ZipCat

Sad thing is, we can't say iCoach was the worst coach in Akron history...

Sorry I'm a little behind, but does anyone know when/why the rest of the MAC games dates and times hasn't been released? This just seems completely ridiculous that 4 games officially have dates and times but the rest don't? And it seems to be this way across the NCAA ...

Every major decision of the board of trustees over the past 20-years has been a complete disaster. UA wouldn't be in the position of potential bankruptcy and dissolution if it weren't for the bungling monumentally weak decision making by the BOT. Have I met any of the Trustees? Yes, in the past. The current ones? No. Am I wrong that the BoT are political appointments in Ohio?

I feel like this has been discussed a trillion times before. Unlike OU, which is in the middle of nowhere. Unlike Cincinnati, which is a larger city with it's own relatively unique culture and a larger student-base, There's another D-1 college right down the road...not to mention OSU. Yeah people show up to The Akron Rubberducks because it's over the summer. The best student Turnout we had to games was in the RooWards days and when they were doing stuff like Blackout game and tuition giveaways. Guess what? Those people behind that weren't valued, and the University refused to pay them what they were worth, so they rightfully moved on to Bigger Universities who were willing to pay them more.

Because Akron is seen as a stepping stone, a resume builder, nothing more. And Board of Trustees spots aren't awarded to people who care about the University of Akron or community, they're political appointees in a state that constantly doubles down on not caring about education. Even people in this very forum, crap on professors and people who work at the University, who are the very people that ... if you pay them well and trust them to be experts in what they do, can help build that sense of community. But instead the state and political powers at be just see Akron as a glorified community college; so the community and students are going to treat it as such.

Except G5 programs only exist as resume-builders for everyone involved so they can jump to the real jobs that are the P5. I'm sorry GP1, but those days have come and gone. And when we're seeing massive cuts to ACTUAL EDUCATION over, and over, and over, and over ... at some point we have to reconcile that it's negligence to act like we can be competitive and keep flushing money down the drain.

Bingo. The days of being a competitive G5 team that can "build a fanbase" are gone folks. OSU is king here, and OU and Cincinnati take whatever is leftover. Maybe you could have done it in 2013 by beating Michigan, enduring Akron into the OSU fandom's hearts or something...but that was really the last window. You're not doing it in 2025...how many times are we doing to double-down on the fallacy that Akron can be competitive at Football?

I'm as much of a diehard as any Zip fan, but this is just delusional. You stand a better chance of building a fanbase by having a signature win in a season you go undefeated, than you do by playing Somebody-Nowhere-University. Remember Indiana University 4OT loss?

I naturally agree, but not sports ... not when the University is in debt, and a lot of it has to do with the debt burden from supporting athletics with that white Elephant of a stadium.

It's behind a paywall, but how does this make any sense? The Football Program doesn't cover costs, so if you're cutting "money games" you're cutting the ability to fund the program, and the University is in a debt crisis. How does this make ANY sense?

Having a little fun with the LLM today. Why it picked this, have no idea. I laughed though.

And yet mentioning them both in the same conversation infers and implies one causes the other.

What should boil everyone's blood is that one of the people involved with covering up the abuse is a current congressman representing Ohio. Who never bothered to be there for ANY of the Victims, but cried and begged the victims to say something nice about him and to keep the stories a secret while he rand for congress.

Let's be real here: College Athletics WAS NEVER competitive, it was always the illusion of competitiveness to favor a class of overpaid managers who pad their resumes while collecting 6 and 7 figure salaries, generating billions in profits "non-profit revenue" on the backs of unpaid college athletes. Yes, the athletes should be paid. Yes, the athletes probably should unionize. Yes, Millions of Dollars should be considered income, and yes they should pay taxes. College athletes already employ professional agents, and have for decades. Where have you been to not know that only a handful of top schools "do well" why the rest are just there to feed the trough for everyone else? That's literally been true for the entirety of me following college athletics before athletes started getting paid. Why TF does everyone have a problem with people sharing in the profits they generate? It's a really fucked up mentality.

The removed the grove of Dawn Redwoods which was disappointing.