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Try this. Go a month without watching ESPN. Find your sports fix in other places. MLB channel, NFL channel, Fox Sports, SI.com, Satellite radio etc... See if you are a more informed sports fan for doing so. PS You are going to miss some TO, Farve and Ochocinco stories, but you might just make it.I agree. ESPN has become terrible over the past few years and the anchors have become silly cartoons of themselves. The only shows worth watching are NFL Live and College Football Live, but those shows are on in the afternoon. I especially dislike the summer long "kids with terminal diseases" stories. I know kids get cancer, etc. and I know it is awful, but when news is slow, do we have to watch a different version of it every day? I watch sports to get away from daily life, not to have a bigger pile of crap hoisted upon me.Everyone should go out and buy a book called, "God Save The Fan". There is quite a bit in this book about what ESPN has actually become and how it has become nothing but a promotional tool for ABC/ESPN sports casts.

Akron is not a good example for this story. The point the writer is making pertains to the "arms race" going on in college athletics. Info is being built in small part because we are trying to keep up. In reality, the Rubber Bowl should have been shut down years ago for safety reasons and the cost of rennovating the RB would have been at least equal to if not more expensive than building a new stadium. People in the know will tell you that the City of Akron had large concerns about the safety of the RB for the last 3-4 years that dump was standing (slouching...whatever you want to describe it as) and it took a lot of begging just to keep it opened as long as they did. Believe it or not, we are getting off on the cheap building the new stadium. $65 million is not that expensive if you look at the cost per seat which is less than $2,500 per seat. What is the cost per seat of the new Cowboys stadium or even the new Minnesota stadium? I believe we got a pretty good deal for our money. It's all about how you view things.....Attention Mike Rasor........Speaking of the cost of the new stadium. Find out what the final cost of the new stadium is after it is complete. Look into it around December when all of the change orders are close to complete. Look into any law suits as well. There almost always are some on any construction project.

I have a feeling that when the recruits attend the first couple of games at a packed, spanking new stadium, there will be a rush of verbals.

I missed that marathon...but wasn't former Toledo coach Tom Amstutz cast in the role of Sgt. Schultz in that series? I know nothing.....nnnothing!

Most cults don't give up their ground that easily....

Did you go to the Mellow Mushroom? That's where my wife and I go to eat after the games.

The parking lot next to the JAR where the coaches currently park OR SE corner of Spicer and Carrol. Easy access to Rt.8 always a plus.

why should they play wake forest? if you want to play bottom-feeders, at least go to the pac-10, or big-10Wake is not a bottom feeder at this time. Here's the last three seasons2006 11-3 ACC Champions 2007 9-42008 8-5They're 2-1 in Bowl GamesThey're 3-0 VS Florida St (Not saying much since they're down as of late)All their losses except 3 games over the past three seasons have been competitive games.I hardly see 8 wins per season in the past three season as a bottom feeder and ACC conference championship with BCS Bowl as being anywhere close to being a bottom feeder.What these statistics don't show is a really bad loss to Navy, a team that lost to a MAC school, in W-S and then a blown game against BC in the last seconds with BC playing their back-up QB. They also lost a winable game against Miami thanks to running the ball around 45 times and passing only like 9 times or something insane. They also don't show an unimpressive win against Navy in their bowl game last year.Wake was 7-5 team last year with a win against a bad team in a bowl game. I think they struggle to go 6-6 next year. I hope I'm wrong because I paid for my season tickets, but I don't see how they can do better.

The Zips should play Wake. In a year or two, they are going to become what they have historically been...potentially much worse than NC State was the year we beat them. Skinner's (QB) last season is this year, they lost Alphonse Smith (second round draft pick), Curry at LB (first round draft pick). Grobe will only be able to win a limited number of games running the fullback dive every other play without them and there will be a steady decline in wins. Actually, the past two seasons have produced a decline in wins.

I have always been interested in learning about various cultures. This weekend presents a great opportunity to learn about another culture. TV Land is running a Hogan's Heroes marathon and I would encourage everyone to watch the marathon to learn more about German culture.

I addition to all of this, I am sure there will be many, many Greek houses parking cars on their lots/yards to make some extra cash. Also, there will probably be quite a few off campus houses parking cars for beer money as well.

It's funny you mention Big Tobacco. The visitors side parking lot at Wake's stadium butts up against a cigarette plant.

The MAC needs to have a balanced schedule, one where we play all the teams in our own division, or else the NCAA can take away the MAC championship game. We're only allowed to do it now thanks to a NCAA waiver. granted on the premise that we're actively seeking a way to balance the divisions. You may not like the championship game, but it brings in more money than all of the MAC bowl games combined. Why in the world would you want to cut Buffalo, Temple, and NIU but keep Can't, BG and EMU? The MAC is too concentrated in northern Ohio. Dropping Can't and BG loses nothing for the league. EMU just sucks all around.Fine then, the MAC needs an odd number of teams added to balance the schedule. Add as many of the teams listed on the poll as possible to make an odd number. If the logic is adding teams is better, why not add as many as possible? Again, how does adding more bad teams to an already bad conference make the MAC better?I would hate to cut Buffalo, but they are an eastern school in an eastern state with no real rivals in the MAC. Tough decisions need to be made though. Temple doesn't really want to be in the MAC and someone else has to go so NIU gets it.The concentation of teams does not matter. Can't, BG and EMU stay because Can't State and BG have natural rivals in Ohio (UofA and Toledo) and EMU has the Michigan schools as rivals.

