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I will publish an updated roster on the current roster thread as soon as I see any changes. Makes it easy to sift through

This is a little outdated, and based on when we played them in 2014, but somewhere around $850,000.

They did have an auction for a lot of the stuff inside the stadium (mostly garbage) a couple of years ago. The field I believe was always left intact because it was basically the most valuable part of the RB, and any future possible entity looking to buy the RB would have wanted that as part of the deal. I think a couple of people here have reported that even it was starting to show some wear though. The entire stadium is no longer used. There were hopes to sell thing to a third-party developer; an outside music venue, a summer football league venue, a domed music venue (was the most laughable one we've heard).

Commits: ATH Timothy Scippio, Coconut Creek, FL DB Rich Hall, Coconut Creek, FL RB Keyondre White, Hollywood, FL ATH Te'Corey Tutson, Coral Gables, FL DT Ramon Fields, Akron, OH RB Devanier Floyd, Akron, OH DT/OL Ronald Beasley, Ocala, FL WR/S Daishawn Brimage, Akron, OH DT Logan Hawkins Harrison City, PA WR Gavin Blunt, Aurora, OH DB Treon Sibley, Coventry, OH OT Vincent Fonte, Copley, OH OL Ben Phillis, Washington, PA DT Logan Hawkins, Western, PA OG RJ Kelly, Akron, OH WR Jalen Hooks, Warren Harding, OH Transfers: TE (LB change?) Maverick Woodley from WVU (possibly already with team, adding him here anyways). OL JUCO Bryce Peterson (should have three years eligibility) Offers: The List of Offers at 247

On Facebook they said they should be in the ticket office sometime this week. This is a pretty awesome looking poster IMO. I love the focus on Gilbert. What would be really cool is if they did the same base schedule, but had different players on them. Collect them all! To bad there isn't someone on HustleBelt doing a "Poster Rankings". It'd be a fun read in the doldrums of summer.

B&G do you have a running list of 2018 Commits by chance? If you don't, I know I can look it up...just curious if you did before I compiled one

Glad I'm not the only one. I love the editorial comments at the end from the writer about how Saban has clearly earned his salary. Man, if only we paid workers in the US based upon their productivity, and how much revenue their work for a company generates...

Looks like he needs to learn that our colors are Blue and Gold, not Blue and White...but we can overlook this just this once

1) Eternal Optimist. 2) Ohio beat us by 3 points last year. They're not world beaters themselves. They've beaten us by less than a touchdown the last three years. We're overdue.

If, at the end of the 2011 season, Zips fans had been told that the next Zips coach would take the team from rock bottom to the winningest record in it's history, and the first bowl win in history by his fourth season everyone would have signed up for it. Framing is everything. 7-5. (Ark P-B, Iowa St., BGSU, Ball St., Buff, Ohio, Kent)

We need someone to pony up against it hahaha

I think he makes the roster.

Jamal Marcus #68. Courtesy of THE CLEVELAND BROWNS.COM.

Short lived career in the NFL. I hope he took advantage of is education at Akron, and is ready to get a career in something he studied. Whoever was giving him advice to leave Akron, was the worst person we could have listened to unfortunately.

Well how about that this is the second time consecutively right?

Well If Akron only had people who gave-a-damn in charge...

Now, the problem with that model (and why tenure exists at all) is because Principals change readily in schools. Our oldest teacher in my department is retiring this year and he's seen 12 through his Career of 35 years. He's had administrators that have hated him, and would have fired him on the spot if they could have because he had the gaul to tell them that their plans weren't going to work because of X, Y and Z. Those administrators were always gone a year or two later while he's been there the whole time. Really, if things were the way they used to be, he should be principal. Unfortunately, you need to get a state certificate to do so, which is why he never cared to do it. It also prevents principals who want to hire younger (and cheaper) people do fill jobs. This is crucially important; because the people I learn most from are my peers. Having people who have taught for 35 years is an invaluable resource. Had some narrow minded administrator at some time gotten rid of them because they arbitrarily didn't like them, or arbitrarily liked the way they did things, than the younger teachers like myself would have lost out on that experience. As for getting rid of teacher unions; completely disagree. They act as a counterbalance in many districts for administrations screwing over kids because of whatever resume building policy they want to enact. Classroom sizes, classroom resources, building resources that directly impact kids, unions fight for all the time, as well as making sure the district is compliant with state and federal law, especially when it comes to Disabilities and making sure that the law is being met on resources given. Now there are some problems with unions as well. I'm active in mine and we have actively considered becoming independent of the national/state Union at large. I won't go into the nitty-gritty of why, but it isn't because unions are inherently bad.

