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The seats did look empty during the rain shower. If you didn't have enough sense to look at the packed concourse.

I didn't know they had to wait for the Zips to line up before running a play...

I should add, we need MORE early season night games. There's nothing like a football game under the lights. Until we start hearing "wind chill factor", that is.

JUst got back from the game. OMG we came out flat, giving up an easy TD, puking the kickoff, and then giving up another easy TD. Then the offense finally made it to the foeld and went three and out. No intensity, they finally lit a fire after being down 13. We had two penalties for illegal substitution that kept JM drives alive. And then we wasted a TO on a $%#@&%$ extra point. JM was down 2, and the Akron coaches looked surprised they were going for two!!! They seemed slow to react when JM ran it up the middle over and over and over again. They still kept the safeties standing in front of the JAR. I'm still not excited about this coaching staff yet. The offense got it together, somewhat. But the D couldn't stop anybody in the 1st and 3rd quarters. If they play like that against Michigan and Louisiana, it's going to be UGLY. The D came up big when it needed it most. The Dukes may have had a first down at the end, when the Zips didn't let the runner hit the ground. But from where I was sitting, they got a gimme a couple plays before when the receiver caught the ball out of bounds and they still got the first down.So either way, the game ended fair. They also had a bad habit of wasting time outs, and it bit them in the ass. Great win tonight at home, against a very good team. A good way to turn on a very nice crowd. I'm still going with 3 wins.

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Good news for Will!! I think Brian will make a good coach. Even with that mess down there, I hope he gets a chance.

You think the MAC would boot it's top basketball and soccer programs because the football program bolted? I just don't see the correlation. Although, now that you mention it, would you rather be in the Horizon League? Valpo and Butler at the JAR every year, intrastate rivalries with CSU, YSU, and Wright St (and non=con with Can't State obviously). Less fodder than the MAC West. Just thinking out loud of course, just for fun. Football's not dropping, although the super-programs may drop all the mids. And we're not getting a new arena anytime soon. With or without a full sized floor.

According to Zac, football losing the B10 revenue would be a financial disaster for the other programs. Except eliminating millions of dollars in funding for those other programs.

I do enjoy it, in fact my season tix just came in the mail today for football. This is the first time I'm attempting all of the games. OT, are kids under 5 free? The grandkids will be here and I might just bring one of them to the game.

Sounds like several very good reasons to play FCS football and have a lot more fun... My high school won their conference and went to the playoffs. In Division 4. It was a hell of a lot of fun. And if things had fallen into place, we could have had a chance to win the state championship. In Division 4. Nobody whined and moaned about not trying to be Whitmer and Moeller and St. Eds. Nobody would have traded that experience for a 42-0 ass kicking in Massillon. Same with the Canton Invaders. While we were celebrating an indoor soccer championship, nobody complained that we weren't playing ManU and Barcelona. It's about living within your means.

Phil Dawson didn't want to come back. They'll have a kicker on opening day. They just thought they could find one at least as good on the waiver wire.

But I'm talking about playing for a national championship in football. Legend said it in his post " Akron is never going to compete for a national championship". The same 10-12 "legacy" schools are all that are eligible for the BCS championship. And the playoffs aren't going to change that. They still have the same selection process to pick the four legacy schools as they did the two legacy schools. And even if there were a better system where conference champions would play off for a spot in the championship game, the MAC (and the MWC, and C-USA, and the SBC) are not going to be invited. Because the legacy schools still rule the NCAA, and are not about to let anyone else in. I'd rather see those four conferences have a four team playoff than go to a bowl game. Or a playoff to decide which two GO TO a bowl game. That would be much more entertaining and more of an accomplishment. To wrap it up, if you depend on a football away game against a team 50 points better than you (and bowl revenue) to sustain your athletics, you are in over your head. I don't know how else to explain that.

So you think football will always suck? And you're calling me a pessimist? My point is, since you haven't figured it out yet, is I want to see the football team be able to aspire to something greater than a third-rate bowl game against a .500 opponent. Am I the only one who has football as my favorite sport? I guess I went to the wrong $%# &$#% school then, if all it's there for is to prop up the basketball team that can't sustain itself.

Soooooo football is the sacraficial lamb for these other programs that can't sustain themselves. I guess all those fee$ I was paying to cover those sports was wasted? Or was I paying off the softball stadium (while getting splinters at the baseball uhhhh swamp)? Maybe with REAL facilities, the basketball program wouldn't have to rely on the football team getting destroyed by a B10 school every year. Maybe LeBron should help more. Maybe we should have built a new arena for the basketball instead of the new football stadium, since the football team makes all of their money on the road. Great system we got here, trying to compete with the big boys with a baby boy budget. I guess Huggins just didn't see the big picture.

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