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The fact that the average price point for Akron Football, reserved seat is only $13. Adult GA is $11, Faculty/Staff is $10, and Family Plan is only $4.95 per person, per game.There is no doubt that this is a great deal. No one has ever questioned that. The question is why do you drop your season ticket prices by $20 after you have already put them on sale, refund cash, then decide to jack parking through the roof for what would be a pretty low number of people who are already your top givers to the University?

So I get a call telling me I paid too much for my tickets but now I get a letter telling me that I have to pay more for my parking? At least I got kissed before they gave it too me in the ass. This is the kind of action that either unites a fan base behind the team or fractures it for a generation. I think this is the 2006 equivalent of firing Jim Dennison and hiring Gerry Faust. Every time we get to a good place someone has to come in and screw it up at here it happens every 20 years. 1986 - 2006. This is pretty easy to sidestep because I will just pay my $5 and park 50 feet farther away. We get nothing for our money out of this deal but to save 50 feet of walking. I don't mind the extra exercise and will down more homebrew in the grass to make up for the extra walking.The funny thing will be seeing all of the empty spaces around the top of the bowl where these big time parking spaces will be bare. My money says we will get a letter from Rhodes this week telling us this is another typo just like the kids ticket was on the order form.

Looks awesome where can I get one?

I think the bowl trip would have gone a lot more smoothly had the athletic deprtment run the trips too but you are wrong that it was their choice to allow the Alumni Association to run the trip. That decision was made by the VP for Development who oversees both alumni and fundraising. Athletics was working shortstaffed with the resignation of the old ticket manager coming the day after the MACC game and the balance of the athletics staff was in Dearborn five days before the MCB game and not in Akron where they could run the bus trip. The Alumni Association has always handled larger football road trips such as Nebraska, LSU and Army so the powers that be empowered the old system, good or bad.

This new site is pretty bad. You would think the new one would be better from day one rather than have a shingle on the main page saying improvements are on the way. Bad customer serivce here because once you go to a bad site you rarely go back for more.

Got my order form today at the office. I like the idea of how they are keeping the GA seating on the East side of the stadium BUT have no idea how they will police this. No real changes but the price is much lower than I can remember for a five game season. The new AD worked wonders at El Paso with tickets and I am sure he knows what he is doing here. With a new ticket manager and a new marketing staff plus the success of last year this should be the biggest sales year in the history of Akron football. I will be very disappointed if we do not set an all-time season ticket sales total this year. There is no excuse not to set a record base on the sales from the MACC and the Motor City Bowl turnout from last year.

We've come a long way baby. Way to go JD.Come on Mack, sign your championship coach and staff to a better contract and quit treating him like a third class citizen. You promised this in January - why the delay?

Great pickup for the Zips. This will be the first tall, wide and coordinated center in more than a decade. No offense Bruce.

This is a smokescreen. The University has committments for more than $20m in gifts, including one for $10m and another for $5m from naming rights partners. The hold up is the land that is now being purchased. They cannot announce the stadium until all of the land is bought and some of the landowners are not cooperating. The more time that it takes to get the land the more this cherade will be acted out by Akron administrators.

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Dennis Mitchell is the most marketable coach the Zip program has right now. The triple crown feat and national finishes of the jumpers and distance runners has him at the top of many coaching lists around the country.

No Zip. He did not graduate from high school. His uncle is a ref and told me this at a camp this week. Very disappointing.

Big fish for 2007 who had committed to Akron is headed to Louisville. Kenny Walker will play for Lolla. Big loss.

ESPNU sucks.

I agree - this was a blast. I met Rhodes and he is pretty personable, much more so than Thomas. The football coaches are always a blast. It would not hurt the hoops coaches to be a part of this type of deal and make the effort.The food could be better and the gift package does not jive with the cost. I think they could actually draw more people if they publicized the event more. Anything less than 36 groups is a disappointment.

34-17 Lions... Akron will be great and will beat NC State and Cinci but winning in Happy Valley is too much to expect.

neither brookhart or dambrot make more than 140K a year. you can look this up in the library.

cannot figure out why they promised a new deal for the football guys in january and still have nothing done. why come out publically if you are not going to get the deal done in a four month time frame.never remember seeing anything public about a new deal for dambrot but I do know from some folks on campus that his deal was one of the lowest dollar deals in the league. I think he makes half of what Can't state's coach makes, which is a embarassment.you give a raise to the winning coaching staffs because it is the right thing to do. it also shows that the university and admnistration is committed to the winning programs and keeping them together as a group. doing this also helps you attract another coach when jd or keith one day leave for the big bucks. its not like these guys are already the highest paid coaches in the mac, they are near the bottom. by promising something and then doing nothing all you show people is that you do not reward achievement.

Julie Wright has resigned her position at Akron and is headed to Wisconsin as an assistant coach.

I posted this three days ago but it was stripped down and called incorrect. I am waiting on my apology from the admin.

This post was closed and edited because it was false. When the real information becomes available it will be posted.ThanksZFF

This project is at least another year away from being announced. From what I have been told the property owners are holding strong and the whole process could land in court per domain issues and fights. One landowner can hold up the whole shooting match. The footprint that the stadium will be on also would mean the demolition of 2-3 residence halls, which means those needto be replaced before construction can begin. Too bad, but this project is not going to be finished until 2010 at the earliest because construction will take 2-3 years. Akron U is not going to building anything on the cheap and expensive projects take time to build.

PSU 35 Akron 21 Akron 24 NC State 20 Akron 35 CMU 17Akron 43 UNT 14Akron 63 Can't State 7Akron 35 Cincy 12Miami 30 Akron 27, OTAkron 34 Toledo 21Akron 38 BG 14Akron 21 Buffalo 10Akron 42 Ohio 17WMU 30 Akron 27Regular season 9-3, 6-2 in MAC (5-1 East)MAC Championship: Akron 42 WMU 35Motor City Bowl: Akron 45 Minnesota 2110-3, MAC & MCB ChampionsJD Brookhart new Head Coach at Colorado State

So the best we can do is go after an assistant at a school that is a lesser program than MAC level? Smart came from Clemson and Dayton, now we replace him with a Robert Morris staffer.This staff has has definite lack of curb appeal - all D3 and lower level DI guys. Would it hurt to bring in a name assistant - former player from a Big 10 school - somebody to really boost our recruiting to the next level. When replacing staff you need to look to improve, not stay status quo. In this case Dambrot lost ground and that is not a good sign.