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Did anyone else get a season ticket mailer to day? Second round of mailers to non-basketball season ticket holders?

Let it go everyone. Four full pages is enough on a meaningless issue.

http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/zips/Here is a link to Rasor's blog. Sort of toward the bottom of the first topic, there is a strange note in there about a University administrator hooking up a hidden camera in a female dorm bathroom. Sickening.......My only question would be whether it is an Athletic Department employee or another department? Rasor normally writes about sports, but this doesn't seem like something someone from the Athletic Department would do or have access to doing.If this is true, the pervert who did it should go to jail.

sgm405,There isn't a single poster on this board who took more crap since Frye's senior season than the great GP1. You should try to be as gracious and magnanimous as the great GP1. Believe me, I knew then I was right and I know now I'm right. No need to rub it in.You deserved the crap when discussing Frye's senior year or any other year for that matter. Just look how atrocius the The University of Akron's QB situation has become in three short years. On any scale, CF was infinitly better than what we have now.One of those QBs played a great game when it mattered and won the MACC. It's not that Frye is a bad QB, he just isn't a winner and the numbers prove it.

sgm405,There isn't a single poster on this board who took more crap since Frye's senior season than the great GP1. You should try to be as gracious and magnanimous as the great GP1. Believe me, I knew then I was right and I know now I'm right. No need to rub it in.

You post a lot of numbers. This is the only statistic that matters.The Browns gave Frye the job for a good reason. He was the returning starter and DA did nothing to knock out the champ during training camp. Frye didn't wash out with the Browns because he didn't give his best effort.I don't know what the future holds for Frye. I've never thought much of his game or his ability to make a team a winning team.....but then again, I don't think much of the ability of half the starting QBs in the NFL and 95% of the back-up QBs. The NFL is full of a bunch of junk this year.Charlie may very well be in the twilight of his short career. If so, he is a guy who has lived a childhood dream for a lot of kids. Although, I wonder what the first thought in his head was that first morning he woke up in the Residence Inn in Seattle. It was a harsh and fast fall for him. The NFL is not a kind place.If this is his last year, he probably will not have enough money to live the rest of his life without a job and will need to work. NFL players spend a lot of money on stupid things and basic living expenses in the NFL are high. So while he probably has savings, it may not be as much as we may think. A couple million dollars doesn't go as far as it used to and guys who play for a long time still work after they retire. I'm not even certain if being active for 48 games is enough to qualify for the NFLPA retirement plan. Nobody knows what the future holds. I once predicted he would be the next Kelly Holcomb. Unfortunately, Kelly Holcomb is somehow still in the NFL and was starting at one point this season........amazing, I know. Therefore, Frye can't be the next Holcomb, but he could be Holcomblike. I will stand by my prediction and say that Frye has at least a couple years left. Probably not, but I'll stand by my prediction. As far as you Browns fans who think DA is the king right now, we will see this weekend when the Browns show up to play my Steelers. The AFC North has very favorable scheduling this year. DA is facing an easy schedule and may not be all he appears to be when the Steelers start to blitz. This brings us full circle to the point that Frye was released from the Browns. The clock is ticking DA. Troy and the boys will be waiting for you Sunday. Don't be late......

Am I going to hell for laughing at that?If you are, look me up when you get there.

We do lose scholarships. The trick is to make certain they don't become ineligible, not to recruit better students.

Isn't it one definition of insanity to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results???Where is the rest of the post?

Thank you.It goes beyond the AD right up to Dr. P. It is also bigger than that (the alumni and NE Ohio community), but I could write a book.When those guys from Cincinnati were here, they did nothing to retain better athletes by improving academic support. We are largely in the position we are BECAUSE of them. JD's first two recruiting classes happened under their watch and they knew we were bringing in at risk students and put nothing in place to support them. Doesn't seem very foresightful to me. It didn't happen the day they walked out the door. Their hands are not clean on this matter. Their answer was to improve academics by bringing in "better students" which resulted in the disaster that was the final three-four years of the Owens years.Cincinnati is doing well this year. Although, we could get 22 guys off this board and beat USF when they turn the ball over 7 times. We'll see if Thomas can keep it up or if he will do the smart thing and move to an even bigger school with more money. Those guys only had one really good sporting year at Akron. We'll see if that continues at Cincinnati. The trick they all seem to play is to move before they get discovered. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors in college athletics. You guys need to be much more cynical about what goes on in the offices than you all are.

