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I recently saw Gerry at the barber shop. He was clearly elderly but his old gregarious self, talking with everyone in the place and calling all of us, even though most in the place were middle aged or older, "young man". Very charming guy, and I remember that he kept an office at the university for many years after he left as the FB coach. So, is he still affiliated with the university in a fund-raising or other capacity? Is he doing motivational speaking, unconnected to UA? One would hope that he would still be involved at least in a very part-time fund raising role.GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

I'm ambivalent about whether it's better to have continuity in coaching, or whether it's better to shake things up. In MAC football, neither is a great option it seems! Continuity likely means extreme mediocrity, while striking gold in a head coach and system means he'll be gone before you know it. Is it better to have JD for several years and hang arounf .500, or is it better to bring in the next Turner Gil, have a great spurt, only to see him bolt a year or two later and have to start over again?In MAC football, we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't.GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

You're nuts if you base your ticket buying decisions for next year on one game, or even one season. If InfoSumma were a High School small time stadium I'd STILL buy season tix just to be a part of the action for at least the first two years. There is not ONE fan who takes the time to register on ZN, follow the boards and post here who should not have already bought season tickets for next year. Students excepted of course. I'm bummed just like the rest of our fans are after yesterday, all the much more because of the Browns' pathetic loss today. However, if one game, or one season were enough to make you go away from the Zips, we all would have gone away long ago.Now, tomorrow, pick up the phone and buy your season tix for the inaugural season at InfoSumma. Just do it. You'll be happy as hell you did next Fall.GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Take a look at the number of points the O is putting on the board most weeks. Even though Jacq and Bowser drive me nuts, it's pretty hard to argue that the offensive unit is failing this year. On the other hand, the defense has just KILLED us. JD must be forced to address this ridiculous defense in the off season. You all know I've been talking a lot about how cool InfoSumma is going to be. We all have. However, bad team play is not going to cut it for knowledgable NE Ohio football fans who we all want to be attracted to the new facilities. The thing that will turn people off is playing terrible fundamental football, and this defense may single-handedly suck the energy out of the new digs with games like yesterday's. And to those of you who keep on saying "Aw shucks, that's just MAC football" I say horse____. If these programs can build offenses with skill players that put up 30+ points seemingly every week, don't tell me that at least some of these staffs cannot build solid, tackling, fundamental defenses. I will not accept the MAC excuses. Damn it, the university and community are investing substantially in this program. Trotting out a team that scores 30+ but gives up 35+ just will not work anymore. If that means that JD goes bye bye, so be it. Fix it or get the ---- out JD! You can't hide out at the crappy Rubber Bowl anymore, Zips football. You have no choice but to get better or you're going to hear about it from a much larger group than you ever have in the past. The silver lining in this cloud? If you win, if you get better, you'll have many more behind you than you've ever dreamed of in the past. Now un---- yourselves, and that starts with JD and the idiot defensive coordinator (with a special one-time dishonorable mention for Zips special teams yesterday). Go Zips.SeeTeeZip

Bye bye bowl game, Zips fans. Great jobs all around by this team today. What an embarassingly pathetic effort. Terrible special teams, ridiculous defense, bad play calling. This one had it all. I didn't look up the numbers but this has got to be one of the worst defenses in the nation, and is trending WAY down as we round out the season.Gawd I'm bummed about this one. I'm pissed about this one. This is NOT the way to build some momentum going into InfoSumma.What the hell, JD?BOO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

I'm going to venture a nail biter with scores topping out under 30. Please, oh please let's finish the season strong going into 2009! Let's give Igor another reason to get drunk!Zips 24Bobcats 21GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Booyeah GameChngr54! It's going to be fantastic to have a certain 7 footer in the house very soon!GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Final 67-86 Pitt wins big. Akron has a little ways to go. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Under 5:00 to go, Akron down 73-57. At least they're under 20 down.

