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Just asking --If the Zips played an ACC schedule, do you think we would still have run the table?We played 2 ACC programs and couldn't score a regulation goal.Ok - end of my controversial observation. It does make you wonder what Caleb would need to do to win COTY? Was the COTY picked prior to the NCAA tourney?Lolla turned tail and ran to Louisville when he felt the Zips program couldn't overcome the NCAA's "non-BCS" soccer bias.Caleb decided to stay, and force the NCAA to respect the Zips.Caleb's omission proves there's a lot of work remaining to be done on the Zips road to respect. But his track record shows he's the guy to break those barriers.How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time....I think Caleb's about 8% away from being a member of "The Clean Plate Club."

ESPN ArticlePer Elton John, Levon's son will apparently also attend UA --Levon wears his war wound like a crownHe calls his child Jesus`Cause he likes the nameAnd he sends him to the finest school in townA little more on Levon's personal bio (below) -He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas dayWhen the New York Times said God is deadAnd the war's begunAlvin Tostig has a son todayAnd he shall be LevonAnd he shall be a good manAnd he shall be LevonIn tradition with the family planAnd he shall be LevonAnd he shall be a good manHe shall be Levon

PA QB - I'll assume his offer is a remnant of the JD era, but it is there nonetheless

Come on guys...it's the Holidays...have some Egg Nog and enjoy the season.In the interest of full disclosure - I have no idea who G-Mann17 is. Never met him. As a Moderator, I've never been contacted by him.I created the "GP1 Sucks" smiley with no input from anyone...I just thought it was funny.

The UA Bookstore has Akron scarves, but not the one given away with the season tix.

The entire JD staff was offered an interview with Ianello (this is standard operating procedure when a head coach is dismissed and the new guy comes into town). From everything I heard, Okruch was the best coach on JD's 2009 staff and fully capable of being the DC. If anyone from JD's crew stays, it would be him.

It would give the remaining Big East football teams a guaranteed Homecoming opponent?It would improve their soccer RPI?It would give South Florida's basketball program a chance for a Conference win once or twice per year.The UConn women vs. Lady Zips basketball rivalry would be I-N-S-A-N-E!

Huggy was ahead of his time. He is exactly what college sports are and what they have always been. He had the balls to say what everyone else was thinking. It's about winning today. It was about winning in the 1990s. It was about winning in the 1950s. It always has been and always will be. Coaches are brought to schools to win. Alumni give money because the school is winning. Coaches are fired because they don't win. Athletic Directors are fired because their teams don't win. Alumni stop giving money because the team is not winning and are willing to turn their backs to bad behavior if the team is winning.I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it just is what it is.You are so full if sh!t.Look at John Calipari. Or Rick Pitino. Those guys stand for all that is good in Division 1 athletics. With them, it is all about teaching kids. About education first, then athletics. About integrity and character.How long would Bobby Knight have lasted at Indiana if he won 15 games per season? FOREVER, I SAY!Winning has nothing to do with anything.

If the BE would never take Temple back (never say never), wouldn't it make sense for the ACC to go after Temple? They already stretch as far as Boston and Maryland is not far away. Temple is a basketball school first, but it also plays in an NFL stadium. In addition, Temple is in an extremely large media market stretching from C. PA through NJ.Temple didn't leave the Big East. They got kicked out. Temple will not be back in the Big East, in the next 15 years.Never say never. If they were desperate enough they would. Self preservation makes people do things they might not normally do.Like eat other people.

Look for a big jump after the Malone game. Big jump, Akron at 15.Hopefully we get our shooting on-track. Both from the field, and from the free-throw line. If not, we'll soon be out of the Top 25 altogether.

OH NO!!!!Adults using adult language.The language is going to happen .. that's probably why the family section is upper deck.My issue has to do more with self control. From the moment that Jacq made the mental error at the end of the half @ UConn, it was clear to me that the HC had no sense of self control or discipline. He chose to berate his player right in front of an ESPN(?/U/8) camera on the way to the lockerroom, rather than waiting 30 seconds and keeping it in the confines of the team meetings. The minute that event happened, I had doubts as to his ability to get the Zips on a winning path. That's when my opinion turned. Kept the hope, but somehow knew it wasn't going to happen.Throughout the past 5 years, the Zips were victims of their own lack of self control: timely personal foul penalties ended how many drives, pushed the Zips out of field goal range at critical junctures of important games. And I think that all points to a lack of self control / discipline to keep your head when it matters. Teams are generally a reflection of their coach .. and if the coach was unable to exercise restraint, how could the players be expected to?You've mentioned that episode in the past. I will disagree. Of all Brookhart's problems, lack of personal self control and discipline would rank near the very bottom of the list.Forfeiting two full recruiting classes, recruiting kids that had no business attending college, that hurt him.Sticking with the known screw-off Jacquemain, recruiting no reliable fallback at QB, that hurt him.Relying on gimmickry in all phases of the game plan...that hurt him.Being some out-of-control, Hipsher-esque lunatic? No way. Can GP1 or InTheZone provide a better insight here? On a scale of 1 - 10, "1" being a saintly Division 1 football coach and "10" being an absolute raving mad man, how lacking in self control / discipline was Brookhart?From the 45-or-so games I watched...I'd say "3."

