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Love that little stacked backfield run play-- let's see more of that. In fact, let's see more running period. Why, if the coaches don't like Pohl, do they keep throwing the ball? (BTW, Pohl has thrown really well so far-- drops are killing us). I just don't understand why we aren't running more. Where is Hundley???

Wow. Ok they have to get aggressive on o. Pohl has to show real fire and will them into the end zone.

Pick!!!!

D looks tired. Scary.

great hit...get em fired up

The dropped passes just kill us

FUMBLE!

Totes-- especially since PS gets the ball to start the half. Why not put up a couple of long throws in the last few seconds of the first half? Sends a bag signal-- not aggressive, not playing to win.

Totes. LeBron rules the roost. It needs to be back at ua. Btw the thunderdome, where the gauchos play, is scarily similar to the jar. Same era, same stupid design. About 5500 seats. Upper deck a bit better designed close to floor and seat backs but roll back. Man we need a new arena.

I'm on my way to an MJ camp right now on the UCSB campus (long story, here under protest), but got me to thinking about why LeBron moved his camp from UA and if there is a chance it will return... had to be good for KD to have at UA... anyone know anything?

We made Drudge (sorta)... Untitled.tiff

We are not locking down rebounds and not going inside consistently. Need the big guys to take this over. Outside shots and guard play will not win this.

I agree with Capt that a PD article that says Akron is more talented than an Ohio State team in a good year is, all things considered, pretty frickin cool. But, the article definitely carries the PD/Livvy bias towards Cowlumbus. I wish he would have given just a little bit of a hat tip to KD for building this program to a place and point that there is actually something interesting to discuss about a potential Akron-OSU match up. And that so much of the drive and impact of this team is coming back next year. And it's all being done with a fraction of the money and support a Big 10 team has access to. It would have been nice to have him say that Akron is in the midst of doing something special-- still need to get to the tourney and gets some wins to really "arrive", but all indications are that something incredible is happening...he didn't quite capture that, which would really have been the appropriate hometown angle.

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My perception is that there is significantly more UA coverage in 'Cleveland' media than when I was growing up in Ashtabula and attending UA in the mid-80's (holy crap that makes me feel old). It's pretty natural that there would be a Cleveland bias from Cleveland-based media. Adding to that is Can't State. It seems to me that Can't once got far more coverage than Akron-- because of May 4, the Browns training camp being based there, the Don James-Lambert-Saban-Pinkel teams, and its branch campus network, Can't State seems like it had a much bigger presence in the market compared to UA in the 70s/80s. I think that delta has completely changed the last 10 years and UA is covered as consistently as Can't-- I know this is something the Dr. P has been very aware of and focused on. One of the reason UA buys advertising is to be a customer of those media outlets, which gives just a little bit more impetus to covering UA. However, Akron consistently making deep runs in the tourney, becoming a solid winner in football, making a jump out of the MAC-- those are things that will propel UA to a different level of coverage. Look at what happened when JT was added a few weeks ago-- blanket coverage, headlines, packed press conference. This is why adding him is so smart-- it was like making a tourney run, etc., all in one swoop. One area where the Cleveland media has really missed the story is in the redevelopment of UA's campus. Steven Litt, the PD's architecture writer, will do multiple columns on a random CSU or CWRU building, but has totally ignored the $400M+ spent completely transforming Akron's campus (and by extension, Akron's city center). Hopefully having JT driving 20/20 will change that both with Cleveland and national media.

"According to a letter from Proenza, Tressel retired from the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System in June 2011." From http://education.ohio.com/2012/02/tressel%...arved-in-stone/ JT isn't here for his pension or the money. He must have banked $15M+ over the years. It's not the weather. It's not because UA adds to his stature or is the logical place to go as a steppingstone. He's here because he and Dr. P felt uber-aligned about the impact a place like UA could have. JT is here because he believes he has lots more to give. He's here to have impact. There is certainly a good chance that he will leave in 12, 18, 24 months. Who cares? He is the kind of guy that can make a big impact in a short period of time. I understand the concerns expressed here, but the opportunity afforded by having him on board, advancing UA in 30 different ways, more than outweighs them imho. I think its incredibly exciting. Btw, isn't KD here today because he had an issue a few years back that knocked him off-track? Shit happens and you move on.

