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This player will probably claim that Arkansas would have held onto it's 24 point lead if he had not been suspended. http://sec.news/2hzpcgE

I was checking out one of the Marshall forums. This guy must have been a ZN.O member at one time. He just does a better job now of getting all his complaints into one post. "From game coordination of band, PA announcer, cheerleaders (simple answer), to tacky Harley, to minor league intermission stunts (money blowing around in box), to thug music, to very loud PA that assaults the ears, to insecurity about playing "Take me Home Country Roads" (which the opposing fans would be thrilled to hear), to tired band music, to the apparent dismissal of the thunder clap (which, if coordinated, would be effective), to failure to use south end zone as a "Club" for the cool alcohol crowd, to the failure to coordinate "lightning" on the video screen WHILE the drums beat while the fans scream THUNDER while the song Thunderstruck plays while the team enters (imagine the effect it would have!), to the dismissal of We Are Marshall at basketball games, to the inept 70's student recruiting model, to the failure to understand the politics of education, to the selection of another ho hum old white guy for President, to the BOG remaining parochial instead of national and/or international, to the failure to exploit for student recruiting the nationally recognized forensics program, to failure to place that cool tractor trailer in every state festival and parade in WV (and the State Fair) with cool forensic experiments for kids, to the failure to have a state outreach program (summer exercise in all counties) to the _____________ (fill in the blank). Posted by:Herd Insider, Dec 4, 2016 "

"I wouldn't be surprised if in 20-30 years, maybe sooner, we see the Canton Rep and ABJ merge to form 1 more regionalized paper for Stark/Summit County." Kreed5120....Your off on your time estimate by several decades. The era of using web presses to put ink on paper and paying someone to deliver it to my door is nearly dead. The patient is ready for the morgue and no merger of corpses will make the industry survive.

I agree with Hilltopper. We need major surgery on this university asap. The risk-reward ratio is poor on doing a traditional national search, multiple campus visits and speeches by the candidates will take another 12-18 months. The patient (our university) is laying on the operating room table waiting for the surgeon to arrive. The patient is deteriorating quickly. Is the surgeon the board picked the best national candidate to do the surgery. I have no idea. But I can also predict that in a long wait for the best surgeon may kill the patient. As for the Beacon Journal editorial on this subject, Michael Douglas is a good supporter of Zips Athletics (you can see him at every men's soccer game) and I truly believe cares about the future of this university. On this editorial I think he is miss reading the financial condition of the university and is hoping for community unity and unanimous support for a national leader to come to Akron. The chance of a national quality educational leader with turnaround experience applying for this position and running a community gauntlet is near zero. I support the candidate the board promoted and anxiously await his surgery and rehabilitation plan for our beloved patient.

Men's basketball experimental rule change for 2016-7. In effect only for MAC and B1G during conference play. http://on.ncaa.com/2dzNzsU

I heard we could get a bargain basement paint job from the paint crew used at the Hall of Fame game.

Zach - You missed a few: University of Akron - BASIC RENOVATIONS-WAYNE $800,000 University of Akron - Orrville Area Boys & Girls Club $250,000 University of Akron - Wooster Area Boys & Girls Club $40,000 University of Akron - Medina County Fiber Network $100,000

If Dennison was there, I unfortunately missed him. Did anyone see him in attendance? LeBron was out of town but sent a video. For zippy_ua_00: Nate Linhart was also not in attendace. He had already returned to Europe to start training camp for this season. Nate also sent a video. Videos were also sent in by former assistant coaches Shaka Smart and Jeff Boals.

" I'm pretty sure that Akron's is fully digital." If this is what you call fully digital in today's world, then their is no need for an Apple watch because I had a Timex digital watch in 1981. Please help me find the "search" function on our fully digital media guides.

Made my money in that business and got out in 2005. About the only value for a printed phone book today is using it as a booster seat for your grand kids at Thanksgiving dinner.

Curious to know why any university would waste time putting this info on paper. Do they still buy their clothes from the Sears Catalog by using a printed order form? Do they insist on using a paper airline boarding pass?

I will be in attendance.

Brian has been promoted to a full-time position with Dayton Flyer Basketball. http://bit.ly/1TRnVgk

My memory sometimes fails me. What is "radio"? I have vague memories of some gadget on the dashboard of a car that blared music. If it still exists does anyone really listen to radio?

The treatment of players in MLS is very modern and open to public scrutiny. Outside of North America the unethical player mistreatment by coaches and owners is disgusting. http://nyti.ms/1pHnyug

Very Poignant article..... http://usat.ly/1SaNghQ

Since we are now into the post season I thought it was time to revive this discussion. Listen to this audio clip, review our current RPI and the posts we made months ago, and give us your current reasoning on scheduling. http://bit.ly/1QMlyLS

A good article by George Thomas on a coach and team that deserves more local recognition. Thanks George for doing the article. http://bit.ly/1RMDLaZ

The JAR has been set up for a theatrical extravaganza for the game on Friday. After Wednesday evenings women's game a contractor has installed 16 computer controlled multi-color spotlights in the rafters and 8 towers with carbon dioxide smoke generators at the corners of the floor along with two additional light show generators on some of the towers. I assume that other equipment will be installed just before game time. I told Reggie and Jake that they must be awful special to get this size of Senior Night treatment. Make sure you get their early enough for the pregame senior recognition.

Same here. Thought zw was reposting a 2012 blog entry.

ZW - This may be a design or coding error. I hoping it may be a user option/choice you can change in a user control table. I use the "unread" option every time I get on the site. In the previous version of ZN.O if you clicked on the title of the thread it took you to the last entry of the thread. It now takes you to the first page of the thread. Kind of a useless link since I am requesting the link from the "unread" page. Only clicking on the timer at the bottom left of the entry gets you to the actual posting.

Beautiful effort by Shawn. Watching Coach Mitchell's reaction on the YouTube video is precious.

Mr. Zipp's comments seem well intentioned but self serving as a university professor. Why doesn't he just say that people who build, lead or own successful businesses with loyal satisfied employees aren't wanted in his university environment. In business, if you move to a new company and recruit some of your top performers from your former place of business to come with you, you are considered to be enhancing your new employer. Sometimes it fixes problems and the the existing employees love the change. Other times it causes resentment and poor morale. In business it is called "recruiting". Success or failure of the process is all over the map. In government we give the same process a negative term "patronage". Why do you think that in a governmental situation the same process is "almost always a bad, bad thing"?

I just finished my plane, car and hotel reservations. Go Zips!

..." He will probably cite some sixth man of the year stat." and then be banned from ZN.O by the moderators!