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Count me in. This site is very important to me. Few people in the sports world love the Zips, yet nearly everyone on this site does. I would gladly help pay for ZNO's upkeep. No kidding here, I would take pride in knowing I was helping this site to exist and grow. Thank you Captain and the other unknowns who help make this possible. Finally, for God's sake you posters who feel you have to swear at, insult, and personally attack others go make your own site. You are tedious, boring and a waste of time.

"100% agree. I would like Guthrie to go through each athletic program and tell the coaches that the standard is Excellence. Alas, excellence costs $$." "He already has done just that." Our football troubles are tied to two issues: 1) inferior coaching and 2) AD's who are incompetent in hiring those inferior coaches. Guthrie has his hands full, but he may also be the guy to turn it around. He met with all the head coaches and told them point blank if your program is not in the top three of the MAC then your job is not safe. Arth is gone. He was a bad coach and downplaying the PCC rivalry alone should have cost him his job. That was an obvious decision. Herlihy and Hanna are next. Some think the solution is UA spending more money on failing programs. It is not. Within the MAC we have nearly the highest football budget. Same is so for WSoc and VB. The problem is coaches who can't win at this level. Money will not solve that problem. We will have to go thru some pain, but I believe Guthrie can turn things around. The president and the board want football to succeed. Some on this board feel football will be dropped at UA. No one in administration supports that. Doing so would further set the university back in the eyes of the public. There is hope, yet I feel the pain of all the posters on ZNO.

Agreed. He is still a cancer and has no place at Akron. If he were to be hired he would leave whenever he felt like it such as when he coached the Atlanta Falcons and left mid-season w/o even speaking to the players. No class. No morals.

I asked Guthrie about the potential for conference expansion with MTSU and WKU. He saw no reason for it. Neither school brought a big metropolitan market that could increase the eyes watching MAC FB or BB. Additionally two more slices of the TV revenue would have to be given up thereby lessening what each existing school got with little chance of negotiating a fatter deal because of these two. I do not know for sure, but I bed Charles shared his opinion with Miller, who values Charles insight. All that being said I have a sentimental interest in seeing WKU as an opponent. I remember regularly playing them when we were in the OVC. We played MTSU regularly too, but I never liked them.

The results aren't acceptable for sure, but Jared is not the problem. He is capable and will make any changes that are necessary. Before anyone is foolish enough to talk about getting the pitchforks out realize that Jared was asked to run a top 5 program while losing a fulltime operations director, a volunteer coach, a grad assistant, and having his recruiting, travel, operations, and equipment budgets significantly cut. Judge him when he has the tools he needs to succeed.

The North division would.

I don't know Zipmeister. I think it is very impressive that he is considering something in Law. After all, we have a great school of law.

uch! I hate it when pundits accurately call us out. We have become a joke.

Thanks B & G. A beer is waiting for you.

Tom Arth is a good person who was in way, way over his head. Guthrie did him a favor. Arth and all his coaches knew they weren't succeeding and were not capable of success. The coaches are the first to know there is a problem, but they are wired to try to the very end. Now they can all go to positions where they can be successful and happy. I wish them all the best. A good manager recognizes the lack of talent and makes changes. He does not dwell on excuses. He does not hope the program leader can improve when there is no evidence over three years that the basic leadership skills are there. Guthrie is a good manager and he acted. He also has a new coach in mind. I love Tim Tyrell, but he is not on Guthrie's radar. Charles is thinking bigger. He also wants someone with significant D1 experience. This change is good news for all Zips. The bleeding will stop. We can, and should, win big. The process has started. Welcome KangarooJake. This site is so important to Zip fans. Your opinion is welcome and don't be afraid to be different. I'm glad you are here. Thanks to the mods who made this site a reality.

Arth is a nice guy. A good person. He has been hired to coach. He is a bad coach. He can't recruit. He doesn't work the transfer portal Like Tucker did at Michigan State. He does not improve his team over the course of a season. He hires poor assistants. He has had a thorough evaluation at Akron and it is time to end the contract, stop the bleeding and get someone in who can produce. I hope Guthrie makes the change ASAP even if that means we are rudderless against Kent.

I don't see this helping the Zips or the MAC. There would be two more pieces of the conference TV revenue pie to carve out. Less for all the original others. I don't see these two schools bringing name recognition or potential rivalries. I talked wit hGuthrie about something like this and he wasn't too excited to add anyone other than Navy or Army and Navy is in the AAC. Maybe the MAC feels it can get a better TV package. Who knows? We'll see what happens. It would sure be nice to be competitive in football so we could at least see two new opponents to measure ourselves against. As of now we measure as crap. Too bad they bring no new soccer teams.

Very high on Aziz. He will develop and be a force for us. Not so thrilled with Tribble's performance. He has been in the program long enough to know what he can and can't do. This game showed that against good defense he is a turnover machine. He has yet to understand how to play within himself.

