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Here is a list I got from a source on campus in regards to who was here this past weekend... (very small) with not a lot of open scholarships, unless there are some last minute waivers...Almonda Sewell /VirginiaJonathan Hannah/North CarolinaJohn Green/ CaliforniaKade Wagner - (looking at preferred walk on status)/ Green, OH

From a friend of a friend of a friend who works on campus. Rumor has it that RB, Andrew Johnson from the U has applied as a transfer student for this upcoming semester.I believe he was a top 10 RB coming out of high school and attended high school in the Pittsburgh area. I am not sure if he has one or 2 years of elig. left.

I would suggest that some of you take a look at the Cincinnati Enq. on-line. Read a few of the articles concerning the coaching search. MT is far from his God Like status that he was here in Akron. Some of you people are insane! Calling for a contract extension and when he gets the extension you argue we should of let it run out first ? JD's 4 year plan was to get to the MAC Championship game, win the Championship and get to a Bowl game. He did it in 2 years and almost pulled it off his first year, in getting to the Championship game. Have you all forgot where the program was before he came?Did the team underachieve this year? YES! Do I believe things will get better with JD? Yes... Lets have discussion after his 4th year as to if the program is headed in the right direction. Hmmmm... wait 2 more years before an extension is offered? Who is making the rush to judgement?

I was listening to sports talk radio yesterday out of Cincinnati, and they mentioned that JD was a looooooooooong shot at best. It appears that MT and the administration are taking a lot of heat for MD leaving for the State job. As the host said hiring JD would be a very tough sell to the UC fan base and MT is not real popular in UC land at the present time.

Received information today from a very reliable campus source that JD has signed a NEW 5 year contract. More details coming, but should put to rest some of the rumors.

Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio has agreed to carry the Comcast telecast of the University of Akron and Central Michigan University football game, which kicks off 1:00 p.m. (EDT) Saturday from Kelly/Shorts Stadium in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Ben Holden (play-by-play) and Rob Otto (color) will call the action in the Mid-American Conference opener for both teams. Time Warner Cable customers will be able to watch the game live on Channel 23, and beginning Monday afternoon it will be available for viewing free to digital customers on cable system's local-on-demand Channel 1111.

Someone told me that Johnny Malloys at Chapel Hill had ESPNU. I have no verification on this though...

I have a friend that works in admissions and he told me UA had a wait list of 300 people for housing. UA also had the greatest increase in apps and freshman enrollemt out of any of the state schools..Good idea about building a massive dorm..

I wish I was making this up... think about it, you HAD to hire a consultant to come in and give suggestions on how to fix your football program???click heretake a look at : http://www.Can't.edu/Magazine/OnlineEx...ballProgram.cfm

D.J. Henderson WR - grade casualty, parents did not want to pay for a semesterMark Jackson C - JUCOShawn Lemon DL- not sure Jerrel Stoudemire DL- On Campus. prop 48Jacquain Williams LB- JUCODerron Smith LB - not sureThe JUCO guys they are still keeping in contact with and they are supposed to still be headed to Akron. Although as we know that can change...

Zips lost a coach when Donnie Darr resigned as men's golf coach to become an assistant coach for Oklahoma State, which won the 2006 NCAA men's golf title.Darr, a former All-American at Can't State, coached the Zips for one season, guiding them to a seventh-place finish in the Mid-American Conference tournament.He also led UA to first place in the Bradford Creek Intercollegiate in Greenville, S.C., which was the Zips' first tournament title in nine years.

Cleveland Heights incoming senior Jerome Royal, a wide receiver, has orally committed to the University of Akron. Royal chose the Zips over Ohio University and Eastern Michigan. Royal (6-2, 180) amassed 350 yards on 10 receptions last season and scored four touchdowns.

For the second time in just two years, the University at Buffalo has given head men's basketball coach Reggie Witherspoon a contract extension. Witherspoon is now signed through the 2011-2012 season. His previous contract extension, signed following the 2004 season, paid him through the 2008-2009 season at $145,000 per year. Financial terms of the most recent deal, in keeping with school policy, were not released, however sources have told MAC Report Online that Witherspoon's salary will reportedly be $175,000 per year which would place Witherspoon near the upper tier in MAC coaching salaries. Can't State's Jim Christian recently signed a seven year extension that increased his salary to at least $250,000 per year while newly installed Ball State head men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson's compensation package is among the tops in the MAC.

