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Beat me to the punch JZ84, I was just about to put a thread up about Wagner. Rasor went to practice and got some quotes from some players. Wagner was quoted saying, "We just need to win". He uses the word "need" not "want". I love that. There are things I want to do that I never do. There are things I need to do I get done. Everyone puts more focus on the things they need to do and less on what they want to do. It tells me this team is focused on winning. I'll say it again. This team is not short on talent or hard work. The had a talented team last year that worked hard in a hopeless situation. The focus on winning is something they badly need. That one quote alone has me more excited about this upcoming season than anything I have seen thus far. They can be a good team THIS YEAR.

Female hormones my ass. This girl has been using testosterone. Look at all of the hair on her arms.

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.

I thought Paula Poundstone used up all of her eligibility in the 1980s.

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?

I'm not sure they could put Dan on the radio. Great guy and love him to death, but I have a feeling he'd be a little too honest... and shall we say... forthcoming with his opinions on what he's seeing on the field. That's exactly the guy we need then.

Love country music. Love Chesney. Not a fan of the song. Not a fan of the song being on the radio 100 times a day. A little too pandering even for Chesney. Kenny Chesney is going to be my generation's Jimmy Buffett. The last event I went to when I lived in Ohio was Kenny Chesney concert at Browns Stadium.

They are both schools of 14000 with nothing going on around them for miles (closest to Youngstown is Akron some 50 miles away). YSU was "selling out" for national champion teams with a whopping 17,000. (They added 3000 seats in 97 after their "run"). Marshall (50 Miles from Charleston) played to packed crowds in an 18000 seat stadium, until they moved to D-1 and built the 38,000 stadium they have now. The University of Akron is twice the size of both schools. We are a D-1 school, they had to give a way free tickets to get people to go see D-2 and 1-AA football. Moral of the story, even if you are a good 1-AA school no one really cares. Akron has a much larger opportunity to draw fans from a 50 mile radius. Not everyone on the Akron side at the MCB was a UofA grad. There had to be some interest. Winning draws people. Nobody lives in Boone, NC. Explain the large crowds. If you sell out your stadium, how many more tickets could you have sold is the questions. We already have a stadium that only gets filled once a year at best. I don't think it is a stretch to believe raising the attendance from at 17,000 sales to 24,000 would take much more than a winning team with a shot at winning a national title. Want to use the stadium more? Make the I-AA playoffs and you can have a couple of playoff games.

How far away from the firehouse are the dorms? The firemen work full time and the only cost should be the gas to run the engine. The electricity to run the garage door can't be too expensive. Paperwork, but they are full time employees with little else to do.

Didn't he go on to own The Odd Corner?

It was because every grocery bag you received at Acme weeks leading up to Acme-Zip had coupons on them that were free tickets to the game. The University spent decades training an entire region that purchasing tickets to a Zips games was not necessary and should be expected. Any other questions? One last thing. They pack the stands at App State and used to pack them in at YSU when they were good and Marshall (when they were I-AA). A good team draws a crowd. I believe the people of Akron will turn out for a national championship contender. The soccer team packed their stadium last year for a sport as exciting as watching paint dry. People will turn out for a I-AA winner.

Your kidding right? The guy is a walking cliche. I feel dumber after listening to him. Gotta love Reghi. He is the human tongue. I really don't know what to say about his. Is there something you want to confess?

Now your just trying to make me mad. Cope is the only football announcer to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and the recipient of the Pete Rozelle Award for "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football. Cigarettes took Copes life. Cope gave the rights to The Terrible Towel (one of the greatest marketing ideas in NFL history) to the Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The school provides care for more than 900 people with mental retardation and physical disabilities, including Cope's autistic son. Proceeds from the Terrible Towel have helped raise $3 million for the school. He was like Herb Score, you turned your tv off and listened to the radio because you wanted to hear what he had to say. He was a little more than "drunk out of his mind." He was all of those things. In addition to them, he was a guy who liked to get drunk while broadcasting games. I actually see that is sort of a positive.

"other" is really putting on a good showing.

