DannyHoke

That was a great game. Click here for the Video Flashback to the Zips win over the Herd

Noted. If you are aware of the history of the program, the fact is the earlier coaches dealt with a lot of junk that made a different other than wins and losses. Recruiting to and practicing/playing at The Rubber Bowl is a major astrisk for Faust, Owens, and Brookhart (first half of tenure). Almost impossible. The Ianello, Bowden and Arth eras have so much to work with, yet, have not delivered consistent results. That falls on Wistricil and Williams for hiring coaches that, 2/3, proved to not be able to recruit and retain relative talent from NE Ohio, or within 100 miles. You cannot win at Akron based on transfers and reputations from 15 years ago.

Noted and changed.

Dennison Biggest Win – Zips shutout Ball St on the road in 1976, 3-0 (Cards were MAC champs) Worst Defeat – Austin Peay blows out the Zips in a 1980 Rubber Bowl matchup, 41-14. Faust Biggest Win – Home standing Zips crush the UC Bearcats 31-0 under a warm autumn sun in 1989. Worst Defeat – Delaware STATE explodes on the Zips 52-26 in a horrifying 1987 Rubber Bowl tilt. Owens Biggest Win – Tough call here (almost went with the Jason Taylor “win” against Va Tech), but I finally decided on the thrilling 35-29 comeback victory over Navy in Annapolis, with Roger Staubach and other Midshipmen alums observing their 1999 homecoming game. Worst Defeat – Miami U actually takes a knee BEFORE HALFTIME, in a humiliating 65-0 shellacking down in Oxford to close out Owens 1st year at the helm in 1995. Brookhart Biggest Win – Getsy-to-Hixon with 10 seconds left, and Zips nip NIU 31-30 in 2005 MAC Championship. Worst Defeat – Any loss to K.E.N.T. blows, and the 37-15 whipping of 2006, after the Zips started the season so well in Raleigh, ranks up there in most sickening losses of all-time. Ianello Biggest Win – The coin says the 22-14 win over Buffalo to close out the 2010 season and provide Zip fans with only their third FBS victory at the Info to date. Worst Defeat – When you lose a home game to a team from the Big South, that’s all one needs to know: G-Webb 38, Zips 37 (OT) 2010. Bowden Biggest Win - Idaho Potato Bowl win

Vote for who you think has been the BEST COACH in Zip History.

Fleck played D1 ball and recruited/coached for 6 years in D1 FBS before coaching for a year in the NFL and then getting the WMU job. He coached under Tressel, Novak, Kill and Schiano and was on a coaching staff that played in the BCS National Championship Game. Campbell recruited/coached for 7 years in D1 FBS, including 4 bowl games, before becoming the interim head coach at Toledo. Head coached under Brandon at BG and was a part of the 2007 MAC East Title. Arth coached for 7 years in D3 and had two losing seasons in FCS before being bought out to become the head coach at Akron. Arth has never been to a bowl game as a coach and has not coached under anyone who has won a game coaching at the D1 level. Again, undisputed facts.

It's called sarcasm.

The Zips rushed for 9 feet (3 yards), net, on Saturday in the 21-0 shutout loss to Buffalo, the Bulls only road win of the season. Right now Akron is historically bad in football, as we have lost 12 games in a row, a losing streak which is officially the worst such streak in the 65-year history of Akron Football, besting the 11-game tabs of 1950-51, 2010, and 2012 The University has a new President who has only started his job in the last month. Athletics issues are not on his top 10 list, as Trustees have told him we are on the right path. The Head Football Coach is in year one of a new contract and is not going anywhere anytime soon. Trustees love him and his supposed "academic approach" to D1 football. The Athletic Director is in the next to last year of his contract, and is not likely going anywhere because the President has bigger issues to tackle than a bad football team, which unfortunately, is not a big deal here as we have been bad for so long that no one really cares. Same goes for the staff under him. The 2019 season has 5 games left, 2 of which are at home. Less than 2,000 people will actually be in the stands for these Tuesday night games. The AD will announce a made up paid number, as they announced 16,909 on Saturday which is a completely made up figure. No one cares about this. Focus now is on building for 2020, recruiting https://247sports.com/college/akron/Season/2020-Football/Commits/ and thinning out anyone on the roster not about 2020 and beyond. These are the facts, and they are undisputed. You can either get on the Gold Sweater bus, and hope for a better future, or get off. It's rolling on either way.

