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According to Columbus Business First: Columbus may have successfully saved its Major League Soccer team, but the community-wide campaign to #SavetheCrew isn't translating to more fans in the seats so far this season. According to Soccer Stadium Digest, the Crew SC ranks 18th out of 22 teams in Major League Soccer for attendance this season, averaging around 12,383 per home game and a grand total of 49,533 fans this season. "Attendance numbers could be better," Pete Edwards, the team's co-owner, said in an email. "We are working to provide a winning team on the pitch that fans will want to support and see play," Edwards said. "We want a great game day experience so fans enjoy coming to games and we want to partner with the community so fans are proud of their team. It is a process that we are fully committed to and we are sure that attendance will build as the community gets excited about their team." Here's the game-by-game breakdown of the season attendance so far, provided by a team spokesman: March 2: 17,931 fans March 30: 9,687 fans April 6: 10,942 fans Yuck....

Making Lemonade out of lemons....that's what the coaching staff and athletic department did this past week, cobbling together the best alternative to not holding the Campbell/Wright Invitational track meet, and also Senior Day. So Friday May 3rd the jav and hammer throwers will be at Lee Jackson at 1:30 pm to start things off. Then on Saturday May 4th the crew head to Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls to compete the running events from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., then head back to Lee Jackson for a 2:30 p.m. start of the pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump, discus and shot....plus they'll honor the seniors on the team and their parents for Senior Day. Not ideal, but no one thoughts we'd see any track and field this season outdoors, and somehow they managed to pull off both the NEO Quad and this one....Now hold your breath to see what the University does with or for T & F.

my guess was just about 40%, but they sure kept the angles of the upper deck pretty tight...like a Zips football game!

The West Coast is doing wonders for the Zips track athletes, as Hesham Eldesouky breaks the school record in the triple jump! This has been a nice swing the last week and still wondering if we'll see the Zippers at home for their traditional Campbell/Wright Invitational, somewhere in Northeast Ohio! Maybe a twin outdoor MAC Championship would convince the school to do something with the track, but with the railing falling off Infocision, I don't see that happening.....But way to go Zips Track!

If I was the Haslams right about now I'd be second guessing my purchase. I have watched three Crew matches on FoxSports Ohio and have been appalled by the fanbase who made such a fuss about saving them and staying in Columbus, only to see more yellow seats in the stadium than ones filled with real live fans. I was assured by Columbus fans that the fanbase would come out in force....where are they? Right now watching vs. Portland, and that's the best you can do Columbus? The entire upper deck is empty, and other than about 50% in the middle, the last third of each end is empty on the bottom....What gives?

Zips T & F soldiers on...out west at Mt. St. Mary's Tevin Brown breaks school record in the 10,000 meter and Mackenzie Andrews sets new school record in the steeplechase! It's been a while since we've had strength in the long distances....way to go Tev and Mack!

I had the same reaction as Zipmeister....I have scoured the internet and talked to a few coaches of other ncaa sports, and can't find anything anywhere about a fee to decommit, let alone a significant one...anyone else know anything??

Just throwing this out there for you to think about. I’ve been at the MAC Baseball Championships the last three years, and if you like college baseball, it is a blast. Played at Sprenger Stadiumin Avon Lake (was All-Pro Freight Stadium before name change) which is only a little over an hour from campus. The stadium is super fan friendly, with several micro brews on tap and high top tables and chairs on the mezzanine. Kinda strange to watch ball on a fully artificial surface, even the mound, but still fun. With Buffalo dropping out the new format is better, with 2 games the first day, then 3 the next two, and the Saturday and Sunday dependent on outcome. It’ll give everyone a chance to see what we’ll be up against in 2020. It’s even worth an overnight stay in the area with a HUGE number of pubs in the area after-game. The staff and the MAC do a great job of this one. Wednesday thru Saturday/Sunday May 22-26.

Who? Dre? We KNOW where he is....Trollsville!

HA! Found my old media guide and...December 1993, 3rd game of the season. lost 71-43....

It wouldn’t be the first time I’m wrong here. I swear it happened, but...I’ll do some homework...

