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Is it patchouli or petulie oil? Google found both.

Each time I read this quote I start to laugh.I get this strange visual of the few Can't graduates and students who can actually afford a car piling in and trying to make their way to Indianapolis. Pot smoke pouring out of the windows, break downs every few miles, begging money for gas, trying to smoke dried up corn stalks....I could go on. Five days after starting out they finally reach Indianapolis, they douse the NCAA Headquarters with petulie oil and try to set it on fire with the one last match they have left from their five days of smoking pot. Nothing catches fire.......just like Martin's career.

Why don't we just do it anyhow?

It looks like your sources are correct. On ticketmaster right now you can buy seats in 210 (priority reserve chairbacks) and right next door in 208. Looks like there will be about 20k there.How many GA seats remain? Are there 5,000 seats remaining right now or if they sell 5,000 between now and Friday there will still be 5,000 remaining. GA seats sell faster than Reserve so I wouldn't judge on Reserved alone.On a hopeful note, UofA has always had a pretty good walk up crowd.

That is lot 34. The 20 ft. beer bong and beer relays were in that lot. The University should release a parking map that that can be read.35 foot beer bong now...it's being improved at this moment in my garage.If you were any kind of an engineer, the improvements would include an interchangeable funnel and pipe end with "cooling pool". You could patent it, get Tommy Chong and Lindsay Lohan as spokes people and market it on QVC. Now that's a marketing idea and a bong we can all get behind one way or another. Reach for the sky!

Captain Kangaroo,I just received an e-mail from LeFevour. He says he is preparing a special note for you after the CMU vs UofA game and asked that I keep a look out for it and pass it along to you on this board when I get it. Stay tuned....

This is probably true; however, the ones that remain up all season are the people who give the extra money for every game. I have a customer only about a 1/4 mile from South Carolina's stadium and they leave theirs up all football season. It does look odd, but there are thousands of them and it would take too long to put them up and take them down after every game. Most big schools do this now.

At some schools you can buy a seat back with a cushioned seat that attaches to the bench. This requires some sort of extra donation to the alumni fund. These seats are placed out at the beginning of the season and remain all year. Some schools allow you to "rent" one for one game for five or ten dollars and leave the seat attached to the bench at the end of the game and someone else comes and collects them when the stadium is empty. I think this is a great way for the University to generate additional income. Did UofA offer anything like this?

While I wasn't at the game, I did have a look at a fellow poster's photo log from the game. The photo that touched me the most was of the large crowd in the walking mall in the old intersection of Brown Street and Carrol Street (sp?). It showed how really alive the campus was on game day. I thought that was awesome. The other thing that struck me was how many people were smiling. The Rubber Bowl was a depressing place and it was hard to smile there unless something really good happened or if you were really drunk. Just looking at the pictures gave me a good vibe.I think a big congratulations should go out to EVERYONE at the University who made Saturday a great day. It's been a long time coming. I'm looking forward to coming back for a game later in the year.

The Zips have covered the first two weeks of the season (wasn't the line in the 30s last week or something?). I look for them to cover again this week in The Big Phone Booth. Could the Zips be that team that quietly covers all year and makes some Zips fans happy? It's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you cover the spread...

Just in my time at the University we have had two kickers sign contracts with NFL teams. It isn't THAT hard!?!?NFL teams bring in kickers like American Legion Posts bring in kegs of beer. As good as Derr was, he didn't make the NFL.I stand by what I said. There aren't very many good kickers out there to pick from.

Answer: A good consistent kicker.Kickers are extremely hard to come by. Watch the vast majority of high school football games and one has to wonder how colleges ever make a fieldgoal. It is also hard to judge one because in HS the goal posts are more narrow in college and HS kickers get to kick off of a tee.surely you meant that college field goals are narrower than HS field goals.... right?Yes. Thanks!

Answer: A good consistent kicker.Kickers are extremely hard to come by. Watch the vast majority of high school football games and one has to wonder how colleges ever make a fieldgoal. It is also hard to judge one because in HS the goal posts are more narrow in college and HS kickers get to kick off of a tee.

