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The NIT Commish, C.M. Newton, said, "We asked ourselves, who would you be more reluctant to play? Then who? Then who?"Translation: I'd be scared to play big conference teams. We don't know anything about Akron and we didn't research. We only included mid-majors that have been on the National radar all year.
I thought the guy was saying that Akron should have gotten into the NCAA -- what possible explanation is there for the Zips not getting into the NIT???This is the unkindest cut of all.
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WHAT?!?!?!?! Please tell me I just missed it. Please tell me. Mike Hall said, "All these teams are in" after talking about Akron and I DID NOT SEE AKRON!
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Well, that was nice, Akron was the very, very first team they mentioned, with props. I was a little afraid we wouldn't get in at all when I saw how many high major teams on the "bubble" of that link above.
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It appears it will indeed be availabe for a fee via Gozips/Collegesportsdirect:http://www.collegesportsdirect.tv/liveEven...3&frm_year=2006besides the College Sports Direct website, you can pretty much figure out all live games available, either streaming video or audio, via the following links, which have become indespensible to me:http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/http://hometown.aol.com/zagsfan2715/basketball2006.htmhttp://www.thegamelive.com
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...what the single game Rubber Bowl attendance record is for a Zips game (i.e., not counting Cleveland Browns exhibitions?) Couldn't find it in the media guide.
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Did anyone catch this color guy (Ron Brown) say the dumbest thing an annoucer has ever said (seriously) when they were reviewing that UC incompletion?"Now, we know the ground cannot cause an incomplete pass...The ground is the ONLY thing that can cause an incomplete pass!
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...and here's a great, great resource for college football on tv and live streaming games on the web, including All-MACcess games:http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/football2006.html
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You know, before every game we get fans of the opponents in here, and for the most part they are gracious and cordial. But this one really takes the cake. This is the nicest opposing fan post I think I have ever read. It made me feel good to be an Akron fan, and has also made a UNT fan out of me. Major kudos, and go Mean Green.I wanted to drop by one more time to let you know that I had a great time at the game on Sat.We arrived late, made the mistake of going to the campus and looking for the stadium. By the way your campus is pretty cool, i imagine it is a beating gettin up those hills when everything is frozen, but is a pretty neat campus. Arrived just before kick off so we missed any tailgating. I can see your love hate relationship with the Rubber Bowl.It is way out of the way, and parking kind of felt like going to the county fair, and even thought there is only one way in and one way out, traffic flowed quite well. The fact that most cant really park up against the stadium affects tailgating. But once inside I was amazed at how close to the action you are. Our seats were great, and we were so close to the field that I felt like I was at an intramural football game, standing on the sidelines. Quite different from our stadium.Your band was great, they and all the other HS bands looked like they were having a blast. You dont get that sort of free flowing constant music down here. While the Green Brigade is technically outstanding, they are not allowed to fill empty space with random beats and music. Your band really ads to the atmosphere.We were treated very well by your fans, a few fun taunts here and there, but as a whole we were welcomed.I think there was a lot of curiosity about us strangers from Texas, many folks were coming up to us to ask us questions about the University, famous alums, etc. Now on to the game.I must say I was shocked by the speed of the team. I kept thinking that We are from Texas, and our athletes are superior to anything in Ohio. Call it Texas arrogance, man was I wrong. Your overall team speed is really impressive.Your QB is really really good. Your big monster TE is a bonifide bad ass. I also want to say that your coach showed a lot of class by taking the foot off the gas in the 2nd half.I would like to think that it was our D finally stepping up and the NT coaches making halftime adjustments, but I noticed a run first offence in the 2nd half. I can see your frustration, you have a great team and good in game presentation, it is a shame that the word isnt getting out. I dont know about your past history, but I suspect it is similar to ours (like I said before, in a lot of ways we seem to mirror each other). Keep winning and the fans will come.I will be pulling for y'all.I will stop by from time to time.I think we may have y'all in Denton next year. And finally, the Girls in Akron are much hotter than the girls in Cleveland.In fact Akron as a whole is a pretty kick ass town.I will make the trip again if we ever get to play up there again.Go Mean Green
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Phil Steele.I'll be here all week.Akron -3Over/Under is 42Who would have guessed this at the beginning of the year?
