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Well-deserved honor for the Hit Man. He will be sorely missed. He personified excellence and class. Thanks for the memories, Jatavis!

Oh man WKU is not a team I'd really want to see

Hustlebelt ranked how painful it would be for each MAC team to lose their football coach this year (and measuring how devastating it would be to the fan base). They said WMU, CMU, Buffalo and EMU should be very concerned if that happens but they listed only one program that should be in total meltdown mode. Tier Four: TOTAL MELTDOWN Akron- Terry Bowden (18-31) At 7-5 the Zips have their first winning season in a decade. Meaning I finished middle school, went to high school, graduated, got accepted to college, received a diploma and found my first real job before Akron made it back to a bowl game. That's a long stretch of futility only EMU can possibly relate to. But it all changes this year. The Zips are going bowling and can publicly admit to having a football team without shame. And what a shame it would be to have this all come crashing down. Bowden isn't realistically going anywhere, but could you imagine the destruction that would befall the athletic department at Ohio's polytechnic university? Akron is not an attractive landing spot for new hires. It has a history of limited success and a less than stellar track record on the recruiting trail. Right now Terry Bowden is doing the impossible and could be a few offensive weapons away from being a real threat to Bowling Green's dominion over the MAC East. The Zips have few places to turn if Bowden no longer leads the way.

Nice ... A dumb A$& comment vs a smart A$& comment But I would be interested in your opinion of the article and how it shifts from Ms Sauer's hard work and commitment (to her job and as a mother) to a plug on diversity in the MAC ! Totally contradictory statements of how it is so important to MAC diversity to hire Ms. Sauer and the sentence in the next paragraph that "Amanda is not there because she is a female" ........ Was she hired because she has worked equally as hard and has equal or better skills to a male or because diversity is so important to the MAC, inferring her gender? To me, those two paragraphs completely diminishes the important part of the article, her desire, effort and commitment and is more insulting to her than complimentary. Props to her for her hard work, determination and commitment, and shame on the senseless plug for the importance of the MAC hiring a woman ........ Should be two different stories

It is my dream MLS Cup matchup and it is only 1.5 hours from home. I will go to Columbus wearing my Zips #6 jersey (Darlington Nagbe era) honoring two great Zips' #6's ... Darlington Nagbe & Wil Trapp. I will tailgate with the Trapps, and then I will watch and cherish every second of seeing the former Zips greats on the field and on the sideline. In the end, I will be happy for the winner and sad for the loser, but it will be an AWESOME day to be a Zips Mens Soccer fan! Go Zips!

Interesting note: The Zips averaged 170.2 yards per game on the ground, 46.5 yards better than last season. Additionally, the Zips rushed for 2,043 total yards, exceeding year's season total of 1,484 (after just 10 games). Akron also allowed nine fewer sacks.

Congrats to Jatavis! Well deserved. I feel like we may have had at least one snub on the All-MAC teams, however. Feel like anyone of Marcus, Pittman, Coe, or Scott could have been on there. Yet our friends over in Can't had 3 1st team selections on defense..

Congrats to Jatavis for being named MAC defensive player of the year!

I heard Michigan State has offered him as a DB. I can't find anything to substantiate, but I heard from a close family friend who lives in Perry.

" Coppin State basketball has a rich and storied tradition . You really have to admire how they took it to Chestnut Hill last week and win or lose this is a game that will really help us out over the long haul"..... Said nobody ever.

I have to admit, I am coming into this issue after the barn door has pretty-much closed. However, from what I have read about the "affair" (not to compare it to President Peggy Elliott's), it would seem that an army of PR people would have a hard time keeping up with Scarborough's gaffes.

Oh right! I almost completely forgot about that, and I was one of the people upset about that. Zips are doing the right thing.

I would imagine it means the school has paid some of the leases that the baseball players were stuck with that everybody was bitching about.

Yes, he will. Best wishes to Oliver and Ashland University Mens Soccer. I'd love to see another powerhouse Collegiate soccer team in Ohio, especially that close. Go Eagles!

Because this is only after not doing either of those things since the moment he got here. I mean in community engagement alone; when drastic cuts were being made out of "need" he was rather silent. When the baseball team was cut, he was silent. When the ABJ, the community's largest single media source is producing story, after story, after story that paints a, albeit seemingly somewhat biased, picture he was rather silent. When asked how to fill "That-Stadium" he, rather negatively stated, that he wouldn't have built it. The list goes on and on... The point is that he hasn't chosen to engage the public in any meaningful way, and then attempts to reach out to the community in a way that fits his narrative. It comes across as dissingenuous, and that can be used against the guy. If you're going to "reach out to the community", than do it right. Do it everyway you can. Not only when it fits your own agenda.

Running over tree roots with a vehicle can kill trees, depending upon the species and the age and the root that was run over. Injured roots can also become infected with various tree fungi which can also kill the tree. Considering universities have something aesthetically to gain from having hundred-odd year old trees on their campuses, Sounds like a completely valid reason to fine someone...or at least to hopefully prevent someone from being overtly careless. Basically it boils down to the "Give a damn" contention...I'm wondering if we can move the "Give A Damn" hypothesis to theory now, because UA still demonstrates that it really doesn't give a damn...about engaing the public, or it's alumni and students