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I know we had a terrible seasons, but our defense played well in some games. It's expected that they are going to get tired after an offense continually goes 3 and out. So I feel like our offense needs to be our focus. Two glaring needs I see are the O-Line and Receivers. Nicely is not a bad quarterback, he had a good freshman season so we know what he's capable of. He just NEEDS someone to throw to. He has to force throws or just throw the ball away because everyone is covered, if he waits more than a second he gets sacked. Don't get me wrong, he has made plenty of mistakes, but when your offense struggles you have to take risks and sadly for us there are rarely positive outcomes. It will be difficult to get kids to come to a 1-11 program, but please RI do your best!

The same group of students are the ones who make the noise at soccer games. The difference is that at soccer all the other students are packed in around them, and so join in every once in a while. You don't get that effect in the JAR with seating arrangements the way they are. Unify the student section and you'll see a much stronger student presence, and it might even encourage more students to show up. This is a major issue for the atmosphere of basketball games. exactly, those little seating sections behind the hoops do nothing. Kick the old people out of the blue seats and give it to the students! But I understand they want to give the good seats to the people who actually pay to watch the games. Another option would be to make all the students sit behind the hoops, in the lower blue seats and bleachers. Just like at Infocision where they have the "Arby's Student Section" ...or you know they kick the band out. Move them up to the bleachers where they are supposed to be!

Do you guys realize that Tom W is not a football coach here, he is the AD? What does he have to do with rebuilding the team and all the losing? Yes he hired coach I, but beyond that you can't blame him...

+1 This is pretty much THE issue here. UA Athletics does a horrible job promoting the teams (soccer included) to get students to come out. Wow... pizza and pop... big whoop. EVERY time they attempt that pathetic marketing ploy, 1 of 2 things happens: 1) students show up, do nothing, wait till they get their free "stuff" and leave, or 2) they don't show up because honestly... pizza and pop are the 2 most lame things to "give away". Let's not forget that these are STUDENTS here. They aren't paying thousands every semester to go to every athletic event. A lot of them have classes, homework, or hell... even JOBS that get in the way of these stupid weekday games. I for one couldn't make the game because I was slammed with homework due the next day. Students will never come out in large numbers for weekday games. Never will happen. Play on Saturdays and they'll come in larger numbers. But to sit there and say that there should be hundreds upon thousands of students at a Wednesday 6pm game is absolutely absurd. Want to fix the attendance problem? WIN GAMES. End of discussion. You all can wallow on about ticket prices and stupid details like that, but none of them are long-term solutions. To put butts in the seats, win games, win the conference, play in bowl games, get national exposure. Also, let's be realistic here... any MAC team has about no chance at regularly selling out for all their home games. I would be plenty happy to see ~20k for every game. What the hell do you expect. THE TEAM HASN'T WON A GAME ALL YEAR! What is the school supposed to do? pay each student $100 to come? really I would like to know what you people expect to happen. Just deal with it that this team is awful, they gave out free t-shirts, free food, free soccer tickets, and plenty of other promotions this year. I don't know what you want.

No one wants to watch a team lose. It's as simple as that! People can blame the marketing dept or Tom W himself. But what do people expect? sell outs every week to watch a team that is in all reality, painful to watch. Give it time people...

how many things can you people complain about? holy cow!

Yeah I bet it won't be hard to get a kid to come play for a team that can't even win a game...

that seems reasonable enough. I like that they try to keep something like an intro song consistent among all sports. Like I said, it starts a tradition, they NEED to keep it around. Now the video was so so. My favorite was the intro video they used in 2007-2008 season...I think it had the requiem for a dream theme in the background. I think we need to bring something like that back. Special effects, loud music, shots of akron, then highlights....that's what makes a good video.

they play thunderstruck before almost every Akron athletics event. Especially both women's and men's bball, volleyball, and of course football for at least the past 5 years...they ALWAYS play it before tipoff or kickoff...you could call it tradition I suppose not just a football song, there are no references in it about football so I'm not sure why you guys think that?

I just look at this game as if it were a football schedule. You know when a "powerhouse" school, like you know Syracuse, blows out a crappy team at the beginning of the season, that doesn't even care about winning....like you know Akron Just a chance to get all of our players pt, and get their confidence up! Also I hope there will be no disappointments like last years Austin Piss? season opening loss...

if you want to play a horrible team, why does it matter what division they are in?

kind of disappointed this was only an exhibition. Hopefully we blow Millikin out of the water on the 12th, just like we did to JC. Funny that Can't fans said we'd lose tonight...

Yeah. They play at the Canton Civic Center. They're a club team. haha I wish akron had a "real" hockey team...maybe when we get a "real" arena....

I think Cincy is a good example of what we can compare to. They lived in OSwho's shadow but still managed to move up, and only because of their basketball team. I'm not sure, but I don't think their football team was ever anything spectacular. But a big conference would never accept a winless MAC team...that is a fact. Sad though because we have more potential than any other mid-major program in the country.

Man our football team really killed our chances of ever moving up. So sad that terrible schools like UCF and Houston can move up instead of us....

Having been to both I can tell you, it's not. It's not really even fair to compare the two, they are not really the same, close, but not the same. Especially since one doesn't even exist. I think the people that made a stink regarding the football golf outing attended the basketball golf outing. Thanks for checking in TW. I bet if the football team still had their golf outing they'd be undefeated right now! my point was that when a pointless event gets canceled everyone around here cries, but when a good event goes on no one gives a crap. Always go for the negative, you waste your time complain about parking spaces and ticket prices when there are a lot of positive things happening.

woops my blame goes to coach porter for being out coached, the official for blowing the call, and CSU for playing the game of their lives....that is all. *hides* I know that game for CSU might as well be "their" championship. They won't even make the tourney, and prob won't even finish above .500. The game meant nothing to us, so if any we should be glad the loss came now and not when it really mattered!

name someone who has all of those?

I guess there's no more offsides in soccer? the zips need to at least try here, Cleveland State is terrible....shouldn't even be close

Who let Jon Jankowski do play by play for this game? haha I can't even listen to this guy anymore. I never knew our goalie's last name was Miyas, and #10 is Anthony Amwong...but hey at least he pronounced Kitchen right

just says "off air"

I had a friend that went to Halloween Hoops, they said it was a great time! I'm surprised no one around here went, there was such a big stink about not having a football golf outing. This event seemed better and more of a full family event...

You should know by now, Suckeyes fans are not the smartest. They always believe their team is the greatest, and no matter how many games they lose, or haw many times it is proven, they will not accept the fact. They are just flat out overrated. ESPN said it themselves, fine you are better than Akron thats something to be proud of....not. There's a reason no one likes OSwho fans. Fair weather and no matter how bad Akron does, you'll never see us crying on the street corner like I saw so many people do in their stupid red and gray, that night they got spanked by Wisconsin. I even saw idiots turning their jerseys inside out! please get real.

so what are they finally tearing down that high school stadium on campus?

I thought you guys wanted someone with head coaching experience....evidently that's why JD and RI have failed...