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I will have my Zips Soccer shirt on!!! We've had some great soccer in D.C this week that is for sure. Had dinner with a coach from Maryland last night, he said their UCLA game set records for attendance. I would imagine our game tomorrow will also be electric…….they know very well who we are and know it is going to be a battle.

pphilfran - Ignore Capt Kangaroo. He blames everything bad in this world on Rob Ianello - ISIS, riots, racial tensions, global warming - ALL Rob Ianellos fault. I agree, we do need to patient and we have the best coach we could hope for. It hard for even a Bowden to bring talent in after the miserable seasons we've had and an empty stadium for recruiting visits. Heck, our soccer coach lost one game this year and some Zip fans want him fired. Thanks for coming on. Good luck this season.

What I mean is that there has been a lot of negativity around the "The University of Akron" in the last years. The football team (our marquis sport) has been terrible. The University of Akron's academic rep has taken some hits around graduation rates,, financial issues, olive jars, restructuring some of the curriculum, decreasing enrollment, lowest attendance in the NCAA, etc. I think it is important academically and athletically to appeal to those outside of the Akron footprint. IF (and this is a big IF) we start to show improvement in some of these areas and there is some positive mojo created - lets pin it to The Ohio Tech Zips. Put the 1-10 seasons and all the other negativity on the University of Akron. There are several reasons to rebrand listed here, I think we fit most of them. http://brandingforthepeople.com/when-is-it-time-to-rebrand-your-company/

Great stuff…..I like it!! I hope I am right about this but I believe as the cloud is lifted from our football team and our basketball team continues success, and soccer - it will accelerate the transformation to Ohio Tech. It is a great time to re-invent yourself as The Ohio Tech Zips. To me the new Z logo, the name change is all happening to coincide with anticipated attention. Perfect timing in my opinion. Now if the ABJ would leave us alone. Of course they couldn't just print that we have a new marketing campaign to attract new students and promote positives…..they had to include the financial issues (almost defeats the campaign).

Looking forward to the game on Monday. Great atmosphere at Maryland……I will be proudly sporting my Zips gear. Terps finish #1 UCLA https://www.facebook.com/marylandterrapins/videos/1033712476639379/

I was at the game….we looked good. Nice rebound by the Zips. This is a brutal road swing….if we can beat Maryland on Monday…..wow! GO ZIPS!! Maryland beat #1 UCLA last night!! Hoyas play #1 UCLA on Monday - GO HOYAS!! For those that want tough schedules in our other sports…we sure have that with Akron Futbol.

Will do. In the meantime you just keep being your cheery..optimistic self. Maybe we will lose the next game and then you can start sharpening your axe again.

Nice win Zips AND Coach Embick ;-)

Good news is…..we are one of the top basketball programs on that sheet. :-)

WOW!!

It is not going to……embrace it!

And our team essentially has been gutted by underclassmen going pro early. It is very hard to maintain stability when you are producing pros. 1 loss and people start complaining……….unreal!!

Funny, the ABJ posts an article on us getting beaten badly 4-1 by ODU. I don't believe ABJ posted anything on our 3-2 golden goal win vs VCU (at least I couldn't find it)

YES!!! Cmon' man……it was one game. This is a brutal road swing we are on. Georgetown and Maryland are next. Go Zips!!

ouch - down 4-0 2nd half

Not a good start against ODU.

I have to say through the years I played and attended The University of Akron, I was always disappointed in The ABJ's coverage of our sports teams. In the past year I am becoming downright disgusted with them. There clearly appears to be an agenda to try and destroy the University of Akron. Granted, some of the things that are going on are unpopular but to me when I read the news I want to read facts and from there I will form my own opinion. The ABJ seem to be reporting what THEY want to report and almost seem to be trying to create a mutiny. Zippyrules said in a post a while back “The demise of professionalism in NEO journalism is sad to watch.” I agree 100%. The ABJ seems to be not only fueling the fire…..but starting it. Why would people want to come and support UoA’s sports teams when they are being conditioned to despise the school? Shouldn’t it be one if the goals of a local newspaper to try and promote good will, a sense of community and pride in the city? One of the best marketing avenues UoA should have is the city’s own newspaper PROMOTING the home team. Don't put UA articles on page two and OSU on the headline - put US on the headline!! And put the good stuff about us on the headline……not stories about a f#@ing olive jar. There are plenty of good things going on at UA but thanks to the ABJ, we barely hear about them. How is any of what they are stirring up good for the school and the community? If UA football goes down the tubes and the Info rots in the middle of the city, how is that a good thing for Akron? On a side note……I am not able to read some of the links that are provided by the ABJ (Ohio.com) on here because they want me to subscribe and pay $.99 per month. Hey ABJ!!!! The crap you write is not worth $.99

Actually DIG, I like your idea and it would seem to be consistent with the school potentially running with the Ohio Tech name some day.

Or how about "Team Ohio"

Did some clicking, we up 53% - 47%. Posted the This is Akron video - I love that video…;-)

We are down 59% Maryland 41% Akron

Oh BTW - get out and vote. We were winning handily early on but now losing. There is no way any team could touch our top XI