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Fourth in pre-season/first in Cleveland. I expect to see a team that gets back on defense, goes for steals even when we aren't behind by 15, and will attempt to stop dribble penetration. I also expect maybe a 15-15 team with some surprise wins rather than another 20+ win season with no marquee wins.

It's going to be a great year. Awesome coach, and I think we are going to have a lot of strong teamwork this year and real leadership on the floor.

Nice to see the Hudson HS QB run all over our defense

Looks like we are making a valiant comeback?

Isn't this the point when someone notes that Kent is leading Ohio and that we are in the driver's seat in the MAC East? And that we were supposed to lose this game and are only two wins away from a berth in the Artichoke Bowl?

Well it was a fun week! They took the band on the road for this? Milwee? Anyone?

I didn't miss it :). Was just having fun with his name and the long discussion about this 30 year old with a really bad head shot on Gozips.com

Who is this Milwee person? I watched the last few minutes, and I just thought we could have had a Stanford/Cal style disaster with all our players celebrating. The clock on the video feed kept jumping around so I couldn't tell how much time was really left. But what a great win on the road. I guess my answer to all this debate is that winning programs get some luck losing programs never do.

Who is this Milwee person everyone wants fired?

They are saying on the WMU blog that for that after the sack they should have just thrown for a TD instead of trying to get FG team on. I wasn't watching and since Frenchy was screaming those last few seconds are a blur. Anyone have a thought on that?

Listened to game driving back home. When I arrived home, sat in the driveway with motor running head on the steering wheel...listening to the last few minutes. Just amazed we won with defense.

I think had it been a basketball game we would all be very happy with WMU beating Buffalo 71-68 in overtime.

Ugh... Keith Kennedy...."Everyone wins a free Arby's sandwich from... ARBY'S!". Really? Not McDonald's?

That's just horrible. What bad luck that poor guy has.

Didn't we all know deep down this would be the result?

Sad. Just sad.

I guess that's that

Maybe if we all email the AD and suggest a coaching change?

Spot on!

When I saw President Wilson walk around the sideline, I just got a sense that he has something really different in mind. He wants the students to have a fun game day experience. Send Bowden and Amato back to wherever they f'ing came from.

6 wins? Wasn't the lucky win against Kent last year our last victory? I did get the autographs of the basketball players. If the best thing about an Akron U football game is seeing the basketball players...

Yeah. Just fire Bowden and "Man b$#+ " Amato already. They are ripping us off. It's so grating to listen to Keith Kennedy and the voice overs from Bowden during the game. "4th quarter is where we win it". Really? Thanks for the hot tip Terry. This brand is so badly damaged.

People really ask you to move from your reserved seating? And then get angry when you don't move? That takes a lot of chutzpah!

Renewed and upgraded as well with larger donation to athletic department. Incredibly excited about this year and the Jan.23(?) Ohio U game at he JAR. None of my usual trepidation and worry. Just excitement for Coach Groce and what appears to be a super fit athletic team. (I think a few of the Dambrot deadenders sat near me in lower bowl. Anxious to see who remains this year)

My guess is that if you surveyed all the people coming to any Zips game that about 50% wouldn't know who James A. Rhodes was. I wasn't around when it was built or named for him, and I never actually knew why it was named after him until someone who has a deep connection to U of Akron explained it to me. I always thought it was odd that there wasn't a statue or something commemorating Rhodes and the history behind his name on the arena. Maybe it's somewhere in the JAR, but I never noticed it. And frankly, our program's history in the JAR isn't all that great. I mean there have been few memorable games. Usually, we had easy wins against easy teams or head-scratching MAC losses. The Ball State game last year was probably the most exciting game in years. We did have those "amazing" home winning streaks. But as we all know now that was all smoke and mirrors as well since really we only had to play at top level for a couple of home games each season. So a remodel and a re-naming is ok with me.