UAZipster0305

What makes you think that given the past few years of our football program that we are the most worthy of the current MAC members to ascend? I will give you this if Coach Bowden delivers what we all expect. Right now though, I'd give the nod to OU as having the edge over us. They are solid in basketball and football (annually competitive for both MACCs) and respectable in all other sports and especially volleyball.

Great point. I second this! And things like this are the basis for a rivalry...not anything that occurs on an athletics field/court between Akron and Cleveland. UA-CSU in basketball is likely the only opportunity for athletic interaction anyhow.

Joe Akron doesn't help, but the original spirit of the comment was being completely ignored, not being outwardly discouraged. And I would consider your example as a highly isolated incident.

It is a good thing we don't have a rivalry with Cleveland or Columbus then!

You're right, but I don't blame LP for this. He is just doing his job in trying to keep us competitive and on the distinguished side of the stature dividing line when it is drawn more permanently in a few years. However, if the Rubber Bowl weren't in such a state of disrepair, I would have opposed the building of the Big Dialer (TM, GP1). And if an arena gets built, I hope the only facilities that have money put into them in the next twenty years are baseball (a wooden outfield wall and no fan seating, really?) and tennis (not currently on campus). I don't see the soccer fan base growing to the point where we need more seating, and at this point, who can imagine the Big Dialer being sold out? Facilities would no longer be a limiting factor in our upward mobility to a BCS conference. Putting smaller amounts of athletics money towards other aspects of improving our athletics profile and competition level would likely be more resourceful. Many of the faculty have long resented the amount of money spent on Division 1 athletics. How much more until there is a faculty revolt?

http://www.uakron.edu/im/online-newsroom/n...+of+the+Year%27 "Campus Activities Magazine has again nominated The University of Akron for a "Campus of the Year" award. Since 2000, UA has won the award four times for its comprehensive campus programming, most recently in 2010. This is a national award and the other finalists are Can't State University, Miami University (Ohio), Michigan State University and Methodist University. For UA to win, you have to vote. The contest is open to every individual with an e-mail address ending in .edu. Voting will be open until Feb. 28. Here are the steps: Go to Campus Activities Magazine and click on the "Awards" button in the menu to access the survey page. Click "Start Survey." Enter your University of Akron (or any .edu) e-mail address. VOTE for the best entertainers in various categories, then vote for The University of Akron." Let's not get beat by the Flushes or Sweaters on or off the court/field!

I am busy traveling today and only had a short window of time to comment here, but I give anyone else permission to contact him with reference to my posts. Let us know what he says.

His story is amazing too...Blackburn was starting to substitute teach in Columbus mid-way through the season when he was called back to the Giants. Although he was already a Super Bowl Champion, this really is a dream come true. And what an ideal story for UA to share with the public...especially given all the prior negativity surrounding UA football. This one is nothing but positive and continues the momentum of excitement following Coach Bowden's hiring and of signing day. And let's not forget Hixson's acrobatic touchdown catch to win the Giant's first game of the season. Though forced to retire, what a way to go out, and he's still a Super Bowl Champion this season. He should not be left out of the story.

As I said last year, I love seeing us beat big-name BCS schools in any sport. It helps that tennis is relatively good, but the scheduling is highly intelligent too. MSU and WVU are the bottom dwellers of their conferences yet these appear to Joe Akron to be huge wins (i.e. if Joe Akron cares about or notices woman's tennis). Nonetheless, beating BCS bottom dwellers demonstrates that we at least belong in the conversation when it comes to being competitive at the BCS level and discussions of conference realignment. I would like to see basketball take more of this approach. It has already been the topic of another thread, and I digress... Akron woman's tennis is now very good and is an uppity sport. I wish we had the commensurate indoor and outdoor facilities on campus in place of the parking lot behind the field house. A men's team would also be a nice addition.

Typical. Then people wonder why we have an inferiority complex about OSU and why many of us consider Cleveland to be an adversary. There was no mention of this in the Leaking Urinal and worst of all, OUR OWN ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT has not made a related media release. If we don't promote ourselves, who will? Sad.

4 tackles, 2 assists, and that stellar interception...great all around game by Chase in spite of getting beat on one TD play. Very exciting. Congrats to Blackurn, Hixson, and the Giants! Very cool that I had class with both Dwight Smith and Blackburn too!

It is impressive to see how far out EMU has had to defend because of our hot shooting early. Without the deep bench and our good ball movement, I think this has exhausted them and led to weak knees and poor shooting when they were on offense. A great example of good offense being one of the best defenses. Dare I ask: Is this what Coach Porter would call Dominant Basketball? The intensity is there for us tonight. Some careless turnovers, but overall pretty solid. Let's hope our poor streak of free throw shooting is an anomaly. If we are the same team coming out of the locker room, we should cruise to the W.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/...tion-akron-zips Great to see this getting national media coverage. Was headlined on ESPN. Very exciting!

IMO, Toledo played their absolute best tonight, and we played average. The 14 point difference says a lot about the relative talent levels. Pearson had some ridiculous shots over Zeke. That guy is fun to watch!

Did CK ever post his magic Harney number for this game? If so, I missed it.

In the same way that CK is indifferent about Dan Lefevour?

If it's one of these, , try to drink it to medium empty but keep it maintained at medium full!

I wouldn't take any of the rankings seriously. How have Temple's recruiting classes been ranked? And how many MAC Championships have they won? I trust Coach Bowden's abilities as both a recruiter and a coach. Regardless of the talent, it will be coached up.

I think what CK means is that Marquette will be taking the bus to Akron.

Very professional. This is excellent. Great training for future broadcasters from UA as well.

Joe might not even notice until we beat OSWho.

We won't know for four years. Temple's prior top recruiting classes are yet to win the MAC. Sad, especially considering they are in contention for a BCS-level conference upgrade.

I stand corrected. Kudos, wadszip.

According to gozips.com, UA is 4-0 all-time against Oral Roberts. I hope KD is actually interested in winning this game. I could be wrong, but I don't think we've won more than one Bracketbuster game during his tenure. It drives me nuts that KD's approach to these games is similar to that of the rest of the OOC schedule...who cares, the MAC is a one bid league anyhow. Certainly not the attitude that will (ever) get us an at-large or inspire Joe Akron to check out a Zips game. Come on, KD, let's win this one and continue racking up the W's heading into the MAC Tournament.

http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page4754.htm "For four consecutive seasons the Zips have lost a big time goal scorer but it hasn't presented a significant problem since someone has always been on board who was capable of filling the gap. It went like this: Steve Zakuani to Teal Bunbury, Bunbury to Darlington Nagbe, Nagbe to Darren Mattocks. Zakuani left in 2008 after his sophomore season to enter the professional ranks. Bunbury did the same in 2009 after his sophomore season. Nagbe followed suit in 2010 after his junior season. Mattocks completed the cycle when he elected to take his game to the professional level in 2011 at the end of his sophomore season. The success that Zakuani, Bunbury, Nagbe, and Mattocks achieved at Akron speaks well for the program but the exit left enter right scenario of big time goal scorers looks to have at least temporarily come to an end heading into the 2012 season." I don't know who is next in the pipeline, but I believe someone will step up and leave yet another legendary impression.