Dr Z

From EA of the PD: Deji Ibitayo is nursing a sore back There seems to be a kryptonite opponent in the MAC for every team -- a school they just don't match up well against. For Toledo it's Can't State; for Can't State it's Buffalo; for Bowling Green, it's the Zips; and for the Zips it's Toledo. EA trumping GT on a comic book reference!?!? Will GT dress up in a costume tonight to overcome, stay tuned...

It's on the Full Court package. 722 DirecTv.

Not worth a new thread, but the Fear the Roo logo would incorporate well in these NFL concept designs. IMO, the Roo needs cropped and enlarged, like the above concepts. Still needs a stripe down the middle too. They need to hire someone to do 3D renderings of concepts, not real helmets with just a sticker.

Zips favored by two and a half. Go Zips dot com preview Television: Time Warner Cable SportsChannel & ESPN3. I'm assuming ESPN3 will be blacked out again. Four players are scoring in double figures, including Julius Brown (16.4 ppg), Justin Drummond (13.2 ppg), J.D. Weatherspoon (12.5 ppg) and Jonathan Williams (10.9 ppg). Weatherspoon leads the team in rebounding (7.8 rpg).

If only that 'Grate One' were still posting. Oh, would he be tickling his keyboard today. LeConomics (PD full article found here) Call it the LeBron James Effect. Or, if you prefer, LeConomics. They're the economic ripples James creates throughout the community simply by playing basketball in Cleveland. At The Q, where James has the Cavaliers looking like a legitimate contender to win the franchise's first NBA title, ticket sales are up. That means beer sales are up. Food sales, T-shirt sales, and parking revenue -- all up. The bars downtown, especially the ones the closest to The Q in the Gateway District, are having their best winter since, well, since James last played in Cleveland four years ago. Bar owners are reporting revenue increases on game nights of between 30 and 200 percent from last season.....continue reading more.

Seems like a start. Hope there is a follow up. Now, if they could fill three sections behind the visitors bench...oh yeah, I know...(insert standard old excuses here). Unless those fans start telling other students about it, and convince their student friends to come using financial gain as a selling point. Then you are paying a salesman five (sort of) dollars to do a job. That would be a pretty good value.

KC Chiefs beat writers are mocking Quinten in the first round. IMO, I don't see him in the first, but you never know now a days. I'm always interested in what players visit what teams pre-draft. I'll be interested as to who schedules him for a visit. I only follow one teams visits. Ten years ago, they didn't mean a thing, recently I would say forty percent of their draft comes from the visits. Three out of three at CBSSports have Quinten going round 1. My boy Kirwan, to boot!?!? For anybody that puts any validity in what Mel Kiper "mocks", here is five years of throwing darts at a board. Anybody remember the episode of Cheers when Norm got a monkey to do Cliff's job?

How many Zips recruits are on the Pennsylvania Big 33 roster...answer here. Man, I am out of it, I didn't even realize Ohio isn't in the game anymore! In October 2012 it was announced that Pennsylvania had dropped Ohio from the BIG 33 game and replaced them with Maryland. Are the notable alumni in the last nine years an indication of a talent shift?

I'll have to check with one of my vendors, maybe I can provide heat transfers and you can do them yourself. Front and back one color imprint, with a minimum of 6 shirts at custom ink comes to thirty bucks each. A little steep IMO. You could always take up a new hobby, then we can be like LBJ on any subject we like.

Ken+ upset over Toledo increased the Zips percentages.

Upset fans responded here I'm releasing a new shirt this spring.

Sitting at Quicken Loans Arena watching a Cleveland Cavaliers game would be your worst nightmare.

For the unaware, there is a hyperlink attached to the word, "Tinder" in the original post. If one would click on it, it would take them to the wiki page with a full explanation. It doesn't get easier, until the enhancements in telepathic communication are advanced.

Valid point. Judging from the response, it deserved it's own topic found here, under Marketing and Promotions.

Interesting promotion in Toledo. UT is giving away prizes to one potential Tinder couple that match up during the first half, including $100 cash and tickets to Cavs vs. Celtics next month. If that doesn't scream out love at first swipe, I don't know what does.

Here is a different look: MAC Bracket 2015 & MAC Tournament Predictions. To win the MAC Tourney UT 22 % chance UB 21 % chance UA 16 % chance BG 14 % chance CM 14% chance Hippy U 7 % chance The rest are below 7 % To win the Conference UT 41 % chance UA 28 % chance BG 18 % chance The rest are below 7 % Note: these percentages change with every game, click on the link above for proper percentages.

TWC For DirecTV subscribers, I saw this before Xmas. Not much since. Maybe that puts an end to some folks issues.

Reminder of one of many "events" of how coach Winters Bowden ended up at UA. KD and Caleb were here b4 YouTube Tom. If he is the BEST guy to move us forward, fantastic, if not, I would start researching now.

Please rate the effectiveness of this "strategy" 1 - Very Dissatisfied_____2 - Dissatisfied_____3 - Neutral_____4 - Satisfied_____5 - Very Satisfied_____N/A "It's easy to do nothing. It takes hard work and creativity to do something great." --Dr Z

Done. Too long. Half of those questions you know the answer to before you fill out, the other half make no difference. IMO, a few of those questions are someone trying to justify some decision already made, and the answer will make no difference. Someone who knows the answer, doesn't need to ask most of those questions. AND the popular answer on a survey will probably not be the CORRECT one. I wish the person making those decisions, were passionate about the Zips, and knew the answer to most of those questions without asking. Do I really have to look at a Columbus logo on my AKRON ZIPS survey. For the love of gawd. TeamOhio was a stupid idea, stop trying to justify it!!! Enough already. I would like to know the result, if ZN is the top way to get Akron sports information.

Wanna send the crowd in a tizzy? Set some highlights to Renegade. I have never seen one song have so much effect on a team's performance AND crowd. Brief history. Sell some cool purple towels for two bucks (over cost) with proceeds going to cancer research. Incorporate Pete in the video a few times.

I recorded this Sunday night and watched it last night. If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it. Great story, and well produced. I can assure you that you will learn something watching this. It's not your typical Disney Miracle (on ice) story. Set your DVR for Friday Feb 13th 12 AM on ESPN2. Rebroadcasting Feb, 16, 21, 22. The so-called bad guys from America's ideological adversary were in reality good men and outstanding players, forged into the Big Red Machine by the genius and passion of Anatoli Tarasov. There was a reason they seemed unbeatable, especially after routing the Americans in an exhibition the week before the Winter Games began. And there was a certain shame in them having to live the rest of their lives with the results of Feb. 22, 1980. In the 30 for 30 film "Of Miracles and Men," director Jonathan Hock ("The Best That Never Was" and "Survive and Advance") explores the scope of the "Miracle on Ice" through the Soviet lens. His intense focus on the game itself gives it renewed suspense and a fresh perspective. But the journey of the stunned Soviet team didn't begin -- or end -- in Lake Placid.

Right? My favorite part was KD referring to the NCAA tournament. Shows good priorities.

Lack of experience from playing extended minutes will do that. NR14 is exactly what this team needed this year. It is comforting to know he should be here another 3 years.