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Oh. The guy that took a pay cut and sacrificed job stability to leave us? So much passion and belief for the U. For the record, I have zero issue with Porter and wish him well, but get off your high horse.

My bad on the comprehension fail. As for your bottom sentence, that's pretty much where I am. Obviously no Mike Thomas, who Dr. Z posted, but could also be a lot worse than he is. If I had to grade him, it would be a C with the potential of a B depending if Bowden ever gets over the hump. Most likely B when factoring in all sports, and because Bowden is going to get the program to at least an above .500 point.

You enjoyed watching us win one game? Zero against FBS competition? Over going .500 in OOC, a win over a P5 program at their place (and playing Penn State tough as well), and being in the running for the MAC championship up until the last few weeks of the season?

Can't really argue with that.

We got what many thought at the time a nice draw against VCU. We were a 12 seed and basically had home court advantage. We lost by 50.

Can't believe I've actually go suckered into this convo, but TW bashers, please tell me your expectations of a "good" AD. I'd let to see how realistic some's expectations are.

You're reaching. This is common and is most likely happening at every single D1 university. We have had pretty damn good coaching retention if you ask me. As for a-zip, sack up dude. Nothing wrong with people disagreeing with you.

how many tournament wins, final fours, or national championships does Akron account for? What about NIT,? CBT? CBI...?!

+1 if I could. The men's and women's soccer spring exhbition schedules should totally be on GoZips.com and be updated daily. Inexcusable.

while I agree with your overall point, I think that UA does a pretty solid job with your points above. At least in the newer colleges like the CBA. Something like Zook may be another story. I only had one class in there and hardly went.

Is anyone doing either of those in this thread?

good to hear. Stipend can only help with retention I'd figure, and those uniforms were well past due for an upgrade.

We are THE University of Akron.

Because there is a ton more depth in men's basketball compared to women's.

FYI Ohio Tech already exists.

Looking at the whole picture, its good news and bad news. Good news in the sense that there is most likely a QB on the roster better than him right now not named Kyle Pohl (hence the transfer). Bad news in the fact that we are losing most likely the best HS recruit under Bowden before they have even played a down for us. Chapman has two years left right? That means Kincade would have had 2 years to start assuming present circumstances. We also just lost a big commitment from a 2016 QB. We were feeling great about the QB position in regards to depth/talent/experience, now all of the sudden long term and even this season is a huge question mark. We all seen first hand last year in college football how QB depth can make or break your season. All we know right now is that Chapman is the best QB on the roster in practice.If Chapman is the starter and the offense has changed, I'd bet my left nut that Woodson is the back up.

I think Hirschman found a 20th yr of eligibility and I'd rank him 1st.

ZTV Sports ‏@ZTVsports 18m18 minutes ago Talked with head coach Terry Bowden about Spring practice and qb competition. Bowden informed us that Chandler Kincade is transferring

+1 I'm curious to know how their pay wall is working out for them. I know I defer to cleveland.com over them whenever possible because of that very reason. ABJ has a few very good journalists. Too bad that whoever is running ship is holding them back.

Our basketball team is a fan of seven nation army.

According to this article and Bowden himself, it was indeed the search committee that reached out initially. http://grantland.com/features/terry-bowden-akron-plight-mid-major-college-football-program/

was Tressel not apart of the search committee?

I've said it before, but I really don't have an opinion either way of him. There is some irrational dislike for the guy for whatever reason (see exhibit A above). I could do a lot of defending of him if I actually cared.

Just something I wanted to inquire about. What's the chance of getting the 2 like per day limit increased or a limit even removed completely? I feel like I run into the issue all the time where I want to like someone's post but my limit is reached.

Take it FWIW, but I was talking to someone who is "in" with the football program, more specifically involved with recruiting, and they think it was a down year even for Akron's standards. As for myself, I'm sort of indifferent I suppose.