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Nothing official yet but he changed his profile picture to Akron Football

I heard he's going to be an unpaid grad assistant at Clemson.

https://twitter.com/zipsmbb/status/1478059475739152384?s=21 Ali Ali player of the week!

@TheZipCat, you missed my point. Phlogiston was a widely accepted explaination for fire. It would be laughable to most reasonable people today. It was used in our class to show that one should be open to new ideas, new information. If one is locked in on one's thinking, you will be left behind. If one becomes locked in on their thinking concerning Covid, whether it was from accepted science or from an out of context statement used by an uninformed talking head, you will be left behind! Covid is changing. Our understanding of covid must change. Our response to Covid must adapt. I think you have given us information that critical thinkers very much welcome. We are all tired of this. I'm tired of taking my trash out to the street, but if I didn't do that tonight in 2* weather, it would just pile up. Even my dog knows not to foul up his nest. One cannot put their head in the sand, and wish that change isn't happening. Please continue to help us keep up with best practices to keep us healthy. My hope is that the people making decisions affecting the young men representing us on the court make those decisions with the players best interests!

Arth may well land a decent position in football and be very successful. Being a D1 football coach was just not right for him. Wherever he ends up I wish him well as he does seem to be a good guy.

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They do...so far. Its hard to argue with their record. Their P5 losses weren't particularly close. Had a nice mid-major win over Belmont. Florida really made us forget about that buzzer beater loss to OSU. I think our team is starting to find their identity and gel (which was probably set back by the unexpected departure of Walton). Looking forward to Tuesday to see where things really stand. I think if we beat Buffalo and OU this early in the season, it would bode well for the rest of conference play.

F Josh Hallenberger transferring from Clemson to Akron. https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2022-mens-di-transfer-tracker_aid50186 Welcome Josh! https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXhukkGvPiX/?utm_medium=copy_link

I'll weigh in since this thread has nearly completed a full swirly at this point. I have my vaccine and booster and regularly mask. I am confident I could survive the virus, but I don't do these things for me. I do them for my immune compromised spouse, my co-worker battling cancer, the senior that volunteers for me.... Like NWAkron said, there's a middle ground. Also, I opt to rely on the scientists as opposed to talk show hosts, grandstanding politicians and internet whackos. To get us back on topic, the current MAC Standings: Ohio 1-0 Akron 1-0 Miami 1-0 Ball State 1-0 CMU 1-0 Toledo 1-1 Brimfield 1-1 EMU 0-0 N. Illinois 0-0 BG 0-1 Buffalo 0-2 WMU 0-2

I wouldn't get any hopes up, but could be worth keeping an eye on: https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1478133479984484352?s=20

I would love to see March Madness become a play in tournament this year. Since so many games are going to be cancelled just stage a tournament like they do for highschool. Just start with every team in each conference playing a single elimination tourney and just carry it through to the final 4.

I'm jus happy to see assistants with D1 FBS coaching on their resume.

Yes, just because he was a terrible FBS head coach doesn't mean he can't succeed as a QB coach.

Stat comparison going into the game: UA OU FG% .459 .418 3PT% .355 .324 PPG 74.4 72.3 RPG 38.3 33.8 The OU fans are complaining about the team's shooting slump. You can see why from those numbers.

The NET only includes D1 vs D1 games in the numbers. The Net rankings are released new daily. I think we were in the 170s prior to beating Buffalo so we did climb 25 or so spots with the win. Buffalo WA ~100 before the game so they fell a similar amount. You don't see much movement here because these previous and current rankings are based off the changes related to the Sunday games. Since no MAC schools played yesterday, there wasn't much impact. Had you looked at the rankings Sunday morning, you'd have seen the large changes in Akron, UB, etc.

Does it exclude the games vs Point Park and Wheeling? We are 8-3 and Buffalo is 6-6. Seems odd that we would drop after beating Buffalo and they'd move up a spot??

Just Mumpfield and Gibson so far. Mathison would likely be the only other. Only Council went P5 (to Auburn) when Bowden left, though a lot of players disappeared or transferred out. They would have had to wait a year unless they were a grad transfer then.

I'll say thank you. This is important. Again...we are dealing with a brand new virus that has been clearly linked to cardiovascular and nervous system issues that is infecting vast majorities of the population. I see people with mild to moderate symptoms joking about how they've lost sense of taste and smell. Guess what? That means the virus is in your brain. What does that mean down the road? We're a long way away from fully understanding the repercussions of this pandemic. Will everyone, at some point, be infected with some version of this virus? Probably. But resigning ourselves to that fate is a dangerous move. These conversations are necessary, even here. I find those that become defensive and turn to insults in these situations tend to be the ones that believe they know better than experts with years of education, experience and expertise. “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

I do believe my OP was in direct response to someone else, so (again) your ire should be directed towards those posters not me.

Pretty sure every press conference starts with: “Obviously”

Man, you are really full of yourself today. Stick to sports, they're more fun. How about saving the world on another website. Now go have a beer, eat pizza and cheer on the Zips. In Joe we trust!

I might as well weigh in on this while we nervously await the Nelsonville Kittens. There's a middle ground. I'm all for vaccines. I always get a flu shot and never get the flu. I don't want covid so I got my vaccine and booster. Is there a chance I can still get it, sure, but I like my odds better with the vaccine. But now that we know what to do to protect ourselves and can get vaccines I'm done with restrictions. Now that we know better hopefully we will all do better. I'm not personally offended by the unvaccinated. If they want to risk getting very sick and or die that's on them. I see them in the obits every day...anyone who dies "at Akron General" or after a "in the hospital" probably was a covid case. This virus can't be contained so we have to live with it.

