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  1. 8 hours ago, John Ward said:

    Child please ! You have probably shaved twice in your life . Grow up ! Talk like a human and not an idiot kid that you are. Coming on here dogging everyone. 


    Ah yes the "child" attack used against anyone who possibly knows more than you about a topic.  My uncle who barely got his GED loves to use that one.  But seriously bro...you can do better. MAKE AKRON GREAT AGAIN, and stop making Akron look like HillTop High with your brilliant takes.

    And you weren't commenting like a child with your comment that doesn't even qualify as futilely stupid? Please.  PLEEEEASE take your juvenile level hypocrisy elsewhere.  And no I came on here to read everyone's take on UA making the "task-force" and saw uninformed comments being made about SARS-CoV-2. Misinformed ignorant comments made about a global pandemic, must be addressed. If you don't want to be dogged on and having more informed people calling you out for them than don't make the misinformed comments in the first place.

    Good job editing out the rest of the comment though....

     

    14 hours ago, Zip-Grad '13 said:

    Crack open a epidemiology, biology, chemistry, zoology, genetics, and history textbook and; and then spend some time reading the published literature, research and data; then feel free to comment on SARS-CoV-2.


    I'd be happy to direct you to resources for you to read, hell some of them you can even listen do, if you would like. 

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  2. On 7/20/2020 at 9:51 AM, GP1 said:

    Don't worry, this will all be over come November 4th.  


    No it won't.  It's not over until there is a viable vaccine, or 60-70% of the population has had SARS-CoV-2; that's the hard facts.

    To put that infection % into context; you can have half a million (500,000) new cases a day and it will still take 362 days to reach 60% infected. We're unfortunately in this for the long haul until there's a vaccine.  There is literally no other option; because you either let it overwhelm your healthcare capacity (and destroy your economy in the meantime), or you wait it out until there is a vaccine (and mitigate the fallout as much as you can). Texas has hospitals triaging people as we speak, sending some home (to die).  Real life Pandemics aren't like you see in the movies.

    Medurna's Phase III won't be concluded until about October 27th, and it's phase III peer-review will likely last into December, and Astrazeneca's phase 2 and Pase 3 will not be concluded until around the end of November.  Assuming those are successful, they will not be widespread to the public until about March/April of 2021... and that's IF they are successful.

    Harvard Medical projected a "Return To Normal" (which would be pre-Covid) would be 2022.

    This isn't political.  It's just hard freaking facts dude. Read/listen to anything by Michael Osterholm who is one of the country's top epidemiologists at the University of Minnesota.  Pretty much everything he has said from March till now has been spot-on.
     

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  3. On 7/20/2020 at 10:00 AM, JZIP said:

    Ahhh just like the American media. Cheers! I hope you follow the "science" and never do anything semi-risky ever again. I heard that 100% of the people who drink water die. What a stat!


    You graduated from The University of Akron?  Dear god...you're an embarrassment.  Crack open a epidemiology, biology, chemistry, zoology, genetics, and history textbook and; and then spend some time reading the published literature, research and data; then feel free to comment on SARS-CoV-2.

  4. On 7/18/2020 at 10:37 AM, Captain Kangaroo said:

    When you enroll as a full time student, I believe. You can pay for your own 9 credits and the clock doesn’t tick.


    Isn't that how Brandon Weeden was able to go back and play football?  Because he left for baseball but didn't exhaust those last 2(?) years of the ticking clock because he was failing at a baseball career...or do different sports have different clocks?

  5. 13 hours ago, mivid12 said:

    sheep....when will u take off your masks?...you libtwits luv the W.H.O right?

     

    https://twitter.com/Rent_not_buy/status/1279196128731443201


    I certainly hope you didn't graduate from The University of Akron...you're making us look bad. Some of us paid attention in our microbiology, ecology, Biology classes and actually read books and didn't draw pictures and eat glue in class.

  6. On 7/16/2020 at 12:02 PM, Captain Kangaroo said:

    I'm old enough to remember when doctors said menthol cigarettes were good for you, and thalidomide was a great way to cure morning sickness. Even doctors get a little more educated over time.

