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awwwwww - were those mean Ohio State boys blitzing you guys. Maybe you can try scheduling Lake Erie College or Baldwin Wallace. Wait a minute...Buckeye fans telling UA who to schedule... Lake Erie and BW are teams that tosu be adding to their schedule once they get through the rest of the MAC and a few more I-AA teams... Someone who obviously forgot about OSWho's 60-something ranked SOS last season. Funny how they don't bring up their 0-13 record either.
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If the Zips get run out of the stadium Saturday, and it could very well happen, they won't win more than three games this season. I'll keep an open mind on the rest of the season until Sunday and then we can all start talking about some hard predictions for the season. GP....this could certainly be where we are headed. But the BIG QUESTION will be........Do we regard that as "progress", or will we still feel as if we are failing just as equally as we were if we had only won a game or two? I already see progress from last year, even in that Columbus blowout. BUT what is our ceiling with this offense? Can we ever win the mac running this predictable offense? I sure hope LR8 looks better this Saturday, I know a lot of posters were happy about the switch at QB, I was holding my breath and hoping. Like everybody is writing, Saturday will tell us what kind of season we are in for. At the very least, I feel like I am in for a nice financial season predicting the outcomes of each game. I'm off to a good start. If the last two years are any indication, this game won't be a "measuring stick" for our offense. It will be a legitimate test to get any kind of scoring. 2009 vs. Temple - 10 offensive points 2010 vs. Temple - ZERO offensive points Like some people have pointed out, a very good Temple team might not be much of a difference from an OSWho team with a bunch of suspended players.
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If the Zips get run out of the stadium Saturday, and it could very well happen, they won't win more than three games this season. I'll keep an open mind on the rest of the season until Sunday and then we can all start talking about some hard predictions for the season. GP....this could certainly be where we are headed. But the BIG QUESTION will be........Do we regard that as "progress", or will we still feel as if we are failing just as equally as we were if we had only won a game or two?
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awwwwww - were those mean Ohio State boys blitzing you guys. Maybe you can try scheduling Lake Erie College or Baldwin Wallace. Hey now. The context of my quote was that we were trying to figure out what RI was complaining about to LF after the game. Some of your fellow Suckeye fans are even questioning what was going on at the end of the game. It goes beyond the blitzing. He put his starting RB back in the ball game, and started giving him the ball on every carry while we had our bench-clearing defense on the field. I applaud our coach for showing some real fight, and calling him out on it. If you OSWho fans think this behavior is ok, don't you realize that it's doing nothing but adding to your reputation as a bunch of pompous idiots? Haven't you had enough bad publicity in the last 6 months? Oh, that's right, you're THE Ohio State University. You are entitled to do whatever you want. So, how are you enjoying your only legitimate victory in the last two seasons, where you were not cheating by playing ineligible players?
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Tasteless? You mean like how they were proud to have nuts on their chests? It just writes it's own joke....doesn't it? I can't believe someone would come up with such an idea that would easily promote ridicule. And even without that.....they still look like Christmas elves.
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Nice post. I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am about football right now too. Akron Soccer is indeed a great experience, which I enjoy as well. Trust me.... I'll be hoping for those big attendance numbers right along with you.
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I need some clarification here. Are you saying that you're expecting 3k-4k for a women's soccer game? on a Sunday afternoon? on a holiday weekend? When few students are even on campus? Please convince be I am wrong on this after the game, but I'd guess that the crowd would be closer to the 30-40 range rather than the 3,000 to 4,000 range. Are you telling me that 3-4,000 students show up for basketball? because i was talking about students...not the entire crowd...thought you understood that since you even bolded the part "decent student showing"...Which students for basketball is usually around 30-40 students...that's what im guessing today... First of all, far more than 30-40 students show up for men's basketball games. You obviously are only counting the people in the lower ends, which are seats that are reserved only for students who are members of the AK Rowdies. And I'm sure they'll tell you that their average numbers are much larger than that. I'd say they are at 30-40 on a really bad night, to be honest. You need to look around at all of the people sitting in the 3 bleacher sections sometime. I can assure you that there is no comparison between Men's Basketball games and women's soccer games when it comes to students in attendance. And since the "announced" attendance for this women's soccer game was 432, and Men's basketball averages about 3-4k per game, if we even assume a relatively similar mix of fans, I think it would probably even be an understatement to say that a significantly higher number of students go to basketball games. It's nothing personal, and I don't mean to slam you. I enjoy Zips soccer too. But, I just find it ridiculous that people on this board waste their time attempting to compare fan interest in football and basketball to soccer in any way whatsoever.
