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Ahhh, don't worry about it, this isn't exactly the National Archives. While the heads-up is nice to keep the conspiratorial theorists among us quiet, we appreciate all the effort that goes into maintaining ZNO. This is all assuming, of course, that none of MY posts were deleted.

I've been to both Roberston stadium at the University of Houston and the Info. The Info kicks Roberston's butt now (well other than the Heisman trophy banner), but that might be the reason they want him. Almost no one is any job in the country has such loyalty to a place that they wouldn't take a better position somewhere else (otherwise they are likely retired in place). I wouldn't even be surprised (nor hold any grudge) if in a few years after more success, KD went on elsewhere. It is a fact of life in smaller leagues. The job a a higher-pressure (and higher paid) university does not draw everytone, however. Alabama has now had 5 head coaches since 2000. I wouldn't be happy to be a fan of their program right now either. By the way. Mack is one of eight people vying for the UH job. Odds aren't good, but if he gets it, good for him.

Buffalo - FootballMarshall - Football (they brought them back from the dead literally)It would be fairly easy to look at all 120 D-1 schools and come up with a list of schools that have had to cut sports to save money and brought them back when alumni and school attendance were able to support it.Marshall never dropped football, they even played the year after the crash. They have had a team continuously since 1919.

With Zeke the Zip being ofizzle now (man I just can't pull that off), at least we know that will be the only ZZZZ's in the JAR for the next few years. As a matter of fact, I think Dr. Z should be forced to transfer his moniker for the next four years.

Interestingly, the distance between their current and proposed arenas is almost exactly the same as ours, a little over a mile difference. The biggest difference though is the majority of our campus lies bewteen the two sites while the majority of theirs is all to one side. We'd still have a little better situation in my opinion.

It is a great roster. So who will be taking over for Evan Bush? Is it Meves? Last freshman goalie we had (Bush) worked out pretty well.

There is a pretty interesting article from the Columbus dispatch about how open FBS schools are to athletics records (particularly football).Columbus Dispatch ArticleIts hows how amenable schools were to giving the records, lots of schools blanked them out, Akron did not get very good marks in that regard. Some wanted too much money to cover the cost of the request (most were under $100, all but one was under $1,000 and the University of Maryland wanted over $30,000 - I guess when you have a 10% basketball garduation rate, you have a lot more to hide). The Zips have also been hit with only one major violation ove the last 50 years or so, it was in 1984 and it was the only violation they ever got. Arizona State is tied for the lead with 8 majors (and a number of minors) while the entire MAC only has 10 majors between all 14 teams. Buffalo leads the way with three. I definitely question one stat for Akron though, it says the general student population graduation rate is only 36%. That can't be right. Anyway, a pretty interesting article with some useful information.

They ranked us one spot ahead of Purdue (they were #94 and had a 46 position drop from last year). i don't agree with that but they always have a "teaser" at the bootm of the page to give you a clue who the next team is. The teaser at the bootm of the Purdue story for Akron was Who is No. 93?: Our next school was ranked by the Princeton Review as the No. 1 best value among American private colleges.I'm thinking there may have been a mistake.

That is true and The Mob would sound way better than Pouch, Roo Zoo, etc. I say we go with it.

Well I was really more interested in a Shakespearian sonnet with an interesting iambic pentameter but since you asked for haiku:Football 33Can't's to Akron's last champAnd Basketball 1But I'll end with a limerickSo that you say that our team's in the canAnd it was never a part of our planBut you cannot complainuntil you've suffered real painand tragically end up as a K.S.U. fan

I think the fact that the facade is going up on the pressbox might be the best view of the "finished" product. It looks great, a whole lot better than that "roughed in" concrete look. I have no doubts at all that the stadium will be ready on time.

I think Mike was just trying to find a clever, yet safe way to use "taint" in his blog.I think the Captain was just trying to find a way to get mentioned in Rasor's blog.

