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Don't we already have a Nike symbol on the jersey?

If you watch a NASCAR race, each car has their main sponsors on the roof and hood. On the side of the car are lots of smaller stickers, at least there used to be before I stopped watching. Those small stickers were called Provisional Sponsorships or something like that. The cost for those sponsorships vary by race by finishing position. The higher the car places in the race, the more money the sponsors pay. Maybe they could sell these types of sponsorships to people or local businesses. The higher the Zips finish in the regular season, the more the players make. Maybe figure out a bonus for winning the MAC Championship. I have no idea where they would be placed. My experience in life is if you reward behavior, you get that behavior. Reward winning. It's minor league sports now.

What if they had a donation option like a tip at the concession stand?

You need to deepen your knowledge of Akron history.

UMass has two winning seasons in the past 10. They are not a good A10 program but they are proven average at best. Frank Martin works wonders for very short periods with bad programs. Last year may have been that short period. The question is this. Can the MAC make an extremely average at best A10 program good immediately? You may be right that they are a top 4 MAC program next year. If they are, the MAC is in much worse shape than I believed.

Im going to make a recommendation, but I'm a little worried 75% of all athletic directors will take it seriously. Akron should play an exhibition game against the Harlem Globetrotters and serve as the Washington Generals. We could split the profits with all going to the NIL collective. Imagine Hilltopper or the President of the school getting doused with a bucket full of confetti. Problem solved.

When I go to Jersey Mike's among other restaurants, I'm always asked if I want to leave a tip and suggestions are made. Maybe they could raise some NIL money at season ticket purchase time doing something like this. Depending on the past giving of season ticket holders, different giving levels could be recommended.

Abandon all of the cupcake games in the ooc and schedule high paying opponents on the road. It works great for the football program. Seriously, shooting better Friday night wouldn't have cost a penny more. I don't know what Jeff Gillooly would cost these days, but diverting some NIL money to hire him to kneecap some of the Wildcats would have helped.

No it wasn't. Nine percent of two hundred thousand is eighteen thousand.

Agreed, but at the same time Akron played four teams ooc (25%) that made the NCAA Tournament. One was St. Mary's and they beat Gonzaga twice during the regular season. I don't think they should go out and schedule three top 10 programs. I do think they should schedule two more teams from big conferences. I'm thinking of programs like Pitt, WVU, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wake Forest, VATech, GA Tech.... These teams are not guaranteed loses. These programs provide good competition. The word origin of competition means to bring out the best in yourself and the competitor. The purpose of competition is not winning, it's to be the best version of yourself. So, would this change in scheduling change the results of last night? I don't know, but I'm doubtful. Akron didn't just not bring out the best in itself, it failed really badly at it.

I would think that the next step is to win a winnable game in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Akron had the talent and coaching to win yesterday. They didn't for a lot of reasons with two key reasons being unusually bad shooting by the Zips and unusually good shooting by Arizona.

You're missing the point.

I didn't see the second half, but the margin of victory is shocking. I really thought Akron had a chance at halftime.

Yikes.

You should have stopped at "Sure". The spending is a lot of things. A drop of water does not cause a flood.

I don't know the article. My numbers are correct. Government revenue increased in the 80s. Military spending left the government with massive debt by the end of the 80s. It's the spending.

The highest tax rate in the 1950s only applied to income over $200,000. Today, $200k = $2.4 million. They didn't invest in workers to keep their taxes down. They created paper losses on real estate and country club memberships. A summer home was a great way to keep your taxes down. There were many more ways to hide income in the 50s that didn't exactly find their way to the middle class. Does anyone really think people in the 1950s making $200,000 per year and only took home $18,000?

From 1980 to 1990 Federal tax revenue increased from $518 billion to $1.0 trillion.

Then we agree. Spending is spending whether on wars or soup kitchens. It's always about the spending. Two very true things happened in the 1980s, and I know this because I was alive and can remember the 1980s. God, it was a great decade. First true thing, the tax cuts caused a massive increase in tax revenues because people had extra money to spend and the economy boomed. Second true thing is the government spent all of the windfall and billions more like drunken sailors on defense spending. See, the problem was the spending. It's always the spending.

Do some more research into the tax code during that period. Nobody paid 90%.

It's the spending. It's always the spending.

I'm glad to hear kids are moving and socializing closer to campus. It was my college experience and I had a great experience. I went to a couple Exchange Street bars after a football game last year or the year before and thought they were good college bars. The City is never going to rebound if it can't handle public safety in the downtown area. It's a basic issue that will hold back the City forever if it cannot deal with it. If Fairlawn and Green are offering better living experiences for 23-32 year olds, it shows how far the City needs to go. I lived in Cuyahoga Falls with some buddies after college for two years. When Mrs GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, and I got married, we moved to west Akron on Kenilworth Drive as soon as we could afford a house. The city life was awesome. One bad part of Akron was the 2% income tax. It's up to 2.5% now. That's pretty steep for anywhere. It's not like the City offers premium public services for a premium tax rate. The problems the City has are not unusual or unsolvable. The failure is chronic and habitual. I don't know how to fix that but other cities have.

In 1998, Dennis Rodman skipped out of practice in the NBA Finals to wrestle Hulk Hogan and spend some time with a model in Las Vegas. They still won the championship. Kent did just fine after a couple of guys missed one practice. After 30+ games, how much practice do these guys really need for a Mickey Mouse post season tournament?

These two apartment buildings stand as monuments to the City of Akron's failure to think of anything to rejuvenate the City other than waiting for the University to do it for them. If I was a new college graduate, the last thing I would want to do is share an apartment building with undergrads that was designed for undergrads. Also, with the cost of buying a house now, young professionals are living in apartments into their 30s. Living spaces have to reflect their needs. Akron needs rental living and activities for young professionals. It's better for the City because these people have a bit more money to spend than undergrads. They bring a good energy to the City. It works everywhere else it's tried. It can work in Akron.

I went to see an NBA game for the first time in many years a couple of Fridays ago when the Cavs came to Charlotte. It was mostly good entertainment with nonsense woven through. I talk a lot on this board about how hard it is to be an in person fan now. The NBA makes it very difficult. First, the incessant music played during game action is obnoxious. The NBA isn't a great product, but it's good enough that they don't need that nonsense. Am I the only person who likes the sound of sneakers squeaking on the floor? Second, the replays. Fans have to spend too much time watching refs stare at TV screens. The illusion is that they get the calls right. There are plenty of times I don't agree with the replay decision. An NBA game shouldn't last almost 3 hours. Third, I had no idea there was a defensive three second call. It's no wonder NBA players get more layups than the Globetrotters against the Washington Generals. A dunk used to be a cool thing. Now they happen every few minutes. Makes the rare mid range jump shot exciting in comparison. Maybe I'm too old, but I remember the NBA being a better product.