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I have no idea how seat selection works so maybe I shouldn't type this, but it looks concerning to me that there are so few seats sold so far. What am I missing?

I have season tickets to Wake games and there is no beer sold in the stadium. Lots of wine and cheese in the parking lot before the game, but none in the stadium. No ACC school allows booze sales at their games. I went to the ACC BB championship in Charlotte a couple of years ago and sadly enough there were not beer sales at that event either.If I thought the kids wouldn't get out of hand, I would be all for it. Kids will be kids though and frequently bad behavior follows. If they need to drink that badly, they should just do what I suggested before and have their girlfriends stuff mini-bottles in their bras before the game.One of my co-workers a Wake Grad said there were sales at Wake games. I'll mention this too him when I see him at work today.At one time they may have. I have only had season tickets the past two seasons.Of course they should allow beer not only for the monetary benefit to the school but let's face it you can go to Iraq and give your life for your country and you can't drink a beer at college footbal game there's something wrong with that picture...They can use the profits from the beer sales to support the public relations campaign, including billboards, they will have to run after drunken students shower the field with objects.I'm also glad to see we are fighting in Iraq to protect the right to drink beer at football games.....I'm sure it is somewhere in the Constitution.

Or much thinking at all......

I dare anyone on this board to surf the net to see who is playing back-up QB with each NFL team. When you do, please notify everyone on this board of which happened first:1. Vomit2. LaughterBrett Favre could actually start in the NFL next year. The guy stinks.Frye will be competing against Bruce Gradkowski for back-up. My team, the Steelers, has Charlie (Where's my wheelchair) Batch and Dixon (for crying out loud, I don't even know his first name). If Roethlisberger was hurt for the season the first game, they would be lucky to win four games all season. The point is this. A lot of negative things get written about Frye and he deserves every one of them. However, considering the level of "talent" at back-up QB in the NFL, there is certainly a place for him there. Hell, half the starters stink.I say good for Charlie. It is better than a real job and considering the state of the economy, it is at least a job.

I have season tickets to Wake games and there is no beer sold in the stadium. Lots of wine and cheese in the parking lot before the game, but none in the stadium. No ACC school allows booze sales at their games. I went to the ACC BB championship in Charlotte a couple of years ago and sadly enough there were not beer sales at that event either.If I thought the kids wouldn't get out of hand, I would be all for it. Kids will be kids though and frequently bad behavior follows. If they need to drink that badly, they should just do what I suggested before and have their girlfriends stuff mini-bottles in their bras before the game.One of my co-workers a Wake Grad said there were sales at Wake games. I'll mention this too him when I see him at work today.At one time they may have. I have only had season tickets the past two seasons.

I have season tickets to Wake games and there is no beer sold in the stadium. Lots of wine and cheese in the parking lot before the game, but none in the stadium. No ACC school allows booze sales at their games. I went to the ACC BB championship in Charlotte a couple of years ago and sadly enough there were not beer sales at that event either.If I thought the kids wouldn't get out of hand, I would be all for it. Kids will be kids though and frequently bad behavior follows. If they need to drink that badly, they should just do what I suggested before and have their girlfriends stuff mini-bottles in their bras before the game.

Beer is good....... Beer before a college football game is good....... Beer in a college football stadium with potential underage drinking being reported is bad..... Beer could cause an ugly scene..... No beer in the stadium. Let the girls sneak it in their bras like they do at every other school. One mini-bottle at a time. Beer after a college football game is good..........

I'd love the see the out clause MSU has in the contract for the game at Can't.

Moving the BB tournament out of Cleveland would be exactly the type of momentum squelching "growth" the MAC has prided itself upon since 1946. I have no doubt this could seriously happen.....

I'd be interested to know the parties involved in building a downtown bb arena. If it is joint venture with the City, no thanks. They need a bb arena, not a multi-purpose arena that is a horrible place to watch a game. If it is heaping more bond debt on top of the bonds they sold for InfoCision Stadium, no thanks. If the Univeristy can not support what it currently has. The State could one day have to take over the University, no thanks. I know the JAR is awful, but too bad. I don't want to have degrees from The University of General Motors. When a city runs out of ideas on how to develop economically, they throw out building yet another stadium. I would say IF they are deciding to do this in Akron.....think harder.

The MAC does it all the time. It must be smart.Building since 1946........The only advantage CUSA and other similar conferences have is they have not been around as long as the MAC so their record of stupidity is not as long. Maybe we can merge with one of those other conferences and bring our average years of stupidity down. I'm sure there are people around the country dying for a MAC/CUSA merger. They could name the conference..."The Worlds Biggest Train Wreck (TWBTW)"Even gamblers don't care about the merger. They will gamble on anything so any Tuesday night game in front of an empty stadium is fine for them.Someone has yet to tell me how two bad conferences merging into one really large crappy conference makes a good conference...... Please help me out someone. Spare us the media coverage....nobody is paying attention. Spare us better competition.....the competition will remain equally as bad.

I have news for some of you. Buffalo is not a big media market. That is why the Bills can't wait to flee upstate New York like the remainder of the population. Buffalo is a small city that is getting smaller by the plant closings and better opportunities elsewhere.

Talk about going from bad to worse. How does adding an already bad team to a bad conference make the conference better?

