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First off, congrats to the Buckeyes on their win. I've got to say, I was rooting for them to lose simply because with every W, the Cleveland media market grows its infatuation with OSU. While I'm not in the business of telling people who to cheer for, the last week has been pretty disgusting for me between UA athletics and their president wishing OSU "good luck" via their official twitter and Facebook accounts to stores like Rubber City Clothing selling buckeyes garbage...this game couldn't end soon enough. As far as the playoff, Trimmy hits it spot on. Division one college football is the ONLY college sport that more than 50% of teams have ZERO chance to win a championship BEFORE the season even has begun. There needs to be 12 or 16 teams included (which would still make it difficult for G5, but not 100% impossible) or another split within the ranks of FBS (I would prefer this less). Anyway...GO ZIPS! Here's to a few months of no Buckeye saturation!

I don't see the big deal Keener????? Lighten up man.

I hope the person who posted that gets fired. I'm being completely serious. It's unprofessional. If you're hired to be a social media manager for an organization, you NEVER use that account to promote your personal opinions. And that is a personal opinion which has absolutely nothing to do with the account used to post it.

Our players have teammates and friends on the OSU team. I have no problem with what they say on Twitter when we aren't playing them. The athletic department though, that was sickening, same with Akron Football Video.

Very well spoken student athletes............"We ain't come to play school"...........

I'm all for the good luck wish. I'm a football fan. I'm from Ohio. I cheered for the Ohio team to win a national championship. And when UA plays tOSU I cheer even harder for UA. Cheering for another team when UA is not involved is not going to weaken UA. Being petty is.

Ha! Lebanon out of all places. Lebanon is my native country. Sagesse is Lebanon's equivalent of LA Lakers. Perennial power with a lot of history and supporters. Best of luck to Zeke. I wish I can get in touch with him to offer help with whatever I can do from over here. Also, If you ever run into an arabic story about him, I'll translate for free

Responded several times on the FB post. Sent a letter to the AD. Responded to the tweet. Sent an email to assistant of the board of trustees. And thinking about sending in a letter-to-the-editor to The Buchtelite.

Now that I've calmed down...slightly.... I have to wonder what they thought this could possibly accomplish? Other than a few "Facebook likes" from followers? Did they think that Akron would possible get more notoriety for attaching themselves to a post about friggin OSWho? This hurts us in every conceivable way!!!! A huge school, two hours down the road would get a huge leap in athlete recruiting, student recruiting, press attention, and further their influence over potential "bandwagon" fans......the very same people who we struggle to keep their loyalty with Akron after going to school at Akron. And maybe most significantly, if you think we have problems attracting donor dollars for athletics from our community now, try to convince sports fans.....even right here in our backyard..... that we are the more worthwhile investment, when many of them already surely donate to Ohio State, and would be more inclined to do so when they can claim that they have the best football team in the country for the next year? Senseless.

Did we send a good luck tweet to the Bucks when we played them in soccer a couple months ago? Probably did...

What would Caleb Porter think? What an abject slap in the face to all the Zips fans that put The University of Akron first.

I'd give up some of MY seats if we could get 1,000 students to a game!!

You know if the game experience could be improved for say $10M or so, it might make sense to make a renovation now, while waiting (hoping) for an improved new arena. That improves the game experience, maybe draws a few more fans because of it, but fact are facts, fans only rarely fill the JAR now. Even if the JAR dropped to 4,500, it would still accommodate most games and would make it look like more demand, which might get more people to buy tickets if they are worried about being shut out. I believe that Outback purposely undersized their restaurants when they started because it always looked like there was big demand because people would be standing outside. I think 4,500 would be serviceable for a while as long as a giant investment in the JAR is not made right now so that an argument couldn't be made against a new arena if one was possible. And if the Zips were selling out a very comfortable 4,500 seat arena, I think it would be harder to argue against a new arena. I don't think dropping capacity right now will hurt in the long run as long as the fan support shows up. Nor do I think it says the Zips are giving up on bigger dreams, the JAR would have to be replaced to join any bigger league anyway. You can only put so much lipstick on this pig before someone recognizes it's still a pig. Do the lipstick, but save on plastic surgery.