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I guess with all the ESPN networks/sister networks/other nonsense, they probably easily confuse the products as we do. I'm getting sick and tired of all the convoluted nonsense around ESPN. Let me be able to watch the games I want with a subscription on my TV, not flip through four different subscriptions. Annoying.

And people were worried about the Bowden Boys...

IDK, it seems the same to me...

Looks like a solid get for the OL!

Can someone explain to me how 6-2 Ohio is put above us 6-2 in conference standings? Implying that they hold first place in the division because they hold a tie-breaker? I thought we held the tie-breaker because we've beaten them...

After reading both of those articles it made me re-realize how stupid the AP ranking system is. Why on earth are we still using such a ridiculous, blatantly-token-favoritism system?

As casual of fan of basketball...I was really impress with Kwan this evening. If I ignore the future PG stability...Kwan makes me really hopeful about our future!

I'm wearing my purple "Welcome Week" shirt from 2012, just incase I don't make it there for a freebie.

I'm a diehard football fan, but just a casual recruiting fan...I don't know much so forgive me. But judging by what departed and what we have coming in...I really don't think we're looking that bad. Isn't it the quality of recruits coming in, as opposed to the quantity that matters? If we don't lose Trumaine Washington and Kyron Brown, and despite having less recruits; this class would be a vast upgrade over the past couple of years.

+1. Or perhaps it's your screen? But probably the LSD...

I really wish everyone would stop pushing the panic button on the Men's team....We're really lucky that we've got two GOOD basketball teams, but roughly speaking I'd say from the women's basketball games that I've watched (which mostly have Akron or the top schools) they are more entertaining IMO than the men's games. However I wouldn't go so far as to say that the women's is better than the men's. They've both play difficult road schedules, the men are 13-6...WBB is 10-8. I guess the weird observation I've made from watching both teams is that the men seem to find ways to win even though they are playing terribly...and the lady Zips tend to win by playing hard for 40 min. Suffice as to say, I don't know which one is better...

After reading their petition, I completely support them. However, I know that the devil is always somewhere lurking in the details.

I like this idea a lot. I have never been a fan of the outrageous profits made by college athletics. Higher education should be about higher education, and I firmly believe that students should have full 100% free access to the home games played on their campus. Luckily I went to Akron where my tuition dollars already subsidized the program (maybe not a good thing?) so I could go for free. Higher education institutions should be about higher education, period. All else should be secondary.

Board looks same to me too...I got rejected off and on today as well.

So that must mean that Tree is headed to the "prime-time" (NBA)?

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Eh...I'm starting to get tired of recruiting talk. If he stays, he'll be part of one of the greatest turnarounds in college football in the past decade, if he goes...his loss.

That I am (Miami). Dayton, Xavier I excluded. I also excluded CSU for that matter. However, the point remains the same....the two markets are still very different.

I have, but that's because I'm from Ohio. How many other people outside of this state do? And the nearest Division 1 program to Cincinnati is?...(drum roll)...University of Louisville (105 miles). OU is ( 157 miles), State Ohio is ( 109miles), University of Kentucky is (129 miles away). There's roughly a 100mile radius between Cincinnati and any other Division 1 program. If that Radius were applied to Akron, you'd have OSU, Toledo, Can't, BGSU and Akron. Cincinnati is more of a major city than Akron, and has suburbs that largely feed into it. Akron has much fewer suburbs, which also feed Cleveland and Canton. I'm sorry but Akron isn't anywhere close to the same Market as the University of Cincinnati, as much as I'd hate to admit it. We've got to find a way to thrive in OUR MARKET, not compete in a market that we have no chance in. If we can thrive in our Market, than perhaps we can expand.

I was at the Toledo game...there were more than 500 students there...if not 1000...so I'm not sure why all the hate on the students. Hate on Joe Akron for not attending the 11am Zips game.

+1. I agree with you 100%. I was a commuter the entire time I was in college and for the first half I had difficulty with identity/feeling connected because I wasn't on campus. My last years I did make a conscious effort to though, and is why I'm a huge Zips fan today. To me it harkens back to the culture. Alumni, Faculty, Staff, students. Most believe Akron to be second tier, or not of the same level as State Ohio. Despite working and graduating there, some still support State Ohio, and sometime over their alma mater. It's a cultural thing we need to fix, and I don't know where that begins.

...and we're one of the universities that matter? I'm sorry...but UA matters to me...but I don't think we'll ever "matter". State Ohio University owns way to much of the "matter" real-estate in college athletics in Ohio that we'll never matter. We're not even the ugly step child...that's OU. We're the ugly step child to the ugly step child. Now don't get me wrong. I support the Zips, and it pains me to say that. I've said it before, I'll say it again: we must understand our market-share.

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