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I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT ELMER SCHOCH ( FATHER OF ERIC SCHOCH-QB BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S) HAS PASSED ON TO ZIPPLY LAND IN THE SKY. HE WAS A HUGE ZIPS FAN!!!!! WERE GONNA MISS HIM.http://www.legacy.com/ohio/Obituaries.asp?...rsonId=88049744

I just got a call from an insider at McKinley-their kicker is a preferred walkon. I saw him kick alot and he is GOOD!! Good student too 4 pt or close and good family!! i think his name is Zach...??

Just wondering if this is still a David Harvey thread??????

Does anyone KNOW what the money split is for away BB games and home games? or "a home game on a nuetral court?"

I was at the banquet and Mack spent a few minutes talking about what 'we" had to do bothe the ZIPS and the MAC-didn't sound like any move was in the offing.

This is not reguarding the game but the lousy marketing. I got there about 20 minutes before 4 and they were out of the roster sheets. WTF is going on -I am really beginning to see the lousy job they do. I was at the BB banquet tonight and they announced the lady that is in charge-hope she gets on the ball!!!

I am also for a doomed stadium. In addition to all of the obvious reasons-it could be used a lot more to gererate much more revenue. And lets face facts they could alwys use the extra $$$$$$$$$$$$!

If he had the out in his contract-then his employers knew right up front. Then he exercises his right and gets bashed like this???? Not me-hope you do a great job Bob!

Looks like they paid big bucks to Heath to go to USF, so we don't have to worry about him and hip to BG

CONGRATS ROM-E-O!!!!!!!!

I have nothing negative to say-thought it was just great as it was!!

I agree with CK:UnderachievingUnderperformingNepotism-ladenUninspiredThe reason why he did so poorly late in the season is that he treated his players very poorly-that even includes his own sons. I heard a tirade once outside the locker room-I was standing outside smoking a cig. It was so bad I even emailed the ad about how foul and disgusting it was and I am not a prude.

I just saw that the NCAA was paid 6 BILLION $$$$ for the rights to telecast the tourney. Since the NCAA is a non profit where does that 5 bil$$$$$$ or so go to??? ( took out a small amt for exexc salaries)

Is it possible that Akron is choosing that schedule?? Think about it-- they make a bunch of $$$$$$$$ and from the looks of it they need it-if in fact football is a looser and they are building a new stadium. No need to bash me-just asking a question?

MADE MY POINT!!!!

Not a comparison just trying to make MY POINT.

"WHAT DOES IT ACCOMPLISH?" I am sure it cannot be proven but some of our emails to various media etc has gotten national exposure. It is what is needed to get this ugly thing to change and change in this case will be very good. Should we all get over 911 too?? I think not-we need to keep this ball rollin! Just my humble opinion.

