zip81

Today's paper had Ohio 2 pt. favorites.We're going to see how we stack up in the East very quickly.Both teams should be pumped. This game should be on the tube!

ZipDude;Here's hoping your daughter has a safe tour and comes home soon.The same for all of our sons and daughters. God bless them for their service.

As I said, just OK, but nothing I would want for us.

Watch it now, I can't help it we put more people in our "HS Stadium" every week then the Zips.Also can't help it that 21,000 seats and a 35+ loges aren't good enough for you guys.When you have a nicer stadium than us, then you can talk about this stadium stuff and YSU, but right now, YSU>AKRON>Can't State. Eguins, Isn't it time for you to go home? The street lights are on and I hear your mom calling. Truth is Hilltopper, he has no place to go.Have you been to his sorry site?There hasn't been a post on there since we kicked their arse on the court.And when they do post, it's the same 3 or 4 sorry people wallowing in their own misery.So, he comes over here to spew his bull.

Watch it now, I can't help it we put more people in our "HS Stadium" every week then the Zips.Also can't help it that 21,000 seats and a 35+ loges aren't good enough for you guys.When you have a nicer stadium than us, then you can talk about this stadium stuff and YSU, but right now, YSU>AKRON>Can't State.You always exaggerate your attendence and everything else about Yunztown State.You may think your stadium is the best. In reality, it is just OK. And for many years when you only had stands on one side of the field, it looked like a freaken joke.When I was going to Akron you guys played in a freaken high school stadium...what was it, Austintown Fitch? Yeah, real big time.If you think it is anything that another university should emulate for their new stadium, you are sorely mistaken.Yunztown's stadium is the last thing I want for our new stadium.

Good points and I hope you are right.

Construction to begin March '08.Completed in time for '09 season.I like that.Please, Please make the stadium a complete bowl!!!Please, Please. We don't want it to look like that high school stadium in Youngstown.

they're killing us on the boards

Bigger lead at half than expected.YSU shines at times but keeps shooting themselves in the foot with turnovers.Zips pretty solid tonight, shooting well from the field....so far.If Youngstown tightens up those turnovers, we could have a barn burner.

Coach Slocum

No, they're not. However, I believe a couple of the top teams in that conference would fare better than Buffalo or EMU has lately. I think that goes without saying...just as the Top MAC teams are better than some of the Big 10(1) scrubs.

You are a bit presumptuous.Where was that attributed to you?Don't you read your own Web site?

True.However, there is no freaken way the Gateway Conference...the I-AA GATEWAY conference is better than the MAC. This goes to show you how far they'll reach in an attempt to gain a little respect.Hey Youngstown, you earn respect, you don't get it by crying like a baby demanding it.

Rowdy...don't you know everything YSU has and does is better than anything in the world?These people have such a big chip on their shoulder that all they think about is hating Akron, hating Can't State and hating the MAC. They just come off as a bunch of big crybabies. They should stop and listen to themselves sometime. Rather than being secure in their own situation and root for their team, all they do is wallow in their own misery and blame everyone else while trying to pump themselves up into some sense of self esteem.

I don't know if you have any kids, but you don't get them into the game when they're under 10.I hear what you're saying and the parents shouldn't just let their kids run wild, however, with all the issues we have with attendance, I'm just happy they were there.

Indians...you would make a great Federal Mediator!

Maybe it's a rivalry to you. Not to us. It's just another game we have to win.

And they say the JAR is bad...I happen to agree, but that is no improvement!

Sounds better than the BCS formula!

I hope your wish comes true.Number 1 is Air Force...I think.

I think this is absolute nonsense. "To purchase the rights to sell Zips apparel" is not a significant consideration to retailers. It consists of a small percentage of royalties on sales. Every NCAA school has virtually the same legal rights, which prevent copycat merchandise. I'll bet you OSU makes a higher % of sales than any MAC school (remember the war between Cowlumbus and OU over the rights to the letter "O"?), yet that doesn't prevent them from making something like $100M/year from merchandising.Now to get back to 81's original post: Imagine if a student actually took this "Buckeye Holiday" to its politically correct OSU-hating end, and arrived at school decked out in Florida orange! That might be playing with fire -- like the kid who was suspended for wearing a Pepsi T-shirt to school on Coke day. Happy politically correct holidays all! Z.I.P.You just gave me a good idea!!!

That's great.I was a media major...Was sports director at WAUP in '79 and did the Zips play by play in football and basketball. Had a blast.You know that WAUP banner in the WZIP museum..well, that's the one I used to hang from the Rubber Bowl press box...it was a bit newer then.

Win MAC championships.Get tournament bids.That will solve any problems at the gate.Remember the Huggins era?Win and they will come (despite the marketing department's efforts )

Sgm...were you a media major?

You are right sgm...I was at that store in Summit Mall. It is packed with everything OSU. The only thing non-OSU was a Can't State Cap. Now, I couldn't let that go bye...so I asked an employee, where's the Zips stuff? He could only smile. There were Akron window stickers up front by the register.Lets face it, if the Zips gear sold like Buckeye gear, we would be seeing Zip stores. I was able to get in early and buy MAC Championship T shirst on the MAC site before GoZips had them (and sold out).As Akron alums, we tell ourselves that, by definition, we're on the same level as Ohio State...but we know reality tells us different. That is why most people in Ohio are Ohio State fans..in addition...they win national championships.I find the best place to purchase Zips gear is either at the Bowl or JAR or online at GoZips.com.Personally, I don't get an inferiority complex over such things. You just have to accept reality. I like the MAC. I like the level of play. I like going to a bowl game. Last year was a lot of fun. In addition, it's a lot of fun knocking off a big boy like NC State.It's just like skip zip said above...it's the assumption that everyone has to be an Ohio State fan. It's not like professional sports where you can assume everyone in NE Ohio is a Browns fan...I went to Akron when we were Division II..searching for a conference and an identity. The program has come light years since then...now lets win some MAC Championships!!