zippy5 Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Back in 2016 (I believe...maybe it was '17) I was watching the NHL finals. At a game in Pittsburgh the camera was following a Penguins player up the ice and you could plainly see an older guy with a short, white beard wearing an "A" Roo baseball cap. I rewound and paused it, and took a picture of the screen shot, but I can't find that picture for the life of me! 🤬 Who would wear a Zips hat to the NHL finals (aside from most people on this board)? And, it was someone that could pay for 1st row seats? Guthrie needs to find that guy and have him build us a basketball arena. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 20, 2023 Report Share Posted January 20, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 8:32 AM, Captain Kangaroo said: Back in 2016 (I believe...maybe it was '17) I was watching the NHL finals. At a game in Pittsburgh the camera was following a Penguins player up the ice and you could plainly see an older guy with a short, white beard wearing an "A" Roo baseball cap. I rewound and paused it, and took a picture of the screen shot, but I can't find that picture for the life of me! 🤬 Who would wear a Zips hat to the NHL finals (aside from most people on this board)? And, it was someone that could pay for 1st row seats? Guthrie needs to find that guy and have him build us a basketball arena. Could have been my brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Section210Zip Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 I noticed the other night that the ESPN+ commercial loop that shows while you are waiting for an event to start shows us scoring a touchdown 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 Not really a reference to our city but I didn't know where else to post this. Highlights the etymological root of our city's name. Pretty cool. (Guthrie is on vacation in Greece.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 I was in Amberg Germany last week for work. When I checked in to the hotel, I provided my ID to the desk attendant and she said "Oh, you are from Ohio? I went to college there for two semesters." Of course when I asked "Where?", she said "The University of Akron." I told her "Go Zips!" every morning when I left for the office. 😄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 On 5/7/2023 at 10:55 AM, Blue & Gold said: Not really a reference to our city but I didn't know where else to post this. Highlights the etymological root of our city's name. Pretty cool. (Guthrie is on vacation in Greece.) Look for a new font on our uniforms real soon 🙂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CsC1WBPtgsC/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted June 5, 2023 Report Share Posted June 5, 2023 Nothing about UA in the video but from the comments: Pilletta Doinswartsh 10 days ago (edited) I graduated in 1986 in Electrical Engineering. Our class started with about 180 sutdents. Only 30 graduated. I nearly didn't make it, myself. The junior year was rrrrrough. I had four extremely demanding courses at once. It got so that I couldn't keep up with all the homework (8-10 hours a day, even on weekends), so I had to pick one class to just audit, because I couldn't survive all four. The professor for that class (Digital Circuits) saw me not turning in homework, and failing the tests, and he took me into his office, gave me back my test (F!) and told me "you will never be an engineer." But I proved him wrong. Even got on the dean's list my senior year. Anyway, learn how to study, how to take notes, AND visit all of your professors once a week. Get to know them. Make them get to know you. You're paying their salaries. USE THEM. 41 Reply 7 replies mkdir 8 days ago It used to be a lot harder pre-Internet as well. Digital is so important, and yet its taught so poorly I find. I'm 3rd year now and see the importance of it, but when I was first introduced to Digital, it seemed so stupid and was taught so badly. 1 Reply kc cheung 6 days ago (edited) May I know which university ? Start with 180, and only 30 survived. Too tough, wasn't it ? 1 Reply Pilletta Doinswartsh 6 days ago @kc cheung University of Akron in Ohio. I was told by a professor that it would be hard. He told us to look around the room. Then said only about 1 in 6 of you will graduate. He said it's because Electrical Engineering is a controlled profession. They make the major hard enough to weed out 5/6 of the class. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted June 5, 2023 Report Share Posted June 5, 2023 9 hours ago, ZippyRulz said: Nothing about UA in the video but from the comments: Pilletta Doinswartsh 10 days ago (edited) I graduated in 1986 in Electrical Engineering. Our class started with about 180 sutdents. Only 30 graduated. I nearly didn't make it, myself. The junior year was rrrrrough. I had four extremely demanding courses at once. It got so that I couldn't keep up with all the homework (8-10 hours a day, even on weekends), so I had to pick one class to just audit, because I couldn't survive all four. The professor for that class (Digital Circuits) saw me not turning in homework, and failing the tests, and he took me into his office, gave me back my test (F!) and told me "you will never be an engineer." But I proved him wrong. Even got on the dean's list my senior year. Anyway, learn how to study, how to take notes, AND visit all of your professors once a week. Get to know them. Make them get to know you. You're paying their salaries. USE THEM. 41 Reply 7 replies mkdir 8 days ago It used to be a lot harder pre-Internet as well. Digital is so important, and yet its taught so poorly I find. I'm 3rd year now and see the importance of it, but when I was first introduced to Digital, it seemed so stupid and was taught so badly. 1 Reply kc cheung 6 days ago (edited) May I know which university ? Start with 180, and only 30 survived. Too tough, wasn't it ? 1 Reply Pilletta Doinswartsh 6 days ago @kc cheung University of Akron in Ohio. I was told by a professor that it would be hard. He told us to look around the room. Then said only about 1 in 6 of you will graduate. He said it's because Electrical Engineering is a controlled profession. They make the major hard enough to weed out 5/6 of the class. Nice! That's how a real university producing graduates with real degrees operates. Those who can't cut it can go to KSUcks & get a degree in gender studies & end up delivering pizza's & telling everyone how oppressed they are 🙄😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted June 12, 2023 Report Share Posted June 12, 2023 I can't get a link to it but on good morning football on the NFL Network they were discussing universities that are also colors. One guy brought up Navy and said that he had been going through all the other conferences to see what else he could find and said is Akron a color? 🤣 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 14, 2023 Report Share Posted June 14, 2023 On 6/12/2023 at 7:02 PM, MDZip said: I can't get a link to it but on good morning football on the NFL Network they were discussing universities that are also colors. One guy brought up Navy and said that he had been going through all the other conferences to see what else he could find and said is Akron a color? 🤣 And then there are the Universities whose mascot is a color (lame!) like our neighbors to the east... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_sports_team_nicknames_in_North_America#Colors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 (edited) TNT NCAA tournament halftime show had a trivia question "Battle of the Dukes - Duke, Duquesne and JMU". First question - what school won it's first schools National Championship in soccer? Duke - in soccer in 1986 beating Akron 1-0. Edited March 23 by MDZip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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