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10 hours ago, 72 Roo said:
There is something going on within the program. Simmons departure makes no sense. Was he suggested to leave so a complete rebuild could occur? I don't think so, but nothing makes sense. Most of our players who have left will not find NIL money. Do they want to play for a winner? Maybe, but at UA they had their spots won and the program was heading upward. If they had really bought in as Joe has said repeatedly not this many would be leaving. They could have been comfortable, but they chose to leave for the chaos of the TP. Why? There has to be more here than we are aware.
The players have all bought into the delusion that they will end up with a lucrative NIL deal or perhaps a chance at making a splash at a P4 program. We are living in an instant gratification, YOLO era.
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12 minutes ago, zippy-claws said:
@Hilltopper is correct! This piece of punt lint is and should always be known as an opportunistic slut. What he did at/to U of A should have been a bigger deal, but the Press as we know it doesn't exist around these parts. Too "anger-inducing" to re-visit. Hot Dog Thrown!
He was drowning in the ocean and we threw him a life ring. As soon as he was safe, he threw us overboard.
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Throw the hotdog. The guy is a lowlife.
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34 minutes ago, ZipCat said:
But the MAC doesn't exist for you and me. It exists so that Execs, University Presidents and University Athletic Dept heads can pad their resumes to move onto something else and get paid six-figures salaries while doing it.
We don't live in a meritocracy. We live in a plutocracy where a select few do what they want at the expense of the rest of us.
Sorry that your life hasn't worked out as planned. You should seek out some counseling instead of making rants on a sports fan message board
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38 minutes ago, 72 Roo said:
Thanks for this morning's pick-me-up. It's too early to start drinking so I needed this. This forum can sometimes be negative, primarily due to the frustration loyal Zip football fans have experienced. It seems the future is slowly seeing improvement despite the inequity in D1 football. Hope springs eternal.
It's always 5 o'clock somewhere!
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1 hour ago, GP1 said:
The annual budget is approximately $260 million. The $1.3 million we got from OSU is a drop in the bucket. Imagine what they could do if they stopped playing shell games with the athletic departments money.
To me, it's not about the money. It's about the purpose of athletic department. Figure that out and there is a different perspective on the money.
Exactly! As long as other departments and organizations can use athletics as a negotiating tool to protect their turf, things will never improve. If other programs had to operate under the financial reporting requirements fostered on Athletics, every one of them would look terrible.
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55 minutes ago, ZZZips said:
I applaud the student who wrote the article. If an Akron student wrote a,similar article about Akron basketball you would cheer him on. The kid is a stringer. Congrats to him for having enough skill to make some money on a per article basis from Gannett Publishing.
They might have paid $10. It's all they can afford!
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27 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
I would be embarrassed if an Akron student wrote an article with so many statistical/factual errors.
Can't read, Can't write Can't State!
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On 12/9/2024 at 6:10 PM, 72 Roo said:
Joe is not responsible for putting together a collective for football. But why not former players? Can't they get in touch with Bud Wentz to understand the mechanics of putting it together? Once they set it up they could find events to fund it like:
- Toledo had pilates on the 50 lead by Candle's wife. It sold out.
- That might have raised $5000
- Repeat what basketball did with a night with the coaches. Bring back former coaches and players. Have an open Q & A with Joe on what he expects in the season, or maybe at mid-season. Sign gear and memorabilia by the players for a small fee, If legal. Basketball sold out at $100 per ticket.
- That event actually lost money!
- Host a golf tournament in the stadium like OSU does. All 9 iron shots from fun locations. afterwards is a buffet and cash bar.
- Again, maybe make $5000
- Offer guided tours of the facilities such as the Info, the field house and the JAR.
- The 10 guys on this forum might be interested. Make maybe $500.
- Do a night with a coach once a month. Charge $50 to attend. Have Joe or the DC or STC take questions at a pub with a separate room.
- Same 10 guys. $500
On 12/9/2024 at 6:10 PM, 72 Roo said:- Seek donations from those who support NIL.