You know. Um. Arth and his DIII staff have no future at Akron. He is in way over his head and it is obvious to all. I have visited with Charles Guthrie. He is a class act and has the vision, leadership and experience to right our situation. What I found especially interesting is that he sees football as an opportunity to turn around a failed program and make all athletics better. He will make a change. I wouldn't be surprised to see it soon so the search can begin as soon as possible. That being said don't believe for a minute that he is not exploring who he needs in a coach and who fits the profile. I know for a fact he is already being contacted about the job. Unfortunately football will once again rebuild, but that is the price of stopping the bleeding and saving football at Akron. Arth has come close to killing it. Guthrie will not allow that to happen. If you can find time to sit with Charles you will be impressed. He is the right guy for the job. He has told all the coaches that he expects them to be competitive in the MAC and if you aren't you are in trouble. Many coaches are nervous, especially the classic underproducers. On the other hand Guthrie gets along great with the coaching performers such as Embick, Mitchell, Groce, Parisi. Guthrie has been successful at every school he has been at. He has laid the foundation for success at Akron by restructuring the AD staff. Next he will make a football change at Akron and get a good coach in. I also expect him to be goobled up by a P5 program after 5 years. He is young and talented enough to make another move. I haven't believed in our AD like this since Mac Rhoades. More improvements are coming and Charles will earn our support. You know?

Get rid of the script Akron. It is a lousy logo and a poor marketing concept. The Z is unique and stylish. It means Akron and nothing else. It is ours. The AD and athletic marketing Dept, if there is such a dept, should heavily weigh what we say on this board because we still care and have not abandoned Akron as Joe and Mary Akron have.

Don't bet the ranch that Noreen will have a job at the end of this season. She haas been a classic underperformed in the face of the best facilities in the conference, a fertile recruiting base in NE Ohio and good support from the AD. She has had 6-7 years of mediocrity or worse. She will be gone.

Join the club. Watching Zip football the last several years, including Bowden's, it's easy to lose your sanity along with credibility. But I must say Clark would probably have a better record than our current coach.

Today we were the better team and still found a way to lose. The future of football is in Guthrie's hands and I believe he has made his decision. Arth will be gone before the end of the season so a search can be commenced at the earliest opportunity. The guarantee for the Tennessee game allows Guthrie the freedom to act and he knows he has a coach and staff that is prepared only to lose and cannot grow into competence. We will lose a year of recruiting, but that is a given whenever you change HC's. On the other hand a new coach will be smart enough to mine the transfer portal for talent. Guthrie and Miller know they can not wait another year for 1-11 to repeat itself. Arth may be a good man and I wish him well wherever he goes, but he must not remain our HC.

Insert "stop" between Please and complaining. Thank you.

Please complaining about a non-issue. My GA ticket gets me a seat on the 50, as B & G, has sid. The U has no money for ushers and even when they did have some you could roam to any seat you wanted. Akron is glad you can do this and they do not want to disrupt your game experience. They also are not going to put in writing that you are free to roam. So go, have a beer and a dog and cheer UA to a win. It may be our last chance of the year.

This game should pee off you and all other Zip fans. I was at the game and we got screwed royally by the officials. They wasted nearly 25 seconds spotting the ball when Akron was ready to snap it. That cost us possibly two plays. Michigan was on their heals and had no answer. They did not stop us, we ran out of time. Even Michigan fans told me as we left the stadium that we were hosed by the officials.

The university can only improve when it understands the truth of where it stands. Since when is that a negative? Do we really want a situation analogous to the emperors new cloths where the public believes one thing but leadership is totally out of touch? I have never been a fan of Kent, but I do recognize when they have done something better than us. As for this tragedy I am horrified. I pray for the young lady's soul and I pray for the Lord to comfort, somehow, her family and friends. I hope the shooter is brought to justice.

The problem may be societal, but it is also one of perception. In that area UA suffers greatly. Kent has a far better reputation in the eyes of Joe and Mary Ohio. It has had better leadership in touting its strengths, keeping financially viable and having a positive image in both sports and campus life. I have talked with several guidance counselors in greater Columbus and all have a higher opinion of Kent than UA. We have much to rebuild.

Criticizing the fans for the players lack of motivation is one of the most absurd posts I've seen on here in years. Our fans have been conditioned to expect the worst and the football program has delivered. 1-19 does that. There is nothing wrong with our fans. Just go a few 100 years over to First Energy Field or the JAR and you will find places that the opposition absolutely hates to visit. Anyone who has ever played sports at a high level knows motivation comes from within. The fans can add to it a little, but they can not create it. When our players get a competent leader and staff we will see their belief and motivation grow exponentially. As LoyalZip has said look to Kent to see the truth in this. They were worse than us for years. Now we envy their program and coach.

Go ahead, rain on my parade.😥 My depression gets worse by the day, if not by the game.