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oh and by the way...if you wanna talk frontrunner fans, it was amazing how many new Indian fans there were in the fall of 07 haha :lol:go stadium!

OMG I know...can the people that run this site do like they do with Can't=Can't, make Pittsburgh=Sh*tsburgh haha. Ok well I don't mean to go off topic but yes fair weather fans are the worst and Sh*tsburgh fans are the prime example. Growing up in Erie, PA I have see them come out of no where. Back when Kordell Stewart and Maddox ran that team you couldn't find a steelers fan anywhere, then all of a sudden they all show up with their die-hard lifetime obnoxious fan attitudes. Same with the penguins, a few years ago the team was so bad and no one cared, the actually wanted to move them! now everyone loves them and they claim they always have! If anyone doubts me, just wait until hell freezes over and those Pirates actually start doing good, and you'll see thousands of Pirates fans come out of nowhere. OSWHO and PSWHO are fans no different, they win a few games and everyone goes to their local wal-mart and buys a crappy $10 knock-off jersey. Maybe someday people will jump on the Akron band wagon and we can actually fill some seats! Hopefully that will come next year with the awesome stadium!The Penguins still suck, all that talent and they are what the 6th seed in the conference? Psh, the Blue Jackets might have the same seed (depending on if Colorado can win tomorrow) so that says alot.the pens are 4th or 5th seed depending on what the flyers do tomorrow. old coach therrien was fired, and he played too defensive of a system for talent like crosby, malkin, gonchar, sykora etc. He was fired and in came Bylsma and they are 18-3-4 since his arrival. he brought a new aggressive scheme and I think they've done alright with their talent plus they are the returning Eastern conf. champs, so we'll see how the playoffs go. The Canucks will wipe the floor with the BJ's anyway...

he's gone http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4046754

nice uni's

thats what pitt does...the drum line comes out and gets everyone pumped, then the trumpets come out and play a quick little bit, then the whole band comes out of 2 entrances through the smoke, its pretty cool.

yeah, I thought it was pretty clear that if you wanted to go pick out a seat to reserve for yourself, you would buy "Reserved" seating...d'oh.

I would like to see a little skull session in the new grass area behind the softball field.Pitt always does a little battle of the bands drumline thing after their games in an open field, albeit smaller than the area I'm talking about. It would be really cool to see a drumline performance or even a smaller scale band show right there, outside of the stadium. Better atmosphere than being inside of Memorial, thats for sure.

it SUCKS in the dorms. They call it the most wired for wireless campus in Ohio. please.on another note, its probably quicker outdoors, and in some spots, near bulger, honors, orr, it goes as fast as the wired internet...good luck!

do you realize it wouldn't have counted as a win? the MAC pretty much saved us...

april fools!

has anyone seen the work they are doing between the track and the stadium? are they building a locker room for the track team or what?

hahaha we didn't have any bigs.if you think the 35th best player in the country isn't going to start in the MAC, you're out of your mind, im sorry.Just goes to show you don't know much about basketball...Bardo and Nikola were coming along pretty nicely as the season went on and they are young players. We dont have much height, much to the reference to Dambrot's quote on the need for height since McKnight will be at the four. He is a solid post player that can step out and hit the J.Like others have said, I do not doubt at all that Zeke will start at some point. My only point is that people are expecting the world out of this kid and it takes bigs a lot longer to get adjusted to the college game than guards. Humpty came in and was able to start, but who was behind him? Ronnie was hurt and McNees came on strong late, but struggled early. So there was nobody there. We have a pretty solid presence of young post players in the mix here.If you want a good example, the Ohio State Buckeyes had no player over 6'8'' that played meaningful minutes last season. The recruit the #1 player in the Nation in BJ Mullins. He came in and just wasn't ready for NCAA basketball. So he played 20 min a game and started a total of two games the entire season. Mullins played Ohio DI basketball and avg 28 PPG and 15 RPG. His game is head and shoulders above Zeke. Zeke is no where near ready to play at this level on offense. It is going to take time. And being in the MAC, we can do that because we already have a strong team and good young post players. He may start by the end of the year, but right away, we need to ease him into the game because it will take a big adjustment to get used to going from HS kids to DI basketball. Regardless of what conference it is.Bardo was coming along nicely huh?and your point about humpty has nothing to do with this. He wasn't the #8 player at his position coming into the year. Zeke is a five star recruit, and he will impact the MAC from the start. KD will make him earn the starting spot, but I have no doubt by the time the season starts he will be our starting 5 man. Who would you include in our "solid presence of young post players in the mix?" Chris Mcknight, and Nikola? That's about all we have down low....Zeke will start over Nik, imo. But Nik will surely get many minutes also. Anyway, this is a good problem to have

I agree, no one realizes that if we were 9 weeks, 6 weeks, 32 weeks, whatever, we wouldn't move the home opener up a week...

I did notice that. That made me wonder whether Columbus State doctors their figures because from all the reports I've heard their crowd was lame when we beat them in Columbus. In fact, the story was that our Rowdies outnumbered their students... in Columbus!When did we ever play Columbus State in Soccer? I am confused. Columbus State is a community college. I didn't even know they had a soccer team..Sorry, it wasn't Columbus State. It was The Columbus State University. Still confused...Sorry...The Columbus State University...Never heard of them.you are wayy too cool for this board dude.

hahaha we didn't have any bigs.if you think the 35th best player in the country isn't going to start in the MAC, you're out of your mind, im sorry.

How did you come up with 45? Is that 9 weeks or 6 weeks? 45 days seems like a LOT of time to be behind schedule.Question 1: How did you come up with 45? Simple extrapolation based on how far they were behind schedule at the topping off ceremony.Question 2: Is that 9 weeks or 6 weeks?Neither, 45 days is actually 7 weeks and three days (you aren't an education major are you?). :lol: :lol: you aren't a math major are you?7*7 = 49 plus the three days equals 52 days,45 days = 6 weeks and 3 days

Hmm I thought we wanted to be Gonzaga, but since they don't have a football team, I'll settle for Cincy -side note, i almost went there. coolest campus, ever! the way the athletic facilities are designed, you walk in to the stadiums from the top...really cool, right in the middle of campus.

what would you guys rather do? go on the road so we can open up with indiana? 5 home games when we have a beautiful new stadium? enjoy it, one more home game, 1 more easy win, and a lot of beers in the parking lot!

watch the video, some old dude said that. not Rhoades

Eh, That wasn't Mack Rhoades that said that...

Truly amazing. I'll bet you are really good at 'book learnen.' Did you read the last sentence of your quote? :lol: :lol:

and FCS-non scholarship.

good work on the donation MDzip. it makes me happy to see people supporting the program, and I can't wait till I graduate so I can give back too. I wish more people would be proud to say they went to Akron and gave back...that will change though.

that might get us in trouble lol.

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