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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.

All the internet photos of the campus show it is on the coast of a lake.

I was reading my alumni magazine and I see the three non-student members of the Board of Trustees are UofA graduates. It rubs me the wrong way when I see people appointed to the Board of Trustees who do not have a degree from the University and it made me happy to see the direction the Governor took with this group. Congratulations to Trustees Jennifer Blickle, Olivia Demas and Sandra Pianalto. In addition, congratulations to student trustee Ryan Thompson. Good luck and thanks for giving back.

I think a game a year at Gund Arena is a good idea. It doesn't look like a new arena is coming any time soon, so they need to try something else to create a big time atmosphere. Once a new arena is built though, no more games in Cleveland.

They do have some recruiting advantages. However, there are many good high school basketball players in the north. Enough that climate, etc. shouldn't impact a college program.

All without a 10,000 seat arena and separate practice facility. Shocking. They do have a lake on campus with a beach around it and some dorms around that. What's more important in drawing a player to your school? 1. Hot girls laying around a lake in bikinis year around on a lake in the middle of campus? or.. 2. A new arena and practice facility. Here is an idea as long as we are throwing things out there. Take off their uniform and put on one of a known school like say Pittsburgh or Wisconsin or Texas. Would anyone be surprised that talent made the Sweet 16? Of course not. Their success comes from the things that matter: talent and coaching.

I wasn't over the edge. Pointing out the stupidity that permeates Twitter takes longer than a usual post. It can cause dead fingers.