Captain Kangaroo

I'm guessing they won't. At least, if they're smart, they won't. $30.00 to get into every Zips sporting even is a great deal, but we're going to need to pay off 30million dollars worth of stadium. You don't do that with $1.00 tickets.It will be interesting to see how UA walks the tightrope between getting a fair ticket price, and angering people who've gotten used to paying virtually nothing for football tickets for decades.I have some cheap-ass friends. They've rarely, if ever bought tickets to a Zips game. Why do it, if you can walk up to the gate and people are handing freebies out by the fist-full? The Family ticket plans they offer are pretty good. I think a lot of people will go that route.If I were AD? I'd make kids pay for the "big games" (ie. the season opener and K.e.n.t), and let the Kids Club apply only to the less-attractive, late-season games.

It presently resides in the reception area of the coach's offices.Another squandered marketing opportunity I don't think so. There are hundreds of recruits who pass through those offices within the year between K.e.n.t. games (many on facility tours held during camps @ Stiles). Many of those kids are considering MAC schools...often UA and K.e.n.t. It is a nice first Zips impression when they walk into the room.Furthermore, the coaches and players actually won the thing*...and they should be able to enjoy it on a daily basis. It is also a good off-season incentive...you don't want to be responsible for a bare office wall come October 5th 2008.* Yes, it could also be argued that bumbling, hapless choke-riddled K.e.n.t. "gave" it to us in 2007

My son will be the happiest kid in Summit County to hear this news!He just asked me the other day if I thought we'd still see him at some Zips' games this upcoming season.

Sorry, its real paint on wood. But a C-USA logo could be painted on top of it easily!I think this has been discussed about a hundred times or more on this board, but I think the general opinion is that the only worthwhile conference for UA to join would be the Big East. CUSA is more of a lateral move with much higher travel costs for away events.I think C-USA would be a good move if the ultimate goal is to be in the BE. I don't see the BE accepting a MAC school, but I DO see the BE accepting a C-USA school.AD's get paid the big bucks to see 5-10 years into the future. Will the BE implode? Split? Will Memphis leave C-USA soon? That all would play into the Zips decision to leave the MAC.

Wonder if the Beacon will ever get around to writing a story like this?

It presently resides in the reception area of the coach's offices.

I doubt Scout.com people would like it if ZipsNation moderators went on the Scout message board and tried to direct traffic to our site. Likewise, ZipsNation is not designed a a free advertising venue for Scout.com, or any other "pay" site for that matter.Please -- No advertising on our site. Direct, or "indirect." No linking to "pay" information. Likewise -- I hope no one here would copy such information from a pay site and post it here.I think that's fair.

I saw that, like the MAC, the Plasma Center recently changed their logo in anticipation of an eminent domain action?

how?i see stuff like this all the time whenever they come out with a new label and wonder how they come up with such good sounding bs. i mean how does that mark reference anything to community or academics or whatever?I agree. Wouldn't it be refreshing to hear Mack say "Jesus H...that stupid logo search was about the biggest waste of time ever. I'm overseeing a Division 1 athletics department at a 24,000 student university and Rick Chryst wants me to help select a freaking LOGO? COME ON! Don't we have bigger things to worry about in the MAC? How good will that logo look on TV? Who knows...no one watches ESPNU. Nice TV contract, Rick. And don't even get me started with the hell my life's become trying to schedule football games in a 13 team conference. The new mark is a simple shield. It is a rip-off of a Euro soccer logo...but since the UA soccer program is one of the few MAC programs that competes on a high, national level, maybe it is appropriate? Anyone who reads into this logo re-hash any deeper than face value is REALLY grasping for straws. No outta my way, I gotta write a 3 million dollar check for a flea bag hotel and a parking lot. No further questions."

Fixed. Sorry about that.

Zips Offer 1st, but Others Follow

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As a fan, the most frustrating thing about Jarvis is we wouldn't offer him a scholarship up front...but did give scholarships to about 13 kids in that Zips recruiting class that couldn't even last 2 semesters in college.Water under the bridge...we're 2-1 against Jarvis, right?

Hey...I thought this was a "profanity free" blog.... Vacation...vacation...what the heck is that. Oh.wait..once, while at "band camp"...(in my best American Pie voice)..ooppss...my bad wrong kid. Uhm..well...last year I went to Myrtle Beach (watched 8 games, sat at the beach 2x--does that count) Geez..is this a "trick question"????That's kinda what I thought.

Just out of curiosity -- Does it ever get old logging all these hours in AAU tourneys and far-away camps? Do you ever get a summer week free to hit the beach or unwind? Or are the hoops trips your "vacations?"

I'm always a sucker for a good "separated at birth." I think ZW scores an 8.9 on a scale of 1-10 with that one! :bow:Try this one on for size:If anyone is concerned about Zeke gaining weight, they're crazy. With these Food Network stars, we'll be lucky to keep him under 350 bills by the time he graduates.

Hopefully he can make OU an NIT-caliber team, like he did w/OSU last year?

Darrell Mason

WPa DL

Eric Colvin

Click for Entire InterviewChalk Board Quotation:PP: Last season started well with a win at Iowa State and then the wheels fell off. What needs to change in 2008 for this team to be successful?EJ: “We’ve gotta’ win our rivalry game against Akron. I think that game will set the tone for the season. We should have won the game last year and we didn’t. We bounced back and beat a good Ohio team, and showed glimpses of the team that we could be but we didn’t carry that through the whole season. I think starting the season off we need to stay strong, stay together, and not make the same mistakes that we did last year. We can build off of last season, and try not to make the same mistakes twice.”

Zips recruit Marvase Byrd shows f.lashes of brilliance before Mother Nature prematurely ends the East-West All Star game (WPa).

6' 9" former UA center Marco Morgan is apparently playing some level of professional basketball in the Great White North?

I found an interesting set of photos on the OU Athletic's site. See if you can identify which photo is O'Shea pre-Bubba, and post Bubba.

For you history buffs, here is a little info on the poster sale (scroll about 20% of the way down), and if you click on the "lot" link you can find speculation on the origin (pasted below).From a regional, northeastern countryside activity to a widely followed and highly esteemed national pastime—and slowly becoming a worldwide phenomenon—professional football now needs very little advertisement for fans of any intensity or persuasion to know that, come Fall, the only question that has to be answered is, "are you ready for some football?!" The offered exemplar hails from an era that predates even the leather helmets of the early 20th Century, and in fact, is one of the earliest football broadsides known to exist. Presented here is a truly majestic and impeccably well-kept, 19th Century survivor. This over one hundred-year-old relic bills a contest between two early American football teams from the NFL's birth state of Ohio—a meeting between a squad from Youngstown and the other from Akron. The piece reads, "FOOTBALL / YOUNGSTOWN vs. AKRON / ** YOUNGSTOWN HAS NEVER BEEN DEFEATED ** / Buchtel College Grounds / GAME CALLED AT 3:30 / Saturday Oct.9." The bold red and blue print have remained impressively crisp and vibrant, and the large, full body image (21"-tall) of the gridiron athlete at the left of the piece also reveals exceptional clarity. The item's lower left exhibits the manufacturer's "Werner Akron, Ohio" notation, and although the relic's 25" x 39" visible area demonstrates slight wear at the unobtrusive and understandably age-induced folds, the piece displays unbelievable condition; EX overall. Set within a 47-3/8" x 32-1/4" wood frame.