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On the hunt for a win this year - they suck, always have sucked and always will suck.

Losing is a disease over there... f them.

This kid could not play any sport before the 2007-08 season, which means he misses the senior season of the dynamic duo.He may fit in with the hoops guys but he is not in the mold of JD.

WZIP is run by a h*m* and is a mish mash of music. It could not compete in the real world of business cash thus the only way the sorry thing stays on the air is through our tax dollars. Being the best student radio station is based on the contest they entered to get the award and is akin to being the best looking gal in a school of the blind - who cares!

WZIP is a joke.

That has got to be one of the best tongue in cheek quotes ever... a guy from the Copley Group with a query as to whether it would be good to acquire the ABJ. That's like someone from Stark Tech contemplating buying Ohio State.Time Warner 23 is not going anywhere, it just started and is part of a three year deal. Time Warner also owns SportsTime Ohio and is taking over Adelphia.Akron's communication school cannot even manage to fill the 30 minute time frame on PBS each week with the poorest excuse for a talk show since Wayne World. They could never manage a news station. Akron got the law school Can't State got the broadcast journalism school. The Akron students who are studying radio and tv are castaways.

Akron does not receive money from stations to run their games, they buy the time from the stations and then recoup the costs through advertising. Based on information that has been posted at Go Zips.com the department is under contract to 1350 for another few years. I think the same is true for 1300 AM in Cleveland.http://gozips.collegesports.com/genrel/082605aaa.htmlThe advertising revenue that you bring in has got to at least balance out with the costs of the air time, otherwise you lose money and that is bad.Also, there has got to be a station willing to broadcast your games, which in the Cleveland market is pretty slim. Music stations will not break format for a game broadcast because this kills their ratings. The only way they break format for game broadcasts is if they own the broadcasts outright and make all of the cash from owning the inventory of spots.640 AM does Akron women's basketball, Can't State's talk show, women's basketball & football, Walsh football games and NASCAR, plus select high school games.1350 AM (Liberal Talk) does Akron men's basketball, football, the Zips talk show, and the Akron Aeros, plus select high school games.1590 AM (Newstalk/Oldies) does the Buckeye football games, Indians, Browns, and Cavs, plus select high school games.1100 AM (Newstalk) does the Buckeye football games, Indians, Browns, and Cavs, plus select high school games.100.1 FM (Newstalk) does Can't State basketball games.95.9 FM (Christian) does Akron football games, plus Malone football and basketball games and select high school games.1300 AM in Cleveland (Urban Talk) does Akron football and men's basketball.When I was a student at Akron I worked at WZIP and Tom Beck never had anything good to say about the athletic program. I remember that he said that he had a bad experience with Jerry Faust and that Zip sports would never be on his station again because it took away from the ratings. Beck was a great guy to work for but he just really hates sports and anything that he perceives takes away from his station. He believes that if Akron sports goes on his station that the opportunities to do specialy music shows, student talk, and campus information forums will be dimenished.

Akron recruits against OSU every day. If you do not get that then you are an idiot.Plus, you cannot spell, which makes you ABSURD.

I think the percentage was more like 75 not like OSU and 25 of the younger fans split loyalties. No one who was arond fo the basketball postseason game back in Huggs era or the 2001 football game would say that they are fans of both equally. If you do then you are not a fan, you really arent.Can't State - OSU - UT - OU - MU - BG - UD - UC - CSU - WSU - YSU are all the same to me - the enemy - period. If you are D-1 in this state and not a Zip - you suck.Now if you want to cheer for Mt. Union, Wooster, Walsh or Malone then fine - we will never compete with them for talented athletes.

Your either a Zip fan or Suckeye fan, you cannot be both. That's like telling your wife, Hey babe, I love you and my girlfriend.Akron competes against the Suckeyes for athletes and students. If you do not recognize that then you are part of the problem. You must be one of those guys that wears his Suckeye hat and Akron shirt to the JAR and proclaims to be a "big Zips fan".Half fans like you need to stay home and leave being a Zip fan to those of us who are dedicated. Your BS comment about if we would ever play the Sucks that they would demolish us should get your Scarlet and Grey heart banned from this board for life.Calling all Mods - Suck Mole in the Ranks.

including that nut as the first Zippy victim was the best part. If you don't get that then you are not a long time Zip fan.

again your ignorance about the current team is astounding. joyce is the go to guy as he was last year at BG. nice history lesson but try watching the current team more and you may see the trends that others pointed out to you about past teams. spitting out analysis that others have spoken to you and passing it off as your own thought is pretty lame. but not as lame as claiming to be a real fan but not coming to games and blaming your baby and a drive in to the games. you are totally lame. go back into hibernation wannabe zip.

Big Zip is such the big fan - where have all of his posts been all season? No where. The last time you were here was after the Army game when you were blasting JD. No, you did make some posts at the bowl season when you hopped back on the bandwagon. Maybe no one else remembers you not going to home games before the team was playing for a title but I do. You are a fairweather fan who only complains and puts too much clout in bitching about the past.

