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Attendance: 15,969

Attendance: 15,969

Attendance: 15,969

Attendance: 15,969

Attendance: 15,969

Delone Carter, the former Mr. Football in Ohio at Copley High School, might not be playing for Syracuse when the Orange meet the University of Akron on Sept. 4 at InfoCision Stadium in the 2010 opener. Carter, a tailback and the leading rusher for Syracuse in 2009, has been suspended from school and from the team after being arrested for assault in April. Read Tom Gaffney's article.

COLUMBUS — Stark County likely will find out next month if it will host the state high school football championships beyond 2011. No action was taken on bids for the title games Thursday during the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s board of directors meeting. The board received no recommendations from the site selection committee regarding proposals from Stark County and Columbus. A vote by the board is expected to take place next month. The current bidding proposals cover the state championships from 2012-14. Stark County has hosted games annually since 1990. Akron and Cincinnati also submitted bids but didn’t make the cut. - Canton Repository

How is construction of the dorms next to the stadium progressing? Did the team shop at the stadium ever open?

On one of the threads this week, the value of Ohio's first-round win over Georgetown to Akron and the MAC in general were being debated. One of the benefits is columns like this one by Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe, a member of the College Basketball Writers Hall of Fame: Ryan: So far, Ohio's long-range plan has been a hit In addition to crediting John Groce for recruiting prowess, Ryan writes: The MAC has always intrigued me, in both football and basketball. It’s a classic mid-major league, featuring Midwestern schools whose rosters are often stocked with fallen-between-the-cracks kids who love showing off when given a chance. Sometimes schools get lucky just hiring the right coach. Neither Bassett nor Cooper would be a Bobcat if Groce were not the coach. Cooper spurned the likes of Baylor and Cal to play at Ohio. “It was just the opportunity I had and knowing that Coach Groce is a good coach,’’ he said. “And I knew he put a lot of confidence in me and trust in me. I was going to be willing to make mistakes without getting yanked out of the game. Just mainly that.’’ Good pub for the entire conference.

Sounds kind of like a stadium I used to know in Akron . . .

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If this doesnt cement the fact that we need to upgrade our NC schedule then nothing does. No reason should a 24 win team not be in the NIT. 16-16 North Carolina made the NIT...that's sad... RPI: North Carolina #67 (9-15 vs. RPI teams 1-100) Akron #97 (0-6 vs. RPI teams 1-100) http://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/rpi/

Well, athletics is first and foremost a student activity. Granted, not all students participate, but all can enjoy and benefit from, to varying degrees. And it's certainly part of the college experience.

What about that Mickey Matthews clip from the CAA media day is supposed to impress me?

Stop worrying, it won't be.From the Wayne State student newspaper:Rumors about Wayne State coach Paul Winters resigning to take the head coaching job at Akron -- his alma mater -- are untrue, according to the Wayne State athletic department.Winters, who signed a five-year contract extension last offseason, has not been contacted by Akron. Under NCAA guidelines, Akron -- if interested -- has to ask permission to speak to Winters because he is under contract.According to Akron Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations Mike Cawood, Athletic Director Tom Wistrcill refuses to comment on the coaching search until the selection is officially announced.The link.

Thanks for the comments and especially for the pic. Looks like a lot more than 13k in the stands. The OHSAA has a history of announcing smaller crowd numbers than what actually appears on hand.

ABJ says there was a "reported crowd of 13,121" at the game.Don't know if the reporter thought there more people there or fewer.

When Mack Rhoades was named the athletic director at Houston last June, one of his first tasks was to convince his right-hand man at Akron, Hunter Yurachek, to follow him.Rhoades tried "extremely hard" to persuade Yurachek, who became Akron's interim athletic director after Rhoades' departure, to trade Ohio for Texas, but he was never successful."He would have been a great fit here," Rhoades said. "I'm thrilled with the person that we hired, but because I had worked with Hunter for three years and knew his capabilities, I absolutely tried to get him here."Yurachek had legitimate reasons to stay. He was a candidate to become the full-time athletic director at Akron, a position that eventually went to Tom Wistrcill, and had already submitted an application to become the next athletic director at Coastal Carolina."It was a difficult decision not to go to Houston," said Yurachek, one of two finalists to become Coastal's next athletics czar. "Mack had taught me so much about college athletics, and he's a trusted and valued friend. But my goal is to be a director of athletics, and that wasn't necessarily getting me closer to my goal."That decision perhaps defines the 41-year-old Yurachek better than anything else: a goal-oriented leader with a strategic plan for just about everything in his life. Those that know him say he's a visionary with the charisma, fortitude and intelligence to script the future of Coastal athletics and then go about executing the plan.Read the article.

Please, no more retreads whose better days are LONG behind them.

Ohio High School Football PlayoffsDivision I, Region 2 finalMassillon (9-3) vs. Canton McKinley (8-4) at Infocision Stadium, Saturday, 7 p.m.

Larry Kehres has done a phenomenal job as the Mount head coach, but Mount had a quality program under his predecessor, Ken Wable. His last team (1985) went 11-1 and made the NCAA Div. III playoffs for the first time in school history.Also, Kehres was an assistant coach/offensive coordinator for 11 years under Wable before being elevated to head coach when Wable retired, so it's not correct to say he just "got there" in 1986.

I received the first spam message in my ZipsNation message inbox today (something about ordering an MP3 player for cheap). Has anyone else been receiving such email? Just wanted to point this out to the powers that be.

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