akron on Saturday, and the scoreboard showed it in a 20-0 loss to a winless Army team.

The video backed the evidence Sunday.

Monday, Zips coach J.D. Brookhart said that there is no plans to remove starting quarterback Luke Getsy, but that backup Joe Ferguson is going to see more time in practice.

The Zips play at Bowling Green (4-3, 3-1 in the Mid-American Conference) on Saturday. One thing that might work in the Zips' favor is that Falcons star quarterback Omar Jacobs is questionable with a strain of his non-throwing shoulder. Redshirt freshman Anthony Turner would be Jacobs' replacement.

Brookhart is more concerned about his offense, though.

``(Getsy) obviously did not have a good game. I thought that was probably his worst game of the year,'' Brookhart said. ``As we looked at (film) of the first half, we had a number of breakdowns, a lot of blunders that really hurt us.''

Getsy was 21-of-45 with no touchdowns and two interceptions.

``There were a lot of things that went wrong,'' Brookhart said. ``As we went down the script of the plays that were called, roughly two-thirds of the plays, someone made a very visible mistake.

``The quarterback did not play well, but it is hard when you are calling your quick three-step drop in the passing game and you have a nose guard on you before you take one step, you get spooked.

Akron's running game also was ineffective against a strong Army defense. The Zips rushed for just 44 yards.

Ferguson did warm up in the third quarterback against Army, but Brookhart stayed with Getsy.

``There is no question on (Luke) being the starter, but we are going to give John more reps so he is prepared,'' Brookhart said. ``We have not done a lot of that.

``We anticipate Luke to be better, but we will be more prepared if he is not.''

Ferguson is a 6-foot-5, 226-pound sophomore from Reynoldsburg. He has played in one game and is 3-of-9 for 48 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions.

The Zips (3-4, 2-2) are one game behind Bowling Green in the MAC East Division with Miami University (4-3, 3-2) a half game behind. Akron already has lost to Miami.

Brookhart just wants to focus on playing better.

``The way we're playing right now, we haven't even talked about that, honestly,'' Brookhart said. ``We're talking about getting better, improving and talking the program in the direction it needs to go because to look at the pie-in-the-sky like that would be the wrong approach and no way will we do that.''

[Z-Pouch]

DR Z will love this. Run the Ball and play Defense wins championships.

Estwick on college football

Running game way to MAC title

Conference's top teams have league's top rushers

By Gary Estwick

Minutes after Northern Illinois defeated Can't State on Saturday, Huskies coach Joe Novak made a bold prediction. He said the winner of this season's Mid-American Conference championship might have two conference losses.

Parity is nothing new in MAC basketball, but in the fall?

It could happen.

Make that probably will.

The secret to contention?

It's not much of a secret. Name a MAC team with a 100-yard rusher, and you've named most of the teams in the hunt for a conference title.

NIU's Garrett Wolfe missed Saturday's game, dropping him to second in the MAC in rushing with 864 yards. He still, though, leads the conference in yards per game (144).

Miami's Brandon Murphy has rushed for 933 yards (133.3 a game).

There's also Central Michigan's Ontario Sneed (103.7), Toledo's Trinity Dawson (102.9) and Ohio's Kalvin McRae (101.9).

Bowling Green needs more than a running game this weekend. It needs its leader, Omar the Great.

The Falcons are in danger of losing their top spot in the East Division, as well as their quarterback.

Omar Jacobs suffered a separated shoulder in his non-throwing arm during the first quarter of a 45-14 loss Saturday to middle-of-the-road Western Michigan.

The loss ended the Falcons' regular-season home winning streak at 20.

Jacobs' status for this weekend's game against visiting Akron is questionable.

It still is unclear whether he can throw, and it might depend on how he feels when he wakes up Saturday morning.

What is known is that whenever Jacobs does return, it won't be soon enough for coach Gregg Brandon.

He watched his Falcons fall apart.

``(Losing Jacobs) was a huge knockout blow, and we never got off the canvas,`` Brandon said.

Brandon expects more this week, whether or not Jacobs is able to play.

Jacobs was replaced by Anthony Turner, who passed for 242 yards, had two passes intercepted and was sacked four times.

Brandon said Turner is capable of starting Saturday.

