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More to the story? Of course there is. How do you think Paul Harvey held down that gravy job for all of those years?

How can you be anti-Transformer and anti-hot air balloon? Seems un-American to me.

Sports Illustrated Article Very good summary. My favorite point is if the NCAA loses, universities might be thrown into a state of sanity and stop with all of the spending on coaches salaries and stadium additions. At that point, the people who are making the money for the stadiums and coaches salaries might actually get some of that money. If the NCAA loses this, will college athletics be harmed? Depends on who you think is being harmed. The people in most danger are overpaid coaches and ADs so I'm not getting to upset about that. If they don't like it, they can get a job like everyone else or try to make it in the NFL where there are no pretenses about what is happening. If Urban Meyer had his salary cut in half, there would be enough to pay all 85 scholarship players on that team $24,705 per year. Not a ton of money, but who deserves the money more? I don't want to make it seem like I'm picking on Meyer, but if his salary was cut in half or if the ncaa capped coaches salaries at $1.0 million per year, what else would most of these guys do? Get a job at an accounting firm? Would Meyer go back to being a bad commentator or ESPN? No, he would hate that job and he would keep doing exactly what he is doing only for less money. Nick Saban, The Mad Hatter, etc.? What else would these guys do? The same exact thing they are doing now. Will the players who make the money be harmed? No, because they will start to get back some of the money they have made. Will MAClike schools be harmed? Maybe. Maybe some sanity will be introduced into their daily athletics operations. Who am I trying to kid? No, they won't be harmed because they will just find a way to get the taxpayers to pay for the maintenance of the monuments ADs have built in honor of themselves. If you capped ADs salaries at $400K per year, what else would half of these clowns be able to do for a living? There aren't too many high paying jobs for half-wits that allow somebody to con taxpayers out of money, so they have nowhere else to go. I know how much some of you fret about a world without the NCAA and the building process that goes along with it. In reality, losing this case could be the best thing ever to happen to college athletics and taxpayers around the country.

I'm just trying to be part of the building process. After all, weren't we told to "Think Bigger"?

I bet he wouldn't say that if he knew he was going to be air lifted via hot air balloon into an arena through an retractable roof.

What if when the arena transformed itself into a walking arena and could travel the distance between campus and the arena in five minutes? Would a five minute walk seem so crazy at that point? Throw in the team arriving in a hot air balloon through the retractable dome and the cheerleaders arriving via chariots drawn by the dogs that competed in the dog show at the arena earlier in the day delivered to campus by the trucks that competed in the monster truck event the night before driven by the ice show dancers from the show prior to the monster truck show, how could a fan not have a great time in this taxpayer funded arena like that?

As the guy who came up with the Transformer idea for the new arena, I'd just like to say this isn't a bad idea. Having a dorm that transformed into a walking basketball arena wouldn't work here, but they could save money on the dorm part of the arena and just make it so it could walk. Before each game, it could walk to campus and pick up students, then walk back to Kelly Avenue with enough time for the team to drop in via hot air balloon through the retractable dome.

I wonder if this line shouldn't read, "Enfield Not 'Content' Coaching College Basketball". Many guys who taste the NBA crave it once they are out. They say they are happy, but deep down inside they aren't. Enfield spent lots of time in the NBA and FGCU isn't the path back to the NBA. USC is the path back to the NBA IF he can get it turned around. He appears to be a quick turnaround guy so we will see where it takes him. The PAC-Whatever isn't a difficult league to get good in. Throw in the LA lifestyle and a good coach can bring in a lot of good players to quickly turn it around and get back in the NBA. I think this Enfield guy is a good coach. Not only does he get good talent, but he is able to get that talent to do what he wants them to do. In an era when players are completely over-coached and appear to be tight, his players are well coached and play loose, but not haphazardly.

Another reason why doing nothing is the best decision right now. These schools are grasping for straws. It's really sad in many ways.

I wonder what they will trade Weeden for after next year. There are NFL teams...and a lot of them that destroy good QBs. The Browns are one of those teams. I see no reason this won't change going into the future.

