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Beacon Journal: Eastern Michigan will provide a challenge to the Zips' defense

Thanks! Outta Likes.

How do the divisions work in Florida? In Ohio we have Division 1 (largest schools) -to- Division 6 (or maybe even 7? smallest schools).

Akron basketball team wins big shooting from another zip code

Noooooooo!!! Look what PJ Fleck is doing @ Minny ^^William Collier, Hoban RB (Todd Sibley's backup but PJ obviously got film b/c Hoban's gonna have zero drop off @ the position next year.) ^^Daeshon Martin, Hoban stud DE Get outta here, Fleck!

Agreed. This is a statement game. EMU's gonna be coming for blood. If we can handle EMU convincingly we should have tremendous swag for every game remaining on our schedule. I'm worried about Noah & Josh not matching up well w/ EMU's athletic guards. Any word on Big Mike's back? He's losing valuable development PT & by this point he's gonna be out of shape once KD does put him in the game. We're gonna need Big Mike to give us quality minutes to win the 3-games-in-3-days in Cleveland.

I imagine not.

Yeah, we've really gotta get that started! I know I hadn't been looking for an EMU thread because I'm still high from the OU game.

I thought I recognized his voice in the post game presser video.

^^Here, let me post the link. Everyone be sure to give it a click.

Matthew Hanson

^^Ouch. That sucks.

Definitely. I wasn't there, but like I earlier mentioned, the crowd looked good on tv. Of course there are always the conspicuously empty seats in the lower bowl.

Good point.

This is a big deal that I've noticed as well. Kwan used to mentally check out of the game if he made a mistake.

^^The MAC should begin scheduling cross-divisional games during the week and divisional games on the weekends. We've got some pretty intense rivalries with Ohio, Buffalo, and Kant. We should never play those games on a Tuesday night.

Agree with this. More crowd "energy" on the weekends as opposed to Tuesday evenings. And the crowd looked good on tv.

Zips use fast start in second half cruise past Bobcats This is one boring-ass article. Three decades (as long as I've been following UA) of tripe like this sure doesn't help with attendance. Concerning the lesser energy surrounding the OU contest, I'm with another poster who wondered whether it has to do with the fact Cooper doesn't play for OU anymore. There was a cumulative effect there for a while: 1. Cooper was a player you loved to hate, 2. OU had just gone to the Sweet Sixteen, 3. We had our best team in UA history and had cracked the Top 25, 4. Akron and OU were clearly the 2 best teams in the league. I know televised news and newspapers are largely becoming dinosaurs of a previous (my) generation. But Cleveland's news channels (when those were a sincerely big deal - for younger folks think Anchor Man) never gave Akron any coverage. That is formative to a community's psyche. Add to that the fact our very own Akron Beacon Journal doesn't even give the Zips so much coverage as The Canton Repository gives to a few local high schools and you've got a couple of generations of Summit County residents who simply don't think they should care about the Zips. If you read the Canton Repository you'd think Stark county high school football was the greatest thing since sliced bread; if you read the ABJ you generally get the vibe of concerning UA athletics. Decades of this will be formative to a community. There is a problem in Akron. Akronites/Summit Countians have been conditioned to not think anything really good can come from Akron or be happening in Akron (LeBron James being the lone exception). I went to EJ Thomas Hall last night to see the freaking Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (who were, of course, amazing btw) and there were so few people there EJ had to close the balcony. How embarrassing is that? But here's the thing, if you watched Cleveland news or read the ABJ, would you have even known the Prague Philharmonic was in town last night?