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...there has to be some mega-athletic HS QB that BCS schools are slotting to be a safety or WR...but who really wants to be a college QB. These kinds of kids have a great chance to be successful in the MAC.
Josh Cribbs & Julian Edelman.
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Randy Aerhart of the Ripper Owens Tap House owned Dr. Feelgoods....this all feels like deja vu to me.
I'm hoping it will be some sort of retail on that corner. I have to imagine a Chipotle on that corner would be a license to print money. With a bar on one side (stay open late) and a head shop on the other they might need their own bank to house all the cash.
I've got my fingers crossed for a Chipotle. Though I also think a Chipotle would do booming business down in the E. Exchange apartments, but no one with the money to make money has placed one there yet.
Weren't there plans floating around for approximately that area featuring a red-brick apartment building w/ retail shops @ street level? I believe the plans were announced before the housing bubble popped and in conjuncture w/ the Spicer Townhomes. The developers weren't able to sell any townhomes (housing bubble) but I think it's been more than proven that, in the University Park area, there is a greater demand for, than current supply of, quality rental units.
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VOTE DAILY
Thanks for the reminder. Just voted again.
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The point we all have to keep in mind is that if they don't get asked we have become irrelevant as well as pathetic.
Well said.
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...Or building a mansion around a moldy pile of turd...
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HALLELUJAH!!! That place drew the riff-raff from all over town. It was like flies to sh*t.
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My favorite OSUcks fan response is, "You have to like all ohio teams. They represent Ohio." I just don't answer. I just look at them like "how many years were you in kindergarden?" I myself am a diehard Zips fan, then a Michigan fan. My mom is from Michigan, but I like them more because I want to piss people off. It works. Haha. OSUcks fans just tick me off. Oh well. Gotta love our Zippers! GO ZIPS!
Good man. 99% of OSU fans are bandwaggon jumping lemmings. If they say, "I'm not a lemming, I like them because I live in Ohio," simply ask them, "Oh, really? Well just how many Ohio University shirts do you own?"
Morons.
Gotta be a real fan to be a Zips' fan, baby. Being a Zips' fan ain't for wimps.
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The Zips take on the Huskies of NIU Saturday at 4:00. This is always a hard-fought battle and I don't think that will change this time around. NIU plays to the level of competition, whether that's a top 5 team or a low-level patsy which makes them wildly inconsistent but potentially dangerous.
We'll be short-handed for this match. Ampai will be sitting out due to an injury. He will be back for the game at Penn State on Wednesday.
Anyone know who'll cover Ampai's spot in the starting lineup?
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Too bad. I thought Giorgio looked like the real deal. Actually, when Erik Howard decommitted, I couldn't have cared less because Giorgio looked like a much more explosive back than Erik. Tyson Gulley relegated Erik to the bench during the Ohio North-South All-Star Game & I though Giorgio looked like a more complete back than Tyson.
I wish Giorgio good luck. I hope we don't see him @ another MAC school.
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I'm embarrassed and upset. I organized a group outing to the game last night. Am I an idiot, or what?! We had a nice group of around 30-some. 30-SOME POOR PEOPLE WHO TRUSTED ME FOR A FUN EVENING!!! It couldn't have been worse. I doubt any of the folks who attended will ever want to give the Zips another chance. It was as bad as one could possibly imagine. Not only is the team absolutely horrible, but extremely boring as well. The weather was awful. Honestly, I don't think I'm going to invite anyone to another Zips game for a long time. At least the rest of this year. Maybe not next year either. I was embarrassed and felt like a fool. I'm so numb I'm not even bothered by front-runners being Columbus State fans right now. They may be the only sane folks among us.
I'm planning on inviting a few people to the Buffalo and Michigan soccer matches. But I'm absolutely done with pimping UA football for a very, very long time.
A few weeks ago there was another thread about those who are brave enough to hit games solo. I'm fortunate enough to have two friends who aren't necessarly big Zips fans, but just like football for football's sake. We generally hit the games. But if they're "busy," well, for me, it's that time of year again.
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Blue and Gold Notre Dame hasn't been a team people fear for like 15 years. Why should Kelley be able to do what Davie, O'Leary, Willingham and Weiss haven't. I'd love to play Notre Dame. I'd love to play Notre Dame in 2012.
I'm just thinking Kelley (sp?) will restore them to glory. He may not. Who knows? You're probably spot-on. I'm probably just showing my age with still thinking of ND as being or possibly being a premier national power.
