Captain Kangaroo

EKU Bio Played in all 12 games his freshman year. Started all 11 games last season and had a couple INT's (the Zips only had 6 as a team in 2021). We aren't exactly overflowing with talent on the defensive side of the ball. I would expect him to be in the mix for a starting job. Bright kid...offered by Cornell, and was Scholar Athlete of the Year at his HS.

He blames the school for not notifying his parents of the 30 tardies? Doesn't he have lunch with mom and pop every-so-often? 30th time's a charm? I am as chronologically challenged as anyone I know...and there are far more egregious offenses college athletes have been charged with over the years than strolling into 1st period a few minutes late...but come on...just admit you have "senioritis" and didn't feel to motivated to get out of bed down the stretch. Slow news week for the folks at WFMJ to cover this "story." It's Youngstown...aren't there bodies surfacing in the Mahoning river, or Boom Boom Mancini bourbon tastings to tout?

It’ll be interesting to see if he reminds us more of Dalton Williams or Robbie Kelley.

Get a free membership to the Zippy's Kids Club if your youngster 6-and-under can find the "Z" in the A? Is there even a Zippy's Kid's Club anymore?

Either poor attention to detail on the behalf of UA, or they had bad grades…which would be surprising.

I think it was a stroke of Marketing genius to get everyone prepared to succumb to Script Akron!

If you've gone 180 degrees on it, it's impossible to like it more. That's the max.

Translation: Get off my lawn.😁

It just seemed funny to me that the latest Zips Headline is 1472 days old.

Definitely not the site of choice for the "latest" Zips news.

Awesome to see someone snap up the new logo as their Avatar! 🦾

Way to be the first to jump on the new logo as your Avatar, @Zip_ME87! 🦾

Then why should any school or sports team have a logo? Or Companies? It's your image. It's your brand identifier. It can/should generate revenue. It is important. I understand your point - If the Guardians win a World Series, no "Indians" fan will stay away from the victory parade. But a lame logo reflects poorly on the University, and a great one is uplifting.

So are we going to get tossed from InfoCision for throwing out the "Z" hand gesture now? Do we need to switch to an "A"? Hope not. Z forever! Free the Z!

My final verdict - I probably won't buy any gear with this new logo. But if it were free, I wouldn't be embarrassed to wear it. Better than script Akron, but falls well short of the "Z." Nice video.

I can live with losing her 1.0 ppg. Valpo is competitively beneath the MAC. Looks like she made a good move.

Freeman was in lot9 prior to the spring game and promised he’d be at UA for 2 more years. But only if the new primary logo doesn’t suck. No pressure, Guthrie.

Been done. Sucks just as bad as script Akron.

Fwiw - Stallworth was at the spring game.

How would you compare his right cross to Khadim Gueye's?

The nature of the event made is really tough to make any detailed evaluations. First...it began early? I arrived a little before 3 pm and had missed the first 10 game minutes. 🙁 The clock ran quickly...no commercial breaks...nuthin'. If you blinked, you missed a play. No video replay screen. You got one look at a play, and it was at the field-level view of the field house stands. Upper deck of InfoCision would have been much nicer. I was constantly flipping through my phone roster trying to match up new players numbers to their names. It'll be more informative to attend some of the August practices and scrimmages. I will definitely try to hit some.

Based upon a statistically-relevant sampling above, approximately 90% will not like it if it is script Akron.

"Script Akron" is a stock Nike font. It looks like the nostalgic dream of some guy in his 60's with z-e-r-o modern graphic design acumen. It's wholly unsexy. It's completely unimaginative. The stand-alone "Akron" visually connects to the city of Akron, and in no way associates with the University. I pray Guthrie has the acumen to sift through the scores of poor opinions and select something that looks cool on a helmet or t-shirt, looks cool next to our score on a televised event, is something the alumni and community can rally around, and sells a lot of merchandise.

Can’t believe any will end up at another D1 program. The Killer B’s (Boateng, Behm and Bubba) were the only returnees I’d have expected to make an impact in 2022. They’re all still in the Program.

Could you imagine being the intern responsible for updating the 2022 portal? What a thankless, horrible job.