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Lol. I'll bet no one's ever said that about you before, eh, Zipmeister?

RUMPLEMINTZ is usually quite humorous, and, as is the case with our beloved Zipmeister, you can't really take anything he says very seriously. However, RUMPLEMINTZ was quite off the mark in this case.I always look forward to STZ's commentary. And if a passionate Zips fan can't call the Zips' coach an idiot on a Zips sportstalk forum, who on earth can and where on earth can you?!I know ZNO members would never call a student athlete an idiot (except for incredibly well-deserving cases such as Jacq's) but the coaching staff is more than fair game for our angst and criticism.I think JD seems like a great guy. However, as head coach at UA the handwriting is indeed on the wall. I won't feel sorry for him though. He'll be employed somewhere next year making around 5x what I do. Lol.

I voted 10,000. From a previous ZNO posting (so I don't know how credible the infomation is) I hear that the city is leaning toward an 8,000-seat arena. Also, the new downtown Toledo facility which the U recently toured is an 8,000-seat structure. BUT... I think we should aim higher than that. I hope UA goes at the new arena with the same mindset with which they built the Info. The Info is not a MAC stadium and I don't think our new basketball facility should be a typical MAC arena either.The arena that O-Sports designed is a 12,000-seat structure. O-Sports Akron Arena Link(click "indoor" and then click "akron arena")Go Zips!Btw, as I designed the poll, I figured that the majority of the votes would be for B,C or D. But I added options A and F as buffers. And they very well could be viable options. We may have some ZNO members who would vote for an amazingly plush, cutting edge, all-the-bells-&-whistles 6,500 seat arena that we could regularly fill to capacity. As well, we may have some ZNO members who would say, hey, if we're gonna build an arena, let's shoot for the stars with a 15,000-seat structure.

Again, it's always fun and enlightening if everyone pitches in their $0.02 as to why they voted as they did.

<br />Exactly, Rasor mentioned rumors of two additional visitors. If those visitors were there, this was a very big excursion.<br /><br />Here's hoping it all works out... Playing at the First Energy "Power House" doesn't sound too bad to me.<br /><br /> <img src="style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="cheers.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="cheers.gif" /><br /><br /><br /><br />Oooh, The First Energy Arena, a.k.a. The "Power House"! I like that a lot!!!

Lol. Those are some BIG, BIG changes, alright! Lol.The headline in today's Beacon says, "Zips try out new stategy to prepare for Bobcats". Whatever. JD's merely talking about "good-on-good" practices, which JD's been talking about and implementing for at least a couple years now.I'm afraid JD just doesn't have anything left up his sleeve.

I think the handwriting is on the wall. I don't think there's anything JD can do to keep the job after this season. The ONLY chance he's got is if we sweep the MAC East, play in the MACC game and a bowl game.IMHO I don't see this happening. Tough, tough year.

How rowdy were the Rowdies and how pro-UA was the crowd? Were there any pro-Columbus State d-bags there?

1. I remember the poster who gave us the inside scoop about Jacq before it hit the papers also mentioned MR was struggling with his throwing shoulder. So we should remember that.2. Could you post a roster for Club Baseball? I played @ Green and, just out of curiosity, I wanted to see where you guys played high school ball.

Have we figured out where this scholly is coming from?

Willie is a GA coach? Is this new news? I hadn't heard it before.

I would greatly prefer somewhere downtown. I'm still hoping downtown becomes a destination on gamedays.

<br /><br />That's a great idea, no way am i going to the Barley House though. I say the OBC or cleats in Fairlawn (pretty big place, a friendly to Zips fans owner). Any other suggestions?<br /><br />saddly OBC is no longer there and my inside sorce says they probably will not be opening up another bar. what we need to do is find one place for ALL zips fans insted of getting one for the rowdys one for the oldys and one for ZN I hear that tap house on waterloo has a good following of zips faithfull<br /><br /><br /><br />Zipseuph, What are you talking about that the OBC may not be opening another bar? I thought they were moving to the Kaiser Building down the street?

I'm still here @ the Barley House. Actually, I find myself not as ticked off as I normally would be abot the Columbus State rah-rah. They did have the Zips game on over the house speakers until the game got laughably out of hand - which was only about midway through the 2nd quarter. I think I'm just so stunned and numb about the crap this season has turned into that I find it hard to care anymore, or to currently blame any other Akronites for not caring about the HOME team I love.Well, the Zips did just score again - only down by 20 now. pathetic still.Human beings love to be associated with a winner... and we suck.

Is there an official watch party location for the game tomorrow? Anyone planning on going to the Barley House? (presently my plan w/ a couple friends)

The announcers gave Akron a TON of good pub tonight.D'Orazio looked pretty good! Very good athlete, that's for sure.

Just a reminder to everyone that Zips QB recruit Zach D'Orazio of Cuyahoga Heights will be on tv tonight. 7:00 on FSN.

PB1719, that is by far the most intricately detailed prediction I've ever seen! Lol

The short answer is no.As of right now we had two scholarships to offer for 2010 (due to the graduation of C.McKnight and Conyers). Both of those scholarships have verbal commitments attached to them (Egner and Green). If I'm thinking correctly in order to pick up Euton we would either have to rescind an offer to one of those two or we would have to have another player leave the program. I suppose it is possible that one of our guards would look to transfer out. We do have a log-jam at the guard spots right now and it wouldn't be a total surprise if one of the talented youngsters saw the writing on the wall as far as playing time. The other possibility I could think of would be if Daryl Roberts isn't granted or doesn't want (his commitment to the program has been a question in the past) his extra year of eligibility for '10-'11. I think that goes over about everything. Hope it helps.And the scholly opened up due to Andrew Parrish transferring?...[edit] Ah, I should have read a bit further down. I guess Roberts got the scholly vacated by Parrish?

I hope this is true. And it's about time. Though AA has an NFL body, he just isn't himself yet (anymore?). Too bad Dale Martin is apparently injury prone; he looked like the most explosive back of them all.Go DeVo! Put your head down and run hard! We need some more testosterone in our offense!

Well if he can improve his unathleticness by 20% within the next 30 days I will consider not recommending that we revoke the scholarship offer.You really think UA couldn't use a guy who was recruited by the most talent-laden team in the entire country? Really? I think CraftyMFer has a much more realistic view of what Euton would bring to the table for us.Zipmeister's only joking.

WOW! Dude, you are an EXCELLENT photographer! Serious props.

I hope you're right about that.

If you're a masochist, ESPNU is replaying the Indiana game tonight @ 11:00. Ouch.

Hmm. Did the transfer of Andrew Parrish open up a scholly?I hope he got to meet LeBron!