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Great points. Thanks for sharing.

The loss of Kyrie is depressing. If there is any type of silver lining, its that we have some experience playing without him in the ECF against the Hawks, and it seemed to work out well. I wouldn't bet against the Warriors at this point though.

The real question is, does this mean more games in total televised or the same, but less on ESPN and more on CBS sports? Anyways, it looks like ESPN is making out on the deal. They are getting paid to not show our games!

This is interesting to me. I think its a good idea to lower costs, but to HALF of what a community college costs? Makes little sense to me. Why not make them the same or only slightly lower than community colleges? Your name alone should give you an edge over community colleges if all things are equal (or close to it). Seems there is quite the opportunity loss there. Will the assumed increase in enrollment make up for the loss from such a steep decrease? Do we care about quality or quantity? I was thinking there was more of an emphasis on quality towards the end of Proenza's term with actually implementing some requirements to get accepted. This seems to point more towards quantity.

Lets not get picky here. Putting up a competitive team on even an inconsistent basis would be quite an improvement considering the history of the program.

Yet, their quality of discussion is still as good as what's in our game thread.

re: law school http://abovethelaw.com/careers/2015-law-school-rankings/

Glad you had a chance to make it back. I'm not sure sure about many teams playing in football stadiums on artificial turf. I wasn't a soccer player, but from what I've heard is players hate playing on it. What do you expect the city to do? I don't think there is much they can do when all of the houses are privately owned. Really not a whole lot different than most off campus student housing at universities from my experiences. I also don't think Exchange is bad, though it would be nice if they had something to occupy the CSL plasma building. Within the past...5ish year, there is the new Manny's, the completely remodeled "The Score" (which I really like), the new South Hall, the new Euro Gyro, University Edge living along with the restaurants below, South Hall, and The Depot (apartments). I actually think its pretty decent. BWW's could use renovation along with Thursday's, though.

Informative, but I guess it makes sense. Who in their right mind would choose Cinci over Cleveland?

Publicly supporting your local professional team with the best player in the world who is from your hometown and has some involvement with the program seems like a pretty damn smart idea to me.

Eh, obviously not completely preferable, but you know what they say...You can't have your cake and eat it too! Zips are fortunate to have the NIT give them to chance to knock off last year #1 seed Nova (don't know anything about them this year) and last year SEC runner up (and I'd assume #2 favorite behind Kentucky) Arkansas. Losing doesn't really hurt us against those 2 if we don't lay eggs. There is such a thing as a good loss. I'm willing to trade that for Savannah St at home and Wisc-GB at their place (an opportunity to pick up a great mid major win)

And the chance to play with the greatest QB ever. Can't blame him. Good luck Zach!

Jon Rothstein ‏@JonRothstein 8h8 hours ago Arkansas will host Akron as part of its non-conference schedule, source told @CBSSports. Date is TBD.

ASU isn't a polytech. Proof you don't need it to have these partnerships with corps.

Seems like a pretty solid get!

seems somewhat confirmed. Now lets add Arkansas! Nova is def the trophy add though. Jon RothsteinVerified account ‏@JonRothstein Villanova will host Akron as part of its non-conference schedule, sources told @CBSSports. Date is TBD

It appears I did misinterpret your initial post that started this and I apologize. In all fairness, your posting style is hard to decipher with how diplomatic it is and you're unwillingness to take strong stances.

wut http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/05/university_of_akron_spends_111.html#incart_river

Sure. Can you explain to me why you were a fan of Tressel during the presidency nomination process and were mostly not a fan of Scarborough, but now all of the sudden (I believe he has had very little time/done little to "prove himself") agree with everything Scaborough seems to be doing yet dismiss Tressel's opinion on the subject?

Fact: You were in favor of Tressel being selected over Scarborough (nothing wrong with that), but now that Scarborough is President, his opinion is somehow better and more informed than Tressel's, at least that what I take from your post asking if anyone valued Tressel's opinion over Scottie's followed by the " ". I was just pointing out the hypocrisy in that the person you were for before is now all of the sudden wrong, and the person you couldnt find anything good about is now all of the sudden right If you want to debate the meaning of "fan boy", so be it. It was hardly the point of the post, but the definition linked does fit some posters on here. "An excessively loyal fan of a product and/or its company who blindly supports the every action of said product/company without question or reasoning." Maybe not in regards to Tressel, but I'd say the shoe fits some on here.

History disagrees.

It's too bad your degree from Hilltop High didn't teach you the ability to think critically, but instead be a blind follower.

If I'm not mistaken, you were a huge Tressel fan boy when the process was going on. I like the idea of moving UA from the left to the right side of the napkin, but love how every single other public regional president called him out on his bullshit. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/05/university_presidents_say_university_of_akron_president_was_wrong_to_question_the_future_of_their_schools.html

not sure if a joke or not, but

This. Only the people who lose out complain. Plus Golson transferred because he wasn't good enough. It's not like he screwed ND. Could you imagine what it would be like if we didn't bring in our transfers? HS recruiting, even with the Bowden name and program improvement, has still been overall lackluster. I'd wager we would still be a 1 win/season program without our transfers over the years. It helps programs get out of that black hole. Sometimes guys transfer to other big name schools (see Russell Wilson). You can't have your cake and eat it too.