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They should make it a sports bar type campus restaurant for students and the general public. Keep it open 365 as a hub for Akron athletics. They already have a license for alcohol. it would make sense, but we can't do it along Exchange. Eminent Domain says you can't tear down a business to replace it with that same business. You can't tear down a bar and then put a bar there. One of the things holding back the team shop is that B&N wants to sell coffee and candy, but they can't because the Odd Corner already did that in the same location. One place that would work fine legally would be on Spicer, next to the new dorms. Don't we sell coffee and candy at the concession stands inside the stadium?

How about in "The Comeback" episode of Seinfeld? "The Jerk Store called and their running out of you!" They mention akron at about the 4 minute spot. Also in the great 90s cartoon the Rugrats, Tommy Pickle's family moved from Akron, to their current home in California! btw 90's nickelodeon was the greatest!

This will be an early Christmas present for the ankle-bitters from YSU. Their only goal in life is to brag about how much better they are than us. Too bad our football team is so "scared" to play a mediocre FCS team

this is exactly how I feel! I couldn't care less if Ianello didn't have a golf outing. He's a coach, he needs to be coaching and recruiting. In his first year he should have more important things to do, which is just doing his job so we can have a winner on the field. Also I really don't see how a golf outing would really do anything to bring more people to the games. Think about it, who would really be there? season ticket holders, z-fund members? people who already support the program. I don't think an average joe who's not familiar with the Zips would just randomly go to the outing, and while he slices yet another ball into the woods, thinks to himself, "well i suck at golf, but maybe I should go watch a team that sucks too"

They said on Grant street, between Exchange and Wheeler? does this mean Gallucci is getting torn down, or the Townhouses? Wouldn't mind seeing either one go, I lived in Gallucci for 3 years and it has really been showing its age. I wonder why they didn't want to build this new building up near the stadium like originally planned?

Tough choice? not really, football home opener is where it's at. Nothing better! Agreed. And you'll undoubtedly be in the overwhelming majority. In fact, if I were to take a "wild" guess, I'll predict that 20,000 people choose the football game, and about 20 will choose to travel to the road soccer game. Now I'll wait for the "Soccer is going to catch on in America someday" people to jump all over our comments. I actually don't think we'll make it near 20,000, but I hope I'm wrong. I think OSU is off that day so we might get a bigger turnout, and maybe...just maybe we won't have to see any ugly red at the stadium!!!!! I'm thinking a crowd similar to the Indiana game is what we should expect to see. I love soccer, and hope we can get that championship this year, but they are away games. I just don't see why you'd want to go all the way to NC to watch them, when you can watch the home opener for football. It's just hands down a better experience at football games, because it really is more than just a game. Tailgating, partying, basically a full day experience... I still don't understand why some Cowlumbus State fans insist on showing off their Red and Silver apparel at an Akron game. I wouldn't consider myself a soccer fan, but I am a Zips Soccer fan. I agree with you, the reality of the situation with it being a soccer game, and being hundreds of miles away, I expect that the ratio of those who will choose soccer over football will be about 1,000 to 1. I'll also be very interested in seeing what kind of crowd shows up for this game. For decades, we've normally gotten our largest crowd for the first game. Having a better opponent than last year will help. Will Labor Day weekend help or hurt? If OSWho is off, that will help. But I think ultimately, the fact that we no longer have the "first game on campus in brand new stadium" excitement in our favor makes me want to agree with you that we won't get close to the Morgan State attendance from our home opener last year. But, I am still hoping that we can do better than the Indiana game. I have a few theories... 1. They are stupid obviously and think that they look good? 2. They think since they are at a football game they can wear any football jersey they want 3. They don't care about the zips, really are just at the game because they have nothing better to do and want to show off that they are really Buckeyes fans who have no connection to the school. 4. They are white trash that left their trailer park to go to a local wal-mart and all they could afford was osu gear. ...sadly when I see red and grey I actually lose respect for a person. Same as when I see Can't or Pittsburgh gear. I mean they could actually be nice people, but when associated with such an idiotic fan base, I can help but just assume they are like all the rest...