Do we pay Syracuse or IU more than a North Texas?Yes. The Zips need to compete with all the other D1 programs for those home games. Syracuse doesn't cut the Zips a break because we don't have as much cash as, say, Michigan State. Our only trump card is - Michigan State won't give them a 1-for-2 deal like the Zips.Since they allow 1-AA wins to count towards bowl eligibility, 1-AA schools are a hot commodity now. Why would a 1-AA program come to play Akron at $300k, if Penn State will give you $700k?It isn't easy to schedule attractively, and make a profit.I think if the Zips want to fund a new soccer stadium, it is a lot easier to net $600k for the athletic coffers with a "body bag" game than it is to find 6, $100k donors.

Interesting thought.Assuming we don't go back to the "give the tickets away for free" mantra again, I figure a home game with 20k paid attendance is worth probably almost $500k gross to UA (before any payout that goes to the visiting team? Would there be one in this case?) before operational costs are taken out.20k tickets sold x $20 average sale price = $400,000Everyone there spends $5 on concessions = $100,000That doesn't include parking .. and I have no concept of the single game overhead the U faces to host a game .. but I'm guessing that the margin on a home game like this is something like 50-75%?? So the net take on a home game could be as high as $375k???It is probably safe to estimate the payout for any team to come to InfoCision at $300k+. It cost us $200k to get North Texas at the Rubber Bowl several years ago, and costs have soared since.We get roughly $700k to play at Penn State. We clear at least $600k. That is significant.We get less to play at Syracuse or Indiana, but we get a return game.

Especially if you are the guy that wrote it.Sincerely, <Insert 1st Name> Stoops

How many on this board know that when a MAC schools makes their bowl game, they actually lose money?The Motor City Bowl pays $750,000. Over one half of that has to be given back to the bowl as a conference tie-in. The other half consists of a lump number of tickets given to the school valued at the remaining value after the buy-in. Face value of MCB tickets is pretty high. The school can sell the tickets at whatever price they wish. They couldn't sell all of the tickets at face value so they sell them at a deflated price. I'd bet UofA actually lost money in our last trip to the MCB and we had a GREAT turnout.Does the athletic department publish their financial info like other departments do? It would be interesting to see what exactly goes on behind the scenes. Why certain decisions were made and what drives the program's engine.How much money did the University make in the 2005 MAC Championship game. Nothing.How much mileage did the University get out of the Getsy-to-Hixon catch? How much national exposure was garnered form winning that game (ie. Chris Berman's "It's a great time to be a Zip"), and subsequently getting to the MCB?Only the smallest of the small minds looks at getting to the Motor City (or Pizza...or whatever it is) Bowl strictly from a dollar-cost point of view. It is huge for the program's credibility. It legitimizes the program as a contender. It gives Akron-area fans a reason to follow, and get excited about the team. It is a free month of practice time that non-bowl teams don't get.So the bean counters say we lost $100,000 on the Motor City Bowl. How much would a 3 1/2 hour commercial for UA football on ESPN cost?

No he doesn't.You play one, 1-AA school per season. That's it.If TW schedules two 1-AA schools he can have my season tickets. If I want to watch multiple 1-AA games, I'll go to a 1-AA stadium like Youngstown.Beyond that, only one 1-AA win counts towards bowl eligibility.Next season we play BCS Syracuse, Indiana and Cincinnati(?).So we should back out of our contracted game with Indiana? A bottom-rung Big 10 team? No way.Back out of our home game with Syracuse? Great idea....Stiff Cincinnati after they honored their game in Akron? That would be a classy move..."You want it to be one way....but it's the other."Enjoy the losing. Take a recliner to the game, there will be plenty of room. This team needs to get some wins under its belt and then we can beef up the schedule.One 1-AA game + a MAC East schedule is soft enough. Any softer and we should drop to 1-AA. If we do that, then your plan makes sense.

No he doesn't.You play one, 1-AA school per season. That's it.If TW schedules two 1-AA schools he can have my season tickets. If I want to watch multiple 1-AA games, I'll go to a 1-AA stadium like Youngstown.Beyond that, only one 1-AA win counts towards bowl eligibility.Next season we play BCS Syracuse, Indiana and Cincinnati(?).So we should back out of our contracted game with Indiana? A bottom-rung Big 10 team? No way.Back out of our home game with Syracuse? Great idea....Stiff Cincinnati after they honored their game in Akron? That would be a classy move..."You want it to be one way....but it's the other."

Nice game storyLots of good fans on The Sabre board. Some of the more gracious winners I've come across.

Dan LeFevour

I hope your cardiologist isn't reading this thread.

Malone shocks the world as Coblenz goes off for 53 points. He glares at Dambrot after the game , grabs the announcer's mic and breaks into a Shaq-to-Kobe type freestyle rap over the JAR PA system.Malone brings 4900 fans to the game. That brings attendance to a 5,300...nearly a sell out.In the post game show, Dambrot refuses to talk about anything but the soccer team further angering ZipsLive host Bill Morgan.Only one concession window is open. The halftime concessions line out the JAR door, down Brown Street, stopping just short of Pints. The comment "I think the Hands Across America line was smaller?" is overheard.

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No Winters. This guy needs to bring in top quality guys that he knows. He doesnt need to bring back Akron guys from the past.I don't know who you are, but you aren't Terry Pluto.

Glad you don't sit in our section...that 3-9 season generated f-bombs galore. Richard Pryor would have blushed.

Geno - I don't know if I can go, but PM me your cell number. I'll call before 11am.