Should Florida State be on the ACC list? Man, what's happened to them? They were also a (THE?) dominant national power during my formative college football years.
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I previously posted that the BCS - Non-BCS dichotomy is a false one, or at least way overblown; that there are really only perhaps 20-ish traditional programs I'd be afraid of scheduling, year-in-and-year-out, if the Zips were any good at all.
Unfortunately, when I look @ the conference breakdowns, the Big 10 has more teams I'd try to avoid than any other conference, SEC included.
Here are the only BCS teams I'd be extremely hesitant to schedule if I were non-BCS. (Note that all the other BCS schools generally get destroyed by these select few teams too.)
Big 10:
1. Columbus State
2. Michigan (I'm assuming Rich Rod is going to restore them to national prominence)
3. Iowa
4. Wisky
5. Penn State (why do we love to schedule these guys?)
6. Nebraska (I know, I know, I'm one year ahead of myself)
*A top-tier MAC team competes @ the same level as the rest of the Big 10
SEC:
1. Florida
2. Tennessee
3. Georgia
4. LSU
5. Alabama
*A top-tier MAC team competes @ the same level as the rest of the SEC
ACC:
1. Miami
2. Virginia Tech
*A top-tier MAC team competes @ the same level as the rest of the ACC
Big 12:
1. Texas
2. Oklahoma
*A top-tier MAC team competes @ the same level as the rest of the Big 12
Big East:
none
Pac-10:
1. USC
2. Oregon
*A top-tier MAC team competes @ the same level as the rest of the Pac-10
Independant:
1. Notre Dame (Again, I'm assuming Kelley is going to take the Irish back to national prominence.)
Please spare me the exceptions which prove the rule. This is based on tradition, or an average year, or year-in-year-out, whatever you like to call it. (I know Stanford is having a great year, Cal had a great run for about 5 or 6 years in a row; Missouri had a good 3-year stretch, etc., etc.)
So that's it, folks. If the Zips were even a mediocre D-1 team I'd be amped about playing any BCS school not listed above (as the Zips stand presently, we get beat by IAA's.)
So, how many programs are on the list? 18. There's not even 20 BCS schools on the elite list. The dichotomy is not between BCS - non-BCS. The dichotomy is between these 18 schools and all the rest.
*Of course, I should clarify, that by "top-tier MAC school" I basically mean the best 1 or 2 teams in the league. Lol.
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Get out of your hotel and head down to Penn Ave, go to Rolands, great beer selection. When your done there continue down the strip, you can't go wrong with bars down there. If your hungry, go to Primanti Brothers, if you like sushi, to to the sushi bar at the Westin. If you need to do something spiritual, go to The Church, also close by.Sitting in my hotel room outside of poopsburghThe Strip Distict is great. If you've got the time, just walk around and pop into different joints & check them out.
And, of course, on the south side of downtown, take a ride up the Duquesne Incline if you can.
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I really only like scheduling a 1-AA if it's for the season opener. It's an easy win (
) and essentially serves as a "Fan Fest" scrimmage to get the team prepared for the rest of the D-1's. Many of the Top 20 programs do this, so I don't think there's any reason the rest of the D-1's shouldn't. It's fun for the Un-Top-20's to assert dominance, if only for a week. -
Buckeye House? No thanks. Going to Tap House, they at least appreciate the Zips.
FYI. The Tap House has recently repainted the inside Red and Silver. I was stunned. I don't know when it happened, but it had to have happened in the last couple of weeks. That's the last time I try to go there to watch a Zips game.
When are we going to get a place again like the OBC?
from what I hear they are trying to open up in the merriman valley.
YES...and if they do they will have one customer that will be there at least once a week.
I love the valley and I hate the valley. I love the valley because I love everything Akron. But I hate the valley because it takes away from downtown. We need the OBC to open downtown within walking distance of UA & the Info. Downtown is the face of a community.
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but your recruiting slowly erodes when you don't win.
Football players want to win. They don't want to walk off the field into that locker room a loser.
If the wins come on the head of un-prestigious opponents, that's something slightly more nuanced to deal with.
Talented players (just like all players) want to go somewhere and be apart of something great and something fun.
It's no significant consolation when someone is recruiting you for a mid-major that has a consistently losing record to have them tell you that they are playing more BCS teams than the other guy who is winning.