Excuse the rant I am about to go on but this is directed for BIG ZIP and the other bandwagon hopping off SOB's who are counting the Zips out because of one loss.F-off.Where has Big Zip been all season? No where to be found. He shows up again about 10 days ago once the team gets to the 17-win mark and is all the big fan again. Now the team drops a game and looks bad, in a game that means nothing by the way, and he is calling home the family because the Zips are about to die.F-off again.Big Zip, and others like him, are the biggest opponent that the Zips have, be it the football team, basketball team or the rifle team for that matter. With fans like him, you don't need the Kents, Ohios, and Toledos of the world to hate you.News flush Big Zip, no matter if the Zips won the game against Nevada the MAC was not going to get a second NCAA bid. The league is rated 16th out of 32 leagues and has never gotten a second bid. If you do the math you dumb motherfucker you can figure out the odds, and they are long even if Akron were have gone 24-5 and won another two games in the MAC Tournament. Akron has only one win against at top-64 team in the RPI which means that unless they win the MAC they are NIT bound. It had nothing to do win the number of wins, it is the number of quality wins.But, you do not know that because you are a poorly educated fan and use this board and the ears of the pooor sould who have to listen to you to spout out your useless facts of how things have always happened in the past and how they will probably continue to happen again in the future. You have a loser mentality and if you were in my Vietnam unit I would have shot you in the head just for the fun of it because people like you kill morale.What Akron has done the last 20 years in Oxford does not mean a damn thing to the 2005-06 team.Akron has not lost back to back games all season you fucking stooge, why would they start now.You say the guards looked tired tonight? DUH, who wouldn't after travelling 3,000 miles and playing at 5,000 feet. I will bet your fat tail could not have caught a spare breath after trodding off to the concession stand for nachos, hot dogs and cotton candy all night. Try doing it in a hostile gym against the best team in the made for tv event. Guess that type of thought is too much for your little pea brain to endure so you just crap out the first thing that comes to your head.Thanks the good lord that Dambrot and the players do not read your stilted and demented rants. I think this is the best Akron team in 20 years and that they will finish no worse than 2-2 in the next four games. Do the math jerky boy because that means the Zips will get a bye in Cleveland. But folks like Big Zip will not be happy with that because of the extreme success that Akron Basketball has enjoyed over the past 30 years has really spolied them and made them expect 20-wins as an automatic and postseason bids every year.I am enjoying the hell out of this season and am disappointed that the team lost its 6th game of the season, out of 25 played earlier tonight. That .760 winning percentage is still pretty damn impressive and I like the Zip chances of winning at Miami, at Buffalo, and at home against Ohio and Can't. That 25-1 record at home over the last two years does not make me think that the team is going to all of a sudden go south and pack it in. The only people that do that are losers like Big fing Zip.Go Zips.* Last comment edited by Moderator

Hey everyone, it's Buhbuh's mommy.Can't wait to see if the fomer #4 has the balls to show up at the JAR on the 25th. I would be not.As for the curse, I have no idea, but Ohio sure has sucked it up hard since BW arrived on campus. Maybe Akron can pick up Fears as that would be a major pickup for the Zip program, he could even be #4. Too funny.

All BL stated that Can't had won and done it for years and Akron has not won anything yet and had only had one good regular season out of the same time frame. Not upsetting news there.

Joe Dunn should be taken out back and beaten with a stick for all he adds to the broadcasts.Steve French is one of the better announcers in the MAC.

I think the Akron band is a friggin joke. The tempo is always off and they have not added a song to the playlist in the last 12 years since I have been going to games. The band kids all dress like dorks in golf shirts unlike the OSU band or Indiana band where they really get into the game, dress wacky and are an attraction.I have been to games in many MAC arenas and think that Akron's is by far the worst. The best thing about this years games is that the band is upstairs so fans like me in the upper seats dont have to look at the disinterested members sitting courtside and looking bored by having to be at the game. That really pissed me off. You have great seats and 80% of the nad is sitting reading a book until they get a chance to play. I overheard some of the band members last year leaving the arena and complaining that they had to be at all of the basketball games saying they would rather be working where they could make better money. I asked them why they felt like that and one of them told me that they did not get paid enough to play at games. I responded with surprised that they got paid to play at games and the guy told me that they get cash to play at the games and that was the only reason why they were there.

Some flushes of the past already havetried the pregame pot routine. Anybody remember Josh Cribbs?

I think they should drop the rifle team - what good does it do?

Akron's bracket buster game is on the road this year. The team is wearing white for the OU game according to Frenchy.

The best thing tht has happened to Akron this season was having Bubba depart. A one-dimensional player at best. As an Ohio taxpayer I am also glad that I will not have to contribute to his education for the next 12 monhts. From what I had heard he was not a real top-flight student, which may be one of the reasons he had to leave Akron. OAt Ohio he can major in Taxidermy or maybe even work towards his advanced CDL.

Wyatt Webb was 5 times the coach at Akron that Huggins was. The honor for WW is long over due.

Give me this foursome over some alum in a no where league any day of the week.