The greatest sport in the world, "football", is called "soccer" in the U.S.A. So, what's your point? I have bitten my tongue long enough. I wish the soccer Zips well and would never make disparaging comments about the team even though I have zero interest in the sport itself. The same courtesy is not extended by some of our soccer fans when speaking about the football Zips. I hope the soccer team wins every game, going from pre-season number one all the way through to NCAA champions! Because I am a Zip. And I wish ALL the Zip athletes success. If you are gonna take jabs at the football program and compare them to the soccer program, stay on the soccer board. If you are gonna make comments about soccer being a better sport than football or more popular world-wide than football, stay on the soccer board. Popularity abroad means nothing. David Hasslehoff is a star in Germany. The French think Jerry Lewis is a comedic genius. We are talking about NCAA sports here. According the latest statistics I could find from the NCAA, the largest crowd ever at an NCAA soccer game was 22,512 back in 1980. In 2008, the 86th ranked football team on the list, Central Michigan, averaged 22,659 for their home games. Here are the links. http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/footb...ndance/2008.pdf http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_soc.../Attendance.pdf Stop hating on the football program. Did I say I hated the football program? I made a "jab" back at some of the folks who find it necessary to state that American football is better than soccer on the soccer forum. Before you become all "self-righteous", I invite you to check out the other forums. I wish our football team the best. I want to see them do well. I have a football season ticket and soccer season ticket, unlike some who come into the soccer forum and say they would not spend one second watching soccer. EDIT: What I was commenting on was the arrogance of "the greatest sport in the world", for which American Football was implied. Arrogance like the NFL putting "World Champions" on the Super Bowl Champion rings. It's not a world championship; the world doesn't compete. Super Bowl Champions or NFL Champions, but not world champions. Soccer (or football as the rest of the world calls it) actually has a World Championship played every 4 years. So when you mention NCAA...no that was not the reference of the post I was replying to...it was "world". Guess I am FIRED UP like the thread title. Good night. The way I see it the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB are the top leagues in the World. All of the greatest players, reguardless of home country, will come to the U.S. to play. This is what makes them World Champions. I guess your argument would be better if say the MLS champions were called 'world'.

The greatest sport in the world, "football", is called "soccer" in the U.S.A. So, what's your point? I never said "football is the greatest sport in the world" if you really want to get technical. I never specified what the greatest sport was, but implying that on labor day weekend it was being played at UA, this means it would have to be the sport at Infocision Stadium. Since technically there will be no mens soccer (European football) being played at UA that weekend. So thats my point haha

Tough choice? not really, football home opener is where it's at. Nothing better! Agreed. And you'll undoubtedly be in the overwhelming majority. In fact, if I were to take a "wild" guess, I'll predict that 20,000 people choose the football game, and about 20 will choose to travel to the road soccer game. Now I'll wait for the "Soccer is going to catch on in America someday" people to jump all over our comments. I actually don't think we'll make it near 20,000, but I hope I'm wrong. I think OSU is off that day so we might get a bigger turnout, and maybe...just maybe we won't have to see any ugly red at the stadium!!!!! I'm thinking a crowd similar to the Indiana game is what we should expect to see. I love soccer, and hope we can get that championship this year, but they are away games. I just don't see why you'd want to go all the way to NC to watch them, when you can watch the home opener for football. It's just hands down a better experience at football games, because it really is more than just a game. Tailgating, partying, basically a full day experience...

Hmmmmmm...So I take it Dreal isn't heading to North Carolina for the start of soccer season??? Labor day weekend no one should give a crap about soccer! We ALL need to be watching a real sport, the greatest sport in the world at the greatest school in the world

Tough choice? not really, football home opener is where it's at. Nothing better!

