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OK, we have a great looking floor. How about we reconfigure the seating so that you can see the full floor from all of the seats?

Temple Ponders New Stadium Wistercill proclaims (Laughably): 1.) No, people aren't flocking to ESPN3 to watch MAC football. No one watches it. While there is some merit to the argument that modern television is sapping a small sector of college football's game day attendance, that point is absolutely irrelevant to Akron's attendance issues at InfoCision. 2.) Why doesn't he mention his hiring of Rob Ianello as a contributing factor to InfoCision's poor attendance? I did a little more research that the lazy reporter from Philly and from what I can tell, Rob Ianello's pigskin holocaust was the #1 reason the stadium has been 80+% empty. November Tuesday night games with 7/8pm starts placed a distant 2nd. I am confident that Bowden will do the impossible and make Akron a winner in football, as long as UA doesn't do anything stupid to impede him. Thank God a search committee reached out to the guy. It just sucks that he was given such a big hole to fight out of.

Oklahoma's Spring ranking was #19. Question at QB, and thin at LB. Their OL line is revamped, but looks to be outstanding. DL too. Stoops seems burnt out with this job. May be time for a change and Akron would like to help him out with a career move by catching the Sooners wondering ' what is a Zip?'. I know how everyone likes to talk about uniforms, so how about if, for the first half of this game, the Zips enter the stadium with John Heisman era throwback uniforms, including shoes with zippers and painted or decal wrapped helmets to look like replica leather with scaled down face masks. We could outplay OK while distracting them in these uni's and come out in the second half close in score dressed in modern equipment and take the game (jokes on them). Maybe the band could form an electric zipper instrument pep section (please - kidding). I'm sure there are other additions to this format that might be interesting (Cheer squad, Zippy etc...) all changed at half time in a surprise move to build up their confidence to a level where they cannot compete. Maybe fans could carpool to the game in throwback Model T's and have brown gravy guzzling and sauerkraut ball eating contests (Akron delicacies) prior to the game complete with t-shirts for the best projectile vomit or schart.

Note when I said "you're a moron" it was directed at a person who would choose a school in that manner, not you individually. But for every 1 example that would make Akron sound larger, there is one (if not many more) examples of making UA sound like a smaller BFE school. Here's the problem with you analogy a-zip: education is not a business. It should not be a business. It should not opperate as a business. It does not work on the same principal of a business. And all these business minded people who have entered into education because it makes governors happy to say "we have welcomed business into education", are the problem. What may be good for business, is not necessarily good for education. That's the fallacy here. Not to mentioned it hasn't been demonstrated in any measurable manner in a peer reviewed process. That's the difference (or should be the difference) between education and business. Education SHOULD be based on what works, not throwing darts at a dartboard on what might work. Read the two articles I posted on the most successful education systems in the world. We KNOW without a doubt what works in education. Of course it doesn't work in a business model...because education's not a business. And it's not supposed to be. I'm not disagreeing with the financial difficulties faced by universities, I do not agree with you on the solution. The soultion is NOT "rebranding" yourself and painting yourself into a niched corner, especially when that rebranding hasn't even been demonstrated to be effective or to have a significant, measurable impact. I don't care what guys like Mark Cuban and Bill Gates think about the future of education. For starters, they have a personal vested interest in blasting public education. They have invested heavily in private schools, and programs designed so siphon public education funds into private hands. Mark Cuban and Bill Gates are also non-educators. They don't know the first thing about an education system. Why is this important? Because the best, most successful schools in the world are run by educators. Why is that significant? Because educators, you know the people who dedicate their lives to it, know what their doing. There's a disdain for educators in the US and THAT's more the problem in the US than anything else. Lastly Mark Cuban and Bill Gates, or anyone for that matter, are not authorities on anything. Just because they think, believe, feel anything... is irrelavent to whether or not it is true or not, or will work or not. Their opinions are only as good as the data, information and peer reviewed substance they have to back it up.

In the words of Chris Carter C'MON MAAAAN!! No Balsy, I would not chose a school simply because it had polytechnic in the name and I wouldn't exclude a school for having that as part of their name….I am not a moron. In fact, the name change is not really a big deal to me at all. If I were to give an opinion around the name I would say I like it because if we become known as Ohio Tech….to me that has the appearance of being a larger statewide school vs a community college to a city. The issue to me is around survival, fiscal responsibility and viability in the future. It is about differentiating ourselves just like Apple did…They realized they could not be IBM so the specialized and created their own ecosystem. http://marketrealist.com/2014/01/apple/ http://www.entrepreneurial-insights.com/stand-crowd-examples-differentiation/ UA and other schools like us will not be able to operate status quo any longer or they will not survive. If you are going to stick your head in the sand and ignore all the reports and warnings around the financial woes institutions are facing, there is no need for me to continue this with you. There are plenty of reports out there, many links have been provided in this thread. Guys like Mark Cuban and Bill Gates get it (they are pretty smart). IT IS VERY REAL just like the real estate crash.

This talk of UA, Can't State, YSU & CSU combining to create NEOU made me wonder if there is any sentiment to combine BGSU with UT to create NWOU. Then we could make NEO vs. NWO a football trophy game. Think of the marketing possibilities.

The problem with the education system is less about the education system and more about the people and the increasing amount of non-education people whom are charged with running education, that's the problem. A name change and rebranding really isn't fixing the educational woes. I'll answer your last question with another question: If you were from outside the state, why would you choose Akron "Ohio's Polytechnique" over any other state's polytechnique? You choose a school to go to in another state because it has the research/graduate level research opportunities you're looking for. If you're picking a graduate school because it has the name "Polytechnique" in it, well...you're a moron. The whole rebranding idea is absolutely asinine (to quote myself from the ABJ), until Dr. Scarborough releases actual studies with definite conclussions, I will continue to say as much. When asked what research backs up Dr. Scarborough's claims he said "it's proprietary". Bullshit. If it's real research with reliable data, it wouldn't be afraid of peer review...of criticism. It'd be published in journals and there'd be no need to hide behind "proprietary". It has bullshit written all over it. No, I don't think he wants what's best for UA. His lack of transparency, lack of interest in the student body and alumni is alarming. He's already jumped ship numerous times in his career, and a major state university rebranding as a polytechnique makes for a wonderful resume builder in a resume initiative building culture. And no major state university will go belly up, I promise you that. The contention that most universities are going to be gone in 50 years is a crock of crap. It's overly hyperbolic, and built on a plethera of assumptions and fallacies.

Here's hoping the Crew is awarded home field in the fourth round of the USOC. Would love to see the match at First Energy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field again.

3 feet is pretty ridiculous, and you'd see some large cracks in the cement work, if not a major collapse. I find it kind of hard to believe. There were problems when excavating the stadium because they ran into sandstone on multiple occasions. That's bedrock, and it doesn't sink or subside when you build on top of it. Edit: looking at some USGS maps, the stadium is built on a minor incline, sloping downward from northwest to southeast. I remember them hitting sandstone on the north end of the stadium, which is why the decorative area with shrubs on the west side of the endzone building is oddly shaped. I would guess that if any part of the stadium sank, it would be on the southern end near Exchange street. Under the surface, the rocks there dip and aren't consistently level, because just south of Exchange were the actual Wolf Ledges used to be, running from Brown to Grant, centered on Power street. The city filled it all in to build houses a hundred years ago, but who knows how stable that is. You can see the dip if you head down Sumner.

A friend of mine asked why there is an "N" on the middle of our new court?..."Will they add the AKRO in front of it?" he asked.

One day after his signing was announced, Aodhan Quinn scored on his first shot for Louisville City FC.