A Star’s Supporting Cast Takes a Bitter Bow By HARVEY ARATONPublished: March 14, 2007There is no crueler way to lose a basketball season that was all about success than to have a desperation 3-point heave bank into the net, then find out that the clock started late and that there probably should not have been enough time to shoot it.Unforeseen and even inexplicable things happen in frantic sports competitions. Players get lucky. Human beings make mistakes. But how do disconsolate young people countenance life’s bad bounces and breaks when those with the power to provide a measure of compensation have no heart?First the N.C.A.A., not surprisingly, ignored the University of Akron as an undeserving midmajor. Then the N.I.T., in a sobering dismissal, lost the number it used to invite the Zips last year, when they won 23 games, three fewer than this season. By Sunday night, 24 hours after Doug Penno hit what he called “a gift from God” to give Miami of Ohio a 53-52 victory in the Mid-American Conference tournament final last Saturday in Cleveland, Akron had no postseason options and its coach, Keith Dambrot, had no idea what to say to his players.“It’s going to be one of my hardest jobs ever to bring these guys back,” he said in a telephone interview.Two of them, his only seniors, will not be back, at least not to play any more games. They are Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce III, and if they sound familiar, it is because they cut their competitive teeth in the court of the Akron King. They grew up with LeBron James and accompanied him to St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, where they played two years for Dambrot and later on national television for Joyce’s father, Dru II, all of them supporting actors in a production starring the prodigy.Except that James, great as he is, didn’t win three Ohio state championships by himself. While James went straight to the N.B.A. as the first pick of the 2003 draft, Travis, a 6-foot-7 forward, and Joyce, a willowy point guard, were plenty good enough to play in college.“They could have gone a lot of other places, but they chose to stay here and help build something in their hometown,” said Dambrot, another local boy and an Akron alumnus.It all seemed right, the perfect synergy, given the proximity of their good buddy LeBron in nearby Cleveland, his ability to drop in, run his clinics at the Akron gym.The program would prosper from the association, they all figured, and they were right. A year after Travis and Joyce signed, another Akron high school star, Jeremiah Wood, joined them. Dambrot, who had gone to Akron as an assistant, took over the program. The Zips won 19 games, then 23 last season, including a victory at Temple in the National Invitation Tournament.•This regular season, Dambrot’s team lost only six games, by a total of 20 points, and took the Mid-American East, the tougher division, with a victory at Can't State. Travis was the conference’s player of the year. Joyce had his best season running the point. They had won eight of nine games going into the conference tournament final.It wasn’t the King’s life, but LeBron’s boys were on their way to a taste of national acclaim until the surrender of a 10-point lead, the missed free throw on the front end of a one-and-one with 6.6 seconds left by Cedrick Middleton, the clock starting late, as replays revealed, and then the Penno “gift” with six-tenths of a second left.“Probably the greatest season in Akron history,” Dambrot said, “and then the worst 24 hours.”His father, Sid, played college basketball for Duquesne. His uncle Irwin captained the 1950 City College team that won the N.C.A.A. and N.I.T. titles but was tied to the 1951 game-fixing scandal. Keith Dambrot, who previously coached at Central Michigan before leaving the game for several years to sell stocks in Akron, has been around long enough to know the postseason tournament drill. He can give you compelling reasons why his team should be playing while acknowledging that every complaint has been made before.He isn’t the only coach in America feeling victimized this week, but every year there is one team we allow ourselves to bleed a little more for, the team upon which fate committed a foul, and a flagrant one at that.The selectors have their ratings and analyses, their bottom-line preference for the power conferences, but where is the humanity in the process? Didn’t the N.I.T. committee watch the Akron-Miami highlights on ESPN?“I’d like to hear what they would say to our kids,” said Dambrot, who understood the N.C.A.A. squeeze but was furious about the N.I.T. snub.

True the quality isn't good, but we'll never agree as to what can be on the products, so if someone with some art skills-sets it up I am sure it will sell some and some is better than nothing.

Can someone setup a cafe press site with some of the ideas that have been shown on here. Shirts with the "26" on em. Or givin the finger to the NIT etc.... I would be happy to buy some of that stuff!!!

I received your email in regards to ZipsLive. There will be a show this Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Winking Lizard. Right now we plan on having a men's assistant coach (Keith's out of town I believe), JD Brookhart and Jodi Kest on the show. Let me know if you have any other questions. GO ZIPS! Chad GerretyGeneral Sales Manager - Akron ISP Sports Network

I think it is pretty simple. If it was his job to get Akron into the tourney-he failed and he should simply GO. Quit or get fired!!!!!!

Great idea-I am in alogng with my 7 season ticket holders.

I DIFFER BUT... I LOVE THE ZIPS. I WILL NOT GET INTO ALL THE SECOND GUESSING AS HARD AS IT IS. I HAVE HAD TO FIGHT ALL NIGHT-FIGHT TO FIND ALL OF THE GOOD AND NOT DWELL ON THE 7 SECONDS. 26 WINS WOW!!!!!!!! GREAT COACH GREAT PLAYERS-WHY??? CAUSE THEY ARE JUST LIKE US-GRITTY DETERMINED AND WILL FIGHT THRU ALL ADVERSITY EVEN THIS-AS HARD AS IT IS TO SWALLOW RIGHT NOW. SWALLOW REALLY REALLY HARD-YEA SWALLOW HARD AND THANK EM-WE LOVE EM-THEY ARE US!!! THIS WILL MAKE US BETTER FANS AND CD A BETTER COACH AND THE PLAYERS BETTER PEOPLE. I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE.CONTINUE TO BLEED BLUE AND GOLD!! THANKS R-O-M-E-O THANKS DRU-THANKS TO REST OF YOU GUYS-I WILL NOT FORGET YOU!!! THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR

IT S OVER~~~