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I don't, I just want to hear the new coach tell me he has his work cut out for him, but he will work tirelessly to make the alumni proud of Akron football. Let us know how many more followers they get because of this announcement, I'm curious. Currently: Twitter- 1628 followers, Facebook- 14,972. I'll let you know a day or two after the announcement. What were the results of this? BTW: As I predicted, ZN had the news before anything was tweeted. Nice work HT. @FollowtheRoo has 1918 followers. Akron Zips page on facebook has 15260

Like I said, there wouldn't even be a discussion about D-II football on this board if it wasn't for the fact that some people were pushing their agenda for Winters as coach. Agree. Interesting. Then any discussion regarding Bowden's time at UNA, his schemes, his approach, his tendencies, his staff (some of whom will no doubt find themselves in Akron), must be irrelevant. I'll try to remember that. Lets be real, Bowden wasn't hired because of what he has done at North Alabama.

Like I said, there wouldn't even be a discussion about D-II football on this board if it wasn't for the fact that some people were pushing their agenda for Winters as coach. Agree.

says the guy who thinks D2 teams can beat D1 teams. Stick to watching your games in your suite, leave the football evaluating to the rest of us.

So we are using a loss in 2010 to say that a team would beat us in 2011. Logical thinking, my friends. The difference between d2 and D1-AA is pretty big, let alone D2 to D1- FBS

Tells us all we need to know about you.

Don't care what anyone says, I seen potential in Clayton Moore last season. The spread will benefit him SIGNIFICANTLY.

Interesting. And now that we know that Bowden was a candidate, that seems to make sense. I'd save its more of an action to attempt to "save face" from the University. Pretty sure Winters was offered the job. Regardless, I'd take Bowden over Winters. Who cares what happened..we got a good hire.

If he got his bachelor's no he doesn't have to sit out a year (ala Russell Wilson at Wisconsin, Greg Paulus at Syracuse). Not sure if is a violation or not. Dayne Crist is reuniting with Charlie Weiss in Kansas as well for his extra year of eligibility.

Thanks for posting.

Kornheiser seems to think Bowden to UA is a great move on PTI.

off topic to this specific incident, but something needs to be done with all of this crime south of campus. I understand they are increasing the police force, but we need a little more than that. Maybe they need to be worry less about busting civil parties or busting somebody for a gram of weed (no, not me) and concentrate more on these robberies and shootings. I decided to stay up at my house for all but a week during this break from the fear of being robbed. I keep a loaded gun in my house just in case. Maybe some under cover cops or cameras installed in the streets?

While I think we can get a lot of butts in the seats in due time, I dont think the hiring of Bowden is going to automatically put butts in the seats the way a "Tressel effect" would. The average football fan may be familiar with Terry Bowden, however, the student, alumni, etc who isn't that big into football isnt going to have the same name recognition with Bowden that you would get with Tressel. I look for an immediate spike in attendance, just don't expect to have a packed stadium until he produces some results.

Rob's is terrible. Only ate there for half of a semester then switched to the Gold Plan. Havent ate there for over a year now. I'm a fan of Ohio Burger, though.

Ar you crazy? This is the most action this place has seen ever. Action can't be kind and gentle? (Hint: last line of my previous post was a little joke.) No, Sorry. You are right. You can't even let one small comment go by without making a contradictory comment about it. Carry on! I dont think he was making a big deal out of your comment, just making more of a joke. Relax man...it's a good day for the University.

Their loss, our gain.

From what I read, Bowden "reached out to Akron." The process of bringing Bowden to Akron may have had very little to do with Wistrcill. If I'm wrong and he was the impetus, I stand corrected. But from what we know about TW from his past, I'm not giving him immediate credit for this--without knowing he was somewhat responsible. Rather than vote either way, I say we let the UA insiders--who SHOULD know the facts--determine Tom's fate when the contract expires next year. I read that as well and thought it seemed a bit odd..

SMH, ESPN "Auburn Zips hire Terry Auburn as coach, source say" "Sources: Terry Auburn to coach Zips"

let's not get ahead of ourselves here....

I'm so pumped about this hire. Its the best that we could have done IMO

I be very happy with it. anyways..announcement is today.. Zippy @FollowTheRoo Zip Fans. Stay tuned for a major announcement coming soon! ... #tellyourfriends #gozips

If a coach doesnt want to come here because of some "out clause" (which every single coach at every single program is subject to termination if the administration feels he isnt holding up his end of the bargain), then it doesnt sound like any coach we want. He obviously lacks confidence in himself and his coaching abilities if he doesnt think he can improve a 1-11 team in 2 years.

Take it for what its worth, but my guy who works in the football department (same one who called the Ianello firing and the reason for waiting), has told me that an announcement should be made tomorrow. They were apparently cleaning the football office for the new coach today.

If we are trying to get Johnson we better go NOW and not wait around til he has some success (wins the bowl game) like we did with PW and he gets offered and decides to stay at UCLA.