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It's hard to tell from this photo. She looks like an old hippy woman from Asheville.

This sounds like an overwhelming public demand for the Great Gee Pee Wan. People know a good thing when they see it. Let's face it....Captain Kangaroo pays for this board, but the Great GP1 owns it.

The Great GP1 will not be attending. Going to the mountains for the weekend. To be honest, I wouldn't drive across the street to watch a college soccer game let alone 70 miles to Winston-Salem. Go to downtowon WS and start at the Mellow Mushroom. It is kind of in the center of the "things to do" area of the city. Pizza is good. Walking distance from Marriott and Embassy Suites. If you want to go to a really good BBQ place, go to a place called Gadzooks (I think). It is on the street that runs between the basketball arena and the football stadium up the hill on the same "block" and side as the football stadium. You will have to drive there as the bb arena and fb stadiums are off campus a few miles. Jim Noble has a great place to eat in WS as well. Eat a good dinner and go to the Fox and Hound across the street to watch sports after dinner.

I know alot of Cuse fans are staying north of Akron in Macedonia next to I-271. I've driven through the area and looks pretty nice. Any good late night restaurants around Macedonia that will still serve around 11pm? BTW, so where is "The Valley"? anyone have a street intersection? I googled it and it looked to be pretty far out in the suburbs. Directions to the Merriman Valley, from Market Street on the northern edge of campus So this is the place? Yes. Papa Joe's is a very good place to eat if you like Italian. My wife and I lived just above that in west Akron by Stan Hywet Hall and we used to go there all the time.

I know alot of Cuse fans are staying north of Akron in Macedonia next to I-271. I've driven through the area and looks pretty nice. Any good late night restaurants around Macedonia that will still serve around 11pm? BTW, so where is "The Valley"? anyone have a street intersection? I googled it and it looked to be pretty far out in the suburbs. I would tell your friends staying in Macedonia to change their reservations to this Courtyard in Stow. Macedonia is a nice place, but I don't think it offers much of what you are looking for. The Courtyard is off of Rt.8 which you will need to drive to get to UofA. Around there is a Brubakers and a Skyline Chili. There are other places as well. Within walking distance if you have been drinking. It is not much further south than Macedonia...just a few miles that you have to drive at some point. Remember, be safe. A DUI in Ohio results in a 3 days in jail. We want you to come back to Ohio, but not for that reason.

I will take great on some plays and average on others. It could be much worse. Give the kid a chance. He is a true sophomore. Give the kid a break. I don't know how good the kid can be. This is the year he must make huge strides. I still have to see his accuracy and we won't know that until the bullets fly for real. I also want to see how he plays in the MAC. Let's say he does look great on some plays and average on other plays. Average to great is a good range for a MAC player to play in. That's good enough to win in the MAC. I think this kid has enough to win in the MAC. He just needs to win. Fans give all sorts of reasons for teams not winning. If the players execute, you win. If the players don't execute, you lose. The one constant over the past 20+ years in D-1A for Akron has been the inability of players to execute. It's not about stadiums or coaches or athletic directors or any other reason fans like to give. Sports are about the players on the field. Our players need to play and win. Period.

100% of all marketing efforts should be put into selling tickets for home events. Bus trips are a waste of effort for the marketing staff. Stay focused on selling tickets for home games. Next year when they play at tOSU, reserved season ticket holders from 2010 should be able to purchase tickets at a 1:1 ratio for this game as long as they re-up their season tickets. Those who want to just buy tickets for this game should be required to purchase five general admission tickets for every game for every one ticket they get for the tOSU game. I don't care how they do it, just make it so the tOSU fans masquerading as Zips fans have to pay at least $600 to go to this game.

Cuse is getting their first Chipotle soon...about a mile from the campus. BTW, to the poster above...I'm not in my 20s but wanted to get info for the younger fans coming to Akron. It is frequently the case that a city must update their sewage system prior to opening a Chipotle. Maybe that was the case.