     

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    Thalidomide was prevented from being used in the US because of the Peer-Review process of safety data by the FDA by a single young doctor assigned to the case, and wh wasn't impressed by the salesmen and said they didn't have any safety data to back up their claims for it's use on pregnant women...and she was right.  Dr. Francis Kelsey is a forgotten American Hero.

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  7. On 7/19/2020 at 4:16 PM, Hilltopper said:

    I certainly hope you didn't graduate with a degree in business or economics. 

     

    I certainly hope you didn't either, because nothing I said was even remotely controversial and is pretty straight forward.  There isn't one master economics theorem, and Economics as a social science is pretty dismal; plagued with bias, lack of reproducibility, and hindsight bias.  And let's not get started on the charlatan charade that is "Business"...

  8. On 7/17/2020 at 8:07 PM, NWAkron said:

    and I would add that while Churchill said something like never let a good crisis go to waste this isn't the time to panic and make a drastic decision like moving to D2.  COVID will eventually go away and football and sports will be back again.


    I tend to view it from a different perspective; that this crisis is exposing what was already broken. Nothing in college athletics was sustainable as is many of the things in our economy.  Having record $-billion profits one quarter and then you're asking for a $-billion bailout the next quarter is a perfect example of whatever has been happening is fundamentally broken.  

    And if you come out of a global crisis without fixing/making substantial change to what was broken...you're setting yourself up for worse.

     

    On 7/17/2020 at 2:30 PM, 94zipgrad said:

    I tend to believe you but they will wait as long as they can & will try very hard as it is so important in so many ways for schools, students, communities & the overall economy.  So much money they want to at least try


    I totally agree with this.  Cancelling OOC games in an attempt to make it look like they're trying.  I'd wager that most in the room though know the decision is going to be inevitable.  It does suck because we're in uncharted territory.  And unfortunately everyone who remembers the last one is dead.

  9. On 6/25/2020 at 7:50 AM, ZippyRulz said:

    They should be able to come up with a durable face mask athletes could wear in competition, something like the neck gaiters you see people wearing. Then just space people out in the stands, require masks, take temps on the way in, etc. Even so, it will be hard to do politically if c19 cases are rising again.

     

    There's no way it's responsible to have fans in stands during a global pandemic.  Especially when cases are already projected to be on the rise in the Fall.

  10. On 6/23/2020 at 9:59 AM, Spin said:


    Don’t confuse “cutting colleges” with “cutting programs”. When I graduated in 2012 my College of Nursing was merged into the “College of Health Professions” along with seven other programs. It didn’t hurt the nursing. program in fact it was expanded to Wayne College.

     

    They just cut a lot of duplicate staff off the top.


    Akron already cut a lot of the programs to save money years ago.  We'd be insane to think continual cuts/restructuring on the Academic side while still running  a bloated athletics budget is a good sign.

  11. On 5/19/2020 at 4:14 PM, Captain Kangaroo said:

    He took over a program with 3 D1-A wins the previous season, and who lost 9 of its 11 defensive starters. He began recruiting at a point in time when most programs had their full class committed.

     

    How many games should he have won? 1...2...?

     

    I hope he can turn it around. Like any HC, he gets 4 years to show what he can do. 

     

    Defending mediocrity!  (I think that's the attack that was levied but in the opposite direction).  Sorry.  You can book it.  Arth ain't rescuing the football program.

  12. On 5/15/2020 at 11:01 PM, LZIp said:

    Reminder: Groce finished tied for last in the MAC his first year, didn’t do much better his second year, and was picked to finish 5th of 6th in the East this year although they were thankfully able to break through.

     

    Rebuilding takes patience and I really struggle to value anyone’s opinion who is writing him off after a season.


    Groce had, at the very least, a resume that showed he could have success at the D1 level.  Arth on the other hand...

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  13. 5 minutes ago, jupitertoo said:

    Go any Tuesday at lunchtime to the Rockne's on Steels Corners. Kaulig and his finance guy have lunch at the bar - same seats each week - and Kaulig bitches openly about how most of his businesses do not make money. He was looking for a way to dump Kaulig Media the last I heard.  He's a paper millionaire, similar to our president who is at best a paper billionaire.  Lots of self-promotion, Real rich guys don't do that.

