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And man does it cost. I couldn't wait to flee the 3% city income tax.Mayor Don has turned the City into such an unattractive place that the house my company bought off of me two and a half years ago still sits empty in one of the nicer neighborhoods on the west side.Well good riddance, you douche bag.Tired of your garbage comments, how many fees you got living down there? I bet it all ends up working out the same, I know my friend that teaches in Walterboro, SC pays about 25% more for the normal "government" necessities (taxes, registration, fees for this, fees for that).Stupid south can't even control the use of it's own resources. Income tax for the city was and is not 3% (never has been). And hey you big Libertarian tool, I'll make the same deal with you as every other conservative moron. You walk down to your local city hall (or county admin building) and tell them, I will not pay taxes or fees for anything, in exchange I won't use anything the city or county has built or subsidized, hell do that for the federal stuff too. You know what? You wouldn't be able to do anything. The internet? Subsidized, Phone? Roads? Schools? Your Job? All subsidized. But yeah let's complain about taxes. You wouldn't even have a job down there if the community you were in didn't give away free land (subsidy) and the power wasn't so cheep because of what? Yes Public works programs and government subsidized Nuclear Plants.So stop using and you can stop paying or just stop complaining. Freaking tool.Thank you for your kind words. At least where I live now isn't turning into Youngstown.Well it will take the sticks a few years to catch up with the Rust City, but you guys will get there. Just keep a wish in your pocket and dreams in your minds.

People who play/coach defense have the brains of an ant. Anyone with half of a brain plays offense. We need an offensive coach who won't run a gimmick defense and we will be fine.WRONG!Someone needs to start documenting the dumb things you say, oh, wait, I'm sure the "Great" GP1 has a book of all the "fabulous" things he has said.

Top ranked offense in the nation? Top passing stats?Way to "FOX News" how the Kansas offense was.Just for giggles, go on Oregon, look after the Boise State game and see how much "criticizing" the Oregon offense took.The amazing thing about offenses, you put up stats and lose, it sucks because of the 1 or 2 little miscues. You put up stats and win? Everyone thinks you're the best offense to play the game.

And man does it cost. I couldn't wait to flee the 3% city income tax.Mayor Don has turned the City into such an unattractive place that the house my company bought off of me two and a half years ago still sits empty in one of the nicer neighborhoods on the west side.Well good riddance, you douche bag.Tired of your garbage comments, how many fees you got living down there? I bet it all ends up working out the same, I know my friend that teaches in Walterboro, SC pays about 25% more for the normal "government" necessities (taxes, registration, fees for this, fees for that).Stupid south can't even control the use of it's own resources. Income tax for the city was and is not 3% (never has been). And hey you big Libertarian tool, I'll make the same deal with you as every other conservative moron. You walk down to your local city hall (or county admin building) and tell them, I will not pay taxes or fees for anything, in exchange I won't use anything the city or county has built or subsidized, hell do that for the federal stuff too. You know what? You wouldn't be able to do anything. The internet? Subsidized, Phone? Roads? Schools? Your Job? All subsidized. But yeah let's complain about taxes. You wouldn't even have a job down there if the community you were in didn't give away free land (subsidy) and the power wasn't so cheep because of what? Yes Public works programs and government subsidized Nuclear Plants.So stop using and you can stop paying or just stop complaining. Freaking tool.

tOSU is a national joke and will get taken apart by Oregon. tOSU lost to Purdue. That should be enough said. However........They shut down the Big Ten? Wow! That's almost impressive considering Big Ten offenses shut themselves down and all the defenses have to do is show up. I can't think of an elite offensive player in the Big Ten.They shut down USC? Wow! USC is the fifth place PAC 10 school and they still LOST to them at HOME. Everyone shut down USC. tOSU's defense couldn't shut them down in crunch time when good players and good coaches rise or fall.tOSU and Notre Dame are becoming the same team. Everyone talks about them yet they are irrelevant. tOSU has the advantage of hiding in the Big Ten and playing MAC schools for most of their OOC schedule. ND is just lost.Most off topic thing ever. oh yes andWRONG!!!

Seems to me that report (and others on the web like it) only indicates that sometime next week Stoops will actually talk to YSU. A little bit of a leap to assume it's a done deal, when other guys are still interviewing with YSU right now?Hope it works out either way for YSU.and then there is this

Well every talking head in the country has said "He's going to be a head coach, and he has the ability to recruit."Every "name" on that defense over the last 3 seasons, was recruited by Fickel. (and yes it's easier to recruit for OSU than Akron, but he's beating out, Nebraska's, USC's, and Texas's for some of these kids.) Surely he can beat out MAC schools and low tier Big East schools for the players we compete for.

