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"If*" a new arena is built, the University and its planning company have narrowed it down to two locations.
Spicer and Exchange
Main Street across from Canal Park.
*I say if, feeling like it is a foregone conclusion that a JAR reno is not feasible.
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An interesting perspective from the Toledo Blade's MAC guy:
http://toledoblade.typepad.com/falconfodde...son-awards.html
Don't agree with everything, but well-thought out and well argued, imo.
Well he was one of the 12 votes for Murphy.
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Maybe with our performances the last 6 years the MAC is trying to send us a message. There certainly have to be some folks upset that we go to the championship game year after year after year.
Maybe our performance over the last 8 years is why the performance the team had was living up to expectations.
Should Dambrot have been COY, sure because Murphy really didn't accomplish anything when a person familiar with the MAC looks at things. However, most of the Media isn't familiar with the MAC (even if the MAC is their beat) and the story of predicted worst and finishing first is going to play better with those people then Akron's story of being predicted to continue to be a strong team and maybe win it.
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things have changed a lot over the last half century.
Fight the facts all you want, but MLS has been experiencing very strong growth over the past few years. 2011 was a record year for attendance and viewership, 2012 will top those records.
I like soccer, have no problem with it, but check the reasoning for increased viewership and attendance.
Expansion. And the NBA can tell you that expansion isn't about success, it's about spreading the brand, it's a huge risk. Which is why the MLS is expanding mostly in Canada. Less pro sports to compete with, soccer runs opposite of the Canadian national sport hockey.
MLS clubs have had to sell themselves, many now owned by European clubs. Why? Because they struggle to make money. However for European owners the costs of running the American clubs is much lower.
It is growing, and will continue to grow. But is not quite as successful or relevent as many of you think it is just yet.
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Congratulations, and thanks for a fun regular season.
Now let's go cut some more nets down!!!
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Student pay money because they expect to get an education. Just like every other school, there's a large number of students that really don't want to pay for athletics. They have no choice. And don't tell me that transferring is an option, because this is the nature of the beast at every major university in the country.
We can agree there.
Athletics is an insignificant cost with regards to tuition. And the general fee goes to more than just intercollegiate athletics.
Students that don't want it, or don't take advantage of it are doing a disservice to themselves.
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Students pay for service, that they receive. Fans pay for entertainment. Donors give money, most of those people in the front rows are big donors that contribute $10000 plus a year on top of the season ticket cost. The only quality thing you can give them in the JAR is court side seets.
That is why we need a new arena. That is why renovation won't work.
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Price of season tickets to all sporting events (Priority Reserved).
Football - $250
M Basketball - $760
M Soccer - $110 (bleacher back only, chair back are sold out and waiting listed)
Then Women's basketball and soccer is probably an additional $200
$1320 for tickets, premium parking costs extra.
Students pay at max $1197.36 to the general service fee each year.
This is split between 5 seperate programs:
the health professionals in Student Health Services;
intramurals;
UA-recognized student organizations;
intercollegiate athletics;
other co-curricular activities.
So the full $1200 isn't even going to just athletics, we'll be generous and say 50% is for just D-1 Athletics. That is less then $600. Yet you are saying you should get $1400 worth of benefits?
I think our student section sucks, there are only so many options because of the JAR layout. How about you guys propose an additional $20 fee per credit hour and you could raise an additional $14.4 million a year (minus summer classes) and build a new arena for the school. Then you can sit where the heck you want.
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Two things about last nights game that stick in mind....the blue seats in the lower bowl are horrendous and I don't think they have every been replaced.
I though the atmosphere was pretty great last night, but with so many students sitting upstairs it takes so much away that would help even more. In a new arena I would love to see the student section be the two sections in the middle lower level behind the announcers. If those two sections were full of students last night I think it would have been even better.
LOL
Half court seats for the students?
I want to see what they do at Duke and have the student section be one set of bleachers from floor to ceiling behind the baskets. Then see the Rowdies fill that hill like they do for soccer.