     

    Bingo.

  14. On 5/14/2020 at 1:48 PM, NWAkron said:

    They anti football crowd are a small vocal minority who offer nothing other than complaints.  President let it be known a week ago that football was staying.

     

    Fan is short for "Fanatic".  All "Fanatics" do is complain.  Welcome to fandom.

     

    On 5/14/2020 at 4:09 PM, kreed5120 said:

     

    I hate to admit it, but dre is right here ☝️. Akron has as nice of facilities, if not better, than pretty much every MAC team. The university has kept trying to throw money at football to solve its problems. The problem is we've had a poor string of ADs who have in turn have hired some pretty poor coaches. The blame should be on whoever hires the AD, which I'm guessing would be the BOT.

     

    Yup.  Idiot ADs that fired a Bowden with two-years left on a contract.  Utter stupidity.

     

    On 5/14/2020 at 7:52 PM, dre22era said:

    When your biggest cash burner is Football with all the custom jerseys, gold helmets and we do this BS

     

    And the end result is ...


    Yup.
     

    On 5/14/2020 at 8:22 PM, ZippyRulz said:

    Some posters should find a different school to follow rather than make themselves miserable here.

     

    I mean the Zips make it pretty damn hard to remain a fan.  And not; posters like Hoke, dre, me, Balsy etc... are't negative to be negative.  We give-a-damn.  We're just as much a fan as you.  We're just tired of people defending objectively stupid crap.

     

    On 5/14/2020 at 9:37 PM, dre22era said:

    Your mentality of questioning people who give a damn is why UA is as jacked up as it is now. 

    Oh how dare I give a damn 

    Defenders of mediocrity need to go. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM 


    They really DON'T get it.  They cheered as we fired a Bowden; while throwing money a mediocre dope.

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  15. 15 hours ago, zippy5 said:

    So it's getting counted twice to make the graph look more to their liking?

     

    No.  You can have something be part of both sections of the graph.  Like a student fee isn't all in one spot; and can change from year-to-year.

    Like you can have a reduction in the mount of student's paying the fee (thus an overall decline in funding) but shift around the student fee so that a higher % of it goes towards X,Y,Z.  That's why you can end up having more money go towards X than before, while having a net reduction in overall incoming money.  The graph isn't cherry-picking it's just meant to be an over-arching representation of a far more complex system.

    Saying "the graph to look more to their liking" is like saying the weather report is "more to their liking" with a forecast of a high of 72.  I mean there aren't conspiracies everywhere.

  16. 15 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

     

     

    That's the plan anyways.  Give it till July.

     

    8 minutes ago, zipsrule said:

    I agree about not having the influence over sports that was suggested.  The state schools include schools like CSU Bakersfield, CSU Fresno, CSU Fullerton, etc.  It does not include schools like UCLA or Cal.

     

    A post above mentioned Central Michigan being open to students in the fall.  My daughter will be attending Bowling Green in the fall.  As of right now, BG is planning on being open to students on campus.  Across the country, I think you will have a range of decisions from no students, some students, and all students on campus..

     

    The NCAA has stated: No students on Campus No Sports.  Just reading the tea-leaves here.  Sure most universities are planning to be back on campus...they're also planning to not be back on campus as well.  

    I'd but the chance of not being on campus as greater than being on campus.

  17. 37 minutes ago, Cykron said:

    It will be interesting to see the reaction in California.  By population, they have the most conservatives of any state in the country.  If you add in the liberals who like football, we may see a coup.  I don't think we have heard the last word from California about sports in the fall.  And I don't think they will have the national influence that you suggest.  Does anyone in Ohio (or Iowa) care whether they are playing football in California or not?


    Fans/The Public opinion honestly has no weight.  The NCAA has already said No Students on Campus means no sports.  You cannot justify having sports if students aren't actually on campus, so no...there' won't be a coup.  Doesn't matter how many conservatives or Liberals or sports supporters there are.  

    I'm just reading the tea leaves.  This has nothing to do about politics.  It has everything to do with a global-pandemic and how we respond.  UC is just doing whatevery university will be saying in July (if not sooner).

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