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SECOND DOMINOE - It's Colorado to Pac-10! Link Make it official! http://www.pac-10.org/genrel/061010aaa.html

Mwila was supposed to replace Bunbury as our top striker. This one might hurt. Pantazelos probably made a good move, he's good enough to start immediately for VCU, but would have remained buried in the depth chart at Akron..

UA donates two police cruisers to Lake Township. Lake was almost completely wiped off the map by a tornado this month.

ESPN just reported that Nebraska to the Big Ten is official.

New offer: DT Antwan Crutcher Sam Rohr verballed to Minnesota.

Wait, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you one of the biggest opponents of hiring Hunter as the new AD? Something along the lines of, "we need outsiders with fresh ideas"? Fresh ideas... I was opposed to Hunter, because I didn't see any progress from the areas he was in charge of. I wasn't happy with who we chose over him, though, when comparing qualifications.

I'll bet the same post (with a different President's name) is on the Toledo Rockets' BB this morning! Then I guess some Toledo fan must be lurking on our board.

Want to see something even more interesting? "These are the same 18 states that a) produced 77 of the top-100 college-football prospects this year (See Where the boys are.), are home to colleges with 10 of the top-10 and 17 of the top-20 recruiting classes this year, and c) contain but 51% of the United States population. Only two of the 120 FBS schools failed to recruit at least one player from these states. These two schools were the University of Akron and Ball State University."

The 75th Alcoholics Anonymous Founders Day celebration will be this weekend. Last year the campus was more full of people than when regular class is in session, so I can't even imagine how crowded it will get this year. I am willing to bet there will be more people packed into the stadium than we'll see for LeBron Appreciation Day the week after.

Another "wait 'till next year" prediction, this time courtesy of Athlon.

Are you sure? He is a Wistrcill hire. More like a Proenza hire. He's been around long before Tom Wistrcill ever perplexed our spell-checkers here at Akron. This isn't some outside person brought in from TW's buddy system, it's a person who has done some great things for the university like secure the Stile donation for the fieldhouse.

I think Dr. P should be on the phone with OSU, Cincinnati, and the State Legislature trying to explain how it would improve the economy to have a 3rd BCS team in the state even if it cut into OSU's profits a little bit. They won't listen, but it's worth trying to force Cinci to vote for us if the Big East has to expand. And if OSU actually gets behind the idea (providing them with another BCS opponent from Ohio since they are legally mandated to play a school from in-state every year) it's virtually a done deal.

Good to see. He's the right guy for the job.

Buchtel College's advanced observatory helped students explore universe

5 Zips to compete in 6 events Here's hoping we get a new national champion (or six) this week.

Snapped a picture while walking around. They're apparently trying to chip away and free the marble memorials at the front entrance. I also saw some weird landscaping that caught my eye; the landscape for learning now includes horticultural volcanoes.

Two crappy cell phone pictures, coming up! There are four concrete pylons near the corners that I assume will be the bases of the light poles. There's also some kind of concrete foundation by the southeast corner, not sure what that will become.

I love the paranoia. Zipmeister started it as a joke (his most successful troll yet; a hearty congratulations is in order), and then the anxiety of Zips fans took over. We're paranoid about LeBron leaving, half the Zips basketball team just transferred, and it seems like the athletics department has forgotten that they have fans. It's just a mental snowball effect stemming from the self-hating NE Ohio sports fan psyche. Zeke isn't going anywhere (not yet, anyway ) I'm sick of Akron and the people here, too. They are far too quick to assume the worst, and they seem to enjoy being miserable and spreading that misery to other people.

Bowling Green has the lowest athletic budget of any MAC school, and they have the least to show for what they do spend. They would make a very nice D-II school.

As of today, there is a layer of gravel in the dimensions of a standard soccer pitch. It is graded and ready for the next layer to be applied. There is also a berm shaping up on the north side of the field. All of it seems to fit without the tennis courts being torn down. A new electrical system is installed, but no new light stands are up yet.

Can't has much less to worry about than EMU. EMU had a grand total of 25,000 people attend their games last year. Not 25k per game, but 25k total. Next year they might fudge some numbers to get above the threshold, but if the NCAA wanted to they could just take a look and enforce their rules on EMU.

Maybe we should be positioning ourselves for an invite to the leftover Big XII, along with the top C-USA and MAC teams.

Those four schools have released press statements, all basically saying that their fate is in others' hands but that they remain committed to the Big 12. If they're the only ones left, they have to immediately add at least 5 teams who have played together in the same conference for the past several years to meet the NCAA definitions of a conference. Otherwise they lose auto-bids to any NCAA tournaments in any sport, like what happened to the MAC in soccer last year.

"Let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of conference expansion speculation on the internet. According to this morning's sample, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."

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