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I agree.We need to think about the future. This thing needs to be able to last well into the future and to handle whatever we might need to use it for. We can't afford to be short-sighted like the JAR was.You have Zach on your side. I rest my case.UofA will not be getting a hockey team. It would require great expense and mean adding a couple more sports for women. If you think the UofA is loooking to ADD millions rather tham reduce millions you may not be that well informed.Build a state of art basketball arena between 7-8,000. And if you think that we should plan for a hockey team...then build the arena at 15,000 because the only way that will happen is if we are members of a BCS conference and attendance and money are no longer issues.Doug problem is that any arena that happens will be a community effort. As such they will likely build something that can be programmed for multiple events. That means an interchangeable floor and something that holds a hockey match. A multipurpose facility in the north means concerts, hockey, monster truck, basketball, circus. And look at the Mullins Center for UMass, the seats come right down on top of the court on all 4 sides. It works well, and they are much farther along in designing these things after 40 some years.

DiG, why is spending nuts? Because it comprises 10% of a school's budget, and half or more of that is from sources other than students? The media runs these stories about "wasting tax dollars" but they never address that the school support is from tuition dollars not the small amount of state money. People like Spin are the people who are bitter. Look at him. Club sport, athlete mad that he pays for school while the football team goes for free. Never mind he wasn't good enough to earn his own scholarship. There are over 200 schools competing at the D1 level. A whopping 10 of those turn a profit, another 10 of those are self sufficient the rest use student fees and tuition dollars to fund the programs. The bottom line is that sports drive all fundraising. If it didn't there wouldn't be 10000 thousand NCAA athletes and schools like Malone wouldn't have sports. We are FBS because the alumni and students want it. We will stay FBS because the majority want it. We can be successful and we will be successful.

To.......... ? Can't State? Cleveland State? Same situation. Heck at CSU I would be paying fees and not watching football or baseball or hockey. A two year school? I'm in the fourth year of a Bachelor program. The issue isn't with Akron, per se. Like I said, go be a Phoenix. If you don't enjoy yourself at the football games that's your problem. Either that or you are lying to make a point. You say you enjoy the baseball games, well obviously you don't mind watching a non competitive team. So why exactly don't you enjoy being at the football game? Why bother, you will just SPIN it to try and make your point.

It's a free country...Then transfer if you don't like it.. I will support ZW! on this one. I've said it to many people who complain about what Spin is complaining about. If you don't like all the bells and whistles that are associated with college, and you don't want to participate in the events that your money goes to support, you can go be a Phoenix!

I agree,,BUT RI and his staff have taken an AVERAGE FOOTBALL TEAM and run it into the ground,,, We haven't been average in 6 seasons. We have been below average in the MAC for the same length of time. Exactly what "average football team" are you referring to? 2006 - 5-7; two of those wins were against non MAC schools (NC State and North Texas) meaning 3-5 in the MAC 2007 - 4-8; beat Army meaning, 3-5 in the MAC 2008 - 5-7; wins over Cuse and Army, meaning; 3-5 in the MAC 2009 - 3-9; win over Morgan St, meaning 2-6 in the MAC And if you break it down to MAC East games, its even worse, 2 wins over MAC east opponents in both 2006-7 and only 1 in both 2008-9. Brookhart's saving grace was AQ wins and beating Can't. He should have been canned after 08, but there was fear of a "bad first season at Infocision".

After the renewal deadline next summer, they have a couple of days where you can go to the stadium and pick out your seats. They mark the available seats with a piece of paper. This year, many trees were killed to make that happen. Unless the Zips have a big turn around, I'm sure there will be plenty available. Did they use toilet paper? No they used Can't State degrees.

Yeah, cause Arizona didn't give Stoops 7 seasons to get his stuff together. Really Arizona is a lesson in sticking with your coach. He went 3-8 his first two seasons and didn't make a bowl game until his 5th. It was the awful performances starting mid season last year with no hint of there being a turn around. The bottom line is he took an awful program and gave it some hope for a couple of seasons, and they reward him by dumping him because he had a rough go of things. And you wonder why coaches chase money.

My bad, your humor is so many other's truth, it is hard to distinquish. I'm not saying don't blame Ianello either, but Brookhart is more responsible for this mess. Ianello came with a tear down/rebuild approach, that is exceptionally painful, especially if we spent all this money on athletics only to be passed by during the big "shuffle".