You're trying to hard. You're ascribing all kinds of things to my statements that just aren't there. I guess it's just the way I live my life that I have this optimism that overrides the fear mongering that is so prevalent today. Keep it up though, it's entertaining.

Don't need to remember every intricate idea to have (and advocate for) a basic level of competency in understanding/seeking out information. You don't have to remember what Red-Queen Hypothesis is in Evolutionary theory to understand the idea it describes. It's okay to not remember too. What's downright depressing is when people arrogantly assert they know more than those who actually do. And it's embarrassing when they are University of Akron alumni. Ala @Hilltopper's dissuasive comment.

Common misconception. The message from scientists was always, increased protection. There was always the warning that with the rate of mutation with SARS-CoV-2 that there would be a constant need to be vigilant AND potentially booster. Measles, polio and smallpox vaccination also doesn't make one immune because nothing is ever 100%. Influenza does this every year as well, it out mutates our antibodies to it. But we've learned how to identify dominant strains, and learned how it spreads so we can widespread vaccinate against it every year, thus successfully reducing the yearly deaths in the US to ~40,000 annually. If we did not vaccinate world wide for dominate strains of influenza every year, it most certainly would kill more people. Measles and polio are not extinct, they very much still exist. They've been controlled with such widespread use of vaccination there is effectively no path for it to spread rapidly in most developed nations, and when cases are found they are immediately contact traced and isolated. We have had measles outbreaks amongst unvaccinated peoples over the past decade in the US, which was a concern. Smallpox was eradicated because of an extremely aggressive vaccination effort, where the WHO literally tracked down every active case in the world and vaccinated all the people around the sick person. The aggressive vaccination campaign successfully eliminated it. But it's a game of statistics, nothing is ever 100%, that's why they targeted all the people around the sick person thus effectively reducing the chance of spread to effectively zero. The difference is, the WHO aggressively tracked down every single case in the World to eradicate the disease. China has taken this approach with SARS-CoV-2, just this past week they locked down Xi'an after it went from a handful of cases to several thousand in like two days. They still don't have very good vaccination infrastructure though, as I've talked with several Chinese friends who live in Xi'an about this. Note I'm not advocating for this aggressive policy, I think with vaccination and boosting we can effectively control the worst effects (hospitalizations and deaths). It wasn't the original message, most people misinterpreted it and it becomes a game of telephone. There were hopes that one round of vaccination would be enough, if enough people did it quick enough...however most researchers were not so hopeful. Just as the US began widespread vaccination in February of 2021 guess what India did? They removed all restrictions (no more masking, no more social distancing) for their month-long religious holidays, despite not having widespread vaccination. Predictably, they had outbreaks which ultimately led to the Delta varant. Guess what the United States started doing in March/April of 2021? Most states began lifting most restrictions, despite India having a massive wave...and Delta then made its way here. The viruses themselves is the major difference. They all have different transmissibilities, latency periods, incubation times, asymptomacy etc. You have to realize we didn't get control of measles overnight, it took years of targeted aggressive vaccination between 1963 (when it was introduced) through 1968. Same with Polio but 1956-1959. The Polio vaccine took three shots, and by 1959 some parents were neglecting to finish the 2nd and 3rd shots which led to spikes in cases; and recommendations for a 4th round of boosters for polio. You and I have luckily lived in a time period where most of this was ancient history. However for those studying infectious disease, nothing going on now is "new"...we just haven't faced something like this (luckily) for several decades. Sorry for the novel. But I desperately want people to understand this as best they can.

No, no, not a doctor...just a humble alumni who bothered to learn something while they were at the University Of Akron, and bothers to read the scientific research on a semi-regular basis.

I've heard that Coach M sticking around Oregon to finish the season is generating positive opinions of him in high school coaching circles. Coaches want to believe a new coach is committed to a program when they advise a recruit to consider a school. His commitment to Oregon makes high school coaches believe he will be committed to Akron. Anything can happen, but this is a good start.

Data from the CDC: Unvaccinated: 451 cases per 100k Vaccinated: 134 cases per 100k Boosted: 48 cases per 100k Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k With the rate of mutation we see in SARS-CoV-2 the only way to increase the chance of not contracting new strains is boosting. Though the level of protection given from Vaccines and Boosters is undeniable.

Please stop comparing SARS-CoV-2 to influenza and flu-like viruses. It's not even close to a similar comparison. Rhinoviruses, RSVs, and Parainfluenza viruses are responsible for "the common cold" and comparing them to Coronaviruses is laughably ignorant. Like, not even the same phylogenetic branches of the viral clades, or in how they interact with our cells and how the immune system develops antibodies for them. Having similar symptoms does not equal similarity.

I believe Clark is referring to the ones that are getting covid severe enough that they need to be hospitalized. The numbers I've seen reported range anywhere from 66%-85% of hospitalizations are from the unvaccinated.

Ugh, and the beat goes on. ....and largely unvaccinated.

Honestly? I'd put it at 15%. The current wave is the direct result of Thanksgiving/Christmas (...it's almost like we can predict these things or something...it's almost like science works if we give it enough time...) and will likely burn through by March and be on the decline in cases. Hopefully the universities can be smart and require masking at all games, and if they were even smarter they'd start requiring proof of vaccination like Playhouse Square does, to limit the potential disruption of a program outbreak. But ultimately it's whatever the players do in their spare time away from the buildings that will dictate the % chance of a program outbreak.

Scholarships don't really cost the university much money. Not really much marginal cost in letting a kid sit in a class that has an empty desk. Really it's just the cost of food and utilities.

Maybe we can incorporate the turnover pencil instead of a sword.