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I mean we cut everything else at Akron...I'm surprised we even have people or equipment to run a live stream.

The Sooners IMO are overrated. Just as the Wolverines were overrated when we play them. The Zips can make this a game, and it depends souly on our defense. The Zips have played well in our $$$ games, and our defense has improved since we took Michigan to the wire two years ago, and caused major problems for future NFL QB Hackenberg. The Sooners' offense has been rather sloppy in practice lately as well. perhaps the stars are aligning for the Zips.

26 - 23 Akron in a game full of field goals. Our defense unexpectedly gives the Sooners Hell. Go Zips!

Because just about every student, staff member, faculty member and alumni (save some here) I've talked to has said they dislike Scarborough. UA has a massive PR nightmare on their hands, and it is the direct result of not being honest and transparent. But I really don't get why everyone is so surprised. 1). It's open season on UA. 2). The news reports on STUPID stuff all the time. Have you ever watched a TV news broadcast in the past 30 years? Or read a News paper? They're both littered with nonsense. I'd be willing to bet negative stories (whatever they may be) are getting more "clicks" than any of the good ones (in the world where clicks dictate content).

A plan only matters when you're questioned on it. And if questioned on it, it only matters the level at which the asker is going to follow-up. By the seeming lack of good journalism in Akron, I wouldn't expect it. Politicians say a lot of things, and never do them. It's to get elected. There's certainly an interest in building a downtown arena (politically, business, and some personal) or the idea would have never have been developed. Of course a politician is going to want to tap that interest.

Because they wouldn't attribute it to a tax increase...they'd play the Just-playing-lip-service-without-any-actual-plan-that-will-actually-get-it-done card.

I hope so. This program could desperately use a major upset.

Characteristics of poor leadership.

That's because no one does. No one "gives a damn".

I love when you bring politics to the Zips. Proenza mentioned in this piece how a lot of the funding problems in higher education have come from state legislatures. I agree with Republican governor James Rhodes. Perhaps Mark Cuban would be a fan of Bernie Sanders. Though I'm glad Mark Cuban made his first point, that colleges are spending way too much money to compete with each other...which results in hiring overpaid administrators. Perhaps he can be more vocal on that issue.

Agreed, they don't have to stay. I'm just pointing out that this is a problem. People Don't give a damn, because they're overworked and frankly don't have the time to. When your employees are overworked and don't have the time to care about minute details, you have links to buy group tickets to a season that happened 3 years ago. My contention is that they should care about they're employees being overworked and underpaid, because it ends up affecting the product.

Goes under my contention of: "Give a Damn". My #1 complaint about UA while I was a student, and now as an alumni (and directed at other alumni) is that no one gives a damn. Also, getting rid of 215 positions (of which the work is likely going to be shoved onto already overworked staff and faculty) is likely going to have even more of an effect of creating people who don't "give a damn". Goodluck Akron. This Alumni is getting tired of defending this nonsense.

Don't worry Zip-o, we don't have to worry about UA ever getting that many students interested in fake army.

Rodney Coe and Cody Grice makes me want to watch the Zips right now!

You're assuming a military-like organization is the only way (or best way) to instill discipline and leadership. Good professors who give a damn about their universities and their students can do a lot more for a student and their career. Professors whom mentor their students can instill the discipline needed to succeed in their fields. Corps of Cadets seems more like an agenda than it seems like a program that would have, to be completely frank, any measurable impact on students. We already have a LOT of student leaders at UA's campus that are rarely backed in any meaningful way by administration. Just ask the students who put on Relay For Life...you think they don't have discipline to pull off that event? You don't think they have leadership to pull of that event? C'mon man!

Wow, what a joke. I would love to hear a justification for this salary, espeically considering 200+ positions were just eliminated. I guarantee of those 200+ positions eliminated, the $100,000 salary of the "Commandant" could be used for 2 positions that more directly affect the students. (3 if you were to use some of UA's plans to hire full-time faculty for $32,000 a year).

"Let Them Eat Olives"

Great work Zach! I'll update the roster thread later, you've saved me a little time

Or one iota of being open and transparent.There's a short but good letter to the editor in this weeks West Side Leader from alumnus David Culp. I'll try to find a link for it to post on the EJ story but I think it convinced me that changes at EJ might have been needed after decades of poor management at UA. What Culp states though, is exactly what THE SCAR could have said to have avoided the media fiasco.

Have you seen the JAR? The event was also in the heart of basketball season. But we have the EJTH why not use it (which it was).

Bingo. I was there too and my science coworkers basically had to fight to get tickets to it. Most talked about Akron event ever amongst the sciences anyways.

That design is pro zips.

Just this past year Neil DeGrasee Tyson (the very famous astrophysicist) came to speak at UA. Him coming to UA was sponsored by EJTH, and would not happen now since its been closed to sponsoring events.

And 99% of students never step foot inside Infocision stadium.Closing EJTH is an absolute disgrace.

More students used EJTH than they do Infocision stadium. That's a fact. ZipTickets was hot, getting free tickets to all the shows and you had to go in advance because all the student tickets were always taken. You're out of touch of you for a moment think students on campus weren't using, and enjoying, the performances there.