Here's what I think: JT's life has been about being a coach, teacher, and mentor. He erred and fell. It would have been easier to just fade away. He doesn't need the money. He doesn't need the headache of a job. What he wants is redemption. He is not a perfect person-- no one is. He believes he has something to give back-- to still be the thing that he was best at, which is being a teacher. Helping young people. I can't imagine any other scenario where UA would get someone of his stature-- even now tainted-- to take a leadership role. He doesn't need to do this for any reason other than to make an impact. It's an incredible, far-sighted opportunity for UA to activate a donor base, business support, student interest. The man has something to prove. We are beyond lucky that our fellow alum is going to do that in service of UA.

I just had to say how stunning and amazing this news is...and really how incredible the last few weeks have been. I am just in awe of Dr. P-- landing Tressel is just breathtaking. Now the polymer program needs to crack the code on revolutionary battery technology that changes the world. I'll settle for Tressel, Terry, KD and Caleb for now. All I can say is wow. And Go Zips.

This is AMAZING. Truly. Dr. P is really a magician.

Totally agree on all counts. Welcome to SoCal!! I am sending you an email now to connect some time.

What has average BB attendance done under TW? My sense is that it has gone down even as the program has become truly elite (in the MAC). This is a key indicator to me of whether TW should be renewed. What has happened to student support since TW? I don't see alot of super creative, fun, and exciting AkRowdies things happening lately. My sense is that student support has cratered under TW even as we've won a national championship and now make NCAA tourneys regularly. Lastly, how has the most expensive program-- football-- been handled? Unmitigated disaster seems to be the best description of that. If there is one thing TW needed to get right, it was this. His choice of coach was horrible. His handling of the termination of that coach was about the worst possible (how could you possibly let the story be that he was notified on the way to his mother's funeral) and the search was equally bad-- uncertain, embarrassing, poorly executed, and salvaged only by the next coach contacting us. Securing Porter and KD is great-- but that's just covering the basics. Signing a good baseball coach, ditto. That's what he's supposed to do, a minimum level of competence and effectiveness. But don't we want more than that? Don't we want the KD and Porter equivalent of an AD? If we had that, we would never have hit this nadir in football in the midst of the opening of a brand new stadium. A few years back, pre-TW, there seemed to be a great sense of momentum for Zips athletics. Students seemed excited and involved. The possibility of a new stadium to go along with a completely transformed campus seemed real. Basketball appeared to be moving to a place of challenging Can't as the premiere program in the MAC. Soccer seemed poised to challenge for national championships. A few years later, all that great stuff has actually happened, but the level of involvement and enthusiasm, that sense of momentum, seems to have diminished.

What a relief. Love this hire and the excitement it is already generating. Doesn't really change my POV on TW and how it all was handled (of note in particular is the line from the Repository about him contacting the U--wtf? How was he not in the consideration set?). I'm hopeful that with his experience, Coach Bowden will get things moving in the right direction quickly. Vv exciting news!!

There's no way TW can survive this travesty of a coach search, right? After creating the mess in the first place, allowing the story to be UA notified i-coach on the way to his mother's funeral, and now being turned down numerous times in public-- you can't possibly survive that as an AD after the University has spent nearly $100M on football-related facilities and upgrades in the past few years, right? If I were Dr. P-- who I support completely-- I would have to be thinking that it's time to cut bait on this guy and get the dept. back under the leadership in place a few years back (Mack Rhoads-era). The timing is horrible-- we can't wait for a new AD to hire a HC, but what AD would want to inherit TW's HC pick. If this isn't a "clean house" moment, what is? Debacle, fiasco, disaster.

Awesome, because I already felt violated by the whole process. Literally the funniest comment ever on ZN...just did a spit take

First, I am 1000% behind the idea of getting the Vest. If there was ever a chance of Akron getting a truly great coach, this is the moment. He would draw an incredible amount of talent- player and coach-- and attention. The man has something to prove and what better scenario could there be for us. But... I am really concerned about the 'show cause' thing. I was just reading on another board (Tressel rumor is being picked up on lots of other boards which demonstrates the potential buzz value of this) that a school might have to give up scholarships in return of hiring a coach with a show cause? We know Can't just waited it out. Does anyone know how the show cause thing works? Does anyone have a view into UA's strategy here? [my quip before was that having JT coach at Akron is a little like sentencing him to hard labor given what iCoach has left behind]. Could that happen? If we hire JT before the NCAA imposes the sanction, what happens? What I don't want to happen is to have Akron break the bank to get JT, make a big splash, and THEN have him banished leaving us looking like total dolts. Folks are already taking shots because we "fired the coach on the way to his mother's funeral". (Sorry, but he had to know it was happening...)