ZachTheZip

It worked for the Romans.

UA researchers invent "Not Flubber"

And quite a few more never had any meaningful impact. Will coach Bowden have a better track record of finding transfers who can actually contribute on the field? I think he will, but time will tell.

First of all, the transfers that can play immediately are NOT players with questionable pasts, they simple graduated from their first school before exhausting their eligibility. That accounts for almost all of the transfers that Bowden has brought in. Two others sat out a year after following their position coach from another school. In Solich's first recruiting class (going into the 2005 season), he brought in four JUCO players, and two post-graduates. No transfers because any he brought in would sit out that year. His second year he brought in seven transfers from Vanderbilt, GVSU (D-II), NMSU, Ashland (D-II), Clarion (D-II), Indianapolis (D-II), and Central State (D-II), four JUCOs, and two post-graduates.

A really disparaging preview from Michigan's prespective.

College Sports Madness pre-season all-MAC CJ James is 2nd team all MAC. Jawon Chisholm and CJ Mizell made 3rd team.

A PG takes over a game by facilitating and opening up opportunities for his teammates to score. if your PG is your leading scorer, it is to the detriment to the rest of the team.

Teams ran out on Abreu because he was more of a shooting guard than a pass-first point guard. The rest of the team functioned better with Melo distributing. Melo played more to the offensive system. And don't forget, Melo actually plays defense.

If you couldn't see that Melo is a better pure PG than Abreu ever was, you weren't watching any games. Melo's biggest problem last year was a lack of conditioning, followed by a lack of experience as a starter. The conditioning, at least, will be addressed this summer and fall. Nyles Evans might be even better than that. Also, I think we'll be fine at center between Forsythe and Isaiah Johnson. Johnson experienced some kind of basketball epiphany last season where he blossomed from an average MAC-level center to a beast that tore through the AAU circuit against BCS talent and also became the Ohio D-I player of the year.

I don't get it. How do you go from that written review to that ranking? Especially when we have the pieces to reload at all the positions that we lost from last season, plus important pieces we didn't have at all last season (a.k.a. Quincy Diggs). They say we "won't drop too far in the pecking order" but then they say we'll go from first to fourth in the godawful MAC where anything worse than 2nd place signals that your program is a mess, and they have us falling 81 spots from where we finished in the RPI last year.

If you remember, Bowden approached Akron instead of the other way around because someone in the administration asked that exact question. I feel like some of the newer posters on ZNO kind of take the fact that he's our coach for granted, even though just two years ago he seemed unapproachable despite being a D-II coach. Also, I was kind of impressed that you predicted the future.

Eight weeks from today!

Funny how some Ohio fans have been criticizing this move (along with the other transfers), despite the fact that this is how Solich went about improving the football program at Ohio. It's like now that they're successful, the stuff they had to go through to get there never happened.

Sorry, Zips fans, for dredging up some bad memories, but I just wanted to quote this bit of prescience.

They consistently put us about 20-40 spots lower than where we actually finish.

There's the media that covers the MAC, and then there's the MAC News Media association. The MACNMA is who votes at media day, and it consists almost entirely of old newspaper beat reporters who wish they were covering the Big Ten. Elton Alexander is in charge of it.

#100 would be a huge disappointment. Somewhere around #75 seems more reasonable.

If there was demand for that, Quaker would never have folded and City Center would still be a Ramada and not struggle with occupancy rates. If there was demand, another, nationally known, hotel chain would open up in downtown. Right now, there is nothing that generates demand for a hotel. Most business that happens downtown is local. The "convention center" downtown is an absolute joke, and about 1/4th the square footage that a city the size of Akron should have, and so it never attracts anything of significance.

Looks like UA finally squared away whatever was going on there. But now it looks like they have unclaimed money from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and something from Gallaudet University. Considering how tight money is for the university right now, they might want to look into that, even if the amount is trivial.

If his head is on straight, yeah.

Butler? Georgia? James Madison (who I would love to see join the MAC)? This is still the thread about our non-conference schedule, yes?

The MAC football media day is coming up in a few weeks and, as they do every year, the MAC's media cartel will be voting on how they think the divisions will finish. I think they'll vote the MAC East as: Ohio Can't State Bowling Green Miami Buffalo Akron UMass They'll be wrong, of course, because they are wrong every single year. But that's how I see them voting.

http://www.ohio.com/news/ua-buying-tablets...hletes-1.409758 I like the idea, especially if it's financed by donors. Might even give us a recruiting advantage over other MAC schools that don't do this.

No.

That is correct.