It is a more likely scenario (if the Big 12 steals WV, Louisville or any combination) that CUSA becomes the Big East. It would make CUSA a 16 team conference, and by taking the Big East name they acquire the BCS AQ status for at least 2 years. The question I have, is what happens to UMass, Temple will only leave to get to an AQ status conference. However, UMass's football only status was contingent on Temple staying in the MAC. If Temple leaves, the MAC has the option of rescinding the offer, doing a 2 year probation (meaning no championship or bowl eligibility), or forcing UMass to join as a full member. And blaming that whole thing on Ianello is assinine. Considering the BCS (and therefore all conferences wanting AQ) look at a 5 year period. Much more blame would need to be put on Brookhart for not holding up his end of the deal. By all accounts, he should have been able to repeat 2005 at least twice if he knew how to handle QB development. If MAC schools get taken, it will be based on commitment to athletics, market potential, and not performance. The whole thing can be cleaned up with out taking any MAC schools (including Temple).

I have news for you. We probably would have gottten shut out yesterday, if not for his individual effort to carry us to victory. I'd like to see his efficiency improve. He overthrew that ball in the end zone because he had to throw it early because he was about to get hit. I think everyone else in the stadium saw that. Not to mention Russel slowed down because he was so wide open he was expecting a line drive and ended up with a floater. What I have seen from Moore is what Rasor promised we would see out of Rodgers. Moore gives us a multidimensional offense, and he is basically a freshman (yes he's a sophomore, but he comes to us after playing glorified high school ball at the JUCO level). Nicely is a Junior, and I would have loved to have seen him on our team after Getsy left, unfortunately he arrived 3 seasons too late. Nicely has some skills, but he isn't seeing the field when he drops back so it limits his reads. On a team that was more mature and experienced, Nicely would be incredibly successful. On this team? We need the athlete at QB so that a play can be made when a block is missed.

Believe in "The Plan." We are losing games at a breakneck pace, so we're just like Al Golden and Temple. Championships a-plenty are just around the corner. How many championships did Al Golden win, again? MAC East titles? Did you really ask a question to extreme sarcasm?

Actually it will be Miami weather on Saturday. 75 and Sunny.

Perhaps they have coaches that don't like cancer?

Actually NIU and Illinois are rivals. They absolutely hate each other. Is little brother vs. big brother a rivalry? I have scars that say it is. Little brother never has a chance for years, until the one day he finally gets one over on big brother or becomes better than big brother at something. So yes. We are rivals with OSU. Is it the Can't rivalry, no. Is it a competetive rivalry, in football no, who knows about basketball as they constantly duck us. In Soccer? No we own them. But do we get up to play them, do we care about those games a little more than vs. EMU or vs. Tennessee? Hell yes we do, because we know what a win over them means.

The primary reason for the UA/CSU combo was that Cleveland is well served by private universities. Combining the two schools would have increased research dollars for UA (which is what would have become of the whole thing UA-Cleveland) and lessened the student burden. It also would have stopped the current CSU developments for resident housing, turning it into a branch campus. This is why Cleveland would have nothing to do with it. They spent to much money up there making it a campus. USF is a successful multi-campus university. The problem is it is only 50 some years old. You have 140 years of tradition at UA, 100 years at Can't and almost 90 at CSU. You will be hard pressed convincing the region and cities, let alone the alumni and voting public that it would be a benefit. Especially considering our region is so entrenched and the current motivator is anti poaching. Mergers will look like poaching to a city, especially one like Akron or Can't that its University is so key to its city identity. That is why Fingerhut was promoting synergistic relationsips, that is why they have the "center of excellence" designations, and why they are promoting "non duplication of programs". If you are going to have 100 thousand students on 4 campuses (Can't State, UA, CSU, YSU) then you are going to have to make each unique. Oh hell no. Not CSU. I dealt with them when looking for a school and again when I considerd transferring. It is 100% urban and I do not want to deal with them again. They are fine being Tri C's 4 year option. At least Akron and Can't have a lot in common. And are close enough to make it work. I am no fan of CSU. I'm not promoting it, and they have learned that it isn't necessary. What they are learning is that all the schools can work as long as you aren't duplicating research. So Can't State keeps its LCD, Akron Keeps Polymer, Corrosion, Engineering, Biotech, etc. Then programs like education, art, etc. can be duplicated. What will eventually happen is a person could take a class on Can't State campus to fill a need but still graduate at UA, or vice versa.