Seriously, I'm not too worried either, although I hope the players don't have a "Bah! This'll be a cakewalk as usual." attitude. Another mitigating circumstance to the BG game is BG committed six turnovers. I think it's safe to say we will not.Come to think about it, is this the biggest football game for Can't in decades? If they beat their rival, they go to 3-0 in the MAC East and they still have Buffalo, EMU and Ball State left to play and likely beat. Their players, coaches and fans - all 24 of them - will be super-hyped up (and hopefully tight) for this game, and we have to match them in intensity. Or put another way, we have to take them seriously. If we do, we should win.If not, I move that we pre-emptively ban Antonio Gates from ZN the second the final gun sounds.
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Bump.As promised (sorry it's later than I said it was gonna be...)http://www.sports-central.org/sports/2006/...s_and_poker.phpHalf of my column deals with the NCSU game fallout, and I link directly to Zips Nation. Hopefully that will direct more traffic here and keep the momentum going!Thanks, guys! I am Kevin Beane!Not immediately sure how I can prove it but...I am. :)I've mentioned my love of the Zips in my column before, I believe. I'm sure I will again....But now that you know my secret identity....PLEASE no PM's messages saying, "So you have mentioned the Zips in months! Give us an entire column! If you were a true Zips fan, you would!"
Actually, saying that occurs to me how I CAN prove it...I will mention zipsnation in my next column! :DMy columns are published every other Thursday, so look for that in two weeks.The column is called Slant Pattern, and if you click on "Slant Pattern" on the left-side of the column, you'll get my last several columns. Plug plug plug.
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I watched the week 1 Ball State - EMU game on all-MACcess, and the picture quality was good (I have DSL). It seems to be that they are only picking up games that are on TV somewhere (locally, regionally), and streaming that broadcast wholesale, graphics and all. I will definitely be ordering the CMU game as well. Not sure about Zips Zone.
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Wow, what a beautiful post. It brings a tear to my eye. You see, perhaps the Penn State fans shouldn't have pointed it out, but it's true: They are going to absolutely kill us and we are poor saps living in a dreamworld if we think this game will be anything but an abject beat-down, with PSU pulling their starters before halftime, just like a couple years ago. It's the integrity and somlemnity of JoePa, however, that allows for such a magnanimous gesture like the post above and permeates throughout PSU fandom. May God Bless you, TheSkyIsBlueAndWhite!PSU football is about honesty, integrity and respect. Those are values that JoePa demands from his players, and occasionally he has demanded it from PSU students and fans. I think some of the posts by PSU fans on this forum are being honest, but being misinterpreted as being disrespectful. Sometimes you have to keep your mouth shut to be respectful – even when you open your mouth while being honest. I might have even been interrupted as being disrespectful the other day in a post, but I was only being honest. Note that in my previous post that I did not predict a score to the game. I just discussed a number of game “factors.” If I was honest about what I thought the score was going to be, I definitely know that it would have been interpreted as being disrespectful. So I didn’t do that. I wish all the best to Akron on Saturday. If I had my way PSU would win tomorrow and Akron would win every game the rest of its season. I am a PSU fan after all. And if Akron does well, it makes PSU look better. I take this to an extreme sometimes. I watched the Temple-Buffalo game last night, knowing that PSU plays Temple in the next to last game of the season. I also know that Temple is one of the worst Div 1A teams in football. I was pulling for Temple only because State will play Temple. I want State to play the best teams possible. Oh well, you can’t always get what you want. To be honest, but not disrespectful, but I am sure Temple fans would find it disrespectful – Buffalo fans as well, I think I am going to see a higher caliber high school football game tonight than the Temple game last night. I wouldn’t post that on a Temple forum though. (Wait, Temple doesn’t have a forum, they can’t read and write) Opps, that was being disrespectful. Go State, Beat Roos
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What were you saying again about a lack of respect?Paterno has never revealed his entire playbook against a warmup squad, and unfortunately that is what this game is. Your University agreed to this game because of the payday and nothing more. -
To our visiting Penn State fans,The line on this game is in the neighborhood of 16-17 depending on where you look. So it's not INSANITY to honestly, legitmately predict that Akron will keep it close, anymore than it's insanity to predict PSU will win by twice the spread or more, which a couple of you have. To be sure, most of us are predicting a close Akron loss with well-thought-out and -written reasons, so I suspect that's why you are mostly picking on the one guy who didn't. The talent gap between an elite school like Penn State and a MAC school is dwindling. It will always be there, and it will probably make the difference in this game, but a close game that's in doubt throughout is very, very possible. A lot of Akron's strengths and experience (like at quarterback and the defense in general) match up well with the Penn State's counterpart units being new starters, and we are not obligated to regard those guys all as awesome superstars in the making. Not saying it will happen again, but lord knows Penn State has needed a rebuilding year or two after losing a ton of talent in years past.Penn State 27, Akron 21.