``If he gets the nod, we expect him to deliver,`` Brandon said.

West Division-leader Toledo (6-1, 4-0) will play at Central Michigan (4-3, 3-1), which is in the midst of its best season in years.

Before this season, CMU hadn't won three consecutive games since 2002.

The Chippewas' recent success doesn't surprise Toledo coach Tom Amstutz.

``They do have a proud tradition,`` Amstutz said. ``The players up there want to be good, and they're definitely improving.``

[Dr Z]

DR Z will love this. Run the Ball and play Defense wins championships.

Nobody wants to talk about our defensive problems.

It is much easier (and obviously more popular) to blame the QB for our problems.

Nobody wants to question Biggs' 16 rushes for 38 yards Saturday, just change the QB,

that will make Biggs and the O line better.

Thanks for the article, a good read. I hope they decide to attack the QB this week.

He seems to be prone to ints and sacks. I'm sure we will just sit back in our "secret"

defense "that the Mac has never seen before (JD quote)" and magically induce pressure.

[UA Fan]

``There is no question on (Luke) being the starter, but we are going to give John more reps so he is prepared,'' Brookhart said. ``We have not done a lot of that.

``We anticipate Luke to be better, but we will be more prepared if he is not.''

We have not done a lot of that? (preparing the backup QB) What has JF been doing in practice, assisting the water boy? What if LG gets hurt or something. We need to be preparing everybody to play. I thought everybody took reps in practice, not just 1st string.

[Dr Z]

``There is no question on (Luke) being the starter, but we are going to give John more reps so he is prepared,'' Brookhart said. ``We have not done a lot of that.

``We anticipate Luke to be better, but we will be more prepared if he is not.''

My guess is, JD is trying to motivate Getsy this week by making this statement in the media. That is all.

Coaching 101.

[Buckzip]

Maybe we should play JOE Ferguson. After all, that's what the lame ass Leaking Urinal's David Lee Morgan called him.

[GP1]

Nobody wants to talk about our defensive problems.

It is much easier (and obviously more popular) to blame the QB for our problems.

Nobody wants to question Biggs' 16 rushes for 38 yards Saturday, just change the QB,

that will make Biggs and the O line better.

Excellent points DrZ. Everyone is still missing what happened to the Zips last Saturday.

We were beat in an NFL manner by an NFL coach. Here is how you win an NFL game. Control the field position, score first, take away the other team's best player (ours is Biggs), pressure the QB that must throw and run the clock out on a tired defense. Last week, we lost to Army's punter and their second all time rushing back who ran on a tired defense late.

I'm not saying Getsy played well Saturday....he had his worst game of the year. There are many more problems in addition to him.

I think not having a bye week is killing this team right now. They look exhausted and a week off could do them some good. Breaking routine is good for the human psyche and they could use one.

[Captain Kangaroo]

Captain -- Please provide usual edits......

Monday, Zips coach J.D. Brookhart said that there is no plans to remove starting quarterback Luke Getsy, but that backup Joe Ferguson is going to see more time in practice.

"Joe" Ferguson, huh? I thought he retired?

David Lee Morgan, you truely set the standard.

[Captain Kangaroo]

I voted for Luke. I saw him play at the beginning of the year and he can win games for us. However...if he can't the the broad side of a barn on a given day...I would pull him in favor of Ferguson.

If Jabari were getting reps at QB in practice, I'd play him...but he isn't. As bad as the OL protection has been, Jabari could at least keep the opposing LB's honest with his feet.

No way do we burn a redshirt year for Jackson or Jacqmaine. I do hope they both get a real shot at the QB position next season. I'm also very curious to see who we recruit in 2006 for QB. Both Jacqmaine and Jackson are athletes that can also play WR or Safety. If we get a "stud" QB in this year's recruiting class it would be very interesting to see what transpires next summer.

[zip37]

I did not vote, but I posted earlier in week, would not a no huddle offense be at least a little effective? ANSWER UP ZIP FANS!!

With ball ammunition lock snd load!

[Buckzip]

Carlton Jackson is a stud. He will surprise alot of people.

[Captain Kangaroo]

I did not vote, but I posted earlier in week, would not a no huddle offense be at least a little effective? ANSWER UP ZIP FANS!!

