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We should all hope to have a "shit sandwich" like a new $65 million football stadium on campus. As the great philosopher Flava Flav once wrote: "Don't believe the hype." Have you ever heard Tom Wistercill publicly state ANYTHING like: "What a HUGE f*ck up I made. I had one f*cking thing to do...hire a real football coach to fill a brand new, beautiful stadium complete with a brand f*cking new, state of the are indoor training facility...and I COMPLETELY screwed it up. I hired a complete know-nothing jerkwad, and look what I did...I almost single-handedly ruined Akron football." No, he never says anything like it. It isn't in his best interest to point the finger at himself as a prime contributor to why it has been an albatross. And in Akron, devoid of any real news outlets or fan base, 800lb gorillas can easily be swept under the rug. The excuse is the fans...the excuse is Ohio State...the excuse is "the youth of today"...the excuse is...anything but - "I screwed up." Toxic Tom Wistercill was a remora on the belly of Caleb Porter's accomplishments and of Mike Thomas' hires. He was less than worthless, and that's why he's gone. Who else could turn a five-star restaurant into a Shit Sandwich Factory? If Scarborough is publicly bemoaning the still-relatively-new football stadium, shame on him. If he has no employees bursting with ideas to fill it up, then shame on him. Anyone can sit with a thumb up their butt and blame the guy before him for all his seemingly insurmountable problems. If we hired such a guy as our President, then we screwed up to a level beyond royally...we screwed up polytechnically. Some saps will fall hook-line-and-sinker for the "we made a mistake building the stadium" excuse. Because they blindly believe everything that people in authority say. Giving Wistercill a sweet new stadium was like giving a bloated, dead boll weevil an accordion. It doesn't matter how expensive the accordion is....bloated dead boll weevils can't polka. K.e.n.t. football can win in the MAC. They proved it 2 years ago. It doesn't take much. Bowden can do it. I believe in the guy. But it pisses me off when someone tries to sell me on the theory that UA's top-notch football assets are an detriment. Flava Flav don't believe it, and you shouldn't either.

Proud to turn my son over to this Man for the next 4 years !!! http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/ua-football-assistant-todd-stroud-works-through-rare-blood-disorder-stem-cell-transplant-1.603911?localLinksEnabled=false

From what I have heard, UA has an unreasonable set of demands that event organizers have to deal with if they want to use the stadium.

"Recently, he visited the Ohio campus with his father, Norm Turfe (a safety at West Pointe in the late 1980s) and grandfather, Lee Turfe." Impressive.

I realize it's impossible to quantify, but having the worst attendance in all of FBS has to seriously damage the ability to recruit. It's all a big circle.

Putting extra emphasis on that implies that Dr. Scarborough would not have built that particular stadium but a different one, probably a smaller one at lower cost to relieve the debt load. Otherwise he would have said he would not have built a (as in any) new stadium. It's always easy to say something like that in retrospect. The more interesting question is what Dr. Scarborough would have approved had he been in charge at the time the decision was made with the data that Dr. Proenza had available to him. Of course we'll never know what the new on-campus stadium would have accomplished attendance-wise if it had been combined with a winning football team. The three consecutive 1-11 seasons were pretty toxic to what was already a tepid fan base. That dug a hole much deeper than the new stadium's foundation. All we can do is speculate how many consecutive winning seasons it would take to create enough of a buzz around Zips football to attract consistently decent crowds. It does seem that they're making a better effort to market the program, and that they're aware how important the new AD will be to that effort.

Darlington Nagbe takes center stage as Portland Timbers dominate rival Seattle Sounders

#6 DarNag with a beuatiful assist. He is having a great game.