I'm right there with you (and as a matter of fact if you go to the game, I will literally be right there with you), but I really hope they decide to have all that spit and fire on the 5th of September, and not wait until the 15th.

The ones you linked to are the ones actually worn by the team. You can see them on Humpty Hitchens from a link earlier in this threadhttp://uaim.dyndns.info/photo_galleries/_A...e/021109015.htmThose are not available publicly as far as I know, I think they are exclusively for the UA men's team. The other shoes are the collectors edition (who would have ever thought sneakers would become collector's items?) that are available to the general public. From what I understand there were only about 3,000 pairs made.

I finally got the shoes, they are pretty nice. I think I will only wear them to tournament games. I attached a picture in case you want to get a better look at them. I folded down the inside flap on the shoes so you could see where the UA logo was placed. Fairly well hidden but at least it's there. Also on the sole it has "LeBron" on one side and "unstoppable" on the other (couldn't he at least have put (Ak)(LeB)ron on the one side? ). With the way this year's playoffs are going, he might be right. By the way did anyone notice at the end of Game 2 against Atlanta, when Joe Smith was shooting a foul shot, there was an ad for Akron up on the scoreboard? I'm just hoping it worked as subliminal advertising. Anyway, here are the shoes (did anyone else manage to get a pair, did they get sold around Akron?):

That's one of the other things that appears to show Zeke is an independent thinker. This game does not has the prestige of previous years and they mention that Zeke is the only D-I player to participate. I'm sure other D-I players at least got an invite, but I'll bet some turned it down for not being "big league" enough. I'm glad Zeke doesn't think that way. I'm happy he is going to come to play basketball for us since that is a very visible aspect but I'm even more proud that an independent thinker like that chose the Zips because it is where he wanted to go to school, not just to play basketball.

I think it is a very challenging schedule. Good for a team with National title aspirations. I'm glad we get Indiana at home, but I think we might as well just apply for Big Ten associate membership (and that way Northwestern can't keep ducking us:)). And why all the hate for Oklahoma State Unversity. It's a fine school.

At least we aren't playing Army this season

Or Rosey Brown, Len Ford or Willie Lanier (all of whom are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame with Leroy Kelly) - we maybe have a shot with one.Also Chester, Raymond (1970 - 1981) Franks, Elvis (1980 - 1986) Fuqua, John "Frenchy" (1969 - 1976) Meggett, Dave (1989 - 1998) Shiancoe, Vishante (2003 - 2008) for a few other guys you may have heard of. Morgan's NFL player history eclipses Akron in quality and quantity. Not to say that I expect the game to be that close or a Morgan victory, but they do have a pretty impressive history.

My guess would be that Jeff will have to recuse himself and Keith will handle the visit. Anybody know any good asst coaches out there that happen to be named Jeff Smart (or perhaps the less likely Shaka Boals? )

Much better - thank you.

Nor the soccer team Fab 5 (selected to the USA National Youth team). I'll take all of the "Fab 5" players we can get.

The program will go on just fine, KD has both a process and a reputation to fall back on to hire more quality assistants. Remember Shaka Smart was an assistant in the early years and somehow we survived without a guy who was a very good recruiter and was thought of well enough to get the VCU job as his first job. I like Coach Boals a great deal but I also hope that he ends up doing what is best for him, even if that would mean leaving our program. I certainly hope not, but it does (and should) happen. That just indicates the quality of asst. coaches we can get. And to the poster of this topic, would it have killed you to add a question mark at the end of the subject line? I thought he was already gone.

Agggh - what happened to the Cams? Alll I get is a 404 page not found error when I try to link to where they were. Did they move?

A GoZips article said that the soccer team had five players named to the US Youth Soocer squad (and only Kofi Sarkodie is already playing for us). THis program just looks better and better. I hope we get to a place like UNC in basketball soon where getting four or five blue chip players will just seem routine to us, instead of amazing but I can't wait for futbol season to start either. Right after I bought my season football tickets, I sent some money to both the basketball and soccer teams too, the football team for potential and the other two for results.