Should Coach Ianello be fired?

[GP1]

Here is a question I have about the Zips since I don't get to see them play.

Do they look nervous under Coach I? Nervous in a way that makes you think they are scared to make a mistake? One might call it being loose.

The reason I ask this is Coach I coached under that fat slob Charlie Weis who brow-beats players into submission and poor performance. Maybe he is Charlie Weis Jr. There has to be some fun in playing football...not all fun and games, but some fun.

[Buckzip]

Why did we have to go for a position coach again?

Why couldn't we get a winning, experienced coach from DIAA?

Why oh why?

[bobbyake]

Fire a coach after 2 games? Get real! The BIG money schools don't even do that.

You're right, they fire coaches that have been there for over a decade and won multiple conference championships and a national championship when shit like this happens. It's a lot easier to fire the slapdick who has been here f-ing things up for a couple months in my opinion.

It might be easier, but the reality is Akron has a much tighter budget than those national championship schools.

speaking of tight budget, the budget will only get tighter if he takes this team 0-12. It will be too expensive to keep him if this is the path we're on.

[UAZipster0305]

Why did we have to go for a position coach again?

Why couldn't we get a winning, experienced coach from DIAA?

Why oh why?

+1

I hate reading that so and so is a great recruiter. To me, that means salesman or bullshit artist. Our facilities now sell themselves provided a recruit agrees to come to campus. No great skill necessary for that. A coach who can develop players and potentially give the best few every year a chance at the NFL while winning consistently will also sell himself.

Bottom line, a "great recruiter" is just smoke and mirrors. When we were in the Rubber Bowl with no Field House or on campus practice facilities, that's when we needed a great recruiter! Why is it so hard for the thinking of administrators to evolve? We are no longer Akron U, we are the University of Akron with commensurate facilities.

[72 Roo]

I feel as much pain as anyone having followed UA athletics for nearly 40 years. But Ianello needs time. Our talent is over-rated, but so is his coaching staff so I don't expect them to make what we got any better. I will buy that we will get better talent thru coach I's great recruits, but again I'll only give him two years to show me. I still think TW deserves time to build his dept also.

If we had a great tradition of winning I might be more in favor of pulling the plug, but we have nothing to protect because we has been so bad for decades.

[Let'sGoZips94]

I, for one, am all for getting rid of this guy. Maybe not now, but at the end of the season. You schedule a DII team for a win, and you lose. Enough said there, but there's more. Your style of play is VERY VERY VERY BORING! I'm a diehard Zips fan and I didn't even go to the game today. I didn't want to. I knew that if we would blow them out, its just a blowout against a DII school. If the game is close, Akron sucks.

I am so sick of thinking "Oh. About that. We're Akron, we can't do that". Bull Crap. Do you know how these big schools got to where they are now? They believe they could do it, so they made it happen. How do you think our soccer program got to be as good as it is today? When Ken Lola left, they didn't just go out and find a Joe-Shmo who is a coordinator or whatever. They got the BEST COACH IN THE NATION!

Point is, something's gotta give. Now, I like Dr. P. He's not the problem IMO. He just needs help finding the right guys. I also like Tom, but I don't think he's getting the job done.

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[ZippyTuba11]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

[K92]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

Rich Rodriguez was not the coach when they lost to App State. Lloyd Carr was.

[UAZipster0305]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

A coach coaches players, not a system. Any recruit that iCoach brings in won't be so drastically better than any of those from the Brookhart era. Consider that JD's best year was with mostly Owen's recruits.

[scottditzen]

InTheZone...with all due respect...

WHERE IS THIS TALENT YOU SPEAK OF?

Give the guy time. He was left with a program in horrific shape. You guys always seem positive, therefore just stick with this guy. Brookhart destroyed your program and it will take 2-4 years to rebuild it. How can you fire a guy when most of the players are from the previous coach. Let him get his own recruits at least!

That's simply not true. Brookhart left the team with as much talent as we've had in the past decade. We're not in horrible shape, at least we weren't until the Rob Ianello tornado of incompetance came spinning its way into town. This team has the talent to play for a conference championship, but with this career loser position coach running things, we'll be lucky to win a conference game.

[Spin]

Remember I am not an Akron fan.. I am an outsider looking in. You may not think your program is not in horrible shape, but it is. You have the best facilities in the MAC, yet you are the worst program in the MAC, at least one can argue that. Your previous coaching staff had a chance to recruit SOLID players to Akron when they were building that stadium, but they failed miserably at it.

Let Ianello get some recruits here, and if he fails, then his time is up.

If the team was well coached, and were just outplayed, I'd be the first to say he doesn't have his guys in yet. It's going to take time.

But a drive killing illegal procedure (after several last week) is inexcusable at this level. It's not new systems, it's not trying to put lipstick on the pig handed over by JD. It's the most basic freaking fundamentals. Line up where you're suppose to be. OMG the QB is under center now. So that means position players can't figure out where in the hell he's suppose to be lined up??? We have to use the same simple formation play after play year after year? That's on the coaches. It should have been remedied in camp. And it certainly should have been fixed after Syracuse. But it wasn't and it cost us a drive. That took the wind out of the team.

Playing a 2 deep zone all day, the GW cheerleaders could game plan that. No adjustments whatsoever, on either side of the ball. Missed field goals. A FG blocked by a I-AA school with 4000 students.

Yes they're a good I-AA school, ranked 193 in the country. We were 173rd AND at home.

We just plain got out-coached.

