zippyrifle32

more people watch womens b-ball actually there is a chance that more people would watch nationally ranked and known women's teams play than little known and possibly bad men's teams. i don't have data to back anything up, but it is a possibility.

AMEN!

i love how you include the women's team

good. now i can watch it in class

i like the away uniforms better than the home ones.

The half naked guy slapped his covered butt and it was funny... in a chris farley sort of way. And the half-naked guy also immediately put his clothes back on after the foul shots. But with the male to female ratio out here, I don't expect many people to agree with me on the dance team.

best part of the woman's game was when that body painted guy (blue arms, gold chest) in the background of this picture stripped down to his blue speedo and began slapping his ass as a ball state player was trying to shoot free throws. also, i did not like the dance team's uniforms. i think they look trashy.

he's right though, it's not a tuition hike. i don't eat or live on campus, so i don't have to deal with those price increases. i won't be going through orientation, so that doesn't affect me either. credit card thing sucks but is understandable. finally the parking is fine with me since i drive to campus. a lot of his bitching though, only affects a very small percentage of students. so in effect, i still benefit from frozen tuition because i don't pay these other fees.

eh... I'll probably be at the JAR watching the women.

you're right... let's just fire him along with jd.

why weren't there announcements about the finalists etc. when mike thomas left? if i remember correctly someone from utep posted on here "congrats you got a good guy" and then only a week or two later it was announced. the only speculation that went on was why it was taking so long to hire waddell. that always confused me that the announcement was a big surprise. or did i miss something?

agreed. last.

are they chicken?

did I miss something? was there some announcement that JD was going to be kept? Not going to argue whether he should or shouldn't be fired, but I don't think he will. and I will go on record saying that we're going to have Mack for a while.

you stay classy seetee

on the academic note, things are improving: -from the football media guide

The school needs to find those answers out, yet because they aren't involving you in case you accuse them of doing nothing. I am saying you're wrong for making the accusation that the director of athletics would care so little for his teams. I am also saying that the Zips have a better chance of winning the BCS Championship than you finding out who might have incorrectly leaked something (if that was even what happened). Maybe you should write a little note to the ABJ fully explaining to the journalists how they should have done their job as you did to me above. NOTHING can be done NOW that can make that game replayed here at Akron or even make it right. Be pissed add it to the growing list of times we've gotten screwed. Hell, prove me wrong and post out here when you've finished the witch hunt. It about more than just moving on. The only thing that can come out of this is an assurance that things will change and it won't happen again. Mack has already made this assurance that he is going to do what he can.

I think (but am not 100% positive) that the Z-Fund stuff is strictly to aid in offsetting the cost of scholarships. I'm sure they would gladly take your money and put it into a soccer fund if you called them up tomorrow, but I don't think that's the same pot as the rest of the Z-Fund stuff. Call up the development office and see what they say.

there is a plan to redo the soccer "stadium" and field. however they are still trying to raise funds and the project is a few years down the road (especially with the recent info investment). the best way to get this moving along would be to call up caleb and fork over your money.

you're absolutely right seetee, not only are we being screwed by the ncaa, but they've somehow planted some of their own into our highest positions of the athletic administration . heck! mack not only told northwestern to take the game off his hands, but probably offered them a 5 goal head start cause he wants to see his teams lose. why was he pacing the sidelines in football all season? probably whispering the play calling he wanted into jd's ear to guarantee the losses. sound far fetched? so is your presumption that nobody fought the decision. even if they know who might have slipped something to the ncaa, it would be unprofessional to call them out publicly like that. And the point of stories and articles are not to "flesh things out", rather to provide the writer's interpretation or slant on a story of their choosing. You go to gozips.com and the worst thing you will see on there is a poor stat line. Depending on the newspaper, questionable recruits are depicted from good kid who needs a second chance to bad apple and future criminal. and you missed my point about being an athlete (big surprise there ). when the man in charge has the final say, no amount of discussion or incoherent bitching will change that. it sucks. move on. it also happened with men's b-ball and their 26 win season. there is nothing this past weekend that would have changed that decision, but this situation can be the fuel to make the changes necessary to see that it doesn't happen again. here's how i read it: we got screwed over this isn't fair they didn't give us the chance or even listen to us there might have been ulterior motives of the committee, but we won't officially come forth with that accusation cover my ass, it's not my fault (sidenote - sources could be anyone athletic or non-athletic related) again, not fair, not listened too, game moved, final word, the end. f*ck the ncaa i'm pissed point out to them how they f*cked up no matter what comes out of this it won't change our loss AT northwestern that ended the season.

I'm glad seetee was there to inform us all what happened behind closed doors. I too would like to know who supposedly said the field was unplayable, yet I don't know. HOWEVER, I highly doubt that Mack, Proenza (why he should be so involved in every little athletic happening I don't know... I thought that's why they created Mack's position), and Porter all just sat back and said "oh well". This is the NCAA we're talking about. There are only so many avenues of action that you can take for appeals on decisions, and one would also have to consider the possible consequences of openly trashing the organization. They ultimately have the final say because it is their tournament. Sure we could finally say "screw em" and leave the NCAA for some other smaller organization, but that would be cutting off the nose to spite the face. These administrators all have to work through the bullsh*t network of organizational politics and political correctness. Hell yes I'm still pissed at the injustice of it all and I think that Mack got some great jabs in in the article. Read the quotes a little closer and you will see just how upset they really are... they just can't state it like you or I would because they need to be professional about it. I've personally been on the receiving end of a committee decision that was unjust, unfair, and dishonest in my athletic career. No matter what you say, even if you're 100% right and they are 100% wrong, the decision will stand. The most you really can do is move forward and work to ensure that it won't happen again in the future.

and even one about the rifle team... it would appear that hell hath frozen over

but guys, northwestern earned that home game remember? it was on their website:

it's easy mmmkay!step 1: instead of a** say buns like "kiss my buns" or "you're a buns-hole"step 2: instead of sh*t say poo like "bull-poo", "poo-head", and "this poo is cold"step 3: with b*tch drop the "t" cause bich is latin for generosity step 4: don't say f*ck anymore cause f*ck is the worst word that you can say, so just use the word mmmkay!

nah... he wouldn't have gotten the award if he had stayed at akron... simply because of the akron curse