Wake Forest Football ScheduleThis is your chance to spend my money or have me save it. I have to decide whether or not to buy Wake Forest season tickets for next year. I have had them the past two years and really enjoyed the games. I don't think they will be as good next year as last year, but they are still probably a bowl team. I will not be going to the Elon game because I am going to go watch the Zips play Indiana that day. Baylor does not excite me and they are a step down from Mississippi last year. If Stanford can put up points on them like PAC 10 teams do, they could beat them. The remaining ACC games are pretty solid. The total price of the tickets is around $700 ($100 per game) for two seats when you include everything you have to pay for in order to get the tickets. Since Wake's stadium is so small, there is not a bad seat in the house and my seats are actually pretty good as they are half way up the stadium on the 30 yard line.The only other draw back is we have the Swiss Family Robinson sitting next to us. They are a family of unwashed hill people from around Asheville and they bring their tribe of children with them. They are nice enough, there is only one problem as I see it. Last year, the mother sat around breast feeding one of them every game. Can't she do that before the game?

If the logic is that adding one of the above teams would be good for the league, wouldn't adding all of them make the move that much better?I'll say it again. How does adding an already bad program to an already bad league make the league better and something the public wants to spend their time and money on? The MAC needs to be thinking about cutting teams and not adding. Cut Buffalo, Temple and NIU. Eliminate the MAC Championship game and make everyone play everyone like the Big Ten and PAC 10. Only 3 OOC games per team per year....one pay day, one D-1A against a low level D-1A team and one 1-AA team. That's how you make an already bad league better.

Why mention losing in your motto? It should be something like...."The time to WIN is now!" Or, "WIN Today!".

I have a friend who used to rent an office above this bar and ran a successful small business out of it. He was in his early 30s and divorced. The office had a bed in it so if he got to drunk he could spend the night. He used to pick up strippers at the local establishments and bring them back to the bar then up to the office. I still chuckle when I think of it because this guy has done really well in life now.

The Great GP1 would not, but all you have to do is fool are the idiots that make decisions in college athletics. With the schedule the Zips play and the talent they now have on the team, the benchmark for a good season should go from 20 wins to at least 23.

I disagree.Sincerely, Romeo Travis and Dru JoyceDear Romeo and Dru,Thank you for your response. By "anyone", I meant a team with a pulse. Should have been more clear in the first place. My bad.Cheers,The Great GP1

I like the way they schedule too. I know it isn't possible because they need to make a lot of money in OOC games in football, but we should schedule football games in the same manner. Rig it so you go to a bowl every year whether or not you win the league. The NIT is basically like going to a bowl when you don't win your conference as it is a reward for a good season.20+ wins against anyone looks really good. 8+ wins looks really good in football. 7+ wins in the MAC is actually a really good record for the league. Football scheduling could learn a lot from BB scheduling.

What they should do in the near future is do a test run on the stadium. Meaning, have enough people in the stadium to flush all the toilets and run all of the water at the same time to make certain those systems work properly at high volume. Leaking pipes or no water would spell disaster for the first game. In fact, if there is no running water, a building can not open to the public. Have a practice game during two-a-day practices where they can run the clock and make certain all of that works. A meeting the week before the first game with the ushers would be enough. One thing I really would like to see is professional vendors at the new stadium. Volunteers for local little leagues are always too slow and the crowds will be too big for that. Hire a professional company to staff the food counters.Test the lights at night to make certain they shine where they are supposed to shine. At Jacobs Field, each light is computerized and is assigned a certain spot on the field. They test this each year with sensors prior to each season as they change each bulb before the season starts so they have white light in lieu of pink light from old bulbs.And for crying out loud, can we please make certain the refs field mic works properly and has enough volume.

He isn't a priest?.....

While I hate the uniforms, I do appreciate people who really don't care what others think of them.

It's funny you bring this up. College football is full of trends. One of the more recent trends is defensive coordinators acting like lunatics on the sidelines. The bigger the lunatic, the more they get mentioned as the next head coach at another school. I find it extremely phony. Grown men who want respect from their players should not behave like that. It doesn't take long for the players to see through it.

Hey buddy- I thought Meyer should have succeeded Tresey and LO should have fired Tresey after the almost loss to that D 3 team who ran it up on us in the first quarter. do you remember that game ??Is this the game you talking about? I believe Liberty was up 14 - 0.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=222852006If I remember correctly, the offense had two turnovers that resulted in TDs early in the game. We moved the ball on them like crazy early and the ball just bounced the wrong way early. I think they had like a 99 yard fumble recovery for a TD or something silly like that.