Universities in many ways are already for profit corporations, without the name, let's be real here. Yeah, For profit education is about the worst idea in the universe for education, if you give a damn about it. You expect people who have PhD's in research to stick around an organization that wants to nickel and dime their salary, with no protections and puts their job on the whim of an unproven, non-scientific, non-accredited evaluation system? Good luck keeping them. If they want that kind of job they could easily make considerably more in the private sector with their expertise. I mean just ask any current educator who's worth a damn; the state's current teacher evaluation system is an absolute joke. It's actually impossible to tell good teachers from the bad...and in reality I'd argue it makes the best teachers look worse than they are. In fact, it measures everything in short of that which actually makes a good teacher. So have fun destroying education. The moment public education moves to "for profit" I'm gone. I can certainly make more than I do now, and have had offers to do so...I just happen to like what I do and am damn good at it.

Perfect, I will thanks. But that still leaves on the table: Is College athletics really not for profit, or really all about supporting students. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, the intent of giving tax-exempt status to an organization, is because they are providing a public service or performing civic duty to a cause or group that might otherwise not be served. Unions serve their members. Churches do numerous things within their respective communities and are abided by the members, etc...etc. I know what the NCAA and other college-athletics organizations say they are and do...but do they actually in reality? The NCAA says it's there to grow and protect the student athlete and for them to achieve a college education, but in reality makes it almost impossible for them to transfer without losing years of eligibility (which in turn impacts their ability to achieve a college education without incurring cost...which is one of the arguments they make for themselves), or ruling, quite arbitrarily in many cases, against student athletes without hearings or just cause (IMHO) basically ruling them ineligible. Are they really protecting students? Or are they protecting the system that makes billions for others, tax-free. I don't know, I just feel it's a real slippery slope. If most college athletic institutions had to operate on a non tax-free basis, they'd abandon college athletics entirely. Nick Saban isn't being hired, and paid $11-million to improve the educational quality, opportunity or equity of the student-athletes; he's being hired to keep/increase revenue...eh, I mean donations...to the university. I mean it's frankly inherently absurd.

Certainly learning a little here and I appreciate it guys. But I'm not complete ignorant of 501c3s, and previously worked for one in Columbus. I'm contending that that the NCAA claiming charitable purpose is nonsense. That's why the NFL abandoned it's 501c3 status. Was it's work really charitable? Does the NFL do charity? Sure. That's not the purpose of it's existence though. But 501c3 isn't just limited to charity; it can include religious, public safety, educational, literary, fostering national and international amateur sports competition, and prevention of cruelty to animals or children. The organization I worked for in Columbus was under Public Safety and Education and Charity. IMHO, the amateur sports competition is abused and probably needs to be amended. Because was the original intent to then lead to the system we have today? I don't think so. But perhaps it's more a problem with the culture surrounding it.

Fine amend my comments to any of the conferences and partners etcetera, that claim 501c3 status on a commodity that is clearly for profit. My point about Bama paying $11-million still stands. If you didn't have all the institutions hiding behind tax-exempt non-profit 501c3 status, and they were forced to operate off actual income and not subsidy, the But Zippy5 your right. My issue is as much with the IRS than anything. Who writes the tax-code the IRS must follow? (rhetorical) Gee, I wonder who has considerable amount of "non-profit" to use to lobby/hire lawyers for the purposes of maintaining said non-profit status?

Its more the system than the person. The fact that the NCAA gets away with being a 501 C 3 organization is insulting. The NFL willing gave up the status because even it knew it was an absurd joke, both legally but also in public perception. If you've got people making $11-million in a contract year as part of a "non-profit" organization, that's nefarious at best. For a "non-profit" organization, it certainly makes a lot of expendable non-profit. There are plenty of non-profits out there that pay hefty salaries so people in them, so I'm not by any-means claiming the NCAA is the only one...but c'mon now let's cut the crap. CLEARLY the NCAA is not a non-profit. It's a house of cards. If only the programs that could sustain themselves off generated revenue existed, there's no way in hell Nick Saban is making $11-million a year, there'd be barely any programs with which to compete. This whole system is artificially inflated by the fact of pretending to be non-profit, while having hundreds of members who wouldn't be able to sustain themselves without subsidy.

Sure you can.

And he played his heart out and won us a game against our arch-rival.