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I am really bummed about this, I was excited to see Kincaide. My guess is the "style" of QB TB wants did not fit with Chandler. He appeared to be more of a drop back/gunslinger "pro style" quarterback. It appears the direction TB is headed is for more of a mobile/scrambling style quarterback.

Wow, I see your point. FIRE HIM!! DON'T RENEW HIS CONTRACT!! The masses that wanted to see the Riverhounds exhibition must be furious…I don't blame them. My bad.

Competition is good ?

Exactly. It doesn't appear as though anyone is interested. Naming rights are essentially advertising. If nobody goes to an event, why spend the money if 2,500 people are going to see it.. (If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there….does it make a sound) Joe Akron has spoken!! Watch the dominoes fall…………

Damn, I would not want to get into it with a Zippy.

All I can judge on are the results on the field, court, pitch, track, firing range, diamond. I like the coaches we have. I have not seen the books.

I did respond. The fact that the overall state of our athletics is as good as it has ever been.

DUDE, you are making my point!! Outside of iCoach what else has he done so poorly - you keep repeating the same thing. I GET THE iCoach already!!! Sh*t happens. Hell, Notre Dame hired Gerry Faust who was a HS football coach. It was a bad mistake….drop it. If we lost 20% of our fan base, my calculations would say we lost 2K people ;-) I don't have solid proof of TW's contributions and I am not sure if I am privy to that information. I do know our athletics have been as good as they have ever been in the last 10 years as a whole. We have good coaches already…..what do you want him to do…..fire them so he can put his stamp on them? Things are looking up. You, and Joe Akron, need to forget iCoach and support the fantastic staff we have. To boycott TB and KD and JE is rather childish. I am just saying there is more to this than ONE holocaustal hire. I am sure Dr. Scarborough, being the thoughtful leader he is, will weigh everything and make a decision. I can assure you it will not be only on the iCoach hire. You know, I think we all respected Proenza and his decision making... right? He was also a thoughtful leader. He made some amazing things happen during his tenure to this campus. Have you thought about why he didn't fire TW…

I say it like that because it is a broken record. I say it because I GET the iCoach hire was terrible. He is not here anymore so the HS coaches should not be pissed and I am quite sure TB, Tressel and the chest have charmed the pants off the HS coaches. Its time to move on. You ask how many potential fans were driven away in 2 years………I ask you - how many "fans" did we have to begin with? You say it like we have lost hundreds or tens of thousands of fans. LOL There are many other aspects of the job that should be factored in. If AD's were fired because of a single bad coaching hire it would be a constant carousel everywhere. Hell,the Florida Gators who have unlimited budget and actual "fans" can't find a decent coach. Coaches are not lining up for the UA job - if they are and they are good…they will move on quickly. I don't think we have that at UA right now. I think we have stability and coaches that will stay even if they win. That is unheard of in the MAC. There have been a lot of good coaching hires at UA and a lot of good coaches retained. There has been consistency with the athletic staff for a while now with great coaches I might add (and NO Caleb was not his TW's fault, he was the highest paid coach in NCAA, and was even kept from his alma mater Indiana). If Caleb was going to ever achieve his goal of coaching the men's national team, he had to go to MLS. I am not saying I support TW or want him fired. I was simply looking for a bigger picture to make a decision.

In will post my question here. Do you all think this team was better with or without Tree?

Now that the season is over, I have a question. Do you all think we were a better team with or without Tree?

20 WINS!!

So proud of this team! KD has done an amazing job this year. Funny, the comment was made at the beginning of the game that Akron has more depth. With all the players we have lost….impressive.

Big dog looks frustrated.

No. Just trying to rationalize why kids don't go out and support their teams nowadays when there are more students living on a nicer campus now than in the past.

I was talking to some friends the other day about our teenagers….A few of us had boys who had turned 16 last year and didn't seem real anxious to get their drivers licenses (which is OK by me). We joked about how each of us, when we were young, got our drivers licenses on THE DAY we turned 16 and how liberating it was. We scratched our heads trying to figure out what had changed with our boys. The answer we came up with was in our day if you wanted to do something - i.e.. hang out with buddies, play games, attend a game, etc…..you had to go somewhere. Today, with the internet, XBOX, PS4, Twitter, Facebook, video messaging, iPhones, iPads, etc……………you really don't have to go anywhere for entertainment - you can have food delivered to you and stay in the comfort of your home, dorm or wherever you might be. Kinda sad.

One of the things that is confusing to me is the fact that the university and other businesses HAVE made an effort to bring students to the school by building REALLY NICE dormitories on campus. Does anyone know the numbers on how many students live on or right near campus today vs the 70s/80s? I have to imagine it is substantially higher today. Seriously, these kids have some really nice places to live…..pools, wireless internet, Starbucks, etc. I would think they would be having more fun and have more pride in their school than a kid that lived in an old beat up house or dated dormitory in the 70s/80s. Some of these are really nice!!!! http://www.uakron.edu/reslife/halls/all-halls.dot http://www.depotatakron.com/?gclid=CMHQgOvsicQCFdgPgQodaJUAKA http://www.uakron.ocm101.com/property.html?id=431 http://envisionapartments.com/?gclid=CMfo8ofticQCFRckgQodJlAA_w

No names were mentioned and none of the doctors were interviewed in the piece. There was an official statement sent from the UA athletic department denying any wrongdoing (they showed a copy of the letter and paraphrased the message in it). I was watching this with my kids and it was embarrassing. They said "you played there, did they make you take that stuff?" Sigh

Has anyone seen the latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel? Holy crap! Not a good reflection on Akron football. Jeremy Bruce is interviewed and talks about how pain killers were wildly given to he and his teammates. He says it was an epidemic on the team and it lead them to heroin (a gateway drug). Tyler Campbell's death was discussed. http://waywire.com/video/CZC6CG0LYFB2MFBZ

Wouldn't this be nice!!! I was at the Wisconsin game, I got chills it was so loud and fun!! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=934591643218130 Fun at Terps basketball games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1qoZxWAsk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Heonx4F9k

Yup! It's the chicken and the egg right now. He needs to show people (top recruits in particular) that he is still the man. I am quite sure nobody was more disappointed in not going to a bowl game last year. That would have shown major progress and I bet would have landed a few more recruits. He needs to WIN and show some of the "Bowden Magic".

I am not arguing or debating just simply trying to understand where all the haters are coming from. If it is simply the iCoach hire (which is all that keeps being mentioned over and over) so be it. Is there more? Listen, I played for coach Winters at UA and I was pissed when he didn't get hired - we have to move on......I know Coach Winters has.

No mulligan. He f*&ed that one up.....I get it. He is not the first AD to make a bad FB coach hire. We now have the best FB coach we could ever get to come to Akron and defensive coordinator too. We have the best basketball coach we could ever get to stay at Akron. We have won a National Championship (and a runner up National Champion) in soccer. Basketball, track most other sports have improved haven't they? Does that one terrible hire warrant his firing 5 years later.

I am curious.....what has our AD done that is sooooo bad and holding UA back (no need to mention the iCoach hire, I get that one ;-)

That is a great trip for the guys and Victor in particular……good recruiting tool ;-) You put me at ease on the recruiting….looking forward to seeing our new recruits.