Stringing together a series of cogent sentences is critical in broadcasting...... Myron Cope did it for years, and could hardly get one sentence out let alone a series. Sometimes color guys can just be entertaining like Bernie. Myron Cope was drunk out of his mind most games. Faust doesn't drink. Bernie slurs his words like a cocaine junkie.........errrrrrr, I mean a guy who slurs his words for no reason other than he might be on cocaine........errrrrr, I mean a junkie........errrrrrr what have I gotten myself into?...Faust doesn't do coke.

15,000 Zip fans traveled to Detroit to watch the Zips play in a bowl game a few years ago. Yes, I believe they would get great crowds for a playoff game. Can you tell me what the crowd sizes were when we made the playoffs in I-AA? How many people were lining up to cheer the Zips on in the palace we called the Rubber Bowl? To address your second point. I really don't care about your opinions. You're really not very smart and your posts tend to drag on longer than anyone as slow minded and inarticulate as you should. When someone proves you wrong, you go on even more and make yourself look even more stupid. Most of the time I skip over your posts unless they are a reply to mine as I hate to see my great words addressed by you. I never said OSU, Florida, Texas and the rest are semi pro teams, but they are. Many semi pro teams have guys playing for nothing and some getting paid. There are guys at those schools getting paid under the table every week. To address your last moronic point, I could care less what happens to the other schools. Have a nice evening.

Interesting questions and worthy of discussion. The answer is I don't know, but however much money we have spent has not been enough to make us good at football. We have had and still continue to have some of the lowest paid football coaches in the MAC. Our academic support for football has not been enough to keep at risk student athletes in school. The new football stadium was going to happen sooner or later so I don't worry about that money. We spend money on building buildings and not building a program. I don't think question one ties with questions two. Or maybe I should say there is no evidence spending on sports has resulted in underachieving academics. It makes me happy to say that UofA is a better school today, in every way, than it was when I was in school 19 years ago. The professors are better. The facilities are better. The campus is a place for learning in lieu of a bunch of buildings near downtown Akron. The law school can boast about the highest rate of bar passing graduates in Ohio. The business school is excellent and has programs like the direct marketing school. The engineering school is top notch and at the top of that rests the polymer science school which is a world leader. The Ray C. Bliss Institute is nationally known. My brother is a doctor and says the best nurses around are UofA graduates and the BS nurses make great administrators. The Athletic Department is not harming UofA. Since it functions in the red every year though, it does harm the taxpayers of Ohio. I don't see how throwing more money at it will change the influence the NCAA has in college sports and the negative impact it has on non-BCS schools. Here are two scenarios that I think about. Scenario 1: UofA stays in D-1A football and because of the lack of support by the ncaa for nonbcs schools, we continue to function in the lower 20% of college football for the next 20 years. The money will appear to be wasted. Scenario 2: UofA moves either to I-AA and becomes a national power with fans stuffing the Big Dialer for a winning football game and playoff games to watch UofA compete for a national championship. Which is better...One bowl game every few years, or two-three home playoff games in a national championship tournament? If this happens, the money is well spent. It's all about what outcomes take place.

Stringing together a series of cogent sentences is critical in broadcasting......

Actually, I agree with most of what ITZ has to say. I just don't agree we were watching greatness during the Owens years. They were just a continuation of the same crap that has gone on here for 20 years.

Yes. We are going to win 4-6 of them.

I firmly believe I would be the best for the job in almost any way of ranking the qualities of a broadcaster. With that said, I have no interest and have already respectfully declined the position. With that said, there is one guy who is friendly and gives good interviews who is available....I think. JD Brookhart. While it didn't work out for him coaching, he left the school on good terms and like a man. He knows the players. He knows the league. I think he would be a good fit.

This is the first time I've seen her. She is attractive and seems like a nice lady. I sort of thought she might not be nice looking since you never see her on camera.

An even better article would have been about how people should turn out for charity events regardless of what a person does. It says more about the people who didn't show up than those who did or even LeBikerider. Raising money for charity is a good thing. Anyone who showed up to boo or cast a negative shadow should be ashamed.

Come aGAIN? Bucknutz likes to beat the Bain thing into the ground. Used properly, the Bain jokes can still be funny. Sort of how a properly placed Harvey joke can still be funny.

I agree. Not only do we need nastiness, we need guys who are nasty all of the time...in an angry way. That's what we need.