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Seriously though. WTF. I don't understand that. When you've got so much to lose.........

I wonder when we find out! *bites nails* :rolleyes: LOL, I dunno why I am so cynical about this mascot thing. Maybe because it's a commercially sponsored event... I mean, it's not like ESPN or NCAA run. lol.But I guess, when you are a fan, you can do more than just root for an outcome. You can participate. So, It's cool, I guess. I voted already.

okeeey....

Woah there. Akron schools are looking up, and were never even in the same league of despair of cleveland to start with. The real estate market is in flux all over the the country, I think you'd have to be oblivious not to know that. Taxes I don't know about in Akron proper, but as a whole, I see the greater akron area and summit county growing significantly more than nearby urban centered counties.Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that Akron is booming, but I totally disagree with your negative assessment.

A lot of projects that you tend to hear about ending up significantly over budget are publically funded projects. Gateway project up in cleveland comes to mind. They had to under-estimate the cost in order get the voters to approve it. This stadium was more accurately estimated.

I would settle for it being a selectable choice at the stadium. But somehow I doubt that Thirsty Dog has the millions to buy the "rights" to be the stadium beverage. We will end up with Coors or Budweiser It would make great negotiating leverage though.-Anheuser Busch rep: "So, who else you got bidding the contract? Coors and Miller, right?"-UA negotiator: "We want a modified exclusive supplier rights contract. We have a local brewery with a product of interest to our program"-Busch rep: "We require exclusive rights to venues"-UA rep: "So says Coors and Miller, but the first one to allow for the local product will get the contract"-Busch rep: "Tell ya what. We'll throw in an extra mill over the contract period for all rights excluding even the local brewery"-UA rep: "Uhh, well take your offer under advisement"Ching!

http://www.ohio.com/news/12343741.html Sounds interesting. :up: Thats a shame. Something with zippy, or better yet, the Roo, on the label would have garnered more purchases from me. In some ways, I am dissappointed, but in others, it doesn't suprise me... because "roo" has been used in other places and creations, so I'm not sure you could try to take full control of it anyway... and the laize faire attitude is rather refreshing compared to typical corporate power grab over every minor detail.

LOL, you should update the flush players on all the campus computers you find, and reset their home pages to capitalonebowl.com

zippy ownz

Gad, I remember drinkin at the sun. The one year I lived just up spicer and drank there all the time.Still, as fond as I am of the memories, to be honest, it's just a hole bar. Cripes, you can setup a shop like that anywhere. What's the big freakin deal? Are they one of the ones being a hardon about this?

I know this is an apples & oranges comparison, but just about everyone I know who spent money to advertise their new websites.... in the end the websites ended up failing. On the other hand, I have never spend a dime to advertise a website, and have had significant successes. The point is the product. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you spend on marketing, the message is lost, along with the money you spent, if you don't get the desired effect.Some companies spend a lot more money on figuring out market for audience and demographics than they do on the ads themselves. Simply plastering the papers and the airwaves with your message is a waste if 99% of those people wouldn't come to your game if you put a gun to their head. Why drop $50,000 on radio ads all across the dial when the net result if 27 more tickets got sold???

Yeah, it seemed to me that Otto was losing all of his early battles until he got so far behind that everyone was voting for him to knock down his opponents.

bias clouds reality

I didn't come into this thread to start taking on everyone and all the points they have been making. That would get exhausting, particularly after rebuttals.I am just going to state the same opinion I had before this season and still have today:Brookhart is a very good coach. If he doesn't stay here, I believe this fact will be bore out somewhere years down the road.I am going to state something I have been saying since the Army game beginning this season:Our offensive play calling is horrid.If we need a personel change in the staff, it is to get a genuine offensive mind that will scheme game plans, not just based on our player talents, and not just based on opponent weaknesses, but that would work on breaking down defenses regardless who playing and training our players in a system that will exploit the other 11 players on the field.It's not hard to defend against the zips offense this year. Focus on the run (and dump offs) and double team Arthur or zone for Arthur's routes.

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:rolleyes:It's why I don't get hot and bothered over the capital one mascot thinger. It's fun, I suppose, but if you gotta hang your hat on a mascot, or on being ancient history "craddle of coaches", it's just not anything to get too rowdy about.

