How are the Zips doing this year?

[Dr Z]

Feel free to dig up old post and paste 'em in here to "brag" about your early predictions.

Or dig up your old post and tell us why you change your mind about your early predictions.

[Dr Z]

I thought this would go a little better.

I did a search under the word "predict" under 'My Assistant' and come up with some.

Mastodon did a pretty good job (not bad for a Marshall fan)

Hey Zippers! I’m the fan of another MAC school and I just thought I would bring a little disparity to the board. While waiting for football season, I predicted each MAC team’s season (all subject to change). Here’s how I see Akron performing for the 2004 season:

PENN ST* 26-34 L

MIDDLE TENN ST 38-24 W

VIRGINIA* 24-45 L

Can't ST* 51-31 W

NORTHERN ILL* 31-37 L

BUFFALO 56-21 W

UCF* 41-31 W

BALL ST 42-21 W

MARSHALL 34-38 L

OHIO* 49-27 W

MIAMI (OHIO) 31-41 L (6-5; 5-3)

This is not meant to be inflammatory; I just want to get some discussion going. I know it’s early but tell me your predictions or thoughts (about Akron or anyone else).

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[Guest Mastodon]

That was my very first post!

Thanks for the acknowledgement

[Zipsrifle]

Well, I looked through the previous posts a bit, looks like I was pretty conservative in seeing what would happen. I think our record is about where I expected it. Can't remember if I made a full season prediction but I do remember thinking we would beat MTSU and considered a win against BSU, Marshall, or Miami an upset. Well BSU was much worse than I expected and we got out of the gate much slower than I thought. So record wise I think we are close to where I thought we would be.

As far as team performance, I guess I got swept up in the hype of early season talk. We got smashed early on. Though it looks like we've turned the ship around, honestly, I am not comfortable with where we stand. Though we've ripped off a string of wins, the competition makes up almost 1/2 of the ESPN Bottom Ten. After getting demolished early in the season, and then winning a bunch of pillow fights, I don't know what to expect for the Marshall Game .

I am really hoping that we have turned a corner, and will give Marshall all they can handle....but I was way off early season. I have seen nothing in the past month to make me believe that the Zips won't relapse when we run up against a Marshall team that is on par with an NIU team that burried us. So, as always, I will be optimistic and hope that those pillow fights were what we needed to learn to how to fight. Only time will tell.

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[zipper]

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