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You're looking at minor league hockey and arena football at least. There's been a couple tries at minor league basketball in Akron but no real facility.Monster Trucks. Arenacross. Circus. Not the big name $50.00 ticket stuff, but still sells tickets. Then there's the concerts. Conferences. Religious retreats.Look at the Canton Civic Center and the Covelli Centre schedules, and ramp it up a bit if you have more seats. Bigger concerts. Maybe even an NCAA Regional.It's really a tough question. You don't want to go small and wind up with another JAR. You don't want to go Richfield Coliseum and lose the "intimacy". Here's my question for you guys.How cheezy are the curtains used by CSU to close off a big chunk of the Wolstein, or the ones used by the Lake Erie Monsters to close off the upper deck that they can't sell? Not a big deal? Or just plain cheese?That may be the answer to having a close loud college basketball crowd and bringing in the U2's.

Just so the floor area is big enough for hockey.

Where do you guys play?

Best comment I have seen in a long long time.

I shouldn't have gone there and I apologize.I'm the type who can laugh at himself as much as anyone else.I joke about Italians all the time, despite my ancestory. That doesn't make me a dagophobic. Just someone who doesn't always think of how the other guy will take it.

Think about it a minute.It's public record he verbally committed for the past three months. I was suprised you guys didn't know. The tOSU offer (or reasons for deciding against NW and BGSU) couldn't be brought up until the verbal commit. Just In Case. If things fell through at Akron, do you want to be the guy who ruined his NW deal because you said "He didn't go to Northwester because Randy Walker is a douchebag"? Living in the same town, with a son on the team, I don't.

You can bet Broad Jumping isn't one of the sports.I better stop before the PC police (or the tasteless unfunny joke police) gets irritated.

Just one of several reasons we should be careful in bringing up stuff about recruits before they're signed sealed and delivered. I've been around forums long enough to know some people just want to argue about every detail they don't already know, open-mouth-and-insert-foot because they DON'T have all the facts, or start a pissing match because we're reluctant to bring them up in the first place.Wow this kid would look good lined up with Zeke...

Gee I don't know. Who was it who asked ???Next?

Look, I had info from a different perspective. And despite the news being out for three months, there are still people here who obviously don't know the first thing about what went on.Next time YOU answer everyone's questions, since you obviously know everything there is to know. And nobody else closer to the situation could have any insight.If you want to jump on someone for bringing up three month old news, start with everybody who MISSED it for three months. Wow, you guys are on top of things.

I didn't expect you'd understand.But you're welcome. Next time I'll be sure you're the last to know. tomato.gif

He mentioned the facilities, the coach being a former NFL receivers coach, all the starting WR's graduating. Full ride and able to commute. Family can come watch easily. Not entirely true. Rewing a few months... It's still not an entirely done deal. But since it's being made public, that's different. There are things in the works that just can't be thrown out on a forum like this. In football and in other sports. I don't talk about that stuff outside the team.

My sons are teammates of his, and I've had to bite my lip for a long time over this. It hurts, I'm glad it's over now You don't know how hard that was to keep quiet about.It's all true. The sweater vest was in town at least twice. We could have seen him on TV this year, but the annual Wadsworth-Medina broadcast got pulled this year because we beat the crap out of them the past couple years. So no TV for us.

VERY interested.I've been trying to get the graphics departments and GoZips people to make wallpapers for years. No reply.

Just so they have the pole vault in Cleveland.

Oh you guys are being silly.I mean, who really wants to buy a men's polo shirt? Besides me?

So a career record of 28-36 is a "strange intellectual gyration". I'm sorry I just don't think that's acceptable. If you want to see "strange gyrations", watch our passes.

A new Spin?What's wrong with the old one?

You're right. oops

I think Akron will win a game, even though Cleveland has more chances. The Zips get EMich, the Browns are going to get owned by the freakin Lions. They can't even find the end zone against a starting defense.The Browns looked good in the second half of the pre-season games, it's a shame the NFL doesn't have JV squads.Of all years to not play Miami OHHH....

Let's look over the numbers:JD took over the team in 2004, and had one good year in 2005. That wasn't his team. That was still Lee Owens' team.Since then, Akron has been 5-7, 4-8, 5-7, and 1-3. 15-25 in that time. If you count his record since he started, you're looking at 28-36. He only has one player in the NFL that he recruited. Reggie Corner. Though gone since 2003, Lee still has Alleman, Blackburn, Frye, Hixon, and Smith. (Taylor would be Faust's recruit).

Well, you don't just build a new building, put the players from the RB recruiting era in it, and become world beaters overnight. It's going to take a few years before we see the benefits.In basketball, that's not as big a deal. Why? The 64 team NCAA Tournament. Just win the MAC Tourney, and you are in The Show. If there's an announcement for a new building soon, that helps. The Zips have a track record in the MAC, and a true center. Soccer, yes, need a new stadium. For the fans, and for the program. But we're a top 10 team and put players in the MLS. Recruits come here.

Interesting question. I follow four sports, don't know much about the rest.The men's basketball team could grow to that point one day. Maybe soon. The men's soccer team already has. In fact I can't get excited about watching them play the bottom half of ANY conference.Baseball, football, long way to go. The football staff has the tools to do some serious recruiting now, no more excuses.

The Zips club hockey team played their opener tonight.Check them out at www2.uakron.edu/icehockey/ (when the websites are up and running).They were pretty competitive last year, until the rest of the season was canceled for some reason.

Because the Can't State alumnus are still peddling at Jacobs Field for another couple weeks...