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Oh no. You probably just inspired someone to create our latest doctored picture of someone from Can't state.
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So, VMI becomes this year's Gardner-Webb? Our only automatic win in a practice-type game? Yep...we know how that turned out.
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I can't bellieve this hasn't come up yet. Did anyone else see those bright red outfits? With the green leaves on them? And the buckeye nuts? Did anyone do any market research to determine how ridiculous this looked? Not to mention the tasteless jokes that could arise from wearing them? As someone said to me......at the very least, they looked like Santa's elves at a Christmas function.
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I saw some of these games. And to say the least, it didn't make me very hopeful for our prospects down the road.
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ok, I'll do soccer predictions Cleveland State: 5,241 New Mexico: 5,100 Cal Poly: 4,500 Ohio State: 5,400 Northern Illinois: 4,150 Penn State: 4,850 Hartwick: 3,800 Bowling Green: 4,100 Wake Forest: 4,300 Michigan State: 4,400 = 45,841 which is 4,584 per game. You got me there. Remember that over 1,300 season tickets were sold so those count in the attendance whether or not the tickets are used. Can you find me another D1 program where the soccer team attendance comes anywhere close to football attendance? Akron is unique in that aspect and worth noting. Listen...I will hope and dream along with you that Akron soccer becomes the biggest thing happening in this town. It will be good for the U, and will make me happy as heck. But, I have to give you a reality check on this. Go back and look at last year's attendance. If you think the LOWEST attended game this year will be 3,800, you haven't noticed that the majority of our home games last year, during a National Championship run, had lower numbers than that. Yes, I know that we automatically will have an announced attendance of at least 1,300 for every game because of season ticket sales. You might think my numbers are aggressive, I think they're conservative. You have to factor in the National Championship boost. People who thought about going last year will actually go this year just because they are the champs. Also something worth considering, as students become alumni, they'll continue to return for soccer games. It's becoming an experience everyone wants to be a part of. New students come, old students return as alumni. That's how you build something special. I miss tailgating at the Rubber Bowl and going to games with people to cheer with. My best experience at the Info doesn't even come close to my worst experience at the Rubber Bowl. I love the new stadium and it has nothing to do with my experience, it's the product on the field. It's extremely frustrating to watch Akron football because I'm sitting there shaking my head the whole time questioning the things going on on the field. I'm one of those that thought Ianello should have been fired the second I found out he was hired. Zips football is a big let down. I long for the days when they gave me something to get excited about. I didn't put any numbers up here. I'm just pointing out that your lowest predicted attendance figure this year would exceed the number of people who attended the majority of our home games last year. I hope you are right, but once we have a game where less that 3k show up, which happened several times last year, we'd have to break attendance records in nearly every remaining game to make up the difference, and even get remotely close to a 5k average. It looks like the average you are predicting is roughly a 60% increase over last year. I'm quite certain I am not being "too conservative" in saying that this will not happen. I share your enthusiasm for the Zips, and your disappointment over football. I get excited at the soccer games too, but I'm afraid I'd have to do a lot of this before I'd come even remotely close to predicting this kind of monumental average attendance increase. Even praying for 70 degree sunny weather for every home game probably wouldn't be enough.
