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  1. Saw this this morning... https://www.ohio.com/news/20191006/parents-faith-science-help-massillon-boy-beat-odds Brad Detwiler and wife have a huge battle ahead, but the ZNO will keep them in our prayers.....Sure explains his exit from being Frenchy's booth sidekick. God bless them, and keep them close.....
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  2. You must have missed the part where I said I'm not completely sold on Arth. Bowden wasn't going to have a winning record with this team. Have you not seen how little talent we have? This season would have lowered his winning percentage, not raised it. Once again you're back to comparing apples to oranges. If you want to exclude Bowden 1st year then you also need to exclude Solich first year not to mention you excluded his 7th season. In years 2-7 Solich record was 46-33 and he had a 10 win season. In those 6 years Solich had 4 winning seasons. Bowden had 1... The point I'm making is firing Bowden and hiring Arth are two completely different decisions. If Arth ends up sucking that doesn't mean firing Bowden was a bad decision. It means hiring Arth was the bad decision.
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  3. Suffered from Head Coach turnover and lack of fan support. Only Senderoff at KSU remains from the coaches that originally agreed to the annual event. Each team agreed to host it once which has occurred. Attendance never measured up to other Coaches for Cancer events around the country. It never raised much money for the cancer society compared to the effort they put into the event. I personally liked the event, attended all of the events and volunteered for several years to sell tickets. It just never caught the interest of the fans.
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  4. I'm in agreement with you that ~35 kids is a decent number to have. I have no problem losing out on 4* & 5* recruits to OSU, UM, etc. It's the fact other MAC schools are out recruiting us in our own backyard that I find frustrating. I'm seeing in 2017 the highest rated Ohio recruit we got was #96 in the state. I'm counting 10-11 NEO guys who committed to other MAC schools and have a higher grade than Akron's best recruit. I get we're not going to get everyone, but we have to do better than that. https://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings/?InstitutionGroup=highschool&State=OH
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  5. https://www.ohio.com/sports/20191005/college-soccer--akron-1-florida-international-1-despite-dominance-zips-settle-for-tie “I thought for about 75 [or] 80 minutes we played pretty well,” UA coach Jared Embick said. “At the end, we had to make some subs because of some situations and we lost some focus and that can’t happen. “It’s more progress, but I think the biggest issue here is we had chances to put them away, but we didn’t. We let a team hang around, maybe something happens in the end, but you know what, we didn’t lose the game and kept some momentum going. We just need to keep pushing forward.” The toughest part for the Zips is that they dominated FIU for almost the entire part of regulation only to have a goal with 3:30 remaining tie the score.
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  6. Oh shoot, your right. 5 out of 7 HS division state champions from NE Ohio. Even more reason to recruit here. Good find!
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  7. Fear the Roo.... really good first half
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  8. UAZipster0305....very well said. Your observations and candid feedback....are very much needed on this board.
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  9. Peeps, at the end of the day, the facts are what they are. The Zips are 0-fer. I seriously doubt anyone here wants to see any Zip coach, athlete or admin fail.
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  10. Oh so Arth defenders get to rant away, but Arth detractors need to shorten themselves to a sentence...
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  11. You're damn right 8-5 with a first Bowl-Win in school History is a "good season" because WE'D NEVER HAD IT BEFORE! If you think Akron is going to do any better than that under Arth, you're flat out delusional. Because there is ZERO indication the Zips will approach anywhere near that level of "success" before Arth is jettisoned. And NO I'M NOT SAYING THAT TO HURT THE PROGRAM: I'm saying it because it's objectively true until Arth et al. Prove otherwise. The Zips 2019 are more circa 2011/2010 than circa 2015. Oh...as for the won 40% of his games...if you exclude the 1st season (which y'all tell me is a "rebuilding year" so it doesn't count...therefore we must apply that logic to Bowden as well) he won 49%. One more winning season would have gotten that over 50%. For Context (because it matters) Frank Solich, has won 57% of his games in his 14 year tenure at Ohio. In his first 6-years (to compare to Bowden) he was 40-36 with two Bowl appearances (no wins) and one MAC Championship appearance. Bowden (excluding his first year) was 34-41 with two Bowl Appearances (one win) and one MAC Championship Appearance. I personally believe Frank Solich and Ohio's last 14-years SHOULD be what we would Want here in Akron. Stability, and a CHANCE to shine every couple of years to every year. Using the logic being presented here Frank Solich would have been jettisoned in 2008 after going 4-8 , two years removed from a Bowl game and a year prior to them going 9-5 with a MACC and third bowl appearance (Bowden was 4-8 and only ONE year removed from a MACC appearance and Bowl-game). All we bitter people are trying to point out is that perhaps, maybe, the decision was made prematurely. Especially when he had two more years on his contract (that we are still paying him for right now). Did we really gain ANYTHING by jettisoning him and Bringing in 0-5 Arth? We don't think so. And we are objectively correct.