8:30 to go, Pitt is up 65-48. Same story as first half. Zips are young and smaller and less athletic than Pitt. Again I'm not a BB guy, but it's not even close in those areas. Keep on working KD and crew!GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Any comment on the officiating? French always makes it sound like we're getting killed by the refs.I'm not listening to the 1350 broadcast, so can't say. The ESPN announcers are focusing totally on Pitt, and it appears to me (not a real BB guy, so take my read for what it's worth, probably not much) that Pitt is quite a nit bigger, faster and MUCH better on the boards in the first half. I hate to say it looks like men playing against boys, except for the kid from Serbia and McKnight, who have size and are holding their own (??).Second half starting shortly. Will try to add info as I can...SeeTeeZip

Watching on ESPN360.com. 45-27 Pitt. Zips are getting manhandled. Pitt is having its way on the boards. So far, ouch. More to follow....GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

It's the principle that you can take almost anything from somebody and still get them on your side. However, the one universal thing you cannot take away from somebody is their land.That's pure silliness Zippy Tuba. At least until the US Supreme Court revisits the issue, eminent domain used by municipalities and states to take land for the common good is the law of the land, as it was used in this instance by the university. On philosophical grounds you're wrong, and in practical terms you're wrong in this case. The land in question was without a doubt blighted, and those who have negotiated with the university came away like bandits, especially those scum bag Nemers'. This country is loaded with blighted urban areas and the use of eminent domain has been a godsend in many of those areas. It's a tough break if you really, really wanted to live in a dump in a blighted area, but it's a mean, mean world out there, and with the economy going the way it has been of late, eminent domain and the equity of such will be one of the last things we're all thinking about a year from now. Of course, the Nemers will be doing better than all of us here, having converted blighted and close-to-bankrupt shells into million dollar+ settlements.Don't think for a minute that I will waste even one atom of worry over those who moved away from that block when I'm sitting in InfoSumma next Fall. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipperI think you miss understand what zippytuba is trying to say. you can take a lot of things from people and still have them on your side but you cannot take their land and still be friends is what I think he was trying to get at. if I'm wrong feel free to tell me but if not I'll at least have had the common courtesy to make sure I understood someone’s point of view before I laid into them.I'm not sure I misunderstood his point. He was answering why there are those whose feelings will be hurt by eminent domain, and in terms GWB would understand best, will be "agin ya" thereafter. I was responding to that notion with my belief that such ideas are pure silliness. It's not about whether Zippy Tuba feels that way or not, it's a response to the general complaint about eminent domain from those who are uninformed. If I misunderstood, of course I will be shown the error of my ways via flame posts and will take back what I said. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

It's the principle that you can take almost anything from somebody and still get them on your side. However, the one universal thing you cannot take away from somebody is their land.That's pure silliness Zippy Tuba. At least until the US Supreme Court revisits the issue, eminent domain used by municipalities and states to take land for the common good is the law of the land, as it was used in this instance by the university. On philosophical grounds you're wrong, and in practical terms you're wrong in this case. The land in question was without a doubt blighted, and those who have negotiated with the university came away like bandits, especially those scum bag Nemers'. This country is loaded with blighted urban areas and the use of eminent domain has been a godsend in many of those areas. It's a tough break if you really, really wanted to live in a dump in a blighted area, but it's a mean, mean world out there, and with the economy going the way it has been of late, eminent domain and the equity of such will be one of the last things we're all thinking about a year from now. Of course, the Nemers will be doing better than all of us here, having converted blighted and close-to-bankrupt shells into million dollar+ settlements.Don't think for a minute that I will waste even one atom of worry over those who moved away from that block when I'm sitting in InfoSumma next Fall. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Very interesting! I just wonder whether JD, assuming he wins out (I know that's really assuming too much!) and goes to a bowl, and is primed to take the Zips into InfoSumma next season, wouldn't be very tempted to stick it out here. I know that in general the MAC is a stepping stone, but InfoSumma changes things, at least potentially. The core question here is what Akron looks like to coaches right now, knowing that next year the entire Zips football landscape changes dramatically? Is there any reason to assume, starting next year, that the Zips won't have the facilities to completely outshine every other program in the MAC? What will that mean for recruiting? I'd love to be in the mind of a college football coach to know what exactly all of these factors really mean going forward, and more importantly whether they'll attract and/or hold onto coaches. GO ZIPPERS!SeeTeeZip