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What's nice is that 10 the 11 MAC games will be broadcast either on TV or on the web opening week, with Indiana-Western Michigan the only exception (You have to live in the proper market to see BSU-EMU though). My source (get ready to drool, by the way, if you like comprehensiveness. To call this a "TV listing" doesn't do it justice):http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/football2006.html
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I live in Newark, Delaware, not far from the University of Delaware, who are the Fighting Blue Hens. That's right, Hens! And yet, somehow, all the guys around campus aren't mincing little pansies, and they even won the Division 1-AA football championship a couple years ago. So Zippy is, as much as mascots can have a gender, a girl. Who....cares?
wow! calm down. that was just my understanding and there is nothing wrong with having a female mascot. personally i think it's kind of cool to be only one of two in the country.This isn't the real world. Even though Zippy has a pouch, Zippy is definitely still a guy! What would a kangaroo mascot be without the pouch?!?! Zippy is most definitely a boy!!! Stop insulting and emasculating him! -
Does some one understand this? I don't think I fully do. Does it mean that if we don't hit 15 thou this year, we must for ten straight years? And what if we don't? We lose D1A status? Or we are just "restricted" from bowls? And what does that mean? Barred from bowls, or only "restricted" from certain ones?If schools do not meet the requirement this season, they will receive a letter of non compliance which triggers a 10-YEAR PERIOD DURING WHICH TIME THEY MUST MEET THE REQUIREMENT OR BE PLACED ON RESTRICTED MEMBERSHIP. THAT WOULD RESTRICT THEM FROM BOWL OPPORTUNITIES,"Should they get placed in restricted membership they would have to correct the deficiency the following year orf else they would lose their status as a Div-1 institution," Christianson said. -
I was also thinking how familiar this all sounded (somebody in the original scheduling thread, I mercifully forget who, went off the deep end and said the AD should go to jail for allowing this schedule to go down, and he was serious.)The lateness of our first home game is definitely a bummer, hopefully the whether stays decent into November. Also, just going with my gut here, I don't have any research to back it up...but I suspect that the Wednesday/Thursday games on national television are more of a financial and recruiting boon to the program than having a full stadium (not saying a full stadium isn't hugely important, don't get me wrong)....I suspect it's still better even if the cameras catch those embarrassing shots of empty sections. You've got to get on television. Akron football is a fine product and it needs advertised.This horse is dead. Can we please stop beating it??? -
That must be a new thing, I never heard that in my three years in Columbus (campus area).At OSU, they pronounce it as Thee OSU -
Z.I.P beat me to it. I don't think anyone outside the Akron area ever says "Akron U." It's a local term to distinguish from Akron, the city, proper.The U is what sucks, not that we don't say The University of Akron.Nobody else uses U.It's Michigan, not Michigan U. Texas. Not Texas U. Miami, not Miami U, Cincinnati, not Cincinnati U, etc. Why do people say Akron U? It's just Akron. -
This is the kind of denial/delusions of grandeur I'm talking about. The Cavs and Chicago/Detroit are on the same plane. They are equal competitors...I know some of us like to pretend that so it is with Ohio State and Akron, but it's just not the case. No one here can argue that Big Ten is significantly more talented than the MAC, and no one here can argue that a MAC school hasn't beaten Ohio State in the better part of the century. That's not the case with the Bulls and the Cavs. That's not the case with the Clippers and the Lakers, or even the Devil Rays and the Yankees....the difference, the fact of the matter is, is greater for Ohio State/Akron.If Ohio State ceased to be tomorrow, I know that a lot of you have convinced yourselves that some of the blue-chippers they sign would instead choose Akron, but they wouldn't, or any other MAC school....they'd go to schools offering them the visibility, exposure, and/or a chance to win National Championships that OSU offered them. I know that there's isolated incidents of students being offered by elite schools and signing with MAC schools, but they are a slight minority to a vast majority...but these are still minority cases and not adequate to prop up a theory of "Ohio State is holding Akron down!"The only example of a school truly raising it's profile from semi-obscure to elite and sustaining in the last 35 years is Gonzaga. They share the Spokane market (a lot closer than Akron and Ohio State, which are in two different markets, mind you).