tbozeglav

there's a barnstormer...

I havent noticed... ill keep an eye out next week. Cant wait to tailgate and then walk through the gates on exchange... the chills of that place rockin will remove any kind of buzz Ill have going

I havent seen many... so I cant say. I better see an overwhelming majority of the students living in the dorms show up. No excuses this time.

We have been trying to figure that out for months. Sometimes we hear reports that indicate we've moved to a 4-3, others we hear we are still going with the 3-3-5. Your guess is as good as ours at this point.

thank you. I have been waiting to see it. now if only i could stream it fast enough

Who can forget this?! instant classic. Go Zips!

I am all for that... but only if I can get a loge so I have access to the beer.

not an ounce of bias in that opinion??

I would prefer the Pizza the hut bowl

I had the feeling that the reason the AK-Rowdies made the announcement that the watch party was going to be at Scorchers was because OBC didn't have the B-10 network. Its a shame, so hopefully their new location will have it.

^^^ agreed.Now, if it were Syracuse's schedule with our current team... there's a chance it would be a little more promising, but I would seriously doubt that we'd be able to consistently pull 30-35k. We might be able to for the high-profile games, but outside of that, I doubt it.

:blink: id like to hear if thats true... because if it is.. thats pretty bad. If they cant fill Heinz field now, i seriously doubt they would if they are enforcing that policy.

So let's get this straight... we have a potent offense that made them look stupid, we have (presumably) a better defense, and yet they still think they will win by double digits?wow... just... wow. That is a special kind of stupid right there.

Im not sure really. I think its because the general student populous never really knew what was going on over the JAR. They may have had a schedule, but for some reason students are less motivated to go to basketball games. Ill never understand why.

I stand corrected... I remember saying it would be at least 5 more years before we had a new arena. Apparently the ball has been rolling further and faster than I, or many of us, knew. Is it possible we may be getting new basketball and soccer facilities at nearly the same time??Interesting to hear nothing was asked of Zeke... but at the same time I guess that is a good thing since that probably means that people aren't expecting him to be a superstar player right out of the gates. Speaking of which... saw Zeke today in Polsky. If youve never seen him in person, he really is as tall as you think he is

drove by the stadium today and couldnt help but notice that I have yet to see any pole go up on which they will be hanging an American flag from. Unless its positioned somewhere that I can't see on the cams or cant see while driving down exchange...

While I acknowledge that some of the arguments made not only by myself, but by others as well were trivial, I must respectfully disagree. I know its just a wristband, nothing more. I understand its not a big issue to those on the outside. However, as much as I want to agree with you that this is a non-issue, the one remaining fact that still leaves me annoyed is that there are far better ways this situation could have been handled. The wristbands work, as you pointed out, if its only a few days. The issue with 2 weeks was that there was no guaranteeing that the wristband would make it through showers, work, and everyday wear-and-tear. I know from experience that most wristbands I have ever worn never really made it past 3 or 4 days. Compound that with the fact that those who were handing out the wristbands bluntly said that we had to wear it for 2 weeks with no other options available and no exceptions, and you might begin to understand where many students are coming from.To date, I have yet to find a clear answer to why they chose this route for student tickets. It doesn't quite make sense regardless of which way I try to look at it. Aside from the cost of making those wristbands (far less than real tickets I am assuming), there doesn't seem to be any reason to validate the need for a non-removable wristband. I guess, however, I should just give up trying to explain my thoughts on this to everyone as it seems as though some who have posted in this thread felt they should only find faults in my arguments and exploit them to validate their own opinions. I suppose its alright since thats all the internet has become and I should only expect that much. As you so wonderfully pointed out, g-mann, I will deal with the wristbands and move on with life. It wont kill me; I'll be annoyed, but I will manage. I have felt this way since the moment I was given the wristband. However, I guess I shouldnt feel so free as to post my thoughts on this ingenious solution to an issue I never knew existed.

Im thinking PSU's depth and athleticism will be the deciding factor for the day. Akron will probably have a chance to take an early lead, but I wont be surprised if we fall off later in the game once our defense starts wearing down. Im going to take the over.

I have no issues with the system itself, rather the way in which the system is implemented. If you get season tickets from a professional team, do you have to wear your wristband from the day you get the tickets till the last game? No... they are given to you to put on at your convenience before the game. There is a bit of a difference.

:blink:he's defeinitely jealous...

While it may have come across as otherwise, I didn't make this thread to whine about the wristbands. I sincerely feel that the decision to use these wristbands has tossed a rotten egg at the glowing image that was building with the students. There were a lot of kids I talked to that said they were really excited for the first game and couldnt wait to get their tickets, but when they were met with this haphazard solution, they were turned off and now seem a bit sour about the game. Akron needs as many students as possible to show up... but this is not how you do that.

If this was a bracelet like the Lance Armstrong "Livestrong" things, I wouldn't have an issue because those things are both 1) comfortable, and 2) removable, of which these wristbands are neither. They literally feel like the same thing you get at your local fair save for the plastic "non-removable" (until i proved otherwise) clip. At a time when student attendance is in the hundreds instead of the thousands at football games, you'd expect the athletic department to do everything possible to make sure any student who wants to be there can without much hassle. Why they are so concerned about students giving these things out to others is beyond me. To be honest... this wouldnt have been a big issue if this was a day or so before the game... not 12 days out. Hell... if they would have just given it to me and let me put it on for the game, that would been much more suffecient. However, I guess being overly paranoid about students giving out "tickets" is too big of an issue.

from what I have been told from the high-ups in the AK-Rowdies, this is correct.

thats a bit excessive... hahaIve actually been toying with mine for a little while... I think with some patience and some determination, you can pop it off with a paper clip.**UPDATE**I got mine off, rather successfully, I may add.I used a thumb tack and went around punching in the prongs on the pin part of the snap for a while. After that I used a pocket knife (risky, but it was all I had at my disposal) and started prying on the snap. You could probably use a small flat-head screwdriver if you wanna be safer. After a little bit of work, it fell right off and you can't tell that I took the thing off.

I'm game.