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As was posted, there are still 4 more dates to fill and I argue that Miami (FL) IS a big time team on schedule. 2 of the 4 being blockbuster games which we have no control over. Maybe its not a schedule that will challenge Gonzaga but removing the Malones and St Francis' is making progress in my opinion. Maybe with Rick Boles help we can get OSU on schedule one of these years and be one of their 22 home games!! Id like to see Shaka Smart and KD get together and renew the VCU series.

In listening to Coach Dambrot on monday's Zipslive coaching show some improvements to future basketball schedule are happening. According to KD, CSU called us on Monday wanting to resume basketball! They have agreed to a 4 year home2away2 contract, starting at UA in 2010/2011season. KD said while they tried hard to put a tournament together ( Can't,AKRON,YSU,CSU?)they "couldnt put it together for whatever reason. But still in my opinion this is great- CSU is mostly a positive! Name recognition for fans, decent RPI, and easily traveled for fans. He went on to say were scheduled in Las Vegas tournament, playing Miami (FL), Indiana St, and others possibly. Also have scheduled Oral Roberts and Wyoming at home, Oakland ,Temple, UIC, Niagra on road. And 4 spots left to fill. KD has received a lot of heat on Zn about our pushover schedule- and maybe its deserved criticism, but it looks to me like hes making a concerted effort to upgrade the schedule.

I have to disagree with you on the crowd expectation Zach. The UA at UB game drew 3240, while the last 2 WMU games have drawn 3521 and 4656. So with Akron coming to town I guarantee they will draw more than Buffalo did. Still, the fans and the opposition have less to do with the final outcome than how the Zips play themselves. Its ironic how Coach Dambrot made that comment about how Can't is realy good when they want to be and only OK when they dont. Hes probably thinking that of us now dont ya think??

Last year neither game sold out , in fact game at UA only drew 4500 if Im not mistaken. Has this game lost its luster?? It hasnt to me. Heres hoping The mcknights go off on the flushes together one more time at Can't, Zeke opens some more eyes, and the Rowdies have something special up their sleeves ( or on their shirts).

No rebroadcast as in football season. If you subscribe to ZipsZone i think it is available. I taped show and will post highlights tomorrow after listening.No highlights to speak of.... Bill Morgan verbalized for most of 60 minutes as usal, with 35 minutes going to lady zips and 25 going to Coach Dambrot- who used 15 minutes for a rather lame zips trivia quiz. Bill Morgan tries..... but Tom W- please find a way to make a weekly zip coaches show with Steve French happen!!! Every other teams coaches show features their broadcaster...........and Frenchie is the best!!

No rebroadcast as in football season. If you subscribe to ZipsZone i think it is available. I taped show and will post highlights tomorrow after listening.

Akron is licensed for 4 tv channels. 10LP (currently vacant), 23 (ion tv, 49 (pbs, and 55 CW). although its a moot point now, were severlely handicapped bu FCC back in early 50s when all vhf allocations went to cleveland, Steubenville, columbus, and we were given uhf, which hardly anyone could receive. Viewing habits developed with people watching cleveland stations alone. Now the few akron stations focus on cleveland viewers and ignore their city of license. Unfortunate, when you see little youngstown with 5 tv stations of its own!!

Why should anyone care?? I agree as far as CSU and Ohio state go but when they show video highlights of John carrol or case western, or dike college, or Can't and ignore us Im put off a bit!! Agreed you have to earn coverage. But we outdraw csu 2-1 and those others are blips on the radar.

Couldnt be more correct B&G!! Television is justification to those cleveland lovers of OSU, CSU, etc. They want nothing to do with Akron U and dont want to see/hear about them either. Its an incredible handicap that we live with (no TV station) yet were not alone. Same goes for BG, Miami, OU, And Can't so complaining about it is futile. It was refreshing to see/ hear the interest we got last year when we made the NCAA tournement. U are correct, even the powers that be at 3,5,and 19 didnt ignore us then.

In a related topic. Did anyone else besides me expect a flushier uniform once Nike and LB23 took over?? I mean watching a fair amouint of Bball on tv Im hard pressed to find a more boring/plain uniform than we wear for home games. I realize it means squat for the team or us die hard fans but a flushy colorful uniform would catch the interest of some 10yr old novice fans. I always remember the StV/M jerseys from 10 yrs ago now were graphically light years ahead of ours now. Remember our gold jerseys from just 4 or 5 yrs ago??

I stand corrected. most schools and OU were back monday so I assumed UA was back. attendance may suffer but the team should be prepped.

No argument that we didnt play well against them last year, or against NCSU,however we did play decent against TexA/M( we just shot terrible and lost by 12 at the #19 team). No offense VMD but you say "we didnt play........" as if you are a loyal fan, yet you are predicting a 15 point loss??? Why so negative?? Also- concerning the crowd, the URI game is the 1st basketball game were pushing on local radio/CTV and the students are back. I see no reason why we wont have a min of 3500 for this one. IMHO the difference in UA play since november is confidence is there now- particularly with Conyers and B McKnight. Fans should follow the lead and have a little confidence as well. pessimism wont do any good.

