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Student: "I have last years shirt on, I work full time in Canton, live in Akron and am a full-time grad student. I didnt get an e-mail about a meeting and assumed that the shirts were the same this year. Can I pick my shirt up now?"President (after calling "officer" on cell phone and telling my friend to leave from across the gym): "No, sorry, you'll need to leave. We can set up a time to pick up your shirt next week and you can sit down here for the St Francis game."Me: Don't you want to want the section to be full? He's been watching Zips basketball games from these seats since his first year of undergrad 6 years ago."Pres: No, sorry. You have to have the right shirt on and we dont have any right now.and yes I will ruffle feathers. I like the idea for this to be a student run group (it is students after all), but this is a Divsion I college team, not a high school. Give me a break, and if they were "trying their hardest" they wouldve been at least reasonable.

Best part is that they turn off and put paper over the pop machines that sell those same 20oz pops for $1.25 every other time of the day except for game time.And if we had beaten UALR and gotten past Texas Tech...we surely would've lost to Marquette or Duke. Even I, forever the optimist, would concede those games, especially with how poorly we played UALR. One loss is one loss...and there's never a better time to have one than the first game of the season.GO ZIPS!

Yup. That same meeting mentioned that if all the seats at both ends werent filled 20 MINUTES before tip-off that students attending and sitting topside would be invited to take those seats. My friend was removed 18 minutes before tip-off. And we ended up with 30+ empty seats and a few pissed off members. And yes, someone is wrong. Once that demand is there, I wholly support removing those who arent participating (i.e. game vs. Can't last year that had several ladies that were apparently waiting outside some 3 hours to go to their one game of the season and promptly planted their behinds in seats for the entire game). BUT WHEN YOU CAN'T FILL THE WHOLE SECTION IN THE FIRST PLACE, WE SHOULDN'T BE REMOVING PEOPLE. Give me a break...maybe some one could've at least had a full roster, if not extra t-shirts. It was the first "real" game of the year and he simply got a "get out now."

55% today...holding strong. GO ZIPS!

Observations:WSSU defense was tough. Played what seemed to be a hybrid of a 2-3 and man-to-man most of the time. gave us fits inside and lead to a LOT of ill-advised outside shots.Ced's half-court shot at the buzzer of the first half won the game for us. Instead of down 1, we were up two. This team could've beaten the zips tonight.Sitting with the AK-Rowdies for my last season, I was impressed with the involvement. I'm in my 7th year at Akron (finally getting my degree after 5 years of part-time) and I've seen the progression from the "pouch" (me and 5 other people) to this year's rowdies (75% full for a nothing game). It makes me happy to see the student support that I wish was there a few years back.That being said, I'd like to vent here over some idiocy over what is now apparently a completely student-run group. I had a good friend of mine get booted from the student section because he wasnt wearing THIS YEARS Ak-Rowdies shirt. That's right, a 5 year engineering student and now grad student and AK-Rowdy who didnt have time to pick up his shirt prior to the game (full time work and full time school make it kind of hard) was removed from the section by the student "president." Now maybe it's just me, but shouldnt we be making sure the section is at least full before booting people? It sure was nice to see those 30+ empty seats down low while my friend was sitting at home, angry at the entire athletics department because of one little big-headed "fan."Sorry bout that, but that got to me. Good game Zips, hope to not see you against St Francis, "PREZ."

I'll be sittin low and yelling loud. And rooting for the 100 point performance. Let's Go Zips!My prediction:Zips 99WSSU 51Nick Goddard hits one at the buzzer but steps on the line with one foot, negating chalupas for all. Oh wait, we dont do that.

plus side...we only play cross over teams every other year...and we played em this year. So that means only one more matchup, barring those future epic mac championship matchups.

They are...and a reasonably decent low-major from the America East, just not MAC caliber. Frenchy commented many times on the difference in physicality between the conference. Apparently there is also a LARGE talent difference as well. GO ZIPS.

we pay him enough. i think it's time he gives back.

90-55 Final 5-1 (dang that loss vs UALR hurts).

84-46 Zips....and you mean Saturday!!!

68-38 almost garbage time...

looking good. completely overmatching a decent team on the road. I cant wait for saturday!

wow...this is nice. can we get one of these for home games?!?!

hey ZipAnalyst...where'd you get those stats?

america east refs. dont want their conference to be too embarrassed by this floor wiping.

this is getting ugly...25-7 zips.

foul on dials. two fts. 10-2 zips.

Druuuuuuuuuuuu for three. 10-0 zips.

7-0 zips, timeout BU. 2:30 in.

5-0 zips. linhart 3, wood layup from dials

here comes the tip! GO ZIPS!

INTERESTING RESULT FROM TONIGHThmmm...maybe we shouldnt look ahead to nevada...

Ditto...I'm the biggest zips fan out there, ask any of my friends or co-workers, and I'd like to raise a rousing...GO BUCKS!!!!

just guessing here...but there's probably not much competition out there in montana for "things to do.