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Johns started spring semester, the rest of new players reported in early June. Freshman have to live in dorms (they are in them already for summer stuff) & after your freshman year you can live in house just off campus. NCAA schollies have changed significantly, Freshman & players who live in dorm have all expenses covered for education, room & board & food plus a few hundred a month for other expenses. If you elect after your freshman year to live off campus you lose the room & board & food part of your schollie & instead of a few hundred a month for expenses you get a little over 1k a month for your expenses. Hope that answers your ? They did 3 weeks of conditioning & lifting in June. I don't think coaches are allowed to coach during this time but coach Sleeve & his group work them pretty hard & from my understanding the upperclassmen lead drills on the football field. They are in summer 1 classes, they were off the football grind last week & returned this week. This week is the last week of summer 1 classes. In August camp starts & it is an all day job. i know some of the local players from coaching in area and always ask a bunch of ?'s when I see them around.

Maybe they don't realize he went to school here. They didn't know Jerome Lane did.

I am so disappointed that the University seems to be doing nothing around Taylors induction (other than honoring him against Iowa State). First player (and probably only for a very long time) from the closest FBS University to the PFHOF and I've heard nothing about it. Has anyone seen anything the Athletic department doing anything associated with it? At the very least I hoped they would have reserved something for alums to attend together. It's exactly why I set it all up myself. I guess we'll be the official Akron table. Maybe I should contact the Athletic department so we can get something for the table to make it look like the University at least cares. Geez.

It's the middle of summer. We need something to argue about!

That is a problem. If they are football fans I am sure they will hear about him getting inducted in to the NFL HOF down the road - if they don't know he played at their alma mater, that is criminal. If the UA is too stupid to not try and capitalize on it, maybe 9,900 is what we deserve.

You clearly don't understand Millenials at all Skip. You act as if we're a bunch of idiots, when we're the most educated generation in American history. We came of age in one of the worst economic downturns since the great depression, which happened on your, watch because you guys failed to maintain the systems you yourself benefitted from. You're right we're pissed off. We're pissed off that you got to benefit from the hard work of your parents, and instead of you opening doors for us (as the generations before you had done) you slammed them and made them harder us to open. We were told when we grew up that hard work pays off. Only to find out that we work our asses off, only to find that it doesn't pay off. We were told growing up that systems work, and loyalty matters. Only to find our parents getting screwed for their loyalty as their jobs are shipped overseas, and the systems around us stripped and dismantled instead of maintained by your generation of greed and excess. We were raised believing that if you work hard you can go to college, and if you work hard in college, you can make a decent living...only to find that college is almost financially impossible to achieve without accepting an absurd amount of debt (skyrocketting compared to what you, our parents and grandparents paid to attend), to graduate underemployed and undervalued because of the economy you guys set fire to. You're damn right we're pissed off. You're damn right we want things different, we're tired of being the generation who works our asses off and are continually screwed over. And we're going to work like hell to make them the way we want, we just gotta wait for you guys to get the hell out of the way. Healthcare should be affordable. People who work full-time jobs shouldn't need to find 2nd and 3rd jobs just to scrape by. We shouldn't balance the budgets on making cuts to our grandparents and parents pensions, that they worked their asses off for, cuts in social security, which our parents and grandparents worked their asses to maintain, and the poor. And a lot of other things. I think it's absurd that you can even suggest that as we enter the "real world" and start doing "real world stuff" we'll become more conservative. No. We've been told crap like that our entire lives, and have found it to be complete BS. Outrage is the only way change happens. Thank goodness the founding fathers didn't have your approach to the world or we'd still be printing the queen on our money. And you guys wonder why millenials don't give a Rat's ass about coming to games. SMH. It's because we're tired of this crap. We've been sold a bill of bad goods, and are criticized for telling the emperor he isn't wearing any clothes.

2017 Fall Promotions - including all new freshman invited to run out with the team for the first game

I would like to have the row of helmets Terry has in his office in my office.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/4863474/582a1715bd75201f948c73c8 http://247sports.com/Player/Gavin-Blunt-46041690

We don't have to. It doesn't matter. Your rights stop when they impede upon the rights of others. Your right to swing your arms stops just before my nose. If you hold a religious belief, that's find. If your religious belief leads you to enacting laws that impact me, or business practices that impact me, or anyone, you don't have that right. Sorry. Don't like it, there's fundamentalist countries out there that practice one religion you can move to. This country, however, was founded as a secular nation with a separation between church and state (to protect religions from other religions...like the Church of England being connected to government etc.). I disagree with you that being gay is a choice, because it's not backed by science. Studies on gay populations hints to a complex codominant sex-linked recessive trait (appearing more in males...heterozygous females showing "bi" characteristics considerably higher than males etc...) But even if it were a choice, religion is also a choice. Does that mean a store owner has the right to deny service to a non-christian because it's their sincerely held religious belief? But it's a choice isn't it? Oh wait...we actually have a law preventing that? But I thought it was a choice...and we can discrinate against people by the choices they make... The accrobatics you guys have to do to justify this asinine horse crap public policy is just sad. We should just not discriminate against people period. Especially in things that aren't our business. If you have sincerely held religious beliefs, that's fine. But you're sincrely held religious beliefs stop when they potentially interfere with other people. If you don't like that, don't live in America. Because that's what FREEDOM is. Freedom to not give a rat's ass about your beliefs, or be inconvenienced or impeded by them. I won't impede on your right to hold them, so long as you're not impeding on the rest of us.

Speaking of opportunities for publicity (Just like the JT situation).......I've lived in Akron for about 35 years, and I have NEVER heard this or seen this mentioned.....anywhere. AKRON, OHIO - HOME OF THE FIRST CHAMPION OF THE NFL Use It !! (borrowing a line from a-zip above)

I actually like this years promotions.

@Balsy, we can add Coventry's Treon Sibley.