zippy5

Try telling Texas and OSU that they get 3 less home games worth of revenue a year

I'm enjoying the fact that your personalized ad on the right is for OSU gear

The sad part is, 600 plus likes, it's probably the most interest they'll get on a post this year. Or decade. Whatever

The what can we do thread.. Almost makes you wonder IF you can do anything, not what you can do when our own athletic department has this mentality. Makes me sick

The official Akron Zips Facebook group has a graphic from the athletic department wishing OSU good luck. Just, ugh.

We did for multiple games 2 years ago. Although I've been told winning won't bring more fans in

Keep in mind the C-USA a lot of members are pulling for would include UT and OU, so imagine the RPI rankings of a UA, OU, and UT-less MAC vs a C-USA that includes those 3.

Eww

I'm betting on UA. CMU just won at Toledo and no one in the MAC beats UA if they play like Tuesday night.

Not gonna lie, it takes a little fun OUt of it when OU fans actually admit they aren't that good.

Since it appears zipmeister may be taking a break, I'll do the honors and have you know the rest of us also stand and sit during the entire game. Hope you feel more comfortable sitting with her in light of these facts.

isn't that GoZips?

KD with a little swagger in the post game presser. "When the Akron Zips come to town, you're getting their best shot." said Toledo might not have been up for CMU but definitely will be for the Zips. I like it.

I don't think anyone really thinks the schedule as a whole is that bad. The main complaint, or mine at least, is the home cupcake lineup.

That 2011 VCU game.. just ugh. Prime example of that.

That's pretty par for the course, I wouldn't read too much into it.

I consider myself about as big of a sports fan there is, and I had no idea that was true. I'm just trying to think as a casual fan.. Dave's "big" home games, Nevada, Temple, VCU pre-final four run, I'm not sure a casual fan would really hear those names and call the box office for tickets. We realize those are awesome games to have at home, just as Dayton was (DiG, what was the attendance for that one?).. But I think the casual fans would show up in more numbers vs say, Penn State at home, regardless of how much worse they are on the court than the above mentioned teams.

I'm not sure I'd call Temple a "name" team

It's not just the shitty facility. It's the shitty facility, a shitty home schedule and a shitty game day atmosphere. Fix one or two of those and I do think attendance would be pretty decent. As it is, it's a perfect storm of mediocre attendance.

All of the millions

If it's done in stages, I wouldn't expect the whole thing to get finished by the time a new arena is announced. Who knows though.

The downtown arena wasn't being funded by UA.

If you're taking out 38, you might as well take out 70? These are millions.. 32 extra million dollars. You say it like it's nothing. I'm assuming the new JAR will have some luxury options, really the only way to bring in extra revenue. Use that to start saving for a new arena. As far as I can tell, the options are A) renovated JAR or B.) do nothing. I don't really see a new arena as an option now, or I'd be all for it. I understand this is lipstick on a pig, but I suppose it beats the pig we have.

I would say it's like a 25 year old buying a 100K house to start out instead of a 250K home. They can only do what they can afford.

Down payment? You think they're paying this in cash?