I remember when Penn State played at the JAR to crickets....one if my most PISSED off moments towards casual Zips fans, and especially the ABJ for their lack of content and building up the game....

Wow...I mean, not to take a singe thing away from these young student/e-"athletes" (sorry if I triggered anyone). Maybe this is the track and field team's answers! e-track!

Had some doughnuts and coffee and watched a little of the football scrimmage on a beautiful morning, then wandered over the Lee Jackson, as the throwing events for the pieced-together NEO Quad track meet was underway. At YSU Friday on a crappy day, there were some okay performances by the looks of things, but talking to some of the runners and jumpers who were there yesterday to cheer on their throwing teammates, there's a real "downness" to their psyche. There's a lot of young talent coming up, like Nuh Andu in the HJ, Eldesouky in the LJ and TJ. Some nice young throwers as well. Coaches are really trying to keep things positive it seems, and the fact they were able to pull off this weekend says a lot. Then I wandered over nd watched little of the soccer match, and it struck me how, between InfoCision and FES-CCF sits this decaying facility where it seems no one in power at UA gives a hoot about. No wonder these men and women are a little disheartened. I did see Larry Williams on the track talking to coach Mitchell, which was a small positive for the day, other than the outcomes of the events.

Hey guys and gals, remember when the Western Michigan match was cancelled due to an electrical outage at FES-CCF? Remember how mad we all were, how outraged at the U and the Athletic Office? Remember some were even moved to e-mail and write letters about the situation? Well, I know all of your are soccer fans, but I also know you are Zips fans as well. I don’t know if you follow the other Forums on ZNO, but there’s a grave situation happening to one of our 3 Nationally ranked teams, the track and field squad. The outdoor facility has degraded to a point where it is unsafe to host meets, and so, the two outdoor meets that Akron hosts annually are actually going to be hosted - at Youngstown State. Embarrassing? In a nutshell, the team has been asking for repairs but they have not occurred, and the reigning MAC men’s indoor champs and women’s defending outdoor champs have to go to YSU. Also, some of the athletes have revealed they don’t even have locker room facilities, and have to change in a public restroom! The coaches and athletes obviously deserve better, and are trying to make the best of a bad situation, but if ALL Zip fans would voice that same displeasure we felt on that Saturday night last Fall to the administration, it will at least let them Know someone cares and that the program, which by the way is a net revenue producer, is important enough to do something so next year this doesn’t happen. Thanks for “listening”.

WAS an Akron Company....

I like Daniel a lot, but after watching their team the last few weeks, I don't see him fitting into a playing-time position there.....

So, the outdoor season got off to a great start down in Teh-Has, with Jordan Latimer (LJ) picking up where he left off indoors, and Lucy Bryan did as well (PV), and Curtis Richardson High Jumped over 7’ 2” for a PR. Beam threw javelin great, and they compete in Texas again this weekend...still nothing posted on first home meet....but evidently the athletes aren’t phased by the broo-ha-ha...or if they are they’re “rising above”...

I look for the administration to drop track and field at the end of 2019 school year. Both men and women and cross country. No title Ix fears in this, no million plus to repair track, convert Stile to just soccer, lacrosse and football practice. Saves on travel budgets for trips west and south for top-tier meets. I don’t think anyone in the current admin gives a hoot they’re nationally ranked and constant MAC contenders/champs. Plus, you could probably eliminate a marketing position and possibly an SID position, more savings. Hope I’m wrong, but have a strange feeling about this one.

I thank all of you for this discussion. I am/have learned a lot, and it is being discussed in a very civil discourse. Thanks to all posters so far....

They have a bank inside Speedway? More Drollery.....

I like to think of it as a total "drollery", or if you will, a total "gambol"....

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What Captain said about the new staff is so true. I had a chance to interact with several of the coaches (and players) when they volunteered as timers at the MAC Swimming and Diving Championships last month and they are great - young, enthusiastic, seem to be already liked and respected by the players who were there. Great attitudes, great senses of humor....

zippy5, they fell for the trap!