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This is so well deserved for Beto. tremendous season

BG getting creative on ways to get some attendance for MACtion games. Doubtful that this would create much of a ripple at Akron but would still like to see them try it.

"The Boys played hard!" was his standard response first thing out of the box at press conferences. I used to enjoy talking to him at Green Hills Golf Course in Brimfield where he "worked" as a starter after The U. What stories! He would always stop where I was at basketball or football games and say Hi and kibbitz for a time. Great Guy.

Congratulations to Jared, Ger, Michael and Attila

Malick Henry would have made first team had he played exclusively at one position.

He always seeed to be a genuine person. He used to hold "Lunch with the Coach'on campus every week. I believe on Wednesdays. They had a pretty good spread too. He talked. Had some of the players attend. I still have the "Movin' A' I won at one of the lunches. Sadly his brand of football was outdated. But, he did recruit some good players. I think he recruited Jason Taylor among others. Check me on that.

This. Not getting into whether or not the rebrand was a good decision and/or looks good. It happened, we have the A, but it's worthless if you don't get it on the bodies of the masses in the greater Akron area. Somebody should host a charity event where people bring in their gear from other colleges - mainly Ohio State - and trade it in for a Zips shirt/hat. Donate the Ohio State gear to Africa to get it out of the country, and get the Akron gear to the masses.

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2024/11/12/big-east-announces-2024-mens-soccer-regular-season-awards.aspx

I really liked the guy, he was very friendly. I bet he was a great fundraiser judging how he talked to people. An awesome big time high school coach/recruiter, a lot of us thought he could translate that to college football. He was a very nice man. Maybe too nice to be involved with big time college ball. Maybe that’s been Akrons problem, hiring great guys who aren’t ultra seedy recruiters. Rest In Peace Coach

And let's not leave Mitch out. 😊

Emil is now unanimous Big East Offensive Player of the Year for 2024. In his Hermann Trophy campaign I propose we call him Emil Jääskeläinen, The Finnisher!

One of the nicest human beings I've ever met during my time around Akron. Genuinely kind and sincere person. He will be missed.

It could be argued that he was the first of a string of "Faustian bargains" that have put UA in its current condition.

Gerry was not a great college head coach. He was a great guy in general. He was 43–53–3 at Akron. Sadly, that's pretty good in comparison to recent Akron football.

Good thread: It's 10 posts in length so you'll need to click the link

Then why are we slashing our budgets so severely if he was so good at bringing in donors? Why does football have $0 NIL? Kaulig and Wenz were around long before Guthrie, and will be around long after. I don't see giving Charles any credit for not offending them over the past three years.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5916622/2024/11/12/gerry-faust-notre-dame-akron-college-football/

Zips just posted a few photos on Facebook of the players on the court for shootaround and Harris is out there. Hopefully a good sign of his availability tonight.

More and more 'fairness' is becoming a very lost element in our moral fiber. And sadly I'm just not talking about sports.

Have to win games consistently to get students and the city remotely interested. Can't do that with the way the AD has scheduled over the past 7-10 years. It's a chicken and egg debate.

Some of you are waaaay to worried about the ABJ. Save that junk for other topics. A good guy died today.

The total is now eleven games unbeaten. The last loss was on Sep. 14 to Temple. 🏆 anyone?

Yeah, just you.

At this point, the only scenario I can envision in which we do not get in to the tournament is by losing to Georgetown by two or more and then Georgetown losing and not playing well in the final. We are afterall, the Big East regular season champions, and we've not lost (thus far) in about thirteen games. (I am too lazy to review the schedule and figure out the exact number.)

At the beginning of the football season my wife wanted a couple of new Akron shirts. She ordered them from the University's shop on-line. A week later she got an email that both items were out of stock. You can't make this ineptitude up.

A few MAC schools have learned a painful lesson from the elimination of sports programs - they're also severing ties to dedicated current and future alums who would otherwise be very likely to donate money to the university. One school has determined that its elimination of men's track cost far more over the intervening decade than it saved.

All I'll say is that Zippy (the live mascot) had a pouch going back to at least 1987 because I personally witnessed the KSU Flash tear her pouch at the ACME-Zip game. Zippy threw a real, deep punch into Flash's air hole. Good times.....

