[Odd Corner Owner Miffed at UA]

Personally, I am a strong proponent of personal property rights.

I am as well. However, I am opposed to how eminent domain is used as an issue.When it comes to this case, I am of course for the university taking advantage of it.Heh, call it it hypocritical (and you could well be right) but as long as eminent domain is as it is, why should the UofA be the only one's not to use it.

[North Carolina QB Recruit]

Anyone else a little miffed that the tone of the article kind of treats us (and really all of the MAC schools) as kind of an afterthought. I know we should be used to this by now, but it's almost like we're a D-2 school. Like, ohh yeah Illinois and Purdue are interested and so is ECU, ohh yeah and then there are those MAC schools like Akron. I dunno, just rubbed me the wrong way I guess.

Believe it or not, Akron got some solid street cred in the Carolinas with the NC State win. It could be the writer's way of identifying the MAC...they don't know Ball State down there, but they remember the Zips.

It's true. I was one myspace or facebook or somewhere and some girl posted pics from the grand opening of some cafe in north carolina and some kid was wearing an Akron T-shirt. I was like woah!

[3 New Bowl Games]

everyone wants a piece of the pie

[Odd Corner Owner Miffed at UA]

he probably started making more $ after arizona mining company closed.... I mean, where you gonna buy less mainstream, less-commericalized items?hmm, if he's such a douche and he's making so much loot.... *hatches plan to open up a head shop next to his to break his monopoly*

[This is BBBIIIGGG!!!]

immediately moving offices was a first red flag, but then the part with ND making a public statement that playing in the MAC will "...dramatically increase the probability that we can win our homecoming game..." is absurd. Even someone representing Can't wouldn't say something unprofessional as that.

[Promotion of UA]

lol, akrun haz smert pplz!

[Promotion of UA]

I think it's a little unrealistic to think that ANY 30 second spot is going to grab the attention of a 17 year old w/ a 30 on the ACT.

I had a 29 on the ACT and have two degrees from UA. Does that count?I didn't go here because of ads though. Your point holds.

The best spot in the country may only do enough for the kid to go online later and look up a little bit of information on the school. Which brings me to another point. Our website is a total joke.

The website falls victim to the same mentality as the television ads; the bureaucratic in-the-box safety dance.As soon as someone sticks there neck out at a meeting and proposes something even slightly different, it gets knocked down. We don't want to........... take your pick........ it could be any of a million excuses. We don't want to.... make parents think we are not a serious school. We don't want to look like an unprofessional academic institution. We don't want to put off this demographic or that demographic. blah blah blah. So what you end up with is standard boiler-plate corporate tone-neutral output.

[Promotion of UA]

UA needs to think bigger. Think more like Leo Burnett and less like some local ad shop.

The ironic thing is, you get some small marketing group, or even some students in marketing and advertising, and the first thing they do is try to emulate the big dog professionals. They get nifty editing gadgets like multilayer chroma animation and instead of coming up with a better way to get the message across, they slap the University president in front of a parallax montage of videos and think "see, we can make something that has professional looking effects and not cheesy like ed mullinax's car ads"

[Promotion of UA]

Dr. P made it about himself first and the university second.

I agree completely. He may not have even done it intentionally, I don't know, but the commercials for years have all done just about the same thing, if I remember. Him sitting on a stool narrating in front of a graphical smörgåsbord of moving video shots. Whether intentional or not, it makes him the center, and the university the backdrop.

[Concrete being poured!!]

On cam#1, I've been watching them auger out the holes for the columns that will support the main concourse and upper stands and fill them with concrete. Also on cam#1, on the lefthand side, it looks like they are really trying to fine-tune the exact slope on the hole. My guess is that they will build forms and rebar and pour concrete on that because it is where the lower stands will rest on.

[Stadium Cams Are Live!!!!!]

Are you kidding me?restrooms are a bare essential. If you didn't have enough, it would be everyone's biggest complaint.

[KD a Duck?]

I think it's good to have Can't as a viable rival, AS LONG AS WE BEAT THEM, DAMMIT!

[A win for UA.]

Judge spicer ruling that the University pay exactly what they originally offered is a very very clear message to property owners.If you translate it, what it says is: "The university made an offer that is more than fair. If you gamble on making frivolous gains, you will end up losing what you could have bargained for in good faith"

[topics getting erased]

or maybe someone who runs the site has a problem with opinions which are against what they believe....kinda goes against the whole point of a "open forum"

Here's the problem I had with your topic, aside from it being completely stupid, is the fact that there are only a half dozen posts on here today, and you make that to add to the list. In other words, why couldn't you inject your silly opinion in the game thread where everyone else put their opinions?If you make a new thread, and the 100 other people on this forum who have a more sensible opinion refute you in it, what still ends up happening is your silly thread title is there among the 5 other threads of the day, giving your silly opinion disproportionate representation, as if 1/6 of the people actually think like you.

[Akron-UMASS Game Thread]

Is it on Channelsurfing.net? I can't seem to get it.

ESPN?

[Good Luck from a UMass Fan]

Didn't an FSU fan also stop by here and wish the zips luck.I like this omen.

[Lack of Coverage]

Did anyone notice last night, on the 11:00 Channel 5 news how he mentioned something to the effect:"OK Zipsnation, here's your media coverage"?I think someone is lurking.

It's probably very smart to lurk around places like this, where you can get angles and leads on little scoops you might not find if you stay inside the regular circles

[Now that we don't have to worry about Can't...]

today is 'hug a hippy' day

[ESPN story says Akron is in the NCAA tourney]

LOL, that's just sloppiness.My guess is they caught the Akron - FSU score and assumed that FSU would be in the NCAA

[VCU gone from NIT]

complaining ALWAYS sounds like whining if you don't agree with the complaint

[With the NIT fun going on, I forgot all about that other thing.]

Everything you guys all said makes perfect sense to me.However, I will still be rooting for cant when I watch the game and I can't really explain why. All I can do is describe my emotional rationale. I will be rooting for them to win, but if they lose, I will very much enjoy it.

[Lack of Coverage]

I don't think most of us need a reality check about the NIT and how we ourselves probably wouldn't be talking much about it if we weren't in it, BUT, the topic started out about the discrimination phenomenon in that OSU and CSU both get more coverage for being in that very same tourney. I can understand why can't gets some press for being in the big dance. I didn't really join in the protest, because I also understand why the Cleveland rag would focus on CSU.I just wanted to point out that I don't think the topic is about NIT lack of respect. We all know it's the forgotten step child.

[Lack of Coverage]

Solution: Meet & beet OSU in the last game of The NIT

[With the NIT fun going on, I forgot all about that other thing.]

LOL, just vote.

[Florida State's Excuse]

One thing I noticed about Linhart last night was how he closes fast and hard on the basket for a rebound on the defensive end of the court. He seems like he fights for scraps down there.