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ZachTheZip

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  1. I voted EMU because BGSU wasn't an option. They easily have the lowest athletic budget in the MAC, they have contemplated moving to D-II, and aside from women's basketball they don't consistently compete in any sport.
  2. That better be a joke. Presuming it is, I'm not laughing too hard. If facebook is any indicator, Mr. Marshall is not enjoying his time in Akron too much recently. I haven't heard anything concrete, just observing. I'm going to take a scientific wild-ass guess that he was referencing a change of majors. He came in for the Computer Science program (run through Buchtel College), but the focus in that program is almost entirely about coding and programming skills. Another major offered at UA, Computer Information Systems (run through Summit College), is more focused on computer hardware and maintenance which would likely be much more useful to achieving his stated goal (I believe he said it in one or two interviews prior to signing with the Zips) of owning a computer shop. Of course I could be completely wrong about that. And I can confirm GameChanger's words that Zeke hasn't transfered, although her words are far more credible than mine when it comes to this subject. I happened to see him wandering around the Polsky Building today (he's pretty hard to miss).
  3. http://arizonastate.scout.com/2/978921.html Rivals profile Originally signed with Indiana, grades forced him to take the JUCO route.
  4. Blue Ribbon predicts Akron to finish 6th in the East Another "wait until the next year" deal. I'm getting sick of hearing that. Next year never comes; building for the future at the expense of the present is a waste. You are either winning or not. Why can't teams win in the present while still preparing to be successful later? That's what successful teams do. Also, the above link is to the brand-new official MAC football blog. I didn't know they had one, but it appears to be a nicer way to post the conference news than in the extremely cluttered main conference website. There's also one for basketball.
  5. True story: Way back when, Can't State's school colors were purple and orange. One day they took the basketball uniforms to a local cleaner, which screwed up and caused the colors to bleed and dilute to blue and yellow. They liked it so much, they voted to keep the new colors instead of shelling out for new uniforms, knowingly copying the school colors of UA. That's why their "gold" looks the way it does. It's also why two schools so close to each other have the same colors.
  6. Board of Trustees approves creation of a FirstEnergy Advanced Energy Research Center
  7. New offers: OG Geoff Mogus OLB Percy Johnson I predicted this back when he was hired. I said that while he was successful and hailed as a top recruiter at his former employers, they were all BCS schools that sold themselves to a degree, and he wouldn't have anywhere near the resources to do what he did at Notre Dame and Wisconsin. And now his recruiting targets are chosing schools like Indiana and Ball State.
  8. Given that they were expecting over 10,000 people to show up, I would guess the crowd size was disappointing.
  9. At least he actually showed up, after most of the crowd had left.
  10. Offer: WR Cameron Dickerson Raymon Taylor verbals to Indiana.
  11. Exactly this. I don't understand how anyone could assume the staff is only capable of doing one of the events instead of both, and had to choose. Each event takes one day out of the summer, and not much planning. It's not like we're busy holding Charlie Frye camps every weekend. They aren't busy installing the new offense and defense, because practices aren't allowed yet. This was a deliberate choice made by the football staff, to forgo the golf outing.
  12. Then again, maybe Frye would rather help coach O than his alma-mater.
  13. Maybe. There's no one left in the athletic department from when he was at Akron. Who would he contact? Would the new athletics people even care? Having an NFL QB, who actually played here, host a camp for junior high and high school kids on our campus would be a pretty big recruiting tool to just throw away. I would hope the athletic department would "care" and wouldn't be that incompetent, but given recent history, who knows. Having our brand-new stadium show up in a video game that more people play than actually watch the games on TV would also be a big recruiting tool, but look how that worked out.
  14. SIU could be as good as an NFL team and nobody would care because they're FCS. They probably would have given Akron problems last season, given our laughably bad coaching. But nobody cares because they're FCS. If they beat Illinois, it doesn't get them mroe than a day or two of publicity, because they're FCS and will be forgotten while Illinois gets remembered for losing to some team they shouldn't have. Right now, Illinois State is contemplating joining the MAC. They would grow in reputation, and SIU would remain just another FCS school, regardless of how strong the teams actually are.
  15. Maybe. There's no one left in the athletic department from when he was at Akron. Who would he contact? Would the new athletics people even care?
  16. The school he went to is gone. Bulldozed over and replaced with grassy areas, brick walkways, and brushed chrome architectural accents.
  17. I disagree on both counts. The MAC needs to dump Temple at whatever cost (there is no cost, they don't bring in anything that improves the MAC's finances or reputation). They are not worth the money spent feeding another mouth or travelling to and from Philly. They don't help attendance when MAC schools play them at home, they don't get us a better TV contract, and they screw up our scheduling so we can't play rivals that people actually care about seeing us play. And how can they be our best program? They haven't even won their own division, let alone the conference, since joining. They don't even have enough support to have their own football stadium, instead they have to rent one from the NFL. There is so little support for football that their fans are willing to go independant or drop down to 1-AA, or drop football altogether, instead of bringing their hoops program to the MAC. If football was important to them, they would bring hoops instead of risking getting kicked out. Why should the MAC allow them to continue to leech off us with nothing in return but a few token basketball games?
  18. "Akron is not Cleveland and Cleveland is not Akron". That should be put up on a big sign and hung over the entrance of this thing tomorrow. In Cleveland, we're thought of as just another suburb. Most people don't realize that Akron is as big as it is. They see us as another 50k town on the outskirts of their city. The problem is that a lot of Akronites see themselves as that, too. Akron is bigger than Salt Lake City, bigger than Richmond, bigger than Syracuse, Hartford, Rochester, Little Rock, Des Moines, Green Bay... But we're treated as a nothing by people in our own region.
  19. I wonder if UA gets some rental fee for use of the stadium. I wouldn't charge too much. This is free publicity for the stadium. I do hope they fixed the chunks of concrete missing at the spring game.
  20. Remember our old pal Jim Tressel, the author of the foreword of the only book about Akron football? He's going to be making a speech on the Info's jumbotron.
  21. And keep in mind that we had terrible attendance for several games, as well. We were well under capacity for most of the season. I think that attendance would have gone up regardless of a new stadium, thanks to our playoff run because the lesser games (like FAU and WMU) will fill in better.
  22. We offered him, according to Scoutingohio. He is the first 2012 offer for Akron, as far as I can tell.
  23. One new 2011 offer: ATH Gabe Gilbert Also, Brandon Smith verballed to Cinci, and Mark Murphy verballed to Indiana.
  24. Nobody's fault but UA's. AKRON has to contact them. They don't go around trying to get permission to go into new stadiums, if we don't request them it's just less work for them. Bull.
  25. I'll be going, as well. I'm treating it as a farewell party more than a suck-up session. My hope is that he goes somewhere but keeps his ties with Akron, and cuts them with Cleveland. It's the best thing for this city to be recognized on its own and not get lumped in with the nexus of failure to the north.
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