With ball ammunition lock snd load!

I think it would speed up our 3-and-outs dramatically and cut into our already dimishing time of posession.

[GP1]

I did not vote, but I posted earlier in week, would not a no huddle offense be at least a little effective? ANSWER UP ZIP FANS!!

With ball ammunition lock snd load!

I agree with this and I posted this recommendation last Sunday.

I would not start the game with it, but if we continue to be sluggish, it is worth a shot.

[Buckzip]

I did not vote, but I posted earlier in week, would not a no huddle offense be at least a little effective? ANSWER UP ZIP FANS!!

With ball ammunition lock snd load!

I agree with this and I posted this recommendation last Sunday.

I would not start the game with it, but if we continue to be sluggish, it is worth a shot.

The way this offense has looked, anything is worth a shot.

[InTheZone]

Ooooh the memories...

Can Patrick Nicely pull a Getsy? He was looking pretty pathetic before he turned things around for a MAC title. Thoughts?

[xu9697]

Ooooh the memories...

Can Patrick Nicely pull a Getsy? He was looking pretty pathetic before he turned things around for a MAC title. Thoughts?

I think you have to give Nicely this season, or, at the very least, 3 more games. Indiana is strong on O, weak on D. N. Illinois is tough on D (supposedly), but it is a home game against a MAC school. One of his best games last year was against Can't.

After those 3 games, you basically have a whole "season" of film on him. And, even at that point, you are talking about a 2nd year player with 12 starts who is on his 2nd coach and 2nd system (and the systems are pretty darn different).

Again, I will use Derek Anderson's COLLEGE career as an example of how strong armed QBs with accuracy issues can still do well in...COLLEGE!!!!

[skip-zip]

Exactly what I talked about earlier in another thread.....when do you pull the plug? Is 12 games enough? This is one of the toughest decisions a coach has to make.

Our patience with Getsy paid off. But it didn't take long. In fact, it looks like this thread materialized after that inexplicable shutout loss to Army. This looked like a reaction simply to one bad game.

However, on the flip side, what if we had "given more time" to a guy like Spencer at QB?. Or, inserted a highly decorated recruit like Uhlenhake and just "gave him some time to develop"? Or, if we had stuck with C. Jackson as Getsy's successor? In all of these cases, I think it would have resulted in a major setback for us.

[scottditzen]

The major setback actually started Getsy's Senior season!

Heck, remember that regionally televised debacle at Can't?

Exactly what I talked about earlier in another thread.....when do you pull the plug? Is 12 games enough? This is one of the toughest decisions a coach has to make.

Our patience with Getsy paid off. But it didn't take long. In fact, it looks like this thread materialized after that inexplicable shutout loss to Army. This looked like a reaction simply to one bad game.

However, on the flip side, what if we had "given more time" to a guy like Spencer at QB?. Or, inserted a highly decorated recruit like Uhlenhake and just "gave him some time to develop"? Or, if we had stuck with C. Jackson as Getsy's successor? In all of these cases, I think it would have resulted in a major setback for us.

[skip-zip]

The major setback actually started Getsy's Senior season!

Heck, remember that regionally televised debacle at Can't?

Exactly what I talked about earlier in another thread.....when do you pull the plug? Is 12 games enough? This is one of the toughest decisions a coach has to make.

Our patience with Getsy paid off. But it didn't take long. In fact, it looks like this thread materialized after that inexplicable shutout loss to Army. This looked like a reaction simply to one bad game.

However, on the flip side, what if we had "given more time" to a guy like Spencer at QB?. Or, inserted a highly decorated recruit like Uhlenhake and just "gave him some time to develop"? Or, if we had stuck with C. Jackson as Getsy's successor? In all of these cases, I think it would have resulted in a major setback for us.

I was at that Ken+ game. Embarrasing.

In my opinion, Getsy did indeed have a better Junior year than Senior year.

[GP1]

Can Patrick Nicely pull a Getsy? He was looking pretty pathetic before he turned things around for a MAC title. Thoughts?

Given time, Getsy had the best accuracy in school history. Given time, PN badly overthrows and underthrows wide open guys. I don't ever see PN getting to Getsy's accuracy level.

We'll find out if he is good enough to win in the MAC here in a couple weeks. Time will tell.