- That has been an ongoing project for several years. Guys like Bud don't just fall out of trees. Forget about Kaulig, he has his hands full already. People seem to look at this as some sort of charity. There is no tax deduction for an NIL donation. The people who donate to NIL are looking to get some sort of return on their investment. Like a winning team! There is not much of a track record of that for Akron football.
Members of the collective could organize all these and the U would have little if no cost. If football needs a collective the alumni should be first to make it happen.
Personally I don't believe in the NIL concept, but there are many who would support it. If they want to be part of a collective, like basketball has shown, give them a chance to help.
Don't take my comments as personal criticism of your ideas. I wish there were an easy way to raise the money too.
Expand the quote boxes to see my comments.
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3 hours ago, MDZip said:
As they say don't hate the player, hate the game. They didn't create this mess, but, like just about everyone else, they're trying to take their best advantage of it. I don't feel much loyalty to college football any more. I would not feel like my life was impacted at all if it disappeared.
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13 hours ago, GP1 said:
I've been away from Ohio for almost 20 years now. I didn't realize they moved to a "Participation Trophy" playoff system. Seven divisions? How many teams per region make it? I saw that some teams who make the playoffs only have a couple of wins? This is complete nonsense. If your team sucks to the point you can only get two wins, at the end of the year you should get a pat on the head and told to try harder the next season. These kids aren't going to be damaged for life because they didn't make the playoffs.
448 teams make the playoffs across 7 divisions.
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4 hours ago, UA1996MAENG said:
KSU enrollment was up this fall, and has been pretty good overall (the all-campus decline is a larger issue that affects many of our public universities). What is our (UA) debt, almost 400 million? (operating deficits and infrastructure investment). Overall, I'm on the side of all of our public universities, except Ohio State, which neither needs nor solicits my support, though I was a graduate student there as well. Kent and Akron both did not get the development and operating support in the 1970s and 1980s when they really needed it. In the current circumstances, KSU and Akron (and 100s of others across the country) are trying to compete with enormous, historically well funded land-grant universities like Ohio State and Michigan and Penn State. Our "mid-majors" can't compete with very powerful athletics marketing and infrastructure that was put in place a century ago, so they tried and are trying to compete by offering more academic programs and better on-campus facilities (half of UA’s campus and the new engineering building at KSU come to mind). I can't condemn Kent or UA (Proenza, mostly) for making the effort to expand and improve these universities.
Everything was fine with athletics at the mid majors until the injection of big sums of money generated by cable TV. Then it became an arms race they had no chance of winning. Once the folks down on the farm were able to watch top notch competition for free on TV, why would they continue to support the local college? NIL and free agency will be the final nail in the coffin for the MAC and their ilk getting any notoriety on a national level. All that's going on right now in football is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I can hear the band playing.
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1 hour ago, RoyalBlu said:
Outside of the Akron footprint, BB folks are often surprised when the Zips emerge in the post season and Groce takes down some P5 team in the NCAA Tournament. That's great for Groce, and at the end of the season great for Akron fans ... but inside the footprint, when no non-con games and only a couple of MAC games (Ohio, Kent) rise to the level of outside interest (between mid Nov. and March), I understand if some folks feel cheated.
Don't get me wrong. Finishing 25-5 is great. But ...
Why hide a diamond in your pocket? If you got it, show it.
When diamonds are mined they are in a raw form. It takes time and a skilled technician to create the facets that turn them into something of value and beauty.
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23 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:
That project has been in the works for quite a while. Glad to see it getting completed.
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5 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:
What's your take on one of JoeMo's best friends & WR coach JD Brookhart joining the Summit Circle a few weeks ago? Two day's after Guthrie was let go, actually 🧐 When I saw that I figured JoeMo was not planning on going anywhere... but I can be naive.
You're reading way to much into this. Brookhart's Summit Circle announcement had nothing to do with Guthrie's departure. Most of those announcements take place weeks after the commitment was made.
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On 6/7/2024 at 11:52 AM, 1981 grad said:
I remember the Red Panda performing at the Jar and she was amazing. I know we have had a lot of volunteer dance teams at the Jar, but can anyone remember any other paid performers that came in at half time.
