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For those on this board that have been complaining about the attendance, I just got 2 extra tickets and we had to move my season seats so we could sit together and my ticket agent told me they were expecting the biggest crowd of this year and it was mainly Akron fans. I told him maybe they should schedule more afternoon games and ditch the night games. He told me that was above his pay grade. Looking forward to a loud jar tomorrow.

Miami-Hamilton hijack the Redhawks bus today?

I know everyone enjoys making fun of the Kent Basketball program and how they have struggled this year but I need to remind everyone the season comes down to 4 games in Cleveland and although Kent sucked most of last year when it came down to the tourney they beat Toledo and came within a brain fart of beating us in the final even though we had a very experienced team.

He got called for a foul just as they went to a timeout and he came out of it with the ball at the Miami end. As he walked to the Akron bench he carried the ball and lazily dropped it at half court, not giving it to an official. Groce saw it as it happened, retrieved the ball and yelled back to Sharron who had made it to the Akron huddle, demanding that he come back to half court where he convened a meeting with himself, Sharron and the official. It was a really bad look for Sharron and he was immediately brought back to learn the lesson. It was well done by Groce.

Always worried they'll be lethargic coming out of halftime. I guess we're good on that.

Did I just see Hardman drive to the hoop? 👀

My advice is, rent, don't buy.

I prefer discussions of food and booze over NIL or any of the other crap college athletics has become. Start times between 4-6 PM are ideal for what I like to call a Bang-Bang. This is two suppers. One supper is consumed mid to late afternoon, while the other is consumed after the game in the evening/night. Two o'clock is too early to execute a proper Bang-Bang.

OU did everything they could to choke the game away to Kent, but Kent sucked so bad they couldn’t take it.

I believe the breakdown is: 4 Transfers: Sullivan (St Louis U) Morck (St John’s) Arnesen (Old Dominion) Kossehasse (Iowa Western) 1 recruit : Jamai Royer 2 internationals: Jose Luis Pedro Another intl player whose name I don’t remember

Steinbrecher needs sent with NIU.

I guess it's kind of hard to tell what kind of team you have with so many injuries, defections, new players and personal issue absences. I've watched most games on the stream, but not attended any games like I normally would due to another year of inconsistent play and inconvenient tipoff times. Seems to me it would also make more sense to play the women's game first in a doubleheader so fans could arrive a little early and see the second half. I think more people would do that than stay for the entire women's second game. Just my opinion, but I've attended most women's games in previous years.

This is outstanding. I love the story about Groce getting kicked out of an AAU Game. He had one of his players guard the ref and when the ref went to Groce he told him that he'd told the kid to guard the guy in the gym that was hurting them the most. That's hilarious.

Sure guys, you only lost by 3 in the second half (when the Zips let up). You're team is slow and unathletic. Edit: I just looked at their forum and they are actually taking it pretty well.

Miami's message board is a decent read. Trying to talk themselves into being excited about a potential rematch in the Finals. My favorite is the poster or two that didn't know the MAC hasn't had BYEs since 2020. The sweaters have been irrelevant for a long, long time.

Nice crowd. The Zips are off to a good start. Leading 25-12 after 1st qtr.

CHALUPAS!

Lyles two free throws makes him the sixth Zip in double figures.

Let's see if Travis shows up post-game wearing a big 'A'! 😂

Twice in one game yet!

Hardman passing up 3s to drive to the basket wasn't on my bingo card.

Mercy Rule chant from the students 😂

Or the cast of Hamilton.

Travis Steele has the expression of a guy who just realized he got off at the wrong train stop.

You said a mouthful. It's barely football anymore. Bad tackling. Bad coaching. Gimmick kickoffs. Bad QB play. Players can't be physically anymore. Nonsensical "dancing" after routine plays. Too many replays. Too many commercials. Only drunks and degenerate gamblers can enjoy this nonsense, which are the base demographic groups now.

This is so wrong it makes Kent look right.

Best start imaginable. My scouting report of Miami at the start of the season is holding true. They do not have the athleticism to overcome poor shooting vs athletic, good shooting teams.

Here's hoping today's the day the Zips learn to step on necks.

Young is the fastest Zip since LCJ.

Starting to fill up. Going to be a nice crowd.

I wouldn't want a full diet of Saturday afternoon games but I like one occasionally. It has a college basketball sitting in front of the TV listening to Enberg and McGuire, kids going crazy in the stands, feel to it. Oh, and yes, I'm old.

It doesn't help that the NFL has an officiating problem, that leads fans to speculate that the games are rigged. All you had to do is watch the Chiefs game to suspect something fishy is going on in the NFL. It doesn't even have to be true btw, as conspiracy theories are brain-melting stuff; but it's too painfully obvious that the game IS NOT OFFICIATED EQUALLY even in the same game.