(Pitt and Louisville were mentioned, but Pitt has been competing for National Championships since the 70's and football, and Louisville has for about as long in basketball).Can someone still root for both Gonzaga and Washington State? Well, they play in different conferences...Gonzaga, in spite of their success, has not been asked to join the Pac 10, even though they are outstanding and one-sport admissions to conferences is more commonplace these days) or even the WAC. One rooting for both only would have to make a "choice" when they play their annual battle, and in the unlikely even tthey meet in the NCAA tourney. So based on lack of a common conference alone, of course you can root for both (this is another way the Cavs/Bulls comparison falls flat).Now, that's an example where a school HAS achieved equality (surpassed, even) the high profile school it shares a state with. I don't know exactly how they did it, but I don't think it was because they landed a bunch of recruits that would otherwise be headed to Pac 10 schools, or because students at Gonzaga refused to support Washington State in any way. Really, it's a great example of a)How you can succeed in spite of having a "big brother" at your doorstep." God, I'm not even halfway through my thoughts on this matter but, gotta get back to work....This is like being a Cavs fan and hoping that Detroit, Chicago, Indy and Miami sign all the great free-agents! -
I am definitely a big fan of both, being from Akron (North '94) and attending Ohio State.To answer your question, I would definitely prefer to see Akron beat Ohio State, for one simple reason: A win would mean so much more to Akron than the loss would for Ohio State. Us Ohio State fans have already seen them win a NC, and will probably see them do it again. They are one of about ten or so elite programs in the country that are pretty much assured of never being down for too long a term. That's true whether the OSU haters here like it not.I don't mind the guys here like Zip Watcher who hate the "Suckeyes." I do mind these loyalty tests (isn't this about the 8,000 OSU vs. Akron post we've seen in the last year?) that suggest either you can't or you shouldn't be a fan of both.Akron can be the next Gonzaga, they can be the next George Mason, but the MAC will always be on a different plane than the Big Ten, a big enough difference that rooting for them both is hardly mutually exclusive. And that's okay! Ohio State is not holding the Zips down anymore than U-Dub held Gonzaga down or Virginia/VT held George Mason down. We all would like to see the Zips acheive the most dizzying heights imaginable. But I think some of you are unhappy about having allegiances to a school that's not among the uppermost elite, and you're looking for a scapegoat. It's silly and unnecessary.
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Thanks, guys! I am Kevin Beane!Not immediately sure how I can prove it but...I am. :)I've mentioned my love of the Zips in my column before, I believe. I'm sure I will again....But now that you know my secret identity....PLEASE no PM's messages saying, "So you have mentioned the Zips in months! Give us an entire column! If you were a true Zips fan, you would!"
Actually, saying that occurs to me how I CAN prove it...I will mention zipsnation in my next column! :DMy columns are published every other Thursday, so look for that in two weeks.The column is called Slant Pattern, and if you click on "Slant Pattern" on the left-side of the column, you'll get my last several columns. Plug plug plug. -
I would say all five road games are very winnable. I realize ORU was Mid-Continent champs, but the Mid-Con is arguably the worst DI hoops conference these days, thank God we got out. With the group of guys we have returning, if we can't beat ORU, even on the road, we can't argue too much about a lack of respect. Not that that will stop us. I'm honestly more worried about a bad team from a good conference (Duquesne) than the best team of a terrible conference.Near as I can determine, based on current knowledge the Zips out of conferenceschedule shapes up like this thus far:Home Games: Nevada Loyola Marymount ESPN Bracket Buster possible A10 opponent Away Games: Youngstown State Niagara Oakland Duquesne Oral RobertsObviously there are still some open dates. No one is going to accuse Akron ofplaying a rugged road schedule. The first four of the teams listed are to say the leastbeatable. In fact, not one of them is a power RPI. Oral Roberts is a fairly toughroad opponent even though they do not have a marque name.
SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!!
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Here's a fun fact...We have the highest RPI of any team not playing in either tournament....AND the ELEVEN teams just below us are all still playing:http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html