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The mental image I have right now of the ABJ's "big pull-out section" is that of the tiny, fold-out whatever that is sometimes the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.Did the Beacon have someone there or will they get it off of the wire?

Yeah, looking for some highlights here too. I caught the last part of next-to-nothing. JD didn't seem too interested in the Q&A session. There wasn't a whole lot in the little bit that I caught that gets me fired up for September.

Wow ... THAT was obvious . Thank you.

When I click on the "NOW!" button, I get nothing but "Error on page." on the status bar at the bottom of the browser window .I choose "a." (see post above). My second choice would be "c."

WHOA Zipmeister! I stand informed! (I was beginning to feel like a VCU fan there for a second!) For the most part, I can only go by what I see currently on Wisconsin's web site ('future schedules' still showed Akron for next year as recently as a few days ago) and ours. I wouldn't expect our web site to be completely up-to-date and ASSUMED a Big Ten school would have the resources to keep theirs a bit more current. As far as I know, ZipsNation.org hasn't yet added a 'future schedules' link and if it has been mentioned in any of the previous football threads, I plain ol' missed it. I did e-mail the football staff at Akron a few weeks ago regarding the outdated 'future schedules' web site page. They indicated that the 2008 schedule wouldn't be officially announced until sometime in March. No feedback regarding the dated schedules page.Anyone on the board know what the 2008 OOC schedule looks like at this point?

Thumbs down. Civil War re-enactment is about right. Just goes to show ... beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Looked like crap on TV last night and no better in the rag today ...

The Wright State and Cleveland State thing about makes me want to puke . I demand a congressional NCAA candy-ass hearing!

Should be a good game but I, too, am pessimistic ... Horses 75 Akron 71. MUST take care of business in Muncie Saturday night. FYI ... Vegas has us a 1-point underdog tonight.From the Akron game notes ...Akron-Western Michigan Connections...• Fifth-year Western Michigan assistant coach Cornell Mann played at Akron for three seasons (1993-95).• First-year Western Michigan assistant coach Andy Hipsher played at Akron for five seasons (2000-04).

Will we get I-AAAA North Carolina Backwoods here or at their place next year to fill the gap? Any word on what fund-raisers the program will be hosting to make up for the lost revenue? Seriously - any word, CK, on who will fill in for the Badgers?

Fox Sports Akron/VCU stat comparison ...Stat comparison Akron and VCU

Here's a link to the ESPNU Bracket Buster web site ...O'Reilly / ESPNU BracketBusters

Looks like JumpTV is having server problems in general. Got a similar message when I tried to access the Virginia Commonwealth and Western Michigan men's basketball sites. Nevada's men's basketball page is partially down. George Mason's men's page is up but their with CSTV.com. Nothing on ESPN/ESPNU yet regarding Bracket Buster. Anybody know when the games will be announced? Here's a link to the official site ...O'Reilly / ESPNU BracketBusters

My son and I stopped in at Scorchers on Waterloo Road for lunch yesterday (Super Bowl Sunday) to check it out and get our Nick Goddard "free wings." Had a very nice conversation with Randy, owner of the place. 1986 alum and BIG Zips fan. Does a LOT of the catering if not all of it for the men's basketball program (Dambrot is superstitious and Randy is his guy). Lots of TVs, a bar, plenty of seating, and access to pretty much everything except Time Warner (i.e. when TW picked up the Akron @ Can't game the other night). Has Can't and Akron football helmets on the wall knocking into each other and respective jerseys on either side of them. Also has tosu jersey, missing MEE-chigan jersey ("no-show" at tosu/Michigan football games), Browns, and Steeler jerseys on the wall as well. I realize it's off-campus but keep it in mind if you're looking for an Akron-friendly establishment and a means to get there.

"Sorry, this service is temporarily unavailable but will be returning shortly. Look for added content like archived audio of all football, men's and women's basketball games and weekly radio shows, free web cast (video + audio) of all road football and men's basketball games, and an updated 'future schedules' for football. Sorry for any inconvenience as we catch back up to what we used to provide AND add content that schools in other conferences already provide. JumpTV Sports."OK, so I embellished the 'temporarily unavailable' message. A guy can dream can't he?

One thing I really like about the ESPN Bracket Buster ... it FORCES some of these teams who wouldn't THINK of playing AT Akron to come here and play us. Too bad (at least according to Frenchy) that the MVC has right of refusal on where/who they play in the Buster (pansies). Looking forward to seeing who we draw tomorrow.

The EMU game isn't for another couple of days but I figured I get this started to help prevent multiple EMU threads ...Eastern Michigan senior center James Matthews was dismissed from the team a couple of days ago (1/29) for conduct detrimental to the team. He only averaged about 5 points a game and grabbed a few rebounds. STORY HEREOne less player EMU has available to them and one less big body we have to deal with near the basket.

B. McKnight - utterly lost ... that pretty much nails it. Both ends of the court too. Toledo just blew past him when they were on offense and BM didn't seem to know where he was supposed to be when Akron had the ball (I know I saw Dials telling him where he should be at least once).I seem to recall hearing KD say on one of the pre- or post-games that he wants his guys going all out for 2-3 minutes followed by a breather on the bench (similar to hockey line changes). Dials seems to do just that when he's out there and looked totally gassed a number of times after he was pulled. Dials and Linhart have been fantastic this year. A buddy of mine couldn't remember seeing Linhart come out of the game last night and he was right! Nice to have Toledo and EMU at home to try to get our house in order before heading back out on the road against Western and Ball State. Nice second half last night. VERY nice to see Bardo play so well on the defensive end of the floor.

Is Quade coming to the game tonight? Would be nice to see him contribute tonight with so many guys out or questionable.

A little long on truth ... not enough fantasy / sugar-coating!

This means our QB might actually have someone to throw to this coming season.We found a QB too?

Who's currently "on the take" for Toledo? We sure could use the "W" you know. (... sorry, couldn't resist.)

Any idea when we'll know one way or the other for sure?

Exactly how I explained it to a friend of mine and my son on the way home last night. You should also assume Can't scored on half of those 10 turnovers so that puts Akron at +14, no? An Akron "W" if we figure out a way to keep turnovers closer to normal. Bummer.Would LOVE to see B. McKnight turned loose as a compliment to Wood down low. Totally agree that it is time to really see whether that is something we can develop and have ready come tourney time.Love Steve M. but would have sat him down in the second half. KD said he needed his ball handling skills out there but I would have gone with Roberts and Dials. Bardo ... would probably have gotten eaten alive out there last night. Have we seen a Bardo/Wood combo out there yet? I can't remember.Milum - gotta start stepping up, even against the more physical teams. Really disappears at times and would rather see his minutes go elsewhere if that's going to be the case. Senior year - last chance to contribute meaningful minutes.

I have it recorded on my DVR. If I can figure out how to make it work I will post the final few seconds on here. It looked to me like Mincy threw a punch at Quade.Hilltopper - Let me know if you figure out how to transfer video out of your DVR (Atlantic Scientific from Time Warner?) to a computer. I'm tempted to pull the DVR hard drive, put it into an external USB drive enclosure, and see if I can access any vid files that way. With my luck, I'll screw everything up and lose what I've got saved. I've got a bunch of UA stuff I'd like to edit and save, including snippets from last night's game. Thanks.

OK this was somewhat clever but not that amazing. I'm sure if people dressed up in Akron gear came over with a sign we would do the same thing... thats like me sitting in a lecture class with 200 students and in the middle of it going "OH BURN, I'M NOT IN THIS CLASS, IN YOUR FACE"... LOL