Captain Kangaroo

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.

Sure...it would have given him a slam dunk, sappy "feel good" column. Something like:You're Paul Winters.You played for Akron. You graduated from Akron.You were released from Lee Owens' Akron staff. Your heart was injured. You hurt. You could have quit. But you didn't.Where your alma mater lacked faith, Wayne State didn't. They believed in the hard-working kid from Akron. The kid that practically willed Jim Dennison's teams to victory on 33 different Saturday's during his record setting career. The kid who became a leader on men - Lee Owens record setting offensive coordinator. Lee Owens' confidant. Lee Owens "rock."It was never easy for Paul Gibson Winters, the 8th of 9 kids, born to a single mother who worked nights cleaning...blah blah blah.

At this time, a little over a handful "disagree".7 out of 67 disagree as of 9am today.I think there are a lot of AD's that would KILL for an 89.6% approval rating on a major hire.

...and the Grinch's heart grew two sizes that day...

So, an average MAC salary. At the same time, Central Michigan is prepared to pony up 600k a year to keep Butch Jones from leaving.Coaches that have proven themselves (allegedly...we'll see how the guy does w/o MAC-killer LeFevour) tend to get more money than 1st year guys.We also don't know Ianello's salary yet. I'm sure I won't see him shaking an old McDonald's cup outside The Q.

I don't recall anything more than the lid.He'll wear it all again next August. Carolina Blue and White. I'll get a good photo.

What has he done to earn your trust?1.) He actually interviewed the candidates, rather than only look at won/lost records on a school's web site, or idiotic comments on fan forums. 2.) He didn't look at Central Michigan and think "This is the only possible way to have success in the MAC."3.) He released a coaching staff that was still under contract for a year. In these economic times, he could easily have said "Hey, my hands are tied...we have to keep the guy." But he made the tough (monetarily) call. 4.) His own career advancement depends on it.Look - I have a long way to go before I buy into YouTube Tom part-and-parcel. The way he handled Reno's dismissal was absolutely wrong and he has a mile to go to make up for it. But he knows better than anyone on this board whether or not Ianello was the best candidate for the Akron HC job.

D'Orazio is coming here as a safety I believe. Assuming he still wants to attend UA, that is. If Grand Valley State comes into the picture, we can kiss Zach good bye.

You should email Tom and notify him of him of the error in his ways. Here's a template from a few years ago. You write a letter like that, to keep a coach that's 17 - 95?!No thanks...I'll trust the AD on this call.

How did 5 MAC teams get bowl bids without Chase Hoobler on their team? How is it possible?

Ianello is one step removed from being a Belichick assistant.The way you repeat whatever you hear, you're one step away from being a parrot. But I don't hold it against you?

The people at Notre Dame had no problem with the fact that the guy was previously employed by Wisconsin. But the US AD should? That's insane.The guy came into a Wisconsin situation where the team was 1-10, and recruited a class that went to the Rose Bowl. But UA should avoid him because he formerly worked with TW? That's insane.Look at the resumes of any AD or coach. In their particular region they've been employed my multiple schools. That's their life...if they are any good, they get a promotion in 4-6 years. After 20 years in the business, you've ended up working with scores of administrators and coaches. So TW should limit his talent pool because he worked tangentially with someone 8 years ago? Or 15 years ago? I don't get people's logic. I really don't.

One thing that is painfully obvious from reading many of the responses to the Ianello hiring is...there are a lot of very simple-minded Zips fans with Internet access and too much spare time.The easiest thing in the world to do it look at the surface, and stop right there."He's just like Brookhart. A BCS position (WR) coach. Same old same old." Baloney. Ianello is 44 years old, but has coached in some capacity, at BCS schools like Alabama, Wisconsin, Arizona and Notre Dame, for 23 years. Brookhart spent many of those same years selling AutoCAD software or fetching drinks for Mike Shannahan's staff. Ianello knows how to recruit top-tier talent (not like the talent that JD/Pitt recruited when Walt Harris was coach).While Notre Dame's record was mediocre during Ianello's time on the ND staff, the level of play he lived in on a weekly basis was light-years ahead of that which JD experienced on Walt Harris' Pitt teams.Ianello is a Top 10 recruiter in the NATION. His ties to Notre Dame allowed him access to the best high schools in the NATION. I think his expectations for a recruit are going to be a LOT higher that those of, say, a guy from a D-II program. But Brian Kelly won at CMU...so any D-II head coach MUST be a slam dunk, right? Yeah...it is that simple. "Look at Haywood at Miami...ex ND assistant, right? How's Haywood doing?" - Give me a break. You would be the same guy begging UA to have hired an ND assistant 10 years ago because former ND assistant Urban Meyer was so successful at Bowling Green. Do you have a free-thinking bone in your head?Haywood took over a train wreck at Miami. Shane Montgomery ran that program into the ground in 5 short seasons. But they started playing better at the end of 2010. Dysert will be a good MAC QB. The book on Haywood is far from it's conclusion. I checked out some of the Notre Dame message boards, and ND fans seem to be very disappointed that Ianello's gone. NO ONE is happy to lose him. These same ND fans are tired of losing...losing for 2 consecutive decades. Yet they wanted to keep a "loser" from the Weis staff? Obviously Ianello did an outstanding job at ND to still be wanted by the fans, and by the University who entrusted him with the reins to the program after Weis' dismissal last month. Ianello may be good, he may suck. Like JD, a lot will depend on his schemes and who he surrounds himself with as assistants. And, if he has early success, how he handles it. We now have one of the top young assistants in the nation as our head coach. A guy that has recruited Top-10 classes back-to-back-to-back. To hate on the guy straight out of the gate is just plain ignorant.

That would mean the guy won a ton of games for the Zips. I could handle that.