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Who would have thought that the first WCAL team to win a state title would be Norwayne? Figured Waynedale, Dalton, and yes even Smithville (Waynedale grad so that hurt to say) are historically the flag ship teams and places like Norwayne are just there to fill the conference. For those of you that are fans of the WCAL I hear my Golden Bears are gonna be a team to watch over these next few years. This years eighth grade class has been undefeated throughout Junior High and the Waynedale coach (a grad of not only Waynedale but also our Universirty of Akron) Matt Zuercher is very excited to work with them. Just out of curiosity do any of you remember watching Matt Zuercher play? he was here slightly before my time and I am curious to hear the thoughts of people who watched him at the college level.

To be fair there was no chance of Tressel ever coaching Akron. It was more of wishful thinking, and when I said that last week everyone flipped out and didn't believe me. Well... But LeCharles doesn't sit well with me. I was happy when the Browns picked him up, but there were plenty of things that have happened since I don't agree with. Just the fact he's an OSU fan or do you have an actual legit reason?

Gee Root, where should we go for all our Akron Sports information?

This has nothing to do with realism. There are several people who have shared the idea of this not being realistic, but they've done it without saying things like "we don't deserve Tressel"

What's the point about getting excited about something that never had a chance at happening? It's not about deserving Tressel. It's about it being impossible to get that kind of name at Akron. If you want to waste your time going after coaches that don't want to come here fine. I'm glad Tressel is an adviser on this. Do we deserve a Tressel? NO! The MAC is at the bottom of FBS football. We pay $300,000 for our coach where the average in the MAC is $478,000. The national average is $1.38 million. We're also coming off of back to back 1-11 seasons. So no, we don't deserve Tressel, who while at OSU was one of the top 5 coaches in the entire country. If you can't get behind this then you need to go ahead and GTFO. Yes, we deserve a Tressel. This University deserves the absolute best and I can't stand the people who think otherwise. If you are going to be one of those people who look at Akron as a second rate institute then I have no use for you and you might as well go ahead and go back to being one of the ZN.o members who read and keep quiet.

I'm happy to finally see our University not settling for second best. They tossed their hat in and went all out. Turns out we were right about all the talk and had every reason to get excited. Those puffing out your chests and bragging about how they new JT wasn't coming to Akron can go ahead and get over yourselves. At least we had something to get excited about and enjoyed doing it. Those of you getting short with JT need to grow up a little bit. We tried, he said no, now we move on. I think the thing that upset me about all the naysayers was the idea they had that we didn't deserve a Jim Tressel. Most of the naysayers on this board didn't have that attitude, but you found it with ease if you looked elsewhere.

You're just a tad late.

Ok, I can dig the kid going out with some friends and knocking back a few (honestly who amoungst us didn't drink under age) But to roll the dice doing it some place like the valley is stupid. Whats even more stupid is ganging up on a DJ after one of your friends decided to screw with his equipment (no doubt ranging in the thousands of $'s) If you're in college and want to get drunk go to a friends house, if you feel like taking the risk and going out then don't be stupid and keep your head down especially in the valley where they have police on stand by. It amazes me how little value these "student" athletes put on their free education.

Good to see you and I are on the same facebook page

I can live with JT turning down the job. What I couldn't live with would have been finding out that UA never even tossed in their hat.

no matter what happens, this has been a fun ride.

Ok, I can't help but bite. This does make some sense. If Tressel comes back he will have to face some sort of punishment (making him less attractive to some bigger schools. Lets say he signs on to Akron for 2 years and brings this mystery person with him. He gets his suspension out of the way here, helps build the program and teach Mr. Mystery the ropes for those 2 years and then is all of a sudden more attractive to bigger programs since his suspension is over. We get better attendance, recruits and our ship straightened and he gets his slate cleaned. Sounds like a win win if true. BUT!!! this is all speculation from a guy sitting behind his lap top trying to put the puzzle together.

+1 I'm just gonna sit back and wait for this all to sort it's self out. We can speculate, debate, and throw out "Sources" all we want but fact of the matter is no one is gonna know for sure until it happens.

It doesn't matter what you have done, it only matters what you will do. Tressel has no history of success beyond lying and cheating. Where is the evidence that lacking lying and cheating he will win at Akron? Again, he did NOTHING that had an impact on th game. Kids sold their personnal stuff and got other free things from people outside of the program (as is pretty much tradition at every other program in the country) NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING JT did had any effect on the game it's self. He didn't pay any kid to come to OSU, he didn't shoot kids up with roids, he didn't steal the other teams playbook, he didn't film the other teams practice.

Fickell Please!

But seriously. wealth, health, and happiness to him and his.

I choose to believe it had everything to do with it!

ooooohhhhhh I hope!

I find it rather ridiculous, yet unsurprising that we aren't hosting this one.

.................................... ouch

You are an IDIOT! EVERYONE who agrees are IDIOTS as well! You all are the type of fans that will only be satisfied . First you called for JD's head and you IDIOTS got your wish. Now 2 games in your calling for Coach I's head?? You're a joke, and a complete IDIOT, as a fan you are worthless and the University of Akron would be better off if you never came back to another sporting event! 90% of the people on the board know absolutely nothing about football or the inter-workings of a division 1 program. Yes that includes Captain K I am sick of reading all of the bs on this board. I am going to sit down tonight and school you idiots! Look at this response to InTheZone's original post. I haven't seen this guy around since. I still can't believe ITZ was so spot on right out of the gate. I'm truly impressed. Moral of the story, Don't screw with ITZ. People who do tend to go missing.

Sorry forgot to mention that this stat is points scored.

put this stat up once but I felt it needed updated. iCoach: 338 Every coach to ever coach against iCoach: 815................

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