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You know what, you can have your rivalry with Cleveland, it's all well and good. But LeLoser made an ass out of all of us. Not just Cleveland. To warm my old quote back up, Just because you're from Akron doesn't mean I have to like you.

NOW he asks "What should I do"? Things would have been a LOT different if he had asked that question before his hour long prime time SCREW OHIO FEST. Here's what you can do. Go to he!!.

For schtinking up the league, going somewhere else, and THEN putting together a championship team? It's the NEOhio way...

Minnehaha as well Minnesota is pretty much Akron's Big Ten twin brother. Never can seem to get it going, rarely show signs of being anything better than mediocre at best. Both open new stadiums during the same year and lose to a FCS team on the same day. Think we can schedule them?

If the team was well coached, and were just outplayed, I'd be the first to say he doesn't have his guys in yet. It's going to take time. But a drive killing illegal procedure (after several last week) is inexcusable at this level. It's not new systems, it's not trying to put lipstick on the pig handed over by JD. It's the most basic freaking fundamentals. Line up where you're suppose to be. OMG the QB is under center now. So that means position players can't figure out where in the hell he's suppose to be lined up??? We have to use the same simple formation play after play year after year? That's on the coaches. It should have been remedied in camp. And it certainly should have been fixed after Syracuse. But it wasn't and it cost us a drive. That took the wind out of the team. Playing a 2 deep zone all day, the GW cheerleaders could game plan that. No adjustments whatsoever, on either side of the ball. Missed field goals. A FG blocked by a I-AA school with 4000 students. Yes they're a good I-AA school, ranked 193 in the country. We were 173rd AND at home. We just plain got out-coached.

Unfrickenbelieveable.

http://www.sportsradio1350.com/main.html It's a few seconds behind NeuLion, but much better info.

Really? Still can't line up?

The Zips soccer team will score more often than Cornbread does this season. How's that?

Too bad we couldn't open against GW.

Can't get me out of your mind, can ya?

For those of you who question my fan-hood, my first date with my high school sweetheart was a Zips football game. Everyone laughed then, we've been married almost 25 years. Since then she's graduated from Akron and I will next year. Non-traditional students. Anyway yeah I've seen a few alone. None of my friends are fans. Infatuated with "the vest". I just run around with the wrong crowd I guess.

Skip, I have to feel motivated in order to go into research mode. I just don't feel motivated to go off in search of data related to being an ACC member in only the sport of soccer. I don't think this data would be easy to find, and I'm just not motivated to spend the hours required in search of numbers that may well not be available anywhere. It might be possible to find numbers related to belonging to the MAC and ACC in all sports. But everyone knows that UA is never going to become a full member of the ACC. Not only that, but what kind of revenue are you looking for in college soccer? Even if we got a stipend from Wake and NC, would that offset the difference in travel to the other schools?

I'm all for getting into a better conference (I prefer the Big Ten because of travel and fan familiarity with the other schools). It improves our overall competition. What do the MAC schools offer us as far as competition to prepare us for the post season? The Big Ten has four teams in the top 25 right now. Think about the rivalry with a regular season and most likely a B10 final against tOSU. I just don't see how weighing down our schedule slaughtering MAC fodder does anything to prepare the team, or improve their ranking. Independent wouldn't be bad. But you sit and wait while everyone else goes through their conference tourney. And you miss out on that revenue. And we get to see less games (even if they are MAC fodder).

Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate you realizing I am the only poster who thought the team was unprepared. I am the only poster who thought the customer service was a "little" lacking I am the only poster who thought the price jack was a little ridiculous. Your man crush thing is a little unsettling, but I decided you get the "Flying Bird Award" because only YOUR opinion matters!!! Now let's all get together and sing the Barney song, and then talk about all the positive things going on in Zip Football... {crickets chirping}

Well you're in a different situation. You don't look at things the same way a lot of other people do.

You got that right. I didn't want to go. Because I knew full well I would just sit there and get ticked off all night, we would get embarassed, and IT WASN'T WORTH IT. Get a freakin clue. I would pay that to see the soccer team play. I don't care who they are playing. THEY'RE WORTH IT. They're entertaining. It's the fans who would pay anything to see anything as long as it's Zips Football, is the reason they don't care if they build a winner or not. They went to the Larry Dolan school of "Getting Rich off of Ignorant Fans".

Shutting out #3 and #4 in the same weekend. I wonder if that's a record? Just 11 more days!!!

You build a fan base. Through winning. And the slightest customer service wouldn't hurt. Would it? How many people would travel to a school (they never attended) 150 miles away to watch a 3-9 Buckeyes team? That hadn't had a winning record in years? This is football heaven. Bernie Kosar built a winning Arena team and NEOhio broke all the attendance records. There are more people at some NEOhio high school games than many colleges can draw. There's a D3 school in freakin Alliance that's on TV about every week. The Akron Aeros broke attendance records, drew better than all but 5 AAA teams. The Cleveland Force drew SRO crowds 20,000+ to see indoor soccer. This market is starving for a winner. Sold out entire seasons at the Jake. Imagine what a college football program could do. Nobody wants to see this program become respectable and win conference titles and bowl games and make Boise State look like a failure more than I do. To walk through campus and see more Zips garb than tOSU. I know personally what potential this area has... If you build it, they will come...

I have. Just because they play football and I was born and raised football and nothing else, I'd still rather see a top ranked team. A first class program.

Some people think they made this "huge investment" in the Info because they want to build a Div I-A level football program. No, they looked at how much it would cost to patch up the RB, and used it (and sponsor money they attracted by building it) to build the Info. It was virtually paid for the day it opened. It was cheaper to build the Info than to patch up the RB. That's why it's here. And for those who don't think we should play I-AA football in such a nice place, have you been to Canal Park? Pro Freight Stadium? Classic Park? There's nothing wrong with having a really nice venue to watch a team play. Even if they aren't considered top level.

Well, considering we haven't had an NFL team since 1994, I would say '94 or '95... If it were the Colts and Patriots, I would agree. They're a I-AA school (your quote) playing the 91st ranked team in the country. BCS my arse. They'd be third best in the MAC. They were 1-6 against the Big Easy last year. Still a lot better than us, but not quite a game big time college football fans schedule on their calendar as a must see. You guys act like they brought in the Crimson fricken Tide. That's right, it's all my fault. I'm the one recruiting, I'm the one teaching these guys the most basic fundamentals, I'm the one who can't figure out how to sell ice water in the desert. WE'RE the reason we're a I-AA school. Funny, the soccer program built itself into a powerhouse, without gouging the fans for years beforehand. No excuse. Maybe it's the people willing to pay Big Time College prices for a 124th ranked team, and get gouged to see them play a top 100 team (barely) is the reason they don't build this program. Just like the Browns and the Indians. What is Larry Dolan's incentive to put even a handful of major league players out there? Those idiots will pay for anything, because it's "Major League Baseball". And they'll pay $50 more per ticket to watch the team get slaughtered by a top team than play a team almost as bad as they are. He's sitting on one of the most profitable franchises in baseball. Why try? I see no reason to pay filet mignon prices for a McNugget Value Meal.