Over-scheduling is a good thing if you overschedule within reason.
Get the winning started first... even if you have to underschedule first to do that.
When the ball is rolling, then set the bar higher.
And on the other hand, this is good perspective. Basically KD's strategy for b-ball scheduling.
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On the one hand:
Screw the BCS - non-BCS dichotomy. Most of the BCS schools play at about the same level as the upper tier MAC schools. There are really only about 20 BCS programs we should avoid playing. I, and everyone else could list them off the tops of our heads. We all know who the perennial Top 20 programs are. Penn State and Ohio State happen to be on that list - and for some reason we've been real fond of scheduling those two teams lately.
'Cuse, Kentucky & Indiana ain't on the list. They suck. We just rrrrrreeeeeaaaaaalllllllyyyyyyy suck.
If we even had a mediocre team we'd probably be sitting at 3-1 right now.
Unfortunately, we may be the 3rd worst team in all of D-1 ball. (Ahead of only EMU & WKU.)
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AA seems to OFTEN trip up before he even hits the line of scrimmage.
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I'm probably taking two friends down to the Barley House for the game. Anyone else going? Will there be a better Zips destination?
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Ennis verballed to the zips at some point in time and then backed up after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty. I thought that this was worth mentionning.
What do you mean by, "after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty,"?
Sullivan wasn't quite good enough to get any PT.
Steward was, very unfortunately, chronically injury-prone.
Humpty was a good player and received a lot of PT.
The fans were strongly supportive of all three.
Could you please flesh-out your observation?
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I hate to admit this before I've even seen the team play their first exhibition game, but I'm already more excited about next year than I am about this one.
And concerning the topic of this thread: KD's a great guy. Ethical. Hard-working. Intelligent. Energetic. Passionate. Bleeds Akron blue & gold. We couldn't do any better than KD.
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If you take part in the march you should be fine. At Northridge we had 1850 so im figuring about the same
I know our football team sucks - basically always has. But I'm continually amazed/disappointed that we can't get numbers like this out to the JAR for men's basketball.
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DT Demetrius Conwell.
I'm dating myself with that one. This name goes back to when I began closely following Zips recruiting.
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Can EJ Lilly get the other RB spot? Or should it be Christian Morgan?
There's room for all. We can have a depth chart.
E.J. Lilly & Christian Morgan! Yessss! Those are classics! I was completely amped when we signed both of those guys.
How about the 3-Time Mr. Football candidate RB from Ravenna? Wasn't his name Marcus Sanders? Ran for like 4,000 yards his senior year. He may have gotten 3 carries for us during his career.
Football is so pathetic
in Akron Zips Football
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I'll preface my two-cent contribution by saying that I have el-cheap-o GA seats, which means I sit in the upper deck behind the visiting team. Thus, I don't have a close enough view of the Zips' sideline to really get a read on iCoach.
But having said that, I don't think having a reserved personality should be a problem. Duke's Coach K comes to mind. Even (I hate to even type the name) Jim Tressel. I don't think anyone would classify either of these two as "Ra-Ra" kind of guys.
Anyway, shouldn't the players' own sense of self-pride be their primary motivating factor? I know it was for me. I never needed a coach screaming, "Try harder, you bonehead" at me. In fact, I always responded better to reserved, teaching-type coaches, than "I'll-yell-and-spit-at-anything-that-moves" coaches.
I'd much rather have a cool, calm, collected coach, simply teaching me the game and explaining my mistakes to me so I won't do them again, than having an overly emotional bafoon prowling the sidelines.
But that was me. I was a pretty self-motivated athlete (and, if I do say so myself, more intelligent than your average athlete
, I know) so I didn't need anyone screaming at me. In fact, in my case, a yelling coach was always counter-productive. I was always my own worst critic and the last thing in the world I needed was a coach berating me. I felt bad enough if I had made a mistake to let down the team. I wanted (needed) someone to teach me & actually remind me that my mistake wasn't the end of civilization as we know it, and then, I would rarely make the same mistake twice. I've never, ever liked playing for the Bobby Knight kind of coach. But I have seen where that kind of coach is necessary when you're dealing with true boneheads that otherwise don't seem to be paying attention to what is going on, or even able to absorb what is being taught.
Idk. I just think that generally cooler heads prevail, and a more reserved, analytical, teaching coach can be a stabilizing presence on a sideline (e.g., again, Jim Tressel
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