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Spuds is probably thinking that he could coach the football team to and not do any worse. Arth is a joke, and if he thinks his all-star game of D3 bumblers are going convince talented players to come to U ofA based on the honor of playing for the 0-12 coach then sure, we are all living in the 5th dimension.

Arth is in over his head, which is not his fault, he is a coach who was 9-13 in his ONLY D1 FOOTBALL EXPOSURE EVER at Chattanooga, yet Larry Williams hired him despite Arth having never recruited D1 Athletes. Dating back to last year Arth has now not tasted a win in 350 days. 9 straight losses for D3 Boy at the D1 level. Larry Williams is killing Akron Football and there needs to be a house cleaning at the top of the Athletics Program. Do the right thing Gary Miller and make wholesale changes in Zip Athletics.

You could've fit this into a :30 second commercial. Tune in this Saturday afternoon as we bring you the 6th loss of the season for the Zips, as the 72nd Wagon Wheel Game comes your way from Infocision Stadium. iCoach 2.0 will be losing his 9th straight game over the last two years and 90% of the stadium will be empty by the end of the 3rd quarter, so some inside for the Hot Dog Specials. It's Zip Football, against the Flashes, and we are going to lose again.

You know how they work... poorly.

And people going to the web site today see nothing about the game that starts in less than 6 hours. Sounds like you may be a staffer that is in charge of promotion since you are so defensive.

Show me a story where the Wagon Wheel game is mentioned? Promoted? And yeah, if it's the biggest home football game of the year someone should have put up a story this morning in the top page spot which had information on the game and how to get tickets.

Apathy is appropriate in as much a an A should be on the helmet. Today will show me something about Arth in how these guys compete. Let's watch. Let's the see crowd that shows up. Not a lot of hype about the AKRON/KENT STATE game here, there, or anywhere. Went to Ray's Place last night to watch the Cards/Nats and did not hear anyone mention the game or see anything from Kent or Akron Football in the bar. Both programs are rather invisible. We go for 5 in a row today and have won the last 3 v Kent at home. But no hype.The Wagon Wheel Football game is not even promoted in the first 8 stories on our own web site, and it's a home game. Soccer game is promoted, Rifle and Volleyball Match too. Football is out of sight and out of mind at Akron.

Peeps, at the end of the day, the facts are what they are. The Zips are 0-fer. I seriously doubt anyone here wants to see any Zip coach, athlete or admin fail.

This. Is. Pretty. Strong. Bravo Amigo

Ohio State Football makes more money in one quarter of one home game that Akron soccer will generate in the next 10 years. That's a math fact. There is no synergy of impact between the two examples other than they are male sports teams in Ohio.

