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I'm sure FAU has the BEST beer

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The FAU fans here remind me of can't state fans the one year can't was good.

Congratulations to Zips Men's Soccer player Dener Dos Santos who is the student speaker at the Fall Graduation ceremony on Saturday, December 16, 2018 at 6 pm. https://uakron.edu/graduation/index.dot

They just need to look harder,

Rational individual here. Any Boca Raton Bowl/area questions? Feel free to ask. I've have seen both teams several times this season. Followed FAU since the inception of its FB program. Been to the 2014, 2015 Boca Bowls and a number of FAU games including the first game in the Stadium. I'm a Rocket/MAC fan. Good luck Zips.

Boca-swag for travel day.

I went totally and unashamedly homer. These FAU fans have turned out to be the most annoying we have had visit us in quite some time and I am really hoping we pull off the W. Kiffin is an idiot flash in the pan who inherited decent players. Amato and Bowden will totally out fox him. Kato lights it up at home a d it won't be that hard because the Owls have a vulnerable defense. Zips D shows up like they did against WMU, frustrates their QB like they did against Ohio and turnovers make the difference.

Thx for bringing this up Balsy..interesting discussion. My simplified take on this is that if your local electric company also sold lightbulbs, it would be incented to have its lightbulbs get more electricity, and thus burn brighter, giving its lightbulbs an advantage in the market. This would be fully realizing the benefits of vertical integration. It would also be an unfair business tie-up and unfair to consumers. In the absence of many competitors to provide the electricity, and thus balance the utilities advantaged position, the utility should not be allowed to leverage its position to adversely impact consumers. The role of government is to prevent things like this. I don't want to have tiers of websites like God awful tv bundles. That's where this will lead.

If those protections are already in place, I would be in agreement that the NN laws are not necessary. But they are not in place. There is no protection against selective throttling, paywalls for tiered content (think cable TV bundles for different genres of channels), code injection (where an ISP hijacks your web packets to insert or alter the information as they see fit), or back-end peering extortion (see Comcast charging Netflix to be streamed to their customers, even though both the customers and Netflix already pay their own ISPs to connect to the internet and transmit data across the backbone networks). And so what if the public cries out? What are they gonna do? Switch to some other ISP? Even though they only have one in their area? Where will they cry out? Not the internet, because without NN the ISP can inspect their data and filter out anything that criticizes them from reaching its destination. Regulation isn't the answer, eliminating geographic monopolies and allowing new ISPs to come in and compete is the real answer, but without NN, the existing mega-copr ISPs like Comcast and Verizon are now allowed to charge whatever they want if the other startup ISPs want to let their customers access websites that are on the big boys' networks. And so now without NN to enforce all packets as equal regardless of source, destination, or contents, the big ISPs can price out any new competition that tries to enter the market. NN isn't perfect, but it is a solution to allow new competition to enter the market. And now it's going away, without anything to fix the problem it is meant to circumvent. And if you think there are remedies to prevent ISPs from circumventing or throttling traffic, you're wrong. Dead wrong. The big companies have incredible resources at their disposal, and configuring something like packet filtering or DNS redirection on their big routers is trivial. A VPN won't protect you, since they can just gouge prices to connect to all known VPN IP addresses. Perhaps you would be inclined to speak with some of the professors at UA's Computer Information Systems program in the Polsky Building. They're easy to contact and all of them have years of industry experience working in computer networking.

That was a highly unusual and highly annoying year

You know, FAU seems incapable to cheer in their team without insulting our team. I can't wait until UG5 introduces himself to your RB.

What free market, Hilltopper? There is not a free market for ISPs. In a free market this would self-regulate, but for vast swaths of America there is only one ISP for people to choose from. People living outside cities are not at the mercy of their one choice of a company that connects them to the world, that allows them to find work and conduct business with anyone beyond their own town. You can't even get a fast food job without applying online anymore.

https://www.uakron.edu/graduation/responders/dos-santos Another Magna Cum Laude graduate from the Zips Men's Soccer team Class of 2017: Soccer is his love, and soon, his business Dener dos Santos will be the student speaker at the Fall Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. He is a Williams Honors Scholar graduating with bachelor’s degrees in Marketing Management and Sales Management, magna cum laude. He also has played the position of midfielder on the UA's men’s soccer team. Hometown: Joinville, Brazil High School: Elias Moreira, in Joinville. Dulles High School, in Houston, Texas. What’s next? I have accepted a position with Major League Soccer in which I will be trained to work in the sales department of a professional soccer club. Q: Best advice you ever got from a professor? A: “Every day is an interview,” from Professor Deborah Owens. I trust that throughout my years at Akron, whether that was on or off the field, I applied this advice to my routine. This definitely shaped my personality and attitude toward the different tasks and duties I had within the University. Because of that advice, I made great connections and have been mentored by great leaders within the Akron community. Q: What’s your advice to incoming freshmen? A: I believe that a higher education today is often taken for granted because many students expect the university to do and give for them, which in reality, is the opposite. Put yourself out of your comfort zone, whether that is joining different organizations, having job experiences, or doing research within your field of study. Having our backs against the wall and being uncomfortable is often when we learn the most, and ultimately, we will learn greatly about ourselves and eventually learn how to help and impact others’ lives Q: What’s your ultimate career goal? A: My ultimate career goal is to be a positive influence on the growth of soccer in the United States. I believe that there is vast room for improvement in many areas of the game and I intend to study and involve myself to an extent where I can be a leader and influence children, players, communities and the country to love the game as much as I do.

Funny that one of those teams we beat, who you now refer to as a "no one", beat FAU. Done !!

I disagree with anyone being "justified"...it was Lolla's responsibility to do what he did and more; he did not. Caleb Porter totally believed in Akron. When he came here, Akron had not yet won a National Championship but he made it happen. He embraced our program and its history...just ask the Parry's, Doc Nash, and others. Caleb flat out told Akron fans who wore tOSU stuff in front of him that they were part of the problem, pointing to whatever tOSU crap they had. Ask fknbuflobo. When Porter left, he personally told me that Akron could be more. We had to keep it going and make it happen in more than just soccer. Wow, a BIG grad, player, coach who was totally invested in UA when he was here, and when I last spoke to him still cared. No negative feelings. I just said I wouldn't mind celebrating our wins over his teams in his face. He left Akron for another NCAA program saying we were holding him back from greatness. Really? His successor at Akron coached US soccer youth national teams while he was at Akron and moved on to become a successful professional head coach, winning not only an NCAA National Championship at Akron but also an MLS Cup while leading the Portland Timbers (who, by the way, did not have good prior seasons). We're waiting Ken. Where's the greatness that shedding yourself of Akron has brought you?

For the record, I have not gone to the FAU board.

I've seen some of the way too ahead of ourselves comments, but again most projections FAU saw had USF and then a few had FSU as our bowl opponent. And I absolutely wished we would have played either (or both) FSU and Florida this year. Put that in perspective, if Ohio State was having an awful season and Akron was having the best season in school history, wouldn't you want to play them? Even playing a tightly contested game you end up losing can do wonders for your program against the big boys from where you recruit. And most FAU fans readily-admit we have been bad for a decade or more. That's why this season, Kiffin and the staff, and the players we have coming back have FAU fans overly excited.

Akron Zips getting ready for trip to Boca Raton Bowl “We are getting their pace of the speed down pat so, I think going into the game the only challenge will be to just get lined up and playing fast and matching their speed of the game,” said Jamal Davis of Canton.