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Hilltopper

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  1. 1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

     

    It just made gambling more mainstream. The NCAA tournament just set record viewership records at a time when fewer and fewer people are watching live TV. Now that the can of worms has been opened, the leagues are making more money and politicians are generating more tax revenue. I don't see it going anywhere.

    It's always about the money. As long as the government gets their cut it will continue.

  2. 9 hours ago, 1981 grad said:

    Thanks!!  I just do not remember him being that good to cost us a MAC championship.  I do remember one player who always seemed to underachieve in Cleveland and that seemed to hurt us in his last couple of years.

    We only needed him to play 10-15 minutes per game at the MAC Tournament to give Big Dog a breather. By game 3, BD was spent and it cost us the title.

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  3. 9 hours ago, Zippy87 said:

     

    I always choose to remember that team for the way they responded to the MAC Tournament. Lost their starting PG, didn't have anyone ready to step in - I remember Betancourt cramping against Kent in the regular season finale because the minutes were just too much of a jump - lost that game to Kent.

     

    Had one week to figure it out. Beat Kent in the semis and then pounded Ohio in the final while mostly running the offense with players than hadn't done it all season. KD's best coaching job IMO and incredible resilience from the players.

    The following season Harney truly thought he should be the starting point guard. Spent most of the season pouting about it.

  4. 6 hours ago, Class of 82 said:

    Greetings Zipsnation citizens. I send greetings from a galaxy far, far away. I was here when this place had a different name and URL, when the interwebs were accessed by dial-up modems that made strange noises. Old timers may remember me. I deployed the first Haiku of Hatred. Now, I return with another.

     

    "I flip off Kent State

    Imagine the bus trip home

    I frigging love it!" 👌🤣🤧

     

    Now back to your regularly scheduled program, peoples.

     

    Welcome back my friend from the blueboard!

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  5. 5 hours ago, 1981 grad said:

    Pat Forsyth was a West Virginia transfer that everyone was very excited about and had a couple of decent years as a backup.  Something happened where he dropped off the team.  I remember seeing his at the Mac playoffs in street clothes and not with the team.  I cannot remember what happened.

    Foresyth was a head case. Everytime he got a hangnail he couldn't play. He hurt his shoulder and refused to play because he thought that any further injury might jeopardize his future career as a pro. He cost us the MAC championship in Dambrots final season. When we went to the NIT that year he wasn't invited to join the team. He did sign a G league deal but it didn't take long for them to realize what a headcase he was.

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  6. 2 hours ago, ZipCat said:


    They're a non-profit government agency. So that's a stupid question. A better question is What is the economic impact of NASA technological development? Since it's economic impact outweighs its cost, not to mention the measurable impact it's had on STEM for the past 60 years...Here's a better question:

     

    When has SpaceX (or any private rocket company) ever returned a profit? Oh, and before you try to cite the WSJ article claiming SpaceX turned a profit in 2023 (according to self-released records), they had several investor capital fundraisers last year...and have been running in the red relying on government subsidies and contracts and private investor capital to keep going.

     

    A boondoggle isn't a good example. And relating it back to UA ... the "profit" doesn't go to UA, it goes to a private company. Is it going to decrease the cost to students? No?
    Is it going to increase the quality/value to students? No? It's scammy. Just like those speed cameras where 80% of the ticket goes to the private company.  Just another example of the private sector leaching off the public sector tit.

    I think you missed my point comrade, nothing about spaceflight has ever been profitable. Yet. SpaceX has made launching to LEO so inexpensive and efficient that it allows NASA to concentrate on scientific projects. SST was able to launch large payloads but it wasn't efficient in terms of cost in both dollars and lives. Starship will soon have the same payload capacity. I'm betting on SpaceX making it happen.

  7. 4 hours ago, Reslife4Life said:

    In 2022 my group of friends were the first people not to get tickets at pizza 216, so we all frantically used code Rizzo to get the cheapest tickets then moved over to the student section

    Rizzo for the win! Go Angela!

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  8. On 3/10/2024 at 8:06 PM, ZipCat said:


    Using an Oxford analysis between SpaceX and NASA isn't the bolstering claim you think it is. NASA's bread-and-butter is innovating new nonexistent technology, and is hampered by political interests of Congress. While SpaceX's replication of already existent technology (that wouldn't exist without Public Funding and decades of work and research by NASA footing the upstart cost) is to be commended, their ability to innovate is nothing short of a disaster. "Failure is not an option" has been replaced with "well, it cleared the tower before it blew up!" level incompetence.

     

    No privatization generally means less-quality and less public control, which means less sense of community and less caring. Not to mention, NASA isn't actually saving that much money using SpaceX when compared to when it ran the SpaceShuttle in terms of the payloads themselves. There's a lot of bad reporting out there (that doesn't do the math they just take the reports of a private company with unopened books as gospel), and SpaceX is burning through investment cash...which demonstrates it's not running profitably (so it's all an illusion).

    Just one question, when did NASA ever return a profit? 

  9. 43 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

    KJ Walton what a guy. It was his 7th year in college basketball when he was at Akron. After a few games here, he just didn’t love playing basketball anymore

    Walton didn't realize that Groce was serious about the student part of student athlete.

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  10. 4 hours ago, GP1 said:

    I still don't understand how UofA was directly harmed.  How much UofA money did they take?

    None. They joined a group that was promised rebates on their energy costs. The person that negotiated the rebates took his cut and the group got the rest. Somehow this has been construed as the group having money stolen from them. Just like when there are tax cuts, some people think that is stealing money that rightfully belongs to the government.

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  11. 5 hours ago, Westie said:

    Looking ahead a few weeks. I've always bought MAC Tourney tickets through Rocket Mortgage FH through SeatGeek. You can pick seat and of course the prices vary

    Buying through UA doesn't show the seats you get and they are all $46 for each round.

     

    Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

     

    Go Zips!

    If you order through the Akron ticket office your seating assignment will be based on your contributions(or lack thereof) to the Zips Athletic Club. As long as the Zips keep winning you will be able to get tickets in the Akron sections. 

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