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Yes, I do prefer a more corpulent Zippy.

I live in Central Ohio, and in just a few short years I went from OSU fan to indifferent to OSU to hating OSU fans. Insufferable a-holes. The lunatic fringe in Columbus are the 2-3% who are not insane.

You're not kidding! A couple adminstrators down the road could scrape that together from their car ashtrays.

I think it is very likely that he still gets fired even with four years remaining on his contract. I have seen the contract and it does appear that the buyout is about 360k, not the remaining four years of salary like we are accustomed to seeing when coaches are fired (see Jimbo Fisher at TAM, who got a gillion dollars when he got canned, i.e. the entire contract's total).

UA's Bismark Kipchirchir runs an excellent 29:43.9 at the Men's NCAA XC Championship. He was 73rd out of 252 finishers. https://live.pttiming.com/xc-ptt.html?mid=7388 The sad part is that the clock is already ticking on a larger program picking him up via NIL as was the case last year with UA's top two runners and the coach.

So why can't/couldn't the MAC keep men's soccer as a viable sponsored sport? Money I guess.....😑

I saw the Kent State Golden Flashes trolled on Facebook as the KSU Electric Chickens 😝. I've never heard this before. I'm sorry that it took until age 57 to hear it.

There is no law school at KSU, but it's reasonable to assume many of its graduates go to law school in other locations.

It's only a matter of time before we find out he's hosting fentanyl-fueled midget orgies in his basement. One financial default is never the end of it.

Or it could be the pathway toward firing him, which would be good for KSU.

I had doubted this story, but it's all out there on the Portage County Court site. Makes half a million dollars a year and owes 23k to a local Kent bank. Burns Portage County.pdf

On other sites this info is showing up too. As well, there are rumors that Burns has been shaking down his assitant coaches for "loans". How do you make 500k+ a year and default on your credit cards? Bum.

Fair enough.

How did Jim Grobe get into this conversation??

I live in Picktown!

https://gozips.com/news/2024/11/16/cross-country-kipchirchir-garners-ncaa-cross-country-championship-berth Kipchirchir qualfied for the NCAA Championship in the Norton, Ohio Great Lakes Regional. The team was not able to complete in the top of the MAC this year, but this is still a good thing for UA. Sadly, our top two runners will get plucked away by a larger program.

Cutting sports in an already slim program is a challenge. Baseball and mens cross country were recently brought back, and Title IX at a university with football makes cutting any women's program impossible. It's a difficult problem for UA in particular. Cutting football could make sense IF (!) UA were not on the hook for millions of dollars for Infocsion Stadium, a venue that is used for nothing but football....and the football blood-money games are essential to keeping the entire athletics program going. I think the only solution to any of this is for the new UA President to get more student on campus. As difficult as that has been, what else keeps UA and its athletics viable?

All I'll say is that Zippy (the live mascot) had a pouch going back to at least 1987 because I personally witnessed the KSU Flash tear her pouch at the ACME-Zip game. Zippy threw a real, deep punch into Flash's air hole. Good times.....

Tom Wistercill, I think, is the Big Sky commissioner. Careers continue on sometimes in spite of obvious negatives.

https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/Roovember2024 I know that many of my fellow UA alumni are angry and frustrated about the actions and lack of action by UA's Board of Trustees over the years. I am too. However, I still love our university, and I believe that our new President will be a positive force for the future of UA. As well, I have a dog in the fight - my son is a current UA student in mechanical engineering. The Roovember campaign allows us to make specific donations to UA’s schools, departments and projects that directly support current and future UA students, including UA Athletics. This year I chose to support UA's Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering & Polymer Science. Thank you

Getting fired from a dumpster fire like Vegas could be a blessing. In a terrible system run by a terrible owner, somebody has to be the scapegoat. Head coach Pierce will be next.

I do not know much about NCAA soccer. What is the pathway for the NCAA playoffs for a team like Akron? Automatic bid for winning the Big East tournament? At-large bid for being highly ranked?

Looks like Torterella was at Akron for three years going back to the early 2000s?

Kent alumni and former Kent coaches have done pretty well in spite of KSU being at the bottom of CFB since around 1976: Don James, Saban, Pinkel, Lou Holtz, Glen Mason, Sean Lewis (The jury is still out on him overall, but he managed to do what nobody ever did at Kent since Don James - have mutiple winning seasons and bowl game bids). At this point, I'd hire Charles Manson is it meant UA would go 6-6.