Blue & Gold

I wasn't able to see the live video feed on Saturday. Were our kickoffs any better than they were against VMI?

Anyone else not getting video?

FWIW, I could tell that's what you were getting at w/ that stat.

I saw many red shirts piled up on a table. I asked what they were going to do with them and they said they planned to donate them. Not sure how this helps lessen the red plague in NE Ohio. Im cool with it if they donate them to communities outside the country.... Very true. A few years ago I was on a mission trip to an orphanage in out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-Russia and saw one orphan kid wearing an Akron t-shirt and one wearing a Canton McKinley t-shirt. It was pretty cool.

Divying up a rivalry by respective sports is interesting. I'd hesitate to do that. It's just plainly evident that our main "rival" if you will (or don't use the word if you don't want to. "Competition" will do just fine.) for the hearts of Akron-area residents is Columbus. Can't is also a rival, and I'd say a more bitter rival due to familiarity, proximity and competition not just for sports-fan loyalty, but for potential student enrollment as well. (However, I'd rather someone identify w/ the suburb of Can't than with a city 2 hours away. How insulting.) But, what's also painfully clear is that very few in the Akron area have any self-respect at all. For them it's all about Columbus and/or Cleveland. Pathetic. Of course UA, courtesy of the product they've offered on the gridiron, has not helped the cause.

I saw many red shirts piled up on a table. I asked what they were going to do with them and they said they planned to donate them. Not sure how this helps lessen the red plague in NE Ohio. They should count them, donate an equivalent # of Zips shirts, and then burn them.

That's right. If you're smart, you can get away with lazy. If you're a hard worker, you can get away with stupid. But if you're both stupid and lazy? Your only hope is hitting the lottery.

You nailed it. It's almost like we need a section on the hill for the "Super" ROWDIES. It's really hard to get into a chant if no one else around you is joining in. As for me, my throat is sore, so I did my part... That's one of the big reasons they are separated for basketball games. We show up to the games to affect the final score, not to chat with friends and only cheer when somebody with a microphone tells us to. Exactly...At the next soccer match, can we get the "REAL ROWDIES" the spot right beside the opponents bench? Just wondering if that's possible Or is there any way that UA could make certain you guys are placed around the goal?

I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed this. The people I was with all thought the same thing. I think the Rowdies can be kinda spoiled. I'll just briefly mention that the bandwagon is much bigger for our nationally-ranked soccer team than for our basketball team - even though our b-ball team deserves the Rowdies to pack the JAR like they do FirstEnergy Stadium. I'd be afraid to see how sparse the diehard soccer Rowdies would be if our team would go .500 some year. I doubt we'd have a parade to Cub Cadet Field. Also, we've become so accustomed to utter Zips' dominance that unless the Zips are scoring or threatening to score, the Rowdies aren't making much noise. With soccer there should be a constant "buzz" coming from the student section/Rowdies. Not just when the Zips put the ball in the goal.

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Whoopsie. On the mac-sports live feed they may want to mute Frenchy during commercial breaks!

How pathetic. I'm so glad he was never a Zip. Besides, he couldn't hold Chisholm's jock strap. Garfield RB Tyson Gulley relegated Howard to picking splinters out of his butt during the Ohio North-South All-Star Game.

I still wish we'd move him to LB. I just think LB is more of a difference-making position than FB.

Ooooooooooh!!!

Those kickoffs were absolutlely horrible. Does anyone know what was going on there?

Well, that puts to rest any debate over whether or not uniform style matters to college athletes.

This was/is embarrassing. Someone needed to be taken behind the woodshed for this one.

Quote from the article: "... the Keydets were upset by Delaware State (24-21) in their opener, then were beaten at home by William & Mary (24-7) and at Richmond (34-19). Notably, William & Mary is ranked No. 5 and Richmond is No. 7 this week in the FCS coaches poll."Hmm, VMI's 0-3 record may be a bit deceiving?

Wow! Alabama in 4 of the Top 10?! Roll Tide.

I am impressed that you take the time to influence young kids. How many kids will you be taking to the game??I'm expecting around 10 kids.

Since I was too young to remember or to even take notice, I don't know what it was like around here when I was a kid. But for literally as long as I can remember the Akron area has had no self-respect. It's all either Cleveland or Columbus.

The Hartville Giant Eagle has a plethora of O$U, Browns, Indians & Cavs garbage. No Akron Zips merch.

"...a roster makeup that has 46 freshmen, redshirt freshmen or sophomores out of the 76 UA scholarship recipients."Linky

Zips win by 14 or more.

You may not be going to games after the next five years and it won't be anything the University has done right or wrong. In fact, when you go to MAC games, you aren't seeing the highest level of competition as that level is reserved for BCS teams. Nobody likes to hear it, but that is the truth.It is hard to project the past on the future as the future is quickly becoming much different than the past. I don't even see it as the University or MAC dropping down...I see it as more of them being left behind with the changes. We'll still get mostly MAC level players, but the general landscape of college football will be different. Other than a couple "rent-a-win" games we play in early against BCS teams (those may go away), the competition will be the same as well. We may just be in our own level of football that includes a national championship playoff in addition to our league championship game. The big changes going on right now are at the BCS level and don't include conferences like the MAC.If everyone would open their mind to it, these changes happening in college football could really make things more exciting for Zips fans down the road.Should this scenario play out, I sincerely hope you're right GP1. But right now I'm still w/ Dr.Z - I'd rather be ranked #25 in the country & win a mid-level bowl @ the D-1 level than be national champs in D-2 (or whatever they'd end up calling it).