Leaderboard

Akron soccer made 3 final fours from 2015 to 2018 and was in the NCAA final in 2018. NCAA finalist in 2009...NCAA champion in 2010. The athletic department has not done a good job of marketing the tremendous value of having an elite top 5 team ...almost every year. Akron soccer is the shining star of the Zips athletic department.

No it won't. It's not over until there is a viable vaccine, or 60-70% of the population has had SARS-CoV-2; that's the hard facts. To put that infection % into context; you can have half a million (500,000) new cases a day and it will still take 362 days to reach 60% infected. We're unfortunately in this for the long haul until there's a vaccine. There is literally no other option; because you either let it overwhelm your healthcare capacity (and destroy your economy in the meantime), or you wait it out until there is a vaccine (and mitigate the fallout as much as you can). Texas has hospitals triaging people as we speak, sending some home (to die). Real life Pandemics aren't like you see in the movies. Medurna's Phase III won't be concluded until about October 27th, and it's phase III peer-review will likely last into December, and Astrazeneca's phase 2 and Pase 3 will not be concluded until around the end of November. Assuming those are successful, they will not be widespread to the public until about March/April of 2021... and that's IF they are successful. Harvard Medical projected a "Return To Normal" (which would be pre-Covid) would be 2022. This isn't political. It's just hard freaking facts dude. Read/listen to anything by Michael Osterholm who is one of the country's top epidemiologists at the University of Minnesota. Pretty much everything he has said from March till now has been spot-on.

Georgetown has football. They play in the Patriot League as I recall. I actually like their athletics model. Kreed makes a good point- Infocison can't be deconstructed and the debt forgiven. It's a reality the committee and UA will have to live with for years to come. Rather then lament its existence, they need to figure out a way to make UA events the biggest events in Infocision every year rather than the Hoban- St. V game and Founder's Day.

The football stadium was not needed, which implies requirement. Akron could have made the decision to dump football, drop out of the MAC, and join a conference without football...like Gonzaga, Butler, etc. Upon what information do you make the claim that the football stadium made financial sense at the time? Projected attendance because Akron won 1 MAC Championship in 2005 with a 5-3 Conference record?

If you didn't want to get political, you wouldn't have written that.

Without a doubt. When is it going to stop!?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2020/07/20/the-great-college-depression-begins/amp/?fbclid=IwAR2T6-d0aL1UO9lTqvH2-Y9nKp0pzchKfs3FSGcorylLELL0tJWSZCq6Vow Forbes piles on. A merger with Kent? No thanks. Close Kent.

The ongoing PR mess just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. What would you think if you were a football recruit and you saw this? How would you use this if you were a coach at another MAC school. I don't know much about the head football coach, but how can you ever hope to be successful at Akron when there is a steady drip of this poison coming out of the University? How can so many smart people be so stupid?

And baseball isn't? Baseball is a dead sport walking...

Unless someone has a time machine to go back 12 years to prevent the construction of Infocision it's a waste of time dwelling on by both us and this committee. Like it or not we have it and are going to be forced to make debt payments on it for the next 20 or so years

I think we are at the "counting paperclips" portion of this ongoing PR disaster. Only a moron incapable of sitting on whatever committee they put together doesn't know how this all went bad, so when they are done they can rehash negative points with the public again. Are we ever going to get a forward looking committee?

... And Georgetown, Creighton, St. Joseph, Cleveland State etc. The list of schools fielding sports programs excepting Football is not a small one. It is not a novel idea. These are indeed desperate times.

ACC is perhaps the best NCAA D1 MSOC league, year in and year out. But Big10 is right in our backyard. And the Big10 is probably the second best NCAA D1 MSOC league, year in and year out.

The Crew with Darlington and Caleb...are fun to watch

They are doing the slow roll cancellation of football and fall sports. NCAC cancelled all sports. Division 2 will be next. Followed by Division 1. same pattern as in the Spring.

There is very little evidence that the protests increased the spread of covid. In fact, it supports the evidence that young people getting together in outdoor places is not much of a threat. Further, it supports that the vast majority of people who get covid will have mild symptoms and we should be focused on protecting those most vulnerable (over 60) and let everyone else get on with their lives as long as the health care system doesn't get over stressed. Don't worry, this will all be over come November 4th.

Stop with that both sides garbage. It's not about politics it's about science. You can look at reliable stats and see that the states which took this seriously are doing well and the ones who chose to ignore science and hope it would go away are exploding with the corona virus. The reason this issue is even important for Zipsnation is because it affects the university and the athletics. So leave your political stuff on a separate blog that is made for such. This isn't a political issue.