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Not firing Mounds at the same time as the rest of the staff is not the same as him being retained by the next staff. I can guarantee a 12th game win against almost any team if the other team is forced to use Milwee as their OC, and we use a trained goat for ours.

I am vehemently against paying college athletes, and this is exactly the alternative route that needs to be offered.

As the founder of Jabari Arthurs corner this is amazing that 10 years later he still remembers us and gave us a shout out. I wish we could have been there for this and brought back the corner one more time. Jabari is such a great dude.

Besides Track and Field anyway....I know soccer is back in town Saturday, but the most successful team at Akron for the past five years has been the Swimming and Diving Team, 5-time MAC Champions (after never finishing higher than 8th). They picked up the home-meet schedule nicely this season, adding about 3 new events to Ocasek, and the first is this weekend's first annual Akron Zips Classic, Friiday night at 5 and Saturday at 10 and at 5. And they are bringing in Cincinnati, Xavier, Miami, Cleveland State and Dennison. Cincy men won the AAC and women 2nd in 2018, CSU men were 2nd and women 3rd in Horizon League, and Dennison is the 4 time NCAA D3 champions on the men side and 4th in 2018 on the womens side. Swim meets can be exciting, especially as all events will be timed finals, no prelims, and there is no diving this weekend. Wear shorts and short sleeves if you come....

Cancer Awareness Helmets - Miami OH

I always liked the old Black and White ones!

This should be a classic "resistible force meets movable object" contest.

We have not seen a trick play all year. I would say we are due for one against Kent, even if it is just the play where Kato catches a pass. I wouldn't mind seeing us try a reverse, with Knight, either. It's time to move on from unproductive seniors on offense at WR, TE, and RB. Let some of these new guys get the experience and make plays. Also, not a lot of looks to Nate Stewart. That also needs to change.

Last Friday night and all day Saturday was a good look at the upcoming Zips Swimming season, and it looks bright. No diving comp to see, but the six teams present were all getting their feet wet (sorry!) on the season, so there was no real standout performances, although there was a Miami man who broke a pool record. For Akron, it was disappointing to see Maddie Meyers out of uniform due to a shoulder injury. Hopefully we'll see her in-pool soon, she's a national caliber swimmer. Zips dominated the relays as usual due to their depth. Paulina Nogaj won the 200 IM and the 100 Butterfly, Sadie Fazekas was a triple winner, with the 50 free, the 100 Backstroke and the 200 fly, Jackie Pash won the 400 IM, Newcomer Sofia Hennell won the 200 free, Paula Garcia won the 100 Breaststroke and the 200 Breaststroke, another newcomer Avery Movold won the 200 Backstroke, and Ragen Engel won the 100 free. The women have a dual meet upcoming against Buffalo October 26th and then the big Zippy Invitational three day meet is early December. Hard to see any MAC team taking away their 5 year reign atop the tables.

For starters....lots of critics here for years about our big expensive football stadium. Kent still sucks because their stadium is so rinky dink...and they still can't fill it either. Kent still sucks because their marching band is more like a marching "combo". Kent still sucks because they were stupid enough not to try to get long-time Kent Roosevelt coach and hero John Nemec on their staff....and we did! Kent still sucks because their field house is a piece of dung, they have no track and field facilities (outdoors), no soccer stadium...okay, off topic, sorry. But they still suck because we have The Wheel!!!