I know this seems crazy, but the athletic department has no say in how the team shop and bookstore operate or what items they sell. One of the many frustrating aspects of the administration at UA. Hopefully RJ can change this.

The one place not on campus where I've seen a fair amount of Zips gear is the Fairlawn Walmart.

The Infocision team shop didn’t open until 30 minutes before game time for the homecoming game. There were 10,000 fans there, and the tailgate crowds arrived early. Lots of alumni were looking to buy gear, and the shop was closed. Ditto the last home game, with a lesser crowd. The bad news is the Arby’s A is lame. The good news is the team shop is never open so nobody can buy the items.

That’s some great inside info

One way to get the current A embraced would be to get it out into stores like Walmart and Meijer. What is available out there is very limited. I'm still looking for a hat ot two at either place. I have plenty of older hats from Walmart that are just fine. And put Akron and/or Zips below it. I also don't know how anyone can get excited by that merchandise with the bland block type.

I mean female kangaroos are the ones with pouches so it makes sense

A cartoon kangaroo should absolutely be part of the marketing efforts with a direct appeal to children.

If you can do his for basketball you could make a living at it! lol. Mahalo nui loa!

Ok.....you have read all that.... like me...you probably wonder where the cutoff point is.... let's find out together I am not a predictor.... for this purpose, I am going to say the highest RPI team(still playing) wins the conference tourney (yes, I know that means that I list Georgetown rather than Akron)...... but I need to be consistent I am going to use San Diego as winning their last game and getting bid....they have lower RPI than Oregon State but they should beat LMU 22 conference automatics 22. Metro Rider 85 21. OVC SIUE 76 20. Northeast Mercyhurst 111 19. Atlantic Sun Central Arkansas 137 18. Patriot Colgate 116 17. Big South High Point 39 16. WAC San Diego State 46 15. Horizon Oakland 101 14. Southern Furman 69 13. Big West Cal Santa Barbara 35 12. Ivy League Penn 5 11. West Coast San Diego 21 10. American Ath Charlotte 34 9. American East Vermont 28 8. Atlantic 10 Dayton 11 7. MVC Missouri St 7 6. Coastal Athl Hofstra 4 5. Big East Georgetown 10 4. Sun Belt Marshall 13 3. Summit Denver 2 2. Big Ten Ohio State 1 1. ACC Virginia 6 Ok.....I am wearing down....but let me try to list the 26 at large in ascending order please let me know if you spot any logic errors 1. Pitt #3 2. Duke #8 3. Stanford #9 4. SmU #12 5. Clemson #14 6. West Virginia #15..........WVU is the first non ACC team listed 7. Providence #16 8. North Carolina #17 9. Indiana #18 10. Cornell #19 11. Oregon State #20 12. UMass #22 13. Wake Forest #23 14. Maryland #24 15. Washington #25 16. Cal #26 17. Michigan #27 18. Fordham #29 19. Western Michigan #30 20. NC State #31 21. Akron #32 22. UCLA #33 23. UNC-Greensboro #36 24. Kansas City #37 25. George Mason #38 26. Drake #40 last 5 out Princeton #41 Wisconsin #42 New Hampshire #43 VA Tech #44 Northwestern #45 Princeton and New Hampshire would probably move up if they won in the semis and lost in the finals

I know it's kind of a tired topic with the logo, but this one is indeed my favorite. I also liked the A-roo but it wasn't really instantly recognizable as a kangaroo. Looked a bit too much like a donkey. But the Z is so unique, there are only two colleges in the country that start with a Z and I don't think anybody would confuse us with Zane(sville) community college nor Zaytuna college. There are over 100 institutions of higher learning that begin with A, and more than a dozen Division 1 football teams. For a logo you want something that is instantly identifiable, connected and has some uniqueness to it. I thought the Z was fantastic. I hate the rationale of going back to an A to be more connected with the community. I think that was a load of crap. Long live the Z!

Not even worth the click

Aren't you the one that complains about everything ADs do to pad their resumes and move on?

Baseball coaches aren't going anywhere even with a new AD '24 season wasn't amazing but there are some really good young players that did well this year and the coaches brought in a great transfer/freshman class with the '25 class looking great as well

or potentially Matta/Holtman (whoever it was at the time) as OSU.

The first word that came in my head was "unbelievable", but then I remembered the endless self destruction.