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I've heard that might turn into a walkway. I want the wall. Several winters and that brick is toast.

I believe the plans would call for a North side addition if ever necessary. South would involve moving the scoreboard. That's how I remember it.

No flags at all yet. Team flags included. One of the final touches I'm sure.

1) Jason Sekinger -He played special teams last year on the kick protect team. At 6'9" they should put him in the middle of the kick block team too if he wasn't there already. Good guy. A bit slow.

They placed lettering on the face of the press box just above the club seats in the middle. You can't read it on the cams but it says Firstmerit Foundation Club Level. It's where I would have expected a large The University of Akron. If that goes on the roof, I hope it won't be lost in the lights for night games.

He already has surpassed other AD's in communicating to the fans.

Good to see he didn't get chased out this time! Welcome to ZN!!

Good speaker. Walked about campus on his own to get a feel for things. Watched some soccer practice and volleyball practice. Tried to sneak into Info but sent packing.

Landscaping going on behind scoreboard. Temporary parking lot on Exchange and Spicer is being lined and awaiting light poles to complete. I believe the work on the bomb shelter is to install ice shields to prevent injury when ice and snow slide off the roof. It's typically used on metal and slate roofs.

http://www.ohio.com/news/54640832.htmlMore detail.

Nice views from cam 2 and 3

Stadium lights are on!!! Nice!

Maybe Hunter should go apply as a subversive move.I would expect him to toss his hat in the ring.

It looks like we have 3 years tops with Tom as our AD. Hope he can get a lot done during his time in Akron.

I wonder who replaces him on the NCAA selection committee.And Dix is off campus. It's at least a half-mile from any other building at the university.Been there many times. All the land between buildings is owned by Can't State.Sou you;re saying that if we owned a swath of land from Buchtel Hall to the Rubber Bowl with nothing but trees and some roads, it would have been on campus?Seven miles and a quarter mile are two very different things. The parking lot at the stadium is for freshmen parking. I'm saying I would consider it on campus. It's my opinion. No need to use such a silly analogy. They're not even close to being the same.

I wonder who replaces him on the NCAA selection committee.And Dix is off campus. It's at least a half-mile from any other building at the university.Been there many times. All the land between buildings is owned by Can't State.

Must still be trying to justify the cheating plagued engineering school.

Can't AD expected to retire. http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/54568572.htmlThe article claims Dix stadium is off campus. Interesting

I agree with this take. Not sure why anyone would list Can't as a school to drop. If they don't want to stay in D1 then that's their decision. The MAC would vote Akron out before they would put Can't on the chopping block. Other than football, they field pretty good teams. They are also a long time MAC member. NIU quit the MAC once before so they could go. Taking Temple as a football only school was a big MAC mistake and should be the first team to go. Buffalo is the first team I would keep if any MAC school would choose to drop to the lower division. We have some good competition with them in football, soccer, bball, and track. Wrong on all three counts. Can't is our rival and it is good for us to play them every year.BG and Toledo have a long standing rivalry that is good for the MAC so they stay.EMU is a Ohio/Michigan school and geographically makes sense.The three to go are Buffalo, Temple and NIU. I'm not sure why one MAC Championship makes Buffalo a good long term program for the MAC. As soon as the coach leaves, the winning will follow.NIU is not part of th Ohio/Michiagan group. They go. They aren't really a good fit for the MAC geographically. Sorry NIU.Temple. They don't really want to be here anyhow so they can be gone. They are an eastern school that needs to find an eastern conference to take them. The MAC takes schools that nobody else wants and Temple was one of those schools. Given the choice between A-10 BB or MAC football, they would take BB.None of these schools have a rivalry either so they can go. Then we still have the Akron vs Can't, BG vs Toledo, OU vs Miami, Michigan schools vs each other and well there's poor BSU out there, but they are a good fit for the conference.

Currently 271st.

I've been telling you guys for months now what the solution is. If the odd numbers are hurting us, get rid of one team in the MAC and the conference will be better. The solution to the MAC's problems is the eliminate three teams from the confernece as soon as possible.I can't think of one good reason for a conference to take on a MAC school. The MAC is where you go when nobody else wants you. Bringing in a MAC school actually makes your conference worse and not better. The only sport we would be halfway competitive in is soccer and we could compete in any conference in the US. Ask Marshall how their trip to CUSA is going.I would agree with dropping three schools. A few years ago this might have been Akron.

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http://newsok.com/article/3049655?mp=1At Ohio University, officials are investigating a cheating scandal that accuses more than 20 mechanical engineering students of plagiarizing parts of their master's theses, some as long as 20 years ago. At least one graduate has been stripped of his degree.http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/09/more-on-...plagiarism.html

Ohio University has a long history...........oops!http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar09/feature_01.cfm

Anyone have an update here? It would be nice to make this disappear before the first home game.