To me, the moving A was too cheesy and amateurish (like what CMU uses now) and too yellow. At least our current logos are obviously professionally designed. I think it would be cool to have a throwback game with the retro Varsity A logo/uni's.I agree, Roo-A for 90% of our games, then bust out the Dennison-A for Homecoming and home Wagon Wheel games. No reason Addidas can't supply us with that.

It's kind of like the Info. A lot of you knew it was happening, but the University had to keep denying it? Why? Because they have to nail down the donor and funding, they have to have the proper pomp and circumstance surrounding. I'm sure the idea is, bring everyone back after winning the National Championship, and then "wa-lah" here's a new stadium for you, "but it will take 2 phases to complete."

But she also says she loves the duct tape look

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Stop worrying, it won't be.Some inside information?

So you are going to try to compare this years team, or last years team to Ball, Bosley, Phillips, Andrick, Moore, Gooden. Do not think it would even be close. Might as well name it after Owens, JD did not worl out as all you thought he would a couple years ago. Whose to say that KD will not have the same fate. I have sat in the stands in the same shirt for 20 yrs now. The team mentioned above is better than anything KD has brought in, they played better competition.OHHHH, you're that crackhead that runs to the restroom every 15 minutes.There is no way that Ball's team could even run with these guys.And Hipsher actually set us back 10 years, the teams were attrocious. Hell the best counterpoint against Hipsher is "what's he doing now?"

And I perfectly fine with that when it comes to our board of trustees.I meant it as a good thing.

The last appointee was a life long resident of Akron and UA Alum. (democrat yes, but he is a Plusquellic democrat and that means "Akron first at all costs")

Good. He may be the most amazing football strength and conditioning coach, but my only experience with him has been from the stand point that I am a lowly and unimportant athlete from one of those "non-revenue" sports and I should feel privileged that I was even allowed to set foot in his weight room. His staff did more harm than good to me.Well... you were privileged to be using that facility. Believe me those who donated to get that thing built didn't do it for the rifle team. The bottom line is the strength and conditioning staff's primary responsibilities are to the football, basketball, baseball and softball, Track and Field, and soccer teams. When I was at Akron, Dan Bailey handled the football and baseball teams and another coach was responsible for basketball with Bailey overseeing it. If you can find ONE football player who has trained under Bailey that didn't think he did an outstanding job, any of you might have a point. I guarantee you Dan Bailey was not the problem this year. One thing I heard from some of my teammates who were still around for the early Brookhart years was that JD came in and made Bailey change a lot of what he was doing, and the result was not positive. Guys in the Brookhart era were smaller and more easily injured, and that was a direct result of changes JD ordered. The Owens years might not have had the most talented guys, but do you remember those offensive lines we used to have that would absolutely MAUL you? Guys like Piccirillo, Jud Cummins, Mike Brake, and the like? Those were a direct result of Dan Bailey Stength Conditioning back when he was allowed to do it his way. Walk-ons like Ryan Myers were developed into NFL players. Guys like Chase Blackburn came into the program at 200 pounds and left looking like the incredible hulk, and they would all credit that to Dan Bailey. We never saw guys develop like that under JD, and its because he made Bailey tone down a lot of what he was doing and changed a lot of the summer program and schedules, which really put a clamp on what Bailey could do. He's as much a victim of JD's incompetence as his players were.The weight room is the varsity weight room, not the football-basketball-baseball-softball-track-soccer weight room. The fact that you share such a narrow view of which teams should benefit from which school resources only proves my point. I mean, the only team who's brought home more national titles than the rifle team is track... yet let's just piss all over the little guys. Besides, I'm not just campaigning for rifle, but golf, tennis, swimming, and even volleyball. Every team should have access to good trainers and be given a workout program tailored for the necessities of their sport.Not to mention that those "non-revenue" sports have a plethora of non-scholarship athletes. Meaning the "non-revenue" sports are actually paying for that weight room and any scholarship athletes that are in that weight room.

Well the point being that we have been a D1 team for 22 years and have only hd 3 coaches (7 year average) for a team with only 1 bowl appearance that is an unusually long amount of time. That suggests that we have historically had low expectations to extend a coaches contract.

Please anyone but Paul Winters, he does not have the resume we deserve. (I'm sure in a couple years he will, but he's already 50) I'm personally tired of getting High school coaches (Owens) and non-successful (no championships) coaches. (Brookhart, Faust)Wow we've only had 3 coaches since we've been D-1?

$150,000 as of Dec 2008Well $379,000 would be more wouldn't it?