Even if we are winning, he could be gone. I can see back-to-back undefeated seasons of 12-0 in 2010 and 2011. Coach I would have to leave to go to a bigger program, and I fully expect to see this happen, along with undefeated seasons from our basketball and soccer team. Anything less would be a failure!

What do you mean? isn't Abdullah on the roster? #44 Couldn't find anything about Henderson, wasn't he a 4-star defensive player or something? I can't really remember

Thats awesome, glad you can see the stadium and not those dang rinky dink dorms that used to be there. But they still need to update the "streetview" because all they show is a big pile of dirt where the stadium is. Hopefully Bing will update sometime soon as well, they have a "birds eye" view which would be cool to see of the stadium.

YSU ankle-biters strike again. you got a two star wide reciever. Not a big deal and I have to say I have no idea who Eric Wolford is, so I don't see any dominance from YSU anytime soon. You say that most of those schools are medicore or bad? really your 6-5 FCS team is better than Syracuse and Indiana? You guys couldn't even score a single point against OSU a few years ago, what was it 43-0 or something...seems pretty mediocre or bad to me

Akron beat all 3? HA! The Indians have a better chance of winning the World Series My prediction for the first 4 games... Syracuse (L) 24-10...under 18k GW (W) 35-14...10k Kentucky (L) 42-10 Indiana (L) 21-14

wow really I never would have known that. Baby steps for UA, if only we could get CMT too. But thats just being greedy!

I don't think the Akron dorms carry STO so this sucks big time! As much as I love this school, these little things really are starting to get on my nerves...

It looks like Dix Stadium or Youngstown State's stadium, our soccer team deserves better. Terrible, just terrible. Only reason this would be better is if they were going to expand the grandstand at the end of this season, which looks possible. I just don't see why they didn't make the upper bleacher section the same width as the chair-back section?

Yeah I heard about a starbucks going in the old "campus palette" location or whatever the failed art store was. Also had heard about a Chick-fil-a going in the student union where planet underground used to be. But I'm not sure how true these rumors were seeing as I heard them years ago and still nothing has happened... Starbucks isn't a rumor, I have seen them loading espresso machines and milk steamers into the old campus palette all summer. Scheduled to open in the fall. great news, although I tend to feel awkward going into that place, they do have some great drinks

Yeah I heard about a starbucks going in the old "campus palette" location or whatever the failed art store was. Also had heard about a Chick-fil-a going in the student union where planet underground used to be. But I'm not sure how true these rumors were seeing as I heard them years ago and still nothing has happened...

What I wish was on exchange: 1. Chick-fil-a 2. Arbys 3. Johnny Rockets (will never happen) usually only in very busy parts of town 4. Krispy Kreme 5. Cold Stone (would run DQ out) I think girls would want either Panera, Chipotle, or ya another Starbucks... id say the top 2 are most likely, Chick-fil-a is actually sold at the JAR and Info, and Arbys is the sponsor of the student section. So both have somewhat connections to UA.

does anyone else have this crazy unreadable font on that site? I seriously cannot read any of the type its just stupid symbols haha

It's better than previous years but not as dynamic at the rest of them I've seen. Would have been cooler to use a panoramic photo of the stadium in the background instead, like the one used for the homecoming brochure. I'm sure there are plenty of students over in Folk Hall that could design us some kick a** posters for free! find it odd Syracuse had the NYC skyline in the background. I understand they wanted to tie in orange empire with empire state. It would be like the Zips using the skyline of detroit or pittsburgh. Only difference is the Big Apple is over 4 hrs away, and Syracuse is definitely NOT any kind of empire...

Thanks for the pics. I can't believe how much they still have to do. I wish we could see the updated drawings because they seem to have changed a lot. I sure hope they keep our "awesome" pressbox there. It will really help give the stadium a big time feel! haha why they did not design the Infocision press box similar to the soccer one is beyond me....