Lee Adams

As opposed to 'moving up' to a higher rent district,I would be worried about some MAC teams falling further down the food chain than they already are. There are a very few basketball programs in the MAC that might attract some outside interest. Akron likely would be one of those few. But,there would be no interest in taking Akron or most, not all, of the other MAC football programs into a 'better' conference. Competeively,Akron is in its niche competetively.

Actually these guys were testing the helmets. They were dropping/swining an object so that it struck the helmets while they were stationary. Then somehow they measured the forces inside the helmets. These guys wern't advocating going to leather,they were saying that this particular type of testing suggetsed that the design of the modern helmet might need rethinking.

I was watching a program on TV last week. Can't remember where the research was going on but it was about this issue exactly! The researchers were studying concussive injuries. They compared current helmets with the old leather. I actually wore a leather constructed helmet when I played 8th grade football in the early 60's. We had plastic but they gave the old leathers to kids they didn't think were very good. Guess we were expendable. Anyway,the research seemed to be pointing toward indicating that the leather helmets might be better at preventing concussions than the rigid,hard plastic that is used now. They didn't say anything about other types of injuries.

Thats not being a 'downer' thats just being realistic. Until the MAC starts knocking off some of the big boys during the regular season AND wins a game or 2 in the NCAA,please don't expect the powers that be to leave out the power confernece schools or the really good mid-major schools for a second MAC team. The loss to VCU and the loss to ORU seem to be pretty indicative of where the Zips and the conference are at in the pecking oreder.

Never was much of a chance. Schedule is too weak compared to the big conferences and they lost 2 of the games that MIGHT have given them any chance. The loss to VCU at home really said it all. Win that, IF they had won today,won out and gone to the MAC chmpionship game they have an outside chance. Now its the tourney crapshoot.

To get an at-large Zips would have to win out in the regular season and probably at least get to the MAC Championship game. MAC is just not highly regarded enough.

Interesting outcome. Apparently his attorney was either real stupid or the attorney's client was real stupid. This guy has a history of this type of behavior. He 'got away' with a prior situation where he was involved in what amounted to illegal sexual activity. Guess he figured he was bullet proof...again. When you don't learn responsibility from the adults around you when you are a kid,its tougher to learn it as you get older. His attorney may try for Judicial Release but that won't happen. Knowing what he is going to have to do when he gets released on parole/post release control its gonna be tough to get with that program. He better get a dose of humble because he is going to be doing a lot of scuffling inside if he doesn't.

The whole OSU thing would have been no more than bird doo doo on you windshield if Mr. Tressel had told the truth when he first had the opportunity. Who told him not to 'release any information'? And what information specifically was he 'told' not to release? The BS about his excuse that there was some sort of legal investigation going on so he couldn't tell the truth is just that,BS. Yes there was an investigation. That did not give Mr. Tressel license to not tell the truth. He had a personal attorney. Your first call is to your attorney IF you are at all concerned about your own eventual culpability. If the legal authorities(not the NCAA) wanted Mr. Tressel to tell them what he knew w/o going public,thats cooperating with an investigation not concealing information. Did an explanation of that sort ever surface? Mr. Tressel made this about him. Yes its a shame that some other administrators didn't fall with him. But,now it is what it is. Hopefully there will not be any future blowback on Akron. Good luck Mr. Tressel.

Need something like 200ft or so I believe. More width too.

I think next year will be the year for some higher profile recruits. The staff will have more time. AND,if they can win a few games AND with the PUB Akron has been getting, I would expect even more Ohio, Western PA kids to hop on board.

This looks promising. Anybody know what sort of system he played in? Brother at IUP. Can't be all bad.

Akron is getting its 15 minutes...There have to be unwritten promises to Tressel for on down the road. Maybe AD who knows. Just keep him far away from the Athletic Department for the next 5 years. We appear to have a real chance of turning the football program around. We don't need NCAA sanctions screwing that up. If he can raise money for new facilities campus wide more power to him. The guys on KNR were talking about a new fieldhouse. There is a fine line with this one. Dr. Pro, you made your splash. Don't get wet.

Last year they gave us parking passes for the deck down by McDonalds?! If thats what they are talikng about its pretty useless. The AD better hope that Bowden gets some wins early.

