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I know this is an apples & oranges comparison, but just about everyone I know who spent money to advertise their new websites.... in the end the websites ended up failing. On the other hand, I have never spend a dime to advertise a website, and have had significant successes. The point is the product. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you spend on marketing, the message is lost, along with the money you spent, if you don't get the desired effect.Some companies spend a lot more money on figuring out market for audience and demographics than they do on the ads themselves. Simply plastering the papers and the airwaves with your message is a waste if 99% of those people wouldn't come to your game if you put a gun to their head. Why drop $50,000 on radio ads all across the dial when the net result if 27 more tickets got sold???Marketing is a little more than money and creative minds. That is absurd.Let's take the I-phone. It was advertised and marketed very heavily. Now let's say when the product came out it was garbage. Sure they had some great initial sales. However, after that everyone knows the product is crap and no one buys it anymore.People know that UA has a football team. However, people also know that UA is is near the bottom in one of the worst, if not worst, conferences in all of college football.If Akron started winning, everything else takes care of itself. Do you think the big guys sell out 90-100,000 seat stadiums because they have a beter marketing department? No, it's because they put a good product on the field.The big guys don't even needs marketed. Their products sells itself.

Regarding Michigan State being the leading contender: Last I checked, Will had just two offers -- Akron and Hawai'i. Has that changed?If we can't get a local kid whose father is a coach here, that says a lot about our program.I understand if he was being recruited by all the big boys. However, he isn't and Akron still may lose himAs for going to Hawaii over Akron. Well, I am pretty sure that Hawaii would offer all those guys that UM, OSU, ND, PSU, etc offer.However, they can't get them away from the big guys.

If UA has your current address and you are an alum, you should be receiving the "Akron" magazine which has lots of stories about the academic and sports achievements and the new campus upgrades, stories about UA alumni, as well as current staff and faculty.I get that maybe once a year.

Certainly is.

Negative talk on this board? You make it sound like it is a crime for wanting more.......no expecting more, because that is what we should be doing. Sounds like you want us to sugar coat things. We both want success but you can't get there unless you acknowledge your weaknesses and mistakes. We wanna be big time you gotta act big time, expect big time, but at the very least you should minimize mistake, no holdings, dropped passes, redundant screens, etc. These are all easy fixes!!!!!I remember when Bill Snyder Kansas State's head coach at the time, came into our locker room after we just got our heads kicked in by his team, said that they were once where we are, and to stick to doing the right things,work hard, and not just believe but know you are better than your opponent, don't EVER settle for less.If you are used to a Faust 1-11 season a L.O. 2-10 season saying 7-5 is great is settling, it's settling for good when you should strive to be great. Saying stuff like *in a mopey voice* "Well we were 3-2 at half with OSU and barely lost to Temple, Buffalo, Miami, and Central. We could be 8-4!!Could be 8-4 don't sell tickets, get better recruits, or go to bowl games!!! The teams 8-4 or better like OSU, Indiana, UConn, Central ya know the teams we lost to?!! Go to bowl games, get better recruits, and don't have to fudge ticket sale numbers to keep D1 status. Teams like Louisville, Kansas St. Boise St., Hawaii, stop settling. Like we should too.Actually at many of the major schools, if a coach has too many 8-4 or 9-3 seasons he will be fired.I don't think anyone is asking for a NC or even a top 20 team. We are merely asking for a respectable and entertaining team to watch. We are aksing for a team that consistently beats the teams they should beat. Yes, there are upsets. However, there isn't usually 4-5 the same season. Once that happens, they aren't upsets.Here at Akron most of us would be happy with 8-4 and crazy about 9-3. I don't think that being negative because we aren't even a 500 team is a bad thing unless you are used to losing and accept it.We finished 2005 at 7-6 after the bowl game. Everyone called that a great year for Akron.........Talk aboiut being happy with mediocrity.If any national powers had consecutive 7-6 seasons, the coach would be gone in a heartbeat. Here at Akron we are happy about it.7-6 should be a down year/rebuilding year at UA. Not a good year. I couldn't believe early in the year when people called this a rebuilding year. What?????????????????????????????????? Did we go 8-4 or better last year? Did we win the MAC?How can you have a rebuilding year after a year that you were not very good? That is a losers mentality.We really need to change that. I am not calling for JD's head. He is a young coach that I think is learning on the job. Many great coaches took more than 5 years before they started winning. To call out posters and say they are being negative is absurd.If you want to see negative, go to other teams boards that are whining because they only beat a team by 21 points when they think it should have been more. Or they lose one game and are calling for a coordinators head. Not all negative talk is bad. Some of it is reality.

Is he practicing?

Is Roberts on the team?I believe that he would not be eligible until Dec 19th. So he wasn't dressed but that should not mean anything. With Ronnie having chest pains which is really scary, I hope Roberts is able to help.What is the status of the younger McNight?

Very sad to hear. Hopefully he will be back next season.Thoughts and prayers to the family of the young soldier...

Come on now. We could have easily been 9-3.

Is Roberts on the team?

I know Givens shows a verbal on scout or rivals, but is he really coming here? I thought I read a while back that he was somewhere else.