I can't stop remembering Jacq's mistakes in many of those losses. He's come a long, long way from last year but he's still very erratic IMO. He puts together stretches of great decision-making, solid throws with good touch, and then Bad-Jacq takes over. When that happens he looks fearful, tentative, and loses touch on the ball. I can't make sense of it, other than that he's a kid and kids are flighty sometimes. I guess the good news is that even against very good programs, there have not been times this year when I thought "Oh man, it's clear we're dead meat and just please let's get out of here without getting any of the kids killed". It wasn't long ago that I hoped for zero injuries and not a 70-7 result in games against name teams. This team could be very, very good with shorter stretches of Bad-Jacq; well, how about less Bad-Jacq and a stronger defense?! Imagine this offense next year, a year older, stronger, wiser, Jacq more mature. Now imagine that offense with a solid D that doesn't get slammed every week. Now you've got something that InfoSumma fans may find very interesting.Oh, and last thing. I thought about Bowser last night when watching Braylon Edwards drop balls, and Bowser clearly needs to get his head out of his Can't State. His obvious and painful drops certainly don't keep Bad-Jacq at bay.

Don't underestimate the fact that this is not just an on-campus stadium. This is an on-campus stadium that is also smack dab in a good-sized downtown area, that will also be FAR BETTER than any other stadium in the MAC, and comparable to facilities that schools in larger/better conferences have to offer. This is not Can't, where it's students and, well, nobody else. Akron football will now compete, after all of these years, for the interest of Akronites and those in the region for whom the Rubber Bowl was always pure garbage. There will be a tremendous change in student interest. Those of you who attended the university years ago have not kept pace with the changes perhaps, but there are many more students at Akron who are traditional college kids. That means they live on campus in dorms or in the student slums. When most of us old farts attended you either lived at home and commuted in, lived in the student slums or were one of the very, very few who lived in the tiny number of dorms available. In those days Akron was a toilet downtown so most students went somewhere else whenever possible, whether or not they were living in the downtown area. Not only are there more dorms, and more traditional students these days, but Akron's ability to draw people downtown has changed drastically from where it was 20 years ago. For those of you who can't, or won't acknowledge these major changes, again I say take me up on my wager.There will be tremendous change in "average Akron Metro area Joe" interest. At least for five years, as I mentioned in previous posts, going to InfoSumma will be "a thing." Please stop with the basketball comparisons. The Zips BB program is still being built out by KD, college BB teams play MANY teams many of us have never heard of, they play in the dead of winter when many non-hard-core fans just don't want to see a game on a weeknight and then drive home in the cold. There is just no comparison between FB and BB, when Akron BB means playing some no-name team in the crappy JAR, versus college football against name teams in a national-class facility in downtown. How can you compare the two? Come on debbie downers, I'm ready to put my beer money where my mouth is. How about you? GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

