ZipCat

It's true though. The school colors are BLUE AND GOLD, why TF are we wearing all white? White Helmets...yuck.

I'm a homer. Zips 27 - 24. Luckily, the point spread was +50 when they opened and I placed a bet, and they wouldn't allow me to pick the Zips to win ... lol. I will not be going to the game, I will be getting drunk on my couch at home sitting in ice cold air conditioning.

Well technically Credit/Debit or Checks are not a form of US currency, they are a third-party product to facilitate an exchange; there is no federal law dictating that fiat currency has to be accepted, just that you have to pay sales tax on the exchange. If the venue wanted to accept only haggling exchange for livestock they technically could. Though, there'd have to be a robust accounting for tax purposes as to the exchange of goods.

When your options were Scarborough or a Football Coach, your selection committee has failed you. And lets be real here: Scarborough was hired to be a hatchet guy. Period. Fullstop. He wasn't hired for any other purpose. To be a hatchet person for an incompetent BoT made of political appointees.

It's not mutually exclusive. That's the point. We don't need to insult other people's professions to make ourselves feel better. Especially with something as utterly clueless as, I don't know, educators being at Universities. What a joke.

It's just annoying to continually hear people pour out a misguided take about how educators "aren't real". Especially when talking about a freaking University. It's braindead level stupid. The attack on educators and education has to stop. As if educators aren't somehow "real world" people. Just ridiculous.

L @Ohio State L @Rutgers W vs. Colgate L @ South Carolina W vs. Ohio W vs.Bowling Green L @ Western Michigan W vs. Eastern Michigan W vs. Buffalo W @ Northern Illinois W @ Kent State L vs Toledo 7-5. (6-2 MAC).

An utterly insulting, misguided and utterly clueless statement.

Well folks, I successfully defeated the Kent State Golden Flushes 120 - 3 (in a practice game to get used to the controls and new format). There was no mercy. There were 15 sacks, Heisman candidate (/j) CJ Nunnally IV had 6.5 sacks in the game; 10 solo tackles, and 4 TFL. Go Zips.

It's 2024. If there's a service outage you probably have bigger concerns than the service outage.

What's a checkbook? (/j)

Akron victory at Ohio State confirmed. Go Zips.

I mean we're talking apples and oranges right? It's not just Football in NEO, it's Football ... in the Fall ... Ohio State is also on to watch and play. Baseball is the summer, when there isn't much else going on in terms of sports, and not at the same time the Guardians play. The two scenarios are nowhere comparable; and to say they are, with all due respect, is a false equivalency.

Aren't we selling ourselves to the highest BIG-10 bidder?

It'd be nice if it had the Wagonwheel for Kent v. Akron... Also It'd be nice to have like several Logo options for the Zips, along with several uniform options. But I doubt they'd have that level of detail for the Lowly Zips.

Fair enough. Sometimes I hyperfocus on the potential negative aspects of something because I can be a bit cynical. Because simple application of a blanket experience is not necessarily a replacement for something else. Take military service, a lot of states are offering accelerated degrees for secondary education giving experience credits for having served in the military; but what classes the replace are completely unrelated to whatever that person did in the military. Just because someone can prep a group of soldiers for a military exercise, does not mean they can easily manage a classroom of 30 middle-schoolers. It's a completely different skillset. States like Florida go ahead and give the waver for both classroom pedagogy and content to get them degrees faster; and they have the highest burnout amongst new teachers. I'm always hesitant, but I see your point, it seems like if it's used properly it's totally valid.

aka, the devaluing of a college diploma.

This Ohioan is up at the crack of 4:15, AIS by 5:00am, coffee piping hot in thermos (you have to let it cool for an hour, so you can sip it for the next hour because we ain't stopping until we need gas 3.5 hrs from now) and on the road 🤘

True, but the argument of where the money comes from is the problem. It's far less impactful if spread across a large group as opposed to concentrating it on a small group. Which is why taxpayers like myself are perfectly happy paying slightly higher taxes to subsidize students so they can start off on a better footing than starting out in life with tens-of-thousands of debt. Collective investment is always better than individual price gouging. And if I'm a student on campus, I want my tuition+fees going to my educational experiences more than a scoreboard in the stadium. I was on campus 2008-2013 through all the wasteful spending. I believed it then just as much as I do now. I'd rather that money be spent on benefitting my education, than my love of athletics.

And yet the fans refused to show up to those things. Akron and Kent have the closest Rivalry in all of the NCAA Divison-1 and those stadiums still sit 1/4 full on gameday.

I think this is one of the most glaring problems in our modern American society. We've shifted so much of the burden of educating the workforce, which ultimately drives our economic competitiveness and GDP growth, to the shoulders of students rather than seeing education as the investment that it is. And on top of that, the financial burden has been greatly increased to include things that are objective not part of the educational experience and rather solely exist for the Alumni Participation and Administrator Resume building; all funded on the backs of student debt. It was student debt that funded a new scoreboard and that white elephant of a stadium, not me as a Taxpayer of the city. And, while some HS events are certainly held there, it's saving me the Taxpayer money on having to build multiple stadiums for multiple schools when we could just rent Infocision instead. Sure it's a win-win, but it's saving me money rather than costing me money, so saying the scoreboards are for me the taxpayer is strange to say the least.

Are the Taxpayers actually the ones benefiting from a Video Board though? As a taxpayer of the City of Akron for 10-years, any of my taxes going to UA I do not want it subsidizing a video board at any stadium on UA's campus, I'd rather be subsidizing the education costs of people to fill local jobs in my community for the next 2-decades. I guess granted, I might be on the outside of opinion on this, I don't see facility upgrades on UA's Campus doing anything for the taxpayers. Season Ticket holders? Sure. Students? Now that's where I'd be more concerned.

True...but neither does the Non-SEC/BIG teams making their own separate conference.

And, just like the AFL, nobody will watch.

Was it though? I can't remember the last time I gave a flip about what a scoreboard looked like. Highschool, College or Pro. Rather I see it as someone building their resume that they did something so they