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In the early Big East Game St. John's earned a 3-1 win at Villanova. St. John's is now 3-3-1 (10 points) Villanova is 1-3-3 (6 pts)

Given where this program has been since that 50-3 game, I'll take the Bowl.

Is it correlation or causation? Enrollment increases are pretty easy to achieve regardless of FB or BB results.

How is the athletic department not doing this? It's been pretty successful across the board.

Zips by 10

Meanwhile, every Cinderella that has made a run in football or basketball has seen interest, engagement, and enrollment increases in the years following their run(s). Here's the life lesson being learned: strong athletics athletics are good marketing tools for universities.

The University isn't spending ~30 million a year just to provide life lessons to ~400 student athletes (if you even want to call them that anymore). That would be absurd. That might have been its intended purpose 100 years ago, but we've long moved past that. Now it's about enhancing the college experience, keeping alumni engaged, getting your name out there, and building good will in the community.

Thanks to some favorable results from Akron opponents earlier tonight, the Zips moved up from #14 to #12 in the RPI. Closing out the regular season with two wins should get us a top 16 seed (and first round bye).

Cleveland State 2-1 win over IU Indy Ohio State got a very rare win this year…1-0 over the Nittany’s Milwaukee 2-1 over Northern Kentucky in a game not listed above, Western Michigan got a 2-1 win over Drake.

Yep

West Virginia stepped up tonight and got a very impressive 3-0 win over Marshall. Vermont won 2-0 over Albany. Vermont might move up to number 1 in the country. Stanford was number 1. Stanford played Cal today. Cal had a 1-5-1 ACC record. 5-7-2 overall record. Cal earned a 1-0 win over the Cardinal.

The good news is that Chad Welker will be the announcer. Chad is very knowledgeable about the players and is very passionate about the Zips. Chad always does a good job.

The primary purpose of athletics is to provide life lessons to young people. The value shouldn't be measured in money or students, but if it is benefiting the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Enrollment just went up. I doubt athletics is driving a lot of that increase.

I don’t know the names of too many refs, but I did know his and sure enough it was him. RIP

A B10 and MAC basketball offical died last week. A regular at the JAR. He lived north of Findley OH. I liked him. https://bigten.org/mbb/article/58685/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANx8KJjbGNrA3HwXWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeD39ryPkYucdfh1BceY-a_1j6ziZG2rF2ZJ6px59UY6KzMDJs6PHsXbgcYLQ_aem_UCW-b9mkdO1KGJ-JAmIvnA

This is interesting... MAC team picked as potential 30-game winner this season!!!! https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46775032/mens-ncaa-basketball-predicting-teams-win-30-games-2025-26

Note from the game preview: this match will air on gozips.com not espn+ (I assume due to the volleyball match on espn+ right beforehand)

The comment was more the market it out of wack due to delusions of grandeur. Athletics is a marketing arm for Universities. It doesn't have to necessarily turn a profit to provide value. It exists to bring in new and retain existing customers, which at Akron its not doing. We're not getting the value out of it given the money we're pouring into it. The same is true for 75%+ of the other G5. Changes need to happen across college athletics as a whole.

Several games tonight featuring Zips' opponents, including a big one. Cleveland State (127) at IU Indy (170) - 7 pm Albany (110) at Vermont (2) - 6 pm NKU (182) at Milwaukee (173) - 6 pm Penn State (102) at Ohio State (91) - 7 pm Marshall (19) at West Virginia (21) - 7 pm

If anyone goes to the Trading Card game and doesn't want their cards, let me know. I am a big time card collector and will ironically be unable to attend due to my weekend shifts at the local card shop.

Simple answer. It's not a business. It's college athletics at a public university. I have the same reaction when someone says government should turn like a business, it isn't. In a world where Joe is underpaid compared his peers and could use about 4-5 more assistants and a bunch of other crap, it's the market.

Trading card night + autograph night sounds like I need to get a card binder!

Isaiah Johnson Night on 2/14 - assuming we are putting his number up?

Tuesday night always brings out the best in college football players!