Caught this story in the Cincy Enq on MT! Interesting read and makes mention of MW coming on board. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../606040437/1064

FYI.. The salary for an assistant position coach at Illinois is right around 149 per year (non-coordinator position). I am not sure what the coordinators make at UA, but I am very doubtful that it is even close to the 100s.Don't be surprised if Coach Moorhead doesn't take over the full duties of Coach P. He was promoted to co-offensive coordinator going into this season and also is a former QB.

I heard from my campus source, he was in attendance at the Zips Jr. Day a couple of weeks back.

Out of the 400 total people that attended the Zips Jr. Day, Mr. Clemons was in attendance. With his speed, he is going to be a big time recruit.

I was cruising over to the Can't page for some humor and one of the Can't faithful posted this. Several Zips fans have already called her out though as to their stupidity. I guess Can't fan doesn't understand the concept of a rival or rivalry. There answers on the board are constantly that Akron has an inferiority complex about Can't or we obsess constantly about them on the Macbbs board. I can see and fully understand the concept of the TRI-C education now in Portage County.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Akron’s motivation for hating Can't State can be summed up in two words: inferiority complex. Despite the University of Akron’s major capital expansion in recent years, UA’s academic reputation is still inferior to Can't State according to U.S. News & World Report and other major publications. According to U.S. News & World Report, Akron’s academic reputation or peer assessment score (5.0=highest) is only 2.2 compared to Can't’s score of 2.6. This is why Can't State claims to be “Northeastern Ohio’s premier public university.†Akron’s claim can only be that it is better than Cleveland State (but not by much). Regardless of whether you agree with U.S. News & World Report’s academic reputation score of Can't (2.6), Akron (2.2), and Cleveland State (2.1), most everyone can agree that both Akron and Can't have some excellent programs. For example, The University of Akron’s polymer science and engineering program is ranked second in the United States and serves Ohio’s $22 billion polymer industry and includes a NASA-supported nanotechnology initiative. Can't State University’s liquid crystal institute has an international reputation for research in optics and chemical physics. But despite Akron’s excellent reputation in polymer science, the university still has an identity problem compared to Can't State. Relative to other MAC schools, Akron’s graduation rate of its athletes is the lowest in the conference. Another reason for Akron’s sense of inferiority is its setting. Although I have always thought that UA’s campus was nice and well maintained, the city of Akron is extremely depressing and has to contribute to the universities’ inferiority complex. There may be other reasons why Akron feels inferior to Can't but the point that I want to make is Can't posters should refrain from responding to frustrated Zip fans on our board. Please recognize what motivates them and have empathy for their plight.

Hopefully he will go into exhile with the other troll loser... RedSteve

Classic post.. Another classic moment was when as the game was closing out in the final seconds and 2-3 of the Akron football players came over to the small Can't student gathering and showed the Can't students their MAC championship rings and said "Just like Football".Of course the Can't faithful had NO comeback...

I am not advocating juvenile behavior on the Can't Board, but do take a sec to check it out. Some from the Zips Nation are posting over there, intelligent statements and questions and the Can't Staters can not fire back with anything.They have actually tried to spin the Can't football flyer into some kind of crazy motivational piece. As opposed to the bottom line "Can't football wishes they were UA football".Go Zips!