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  12. Northwestern (first big-10 win in school history) Kent State (important rivalry game to win regardless of their record...a rivalry game we will lose this year) Assuming it's True that Kato was hurt in the latter half of the season, and Ramart didn't pan out like planned, is it any surprise that the Zips went 4-8. I mean you can apply the "is it any surprise" standard to just about anything, if that's magically a good argument. Not one of us Arth detractors has made the argument that Arth and his staff isn't hard working. We're critical of the contention that he's somehow better than Bowden was (he's not, verifiably): Bowden was 82-69 in D-1 football. Arth is 0-5. Those of us detract from Arth not because we HOPE he can turn it around, or cheer for the Zips: we're pissed that it seems no improvement has happened. Period. Verifiably. And no, if we repeatedly post on ZNO to bitch about Arth et. al, we are not trying to bring the program down. Not anymore than the myriad of posters here who repeatedly posted on ZNO to bitch about Bowden and Milwee et al, were trying to bring the program down. It was perfectly okay for you and many others to attack me as a Bowden defender, but it's suddenly not okay for us to disagree with you. Hypocrisy much? Double standard much? But I'll ask you...what is there to be "fun" about right now? What is there to be "interested" in with Zips football right now? Sorry there are those of us who haven't drank the coolaide. I also find it somewhat interesting that there wasn't comment from you about having a "toxic enviornment" here when people did nothing but complain about the previous years of Zips football and attacked it's defenders.
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  13. So, just to clarify the rules here, it's okay to predict future misery and gloom and doom for a program but not a game?
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  14. I am personally glad that you are here. It's good to know there are those out there who give-a-damn and don't buy the bullshit. I love those on this forum and their passion even though a number of them don't care for me much; but it's because we refuse to sugarcoat the turd. We as an alumni base fought so hard over two-decades to shake the "Hill-top High" persona that UA had for decades. It feels like we're going backwards. When you have all the things you mentioned above going on, it's very difficult to find something to be happy about, and in my opinion leaves two options: Apathy, or a will to fight back. Apathy is what Akron Alumni have had for far too long.
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  15. No, I am not someone who was fired or related to anyone who has ever worked at U of A. I'm a Class of '89 alum and a parent of two Zip alums. I am a fan, and perhaps, if you actually were "thinking" about the facts I have presented, you would reach the same conclusions. Maybe some of you are fine with Zips Athletics mediocrity in Football and Men's Basketball... Is the current track of non-achievement mediocre? True/False. On Williams' watch two new sports have been added that will not be funded by the U of A at competitive levels against MAC opponents, in fact, they are presented as non-scholarship sports. This has been pushed forward despite the U of A suffering decreased enrollment and amidst claims by the U of A Upper Administration that future cuts to athletics are likely in the near future. What part of this is not factual? https://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/akron-likely-to-see-sports-cuts-with-new-budget-plan.html Men's Soccer is a non-revenue sport, despite making the College Cup, as there are no revenue shares from the NCAA or ticket sales that total even the benefits costs of Jared Embick's salary. At the end of the day, men's soccer brings in no more NET revenue than women's swimming and actually costs the U of A budget more. Williams gave a huge raise to the men's soccer coach despite Embrick having no other offers of employment, and now Embrick makes $300,000 per year, which is almost 3 times the average salary of a U of A Full Professor. https://www.insidehighered.com/aaup-compensation-survey/school-detail/university-akron-main-campus Is the men's soccer success pushing additional revenues to cover this salary bump? We would know if the Athletic Department published an annual report, but that has not happened the last two years. UA offered a buyout to 47 percent of its faculty in March, though some departments, including Athletics, were not eligible for the package. The university is also trying to address its dropping enrollment, now at a 10-year low, and has a history of financial problems as we all know. Officials originally predicted a deficit of $16 million for next year, though that was updated to $3.6 million earlier this Spring. Officials cited selectively filling vacancies and being “cost-conscious” with non-personnel costs as the reasons for the drop. The University of Akron spent $923,517 during the 2018-19 school year to pay three former presidents: Matthew Wilson, Scott Scarborough, and Luis Proenza, so the money that is being donated to U of A is truly going right out the door for no good of the students, academics, or athletics. Add in paying off Bowden and Arth's UTC exit fee... stop the insanity for a football program that sells less than 3,000 season tickets a year. That's right - the season ticket gross revenue for 2019 would not even cover the Bowden Buy-Out. The school owes Bowden, who was fired with two years left on his contract, $630,000. And it's giving Arth, a five-year deal that the Beacon Journal said is worth about $500,000 per year. Thus, in the next two years, Arth will be paid at least $1 million, Bowden will make $630,000 and Akron will be paying Arth's former school about $370,000. That's $2 million for a university that in August said it was projecting a $3.6 million budget deficit for this fiscal year, 2019-2020. Criticize me all you like, but if William's said football was his #1 priority when he was named AD then why are ticket sales, attendance and wins all going backwards in year 4 of his tenure. This is not sour grapes, is someone standing up for Zip fans and saying we deserve better.
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