Your assumption that downtown traffic should be able to handle game day traffic because it handles students and workers every day does not seem to meet logic; at least the way I see it. I am a commuter student and I have to leave a good 15-30 minutes earlier to make a class if it is during rush hour. If there is every an accident, forget it. It can be forever for traffic to move sometimes. So as it stand, the Akron downtown infrastructure barely handles the regular influx of traffic. From INFO, there are only about 4 main roads to get out of that area: Exchange, Route 8, Route 59, and Market. With all the lights on Exchange and Market, and the natural traffic problems on Route 8, I foresee major traffic jams with 20,000+ fans all leaving the new stadium at once. Those roads just were not built to handle that many people at one time, plus the normal amount of traffic that flows during those times. That combined with limited tailgating areas and extremely limited close parking lots are going to make for a headache getting to and leaving ICS.As it is right now, the University can not really hold any major events in EJ or the Student Union during the peak of the day (10-2) because there are no lots available. I always come in early because if I come in during those hours I can never find a spot in EJ, North Deck, East Deck, Exchange or even Polsky(yes even Polsky spots are hard to find some days). There are a few obscure lots that are always open, but I imagine those will be quickly filled on game day. So I have to wonder where all these swarms of fans are going to park. Downtown? In the ghetto? Do you think our older fan base is going to want to park down a back ally on Kling, Spicer, or Grant where theft is already a major issue? Or park downtown and walk up the hill? Our younger crowd probably won't mind it, but most of them will probably have a pass for campus.Now if you could actually explain how this flaw is going to be resolved with some evidence, I'm all ears, but telling me it makes no sense doesn't devalue my points. To this day I have not heard of any significant plans to expand parking or traffic congestion that goes on during a -normal- day.I hope that the quality of Akron football is good enough to draw as many fans to the new stadium as it can hold. I know downtown businesses are very excited for all the people that will be downtown during game day. I imagine weekends won't look like a ghost town during the day anymore, and I am will be very happy to see that. I have to wonder, SeeTeeZip, if you actually read my post and understood the points I was trying to get across.-INFO will be sold out for at least 3 games and draw well after that for the first season.-A winning tradition will keep the ICS packed-The MAC is a good home for us and if we could be more competitive, we could be where BSU, CMU and WMU are now-Starting from scratch in another conference isn't a good idea-The Aeros still draw small crowds, even on beautiful days. They also draw large crowds. Overall they are about 55% full-55% capacity for ICS is 16.5K-A weak, sub .500 team will eventually hurt our fan base after the 'opening effects' of the stadium wear off I'll put a good friendly bet on it. I say there is no way Akron draws 20k+ after 5 years IF they have been sub .500 for both the 4th and 5th years AND have not won the conference in that time. Loser buys a tall one from OBC?For a good counter point, If Akron wins the MAC 2/5 years and never does worse than 1 sub .500 year, we will definitely have 20k+ and possibly 25K average.All right Zippy Tuba, you're on, and I'll simplify terms for you. Regarding parking on game days, there will have to be more thought that goes into when you get downtown and where you park. However, as one who works right downtown and grew up here, there is more parking available than people realize downtown. There are plenty of decks that will be open and available on game days, and most often those decks will be open because games don't occur at the same times that normal business does. Also, for those of us who want to grab a meal before or after, parking right downtown is probably the way to go anyway. As far as parking in the student slum (where I lived while attending UA back in the day) unless you get too far away from Exchange, or in a tight spot, I don't see that much risk for average game attendees. Of course, it is an urban area that has seen some crime issues of late, but let's hope that the APD and UAPD step up on game days/nights for the games. Lastly, JohnnyZip made very good points in that going to a game is likely to be much more like the experience at substantial college football schools, in that you'll need to put a little effort into the logistics of getting to the game, but that will drive the tailgating, the restaurants, the other entertainment options that we all crave. It might get guys to decide to meet up a couple hours early, and grab a meal and a beer or five, it may cause guys to make some kick ass tailgating happen. It may spur some energy and cash flow into the downtown. It's all good people. The payoff will be MUCH more than worth it, and we here are going to be the ones driving that excitement and building the new traditions.OK, back to my bet. Anyone else want in on this one? All it will take for me to lose will be a year in which the Zips do not average 20K for the home season, during the first five years at the field. Who wants a piece and we'll lock in the terms. Of course we'll also have to decide what happens if I win, other than complete and total pwnership of the doubters, forever. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

OK, I'm seeing a lot of pessimism in thread posts about attendance at InfoSumma, and I think those of you who believe that the Zips won't WAY outdraw what they've pulled at the RB are nuts. It pisses me off.Many more kids will attend games, many more members of the community will attend. I've seen a couple of posters talking (1) about the distance from Green, and (2) the traffic problems that they believe will exist in the vicinity of the new stadium. Are you crazy? For every attendee who has to go a little farther from Green, or from wherever, there are as many or more who will be closer. For every guy who has to go a little further from the southern 'burbs or from Canton, there will be at least one attendee, maybe more, who will be closer than they were before. Besides, you'll actually have places and things to DO and GO TO before and after the games, unlike what you've had in the past. For those coming a few miles more, your pain at the extra 10 minute drive will be more than offset by being able to park, walk down to OBC or other nice restaurant/bar, cozy up for a good meal and brew with your buds, then go to the game, then maybe cruise a mile and a half to Highland Square to catch a movie afterward. It's nuts that you guys don't think these factors will make a difference. As far as traffic jams, are you asserting that Akron downtown infrastructure, which handles an influx of students and business workers every day, is somehow less able to handle the flow of fans to the same area on game days? That makes NO sense. Again, if you're coming from Green, I'm sorry you'll have to drive an extra 8 miles to avoid the mudpits and hot piss troughs of the Rubber Bowl.Regarding Akron Aeros baseball, don't even try to sell garbage about low attendance figures at the games. When the weather is decent they draw very well. In 2007 the team averaged almost 5,000 fans for home games, and that includes the games in April and May when the weather can be terrible. Have you been downtown when there were festivals, or concerts at Lock 3, plus Aeros games? It's a very good atmosphere, and it's going to be ratcheted up that much more when the Zips are playing, the band marching through campus, merry tailgaters in the surrounding lots. Get your heads on straight damn it. Zips playing at the RB aren't the same animal as the Zips playing at InfoSumma, from a totality of entertainment circumstances standpoint. It seems to me that there are posters here who are somehow oblivious to just how disgusting and decrepit the RB really was. People, NOBODY but us wanted to EVER go to the RB to see a game, and not just because they thought of Akron football as small time. The RB is truly small time, and gross, and kept people away, and if you cannot see that I just don't get where you're coming from. InfoSumma will draw bigger than the RB by a LOT. No matter what JD trots out onto the field, the Zips are going to draw minimum 20K+ for at least the first 5 years of InfoSumma. The average Akron metro area citizen is about to discover Akron football.For those of you who disagree, let's put our beer money where our typing fingers are. Bring on some gentlemanly wagers for OBC or Hopping Frog brew if you want to challenge the 20K+ for 5 years prediction. Bring it, and for goodness' sake please drop the normal NE Ohio LOSER mentality and get behind the new digs. :chair: :chair: :chair: :chair: GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

