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All of these are the painfully rare exceptions which prove the rule that Cleveland's media ignores Akron 99% of the time. When Akron gets between 3-5 minutes of coverage, from each major Cleveland television outlet -NBC, ABC, CBS & FOX- every night (regardless of merit, i.e., Browns, Indians, Cavs) for the next two generations (roughly 40 years) then we'll go ahead and call it even w/ the Cleveland media. Cleveland's media has had Akron by the balls for a looooong time now; literally a couple of generations. That's almost entirely devastating for the Akron community's personal identity, or "sense of place." And, IMO, I don't think the Cleveland media was dumb enough not to realize what they were doing; it was intentional. Fortunately, 6:00 local news broadcasts are for dinosaurs and are quickly becoming increasingly irrelevant to a community's identity formation.

This is exactly, and tragically, correct. And this is why an Akron fan with even so much as an elementary ability to connect dots hates all-things Cleveland. Burn, Cleveland. Burn.

Whooooah. K e n t looked goooooood, boy.

I'm glad they didn't get much press. I actually dislike them just as much as Can't, and I'd like to think we have a better chance of gaining the northeast ohio fanbase. Aside from a good sized arena, there's nothing about them I can like. Although I feel like we will probably lose to them... Amen. Screw Cleveland State.

Wow, that seems like a lifetime ago.

I agree. Ianello has taken this program backward. We're no longer even the least bit competitive.

Actually, I'm sure we're all glad this was written. Hopefully the ABJ can help put enough pressure on Dr. P that he won't be able to bury his head in the sand, concerning this football program, any longer. Marla Ridenour for the ABJ. I appreciate this quote, in particular: "Akron, meanwhile, is grasping at straws with little hope for optimism under coach Rob Ianello." Marla, thank you!

I was watching on tv and the game definitely did not have a "rivalry" vibe about it.

Now nothing. I've refreshed it almost 100 times and nothing. What an unfulfilling day of UA athletics. Fortunately, I'm not surprised!

+1. I suppose in one sense it's strangely liberating. But that's probably just a defense mechanism. I miss caring. I want to care!

Thanks!

I've just lost the feed. It says, idk, something is unavailable, or something. Anyone else having the same issue? [edit] it reads: "[server. Reject]: Virtual host is not available."

What can you do? I don't know. I only brought one group to one game this year. Next year I'm not bringing any. I'm not going to renew my season tickets. That's about all I can do to make my displeasure known to the administration. I wasn't at the game today, but even when I am I don't "boo." I wouldn't ever want the players to misconstrue a "Boooo!" as being directed toward them when in reality it would be absolutely intended for the coaching staff. I watched this week's abomination on SportsTime Ohio while doing some chores around the house & reading a book. I hardly care about our football program anymore. It used to be a daily passion of mine - from recruiting, to spring ball, to the regular season. Now? Whatever.

I absolutely love college football, but I'm so demoralized over our program I hardly care anymore. I don't believe I've made a football-related post since the week before the Central Michigan game. I stayed home & watched the Can't game on t.v. We lost again. I don't think I even care. I haven't felt like this since I started religiously following the Zippers about 20 years ago.

Should be right here. From GoZips.com.

I've also watched it three times. Fellow dorks, unite!

I thought Holmes was supposed to provide that additional option. He was supposed to be a scoring machine. What's happened to him?

Zeke is like the college version of Tyson Chandler? Yeah, now that he mentions it, I can see where he gets that. Pretty good comparison.

Dick Vitale was watching last night. Or at least he gets LeBron's tweets. He tweeted back to LeBron after the game, and got a knock in on the fact we aren't going to MSG: "Akron 68 - Miss St 58 - let the fun begin - yet Miss St will go to Madison Sq Garden- not a tourney."

King James blowing us up to his roughly 3 MILLION followers on twitter:"Watching Akron vs Miss St on ESPNU. Let's go Zips!""Wanna thank the play by play guys doing the Akron/Miss St game on ESPNU for the compliments! I really appreciate it. U guys are awesome!!""Let's go ZIPS!! Keep pushing. I like it, keep going""Pause by the way!!" (I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.)"YES SIR!!!!!!! Huge win by Akron U tonight on the road in the SEC!! Congrats Coach D, Rico, Q, Zeke, Serb, Nick, Brett, Walsh, and the rest of the guys #ZIPS"

ESPN highlights.

I might be missing it (I hope I'm missing it!) but I don't see a story about last night's victory on the Akron Beacon Journal's website!

Great find!

Good call. I don't watch much SportsCenter anymore, but I'll have to be sure to check it out tomorrow a.m.