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Wouldn't notice him except for his constant assault on the English language.

Now Cribbs is ragging on the Browns for their lousy draft picks. Like signing him?

Instead we bring in Pohl

I keep wondering why the color is going out on my TV. What were they thinking putting down gray turf?

Halftime Akron up 40-14. A great day to roll up 60 on someone.

An easy way to track Zips alumni and reference those no longer active. http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?key_school=bf479b5c&exact=1&query_type=key_school

I agree, Oklahoma and LaLa are paydays, Pitt is a neat local rivalry I hope continues. They certainly travel well. If they had a choice they would have led off with the cupcake game, but this must not have been possible. The REAL season starts October 3, the conference schedule is very favorable, that's when it counts. I like playing tough opponents that are better than us, they expose areas that need addressed. They prepare us for the BG's and hopefully Toledo's and bowl game opponent. I don't agree with playing a cupcake schedule to be bowl eligible, because I think bowl games see right through that. And if you do go to a bowl game, you don't belong there and that will be very evident. Hopefully they use the Ok collapse and the Pitt debacle as a tool to improve and get ready for the MAC. If they do, I feel sorry for Savannah St. A little.

Agreed, I forgot those. This is all stuff that worked before. It would be understandable if this was the first football game ever, but come on. This place has been open for FIVE YEARS and didn't have these problems. I mentioned coffee cups, and that may not seem like a big deal, unless you saw the people who were out in the seats, shivering, a hot cup of coffee would have made the miserable weather and even more miserable play almost acceptable. One Pitt fan quipped all the cups were in the soccer stadium. A Zips fan said "we cut the baseball program, you'dd think we could afford some *** **** coffee cups." If it were only one or two things, that would have been almost understandable. But taken as a whole, completely unacceptable. Embarrassing. That was anything but an FBS experience and I am ashamed of what my university looked like to our guests.

Looking at all of the people there tonight, and all of the people from Pitt, and the excitement, I thought THIS was the kind of game we built this stadium for. And I was almost convinced that we really do need to get into a better conference. Then I got in line for tickets, and it went 3/4 the way across the north end of the stadium. And it moved sloooooooooooooooooooooow. If you want to sell 20,000 tickets, you might want to make it possible to sell 20,000 stinkin' tickets. Part of the problem was the away will call at gate 3 was swamped and people were complaining. But again, they expected 20,000, and were ill prepared for 10,000. Then we get inside the stadium after the game started, and the scoreboard is all jacked up. Part of it wasn't working right, part wasn't working at all, and the video kept stuttering. Did they wait until 30 minutes before the game to turn it on for the first time since November?? Then we have all these fans here, something we always wished for, and the concession stand didn't have any cups for coffee. What the hell????? One Pitt fan joked they were all in the soccer stadium. It's like he knew the pecking order in the Athletic Dept. I'm embarrassed. Think small, be small.

It's fun to go. They have crazy foods in the menus, stuff for the kids to do, something going on all the time. If they can make baseball fun in today's ADHD world, the Zips can learn a lot from them.

The Zips played at Canal Park in 2014 IIRC, but with the usual complete lack of anything resembling marketing, they got the same couple hundred. I don't see baseball coming back. With Title IX and all that, there's no way. Maybe if the northern schools come up with a new model for baseball like I brought up before. Maybe a fall-spring season. Or a shorter season with more games per week, starting in April. Maybe a regional tournament in a northern indoor stadium. But trying to keep up with the warm weather schools, travelling the entire month of March, recruiting against the warm weather schools, and hoping praying to make it to the superregionals before being blown away by the warm weather powerhouses. That just doesn't make sense.

We're up 62% to 38% now

Being wary of what the Scar will pull next is not an agenda. It's concern over our alma mater. Fans of his should be wary of the concerns of benefactors.

It was mentioned on Big Time Sports that Coach R will be on the show as soon as his employment with the U is terminated in a couple of weeks, and he will be more than glad to share what really happened behind the scenes during the hatchet job. I look forward to that. I wish they had pod casting (that would require a real website) because I might not catch it.

Who enters campus this way??? Doesn't everyone walk on from dorms, or parking decks? Or crossing the tracks in the old Union Station from downtown? Complete waste of money and valuable land. Which is exactly why this ass hat will do it.

Dang. If that's the talent the U is putting out, we're in a lot more trouble than I thought.

You know that's how the media (especially the BJ) will play it up.

And the next unpopular move, http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/ua-to-close-last-remaining-stores-inside-quaker-square-general-store-and-newsstand-comics-1.617164 Quaker Square 1975-2015

Not sure about this hire. But then again, he doesn't have far to go to be better than his predecessor.

When was there ever good marketing? Acme/Zip maybe. I've seen 18,000+ at off-the-wall (pun intended) sports in Summit County and Cleveland. I've seen the Aeros set attendance records. Marketing is the first step. And given the current climate at UA, will probably never be addressed. We were among the thousands of fans who drove to the Little House on the Prairie in a snowstorm to watch soccer on a hockey rink. Or as Pete Franklin called it "Human Pinball". And to watch football on a hockey rink. Using good basketball in a lousy arena vs. lousy football in a good arena doesn't change that fact.

I've been out to eat three times since the announcement, and all three restaurants had Zips baseball jerseys on the wall. There's no point (like most of my posts lol) just sayin'. I wonder if there's a way to buy one off the U, since they don't need them anymore.

I'm afraid this position is poisonous because of all the crap going on, and the sudden dumping of one of the sports. Even as a fan it's hard to be optimistic of the future.

Understood, but everyone on here keeps throwing up "attendance". as the only factor. I could discuss Scar's excuses, but who here cares? In the end this is a forum for three Zips sports. There are other places to discuss the rest.

So, when did the purpose of college athletics change from building healthier better-rounded adults to being an important entertainment medium for everyone else? When we were shoved into Division I? And I'l, ask again, why aren't Men's and Women's Cross Country, Men's and Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Men's and Women's Golf, Men's and Women's Rifle, Women's Swimming & Diving, Women's Tennis, and Men's and Women's Track & Field held under the same standard? Why is nobody on this forum calling for the end of these money wastes? Students and taxpayers are subsidizing these sports (as well as the "revenue producing" sports). Unless those questions are answered, then all this anti-baseball chatter is baseless opinion.

Shap and Alto successfully corrected four of their mistakes by dumping $45 million from the payroll that netted 17 home runs this year. Next up, Santana ($6.2 million for .225 and 11 HR). Once their done cleaning up their disaster, they need to be fired and replaced by someone who can find power hitters in free agency and know the amateur draft from a hole in their head. In the meantime, it's a lot of fun watching Lonnie Chisenhall (our five year failed project at 3B) floundering around right field like a 50 year old beer league softball player.