ZipAlumn

i enjoyed your post spike1057. It is nice to get the opinion of somebody outside the Akron community, especially when it is well thought out.

Why would anyone come to the JAR and play in front of 3,000 people. Of course it isn't a home game, but that is the cost of being a low level mid major.If KD wants to continue to schedule the junk he is for home games, he shouldn't complain in post game interviews that nobody goes to the game.I'll say it again, let the players see how good they are. Play one or two bigger teams. The program isn't going to fall apart because of those games.First obviously a game in the Gund is by no strength of the imagination a "home game". Next if only 3,000 show up for a game at the JAR, why would there be more fans at a game in Cleveland?

Maybe you are right, as we had 26 wins last year and got no nods, but I am doubting it. I think we get Diss'd no matter what we do. Screw it. We gotta win the MAC tourney. The rest is politicsIf I remember from last year our RPI and Strength of Schedule wasn't all that bad. With 26 wins and most of them in the MAC we still got screwed. I don't think our RPI or Strength of Schedule hurts us as much as being in the MAC - a conference that gets no respect in basketball, but does better in football. Go figure .........

Pete Beg did indeed attend the University of Akron in the mid 60's and he did play basketball for them. In fact I think that he was Captain in his senior year. I know, I was there, and I knew Pete.

Nevermind ... I've just learned that you should read something before you jump into the pit. The vote totals are meant to be a surprise and the winner will be announced at halftime of the Capital One Bowl.

Can someone tell me why they are not showing the vote totals this week for the finals. That seems to put a damper on the excitement generated during the course of the week.

If you read the "Reader's Forum" regularly you will notice that there is contempt for almost everything in Akron and the area. Police, government, downtown development, suburban malls, ladies hats and dogs on a leash. They even hate other posters in this forum. And in reading these comments you come to the immediate conclusion that most of these people have I.Q.'s in the single digits. People used to say that half the population of Akron was made up of escapees from West Virginia, however you might think that is a very big slander against West Virginia if you read these posts.

Excellent Post uakronkid ....... very informative. Thanks.

Okay, I give. What the double H-e-c-k is the news??? The news is that the State, County, and City are giving Goodyear tons of money to stay in Akron. The money could be better spent by hiring Terminx to get rid of those spiders in the polymer building, except the Beacon never wrote a story about them and nobody even knew they were there and harrassing Goodyear. This entire mess should never have happened except the Deputy Mayor in charge of "Things That Could Go Wrong" turns out to be a Can't State graduate, and a good friend of Lee Owens.

I can't believe it ..... this forum is just plain bullshit. One day the posters are saying that KD is the second coming of Christ, the team is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and the town and campus suck canal water for not filling the JAR.After one road loss it's now the team is made up of a bunch of chokers, only and idiot would show up at the JAR to watch a game, and KD should watch out for fans with a tar bucket and carrying a rail. When it comes to consistency some people are consistently idiots. :mad_flame: :gun: :mad_flame:

I realize that it is a matter of what you are worth in comparison to others in your field, but a quarter of a million dollars a year is good money in anyones book. I realize that you can't compare pay ranges across job descriptions, but I know many business people that have as much or more responsibility than a football coach that don't make $250,000 a year. I understand capitalism and getting what he market will bear, but still a quarter of a million a year isn't dog food.

JD Brookhart was scheduled to speak at the HOF Luncheon in Canton, but took a raincheck due to recruiting. Mack Rhodes spoke in his place and talked about the new stadium's already increased costs, but the Beacon Journal didn't see fit to cover it, only the Canton Repository:http://cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=389939&a...ubCategoryID=30Cedric Middleton was named MAC "Player of the Week" but I didn't see that in the Beacon Journal either .... only the Canton Repository:http://cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=17...ubCategoryID=30Maybe we should move the campus to Canton and rename it the University of Canton. We would probably get better community recognition. :rofl:

I believe that you are being too hard on the Athletic Dept., after all they only have six people in Marketing Department and five in the Media Relations Dept. Wait a minute ... if I remember correctly the national company I worked for (that was 2nd in market share nationally) only had four people in Marketing and two in Media Relations. Wonder how they did it .................

