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To all members, Apologies for being down today. We had some minor issues running a software upgrade. Upgrade is now complete. There is still some reindexing working in the background. I'm guessing it will be finished by the end of the day. Let me know what you think. Supposed to be a new search engine (really needed imo), a gallery redesign, and full use of emojis among other things. Kind regards, ZipsNation Staff

Looks like last year's offense- lots of effort but too little movement! Sorry, couldn't help myself. GO ZIPS!

Cool car ?

Offers from Toledo, Kentucky, Iowa St, Western Michigan, Syracuse, Boston College....

If I were a betting man, I think we'll get a commit from this player this weekend on his official visit. Curious to what we are recruiting him as. He is listed as an OLB on 247, but all of his hudl film is on offense. I wonder if we a recruiting him on the opposite side of the ball as KSU is, since you'd think they would naturally be the favorite. https://247sports.com/Player/Isiah-Childs-46085263/

I'm not trying to argue with you I do appreciate that you take the time to write out a thoughtful response, I think we're both talking about the same thing. I'm just frustrated that UA is in this position, and I'd really like to see more discussion at large of how to rectify it. I do appreciate your outspoken-ness, and we need more of it from the UA community.

Football generates enough cash flow to cover its operating expenses except for scholarships every year. This comes from a combination of revenue streams such as ESPN bowl payouts, money games , ticket sales etc....The university charges the athletic department around $26k per athlete for tuition. If those 85 scholarships went away do you really think the university would reduce its operating budget by a corresponding amount?

Where are you coming up with this total that Akron is spending $24 million/year on football? We're spending ~$33 million total for all sports. ~3.5 million on men's basketball and ~$2.5 million on men's soccer. No way are we spending only 3 million on all other sports and athletic department admin costs. The number I've heard that is directly attributable to the football department is ~$10 million/year. That $10M includes the ~$4 million/year sunk cost that is known as Infocision. This means the operating cost of the program is really ~$6 million. Between ticket sales, buy games, MAC TV deal, college football playoff pool G5 distribution, advertising, etc, the football program is probably pretty close to paying for itself outside of the large sunk cost. Where the athletic program is bleeding money is the bloated admin costs and all the non-revenue sports that probably cost us something in the neighborhood of $1 million each while generating us next to no revenue. If the goal is to reduce the deficit I have no idea why we added baseball and women's lacrosse. We should have cut more sports to meet the minimum D1 requirements.

Just landed another one Nathaniel Williams, OT/DT, 6'5, 301, Newark Catholic HS, Newark, OH huld video Watching his video, he seems to move really well for an OL.

Good call, @94zipgrad, looks like Snowden is our 1st commit for 2020. Michael Snowden, OLB, WR, RB, 6-2, 195, 4.5 40. University Prep HS, Pittsburgh, PA. hull profile

Is this our 1st commit?

I'm aware of missing profile photos and gallery issues, I'm working on returning them. I apologize for the inconvenience. Obviously, you can change your profile photo if you like. Kind regards, Dr Z

I’m to lazy to go back and look for article but I was pretty sure Terry was bought out around 400k. I’m sure my numbers are not correct but 650k for Nebraska & a future trip in 2025 1.1m Northwestern 1.3 S Carolina, half went to make the other half of Nebraska up & half did Bowden & Arth buyouts. Was a brilliant pick up game, no loss of revenue from Nebraska game & handled all expenses with coaches change Let’s move on - Go Zips, beat Illini