That's the best we could do with the nations top (pending) facilities? Nothing against coach Matthews, but if this rumor is true then we should be able to get someone with a better overall record.This is waaaayyy too fast. If this were the case, that would mean that they already had planned on firing JD weeks ago and already have had contact with this other coach. I find that hard to believe.I would think there would be some type of search to find the best available talent. Not just pick 1 guy and go with him.However, if this is true, it could end up being good. This is much better for recruiting to get a guy in here right away instead of having to wait until January. Hopefully, if true, this guy is the right guy.

Accoridng to Scout. He only had offers from E. Michigan, W. Michigan and UA.The others were all interest. There is a big difference between an offer and interest.

Ditto here. I told my son that Oregon looked like Akron now that their Heisman-candidate QB is on the bench with a bum knee. What a difference a player (or two) with athletic/leadership ability can make. Too bad for Oregon. I was hoping to see them stay in the hunt for the championship game if for no other reason than a change of pace from the usual big-name suspects that usually bubble to the top.This is the problem when you watch teams only occasionally. You may watch a game they lose and think they are bad. The thing is that all teams have a bad game. I feel that once Dixon went out that the team was down and out. When your star player gets injured it affects the rest of the team.Great teams sometimes lose. It doesn't mean that they aren't better than the other team. It means on that one particular night they weren't very good, and the other team was.Stanford is not better than USC. Illinois is not better than OSU. Kentucky is not better than LSU. The list goes on and on.The 1985 Dolphins were not better than the 1985 Bears.When you are a top ranked team you are getting the opponents best every game. Even the best teams can't be ready for every game. That is why, IMHO, we need a playoff in DI.I 100% agree Oregon looked bad last night. However, if you would have watched them numerous other times, like I have , you would know that they are much better than they showed last night.

Typical coach speak.

I really hope that after having a year in the program and having some good reps in springball that Matt Rogers becomes the answer for UA.I believe that UA has the 2 worst QB's in all of college football.I haven't seen every college QB, but I can't believe there can be any worse than what we have. Jackson looks completely lost when he is in the game. He looks like a true freshman thrown into a NC game. He is clueless.Jacq. is just horrible. His passes float and he throws into coverage. He underthrows every pass. He is also a statue in the pocket. He doesn't roll out or create any type of confusion for the defense. He must have cement in his shoes.It seems like the other team must have 20 guys playing defense. That is the only way that every receiver that he throws to can be triple covered. It seems like he sees any open receiver, but wants to thread it between 3 guys instead. He doesn't read the defense. He doesn't work down his progressions. It seems like he has a primary receiver and he will throw to him no matter what. It hurts to watch.This makes me long for the days of Andy Kubic and Mark Friday.....

I like it .............. :thumb: :thumb:I like it too. I love the flame ball going up and in. That was nice.

It sucks when you can only get verbals from guys that won't qualify.I know that was low. I apologize.

Me, too. Then we wouldn't have to worry about the NFL broadcast blackouts....This thread is amazing. I have usually stayed out of the CF conversations, because I wasn't sure how he would do in the NFL.Plus, I liked him when he was at QB for UA. I felt confident in the offense with him at QB.However, it is hilarious how some posters are giving every excuse in the world why DA is doing so much better than CF did.Wow, after the first game of the year, everyone said how bad this team was and how the o-line sucked and they had no offensive weapons. Now people are saying that CF didn't have the same line and weapons that DA does. That is BS.Tucker is the only difference. Sorry, but he isn't Jonathan Ogden or Orlando Pace.One of the BIGGEST complaints about CF was that he held the ball too long and that resulted in many of the sacks.The CF lovers said it was the o-lines fault. Well, that has obviously proved to be wrong. I knew this thread would eventually come up and that the lovers would defend him to the world. I am still amazed at how blind some posters are.I know skippy boy will come here and bash me now, because that is all he can do. Also, since I am a grad of UA and another school, that makes me no fan of UA. I know this skippy, no need to reitterate your childish behavior.

SGM, I was wondering how long it would take you to post this. DA is looking good. I am just happy that the Clowns have a QB.BTW, since you are a Browns fan, I hope you live in Cleveland.

I don't know if it is JD lack of coaching ability or if it is his terrible assistants. Of sourse he is responsible for the assistants too.This team lacks so many things. Discipline, creativity, development, talent.

There is a difference between recruiting at risk student athletes and recruiting guys that have no chance of qualifyling.JD has recruited quite a few guys that never had a chance of qualifying. Many teams take at risk students. However, they at least have a chance at qualifying. Most of the guys that don't qualify don't even make it the following year. Being a prop 48 is one thing, but never even making it at all is pathetic.This is what JD's problem is. It's not that these guys aren't qualifying as Freshman, it's that they never see the field.JD needs to find a way to retake this team. He has completely lost this team. He has to get it back.

It almost seems like the team has quit on him. This team is getting worse as the season goes on. it should be getting better.

If we had a real newpaper in town everyone would know why CJ7...the QB that beat K.e.n.t...isn't on the field. But we don't, so we don't. Nice job, DL Morgan. Could you imagine being in Columbus...and Troy Smith beats Michigan in September (for argument's sake)...and sits on the bench the rest of the season...and no reporter ever asks "What gives?" to Tressel at any point through October?I agree. However, if we had any "insiders" we would know also. Other boards have people that are very close to the program and know what is going on. Here, we don't even have anyone that can tell is if someone is or isn't on the team.

Captain, Nice post. I agree 100%.Perhaps if we can get a good/elegible recruiting class this year things will start to turn around.JD is a young coach. I am sure he is learning as he goes too.