Salon Article New Yorker Article Best sentence is the first of the last paragraph.

What is his history of success in picking basketball arena locations?

I have lots of Transformer ideas that never make it on to a website.

They can't. If they didn't do things like this, people would realize they can't do anything other than make people flee living the city with high tax rates in an effort to fix a school system that can't be fixed with higher taxes.

Akron doesn't need a convention center. Akron can draw small trade shows and those shows can be held in Cuyahoga Falls or at the hotel by the Winking Lizard as they require a large ballroom and some meeting rooms. A regional home show or other type of professional show with about 65 exhibitors are good fits for the existing spaces. I love Akron, but it needs a convention center like Miami needs a snowmobile course. Identity is important and it is important to know what you are and to get good at what you are. Never try to pretend you are something you aren't or you will never be successful. The identity of Akron is not a convention town.

The thing that sticks out to me is the nice distribution of players based upon their class. A lot of players were lost during the Coach I years. A little light on freshmen, but they don't have three years to turn things around. Good job of filling experience in with JUCO players.

When I see the question, "Would you welcome Abreu back?", I think, to what? I don't know if he will ever play basketball for the Zips or not. This is a hard thing to come back from. If he did come back and play, I assume he would be on good standing with the University and team, so yes, I would welcome him back. At the end of the day, AA was/is a Zip regardless of whether or not he ever plays again. If there is a 10 year reunion for a MAC Championship team or something like that, I would welcome him back to that as well. He would deserve the recognition as being part of that team. He was a part of this year's team and deserves a ring just like a guy who sat on the bench for the entire season. If a baseball player gets traded from a team that wins the World Series, he gets a championship ring even though he didn't play in the WS. Same idea to me.

Of course I have. I've also mentioned we could build a dorm that is like a Transformer and it could transform from a dorm to a basketball arena, but nobody seemed to think that was a good idea. I figured since we have a never ending flow of money to build things, a transformer arena only made sense. Maybe my Transformer idea wasn't expensive enough for the building process crowd. To make it more expensive and thus more attractive to the building process crowd, transforming from a dorm to a stadium would only be part of the features of the stadium. The stadium would also have feet that allowed it to walk from parking lot to parking lot picking up fans so they wouldn't have to walk far during the long winter months. It would also have a retractable dome that opened and the team could enter the arena via a hot air balloon. Again, just some ideas that seem to be as good as designing a stadium for dog shows and monster truck events. Just trying to do my part.

I'm neither a fan nor a detractor, but if I had time to concern myself with a guy we won't hear from again after next year, it would be the buying pot with counterfeit money. I have this vision of him printing the money on Mississippi's best dot matrix printer.

Thanks. Solid player who has room for improvement and I think pick up will help him. LBs are like WRs in that they are only as good as the one next to them. Chase will make Kuechly better because teams will have to pay attention to him and scheming against one LB will be difficult.

Employees are loyal. Employers are not. Anyone paying attention to the job market over the past five years should know that.

Actually, appearance isn't as important as performance.

I want a wow factor as well. My vision of this arena and the wow factor would be like looking at the Mona Lisa. Beauty in simplicity. Make the fan experience of watching a sporting event as perfect as possible without any vulgar or garish displays. My thoughts always take me back to TD Arena where College of Charleston plays. It is the perfect arena for them. Perfect size. Perfect view of the game. Fits the campus perfectly. Fits the city perfectly. Nothing fancy, just a great place to watch a college basketball game.

Exactly the reason not to do it. When someone goes to a game at UofA, do you want them to think, "This is just like Wheeling, Erie, Toledo, Dayton and Youngstown."? Or, do you want them to have a completely unique basketball experience watching the Zips win? I want the unique fan experience. You want a fan to leave a game and say, "I can't get this anywhere else."

Nice fit. Carolina is in need of a solid inside LB to free up a very good young LB (can't think of his name right now). See you on the field next year Chase.