[InTheZone]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

Rodriguez didn't lose to Appalachian State. Lloyd Carr did. The Lloyd Carr with about 5 Big Ten titles and a National Championship. And guess what. They fired his ass for that bullshit. We should follow suit.

[UAZipster0305]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

Rodriguez didn't lose to Appalachian State. Lloyd Carr did. The Lloyd Carr with about 5 Big Ten titles and a National Championship. And guess what. They fired his ass for that bullshit. We should follow suit.

+1

Don't pass go. Don't collect $200.

[ZippyTuba11]

Are you guys serious? After 2 games? While we're at it, lets put in the back up QB, 'cause he has to be better than that crappy guy that's on the field.

Michigan didn't even fire Rich Rodriguez after he lost to App St and had their worst season ever. And now that he has had some time to put in his system, Michigan is back.

I'm not saying iCoach will do the same, but you have to at least give the guy time. He is putting in a new system with players that were recruited for an entirely different system.

Rodriguez didn't lose to Appalachian State. Lloyd Carr did. The Lloyd Carr with about 5 Big Ten titles and a National Championship. And guess what. They fired his ass for that bullshit. We should follow suit.

My bad, it was Toledo he lost to. Which is just about as bad.

[Zipmeister]

with his first 2 games in the books, I think he's proven that he's not going to be the next Chris Petersen. Isn't that what we all want??? Maybe that's what the poll should be. Do we want Akron to be the next Boise?

ain't gonna happen

+1 (we don't have the mineral deposits)

[Zipsrifle]

After thinking about this overnight, I'm starting to change my tune. I wanted an experienced FCS coach to run the program and we get I-Coach. Things don't seem to be working out so far and I would have expected more than this at this point, at least we should have pounded an FCS team. It isn't happening and I have to agree, 0-12 will be a big blow to recruiting, no matter who you are. If there isn't significant improvement by the end of the year with some wins, we need to boot this guy and hire a winning FCS coach. Hell, GW's coach seemed to have his ducks in a row. Why should we suck for two more years before righting the ship if we can start turning things around a year earlier?

[GP1]

Playing a 2 deep zone all day, the GW cheerleaders could game plan that. No adjustments whatsoever, on either side of the ball. Missed field goals. A FG blocked by a I-AA school with 4000 students.

Adjustments my ass. We were playing a I-AA team. We should have been able to line up in our base defense and win the damn game. It has nothing to do with adjustments and more to do with the players on the field who are scared to death of winning.

[ZipsAlum92]

TW screwed up royally when he hired Ianello over Luke Fickell, whom Jim Tressel personally recommended for the job.

[zipsbandman]

Tom hired his buddy over hiring the best man for the job. Nothing like hiring an unproven recruiting coordinator from a sinking regime. If you can't win at Notre Dame you're not gonna win at Akron. Bad hire from day one.

[wadscarman]

Coach's coach, players play. Yes, I am very disappointed about this season already, however, players "know" and need to line up properly, hold onto the ball, handle their assignment, make kicks, catch passes, etc, etc. etc. Some say we were left with all this "talent" from JD. Last year was an embarrassment like this year. Coach I inherited this "talent" with attitudes. Look at Brian Wagner and others early on. Brian was second and third on the depth chart but "bought into the program" like others (which I commend them for). It seemed the tail was wagging the dog last year and Coach I will not tolerate (which I commend him). Many did not buy into his program and are no longer with this team. Currently we only have approx. 75 scholarship players when allowed 85. Next year, after what we lose and with 25 allowed per year, we may be up to low 80's. It will be a few years before we are able to max. out with scholarships. There are 34 freshmen/redshirt freshmen on this team. (45% of the curent scholarship players) JD did NOT leave US with much, let alone Coach I and his staff. We can all "second guess" every decision made, we do it in business, sports, etc. everyday, however, the players, Coach I, the staff, TW, LP are more disappointed than anyone on this board. Yesterday, Gardner Webb was a "well coached" team and that is what having a coach for 12 years can do for you. Unfortunately, this will NOT turnaround overnite, try to accept it (even as difficult as it is) and support this group. It needs you more NOW than ever.

[wadscarman]

TW screwed up royally when he hired Ianello over Luke Fickell, whom Jim Tressel personally recommended for the job.

Jim Tressel raised Luke Fickell's salary to $250,000.00/year to be sure he doesn't go anywhere. Luke, making that money, being from Columbus, playing and coaching for OSU with Tressel, with longevity would be a fool to leave to take a MAC head coach for a few dollars more. You can bet, the OSU coaching staff along with Tressel can go anywhere in the Columbus area and get whatever they want.

[bobbyake]

does the Athletic Department ever check this website? Is there anything us fans can do to put some heat on our AD and Coach I?

[InTheZone]

does the Athletic Department ever check this website? Is there anything us fans can do to put some heat on our AD and Coach I?

Flood Proenza's office with letters, emails, and phonecalls. In fact, someone should organize a Zipsnation "Email the President" day to voice as a solid block of fans our dissatisfaction and refusal to accept the mediocrity of that entire operation over in the JAR.

[wadscarman]

does the Athletic Department ever check this website? Is there anything us fans can do to put some heat on our AD and Coach I?

Flood Proenza's office with letters, emails, and phonecalls. In fact, someone should organize a Zipsnation. "Email the President" day to voice as a solid block of fans our dissatisfaction and refusal to accept the mediocrity of that entire operation over in the JAR.

Yes, this forum is looked at and from my previous post this is NOT going to be fixed overnite. ACCEPT it or find something else to do this fall. JD left us and coach I bare and this will not be COMPlETELY fixed this year

[cornbread]

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