It's not but monkey, it's butt monkey. We can all be described as that at times.

Those of you who think changing coaches is going to change the program are mistaken. JD has his problems, but the University's approach to athletics is years behind what it needs to be for UofA to have a winning program. It isn't the coaches who have turned Akron into "The Graveyard of Coaches", it is the University that does it.Those of you who want JD to recruit better students unknowingly are actively endorsing losing. While you may not see it that way, that's what you are doing. I'll say it again for the third time on this thread. Akron needs to continue to recruit the kids they currently are. In addition, they need to go out and find 2-3 potentially stupid players who can make a major and immediate impact on the program. Once those kids are in school, they need to be force-fed their classwork by an academic support group that needs to be better than what we currently have. This is what winning programs do.JD has said that he is going to stop recruiting at risk students. This worries me. While this makes some of you feel better, I think it is only going to make the quality of player worse. Enjoy the losing. It seems to be what some of you really want.

I will at the end of the year. It's much more than the University though.

Good point. The real problem is Akron has little ability to do anything other than send up red flags and tell the students to "study harder". They have a poor support program for student athletes. My understanding is it closes at 5:00. It should be open until midnight and the kids should be forced to take advantage of it like at big time schools.I'll say it again. In order to win in D 1-A college football, at risk students have to be recruited and then retained after they get to school. Akron needs to do more than what they are to make certain students stay in school and don't flunk out. If not, enjoy the losing. It's really that simple.

JD gets one more year.....and if the team doesn't have a winning record next year he has to be fired.I've been saying since the Championship year that the 3-3-5 defense is a gimmick. Spare me the MAC defensive rankings. Spare me the good game against OSU...if OSU wanted to score 70 on us that day, they could have. BG put on a clinic last night on how to beat it. Throw short to middle passes in zones that are wide opened because the defense is trying to prevent touchdowns and not first downs. I would complain about tackling, but when passes are completed time and time again 8-12 yards down field before a defender comes in contact with the ball carrier, does it really matter if you can tackle or not? Akron's defense looked like the scout team. Remember that the job of the defense is not to win the game, it is to put the offense in a position to win the game with good field position. Since the board is normally short on solutions, here is my first. 1a. Tell Jim Flemming to change the defense to a 3-4. If Flemming doesn't want to change, execute plan 1b. Fire Jim Flemming. If JD doesn't want to follow either 1a or 1b, JD has to be let go. Keeping this defense alive is like keeping a 15 year old blind and deaf dog who sh!+s all over the house alive. There is no point.The players. I've been telling you guys for years that regardless of what our wives tell us, size matters. Our players are too small. Akron was physically beaten up by a bigger and more physical team last night. It was men against boys on both sides of the ball for most of the game. Was #55 for Akron playing defensive back last night? He sure was pushed back there a lot. Solution #2: Get more physical players....not just big, but angry at life. Nate Robinson is the last guy off the ball every snap. It's no wonder the guy washed out at Rutgers. He couldn't get on the field there. JD needs to immediately go to every JUCO out there and bring in 2-3 dummies to play and get our size up. The University needs to improve the academic support system for student athletes so we can keep the at risk students on the field and out of grade problems like big time programs do. If you guys are really serious about winning, bringing in at risk students is necessary in college football. We NEED guys like Harvey to not flunk out.Offense. Joe Morehead was a passing QB in college and wrote the record book at his school. They never ran. He played in the Arena League where you never run. Akron has moved to an offense he is not familiar with and it shows. You guys have to keep in mind that college football assistant coaches are only slightly smarter than high school gym teachers. They are sort of like high school gym teachers, but with misguided ambition. Solution #3: Change the oc. Akron has too many good players on offense to be this bad. The line is playing well, the running backs are good, Jabari is a good player but they need to develop depth at WR and CJ7 is a good player who can win games given the chance. He needs to continue to play.The University. I could go on and on about why JD, or any other coach, is in an almost impossible situation at Akron. That is a separate post though. Getting a new stadium and fieldhouse is not going to solve the problems at Akron.In general, last night was a disaster. These things happen to a lot of teams and unfortunately, Akron has a history of being on the losing end of games like last night for years now.If any of you wasted three hours of your life watching that nonsense, here is a web page for you http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7...ask_before.html I only wasted 1.5 hours watching and then went to see a Miranda Lambert concert. I'm in a much better state of mind today because of it.For those of you who actually went to the game, please reference the above web page.For those of you planning to attend future Zips games this season, please reference the above web page. I have tickets for the day after Thanksgiving when I am back in Ohio and I wouldn't waste 10 minutes of my vacation going to watch Akron play in that dump. I paid around $30 for the tickets. I'd pay $100 not to have to go watch them play. I don't think that makes me a bad fan, I just don't want to be insulted any longer.If JD doesn't leave after the season on his own (financially, the best deal is to get fired and then double dip with another job), he gets one more year to win. If there is no winning after next year, six years would be too many, five seems just right. Owens should have been fired after five and look how bad the program was at the end. We can't go through that again.

