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In all fairness, if so many people cared about soccer wouldn't you expect more than 2,460 for a MAC championship game? I respect what Porter and the Zips have done, bringing Akron a championship. But at the end of the day I would trade that championship for a winning football team. We just watched our basketball team crush any chance of decent crowds, rankings, and an at-large bid. Football secured it's 3rd 1-win season in a row. Fun weekend for Zips fans! Not sure what John Buchtel did to curse our school, but dang...the constant disappointments are so much fun!

Embarrassing, can't blame anyone but themselves.

This may be the most embarrassing loss I can ever remember by the Zips

Zips had a nice run going, then completely fell apart before the half. Lucky to still have the lead. Zips aren't getting any calls, missing easy shots inside the paint, and turning it over way too much.

Wow these refs are terrible. Can't believe how many fouls they are calling on Akron!

What's going on with our team? it looks like they're just running around in circles

it's better! we get to watch the awesome spinner! and we paid for it!

Nope...nothing at all. Looks like it's loading, but it's been that way for about 5 min.

I paid the $5 to watch the video. I don't think it could be any worse than the MAC feeds, but you never know.

Having Harney and Tree out may not seem like a big deal now, but it could be. Add in significantly decreased minutes for Abreu and it's a big loss. An attempt at an at-large bid is already a longshot and it makes EVERY SINGLE GAME of the season important. Think if we lost to Coastal Carolina and Ok State how much that would hurt our chances. Not to mention a 1-2 start would hurt any type of "excitement" our fanbase has for this season.

This kind of suspension would NEVER happen to a big school.

lol looks like some parts of that logo need to be censored!

First of all, the marketing department has nothing to do with 1-win football teams, hiring Ianello, Porter leaving, and mediocre basketball. I've never worked in marketing but I can imagine it's easy to be given a a pile of crap and try to market it to the community as a steak. I don't think you, or anyone else around here has the right to insult people. If you think you can do a better job, why not apply? The ONLY thing we have going for us right now is a good soccer team (which will end after this year) and a beautiful football stadium. But no matter how much incentive you give students to go to a football game, it doesn't matter if the team is a consistent loser. Take the Indians for example, they have one of the best marketing departments around. Fireworks and free stuff including JERSEYS are given away to fans and still no one shows up. Why? because the product on the field is bad.

Comparing the club level at Infocision to the lower bowl at the JAR is ridiculous. Students should be close to the floor, in a unified section. Honestly I'd rather thousands of students siting packed into those sections, than a few hundred random people that sit on their hands for most of the game. Do schools like Duke, UNC, and Pitt shove the students into tiny sections in the end? Students at those schools get the best seats in the house.

That was 100% a clean hit. Lead with the shoulder, surprised they even threw a flag to begin with. But, they need to me more consistent with calling holding and ball spots. Akron got screwed out of 2 yards and 1st down on the last drive. Apparently forward progress means nothing to MAC refs...

Guess my "negativity" is the reason the Zips completely collapsed and lost this game.

....hate to rub it in, but I told you so

Pat Shurmur would have punted at the 4th & 1 situation

No, the unrealistic optimism around here needs a reality check.

21-14. Akron is 1-8 and if you think we're going to win you're fooling yourself. Sorry I want them to win as much as anyone, but it's not going to happen. Have to assume Can't is going to score on every possession for the rest of the game.

14-7 now just like that. It's not negativity, it's reality.

14-0 doesn't mean much, this team is capable of losing 50-14. I'm not comfortable with any lead, the defense is just way too weak.

I've always said the student sections should be along the I-J-K-L side. ...but at the end of the day it comes down to money. Hopefully they decide to build a new arena that allows for a more unified/larger student section.

They said on the radio the scoreboard/monitors arent working...gotta love the JAR Who says we don't need a new arena?