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  2. UofA's Rhodes Arena Study

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    I have an honest question about student turnout at basketball games.

    Does anyone find it weird that the student section at the rubber bowl was routinely larger than the student section at the JAR? Even in it's last season, when the football team was mediocre, the Rubber Bowl routinely attracted student sections several times larger than what we currently see at the JAR. This despite the fact that the Rubber bowl was miles from campus and the basketball team is #1 in the MAC.

    Why do you think that is?

  10. GOP Primary

    in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes

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    ^All of which are undoubtedly great things if you believe that increased government intervention can bring prosperity.

    The fact that many on the American "right" are clamoring for a politician similar to TR says a lot about their intentions. From what I can tell, the Republican establishment believes that Roosevelt's military interventions overseas make up for his "progressive" domestic policies.

    TR wasn't a conservative. He was a modern imperialist with a domestic policy very similar to that of the social democrats. The fact that he was a Republican makes it convenient for people like Rick Santorum and David Brooks to pretend like TR set some kind of precedence for war mongering within the conservative movement.

  11. GOP Primary

    in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes

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    Teddy Roosevelt had the right idea. Speak softly and carry a BIG stick.

    I just read an article and it reminded me of this statement.

    Bully Boy: The Neocons' Favorite President

    My favorite part:

    TR's mental stability was questionable, to say the least. Mark Twain, who met him twice, judged that he was "clearly insane," as Tom Woods recalls in an essay on Roosevelt in Reassessing the Presidency (John Denson, editor). In biographies of TR we learn that after an argument with his girlfriend a young Teddy Roosevelt went home and shot his neighbor's dog. When he killed his first Spaniard in Cuba he "abandoned himself to complete hysteria," as biographer Edmund Morris recounts.

    As president Roosevelt would take morning rides through Rock Creek Park wildly shooting at tree branches with a pistol, oblivious to the harm he might do to the nearby private homes in the District of Columbia. He once strung a wire across the Potomac River so that he could hang on it because, he said, his wrists needed strengthening.

    Yeah, that's the kind of guy our politicians should aspire to. :rolleyes:

  12. GOP Primary

    in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes

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    I'd never vote for someone with a last name that is one letter away from being Amish.

    That's typically a good rule, but once you listen to some of his speeches on the house floor you might have to make an exception.

    BTW, don't let GoZips know about this, but Justin is Arab-American(terrorist!!!111).

  13. GOP Primary

    in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes

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    Ron Paul is the only candidate that represents "change".

    Here's my best guess at how things will play out(barring another candidate entering the race):

    Ron Paul will put up a good fight in a few of the early primaries, but ultimately the sheeple that make up the Republican base will go with Mittens. Ron Paul will run as a third party candidate(Libertarian Party?) and siphon off enough votes from Romney and hand the election to Obombya.

    But I'm voting for Ron Paul regardless. This will probably be the last time I vote for years. With the exception of Justin Amash and to a lesser extent, Rand Paul, I don't trust anyone in Washington.

  15. Open Letter to Jim Tressel

    in Akron Zips Football

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    I'm not sure what's worse, Northeast Ohio Sports fans or Western Pennsylvania sports fans. Both groups reek of desperation. Desperate for a distraction, that is. There's a reason that Cleveland and Pittsburgh sports franchises have such a strong fan following. Namely, the fact that both cities are a shell of their former self. Sports have become an outlet for much of the population in each of these cities.

    There's virtually no difference between Cleveland fans and Pittsburgh fans, besides the fact that the Steelers and Penguins actually win. So if you take away the winning franchises from Pittsburgh, you're left with a city full of aging working class heroes who seem more desperate because the only distraction from their sad reality has become less interesting. In other words, it would be just like Cleveland sports.

    But yeah, Tressel isn't coming here. Get over it.

    Funny how I remember a certain buckeye fan claiming that Tressel would never suggest "Fick" as a candidate for the head coaching position during TW's last "Ask Alvarez session"--err, national coaching search. Seems like everyone on here is now under the assumption that Tressel suggested Fickell and TW declined. Who's the idiot-- the buckeye fan or most of the posters on these forums(I'm not necessarily ruling out either)?

  19. No Tree tonight

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    I never understood the obsession with the valley. It's far from campus and insanely dangerous to get to in the winter.

    But good bar fights, I hear.

    By the way, according to the Leaking Urinal article, Tree's accomplice was a young gent from Amherst Massachussetts. According to his FB page(creep, I know) he's from Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

    This couldn't be related to Rico's recent suspension, could it?

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