It's the coaching staffs job to turn around a "Losers mentality". When a player comes here he doesn't bring it with him, most who make it to this level have been "Winners". We have had three different coaches in the past 20 years. None have been able to turn it around. At what point is it no longer the coaches fault and the fault of the players?Coaches show players how to play and they call the plays. Each player on this team individually needs to play better at critical times in games. Coaches get the blame, and that is part of the job, but the real blame falls on the shoulders of the players. Players get coaches fired. There is too much talent on this team to continue to lose. "Enough is enough!" In fact, teams love year slogans, "enough is enough" should be the slogan this year.

Offense vs. Defense is always a good debate.The bottom line is this. It really doesn't matter if the Zips have not had enough losing. At some point, everyone on the field has to say "enough is enough" and go out and execute and win games. The talent is there and it has been for years. A losing attitude is killing this team and has been killing this program for many years now. Our problem is not talent and not coaching, it is the losers mentality.

Well, the Zips have had numerous school record-breaking offenses and players going back to the Butchie Washington era. We have exactly one championship that we were very, very fortunate to win. Overall, our defense during that time has been generally bad to mediocre. Coincidence? Not on your life.Owens teams always put up big numbers on offense, except when it mattered. It's more than numbers, it is when you put the number up that matter. It's about winners vs. losers. We tend to have players, I don't care what side of the ball they play on, that don't perform late in games so we lose. We will be losers until the players decide they want to be winners and do all the right things at the end of the game. There is a fine line between winning and losing and we almost always seem to be on the losing side.

Actually, the adage defense wins championships exists to make the kids who play defense and not good enough to play offense feel good about themselves.Offense is the key to any sport with the exception of baseball where one player, the pitcher, can dominate a game. Offense puts pressure on the other team to score points if they take a lead. Offense puts the other team in bad field position. Offense breaks momentum with big plays. Offense gets the lead early and then holds it with a good running game. Offense puts a team in the lead and then forces the other team to have an unbalanced offense leaning towards passing which makes the defense look good because they know what is coming.If a team can run a balanced offense, even an average offense can make a good defense look bad because the defense has to guess at what is coming.Michael Irvin said it on his radio show not long ago. "People can say all they want, but points win games."The Steelers had the best defense in the NFL last year and it fell apart in the last five minutes of the Super Bowl only to be saved by the Steelers offense. It is fiction that defense wins championships. Defense wins championships if the offense puts them in a position where they know what is coming from the offense.

I don't disagree with anything you said, I just want to add to it. We need good players making big plays WHEN THE GAME IS ON THE LINE. We have good players that make good plays. I've been saying it for years, we need a winning attitude. It is now up to the PLAYERS to win some games.

Let's just hope it doesn't become SNAFU Stadium........

Maybe.... "The Executation Chamber on Exchange"....let's just hope we are not the ones being executed weekly.Or..... "The Backyard on Brown"Or.....SUFO

Yankee Stadium was called "The house that Ruth built".Ours could be called, "The house that scamming little old ladies out of $25 at a time in the name of religion built."

I was the youngest of six children. When my oldest sibling went to college, there were tears from my mother. The day I went to college was one of the happiest days of my parents life and it wasn't because they were so proud of me or even remotely upset I was leaving the nest . The car only slowed a little as they ("they" meaning my sister and my mother....Dad didn't even make the trip.....still makes me laugh today) threw me and my clothes out the door in the dorm parking lot.

What if the Cavs come back from behind and win the current series and go on to win the World Championship? I think there is still a VERY good chance of the Cavs beating Orlando in six games (even though I brutalize Browns fans because they are such a stupid lot, I really like the Cavs).Anyhow, comparing low level programs to professional teams seems desperate. Remember, eventually people are going to go watch the games. Watching the NFL, regardless of how bad the Browns can be at times, is still far more entertaining than watching low level D-1A college football. Cleveland fans are so paranoid and insecure most of the time, this marketing strategy would backfire anyhow. I'd rather see the MAC make itself more entertaining within itself than worry about comparing it to professional teams.

Interesting thoughts continue.......I know lots of us want to believe the MAC should be able to win against mid level BCS teams. That just isn't the case anymore. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The MAC is closer to I-AA than mid level BCS. We can't even beat CUSA teams in bowl games anymore.

I'm all for more home games, especially since we will now have a home truly worthy of them.But I'm more than glad to have the BCS games as well... for several reasons:1) Kids who commit to playing in an Akron uniform deserve the chance to play quality opponents.2) Playing quality opponents makes your team and your coaches better over time, and sends the right kind of message both to fans and to potential recruits.3) I'm much more interested in seeing how the team I cheer for stacks up against a Penn State or Michigan State than I am in watching us play Morgan State, a game that excites me about as much as a tuna salad sandwich.4) And finally, as the most expensive athletic program--by far-- football bears the responsibility for generating revenue to at least help offset its tremendous cost. The new stadium will sure help attract better draws at home, but it also means you've got to be willing to go get paid on the road, too. If you want to continue as a D-1 program, this is just the reality. And, frankly, I'm okay with it.Anyways. My two cents.Interesting points. Here is my response to your points and respectful disagreement.1. They deserve to play ONE BCS team per year. Starting out the year 0-4 does nothing for the program.2. Recruits want to win, not just compete against teams better than they are while losing. Winning records are good recruiting tools. Losing records result in coaches getting fired every three years which continues the cycle of losing.3. Is it better to lose 45-0 against PSU or win 45-0 against Morgan State? Both are uninteresting, but one gets you one step closer to a bowl which is REALLY interesting.4. Break the bank one game a year against a BCS team. Starting 0-4 does not bring people to the new stadium.