From the looks of your post, my guess is you are in your 20s. I'll leave the downtown bar scene picks to the younger ZipsNation members. If you are going to list this on the Syracuse board, your readers should know my picks below are probably for the "not interested in the bar scene" crowd...older folks who like good food without all of the drunks. If you want something really special, go to Lannings. It is the best steak place around. I actually think it is the best steak place in Summit County. You will need your own car. If you are coming with your wife/girlfriend, she will love the place. Dockers and button down shirt minimum. Diamond Grille is overrated. Ken Stewart's Grille is another good local Akron place. Used to be much better than it is now, but still good. Great cocktail bar. Away from campus. Crave is the best place to eat downtown and technically, you could walk there from the stadium but I would advise driving. I lived on the west side of Akron and my wife and I used to love to eat at Gasoline Alley. Great deli food and really good specials. Off campus and will need a car. If you are walking around campus on Friday around lunch, go to the Martin Center and eat in the restaurant in the basement. Really good food. If you are looking to knock off 3-4 hours, a tour of Stan Hywet is always interesting. The Seiberlings built the place and they are the people who founded Goodyear Tire and Rubber. If the Biltmore is a must see in Asheville, NC, then Stan Hywet is a must see in Akron, OH. If you feel like taking a walk in the country, drive up to Peninsula, OH and rent some bikes or walk part of the Towpath Trail. Walking about a mile north and a mile south is a good trip. You could eat lunch at the Winking Lizard or Fishers (is Fishers still in business?). Only about 30 minutes at the most from campus. Take the interstate there and don't drive through the Valley. When you drive through the Valley, you drive by the sewage plant and it smells like a....well......a sewage plant. I would recommend anyone staying a night or two to stay in west Akron/Montrose. Close to Cleveland if you want to see the Rock and Roll HOF, but it is still basically in Akron. Anything you may need is within 4 miles of the area. Enjoy your trip.

Great topic!!!! I don't know the answer, but how many above were starters last year and how many are new starters?

What's holding us back is our own stupidity. We would be just as stupid in another conference.

We will never be a big time football power....period. What decent football conference would want a team like ours in their league? By the time we ever get to the point where we dominate the MAC, college football will have changed into something other than what it is right now. Those changes are not going to include UofA in the highest level. Let's dominate the MAC and then see what happens. Moving just to make a move is suicide.

Boise State's OOC schedule is as follows: VA Tech (BCS) in Washington DC where 90% of fans will be VA Tech fans. @ Wyoming Oregon State (BCS) Toledo That is a stronger OOC schedule than most BCS schools play. Our schedule is too heavy with BCS schools and should be revised so we only play one per year. Wyoming would be a perfect OOC game for us as would other schools from their conference.

They could call it "Astrooturf".......................that is one terrible joke............

I agree completely. We are always waiting for tomorrow on this board. There are 12 games this year. They need to get going now. For those of you who think UofA can be a good Big East program or something like that as college football changes need to understand that if this team doesn't win now, they are more likely to end up in a second tier division in the next few years than whatever D-1A will look like if they don't start winning. Winning is everything. It brings in money. It fills stadiums. It gets you noticed nationally. It makes other conferences look at you. We need to start winning.

So does GP1. It's the thought that some of that money will be going to Ashland University that gets me excited.... If there is any doubt as to how horrible some of the starting QBs in the NFL are, take a look at the list of bums Oakland had in camp competing for the STARTING job. These four guys are an absolute joke. Frye gets the best of both worlds in this injury. By being placed on IR, he is guaranteed his pay for the season as players on IR can not be cut. He also won't see the field which will prevent other teams from being reminded about what an incompetent he is and next year he can find his way to another team as a back-up based upon the illusion he may know what he is doing because of his experience. The key to being a career back-up in the NFL is not actually ever getting on the field so your team sees how terrible you really are.

I agree. Let's win first and then see what happens.

