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It's 2026. He can identify as a Kent graduate if he wants and who are we to say no? I'm team Kenni. Win that lawsuit.

LOL!

Devan Marrow is staying per Ford.

Thanks for posting. What a fun listen. Ford has the hype factor. That makes me want to run through a brick wall.

Oh was he?! Bummer I missed it. How was the interview?

Ford is doing a social media tour on X. Wonder if we'll start to hear some Portal/Returning news tomorrow.

What a time for Toledo to post this.

Just made my deposit for season tickets again. Hopefully enough people do so to signal support for Ford.

There goes Miami OH's 2nd or 3rd best player.

Wouldn't mind that assuming the rest of the OOC schedule included some stiffer competition. The last ABC saw some very competitive basketball programs, I think all but 1 reaching their conference tournament final and a couple (including Akron) making the NCAAT. The University would need to get more creative with promoting it, though, and making it a better event overall.

They might, but for a University with budget constraints, seems odd to use financial resources on a formal process like this instead of joining the board, creating a section or a thread with questions, and starting there - for free.

It actually didn't. Here's what I received... "Thank you for your support of the Zips and interest in joining the Zips Fan Council! While it’s been a hectic time of year with basketball season in full-swing, I wanted to send out a quick update regarding where our department is currently at with creating the Zips Fan Council. We had overwhelming interest in being a part of this council, with just under 100 applicants from across the state of Ohio and beyond. Our goal for this council is to build a group that spans across as many different demographics as possible, and as such we’ve selected limited numbers of individuals across a wide variety of graduation years and backgrounds to accomplish this goal. We are in the final stages of scheduling interviews with applicants and hope to have our council members finalized in the coming weeks, with our first meeting late in the spring. If you were not chosen to move forward in the process, please know that it was based on limited availability and Akron Athletics appreciates and values your support. As this will be a group that ebbs and flows based on availability, we would love to consider you for the group in the future even if you are not ultimately selected in this first iteration." The part I put in bold is what reads like a rejection. Regardless, I still don't understand why they aren't joining ZipsNation for feedback, suggestions, brainstorming, etc.

So it wasn't a rejection email we received? It read like a rejection email.

Not surprised in the least after Blyden hopped in the Portal. Suck it, Tod.

Beautiful. I feel for Halcovage as it seems like he's a good person, but Freitag was arguably the best player in the MAC last year before his injury.

It's called the Zips Fan Council and it sounds like a decent number of ZN members signed up for it, but none of us were chosen to my knowledge. They were doing final interviews last I heard with the first meeting set for sometime in the spring. The running joke is that it seems like a lot of effort when they could just join ZN, make a thread called "Zips Fan Council" and have brainstorm sessions here.

I wonder if that exclusive Zips Fan Club thing is popping out ideas like these.

Been saying it for years - there is too much focus on the suits and not enough focus on the general community. This type of stuff would be a hit with the general community. Outside of the Wentz-sponsored giveaways, the marketing is typically quite drab and borderline lazy. I'd like to see some sort of digital attendance punch card, similar to what you might fight at an ice cream stand. Set up a spot in the lobby or 2nd level where fans can have something scanned on their phone that logs their attendance in a database. Every game attended counts towards rewards. 1 game = Zippy Keychain 3 games = Zippy Plush 5 games = T Shirt 7 games = Hat etc. Could also have each game count as an entry towards some sort of grand prize at the end of the season - future season ticket, tickets to the MAC tournament, something like that. I'd also like to see some sort of Zippy Kids Club brought back.

Second time today I'm going to ask for unlimited reactions lol.

Shouldn't be complete turnover.

BANG!