ZipCat

It's the fact that those were our two options that looks bad. That's a failure of the Politically Appointed Board of Trustees. I for the life of me will never understand while alumni of this institution so willingly give a free pass to those politically appointed hacks. It's been nothing but failure from the BoT clowns, and you want to blame the AAUP...speaks volumes.

YSU is an absolute dumbster fire. I'm close friends with a lot of faculty at YSU, that is definitely not the route you want to go as a University. And hiring Jim Tressel to be President of the University of Akron was an absolute embarrassment, and does not speak well to the University that would be so desperate to do that. YSU was trying to cling to relevancy. UA is supposed, or at least was supposed, to have a higher credibility than trying to cling to relevancy.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded that someone can be so clueless as to think that it's okay to ask for $1200 IN DONATIONS (you don't even get anything for that) just to advance their own career.

Yes. And we won the game.

I swear to god it's me. I'm the problem. I turned off the game at half time, then noticed the score was tied and figured, what the hell I'll give them a chance and tune back in. The VERY play I tune back int, they fumble turnover. Good lord, it has to be me...

Does anyone enjoy watching Zips Football?

Welp this is getting ugly...

Well that wasn't great...

They have money on the outcome of the game?

Annnnnd with that, done watching this garbage.

We can't even get a play off...

Whoooooooooops. I think I had a few too many yesterday... 🤣

Let's not pretend Akron could get anyone better. Especially after Arth.

Dear god this offense sucks.

WHY. CAN'T. THEY. TACKLE!?

Jesus how do you give up a TD with 1:18 to go good lord.

HE MISSED IT!!!!!

Wow...playing 3 weeks of BIG-10 and SEC teams has made the Zips look pretty crisp.

Jesus christ ... folks is this worth it? Good lord.

So your problem is with the OP, not with my response. Perhaps you should redirect that statement at OP and not me. I merely responded to a thread, and responded to your response to that thread. That's fair game in any measure of a public forum. Nobody asked for you to respond to the "Athletic Budget" post, but it's perfectly fair game to respond to anything you say in it. The fact remains: Alumni SHOULD be invested in discussing these things.

But this is a real conversation alumni should have isn't it? Is Our Program actually worth it? Because we're not just sports fans, we're also alumni of our University. And it's more than appropriate to be having in a thread called *checks notes* Athletics Budget.

And even then, we shouldn't want that. I'd rather a Billionaire fund the ACTUAL University, to help build it's profile for the students who come, and make the U more sustainable in it's goal of academics, rather than athletics. I've always wanted athletics to be a valuable avenue for Alumni to reconnect with the U ... but let's just be real here, the majority don't. We are the few.

I'm as much a diehard zip as anyone. But somebody has got to be the canary in the coalmine. It's 2024. The answer for a Mid-Major isn't "spend more" in NIL 2024. Hell, if we're going to spend more put it into Soccer and Basketball where we stand a chance of being competitive at 1/10th the price of trying to be competitive in College Football.

This forum is just hilarious. ZERO people expected this game to be anything but a loss. ZERO people (except me the homer who alway says the Zips will win) thought this game would be anything but a devastating Loss. Yet everyone acts like the sky is falling, we need to fire Morehead now, after the two most predictable losses in the history of the program. Good lord. Folks: We've tried the fire-a-coach-every-three-years strategy numerous times, how the hell has that worked out over the past 20 years?