Oh,by the way,I already had Security Essentials installed at the time of the attack. The Rogue disabled it and the ability to update. Another place you can go just in case is Malwearbytes.com. They have a pretty good FREE download as well as pay to play softwear. The free one did quarantine a lot of the crap. Only thing is that it appears that you can't run that when Security Essentials is operational.

OK. I did get some good assistance from Microsoft. They gave me some online links that scrubbed the virus and fixed the major problem. The Kaspersky anti-malware program was the one that I think actually finally cleaned up the mess. But I had delete my account on the computer,set up a new one,set up anew e-mail account etc,etc. Apparently this one just attacked XP because once I was able to download XP security updates again the patch that Microsoft came up with stopped the infection from reappearing...for now.

Just got a letter from the AD. Seasons are going up $15/per. It did say there will be some concession vouchers thrown in. Also some sort of a parking pass. We'll see.

Good point. Its hard to get dramtic improvement on both sides offense and defense in year 1. A coach brings in new systems. He has to kind of choose which side of the ball he wants to upgrade first. Looks like 3 POSSIBLE at home. Can't on the road hopefully. But the other road games are really gonna be tough. Don't realistically see wins there right now. Year 2 is probably when the improvement will show up on the field. Gonna be some new faces at a lot of positions. I understand they brought in another QB who MIGHT end up as the starter. There will obviously be a steeper learning curve if thats the case. Gonna be better than the last 2 though.

This is not about football but about your computer. A really ugly virus recently infected my computer. Comes from trolling the net and getting those informational e-mails. I believe it was called Rouge something or other. It appeared to be attacking versions of Windows XP among others. I had what was supposed to be an excellent ant-virus operating on the computer. This thing disabled it. Finally got the computer operating properly after about 2 weeks.

Are you saying you don't think Dennison or someone other than Faust could have upgraded the talent to MAC level? There is no myth about Dennison. He did what he did at the D-2 and 1-AA levels. Thats all. Lots of teams have been making the jump to D-1 and have had to upgrade talent. Nobody used the word 'great' either. Dennison had decent talent and a decent record for the level Akron was playing at then. Maybe he could have succeeded where Faust didn't. Maybe not. Maybe someone other than those two could have handled it better. Who knows? The move to D-1 just didn't work out all that well.

Don't know about Massillon either but its too much of a stretch to think any high school team could beat a DII college team. Too much maturation takes place between 18 and 23. And no matter how bad the college team,it is still collecting more good players in one place than even a team like Moeller could recruit. By the way,those Akron teams Dennison had just before Faust took over in '86 weren't THAT bad. They were 10th in the 1-AA poll in '85. They went to the 1-AA playoffs in '85. They were 8-3 regular season. '84-4-7,'83-8-3,'82-6-5. As a wise man once said the cupboard wasn't exactly bare when Faust came in.

Trying to watch this game. Don't comment much on B.ball but Akron has some really dumb people on the floor for some reason. They have turned what should have been a 10 pt win into a possible loss in the last 2 minutes. Can't shoot free throws. Whats new? Can't keep their mouths shut.

Hopefully,this guy can keep it together for one season w/o anymore problems. Wonder what we would be saying if Can't had recruited him? 6'4'' 185#? Speed. Looks like a deep threat on offense and maybe a return threat?

Gee,I liked it as the last game of the season. Next to the MAC Champ game in '05,one of the best games I ever went to was the Blizzard Bowl when we beat Can't to get in.

Don't we get presumptuous here calling for this person to be fired/hired/retained etc,etc? I have done it. I guess if you assume TW was actually responsible for hiring TB(oops),then you pretty much have to keep him around. If you don't believe TW was actually responsible for the hiring but just happened to be in the right place at the right time,then you might not look as favorably upon him staying around. Just to point out,the fact that Porter and KD were 'secured' didn't seem to make a lot of difference to people before TB was hired. The majority on this board wanted to show TW the door. The fact that community/student interest hasn't really been generated since TW came here isn't new. There never has consistently been a lot of community/student interest anyway. Oh well. Enjoy the possibility of better things in August 2012!

No and no. Didn't even know there was a Jeff Bowden. Let's not bring in a tired cast because their last name is Bowden. Personally, I think we got the best of the Bowdens. Brighter days ahead. Bro, just hope Terry doesn't bring in his Appalachian black-sheep brother who uses the more formal last-name pronunciation... Probably buy a house out in Ellet.