There will be increased attendance regardless of the performance of the team (within reason of course) because:1) This is going to be a beautiful facility. Anyone who is interested in high-quality entertainment in Akron and local environs will be interested in catching games InfoSumma simply because it will be a stunning facility. Most people who catch Akron Aeros games couldn't care less about how that team performs, but like the thought of catching games at that beautiful park with wonderful sight lines. That's a already-existing example of people being drawn to good quality infrastructure and entertainment. I catch a handful of Aeros games every summer, and they are always well attended, and I can say with confidence that going to the games there has very little to do with whether or not the Aeros perform well on the field.2) Location, location, location. Anybody who doesn't think that it matters that the stadium be centrally located, on campus, downtown is nuts. Even for Zips "real" fans, just the thought of getting to the RB, with it's odd location seemingly in that weird corner spot next to the airport, was a complete downer. Parking lots were pure mud if there had been any rain, even the premium lots. It was just a crappy, crappy downer of a place. I love the Zips, but unless the weather is picture perfect, the thought of parking in mud, in that weird little spot in that part of town is not appealing in any way. 3) Again, location, location, location. As the university slowly shifts from being a commuter school, and there are an increasing number of kids living on campus who need things to do, they will flock to games. Also, people who love football and live in the parts of town that are readily accessible to downtown will come to games though they would have not considered going to games out by the airdocks. I live in NW Akron and can get downtown in a few minutes, and the psychology of getting there and getting parked are no-brainer easy and appealing, while again getting to the RB lots and the facility sucked.4) AGAIN, location, location, location. There are actually very, very good things to do right nearby the new digs. Restaurants, bars, shopping. "Hey, let's meet at OBC or Barley House or Luigi's or wherever and then go to the game at that beautiful, cool, brand-new stadium RIGHT DOWN THE STREET." The number of good things to do right nearby will only increase too. There was nothing around the RB. "Hey, let's meet for a bite to eat and then drive all the way to the crappy dump of a place they call the RB, and then park in a mud pit, and then trudge through more mud and wet grass to the decrepit and old rusty gates." Those things that make such an experience feel good or feel dirty and small time make all the difference to people. Now, could all of this goodness be wrecked by a confluence of negative factors? Yes I think so. If APD and UAPD stalk the parking lots, campus and surrounding neighborhoods looking for open containers to arrest otherwise well behaved and merry revelers, that will be an extreme buzzkill and could even create dangerous situations. If the concessions at the new stadium are overly expensive, or (worse) poorly done and "feel" crappy, that will blunt the experience. If the logistics of getting there and moving around aren't well engineered, that will dull the experience. If on top of all of that, the team blows, or UA cannot attract quality "name" teams to come play at InfoSumma, that won't help. My last point here is that the huge number of local football fans who bask in the ridiculous glow of OSWHO Suckeye football and who, even though they have nothing to do with that university or that city in a corn field called Cowlumbus, look down their noses at programs that aren't "name", will treat Akron football as a joke unless Akron hosts mostly "name" schools at InfoSumma. Now, by "name", I don't mean good necessarily. Hell, Syracuse has been horrible of late, but your average kinda-fan will be much more inclined to come out to see a "name" team like Syracuse, even when they suck, than will be interested in coming out to watch Appalachian State, even though they are (to those in the know) a high quality team. Teams that the average kinda-fan has heard of somehow, somewhere will draw attention when they come to InfoSumma. Teams like Indiana, Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers, etc. IMO, it is very important for program-fan-psychology reasons to NOT host teams like your YSUs, your Murray States, your old OVC-type teams, because those match ups are only going to feed the idiocy of the band waggoners looking for reasons to belittle Akron football. We can't allow that psychology to continue. GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