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Surprised no one's said we should move to D-III and forget an arena yet.
Actually we should tear it down and make it a parking deck. Lord knows we need another one of those. I mean yes we should have wrapped this regular season up already, but crap we only have 20 wins, with one of our youngest teams in years, against one of the toughest schedules ever. This teams sucks and its a waste of resources that could be going to start up that women's field hockey team we so desperately need.
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Wouldn't you think that Toledo would have a better chance to make a conference move than Akron? A long history of winning, bowl games, second longest win streak in DI history, a very nice expandable stadium, MAC attendance records. Yes, the basketball hasn't been good lately, but Toledo did win a regular season championship as recent as 2007. The basketball facility had a $30 million renovation a few years ago and is very nice. Seats 7,300, but the north wall could easily be knocked out to continue the upper deck and get to 10,000+.
Two words...
A full statment on that, if Toledo had been in a larger conference, they would have been death penaltied. They are also still heavily scrutinized by the NCAA because there is a legitimate belief that the whole thing ran deeper than just a couple of players. The guy running the whole thing said he was in the coach's pocket as well, but they could not find any paper trail to prove his statements.
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If GP1 makes a statement in the forest and Mrs. GP1 isn't around to hear it, is he still wrong?
Yes, because he made a statement.
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So I'm an intern at The University of Akron Press, and we're thinking about updating Our Boys in Blue and Gold with a new foreword and the addition of the late 2000s up to the Bowden hire. If we did it, we'd try to get Tressel (wrote the originial foreword) and Bowden to sign copies at some type of sporting event.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested?
I have a copy, could totally use a new one that includes the most recent nightmare and 2 sigs from coaching legends.
Anyway you could do a hardback issue for these? Would hold up better.
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Just did some quick checking to see what would happen if we did end up tied with anyone. We would not get the number 1 seed no matter what.
UA ties only Buffalo: Buffalo the 1 seed based on a 2-0 record against the Zips.
UA ties only OU: OU the one seed based on a better record against whomever comes in third (OU is 2-0 vs Buffalo, and would be 2-0 vs Can't, Akron would be 1-1 against Can't and 0-2 against Buffalo)
UA ties only Can't: Can't would get the #1 seed and UA the #2. They would be 1-1 against each other so it would drop back to the best record against the next best seed. Can't would be 1-1 against Buffalo and UA would be 0-2. Can't would be 1-1 against OU and UA would also be 1-1, so it would revert to the best record against Buffalo.
UA ties Buffalo and OU: OU would be the one seed, Buffalo the two and Akron the 3 (Against each other, OU would be 3-1, Buffalo would be 2-2 and Akron would be 1-3).
UA ties Buffalo and Cant: Buffalo would be the one seed, Can't the two and Akron the three: Record against each other. Buffalo would be 3-1, Can't 2-2 and Akron 1-3.
The Zips must win one of the last three games to get the one seed. There is some outside chance that BGSU or EMU (or even WMU) could factor in to all of this but I considered those chances to be small enough not to consider.
That's a lot of work you did there.
They win Sunday and none of that matters. In fact there is better than a 33% chance that tie breakers won't matter. Why better than a 33% chance? Because statistically home teams have a better shot of winning then road teams, and we have a home game left against a Buffalo team that is tiring out.
Bottom line...We have to win all three games. Why? Because giving each of those teams an additional loss gives us a psychological advantage in the MAC Tournament. We enter with every team knowing we own the tournament, it would be much nicer if all but one team in the tournament also knew we owned them completely during the season.
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Well this will certainly mess up schedules.
And prediction time....
Akron finishes with better record then Temple next season.
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If Sparks didn't have the toe injury, Charlie Frye may never have seen the field?
I remember being at the game when Sparks hurt his toe. I always wondered how he never got a chance to take his starting spot back.
