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A couple signs that I graduated from the University of Akron Within three months of graduation, I took and passed my state licensure test, and found a position that doubled my previous salary. And could triple it this week (fingers crossed), a year away from graduation. Everywhere I go and I tell them where I went to school, it raises eyebrows. Try that at Can't State or CSU...

One program dropping to a lower sub of DI does not have ONE SINGLE THING to do with any of the other programs. You geezers are so against anything different you can't even keep the topics straight. It's all just melding together into one big pile of crap. I'm trying, I'm really trying to wrap my arms around the idea of the soccer and basketball programs playing for national championships, while the football team strives to build a program that can contend to play the 8th best B10 team in the Pizza Bowl. I'm just not there yet.

If football dropped to Division I-AA, note the I, why would basketball and soccer have to drop from I to II? Although if basketball did drop to Division II, the JAR would be appropriate.

ESPN3 through an X Box. It would freeze and then skip forward, or run behind the actual game (I would see stuff in the forum that wasn't on my TV yet). Then X Box Live kept logging off. Next time I'll use a computer instead of the game system. Or just listen to Frenchie and play the game on XBox. The Zips are nationally ranked on it.

That's a good point. It's as if he's afraid a bigger program is going to pound him into next season. But they weren't giving him a lot of pressure that I saw. My XBox Live/ESPN3 was a gong show but what I did see, he had time.

YEssir. UCF is a very good mid. I don't know if I would even call them a mid, looking at their enrollment. Now Can't squeaking past Liberty, that's a different story. :lol:

I firmly believe this team could take NIU at home. And might give them a scare in DeKalb. This is not a bad program we got beat by tonight. They got it together. I still think we win 3.

Another reason to lead off with a I-AA school...

I hope we're getting a big payday for this game. Like the Michigan game.

"There's the poise" as the ball falls out of his hand.

It's XBox Live dropping out on us. Migt hae to hoook the puter to the TV

It would be worse to be the defending runners-up and not be able to put away Liberty. I'd almost rather watch that shipwreck. Flush fans will say its because Dri is out. I expected us to have trouble against UCF. They would give anyone in the MAC fits, might even beat NIU, at home. I wish we would start the season against the James Madisons. It would make these games easier to take. Well, we lost ESPN3, guess I'll check on the Browns 3rd team.

Called that one,

I want to see a replay of that fumble...

On Joe Dunn's radio showe yesterday they said the Time-Warner Sports Net would be picked up by satellite services. Fingers crossed (I have DirecTV)/

I think it would look good right in the center of the Can't State campus. LOL Get a couple guys I know drunk, and they might do it.

Sports Time Ohio is toast after the baseball season anyhow. Fox bought them and will be merging it with Fox Sports Ohio. STO's contracts with different entities (including the website I wrote for) are done. A lot of good people are leaving STO. Game over. Time Warner is a rip off. I'm not going back. I have two choices for cable, if I wanted to go back to cable (on DirecTV now) and I don't. Awful deal, MAC. You screwed yourself. Way to stay small.

MAC ANNOUNCES CREATION OF CAMELLIA BOWL IN 2014; MONTGOMERY, ALA-BASED BOWL OWNED & OPERATED BY ESPN MAC vs. Sun Belt matchup to begin in 2014 college football bowl season For Immediate Release—Monday, August 19, 2013 Cleveland, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference announced today the creation of the Camellia Bowl, a newly created bowl game to begin in 2014, which will be based in Montgomery, Alabama, owned and operated by ESPN. The Camellia Bowl will feature a MAC bowl eligible football program to face a member of the Sun Belt Conference for the next six consecutive football seasons (2014-2019) in a pre-Christmas game televised nationally by ESPN or ESPN2. “The Mid-American Conference is proud to partner in the creation of the Camellia Bowl beginning with the 2014 season,” said Dr. Jon Steinbrecher, Mid-American Conference Commissioner. “The historic Cramton Bowl will be a great venue for our student-athletes and fans. Additionally, Montgomery’s entertainment district will provide a fun and lively bowl experience for all involved. I want to thank all parties involved for their diligence in creating this event, especially Montgomery mayor Todd Strange.” The Camellia Bowl will be played in the Cramton Bowl, a 25,000 seat stadium that has undergone significant renovations over the last several years, including a new press box facility, locker rooms and VIP hospitality accommodations. Beginning in the 2014 bowl season, the Camellia Bowl will be the third bowl game where the MAC is a primary bowl partner. The MAC has long-term primary contracts with the Go Daddy Bowl (based in Mobile, Ala.) through the 2017 season and Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (based in Boise, Ida.) through the 2019 season

Cautious optimism.

I never knew where it was. I found where the Akron Pro's stadium was. But not Forge Field. Was it where the ball diamond is now? The first Zip game was played in Hudson. No stadium yet. Nobody thought college football would be what it is today.

GP1, you'll like this slideshow of Division 1 football. http://www.goducks.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?SPS...p;PALBID=970348 Go hard or go home.

The anti-arena people are forgetting a couple things. Corporate sponsorship. Naming rights was a big factor in the decision to build the Summa Field at InfoCision Stadium and First Energy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field. Renovation costs of the JAR, to have a nicer gymnasium. We make fun of the idiots who are trying to renovate the Rubber Bowl. But some of us want to do the same thing to this newer, but equally as outmoded a structure. It was outmoded the day it opened. Then there are the contributors. People who would donate their own money to see this happen. Just like the Info. Just like other projects around campus. If a new arena could be built, using these sources of money, at a cost lower than putting lipstick on the JAR pig, what the hell's the problem? A lot of people get their panties in a bunch over talk of football dropping down to I-AA. But they're the first to poo-poo any idea that would make Akron LOOK like a friggen D1 school. Do you want to be Division I or not? And about Cameron Hall and Rupp Arena. THEY ARE NICER THAN THE JAR. THEY ARE MORE COMFORTABLE THAN THE JAR. No comparison. And THEY HAVE A STRONG LEGACY because of the history of the programs there. They are the Fenway Park and Lambeau Field of college basketball. Both of those facilities were kept modernized and blew the shit out of the newer Cleveland Municiple Stadium in every way as a fan experience anyway. We're beating a dead horse with some of these stiffs. Like I said, if the people running the U had this foresight, all classes would still be in Buchtel Hall. With black chalk boards and coal heating. The football team would still be playing Western Reserve University and Kenyon in a field in Hudson.

So a new arena would have NO value to improving the program??? That's where we're at now? Ever hear of "recruit visits?" Terry Bowden, the guy who started this thread with his comment, came to Akron (in large part) because it had first rate facilities to woo recruits with. The past several years we seem to be that one player away from taking the next step. New arena=better recruits. Would you attend Akron today if they still had chalk boards and a cafeteria? And everyone else had modern technology? Nicer facilities + bigger capacity=bigger crowds. Could we bring in a big program (or even a school with a famous name more from football than basketball) with a bigger arena? If the university had the forsight of the people on this forum, we would have all been squeezed into Buchtel Hall for class.

When's the last time you saw tOSU play at a gym similar to Kenmore high school's?

This can't be right. http://www.ohio.com/editorial/joseph-yeado...duates-1.416007