Blue & Gold

The hook is baited.

Correct. They play at EJ Thomas.

Per GoZips.com the baseball team is changing the location of their opening weekend series against Northern Illinois. They were originally slated to play at Canal Park, but have moved the games to another minor league stadium in Avon. Is Lee Jackson unplayable? Really makes you think that's where they want the arena.

This may be hard to explain, but where are the lobbies/foyer areas; where do people enter the arena to find their seats? Also, I'm a bit confused. I see five loges. Opposite the loges I see the press area (IIRC). But what do you have in mind for the end-zone areas on that level?

We're hoping he's a diamond in the rough. West Virginia is not heavily recruited, and his highlight video is pretty sick (it's at the beginning of this thread). Aren't all highlight videos sick? Yeah. But this kid's is especially sick.

Bob Dyer on Keith Dambrot.

George Thomas courtesy of Akron.com.

If this guys healthy, we've gone from a 2-man-deep DL situation to a 6-man-deep rotation: 2012 Grice------Caponi 2013 Grice-----Caponi Hollis-----McCray Price----Gauthney The new four (Hollis, McCray, Gauthney & Price) are all 300-pounders. IMHO the lack of depth @ DT is why we lost half the games we lost last year.

+1. UCLA's a very unique gig.

Joe Dunn had a great segment w/ Steve French on 1350 today. Firstly, they both said they wouldn't be surprised of the Zips add another guard to this year's recruiting class. Secondly, they mentioned it's 99% certain we've got a 5th-year senior DL transferring in from Florida State. "Big Time Sports Show w/ Joe Dunn." 1350 AM 3:00-6:00 p.m. It's almost always a good show for Zips fans.

Jeremiah Jackson will be playing in the 2013 Stark-Summit All-Star Game at Malone College. Tomorrow night (3/27). Tip-off @ 8:30. I go to this just about every year. It's fun. Summit almost always wins comfortably. Stark county did win last year; 1st time they've won in a long time. Anyway, I'm going to see what kind of game Jeremiah's got. Grey-shirt him, Coach D.

Tonight on ZipsLive (1350) they were talking about next year and Coach D said we had a point guard coming in who he wasn't allowed to name (Nyles Evans), and that "we might be bringing in another guard, because we're losing Alex a year earlier than we thought we would."

It'd be awfully hard to pass on an offer from UCLA. Minnesota? Not so much.

"A freshman point guard's a disaster." This commercial ominously ran during the 1st commercial break of the Akron -vs- VCU game.

^^This. Great baseball weather today. Spring has sprung! But, yes, I love spring baseball when the temperature is finally in the 50's & spring is in the air. One of my favorite times of year.

. The videographer was sitting directly across from the one ugly, closed corner of the arena (JAR-like corner). If we could extend the arena around without any closed corners, this would be perfect, as I love the dimensions of the Ryan Center. Here's another link from Stadium and Arena Visits which contains more pictures. (The exterior of the Ryan Center is hideous.) Capacity: 7,657 (with the closed corner) If we'd complete the arena it would probably be right at 10,000-seats.

grand opening video. (Barry Manilow?) [edit] Capacity: 10,600 - probably a little larger than we want.

I don't think anyone added this post-game video from George Thomas & Marla Ridenour. Akron -vs- VCU. They sound like they're at a funeral.

Yup. IIRC Ali Kart had an open 15-foot jumper to win it at the buzzer that rimmed out. That was a long time ago. I remember Randy Moss & Chad Pennington were still @ Marshall - I was watching the D-1AA National Championship game & then headed over to the JAR for the Xavier matchup. Anyway, we need to schedule more A-10 teams.

It did. I tried to get on simply to see what conference they are affiliated with.

Since we need better guard play... more on Jeremiah Jackson. Massillon Independent POY. Again, no mention of any college interest, so Hilltopper's sources are probably correct about Jeremiah being a non-qualifier. Maybe he could pay for college for a year like Tree & Harney? [edit] I'm sure glad we signed Nyles Evans before the Abreu fiasco. But we only have him for 2 years.

How would those of you who know more basketball than me explain this? Fluke? Was Michigan defending them schematically differently? Did we simply allow VCU to get into a comfort zone against us?

Zipsrifle, welcome back! It's been a while. ^^^One of the nicest posters on the board.

^^^This is why I lean toward a basketball-specific arena. KD's been around the block a thousand times & I trust his opinion on this.

Great picture. I couldn't find a picture where it's set up for hockey or football.