No, I am not someone who was fired or related to anyone who has ever worked at U of A. I'm a Class of '89 alum and a parent of two Zip alums. I am a fan, and perhaps, if you actually were "thinking" about the facts I have presented, you would reach the same conclusions. Maybe some of you are fine with Zips Athletics mediocrity in Football and Men's Basketball... Is the current track of non-achievement mediocre? True/False. On Williams' watch two new sports have been added that will not be funded by the U of A at competitive levels against MAC opponents, in fact, they are presented as non-scholarship sports. This has been pushed forward despite the U of A suffering decreased enrollment and amidst claims by the U of A Upper Administration that future cuts to athletics are likely in the near future. What part of this is not factual? https://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/akron-likely-to-see-sports-cuts-with-new-budget-plan.html Men's Soccer is a non-revenue sport, despite making the College Cup, as there are no revenue shares from the NCAA or ticket sales that total even the benefits costs of Jared Embick's salary. At the end of the day, men's soccer brings in no more NET revenue than women's swimming and actually costs the U of A budget more. Williams gave a huge raise to the men's soccer coach despite Embrick having no other offers of employment, and now Embrick makes $300,000 per year, which is almost 3 times the average salary of a U of A Full Professor. https://www.insidehighered.com/aaup-compensation-survey/school-detail/university-akron-main-campus Is the men's soccer success pushing additional revenues to cover this salary bump? We would know if the Athletic Department published an annual report, but that has not happened the last two years. UA offered a buyout to 47 percent of its faculty in March, though some departments, including Athletics, were not eligible for the package. The university is also trying to address its dropping enrollment, now at a 10-year low, and has a history of financial problems as we all know. Officials originally predicted a deficit of $16 million for next year, though that was updated to $3.6 million earlier this Spring. Officials cited selectively filling vacancies and being “cost-conscious” with non-personnel costs as the reasons for the drop. The University of Akron spent $923,517 during the 2018-19 school year to pay three former presidents: Matthew Wilson, Scott Scarborough, and Luis Proenza, so the money that is being donated to U of A is truly going right out the door for no good of the students, academics, or athletics. Add in paying off Bowden and Arth's UTC exit fee... stop the insanity for a football program that sells less than 3,000 season tickets a year. That's right - the season ticket gross revenue for 2019 would not even cover the Bowden Buy-Out. The school owes Bowden, who was fired with two years left on his contract, $630,000. And it's giving Arth, a five-year deal that the Beacon Journal said is worth about $500,000 per year. Thus, in the next two years, Arth will be paid at least $1 million, Bowden will make $630,000 and Akron will be paying Arth's former school about $370,000. That's $2 million for a university that in August said it was projecting a $3.6 million budget deficit for this fiscal year, 2019-2020. Criticize me all you like, but if William's said football was his #1 priority when he was named AD then why are ticket sales, attendance and wins all going backwards in year 4 of his tenure. This is not sour grapes, is someone standing up for Zip fans and saying we deserve better.

No matter what the exposure is from recognizing your jersey name when you go to an MLS match, what is that really translate to for U of A? No one is coming to the school because they see your shirt and fewer people are giving money, probably due to your last point, which is GOLD, "The UA Board of Trustees keeps hiring unenergetic, uncharasmatic small thinkers." You could also toss in there that Zip Athletics is where unaccomplished people come and stay forever. Some may take this as a personal swipe, but it's not. I like the folks I have met, but liking people and them producing results is different. All I hear from Zip Athletics is excuses upon excuses. Same for the last 30 years. Now the chatter will be that the new President is a Wet Fish and "if we only had a good President we could do something". Give me something that Zip Athletics has done in the last 20 years that was innovative and has stood the test of time... one thing. It's pretty hard. The best thing this President could do for Athletics is to extend the bonused retirement offers to the 20+ year athletics employees and toss Williams at the end of his contract. Build a fresh new staff and move this thing forward.

If the culture is a winning one, why are the teams not winning? Are the same core people not still running things behind the scenes who have been there for 25+ years? Is Van Horne not a baseball alum? Did Van Horne influence the program from being eliminated in 2015? Did Van Horne not lead the charge to bring back baseball in 2018 > 2019 while in the midst of a massive budget crunch? Did one single donation solicited by Van Horne not start the process of bringing back baseball against all logic, despite not covering all expenses? Is Zips Athletics not in the midst of a major funding crisis, along with the rest of U of A? What above is not a confirmed fact? It's you that has not clue one.

Faust is a great human. Period. Along with Jim Dennison, true giants.

Kind of like comparing Brain Cancer and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma... both are terminal. It's a wash.

Van Horne is a baseball alum and focused his efforts on bringing back his sport, which he did not have the stones to save 4 years ago. A donor gave some of the money to help refurbish the old field but the baseball revitalization is already draining resources from the already strapped Zip athletics budget. It's not only Larry Williams that needs to be replaced. The AD suite has been the same tired bunch of people for the last 30 years. ADs come and go but the same BS group is hanging around as they can't get jobs anywhere else and never move up, constantly getting passed over. The culture behind the teams is bad, so the lack of performance is not surprising.