I don't think that the 'problem' is either QB or JD.I think the problem is a combination of three things1) one dominating WR, the rest are not respect nor thrown to 2) offensive play calling 3) inconsistent run blockingNow, does that mean I think our quarterbacks are above reproach, or JD above criticism? No.

great point.... so, his manliness score goes up. :rolleyes:Anyway, I don't think he saw the fair catch call, and I really don't see a huge problem for not making a quick last second decision to lay off a guy who looks like he's taking a knee. The dance/celebration was probably just something coverage guys would do any time they think they tackled a guy for no yardage (or a loss). So, I can understand Brookhart's passion for his players, but I don't agree that there should have been an ejection.The only thing I would have a problem with is if someone shows me evidence that he was dancing after the flag was thrown, and more importantly, still celebrating after he realized a fair catch was called and he could have injured a guy.A bigger smoking gun that would change my opinion would be a photo of Fitzgerald with his eyes on our receiver calling a fair catch.

Actually, I heard the night before the trade broke that they were shopping both guys and Charlie was getting the best offers.But that's okay. You think what you want to. Nothing I say will change what you want to believe. Charlie isn't playing right now for the browns, and nothing I can do will change that either.

Not really. Not until Frye plays again. ALMOST everyone who was in Frye's corner for the last few years kept saying OVER and OVER, all we need is a semi-decent offensive line. DA has one. Isn't it amazing.BTW, the browns haven't had a consistently decent offensive line in 20 years. The pass protection is MUCH better this year than recent years, but the run blocking still sorta stinks (but the run blocking isn't the issue when it comes to comparing DA to Frye)I actually half-way considered posting a "kudos" thread for DA for his performance this year on this forum because of the DA/Frye debates that happened earlier, but I refrained from doing so because it's inevitable that the Frye bashers would come out and say "see I told you so". I will concede that there is no way to reasonably argue that Frye could have done definitively as well as DA has done this year, BUT, please go dig up the old threads. You will find that we did indeed plead that no QB would have done well with the offensive lines the Browns had over the last few years. Now that the browns QB has pass protection, how can an equal comparison be made?I will willingly concede I was wrong when/if Charlie Frye starts for another team and performs badly.

That's how I Feel. Fire him now, and in 3 or 4 years you'll see him leading some program to a bowl ask yourself why we cut him loose, particularly if our new coach isn't working out yet. I've been saying that since the Army game. The number of screens has gone down since then, but the failure is in a similar vane. Ask any defensive coordinator how much bad screens scare them. Not very much. If an offense fails to evenly distribute the ball in every zone of the field (don't just think vertical or horizontal. don't just think run vs.pass) then a defense can appropriately anticipate inside their gameplan, or atleast not have to try to think too much on the field.

Better yet, I think they need to be voted out as soon as possible. We have two more years of Stickland. I'm not even sure if Fingerhut currently holds an elected office or is just a washed up hack who has been appointed to a post... but I am going to look into it. These guys need to be removed before they can do some serious damage

what is worse is the fact that the house was probably not even worth 77 Grand in the first place. Most of them are not worth that much. He probably pressured the previous property owner and climbed the ladder until he got it with the express purpose of holding against the UA land aquisition for a profit. I mean, you could say that because he probably paid more than it was probably worth means he didn't turn as much of a profit, but the problem is that it stands as evidence that he had conscious intent.

Good to have a cheatsheet.One comment, about the above quoted, even though UCLA may have less enrollment than UM, I wonder if in the playoffs whether the size of the media market will make a difference. It's just a thought, but if UCLA Bruin gets some stories in their media, he could be dangrous

like everyone else I LOVE a winner.unlike half of everyone else (or more) I do not quit on my team. If you believed in this team when the season started and you're calling for heads now, then you are a quitter. Go root for the usual suspects among the 'safe bets' like all the other front runners (like OSU) and leave the loyalty to the real fans. Some people would be happy if we constructed a bunch of cyborgs with beyond-human abilities to win games. They wouldn't care as long as our logo is on the helmet and the score is in the win column.Me, personally, even though I haven't met these people (players & coaches).... I can't just throw them out like the trash because I don't like the news.All I am saying is, please, lets just be fans until the season is over, and then we can talk about this extra crap.