Back to Jon Marochino, who's a key player in Freedom Avenue's(thats the Akron/Canton clear channel cluster of 6or 7 stations) third major move.He'll host "The Jon Marochino Show", a weekday, 3-6 PM local sports talk show on sports WARF/1350 Akron "Fox Sports 1350". Quoting another station release:Listeners will be able to express their thoughts on teams such as the Zips, Kant St., Aeros, Cavs, Browns, Indians, and Buckeyes. The program will also devote time to coverage of High School Sports. “For the first time, listeners in Akron won’t have to tune to a station in Cleveland for their daily dose of Northeast Ohio sports” said Marochino. “We are two guys who scream and yell at the TV when our teams aren’t playing well, we’re not clubhouse or locker room reporters, we’re fans who happen to have a radio show” Marochino added. The "two guys" refers to Marochino and sports update anchor Todd Fisher. I realize not too many on here care for the signal/coverage of 1350. No argument here. But still 1350 makes no mistake- their flagship content is Zips sports and I salute them for carrying soccer when no one else ever would have, as well as all the zips mens, womens games, and football and baseball. Bottom line is in Akron we dont get mush "local" coverage so lets try to support it when we do.

News story from Knoxville TN news sentinel....................................................................................Mitch Browning not gone yet!! But it might not be long until the Tennessee graduate assistant is headed elsewhere.The coaching veteran appears to be headed to Notre Dame to join new coach Brian Kelly, though a deal hasn't been finished yet. A source in the UT program indicated it might be done as early as this afternoon."I don't know what's going to happen with that," Vols coach Lane Kiffin said. "I'm sure Mitch is going to get a great job. He's done an unbelievable job, and he's been an offensive coordinator and a line coach at many places and put up a bunch of good numbers."Obviously he was a big help for us this year, leading the SEC in least sacks allowed and having a 1,300-yard rusher."And from Coachscoop.com today.......................................................................Akron:Our sources tell us that Head Coach Rob Ianello has hired Tennessee Graduate Assistant, Mitch Browning, as an assistant coach on his new staff.Sounds like a solid hire to me.

JD Brookhart is reportedly interviewing with Dennis Erickson at Arizona state to take over Offensive coordinator position. I wish JD well and hope he gets it if he wants, still, Im a bit surprised at the speed of his opportunity and the level, considering this years offensive history.

Both teams bunkered for the second half of the games because they knew they were toast if they didn't out number the Zips in the box.This with the Zips 2 best playmakers (Ampi & Nanchoff) not playing or not at full strength.2 ACC programs played the Zips and didn't score a regulation goal. And the Zips didn't come close to bunkering in either game.I'd take my chances with the Zips playing an ACC schedule. They clearly outplayed both UVA and UNC in regulation & overtime. Do they run the table? Who knows .. but they'd have a better chance of running the table in the ACC than anyone currently in the ACC or in the NCAA for that matter.Go Zips!! B) Dont forget the fact we played another ACC team- Virginia Tech during regular season. And we won theat one 2-0. So we did score against ACC but we were not scored upon by ACC. Hey- just a thought. Has Crew stadium ever bid for NCAA college cup championship??

I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE.......[[i Believe that we are going to Cary next weekend to bring back an NCAA Championship!!![

Attendance 4,254!!! I salute the fans. Wish I had a ticket to make it 4,255. Caleb, I hope this support speaks volumes to how youre wanted here!

Hoobler to visit Indiana this weekendby Beacon Sports on December 1, 2009in Football, OrrvilleOrrville senior MLB Chase Hoobler plans to visit Indiana this weekend, according to Orrville coach Doug Davault.Hoobler, who is orally committed to Akron, is going to check out other schools since the Zips have made a coaching change.Hoobler had a close relationship with former Akron coach J.D. Brookhart and the Zips were the first to offer Hoobler.Indiana is one of at least 16 other schools that have offered Hoobler a scholarship.“He’s going to probably visit some other schools as well,” Davault said in an e-mail. “I don’t know that Akron is completely out of the picture, but he is going to explore other options.”Inevitable that these things will happen but it still frustrates us .

Fantastic 2nd half for Zips. First half not so bad either, the baskets just werent falling. Dont get too hard on Humpty- not sure how many others noticed but he threw up( in trash can by team bench and rowdies)at least once tonight. Definately under the weather but he toughed it out. Solid win but a big assist by Niagra coach . French agreed with him- ball was off C Mcknight but call went our way. Thats what home court is supposed to mean. Looking more and more like Mike Bardo is the unknown 3rd player who will be leaving after this year. Disappointing crowd once again. Where is our support.

For what its worth, if you guys are like me youre having little if any luck in finding anyone to use these extra tickets. Heres an idea- bring them along and have ticket taker scan them all. Its just padding attendance but it will look better on paper to have 12773 there than 2, 419. Heres hoping for better things in the future. someday??

Me too, but only if it's strong enough to induce enough stupidity so that I actually believe the zips won't get the number 1 seed in the NCAA's.Hell- Im ok with a 1-0 win!!! But seriously- does anyone know what ticket status is? will tix be available a gate?? Is it near sellout?

On that note, anyone else hear that K-ent starting QB Spencer Keith sustained a serious injury in the 3rd quarter? Apparently injured his throwing arm following a sack. That's unfortunate, hopefully it's not that bad. I look forward to 3 more years of Nicely vs Keith.Good effort in 2nd half. Sorry about being so critical earlier. Did anyone hear KD postgame? Howard should be a W. Attendance of 300 in 8000 seat arena?? How are flushes going to honor Dougie Martins guarantee of winning season and a bowl game now?????? GO SOCCER ZIPS> NCAA AKRON ALL THE WAY

Im sorry to be critical but how can a division 1 program not have equipment to properly broadcast games. Anyone who heard any of the NC State game and its "technical difficulties" knows what I mean. Well guess what- that was far better than todays game. A bad phone connection- barely audible. So bad 1350 pulled the plug at 1pm and replaced it with fox sports. Just disgracefull that this happens. Its bad enough how the teams play but now we cant even hear the game due to equipment problems. Not French'es fault. Bad radio coverage, inaudible content, poor play equals a bad recipe for building a major program.