I used the troughs last night for the last time, and as always it smelled like hot piss in the restrooms! Ain't gonna miss that one bit next year! LOOKING FORWARD TO INFOSUMMA BABY! GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZipper

Great posts on the board last night and today, and this thread is maybe the best. As I thought about the game today, I could remember precious few clear mistakes that Buffalo made last night, but could clearly remember quite a few that we made. To me, that's all that matters. They avoided the death-by-hundred-cuts and we didn't. I was really surprised that it went down to the wire, considering the borg-like efficiency that it felt to me that Buffalo was operating with last night, at least on offense. I looked at one of the people I was there with, at one point, and asked how many times Stark would get the dumpoff in the flat with no Zips defender within 5 yards of him. I asked at almost the beginning of the 4th quarter; I was going a little bonkers watching that happen over and over and over.Still though, a helluva game you have to admit! Today I'm disappointed, but not in that kind of way where you're just disgusted and almost want nothing to do with the team. It's really almost more pure melancholy and sadness at the way things ended when the team played so hard. There was a team-fan chemistry that I have rarely, if ever, seen before in play last night. The Zips on the sideline frequently, especially starting in the 4th quarter, were pleading with the fans for loud or quiet, looking a lot into the stands to (I think) gauge the crowd. They were into the crowd and the crowd was into them. I don't know how the sidelines and distances will work out at InfoSumma, but I hope the fans are even closer to the field (assume they will be) so that there can be more of that fan/team engagement during games.Lastly, if InfoSumma is the success we all hope for, all of the long-time fans should be prepared for a much more regimented experience than has been the norm at the Rubber Bowl. I predict larger crowds, more enforcement of rules, including sitting where your tix place you, etc. The almost-glorified-high-school football experience that was on display at the RB, including the sometimes high school sized crowds, it's all going to go away. Now, let's hope we catch a few breaks, and that the WR corps works on catching the ball, and maybe, just maybe we'll get a post-season gig and keep the band together for one last show.GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

Lee, I think I've finally cracked your "secret code".A --> Od --> wa --> em --> nAll other letters remain "as is".BTW, if DK fumbles THREE times, I will duplicate Karl Wallenda's tightrope walk across the Bowl NAKED. Now THAT should scare a little "ball security" into him and his teammates OK, so it's pretty strange to reply to yourself. You'll have to excuse me, since I was scared to death of another fumble. BUT, I am blaming Lee Adams for DK fumbling twice (even if one was "joint" mistake). I mean, this guy is notorious for holding onto the football and all Lee has to do is suggest bad things and they happen! I'm just busting your chops, Lee Hey, at least DK DID go for 150.....you must be able to make good things happen too.I believe he made > 250 total combined yards in the game. Those fumbles hurt badly, but there were plenty of mistakes (read DROPPED PASSES and CRAPPY THROWS) to go around last night. Excruciating....GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip, bummed

Congrats Zeke, congrats Akron, congrats to the university, congrats all around! GO ZIPS!SeeTeeZip

Seriously though, am I right that the Beacon has increased coverage of the Zips in the last several weeks? If so, THANKS and keep it up Dan. The Zips teams are up and coming gems in several collegiate sports, and as the city continues to recede and become more and more of a glorified university town (which I think is not such a bad fate by the way) coverage of the Zips will become more important to the community and to the Beacon. Keep it up!SeeTeeZip