You do realize that the advent of "sports" was a way to not only train but also change the face of war. So a reference to athletes as "warriors" is as accurate an analogy as anything. The Olympics was nothing but warriors, the Aztecs played a sport to settle disputes instead of going to war, in fact Soccer (which is extremely relevant in this case) was used as a method of testing battle formations and has also been played to stop wars. What actually needs to stop is the overly sensitive "don't disrespect the soldiers" comments. I know they aren't US Military (like my cousin who is burried at Arlington National cemetery or my Grandfather who served 3 years in WWII and did another 2 being experimented on in an Army hospital or my father in law who repaired planes in Vietnam and to this day works for the Defense Department.) but they do fight to win respect for my Alma Mater. I would rather they "act" and "behave" with a warrior mentality then pretend they don't exist.In fact it is more honorable to recognize the military and our soldiers as heroes and strive to be is as bold, strong, brave, and daring as they are. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

I would LOVE to have your thought process on how you come to that conclusion!?! Can you please explain for each candidate? BTW, four years from now, the new coach will have all of "their players" no matter who it is.Just my feelings. I just get the feeling that they'll try to put something in place that we don't have the personell for, and we'll get the line that the program has to be "built" in order for it to be successful like it was at their previous school. Plus they always focus too much on one side of the ball, whatever side they were coaching before, and then hire a coordinator that essentially becomes a second head coach for the other side of the ball. I don't see that happening if you go after a successful head coach at a smaller school because they've already gone through the "learning experience" phase and can handle managing an entire team and not just one side of it.Not to disrespect Winters, but, how is considered a "successful" coach? (he has done a good job of turning around the program)But he has yet to win anything other than 3rd place in a Division 2 league with a school located in Detroit where there should be a ton of talent available for the DII level?The last 3 years he has had 6 wins, 3 wins, and 6 wins, that doesn't speak consistency to me. We really don't need that right now. Also if i'm not mistaken, the last "coordinator that wanted his own system and had to rebuild" had us bowl eligible his first year and MAC champs the second. I just don't see Winters getting it done here, it took him 5 years to win at the DII level, he is the one that would have problems achieving "immediate success".

The way you have to look at things is compare what the 3 newest hires received. Clausen, English, and Haywood all make more than Brookhart. (300+ to his 250).The first game alone I believe the program brought in $1.5 million. Hard to get a quality coach when the program has that kind of earnings potential and you are only offering $250 thousand. Bottom line you aren't going to convince a coach (that is capable of accomplishing what you want) to come here with the burden of lifting a program above mediocrity and filling (and paying for) a 61 million dollar stadium at the current Brookhart price. If they care about the program, they will spend money on the coach. $2 million over 5 years ($400 thousand a year) with some bonuses worked in for attendance and winning is not that much to ask, we spend $2 million a year on planting trees.

New from the weekend (still pretty rough) but thought I would share.Soccer Stadium Plans

I'm not sure if I agree with how you score these two. A top BCS coordinator has not proven top level leadership and management... only focused success at best. A former BCS coach, may temporarily appease the masses, but that lasts only as long as they win. Chalk up a few losses, and appeasement ends. "...and hopefully something good will happen" is true for any option in your list.A former BCS coach has experience running a program. This does not inherently equate to success on the field, but it leaves less unanswered variables than the rest of your options.I think that a Charlie Strong would be more successful than a Glen Mason.Like I said the option I want is not practical (cost too much) but I would disagree with anyone who says that a Lane Kiffin or Chip Kelly (successful coordinators and recruiters at a school) is an inferior selection to Terry Bowden (ran out of his school for failure to perform). The problem with your assertion that "a former BCS coach has experience running a program" is that if said BCS coach was successful, why is he currently available? I believe that is what a lot of you refer to as "the Faust". We don't need a Faust, we need a Chip Kelly, Brian Kelly, (ie Mike London; dreaming of Charlie Strong), someone who expects success, knows what it's like, and knows how to lead.

Ideally it would be an up and coming coordinator from a winner (you listed Top 10) but it should be a BCS school that has had some major role in recruiting.This coaching situation, this year, will show how serious Proenza and the Board are about the goals they set forth for UA athletics. If they stick with JD (and some could not blame him for failing this year, 14 key players missing) it says "The status quo of mediocrity is fine."If they go after a Mike London (Brian Kelly type) it says "We want to change, but we don't want to risk paying too much"If they go after a Top 10 BCS coordinator and open the pocket books (likely requiring 400-600 thousand a year and major bonuses) it says "Yes we do want to change everything here, losing is not an option and we will back it up by any means necessary"A former BCS coach (Bowden, Mason) says "We are just trying to appease the masses and hopefully something good will happen"