Maybe because, other than the Sun Belt Challenge, Miami may be the only decent opponent we see until March.

On behalf of the fans who enjoy a couple beers and some wings before a Saturday night home game, I say “nay” to standardizing on Saturday afternoon games.

Bump for update. Cleaned up the first page and have also added JUCO offers since the portal opened.

Kent's deal with the devil expired. They shot 3-19 from 3, 35% from the field, and 56% from the line. Unbelievable how bad the MAC is this year. OU won't win many games shooting the way they did tonight with their injuries. O/U was in the 140s I believe. Would've been an easy Under.

The like button isn't enough. THANK YOU @NYC ZIP

Nothing groundbreaking here, but a 30 min conversation with Coach Embick about a wide range of topics to include the spring league

I wish I could agree but most of the student core doesn’t show up til right before the men’s game. Hence why they’re doing the bingo night and prize giveaways to try and get people to stay for the second women’s game. Some of the prizes include jerseys and signed basketballs!

Thank you for such a reasoned response to the issues facing UA. I love athletics but I also recognize the limitations a school of our size is facing in this new age of NIL. My hope is that we continue to not go full in to this arms race that we can never win. Hopefully the new administration can find the right formula to have a balance of academics and still maintain a presence in sports.

It's been a while since I have checked in with this thread, but never have I been more disappointed in my fellow UA alums and supporters, and not just this particular post. I say this as an alum and someone who is STEM faculty at a major research university (not Duke). Academic departments do not exist to serve industry nor vice versa. Rather, both coexist and grow in a complementary manner to serve an economy and create a community of support. UA's expertise grew out of the rubber industry, and because it was on the cutting edge of innovation (which all top STEM departments are), a whole new economy of polymers emerged. UA supplied intellectual property and graduates with advanced research training that allowed new companies to form and grow. This is why ACS and companies support the program, and it is the reason NEO is known as polymer valley. Now, did polymer science and engineering need an entire college unto itself with the associated overhead of administration?...almost certainly not. Being a department within the college of engineering enables the same productivity, thus it is almost certainly a better value having been consolidated. However, a drastic reduction in faculty and the commensurate decrease in intellectual property, research funding, and graduates is as bad for surrounding industries as it is for the university itself. These losses are substantial too because polymer science and engineering was one of only two nationally ranked programs at UA, along with I/O Psychology. Do you enjoy seeing UA diminished on an international or national level? I certainly do not. Do you want to see UA become exclusively a regional state university? I do not. The truth is, UA WAS the Berkeley of polymer science and polymer engineering, and Proenza was 100% correct for celebrating this fact. To Hilltopper's comment, the professor to student ratio is likely out of proportion for the polymer science and polymer engineering programs because they are primarily graduate programs in which faculty salaries are paid more through research grants, contracts, and endowment than teaching. It takes a lot more resources to mentor a graduate student to being a top scientist because it requires so much individual attention, whereas thirty undergrads can be taught in parallel via lectures and with the help of graduate students. Nearly all other departments have both undergrad and grad programs, so apples and oranges. To adzip,yes, many of the students in polymer science and polymer engineering are not Americans, but that is the result of having an internationally-recognized program. It has international reach, and the program requires students with international-level credentials, experiences, and distinctions to maintain. How many STEM faculty at any university are international? How many of our best soccer players over the years have been international? Why is this a problem? The only justification for such a reduction in faculty should be that resources previously available to support salaries were no longer available and this financial limitation was impossible to overcome through other means that were extensively explored. In any case, the loss of that many faculty in one of UA's few nationally and internationally recognized programs should cost executives their jobs. Finally, the logical disconnect between so many posters here at ZN desperate for national recognition for sports but to not care about even maintaining international distinction in academics and research is astounding. Without a doubt, the latter is easier, especially in the current landscape, given the less even playing field in athletics, which is now further exaggerated by NIL

Am I the only person who was underwhelmed with the minor league football playoff? I turned the game off at halftime. It was completely uncompetitive.

Athletic Directors have already sold their souls. Selling an entire athletic department seems to be the next step. I hope there isn't anyone out there delusional enough to think it's still college football. It's a professional sports league. It's all so gross.

I think the kangaroo is so unique as a logo that it should be shown somewhere, somehow

Respectfully, if you believe this, you aren't following the developments of college football closely. The power of the Big 12 are in the SEC now. It might be a long time before either Clemson or FSU are meaningful contenders again. Rapidly, the SEC and Big Ten took over college football and that disparity is going to get worse, not better. There will be large disparities developed within each league as well. For example, consider Wisconsin dead. College football is just minor league professional football at this point. I watched more Sopranos reruns last night than the OSU game because I'm not a fan of minor league sports. The SEC and Big Ten are completely set up to outpace the other conferences. College football is dead as we once knew it and it isn't going back.

Throw the hotdog. The guy is a lowlife.