If a politician is a Republican, they get a pass from their own party on things like cheating on a wife or soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. I don't think a beer bong will hurt his career.Rasor has all he needs to be a successful politician in northern Summit County suburbs. First, I believe he goes to The Chapel. The Chapel, like many new Christian churches, is as much cult-like social club as it is a place of worship. It falls right into the Republican's playbook of "us vs. them". "Us" means those that believe what we do and belong to our little group. "Them" means....well, I'm not certain they even know what it means. These churches also serve as recruiting tools for the modern day Republican party which has become more liberal than FDR with guys like Bush 43 and follows the intellectual lead of lightweights like Sean Hannity and neo-conservatives (code word for big government liberals). There was once a time when great thinkers of small government like William F. Buckley were the intellectual leaders of the Republican party (Buckley would have vomited out his bong water on neo-conservatives). Now, high school graduates and Sunday Christians have taken over that role. I honestly don't believe many modern day Republicans believe the childishly legalistic theology they are forced to spew for political purposes, which makes the party thoughtless and pandering to the most intellectually vacant, shrill masses. In a lot of ways, it makes them dangerous. The Republican Party has turned itself into a cartoon of itself. Like a lot of good cartoons, it is both funny and uncomfortable to watch......like South Park.Secondly, he writes about sports in an area where people love sports.I think this politician is a good guy. I hope he doesn't use his chance in politics to force others to behave and act as he may believe they should based upon his religious beliefs. Instead, he should think about freedom and what that means. Freedom is for everyone all the time. Not just when it is word that helps someone get elected.Let freedom ring!Go Zips!Thanks for showing us all what a bigot you are GP1. I'm sure you have some twisted rational for your opinions, but this is a sports message board. I for one, would appreciate it if you would take your convoluted wisdom to some other teams fan site. Perhaps one of those vaunted SEC or ACC teams you talk of here on the Zips message board so often. The fine folks at the Chapel will continue to contribute and invest their time, energy and money to make the Akron community a better place. People like you who think its ok to fire some cheap shots while hiding behind a computer screen are not needed as the only thing you contribute, is a sad twisted life view. Perhaps you should not post to this message board if you have to put someone else down in order to get your jollys. You now have the honor of being the first member on my ignore list.Don't spill your punch..... You might get some on Knute's Rolex.

What is wake forrest? There is a school in Winston-Salem called Wake Forest, but no wake forrest?That school down there where people who can't get into Duke or UNC go to.Wake, Duke and UNC have some fine qualities, but they are no UofA.

Thanks for the great photos. Everyone should have a look.Having the ball parachuted into the stadium reminds me of a funny story from last year. Duke was going to do the same thing before a game last year. At the same time a few miles away, North Carolina was preparing to start their game at the same time. The out of town jumper and pilot looked out the window of the plane and saw a football field with people in the stands and the jumper jumped out and delivered the ball to the stadium. The only problem was he jumped into the North Carolina field in lieu of the Duke field. True story...

Harris was successful at Pitt before being let go. I know they didn't renew his contract....that means he was fired. In fact, they went 9-2 and to a BCS game his last year.Wasn't Monty on staff at Miami when they finished in the Top 10? A lot of coaches make it good somewhere else after getting fired at another program.I don't think Harris would be coaching right now if his home in Pittsburgh wasn't getting remodeled.

Anyone?

somebody on this site said Lefevour was 'overrated' 330+ in the air, 3TDS in e.lansing!...send us your overrated,your tired,your poorI thought the same thing. The guy wins games. He has won at least one championship and takes his team to bowl games. The word good comes to mind, not overrated.However, is there a team in college football that blows more games than Michigan State. Off sides on a last second fieldgoal gives CMU another chance to win and they do.

Did anyone go to BW3? If so, how was it?

I don't have a problem with people leaving early. The game was a blow out. It happens everywhere.

I guess you answered your own question.

What is wake forrest? There is a school in Winston-Salem called Wake Forest, but no wake forrest?

If a politician is a Republican, they get a pass from their own party on things like cheating on a wife or soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. I don't think a beer bong will hurt his career.Rasor has all he needs to be a successful politician in northern Summit County suburbs. First, I believe he goes to The Chapel. The Chapel, like many new Christian churches, is as much cult-like social club as it is a place of worship. It falls right into the Republican's playbook of "us vs. them". "Us" means those that believe what we do and belong to our little group. "Them" means....well, I'm not certain they even know what it means. These churches also serve as recruiting tools for the modern day Republican party which has become more liberal than FDR with guys like Bush 43 and follows the intellectual lead of lightweights like Sean Hannity and neo-conservatives (code word for big government liberals). There was once a time when great thinkers of small government like William F. Buckley were the intellectual leaders of the Republican party (Buckley would have vomited out his bong water on neo-conservatives). Now, high school graduates and Sunday Christians have taken over that role. I honestly don't believe many modern day Republicans believe the childishly legalistic theology they are forced to spew for political purposes, which makes the party thoughtless and pandering to the most intellectually vacant, shrill masses. In a lot of ways, it makes them dangerous. The Republican Party has turned itself into a cartoon of itself. Like a lot of good cartoons, it is both funny and uncomfortable to watch......like South Park.Secondly, he writes about sports in an area where people love sports.I think this politician is a good guy. I hope he doesn't use his chance in politics to force others to behave and act as he may believe they should based upon his religious beliefs. Instead, he should think about freedom and what that means. Freedom is for everyone all the time. Not just when it is word that helps someone get elected.Let freedom ring!Go Zips!

I think everyone should enjoy the afterglow of a great day of college football and post tomorrow.