Few big-name schools will lose scholarships as a result of the Academic Progress Rates report released Wednesday.The NCAA said that 99 Division I sports teams at 65 colleges and universities -- or less than 2 percent of 6,112 Division I sports teams nationwide -- will lose scholarships for poor scholastic performance by their student-athletes. Men's Basketball Schools which will lose scholarships for poor scholastic performance under the terms of the Academic Progress Rates reform program: School No. Cal Poly 2 Centenary 2 East Carolina 2 Hampton 2 Jacksonville 2 Can't State 2 New Mexico St. 2 S. Carolina St. 2 Texas State 2 Mary.-Eastern Shore 2 DePaul 1 Florida A&M 1 Louisiana Tech 1 Prairie View 1 La.-Lafayette 1 La.-Monroe 1 Sacramento State 1 In Division I-A football, Temple (9), New Mexico State (6), Toledo (6) Hawaii (5), Middle Tennessee (5), Western Michigan (5) Buffalo (3) and Northern Illinois (2) were penalized."You've got to bring in kids that not only want to make it to the NFL, but also want to graduate and get their degree," first-year Middle Tennessee coach Rick Stockstill told ESPN. "If a kid just wants to graduate and not make it to the NFL, I'm not interested. If he wants the NFL and not the degree, I'm not interested. You have to do a good job in evaluating. We're getting out of the Prop 48 business." In Division I basketball, Cal-Poly (2), Centenary (2), East Carolina (2), Hampton (2), Jacksonville (2), Can't State (2), Maryland Eastern Shore (2), New Mexico State (2), South Carolina State (2), Texas State (2), Sacramento State (1), DePaul (1), Florida A&M (1), Lousiana Lafayette (1), Louisiana-Monroe (1), Louisiana Tech (1) and Prarie View (1) were penalized.First-year New Mexico State coach Reggie Theus told ESPN.com that it wasn't fair that a new coach gets penalized for past transgressions. The Aggies will lose two scholarships, a decision Theus said NMSU appealed to no avail. He will have to take off the scholarships from his maximum 13 for next season."There's got to be some sort of grace period to see if there is improvement [for new coaches] before you get hit with a penalty," Theus said Wednesday. "We've got a new AD, a new president, new programs that we've implemented and you would think we could get at least one of those penalties rescinded. But we didn't."We'll survive it," Theus said. "But for new coaches it puts you behind the eight ball."One of the programs hit hardest was Florida A&M, which loses scholarships in baseball (1.07), football (8), men's basketball (1), men's swimming (0.99) and women's swimming (1.23). The NCAA said that the loss of eight football scholarships will be separate and in addition to penalties previously leveled against Florida A&M. Charged with a lack of institutional control, Florida A&M was put on probation for four years with a loss of 30 scholarships, including 14 over the next four seasons.Of the 99 sports teams that will lose scholarships, 90 are men's teams and 9 are women's teams. The majority are in three sports: football (23), baseball (21), and men's basketball (17). As many as 350 Division I sports teams were in danger of penalties at this time last year. "We are encouraged by the response on many campuses to academic reform," said NCAA president Myles Brand. "The goal of academic reform is to improve academic behaviors and increase graduation, not unnecessarily penalize teams."More serious consequences, which could include limits on postseason competition and restricted membership status, await teams that continue to academically under perform.Football Schools (Division I-A) which will lose scholarships for poor scholastic performance under the terms of the Academic Progress Rates reform program: School No. Temple 9 Toledo 6 Hawaii 5 Middle Tenn. St. 5 Western Michigan 5 Buffalo 3 New Mexico St. 2 Northern Illinois 2 "The APR has become part of the athletics language; schools are incorporating the APR into their strategic plans and programming, and they are using it to hold coaches and other personnel accountable for student-athlete academic achievement," Brand said. "Significant attention is being paid to meeting the new standards, and I expect the next few years of APR data to reflect that focus."For a team to lose a scholarship under the "contemporaneous penalty" portion of academic reform, a student-athlete must have failed academically and left the institution; and the team's APR must be below 925 (out of 1000).The APR is calculated by measuring the academic eligibility and retention of student-athletes by team each term. Based on current data, an APR of 925 calculates to an approximate Graduation Success Rate of 60 percent. Teams can lose up to 10 percent of scholarships each year allowed by NCAA rules. When a penalty is applied, a college or university may not re-award the scholarship of an ineligible student-athlete who left school to another student-athlete for one year. Eight institutions have not yet completed the process for determining penalties under APR: Arizona State University; Northern Arizona University; San Diego State University; San Jose State University; Texas A&M University, College Station; University of Arizona; University of Kansas; and Tulane University.

Just got word from a campus connection that there are under 400 tixs available for Saturdays Can't game. If you have not got tixs yet, better make plans to do so real quick.

Thanks for bringing that statement up Captain. Does anyone remember the Can't spin last year on recruiting? The coaches from UA and Can't were somewhat being questioned about not taking a lot of local kids. The Can't Coach said basically "Just because they play football in the area" we should not feel obligated to offer a scholarship and there are 117 other Div 1 programs that passed on them".His statement this year smells of "envy". I thought the quick fix to a program would be to go the JUCO route, not recruiting top 100 kids from out of state..I am starting to see why a football consultant was brought in...lolAs one UA Coach said to a friend of mine .. "We don't consider them a challenge whatsoever in recruiting, we pretty much own them".

Antonio G takes a cheap shot at the R Bowl, but forgets to mention their attendance at Can't was around 400-500 for the last few games of the football season. I am not kidding 400-500, and this was from someone that works at Can't.I don't think your football program ever has to worry about ESPN football coverage. Your fieldhouse is real impressive.. LOLLooking fwd to going to the game out at Can't. I have been to many MAC games on different campuses and have never saw an uglier, fatter, lost in the 70's and early 80's, toothless group of fans then the Can't following. The people watching at halftime is worth the price of admission.