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Same with me. My great grandfather came to the US in 1900. Went through Ellis Island and settled in Cincinnati. Wish I could have talked to him...

The Vest was recruiting the night he was announced. Dustin Fox said he was watching the Buckeyes basketball game and they rolled Tres out at halftime. 20 minutes later the phone rang and it was Tressel, from a phone in the arena, working on convincing him to change his mind and play for the Bucks. You don't need a staff or an office set up or anything else to get started on recruiting. Just the numbers of the guys you want to target first, and a phone. Fox went to OSU, btw.

It's all in the marketing. Looking at the Wooster Oilers and Lake Erie Crushers, it doesn't take a lot to sell this level of competition even in a "bad" market and economy. Even the Lorain County Ironmen drew better. We've seen soccer on every level do well here. If you can't sell soccer in this region, there's something wrong.

Chicago. Being a firefigher, well, you know. Bari of Italia Serie B. Sometimes A sometimes B. Columbus Crew on and off, they just never grabbed me. The US National Team The Italian National Team

They're also raffling off an autographed Rick Nash portrait, and I've heard rumors the AK Rowdies will be in attendance. If so, watching them torment the opposing goalies is worth the price of admission in itself. This is the only home game in December.

This season shows us just how difficult it is to run the table and go rounds in the tournament. And gives us a better idea just what we accomplished last year.

Darn, I think I'm busy that night.

Anthony Schrock is playing for Walsh, leading the team in receptions. Several of his Wadsworth teammates are there as well.

We had the only profitable indoor soccer team, and sold out the 18,000 seat Coliseum for two different franchises. We're third in attendance in NCAA soccer. Broke records for attendance in AA baseball, and outdrew all but four AAA teams. In Cleveland the Caps and the City Stars broke attendance records. The only reason we shouldn't have a team is the local economic conditions.

Ironic how other colleges have riots when they fire the coach. Akron might have one if they don't. I heard somewhere JoPa comes from a different time and place (he's so dang old) and comes from a dn't ask don't tell culture in America's sometimes ugly past. Makesmore sense than a cover up. And would explain his seemingly misunderstanding of the severity of the crime now.

This will be a night of turmoil on the PSU campus. Riot police are active.

Band on the Run.Sorry, someone had to say it, after the weekend we've had on here.

...besides the fact ESPN shows MAC games nationwide. What other network does that?If it wasn't for that, and STO looking for off-season filler, the MAC couldn't sniff TV.It's all supply and demand.

fixed that.But there's one big difference. The Chipps and the Zips are my schools. They're where I went, my classmates out there.The Browns are an entertainment business, like Tony said. And it hasn't been entertaining in decades. The connection I have with this circus is getting weaker and weaker.

Class of '84. UAkron class of 2012. Yeah, second career guy. I still follow the WCAL of course, I see Smithville lost. I try to make a Chipp game every year, Friday is usually when I get my OT though.I haven't been to Erika's in years. I usually hung out at the Valley with the rest of the firemen when I lived there. Or the Legion with the fire officers if I needed some brownie points for something I f'd up.

I heard that.I feel the same way about my high school team (Doylestown), college (Akron), and favorite pro team (Cleveland). A combined 4-22 record this season.

Very telling is the USA Today realignment plan for Div I BCS. The MAC completely disappears (except for Temple) as does the C-USA (except for four schools).http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/foo...nterstitialskip

A lot of college players already play in the PDL league.Understood, but playing as a unit, with the same coaching staff, would have its advantages. Especially if they can't camp and play exhibitions in the spring.

I've never sat in the stands at a Vikings game, the one basketball game I have been to I was in the floor seats. So I don't know how those first few rows are. The first row or two are at floor level, unlike the JAR where they are elevated and behind the wall. That's one difference I see.

Now you're talking about the SIZE of the arena more than the flooring arrangement. Akron wouldn't need (or could afford) anything NEAR that size, nobody would be that far away because the building would be a lot smaller.The noise level and intimacy would be much better in a smaller arena. Even the CSU Convo (seating 13,000) is bigger than Akron needs. Yet the crowd is right there in basketball configuration.This is a 20 year old system. I've seen other arenas that had stands move out to the court from where CSU's curtain is, out to where the alumni band sits. It's workable.I just think it would be an easier sell, and a much more useful building, if it could also house hockey, indoor soccer, indoor lacrosse, arena football, monster trucks, on and on. And not just for spectator sports, but also intramural sports and just plain fitness/play.And to answer someone else, the hockey ice problem I remember was in an arena built in 1928.

What would keep a college official from forming an independant PDSL league with the coach and players, and using that for player development during the off season?

Hell area Division 3 teams are on TV more than than the Zips are...

Do you have an accompanying list for the Washington Generals? Yeah, just look up Can't State alumni.

+1"I see dead programs. Walking around like regular programs. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead."

There are two problems with college giving up scholarships and football and basketball minor leagues.And they both involve MONEY.#1 The handful colleges that make the decisions and the BCS conferences, make money in truckloads. They're not going to give that up.#2 The NFL and NBA would have to spend money on a minor league system, and they don't want to. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? As my girlfriend use to say.Imagine if there were no minor league baseball. No Akron Aeros. No Lake County Captains or Mahoning Valley Scrappers or Lake Erie Crushers. Imagine Akron U getting all of that money and attendance. Canal Park being on campus with Zip games drawing 3300 fans per game. Imagine the talent level of the teams!!!Or all of the people at Lake Erie Monsters games going to CSU and Akron hockey games. Imagine the talent level of college hockey.