Blue & Gold Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Very well written and informative. I hope they keep these coming all season. Quote
Zipmeister Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 "Accorsi recommended a book, The First Season, about hall of famer Vince Lombardi’s debut with the Green Bay Packers in 1959. Ianello devoured it. Lombardi started off 3-0, lost five consecutive games, then won the last four." I wonder if Lombardi ever tried the "kick off twice" strategy during his first year? Quote
Roo2 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Very well written and informative. I hope they keep these coming all season. I agree. I was really glad to hear about the improvements in the classroom. All of the off the field stuff seems to be heading in the right direction, hopefully it translates on the field sooner rather than later. Quote
Dr Z Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Nice article, well written and informative. Quote
Hilltopper Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 This is the best Ianello story yet. I learned about him from this article than all the others put together. There is hope! Quote
Big Zip Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Nice read and I second the notion that this article helped us learn more about Ianello than any previous article. I know this article means nothing when it comes to games, but its about time something has been written that provider more than coach speak. Quote
Captain Kangaroo Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 A nice story....but I've heard all the nice stories before. JD Brookhart buying Slurpees for Mike Shanahan's midnight film sessions... Lee Owens staying up 28 hours per day with John Cooper... Gerry Faust's connections with George Stenbrenner... Ianello needs to win. Period. All coaches have connections to famous people. All coaches read books and attend seminars. But reading the book of a guy that went from 2-14 to 14-2 doesn't do squat. If it did, all coaches would be able to read a book and win championships. Ianello need the internal drive, and he needs a knack for identifying talent, and putting that talent in the best position to succeed. The knack cannot be taught...you have it or you don't. I didn't see anything special from Ianello last season. No knack. Just by-the-book decisions. That's my biggest concern with the guy. I hope he shows me a ton more in 2011. Nice, well-written column. Nice story. But I've heard it all before. Write me a story about how the guy out-strategized an opposing coach and won a game for the Zips. That's way more interesting to me. Quote
xu9697 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Wow. Great article. I have a lot more respect for Ianallo as a man and for his belief systems. Ianallo was not MY first choice, but I also have always stayed true to the fact you cannot just judge him on 1 year. I think both he and Nicely, understandbly based on their respective positions, have been criticized quite a bit too much without really enough data. I give them both this year to see what they truly are made of. Quote
K92 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 CK, I know what you are saying about the story not really meaning anything and that you have heard the same type of story before. I just liked reading it because for the first time in a year and a half, someone finally wrote a story on RI that kind of humanized him a little bit. Quote
Dave in Green Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 I think most would agree with CK that no matter how good the intentions, coaches are ultimately measured on results. There are some good signs in this story that Ianello is focused on doing the right things to produce longterm results. The question is whether or not he can deliver the kind of steady progress upward that his plan envisions and that fans are demanding. The best of intentions are quickly forgotten if not matched by the intended results. Quote
jupitertoo Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 Nice article. I wonder if Ianello is playing with numbers a little bit on the GPA. He weeded a bunch of players out of the program during the second semester. Guessing that helped boost the GPA. A more accurate sample would come after the fall semester this year when he has a full freshman contingent on campus. Quote
GP1 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 A nice story....but I've heard all the nice stories before. JD Brookhart buying Slurpees for Mike Shanahan's midnight film sessions... Lee Owens staying up 28 hours per day with John Cooper... Gerry Faust's connections with George Stenbrenner... Some of you may not know this, but I have it on good authority CK as spent tens of thousands of hours in the Cleveland Sports Media Hall of Fame pouring over Terry Pluto articles. Quote
Captain Kangaroo Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 A nice story....but I've heard all the nice stories before. JD Brookhart buying Slurpees for Mike Shanahan's midnight film sessions... Lee Owens staying up 28 hours per day with John Cooper... Gerry Faust's connections with George Stenbrenner... Some of you may not know this, but I have it on good authority CK as spent tens of thousands of hours in the Cleveland Sports Media Hall of Fame pouring over Terry Pluto articles. Anyone else remember Pluto's column on Colman Crawford: "He's Always Been an Underdog." Vintage Pluto. Crawford was something like 3-23...and Pluto's championing the guy for a contract extension. And to be fair - Crawford was a GREAT guy. GREAT family man. The column gave fantastic insight to his wife's health struggles and how their family fought to overcome the adversity. But that's not what should be discussed when you're 3-23. And players are breaking each others bones in the locker room and getting arrested with guns. You can keep Pluto's monthly, cookie-cutter "underdog" stories...I'll take an on-the-court winner any day of the week. Being clear on the original post - Marla's article is fine. No problems with it. But I've seen it too many times in the past. I want articles about the guy winning football games. I've seen too many human interest stories on coaches in the past, and too few wins on the field. This is really a watershed season for me. Quote
