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Pre-bid meeting was held on Wednesday 7/14. Bids due on 8/2/11.

A current review of the Can't State vs Ford/Bradley case: http://bit.ly/iTEMEE

Save your money during this coming season. Nothing like FL or NV is planned. The following season the trip most likely will be to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

We will be returning to the Portage Country Club for this year's outing. Please mark your calendar to save the date. If you haven't attended this event in the past, I highly recommend you get involved this year. Both the morning and afternoon flights were huge last year and records were set for attendance and money raised for the program. If you are not a golfer, consider signing up to attend the lunch with the MBB coaches and staff on the patio at Portage. Brochures for the outing will be available at the Men's Basketball Celebration Banquet this coming Friday evening.

GolfWeek article on the Zip's upset victory. http://www.golfweek.com/news/2011/apr/18/m...ois/?BLOG-BlogU

Email Chad Gerrety for a current list of the Zip's Athletic Corporate Sponsors. His email addy is: chad.gerrety@imgworld.com

GP1 Said " Maybe when people go to games, the lose some of the nuances of what other fans see on TV with replay, etc." My reply "Maybe people who rarely attend games lose some of the nuances of what others observe because they are limited to the viewpoint of the game camera."

Man, I have TWO degrees from Akron, shouldn't my mansion by two times better? That would make Ada Zip's house bigger than the Ohio Northern University President's Mansion. Ada Ohio building codes do not have a "mansion" classification.

The following quote is from the gocreighton.com story on the game: "The crowd of 2,861 was 995 fans fewer than the 3,856 that attended the Oct. 21 soccer game between the schools in men's soccer last fall."

This article from today's Birmingham News is a sportswriter's analysis of the number of JUCO football transfers into division 1 programs. The study period covers the last four years and shows results by team and conference. He has the MAC as the conference using the third fewest JUCO transfers averaging 6.7 per team. ACC is the lowest at 1.9 per team. WAC is the highest at 17.2 transfers per team. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/01...s_sign_the.html

Got to disagree with you on this one. My concern is not that some young staff member tried to promote his pro team. My concern is where is the editorial control in the athletic department. This should have been caught by a management team member and nixed before it was displayed. If it continues you could see all kinds of personal messages appear that all seem innocent, cute and I guess forgivable. Would a "Go Heat " message be ok at the next game? It is hard enough for the development department to raise funds from former athletes. I hope Mr. Taylor doesn't get a copy of the photo in this thread. Poor choice of song lyrics one week, and a stupid score board message the next game. Foregivable if it stops but I see a disturbing pattern and a lack of control.

If we beat OU I think even Steve Hawkins will have to vote for us. We get good mid-major press in other places. This article has two mentions of the Zips. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6007351

Alex continues to improve his game. The hard work shows. Photo of Alex holding his All Tournament Award was taken after the "U" game.

Great game, great atmosphere and a really large crowd of Zips fans. This is by far the largest fan attendance we have had at any regular season tournament. It was great to meet many of the player's familys that have not made it to Akron this season. A special compliment to Alex Abreu's mom Ada and the Diggs family for getting out to Las Vegas to see their first Zips game. 20 hour turn-around will be tough but it is easier after a good win.

My experience at these multi-day tournaments is that sitting together is no problem. The crowds are fairly sparse. Puerto Rico and Daytona Beach both had 50-150 fans per school. Fairbanks had much larger crowds (not much entertainment competition near the artic circle with little sunlight and temps below zero?).

ZW - You still have time to change your mind and join us in Las Vegas!

http://www.southpointeventscenter.com/even...all-central.php I am flying out on 12/20, Continental afternoon non-stop, CLE to LAS. Returning Continental non-stop red-eye arriving in CLE on 12/24 6:30am. I may stay at the host hotel because the team is there or maybe on the strip. I know a few fans who are staying in the central part of the strip (Bellagio to the Wynn area). Who is going and where are you staying?

Nate #22 continues to get good playing time (avg 30 mins). FT and 3pt (although few attempts) are good percentages. http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/nate...game_stats.html

Bad Kitty! Cincinnati mascot detained, cited By JOE KAY, AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI – Cincinnati's Bearcat mascot was cited for disorderly conduct after a snowball-throwing incident in the stands during a game against Pittsburgh. Heavy snow covered the field and stands for the Big East game on Saturday afternoon. When Pitt's Dion Lewis scored the second of his three touchdowns in the half, students pelted him with snowballs and were told to stop. A school spokesman says the mascot also was told to stop throwing snowballs in the stands and pushed a security guard, knocking both of them to the ground. The mascot was detained and cited. He was not identified. A backup mascot took his place at halftime.

Well, that throws a massive wrench in things. The rumors were there, but i thought it was just fanciful thinking because the logistics are much too complicated. I expect the MWC will invite more teams on a reactionary basis in the near future. This is a ridiculous development. Texas Christian in the Big East?! The BCS should revoke the Big East's BCS status. They're simply not worthy. lol you realize they are ranked #3? not to mention, who would their bid go to? The MWC who lost utah, tcu and byu? I meant that the Big East is a lousy BCS football conference, not that TCU is a lousy football school. I just think it's an extremely strange geographical fit to have TCU join the Big East & reveals how desperate the Big East is for relevance/strength in football. It may sound strange for a Texas team to fit into an "eastern" league but the geographical spread from Lincoln NE to State College PA for the Big 10 is similar. I really think what entices all the similar moves is TV markets. The Big East has schools in nine of the nation's 35 largest media markets and will being adding Dallas/Fort Worth, the fifth largest. TV dollars overcome travel concerns.

I've honestly been saying this for years. Don't forget that Linhart was a similar thing as well. There are a few questionable things that Dambrot continues to do that really hurt us(short leash on players, inability to figure out what to do with a center). He needs to start realizing it, and i'm sure he will. He did go out and get some athletic players this past offseason at least, so i know he can figure this out. Your Linhart reference and example is preposterous! If KD had such a short leash on Linhart and diminished his career at Akron, how did Nate: Appear in 134 games (#1 all-time at the time of graduation)? Score 1,023 career points? Record 186 career steals (#3 in team history)? Become #8 in career blocked shots? Rank #2 all-time in Freshman free-throw percentage? Rank #3 all-time in Junior year steals? Rank #3 all-time in Senior year steals? Make the 2006 MAC All-Freshman team? Become the 2009 MAC Defensive Player of the Year? Get voted the 2009 MAC Tournament MVP? Have one of the highest minutes per game average during all four of his years? That’s my case for disagreeing with your assertion about KD. I think KD distributes minutes to the players ready to play each night in light of the matchups at any given time on the floor. Nate was ready almost every night and relished taking on the toughest defensive assignment each night. I’ll await Roo44’s argument on Linhart’s diminished career caused by Coach Dambrot.

ZW - Did you get an answer as to why McKnight is suspended again?

The Zips classify this game as the first "Regular" season game. Millikin classifies it an "Exhibition" game. Can each school classify it differently? The following is lifted today from their athletic website: Men's Basketball 11/12/10 @ 7:30 PM University of Akron (Exhibition) Akron, Ohio

Ck....you have an old url for the Creighton Board. They moved to Rivals. Try : http://creighton.rivals.com/forum.asp

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