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  1. FOUND A NEW GREAT DEAL!

     

    I stopped in The Rally House in Macedonia (this deal is only for the Macedonia store).  If you buy and Akron (or Kent) apparel (shirts, jackets, etc. not cheap stuff like socks), they will give you 2 tickets to tonight's game for FREE!  My wife did one transaction and I did another (not supposed to do it this way) and got the four tickets we need for tonight.

     

    Great seats too. Section 110, Row #1!!  Looks like that is opposite the visitor bench, so hopefully I won't be surrounded by Kent fans.  As of noon today they only had 14 tickets left!

  2. Just cancelled our plans and are taking the family of four down tonight. Is the best way to do the lottery ticket promo? Anyone know for sure if they are honoring it for tonight's game? I went online and found that I can buy four tickets with all the fees for $180. Really? $52 of that was fees and convenience charges. 

     

    Anyone know now what time the university will be up there selling 

    their tickets? I could drive up in advance before those sellout if they haven't already. 

     

    Thanks!

  3. When we beat Ohio at the JAR earlier this season, I felt the second half was the best defensive performance I had ever seen a Zips team display. In my mind, it was incomparable to any game I can remember watching.

    That was rivaled by tonight's performance. I just finished watching it on TV after being there in person. I was so nervous about this game after the emotional week we had that I didn't even realize how big our lead really was with around a minute to go!!!

    I will also not forget a brief conversation I had with Zeke after the Can't loss last week. I simply asked him if his team was going to be ready for Cleveland. He said that would be and that he would take it upon himself to assure that they got past the emotions. He and KD did just that.

    I especially love Terry Pluto's quote (so much so that I placed it in my signature!):

    When it meant the most, the Zips did everything better. That includes the grit and concentration needed to re-tool the team to replace Abreu, beat rival Can't State on Friday (62-59) and then demolish Ohio 24 hours later. -- Terry Pluto

    GO ZIPS!!!! :champs: :champs: :champs: :champs:

  4. I am sure I am not the only person to experience what my son and I experienced tonight, but I felt compelled to post this so others can hear.

    Consider all that has happened in the last 24 hours. Then we lose on our home court to a team that was beatable. It is understandable considering the conditions.

    I was at the game with my 7 year-old son who's favorite player is Zeke. Has his posters in his room. Talks about him all the time. Tonight he wanted Zeke's autograph probably more than he wanted the Zips to win. We brought an 8X10 picture of Zeke and a Sharpie. After the game, we wandered down the hall and stood outside the locker room door. Coach Dambrot came out and saw him standing there told us to go inside. I was shocked! I asked him if he was sure and he said "sure. Go on in. He'll never forget it" referring to my son. Needless to say he was correct. He got his autograph and a picture. Zeke said some really mature things about leading his team and getting them ready for Friday night next week.

    Later, he was still waiting to get KD's autograph but he was already in his office in a meeting. Coach Thomas saw and and took his program in, interrupted KD and get him an autograph.

    I have a 7 year-old who is thrilled and very excited to be a Zips fan.

    GO ZIPS!

  5. Also, as someone who wears the stripes, I was at the game. First, my position, and everyone else's on this forum, was not as advantageous as the lead official who made the call. That being said, I was surprised at the T. I felt what many hear feel is that momentum and size of the player was not taken into consideration. Holding the whistle a bit longer may have caused him to pass on the call. I can almost promise you this was discussed in their post game. Not sure if Driscoll would have changed his call after discussing it or watching the video, but I think all would admit that it was borderline.

    The fact that we have two who wear the stripes with different calls is an example of how opinion and experience enter into the art of officiating at this level. Admittedly, I have not worked at the D-1 level, but I still think he could have passed on the call.

    For the fans to celebrate and respond as the Maryland students did some one needs to put a muzzle on Akron pep band.

    It is not only loud and overbearing it is much worse ... it it intrusive, The director fires up the band at the least sliver of

    silence and bangs the band onward even into when play on the floor has resumed. It is ugly and not conducive to crowd

    participation. Obviously the Maryland mosh was well co-ordinated and timed. Perhaps it can be tried at Akron. I hope so.

    Um, isn't all that you complained about the core reason for a college pep band to exist?

  6. What a great day to be a member of the Zips Nation!

    The funny thing about rankings that never seem to pan out...a 24 ranking indicates you are a 6 seed. Yet if we win out and are ranked in the top 20 at the end of the year I doubt we'll get better than a 10 seed (a 40th ranking!).

    The OU game is so big on Wednesday! I hope this team doesn't let this go to their head and walks into Athens with a chip on the shoulder knowing they need to walk out of their with a victory.

    +1

  7. You know what WAUP was.

    You avoid admitting to huddling by the massive gas heater near the trough urinal in the men's room at the rubber bowl.

    You worked at WZIP when it was in the basement of Guzetta.

    You remember it being cheaper to pay the parking fine within 5 days ($5) being cheaper than buying the parking pass for the entire semester.

    You lived in Bulger hall when it wasn't co-ed.

    You've locked your girlfriend in your Bulger Hall closet in the middle of the night when someone dumbass pulled the fire alarm....9 times in one night!

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