Red Panda sighting at the Cavs tonight!
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On 11/29/2024 at 7:10 AM, Zipmeister said:
1974 against highly favored U of Tampa. Tampa featured two future NFL players. They received the opening kickoff and screwed up the return. Shortly thereafter they fumbled on the 4 yard line and Akron quickly scored the first 7 of the points that ended up in a 40 -0 victory. Tampa dropped football after that season.
That game was in 1969.
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11 hours ago, 72 Roo said:
I appreciate the Meister bringing this great moment in Zip history to the attention of the board. To appreciate this game it is important to know a bit of the background leading up to the game. Tampa, coached by Earle Bruce, was moving up the ladder of respectability. I believed they had three future NFL players, one being John Matuzak, the second overall pick the year he went in the draft. They were moving up to D1 and they wanted to make a splash. They wanted to play Ohio State on a date OSU had open in their OOC schedule. At the time they offered an unheard of guarantee $250,000 for OSU to play them in Tampa. That was indeed huge for the time. The only problem was Tampa was suppose to play in Akron that day. Tampa said no problem Akron was nothing and Tampa would gladly forfeit any guarantee to Akron. OSU refused to consider the offer.
You can probably guess how Akron took that. Gordon Larsen, Akron's best football coach ever had that plastered all over the locker room. Better than that he prepared the team magnificently. In front of the second biggest Rubber Bowl crowd ever (40,000+) the team came out on fire and dominated Tampa. I was on the sidelines with the soccer team, who played before the game, and I witnessed the most ferocious hitting I have ever seen. Against better athletes Akron destroyed Tampa. If you are looking for a time to be proud of Zip football this game is rivaled only by the 2005 MAC championship game. Hang in their Zip football fans. We have moments to savor.
That game was actually in the 1969 season. It was my very first Akron football game.
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1 hour ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
Kent State scored 10 pts in the first half of their NCAA Tourney game vs. UNLV in 2008 and still scored 58 pts in the game. 39 pts in a game vs. UC Irvine is pathetic.
Pinky got pissed at UC Irvine's coach for their walk-on firing up a 3 with 5 seconds left to boot.
Worth noting that Sullinger is coming off the bench for them, but playing 28 mpg. Must be his punishment for whatever happened with his Furman situation.
This totally sums up the KSU mentality.
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Am I the only one who’s a little disgusted by the actual near fight here? UC Irvine coach is getting crap talked by Kent State coaches while Kent state players come up and try to flex and look hard real close to the other team and the entire Kent state bench pushes forward. If this was 2 Kent states it’s a fight over nothing. UC Irvine meanwhile controlled all their players, let Kent state talk crap, backed up to give them their space. Not a good look for Kent state imo
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8 hours ago, MDZip said:
Finally showed up. And it was $35 not $55. I think they did a pretty good job on it.
Glad yours showed up in perfect condition. Mine, not so much.
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I'm hearing the professor to student ratio is way out of whack in the polymer program.
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1 minute ago, GP1 said:
Great question. The answer is absolutely not. In no way shape or form is it better.
The money is not helpful because the athletic departments are more broke than ever. If former athletic directors of mac schools had any self awareness, they would apologize to their former employers for the buffalo run they sent their schools on.
The players are not as good. Where are players like Leftwich, Pennington, Frye, Blackburn, Roethlisberger, Hixon, Moss, etc?
People say MACtion is a great brand. No, it is the brand of empty stadiums, ruined rivalry games, disinterested announcers and low quality play.
The MAC is doing less than ever to make their schools a benefit to the athletes students alumni fans and general community around their schools. It's really disgraceful what has happened to the MAC.
I think the weeknight games exposed how the MAC was willing to whore itself out for a few bucks. Also, lots of potential recruits from warm southern states saw just how cold and miserable it was to play a night game in November in the north. That has coincided with the rise of the southern schools growth as large swaths of northerners have migrated to warmer climates.
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Snow bowl game.
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Maddie should be back soon. Kam,Ren suffered an ACL injury in the Hamilton game. Riley is out for personal reasons. It looks like an 8 person rotation for the foreseeable future.