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I disagree. This is what happens when real researchers get chased off from your university because of moronic, imbesilic administrations. There's a number of researchers I personally know who left UA for better positions (who would've wanted to stay) because of the drastic cuts to their departments spearheaded the Scarborough administration. One of which was working on dinosaur feather coloration, which is groundbreaking in paleontology, ornithology and paleobiology. You never knew that did you? The true shame is that the ABJ didn't report on the those types of losses sooner. Or how the biology department at UA was essentially gutted.

We have? Name one. Most explanations on this board for why people won't show up are pretty good.

Probably mostly beer?

It's a Turd muffin comment. Keener is about 90% sarcasm, 9% Bitter Old man 1% Other. But he is 100% Zips Fan. Love ya K92 I guess us young fans have that to look forward too...

Yes true, but some will skip that Wednesday Lecture...some may cancel the Wednesday Lecture...or assign assignments to turn in via springboard but not have to show up to class. There will be significantly less students going to a weekday game vs weekend game, and then significantly less students going to a weekday game the same week as thanksgiving. Just being realistic here.

The Kent game @ home is historically the most attended game of the year. Placing it on a Tuesday on the week of thanksgiving is a death sentence to attendance. Being the week of thanks giving, most students won't be there, along with a chuck of fans. Fans, of course, will make an effort to show up if they're winning...but even I have difficulty going to Weeknight games...and I live in Akron. So it's the combination of all of these factors that will likely make the attendance at that game considerably lower than what it could be if it were earlier in the season. There was relatively good attendance at the dumpster called Dix stadium...likely because it was an October 1st, Saturday with gorgeous weather. I don't think people are writing the season off as good or bad, it's just going to be shitty inconvenient.

I personally will admit my mistake. Back when the ESPN deal was released and weekday games were first announced, I was a supporter of it. I apologize for being supportive of it. But the MAC could grow some moxy and actually take a stand for itself. I guess it's kinda hard to rock the boat when the conference commissioner and all the athletic directors get paid 6-figures.

Well for the November Games...this year is on pace to be the hottest year on record (beating out last year...which beat out the year before it...which beat out the year before it), so there's a wild chance we may have 75 degrees in November like we had in Februrary this year. Why in the hell do they schedule our Kent game in November...last year it was in October. Soooo Kent gets to benefit from good weather but the better stadium doesn't? The MAC is fundamentally stupid.

It's always someone else's fault, other than the students'. I see it on a daily basis. Thing is, I refuse to enable it. I FIRMLY believe that you get directions and that you be responsible for following them, remembering them and be diligent enough to be on time for them. Now, high school students you can't leave at the airport...but adults? Blame falls on yourself, just saying.

$60. That'd be a great talking piece for sure...I mean look at it's beauty! No wonder Scarborough was a bumbling fool. Who looks at the above piece of interior decorating and says "yup, paying $556 for that. I have students that can hand make something better...

So let the buildings on main street become dilapidated and eventually having to service debt to tear them down? Or perhaps have blighted buildings that become a safety liability if you don't tear them down...all in your downtown. You're damned if you do, and your even more damned if you don't.

If you follow the ABJ, the downtown revitalization project has bounced around a few private investors over the last 3-4 years, never really progressing. The City is having to step in because the buildings have been determined to be at an event horizon. At this point, they're either renovated RIGHT NOW or you'll lose them.

Unfortunatetly it seems the spending is necessary. Option 1: Don't spend it and you'll have to tear down the buildings. Option 2: Renovate the buildings and fix them so you don't have to tear them down. Which would be better for the downtown Akron landscape?

If you really think about it, there are far more pressing things to be done in Akron than a new downtown stadium. The logic here has mainly been "if you build it, the other improvements will come" I'd argue, and also the city probably will argue, that a stadium will never be successful unless the downtown is revitalized first. The revitalization of downtown Akron should not be contingent on whether or not a basketball arena is there for an average attendance of 3,500 people.

Well for starters they're taking out a large swath of route 59, I believe that's also part of the new housing and revitalization initiative. My normal path home is closed because they're currently ripping up a bridge. There are also plans to renovate and restore a lot of the buildings on Main Street that have that need to be done now, or the buildings are at risk of irreversible structural damage. There was an article on that a couple of months ago, I can't seem to find it right now, but I believe that was a very expensive proposal that is likely part of this initiative. Edit:  Found the article from the ABJ.  No Values are given for the projects, other than a $5-million grant.  But I'd imagine a lot of the money of capital investment is coming from these related projects.

Agreed. Akron should have been able to pull in someone better than both Scarborough AND Tressel.

It was a good read, except he's extremely correct when he says arrogant. I mean, you even admit to it yourself by saying: "Some trash talk, something everyone does in sports". There's a lot of arrogance when it comes to trash talk, so I don't get why you'd even point that out as something to call someone out on. It is possible to trash talk with elegance however, without being arrogant. But since you asked I'll point out the self-impressed arrogance in your own article for you: Arrogance is found in the way you write/say things. You can trash talk, without being arrogant. You can explain a situation, and display its coolness, without being self aggrandizing. Throwing your ex-gf under the bus, taking credit for rattling fans (fans always get rattled when they're team is losing...with or without the opposing fans present), calling Akron student Fans "ironically dumb" for something that happens in the course of fans shouting back in forth at a game. The last couple paragraphs of self narrative might be important to you, personally, but they aren't to us the readers, which is why someone might point that out as self aggrandizement. Just food for thought. Thanks for stopping by.

S***. I was thinking about buying a Cavs jersey, definitely not going to now. And I'm not kidding, this turns me off to watching them even though they won a championship. Side Note: I wonder if the Jersey companies have to agree to the partnership. Because then you'd have like a Goodyear patch on a Nike jersey?

So people on this forum can proceed to immediately throw them under the bus?

For the record: I never said that Van Edwards or Manny Morgan or DJ Jones are discarded garbage. In fact, I've always been a Van Edwards and DJ Jones and Manny Morgan fan. But the fact that there was an effort to bring in not one, but two transfer RBs from P5 programs over the last two years, means that they weren't doing enough in coaches eyes to garner the starting role. Why would scholarships be spent on a position of strength if you didn't need the upgrade? Morgan and Edwards, go ahead and prove me wrong. Please. It'll make the Zips better for it.

Here is a link to the interview.

I was only thinking that Suggs might be an upgrade over Morgan, Lawerence, and Jones. They've all had moments, but were never clear 2s IMHO. If Suggs is as impressive as he certainly has the potential to be, then why couldn't he become No. 2? The wrench is Sands. I completely forgot about him transfering, that IMO, definitely means Suggs will RS.

Oh I forgot about Sands...my bad. I agree.

Fantastic News! So Depth chart will likely be: 1. Ball 2. Suggs? (RS?) 3. Edwards 4. Morgan

Drew Hodgson hudl highlights.