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Kent signed him to an extension after one year in which he went 1-11 (and a very bad, hopeless kind of 1-11)? Well, they deserve what they get then.

Would a loss to Colgate be the end of Moorehead? From a financial point of view, UA can't fire another coach under contract... or can it? KSU losing to St. Francis looks like the essential end of Kenni Burns'; KSU can't afford to fire him, but I think the writing is on the wall that he's not the guy. Same fate for Moorehead? His winning % is hardly better than Ionello's 2-22.

I have a scar on my knee when I fell down drunk in the RB parking lot in 1994. We could induct that.

Well, like for any private institution, 87k is the sucker price. On average, almost nobody pays that much.

A good point, but wasn't it pretty much unavoidable that UA had to build a new stadium? Was the Rubber Bowl still viable? I had not been there since the 90s, but I heard it was a nightmare to operate. I liked it as a fan though.

Why don't college soccer teams play overtime in the regular season? There's OT in the tournaments, right? The lady Zips went all the way to Moon Township PA last night and tied Robert Morris. Frustrating.

If true, UA could flop at a much reduced rate by not hiring Joe Moorhed for a base salary of 600K. I'm not saying you're wrog, but whatever UA makes from three blood money games against Power 5 teams is certainly not much more than the overall "cash" football budget (salaries, travel. equipment) as opposed to what the student activitiy fees also cover.

So see now that Tim Sykes left for VaTech, and two of the top runners from the 2023 MAC championship team went to Arkansas, but it seems like UA was slow to hire Syke's replacement. As of this morning there are only nine runners on the men's team. Also, Mary Munga is still listed on the women's roster but she transferred to University of Toledo (At least that is what the UT site says). I know I'm the mental patient for looking at this so closely, but Sykes today is still listed as an assistant T&F coach. At the very least, the UA SID needs to update some information on the website. https://hokiesports.com/staff/tim-sykes

I can hardly believe it. The ABJ actually ran a story about UA football: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/zips/2024/08/28/akron-zips-college-football-season-prevew-roster-coach-joe-moorhead/74922598007/

The UA residence halls are indeed sold out every year. Overall enrollment, as has been discussed in other posts, is way down due to a number of factors, including a nationwide downward trend in college enrollment (except for the "elite" universities and large land-grant "flagship" universities like Ohio State). NE Ohio is the perfect storm of larger national trends: a stagnant economy, a declining population, fewer academically viable males enrolling (fewer males surviving year one if they do enroll), and a lot of nearby competition: UA, KSU, CSU, YSU all within 50 miles of each other plus a lot of private institutions.

OSU main campus is already very selective in both general admissions and for specific colleges. My son had a 3.7 GPA and good ACT and OSU-main admitted him, but he could not get into the College of Engineering. He also didn't care for the whole OSU environment/culture (he is not interested in athletics or the Greek system, etc.). He chose The Univerity of Akron for many great reasons. I just wish more kids would look to UA as a destination.

Yep, or worse... Sorry to any closeted OSU fans on here, but Ryan Day seems like just the kind of asshole to run up the score on a MAC opponent. If he hadn't fallen into coaching, he'd be ripping off your dad at the Buick dealership.

I live in Columbus, but sorry, Zips, I just can't face this game. I'll open my eyes again in September. The only thing UA gets out of this is money. Everything else is a negative. Pray for an injury-free game.

I have been to many UA soccer games over the past 25+ years. I know very little about the sport in general and even less about the landscape of NCAA soccer. Maybe I'm wrong, but I kind of felt like at the end of last year that the steam went out of this program. Did UA get poached through the portal/NIL? The tie against ND sucked me in. Now I'm worried.

This seems like a good idea, and I'm pretty sure that the new UA President, Nemer, must be beind this initiative.

I subscribed to the Beacon and there is almost nothing about UA. The sports section has focused mostly on a preview of area high school football programs. I know the Zips have struggled, but you'd hope that the hometown newspaper would assign someone (anyone) to cover camp, etc.

UA enrollement is closer to 15,000 based on 2023-24 data.

I was too optimistic in 2022 and 2023 ( I thought 6 wins in each year), so I have to pull back a bit. I think UA wins 4 games this fall. That's an improvement, but it does not give me much hope for 2025 considering that the landscape of college football in general and the circumstances and challenges of the Group of 5 in particular has changed dramatically. Once a coach could build off of a progression of increased success (something to sell to new and higher ranked recruits, etc.). Now, you have to rebuild the team each year because whatever player success reveals itself during the season means those players will leave through the portal.

Earier I saw that several runners left UA for Arkansas, but I wonder what happend to coach Tim Sykes? He's still listed as an assitant T&F coach for UA, but I assume this is a website editing error. I had assumed he would appear somewhere (Arkansas?) as coach, but I do not see any news. Current UA mens roster only lists three runners as of August 6....

https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/akron-college-football-preview-2024-key-players-schedule-season-predictions Pete Fiutak sees something potentially positive for UA in 2024.

I am curious about the “conversion” of experience to credit too and sometimes a bit cynical as well. My older son is one year into his U.S. Navy service, and he is looking ahead to see what he could do in college. He's a submariner and a sonar tech, so I'm not sure how UA or any university offering these credit-for-experience programs can award credit for the training he's had and the experience he will accumulate at sea. Certainly some majors lend themselves to this better than others. I just hope his plans aren’t to major in dance.

I get what you're saying here, but this system of awarding credit for professional experience is not new. It's really good for mid-career applicants, who are a growing cohort in the university student profile. It's essentially an extension of the program that awards credit for military service and training. Hypothetically, I would be more interested in pursuing a business degree at UA, for example, if I knew that my 20+ years in international business, marketing and manufacturing could be applied to reduce the degree requirements.

Not really "again". Still an ongoing and serious issue for UA and many other universities around the country.

Or in outgoing athletic director's man cave.

I suppose one way of looking at it is that actual tax revenues are not used for, in this case, UA athletics. However, tuition (actvity fees) is financing athletics, and this often upsets students and taxpayers to the same extent that an actual state tax would. Therein is the proverbial shell (and semantics) game you reference. I agree.