Captain Kangaroo

Sucks to be the low-life reporter assigned to drive to Jeannette Pa to hassle the kid's mom.

Mike Birkbeck has been K.e.n.t.'s pitching coach for quite a while. He's the only Akron player I know of to play in the majors. I think he has to the the #1 candidate for the HC position. John Massarelli had a decent minor league catching career, and coached in the minors. He's another logical candidate.

He may out-draw InfoCision with that place? I wonder if it will take any business away from B-Dubs...who's had a figure four leg lock on the combo campus food & bar scene for almost 2 decades.

On a serious note - Doug's post, on the day after Memorial Day, ranks as the all-time most poorly-timed and ill-conceived consecutive sentences ever typed on our site.

I blame ESPN, Kirk Herbstreit and the NCAA's vendetta against Ohio State. Pryor should be the starter on opening day, and Tressel should be the coach. Anything less is just flat-out unjust! Zips fans are jealous of OSU? Jealousy of herpes just ain't right. It just keeps getting better.

I vote Anthony Buford - 3 spectacular years at UA, and 1 year as starting guard for Bob Huggins' Final Four team @ UC. What other guard have the Zips possessed that would be good enough to start on a Final Four team? Other than Alex Abreu? Marcel Boyce was also at the top.

I remember a column in the Beacon Journal several years ago that featured a big pic of five-or-so Zips players piling into the back of a pick up truck to carpool to the Rubber Bowl for practice. Ohio State vs. Akron -- The Haves vs. the Have-nots

Instead of agreeing, you should slap them in the face and call them a bunch of bitches. +1

People would have laughed in 1985 if anyone speculated that the head coach at Notre Dame would soon be at Akron. I don't want Tressel. But if Ianello pulls-off another 1-11 season, we'll be in the market for a new coach, and Proenza will be looking for a way to fill a very expensive stadium that's drawing roughly 27,000 under capacity. Tressel is Angelina Jolie...but with herpes. Hot chicks aren't so unobtainable when they have herpes.

We will be better, if we can find someone to catch the football. A bunch of 18 and 19 year olds on the OL could also be a recipe for disaster. QB - fine RB - Fine DL - Fine LB - Fine Special Teams - Oh no. DB - Oh no. Coaching - Still scares me.

sorry Johnny but I can't side with you on this one. he did request to have his suspensions extended to match the players. Maybe he was hoping the extended suspension would cover up his lies. 20 year old kids have some level of excuse...they're poor, young and capable of stupid stuff. Tressel was a grown man. He knew better. And, only under pressure, did he have his suspension increased to match (not exceed) the kid's suspension. Too little too late. All he needed to do was forward the emails to his compliance officer and he'd have be fine. He didn't, and his motives were pretty transparent to all. Looking forward to seeing Coach Fickell this upcoming Labor Day weekend!

Man, you can find anything on the Internet Olga in action

Tough call. I'm forever grateful to transfer Humpty for saving our bacon and draining the 3 to beat Toledo in 2009. But he left for a team that wasn't really a competitor to the Zips. If he'd have transferred to another MAC school, he'd have become "Bubba." While UNC isn't a direct competitor, like a MAC program, it is definitely a program we compete against for championships. Speas will be trying to score on Meves at some point, so I hate him. Athletically only, of course.

If you wish to hate on a player that left the Zips for a competitor, you have my blessing.

Heh heh heh...he said morning wood...

He wouldn't be able to play until 2012, correct?

Maybe you are wrong?

So you think this discussion is regarding Golf Outing attendance? Ghee whiz...why do I even try...

Then there is no reason to do it. A golf course has 18 holes. At most, you can get 20 foursomes off in an outing. Where I had math, 20 x 4 = 80 golfers. That's $12,000 (before expenses) @ $150 per person. I'm not impressed by the golf outing. On the other hand, 20,000 fans paying to see a Zips game at $10 per ticket is $200,000. I'm impressed by that. They need to get focused on selling tickets and not a silly golf outing. Focus, focus, focus. The termination of the football golf outing is second only the parking situation at the Rubber Bowl (it was a grass field for crying out loud) on the list of non-issues that have been made important in Zips history. "At most you can get 20 foursomes off?" They doubled up on the holes, so there upwards of 160 people at the Outing. Beyond that, there were raffle tickets that most people spent $20 on. That's $24,000. Plus $3,200. Oh, and several tables were sold to Corporations @ $2,500 each. People PAID $30,000+ to talk Zips football in June! And most of the prizes were donated. You make it seem physically impossible to sell 20,000 football tickets at $10 a pop while holding a 1-day fan appreciation event that nets $30k. I say somehow, some way, it could be done. Dude - stick to what you know. Or, keep an open mind. Now I know what ZipWatcher feels like when you expound on basketball.

Another name to add to this list is Jake Fenlason, a keeper from FC San Diego. He has committed according to ESPNRise. His coach is Aodhan Quinn's father. Coincidence? What are we going to do with another GK? Meves is probably never going be taken out unless we are way ahead or he gets hurt. Poni is our backup. Andrian McAdams will probably never play as it is, why a fourth keeper? I agree and don't understand why the kid would want to come to Akron and probably not play much or at all. Always amazes me when guys commit to programs that already have two or more experienced keepers. Especially one who is not a national level recruit. Could it be that Caleb isn't 100% sold on Meves, and is bringing in competition to either spark, or supplant him?

Can't wait to see Phil make is annual "K.e.n.t's going to a bowl game" "K.e.n.t.'s going to win the MAC East" predictions. He loses all credibility with me when he picks K.e.n.t. football anything.

The Michigan Bucks? Only slightly more improbable than The Akron Golden Flashes.

The only reason we've played VCU is due to the Bracketbuster event. Shaka has nothing to do with it. And the Bracketbuster is awesome. Otherwise we'd never get to see the likes of Nevada, or Creighton, or VCU at the JAR.

With the exception of only a few (the "pros/ringers" that attend these events with the expectations to shoot 18-under, and win something), everyone I know that attended the Outings was there to take a day off work, see old friends, get a little drunk, get to know the staff a bit on a personal level, and talk some Zips football in June. Golf is just something fun to do for a few hours while you're drinking and BS-ing.

Looks to be only for former players? Guess I'll just be me and ZipsWin having Pizzas on the Patio this summer? I disagree with the golf outing's cancellation/termination. At the company I am employed, we pay an enormous amount of money annually to get face-time with some top customers at a central, pre-organized event. It's always held at some resort out West each winter. Point being - We PAY a ton of money to get face time with potential customers. Conversely -- UA had an up-and-running event that gathered 150-or-so of it's better customers to talk Zips football in June. An event everyone liked. And UA's customers PAID UA $150+ per person to do it. The event was never a big money-maker. But it never lost money, and it was a great way to pimp UA and get people feeling good about their alma mater. An get them thinking about donating, or increasing their donation level. It was for me, 7 of my other buddies who otherwise would never spend a Summer second thinking about Zips football. Now 150+ people aren't thinking about Zips football in June, and their wallets and check books remain on the kitchen counter top. I'll spend my $$ on the Fall Zips hoops outing. But they've lost my June $$, and the opportunity to spread some goodwill to 150+ core football fans.