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Captain's Blog - Ohio State Game
skip-zip replied to Captain Kangaroo's topic in Akron Zips Football
Brookhard did NOTHING offensively in that game. The defense worked their ass off, but Brookhart was intent to run clock and punt. Stec punted 14...18 times in that game? Bubble screens and run-middle. That's it. The score was close because the defense played great, Stec punted like Ray Guy, and O$U had something like 5 turnovers. Offensively, Brookhart was 100% content to run clock. He did not try to beat Ohio State. If you want to beat Ohio State, or at least score an offensive point, you need to be creative, and get the ball downfield. Brookhart didn't do it, and neither did Ianello. And neither scored an offensive point. The Brookhart O$U game was nice because it was close, but if you're telling me Brookhart did anything offensive to try and win the game, I 100% disagree. I've already pointed out that this game yesterday was eerily similar to the game in 2007, from an perspective of our lack of offensive success, and not taking enough chances. But, no matter what Brookhart's strategy was, I'm merely pointing out that we kept that game in 2007 close for a very long time. You may want to call that a missed opportunity to do something risky to try to pull out the victory, and I would agree. But, "totally tanked"? Again, your talking about possibly our best effort ever to knock off one of the giants. The embarrassing WMU blowout at home last year could fit that category. You could say the same for the NIU homecoming game, when the majority of the crowd was so fed up with the effort that they left at halftime. Trailing one of the top teams in the country by 11 points on the road entering the 4th quarter doesn't fit that category. -
ok, I'll do soccer predictions Cleveland State: 5,241 New Mexico: 5,100 Cal Poly: 4,500 Ohio State: 5,400 Northern Illinois: 4,150 Penn State: 4,850 Hartwick: 3,800 Bowling Green: 4,100 Wake Forest: 4,300 Michigan State: 4,400 = 45,841 which is 4,584 per game. You got me there. Remember that over 1,300 season tickets were sold so those count in the attendance whether or not the tickets are used. Can you find me another D1 program where the soccer team attendance comes anywhere close to football attendance? Akron is unique in that aspect and worth noting. Listen...I will hope and dream along with you that Akron soccer becomes the biggest thing happening in this town. It will be good for the U, and will make me happy as heck. But, I have to give you a reality check on this. Go back and look at last year's attendance. If you think the LOWEST attended game this year will be 3,800, you haven't noticed that the majority of our home games last year, during a National Championship run, had lower numbers than that. Yes, I know that we automatically will have an announced attendance of at least 1,300 for every game because of season ticket sales.
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Good for you. I still detest Ohio State and there's nothing you can do about it. However, I am OK with Michigan. Great Post. I don't have a problem with Michigan either. I know plenty of Michigan fans, and they don't do and say the things that OSWho fans say, which has formed my negative opinion about them over many, many years.
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Captain's Blog - Ohio State Game
skip-zip replied to Captain Kangaroo's topic in Akron Zips Football
Let me see if I have this right, Captain. One of your two all-time games where Akron "totally tanked" was the OSWho game under Brookhart? Are you talking about the game where the score was 3-2 at Halftime? The game where we trailed by only 4 points until well into the 3rd Quarter? The same game where we entered the 4th Quarter down by only 11 points? This game was probably the BEST example we have in our football history of a game where people could believe that we actually have some kind of hope of someday knocking off one of the giants of college football. I can find a handful of game that better define "totally tanked", just last year alone, and many of them were against MAC teams. -
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby....haven't we been through this before? I'm not going to predict what will happen with football attendance, but I will comment on your "lofty" soccer prediction. 4,8000.....AVERAGE? Per GAME? 1) Have you accounted for some of those games in late October and November, where last season the number typically dropped down around the 2,000 to 3,000 range? 2) Did you notice that even the MAC Title Game in November last year only drew 1,800 people? 3) Did you know that we even had a September game last year that drew only 2,600 people? 4) Have you even thought about what would happen if we don't end up looking like a National Championship favorite at some point? You've shown that the LOWEST attended football game in recent years was exceeded by the record-setting, all-time single game attendance mark for soccer. Congratulations. So, I guess you've proven that for a single game, when football is completely down in the dumps and it's snowing and freezing cold, the first home soccer game following a National Championship can rival that number? I think that tells you everything you need to know if you are attempting to compare college football and college soccer fan interest.
