ZZZips

Looks like we have wrapped it up for this chaotic post season. https://bit.ly/2GdXNKs I have not seen any news on where some of last years departing players have landed. Anyone have any updates I missed?

Please define "stabilize" as it relates to today's D1 Men's basketball environment. Thanks in advance for your response.

Entire list of D1 Football rule changes for 2018 http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/alteration-football-kickoff-rule-approved

Black press will make more money selling the city block on which the BJ sits than selling the staff and circulation to Gatehouse. It is the true value proposition to Black Press. Developers will bid aggressively to get that full block downtown. Even the City of Akron is selling off their downtown real estate while the market is hot ......https://bit.ly/2qvaZor UA should put the Quaker Square property on the market right now. The best chance for dumping this drain on university resources. It cost more to keep it open than the revenue it can bring to UA.

Say good night to the "Townhouse Bar" aka the "Plasma Center" Source Uakron.edu......UA Construction News for summer 2018 Plasma Alliance Building (University Foundation and Grant Funded) The Plasma Alliance Building at the corner of East Exchange and Brown streets is scheduled for abatement and razing in April and May, respectively. Site restoration is expected to be completed in May as well.

I have seen nothing that says ESPN3 (paid for by the cable companies) will disappear. Some programming may appear on both venues. Initial press release by Disney is confusing to me.

The men's and Women's Basketball Team Rooms would make great beer distribution points. Both have mega screen Tv's so you can watch Reghi while you get another brew.

Cayman Classic 2018. Five teams announced. The last three spots are reserved for SEC and ACC teams. League sponsor is Mountain west. TV network is CBS. https://cayman27.ky/2018/01/cayman-islands-classic-confirms-5-teams-for-2018-edition/

Akron will host next years MAC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at the Ocasek Nat.

I also watched the Houston game for the same reason. I wasn't rooting for the Cougars, just wanted to see how they had progressed in he last 12 months. Since the Nation seems to be in a mood of finding fault with the accuracy of statistics and comparisons in this thread, I just wanted to point out Skip that the NIT game last year was not played on the campus of UH. I attended the game and it was played at Texas Southern University.

The "MAC basketball officials suck" logic is so flawed. You guys are dreaming up false reasons for losing. Do officials make mistakes.....yup....every game. Are the MAC officials worse than B10 officials...not possible. The two big basketball official organization in the eastern part of the country make the game assignments, grade their employees accuracy and proficiency, fitness for the profession, etc. The leagues provide grading and training suggestions but the official's organizations do the work. On the east coast the D1 basketball officials work for the MEN'S BASKETBALL OFFICIATING ALLIANCE. The alliance started with coverage of BigEast, ACC , A10 and Colonial conferences. In 2017 the alliance began providing officials for the Big South, Ivy, Northeast and Patriot conferences. In the Midwest the basketball officials work for the MEN'S BASKETBALL OFFICIATING CONSORTIUM. This group has been providing officials to the Big10 and MAC for several years. in 2017 the consortium began providing officials to the Horizon, Metro Atlantic, Summit and Norther Sun conferences. .

The roster has been updated.

Hey Skip...your info is way out of date. http://es.pn/2jbds7V

Two new head coaches with Akron ties will coach their first games this evening. Congratulations to Nick Dials and Lamont Paris. Nick Dials story http://bit.ly/2i484Qe game video link for 7:30pm ET tip http://bit.ly/2yNJJZj Lamont Paris story http://bit.ly/2zAAEAg game video link for 9:00pm ET tip http://bit.ly/2ezV06D

You are thinking of the north end of the floor which has storage areas and a hallway behind the wall. The wall in the picture is at the south end. Behind the south end wall currently are concessions stands and the team shop.

Question by lilroodude "When is that wall getting torn down and floor-to-rafters seating being added?" Answer...When your check for $5M arrives.

Several fellow zn.o members have texted me asking about the corner board in the back ground of the picture. The corner board was full of numbers just to check for placement. The board is set to show the following "team" stats going from top to bottom. Both teams stats are shown side-by-side: FG FG% 3FG 3FG% FT FT% BLK AST STL TO D-RB O-RB Score

But note they are only in the 3rd half!

Fabric canopy covering of the underside of the score board has been installed.

Miami's Pei Lin was the biggest scoring factor and that was totally expected. No one in the MAC can come even close to her on the 1M and 3M boards. She will sweep the MAC Championships in those events again this year. Miami has also improved their free style performance from last year. Zips still very strong in the relays. Agree with you that Nogaj is a great addition to the team.

One section of the new scorer/press tables. There will three of these on each side of the floor.

Northeast corner board viewed from track on the west side of the arena

Northeast corner board as viewed from the floor

View from top row of the west (chairback) upper bowl

Scoreboard pictures from 10am Monday morning. View from the track looking to the southeast.