I don't know exactly why I'm posting this article but I am. I guess if it is interesting to the Great GP1, it should be interesting to everyone. I am, after all, the most interesting poster on the board and the fact that probably only 4-5 of you actually knows what I look like makes me even more interesting. The only thing most of you are missing by not knowing me is not knowing my striking good looks. A few years ago, I was at the AIA convention in some city somewhere (now that I'm out of corporate America, I don't travel every week and the repeated weekly routine of drive to airport on Tuesday for 6:00 AM flight, fly to some city, rent car, see customers, go to hotel, go to dinner, repeat for two days, drive to airport, return car, fly home, pick up car from long term parking and then proceed to get drunk as a skunk on Thursday night seems to be a distant memory and I'm glad for that) and they gave out a free book called Nine Shift. The authors were the keynote speakers at the final dinner. It was a great book about the future work place and the changing society. A lot of what they wrote in the book has unfortunately come true. For some reason, this NY Times article made me think of the book. I find 20 somethings living at home somewhat depressing and I'm sad for them this is happening. Maybe the change will be a good thing and only time will tell. I would never have wanted to live with my parents after college. Those first few years out of school were a blast. Working hard, going to happy hour on Thursday night and not going home until Friday morning and then trying to work a job with a huge hangover on Friday was actually fun looking back. Going back to happy hour on Friday was always fun too. College fades into a memory, wives are met and adult life really begins at around 29. Time goes fast. Well, I'm going to rest up for the Zac Brown concert tonight. The rest of you can enjoy your day with your pain in the ass kids and nagging wives.

UofA spends around $25 million the last time I checked. They bring in around $15 million in revenue. The last time I checked, $1.4 million in TV revenue wouldn't make up the difference.

I'd like to provide some more perspective on this issue if I may. Someone in the Athletic Department should be responsible for the golf outing and a women's day. In real Athletic Departments, someone in marketing handles this. "You're full of crap GP1, no school would do that. Stop putting down the Zips."...... Anyhow, Wake Forest has a person named Mike Odom. His title is Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing/Special Projects. How do I know this? He put together the 13th annual Women's Day at BB&T Field where 200 women participated in a three hour football clinic. Quoting the Gold Rush, "The proceeds from the event benefit the Coach's Kids program, which provides tickets to home sporting events to underprivileged and at-risk children in the Piedmont Triad area." WOW!!!!! They're combining expanding the fan base with a good cause. They are just splitting the atom up there in Winston-Salem. There are some real good quotes about how the ladies feel closer to the program, etc. after attending the clinic. Getting back to the main point. I think it is great that UofA had a Women's Day this summer, but we should have been doing this 10 years ago. Golf outings should be handled by the Athletic Department staff and not coaches. This is a marketing function and not a foundation function as well. It is moronic and little league to ask a coach to organize a golf outing. It is the job of the Athletic Department to do these things, not the coaches.

I swear to God, I think Martin has been trying to get fired for the past few years and the administration just won't pull the trigger. What else does this guy have to do to get fired?

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Brown Street is where we all used to live. At one time, it was considered modern living on campus. Christ do I feel old. I wonder what landfill they put Brown Street in? Did you play in the era when jock dorms were still legal? Yes. Some of you might be shocked to know what went on in that place. Please share..... I'm in Myrtle Beach and going to dinner. Not much time. I'll just say this. A lot of college is/was about sex, drugs and rock & roll. Take all of that in extreme forms and you will understand.

This is another example of the insanity of the building process. We all have to wait until things are 100% in order before we can act or expect anything good to happen. Are we 100% certain the horse will be able to run around in a circle in the Kentucky Derby?....of course not. Nothing is certain. Nobody knows 100% of anything. I am 99.999999% certain of this. In a couple of weeks, there is going to be a football game. PN is going to be on the field with his hands under a sweaty man's ass. He had better be ready to go, because in a split second a football is going to be in his hands and he is going to have to do something with it.

Redshirt = scout team He won't learn one more thing on scout team at the end of the year that he doesn't know right now. Not starting Nicely this year would be like not running your fastest, healthy horse in the Kentucky Derby because you want to breeze him some more so he knows how to run around the track in a circle. No offense Zach, but offering the idea to redshirt potentially one of the best QBs in the league is an example of how comfortable UofA fans have become with losing and the "building process". The Zips have 12 games THIS YEAR, not next year. Fans have bought tickets for this year, not next year. Fans want to see winning this year. It's time to start winning. 20+ years of losing and "building" is enough for me. I can't take it anymore.