GP1 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 A nice story....but I've heard all the nice stories before. JD Brookhart buying Slurpees for Mike Shanahan's midnight film sessions... Lee Owens staying up 28 hours per day with John Cooper... Gerry Faust's connections with George Stenbrenner... Some of you may not know this, but I have it on good authority CK as spent tens of thousands of hours in the Cleveland Sports Media Hall of Fame pouring over Terry Pluto articles. Anyone else remember Pluto's column on Colman Crawford: "He's Always Been an Underdog." See what I mean... In all seriousness, Terry Pluto was a huge obstacle in maturing the people in and around Akron for D-1A sports in their own backyard. Quote
Blue & Gold Posted August 29, 2011 Author Report Posted August 29, 2011 In all seriousness, Terry Pluto was a huge obstacle in maturing the people in and around Akron for D-1A sports in their own backyard. Amen. TP never took UA athletics seriously and told ABJ readers that neither should they. This happened for years on end. UA is still fighting this negative perception in the community. Quote
GP1 Posted August 29, 2011 Report Posted August 29, 2011 In all seriousness, Terry Pluto was a huge obstacle in maturing the people in and around Akron for D-1A sports in their own backyard. Amen. TP never took UA athletics seriously and told ABJ readers that neither should they. This happened for years on end. UA is still fighting this negative perception in the community. Winning will help break it. One day, we'll put a winner on the field and folks will pay attention somehow. I don't know what that "somehow" is going to be, but there will be something. The problem with the Akron media now is...there really isn't one. Who reads the ABJ? Is there even an Akron TV station anymore? Akron sports radio station that has more than five listeners? Pluto did what he did during the final great days of the print media and it really stuck. We need a media that is going to tell the truth about Akron sports. When we do well, they should say so and demand even better. When we do poorly, they should say so and demand better. When UAkron sports get treated as a child, people look at it as a child instead of the adult world it is supposed to be. It's just frustrating. Quote
MDZip Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 In all seriousness, Terry Pluto was a huge obstacle in maturing the people in and around Akron for D-1A sports in their own backyard. Amen. TP never took UA athletics seriously and told ABJ readers that neither should they. This happened for years on end. UA is still fighting this negative perception in the community. Winning will help break it. One day, we'll put a winner on the field and folks will pay attention somehow. I don't know what that "somehow" is going to be, but there will be something. The problem with the Akron media now is...there really isn't one. Who reads the ABJ? Is there even an Akron TV station anymore? Akron sports radio station that has more than five listeners? Pluto did what he did during the final great days of the print media and it really stuck. We need a media that is going to tell the truth about Akron sports. When we do well, they should say so and demand even better. When we do poorly, they should say so and demand better. When UAkron sports get treated as a child, people look at it as a child instead of the adult world it is supposed to be. It's just frustrating. I think those things are happening. The Beacon Journal may not be what it once was but I cannot remember any recent article in it that was negative or even indifferent. A national championship, the NCAA basketball tournament in 2 of the last 3 years, 5 MAC team titles last year, those things do go a ways toward changing perceptions and how they are reported. Quote
Hilltopper Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 Ron Ledgard, the sports editor at the ABJ is a pretty good guy. He has limited resources and understands we are in a pro sports market, but I think they have done a better job in the last year or so promoting the Zips. There are lots of stories he would like to see in the paper, but he is limited by the actual size of the paper. The more papers sold and the more clicks on the on line stories, the more likely we are to see more written about the Zips. Quote
Zipmeister Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 I was disappointed that the article didn't include at least one paragraph listing other "successful" people shaped like bowling pins. Quote
GP1 Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 I was disappointed that the article didn't include at least one paragraph listing other "successful" people shaped like bowling pins. He doesn't bite the heads off of baby chickens.... Quote
Zipmeister Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 I was disappointed that the article didn't include at least one paragraph listing other "successful" people shaped like bowling pins. He doesn't bite the heads off of baby chickens.... Well no, not baby ones. Quote
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