The primary reason for the UA/CSU combo was that Cleveland is well served by private universities. Combining the two schools would have increased research dollars for UA (which is what would have become of the whole thing UA-Cleveland) and lessened the student burden. It also would have stopped the current CSU developments for resident housing, turning it into a branch campus. This is why Cleveland would have nothing to do with it. They spent to much money up there making it a campus. USF is a successful multi-campus university. The problem is it is only 50 some years old. You have 140 years of tradition at UA, 100 years at Can't and almost 90 at CSU. You will be hard pressed convincing the region and cities, let alone the alumni and voting public that it would be a benefit. Especially considering our region is so entrenched and the current motivator is anti poaching. Mergers will look like poaching to a city, especially one like Akron or Can't that its University is so key to its city identity. That is why Fingerhut was promoting synergistic relationsips, that is why they have the "center of excellence" designations, and why they are promoting "non duplication of programs". If you are going to have 100 thousand students on 4 campuses (Can't State, UA, CSU, YSU) then you are going to have to make each unique.

Point taken, but considering we don't have the wheel, we don't have much room to talk about "what makes people winners". BTW Ianello broke a long standing tradition last year. No coach in the history of the program, had ever lost to Can't their first year of coaching. If there is one other game where I will march into the office, ask for Ianello's resignation and demand a refund, its another loss to those idiots.

UA and Toledo do that as well. The odd men out are the two historic universities (Miami and OU) and the "normal" universities Can't and BGSU. But you also act like Can't and Akron are in the same city (they aren't) and May 4 actually saved Can't, it got it sympathy, and that means more pull in the Statehouse to get money. UA and Can't will always be seperate. Why? Because combining them makes them compete against OSU.

LB's can be avoided. Limiting their impact on the outcome of a game. At FB we can put the ball in his hands, he can be a game changer. He can block and wear a defense down, keep us on the field longer. He impacts the team more on offense than defense. Plus he is a Mike LB, not an outside OLB. We are strong there right now.

What "big boys"? Penn State and Michigan? They have a combined 9 points against those two. They have played 2 FCS schools, Howard and Alabama St. They gave Howard a beating. And barely beat Alabama St. EMU is coming in with one of their backs banged up (might not play), There defense is middle of the road and despite putting 49 points on Howard there offense is only ranked 8 points higher than ours. Its a MAC game between fairly even teams. I predict an Akron win 35-31. I sure hope you are right. I have very little confidence in our program. What I saw a few weeks ago against Temple was nothing short of pathetic. EMU would have to be pretty horrible to lose to us. Our offensive line cannot block and our defense cannot tackle or cover. On top of that we have a quarterback, who when not on his back or running for his life, is getting passes picked off or at the very least, batted down at the line of scrimmage. Only bright spot is the running game, but that is only as good as the offensive line in front of it. Hmm yes because EMU is so similar to Temple. Temple just crushed Maryland (anyone argue that Maryland is not better than us?) 38-7. And that 7 was a pity 7. At least Akron scored on them when the game still mattered. I can't stand Temple, but they are very good right now. Its going to take a long time for anyone to have confidence in us. But it is not nearly as bad as it looks. You have to account for the teams we played and how experienced they are compared to us.

What "big boys"? Penn State and Michigan? They have a combined 9 points against those two. They have played 2 FCS schools, Howard and Alabama St. They gave Howard a beating. And barely beat Alabama St. EMU is coming in with one of their backs banged up (might not play), There defense is middle of the road and despite putting 49 points on Howard there offense is only ranked 8 points higher than ours. Its a MAC game between fairly even teams. I predict an Akron win 35-31.

Those kickoffs were absolutlely horrible. Does anyone know what was going on there? Our coverage stunk, the guy returning was dangerous, so they put AJ in to sky it to the up-back. The idea being the coverage would get there and they guy would have to fair catch it. (It worked once). The smart play is to squib kick the ball every time. Or just kick it out of bounds. Same field position but less risk of a game changing return.

Here is my "beyond statistical judgment" of the day. The passes that I witnessed Saturday that were not close to being catchable were the ones thrown to the sideline. If it was 10 yard comeback, or a 30 yard fly, the results were the same. The catchable balls were thrown to the middle of the field. Price dropped one of those. Next time somebody is at the game watch where LR8 is making his completions. He needs to work hard at being able to spread the field with his completions because if I were creating a defensive scheme against him, it would be on that premise. I would like to see some halfback and wide receiver screens to help him with this too. Where was his best receiver Saturday? Suel was out (as reported by the paper) with a lower back injury. The way French talked they don't know how bad it will be yet. Price has to step up period. He has to know his routes, and he has to make the catches. I am waiting for the moment when Williams finally gets his hands on the ball on offense and just as a returner.

Bobby, you need go back to North and learn how to count. Was there 14000 no, but there was about 10000.

What do the other 9 say? "Moore isn't as good as Nicely"?