Blue & Gold

My feed is completely dead and it's gone back to "Please Stand By" again. I shut it down. I sure hope they offer this for viewing at a later date.

Same here. How punctual. Okay. Hopefully they're just running a bit late. I was afraid I was having a glitch & missing it altogether. Same thing here. "Please Stand By" Terrible. Just terrible quality. Was just about to post the same. I can't really hear anything at all. It fades in & out & for some reason repeats the same 3 second clips 2 or 3 times. So I really hope they're recording this and will have it available for viewing at a later time. I'm really not getting anything understandable from this feed.

Same here. How punctual. Okay. Hopefully they're just running a bit late. I was afraid I was having a glitch & missing it altogether.

It's 4:35 and my link still says "Please stand by." Am I the only one?!

Unless you count Grice and Rossi as running backs. You may also consider Tyrell Goodman an "Athlete" who may or may not play QB.

Awesome. Akron now has 3 of the Top 10 recruits (according to TopDrawer) coming their way! They have a livechat up for National Signing Day> http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/livechat This was just posted in the above link: [Comment From Zip1508 Zip1508: ] Verbal commit to Akron has failed to fax through NLI. Insiders believe he's had his head turned by a west coast school Anyone know what/who that's all about?

Where'd you find that? It's not on the gozips.com Signing Day blog.

Why not just call the team what they're already named (I'm confused about that one anyhow) the Akron Metro Football Club? Sounds very european. I've noticed that in America we name our teams something like the Bears, or Eagles, or Tigers, etc. Where as in Europe they seem to simply call their teams _______ Football Club, or _______ Rugby Club, right?

Is this a joke? I think you forgot to insert the " " emoticon. Honestly, the Warren RB would have been someone we were stringing along in case one of our verbals backed out at the last second. We already had landed Cody Grice & Karl Bostick, both rated higher than the Warren kid. Not to mention 4-star Nick Rossi. We had two surprises today - DE & former Iowa commit John Griggs (6-5, 260) and WR & former Penn State commit A.J. Price (6-4, 190). No offense to the Warren kid, but IF we were really going after him, it would only have been if one of these two would have reneged @ the last minute. The Warren kid will do better @ YSU's level anyway. I remember UA offering Mogadore's Chuck Moore an opportunity to walk on. He was fantastic in high school, but would have probably been simply a special team player at UA. He opted for Mount Union & was a 2-time All-American. Good decision for him, IMHO.

Very cool.

indeed. Very disappointing.

+1. I loved seeing Q get out on the fast break last night. How long has it been since we've had a guard/wing that is always looking to get out and run before the defense has a chance to set up?

Very good news, indeed! It's great to get another Big 33 player. I'm starting to get excited about this recruiting class. I haven't been excited about Zips football in what feels like an eternity.

Wait a minute... magic isn't real?

Coming from someone as close to the Zips' program as yourself, this is music to my ears!

Sadly accurate statement. Our baseball facility is not a college facility. It is not an NAIA D-II nor an NCAA D-III facility, let alone at all acceptable for the NCAA D-I level. I don't know how we recruit anyone for baseball.

If you are being serious, there was an article at the beginning of the year where he stated his desire to start a professional career. ...back in europe, of course.

Here is Tom Gaffney's article on tomorrow's BiG game. One amazing fact Tom brought to my attention was that we've never had a 4-game losing streak under KD. We've only ever had two 3-game losing streaks under KD & a handful of 2-game losing streaks (to be expected). That's pretty darn good, if you ask me. Unfortunately, as Tom points out, we've already set one bad precedent this season - KD's first 3-game conference slide. Go Zips!

Could Coach Newt Engle's seat be warming up?

+1! ROOligans Exchange Street Elite

AMEN. Little ol' Akron starting to grow a little self-respect.

I like the idea. I also like the name Rooligans. Complements the "Rowdies" motif quite well. Aren't we just the european soccer hooligans!

[Edit: in response to the verbal by Justin March] Great news! Thanks, Zach. The picture Rivals has of March says a lot. Though a bit undersized, he sure looks like a LB! I would NOT want to run into him in a dark alley!

"In the future," is an awfully vague time table. I'm assuming you mean at the end of this season? If that was your intent, then the answer to that question would be absolutely not. We're probably due for a down year. It's been quite a while. Before the season began I admitted that I was already more excited about next year than this one. I do wish Diggs received more PT and I am very excited about Abreu. But other than those two, we are still the same, under-athletic team that we were all disappointed in last season. Next year we see the full fruits of KD's change in recruiting philosophy with the infusion of Chauncey Gilliam & Brian Walsh as well as the additions of (cross your fingers) Demetrius Treadwell & Nick Harney. Additionally, Josh Egner won't be playing like a true freshman next season & we're getting who recruiters call the most athletic player in the state of Illinois in Deji Ibitayo. Finally, the Big Man will be entering his junior year... we're gonna be fine. This year, however, might be a little rough - which, due to KD, we've grown completely unaccustomed to.

Does this superstar have a name? Yes he does, should that be disclosed here ? My guess: Kevin Brewton (sp?) from Garfield.