First, the Beacon Journal doesn't seem to promote any Akron sports team outside of high school. The "long gone" Terry Pluto replied to an email of mine that he rarely got feedback on articles he wrote about the Zips ... so there must be no interest in them.Second, I strongly feel that "free tickets" is NOT the answer, and will only encourage the Athletic Department to continue to take the easy or lazy approach to attendance in any sport be it football, basketball, or soccer. I could be wrong but part of the reason the JAR looks so empty is that "free tickets" in the lower reserved section are given to business sponsors in the community and they are rarely used. I know that in the past sometimes I got "free tickets" (four of them) from Skye Bank, and when I didn't get them the seats were usually empty. If you are given "free tickets" it is all too easy for the sponsor to forget about a game because they had a hard time finding someone to give the tickets to. Also if you get "free tickets" it is too easy to blow off a game because it's Aunt Millie's Birthday, and the tikets didn't cost you anything. :nono: :nono:

Somehow I can't get too excited about 2009 football tickets when I can't even buy single game reserve seats for basketball in February. I was told that they only go on sale one month ahead. What gives, and when did this start .... it wasn't that way last year.

I had graduated by the time this happened and the only thing I remember (vaguely) was what was printed in the Beacon, so I have a faulty memory at best. What I thought was that the Akron Basketball Coach had given money or provided "fringe benefits" to some players and recruits during the early 80's. Someone on the team (I thought it was Jakubic but maybe I am wrong) went to the NCAA and the team was put on suspension. If I remember correctly the Beacon implied that there was something strange about the whole affair. Anyone know the real story?

If memory serves me Joe Jakubic never met a shot he didn't like ... or take. He was a gunner on some very bad Akron teams. He never did impress me when he played or afterward when he blew the whistle on the Zips program.

The Lady Zips lost to Utah Friday 71-60. For the season they are 3-3. This isn't great, but the team is very young (freshmen and sophomores playing lots of minutes) and the signing class announced Saturday seems to be a good one. What I especially like is that, unlike recent years they haven't been blown out of any game yet. I think that after one year Coach Kest has put together team that is competitive, something that has been missing in past years.Congratulations and Good Luck! :wave: :thumb: :rock: :thumb: :wave:

I agree that the dorm students would turn handstands on Mill Street waiting for those buses. What I am saying is that with the vast majority of students being "commuters", parking is a priority with them and thus should be with the university. I have changed my perspective over the years ... back when I lived in the residence halls (without a car), and read in the Buchtelite about the parking problem I used to laugh and say "screw 'em". Now with more gray in my hair and less rum in my belly I understand that this is a problem that can only be solved by pouring loads on money into parking lots instead of buildings, dorms, and salary increases, etc.

I don't know if a shuttle bus will solve the parking problem at the university. It works better at Can't because the vast majority of the students live in the dorms and don't have cars on campus. The University of Akron is, was, and will be a "commuter college" and all those commuters need parking, whether on campus or off. Parking has always been a problem at the university, even back in the "horse & buggy days" when I attended.

I don't see a problem with going for two on the last TD. It made no difference if we had made the two or missed it (as we did) in the final score. I have questioned Brookhart's reasoning at times, but I am not at the point where everything he does is wrong. The quarterback situation is a problem, neither CJ11 or CJ17 is the answer at this time. This loss, as with last week's loss to Miami, is representative of our entire season.

This is an amazing statistic. Not in that we give up the rebounds........it's amazing in that somebody actually tabulates the statistic. Coming in last in the freaking country is just nonsense. Getting that rebound should be a given.I saw Charlie Coles once take out a kid for missing a free throw and yelled at him for missing it for a minute or two. In the past, KD has worried a lot about defense. He should start punishing players for not putting the little orange ball through the orange ring at critical points in the game.With the understanding that it was high school basketball and twenty million years ago, the best practice I've ever heard of was the one we had to go through every practice. During a practice scrimmage if someone missed a free throw, they moved down to the 2nd team for a while. If they were on the 2nd team they sat out for a while. At the end of practice (when everyone was dead tired) we had to shoot 20 free throws and for every one we missed we had to run a couple laps. As a team we had something between 80-85% free throw average.

I said the same thing a whole bunch of time last year .... free throws are going to kill us if we don't start making them. The Zips won a squeaker of a game that shouldn't even have been close. :unsure:

Did we both watch the same game? There were more people with red shirts in our backfield than Custer saw Indians at Little Big Horn.

WR is a concern, but QB it what makes the whole thing "work." We can live with serviceable WR's. But in the MAC, you need a stud QB to win. If we had Nate Davis, we'd be, worst case, 7-4 right now. QB makes that big a difference in the MAC.Quarterback is a problem ... having only one guy who can catch a pass is a problem ... but I feel that the biggest problem is the offensive line (or lack of one). Defence looks good though.