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Jabari Arthur also started as a QB and turned into one of the best receivers we ever had.
He was also arguably the best QB we had during those seasons too.
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Exactly how I feel. As much as I would like to see Clayton Moore or Nicely as the starter, we have like 7 QB's if I remember correctly. Could be an exaggeration, but wouldn't you think that at least ONE OF THEM would stand out and get this team some dadgum wins! Same goes with the RB's, I'm going to have favorites but I'll take wins anyways we can get them.
Imagine what would happen if we have a young QB emerge this year as a star. A Jeremy Lin of the Zips if you will, leading the team to a 3-0 start and 3-1 record after four games haha. Zips fans would be going nuts, with the school and entire city crazy about football again! We want a winner and are desperate to see it! Even with a small glimpse of success I believe the fans will flock to support the team...oh what a dream scenario. But in all honesty I'd be happy with a 2-2 start, but even happier if we find a QB that can get the ball in the endzone!
Moore, Nicely, D'Orazio, Pohl, Watson, Franco, Goodman, and technically Dylan Potts was a QB.
So that is at least 8 and I could be forgetting someone. I believe there has been talk of an additional transfer from Texas, and We have have a preferred walk on QB on the team as well. We could have as many as 11 QB's on the team.
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<a href="http://www.ohio.com/sports/marla-ridenour-Can't State-linebacker-kyle-reese-fights-for-next-goal-of-being-a-navy-seal-1.265954" target="_blank">K e n t LB has a dream of becoming a Navy Seal!</a>
I would...
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OK, this is off topic, but...
Went to Cleveland Zoo yesterday (we are members) with my 3-year old son. This is what I saw:
3 people wearing UA sweatshirts, 2 wearing UA hats.
1 Can't hat
0 CSU apparel
So...good "coverage" at the Cleveland Zoo!!!
I was happy to see no Steelers gear, plenty of Browns gear and maybe 2-3 OSU related apparel.
I believe you would have seen Steelers gear near the Ape house, but it might not be family reunion time just yet. Freaking neanderthals.
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My Oral joke got noticed
Seriously though, how can the fans of Oral Roberts even deserve any disrespect. They have been a quality mid major for a while now, their team has some class, and the whole moral code of the school over there means they are respectful.
Glad they think highly of our fan base because teams like that deserve nothing but respect.
Teams like Ohio and Can't on the other hand.....
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@DiG
Holy Toledo! I surrender on this point. Apparently my partial surrender in the last post was ignored. This is unconditional surrender.
Now I'll address the crux of the discussion. I'll grant you that there is an OPPORTUNITY for increased UA sports interest/coverage across the Cleveland-Akron media market following a successful run of years in a higher tier conference such as the Big East. The question, of course, is whether the Big East feels it would be worth going out on a limb to invite UA based on an as-yet-completely-unproven connection between Zip athletics and the nation's 18th largest media market.
People in Cincinnati were OSU honks until the Bearcats joined the Big East and went on a run. The Bearcats wete not particulsly strong in any sport when they joined.
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Did not see this anywhere....
The delay in sending out the season ticket packages is because the MAC is working out details to include 2 tickets to any non rivalry away MAC game of your choice.
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Probably Van Horne.
UofA's Rhodes Arena Study
in Akron Zips Basketball
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I think people know my preferred location...
Three things to keep in mind...
1. The footprint of the JAR includes classrooms and office space. So when you compare that to the foot print of the block of land meant by Spicer and Exchange, keep in mind that a new arena with the same footprint as the JAR could be much larger.
2. The space between Mayflower and the Kaiser building is empty parking lots and unused streets.
3. The majority of the property between Exchange, Spicer, Goodkirk is already owned by the University.
I still think downtown is the more likely scenario because of the strong backing of UPA, Summit County, and Akron. Its easier to get buy in for this type of thing when you can point to a unified agenda.
I think Main St. is the plan and Spicer is the fall back option.