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We will have to agree to disagree on the recruiting part. I agree with the part about wanting ot play. But there are a lot of programs between Akron and Ohio State. You may be a backup at OSU but start at Indiana or Minnesota or Pitt, or Cincy. Akron rarely beats out these schools. Yes, we do beat them sometimes for a recruit but not often. If Akron would have beaten OSU yesterday, it would affect Ohio State the way Appy State beating scUM affected scUM. Most laughed at scUM rather than gave credit to Appy State. I would agree with your point about recruiting if Akron did this yearly. Hey, if we beat a BCS top 20 team every year, hell yes it would help recruiting. Then we would be an up and coming team. However, just winning one time wouldnt' change a lot as far as direct recrutiing against OSU. Again, I am not saying it wouldn't help UA recruiting. I am only saying it wouldn't sway recruits from OSU to UA. Thank You. Thank you for at least PARTIALLY returning to reality. Although I try not to make personal assessments on here, your previous post displayed an incredibly naive viewpoint. And as much as you attempt to position yourself as this objective OSWho follower, you really showed a mentality reminiscent of the arrogant bandwagoners we see and encounter on a daily basis. And although you've backed off a bit, I would wager that at some point in the future, while typing out a knee-jerk response to someone's post, you will make a valiant return to a mindset that characterizes the typical, robot-like Suckeye follower.
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I need some clarification here. Are you saying that you're expecting 3k-4k for a women's soccer game? on a Sunday afternoon? on a holiday weekend? When few students are even on campus? Please convince be I am wrong on this after the game, but I'd guess that the crowd would be closer to the 30-40 range rather than the 3,000 to 4,000 range.
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Recruits really have nothing to do with it for me. It's the potential fan base. This week I've taken a ton of heat about being an Akron fan, from fellow Akron-area residents!! It's sickening. It's demoralizing. I'm not looking forward to work this week. Still won't bow down to Columbus. B&G, I am going to guess that WooT's comment was meant to be humorous, and in support of the idea that what happened yesterday doesn't matter. But, at the very least, you'd have to be an absolute fool to think that there is no effect on our fan base and recruiting when you send a resounding message to fans and recruits that your current team didn't belong on the same field as the more popular school in the state. Buckzip can laugh all he wants, and attempt to convince us that it doesn't matter. And for him, and others like him, I would ask one question: If we had won yesterday, could you also say that fans and recruits would not have taken notice? It would have made a HUGE impact. So, performing so poorly certainly produces the opposite effect. I'm concerned about what this does to dampen fan interest right now as well. But unlike you, I think I am much more concerned about the recruiting impact. Because, in the long run, getting the horses in here to just compete successfully against the top MAC programs would have to be the first step to getting local fans interested in our program again.
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ICoach was around 4 years ago?? Hmmm...so the same thing happened 4 years ago. Hmmm....let me think on that. Please tell me where I said that Ianello was our coach in 2007?
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Of course it was. Are any of you really seriously thinking that this was somehow a QB replacement situation? And if any of you are the same people who thought that we should just keep giving Nicely a chance after almost two seasons, then shame on you for even thinking that Moore had the plug pulled on him in his first game !! I still can't wait to hear more in the coming days about what OSWho was doing at the end of the game. I didn't watch most of the final quarter. And if it's true, it sickens me, but it's not a huge surprise.
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This is exactly what I said earlier, and I don't blame him. It is iCoach's job to make the score competitive without relying on the other team to back off. Unlike a game against Tressel, today's score was truly representative of the difference in talent and performance. Not an accurate comparison. In our last two games at Cowlumbus, OSWho needed LATE scores to beat us. Those two games weren't close because Tressel "let off the gas" in the late going. They actually needed to turn up their play in the late going in order to beat us. I am NOT a big OSU fan. OK we can debate whether OSU 'needed' to do anything. You just said it, OSU wasn't playing well. They were able to 'turn it on' when they needed to. Do you think that OSU may just have done some minimal prep for Akron feeling confident they could 'turn it on' when needed? I'm not sure I understand your post here. I'm just pointing out that this game wasn't the same as the last two games under Tressel. If Tressel had "let off the gas" in the previous two games, we would have won. Today, the game was long over with in the 4th Q.
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This is exactly what I said earlier, and I don't blame him. It is iCoach's job to make the score competitive without relying on the other team to back off. Unlike a game against Tressel, today's score was truly representative of the difference in talent and performance. Not an accurate comparison. In our last two games at Cowlumbus, OSWho needed LATE scores to beat us. Those two games weren't close because Tressel "let off the gas" in the late going. They actually needed to turn up their play in the late going in order to beat us.
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Maybe we've played worse against big schools. But, against OSWho, we've played much better than this. And this is probably the weakest OSWho team over the last decade or so. And they will be beatable to most teams they play this year. That's what I can't forget right now. Maybe I can grasp at straws for a few positives tomorrow.