What a great suggestion!!!!!!I would trust KD to hire his replacement as bb coach. He has a good young staff. There are not enough hours in the day to be AD and head bb coach.

As far as the coach is concerned, find somebody with a HEAD coaching resume...whether that is at I-AA or D-II,they ARE out there, especially with a new stadium coming...the AD? try to find somebody old enough to know who the hell Gordon Larson and Jim Dennison are...we have guys who are half MY age, well almost, running multi million dollar prgrams with a multi million dollar stadium coming who haven't found the MEN'S room at the D-I level. Don't tell me that UCONN,Central Florida, South Florida, Buffalo can get solid coaches and win in a reasonable amount of time. Hell OU got the head coach at Nebraska. I'd take my chances with that. Cincinnati got a solid OSU assitant and developed into a winner...What makes you think anyone would want the Akron job at what it pays? Jim Prye (sp?) left Akron after one year as offensive coordinator to go to Illinois and coach tight ends making more money than JD does. A new stadium isn't going to attract people. Tradition, ability to pay good assistants, fan commitment, etc. are better to attract candidates. We have none of those. Based upon what happened to Dennison, Faust and Owens after their time at Akron, the job is a complete dead end.The comment about age is silly. I have 13 employees who report directly to me and all of them are older than I am. Each of them thinks they are smarter than I am and none of them are. Just like Zips Win! points out, these guys have no new ideas and are riding out the string.........some are going to come to the end of the string before they thought they would when I get done in the next couple of months. Every time they try to prove how smart they are, I listen to them and then politely prove them wrong. Any study of any industry shows that the older someone gets, the less likely they are to take a risk. We need a home run hitter to come in here and hit some home runs. If a knucklehead like me can manage a $100,000,000 territory at 38, Mack or someone his age can manage a $10,000,000 Athletic Department. I just have an extra zero at the end of my number.

If hiring an AD who wants to stay at Akron is the answer, Mike Waddell is not the person. Mike is a young guy who wants to move up just like everyone else his age. He would be another two and done AD.Believe me guys, Mike Waddell is not the same as Mike Thomas. Mike Thomas was a smart, thoughtful guy who seemed to be a cut above 90% of the people in college athletics. Mike Waddell was just like the other 90% who spends their days half working and half self promoting. You can put the other 90% in a bag, shake them up and they all come out together.

After two minutes with the press guide, I found the following.1. Two years coaching assistant with Denver Broncos2. Offensive coordinator at Pitt, coached from 1997-2003.3. "Coached 2003 Heisman Trophy runner-up and Biletnikoff Award winner Larry Fitzgerald."4. "Coached 2000 Biletnikoff Award winner Antonio Bryant, now with the San Francisco 49ers."5. Five bowl appearances at Pitt6. Plucked Dominik Hixon off the defensive scrap heap that LO placed him on and turned him into an NFL player.7. Brought Brett Biggs to UofA.

http://www.winthropeagles.com/default.asp?...ory&id=4395Looks like Akron may have a tough road game coming up in a month.

http://www.gozips.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_...amp;SPSID=47195I've been saying for years that regardless of what our wives tell us, size matters. I just took a minute to look at our players and we seem to have a taller group than in the past. I'm encouraged by that. The forward position also looks much more athletic than in the past.I like the Zips chances this year, but I also liked the football team's chances this year as well.

Three of LO's wins were against I-AA teams during that period. Eliminate three wins with three sure loses, as we couldn't beat a decent I-A team to save our life then, and you have a 39% winning percentage.Guys, I suffered more than anyone during those LO years. Believe me, I know the numbers inside and out. I know the excuses inside and out. Any way you slice it, he was a horrible coach. JD may not be the best coach, but he is better than LO. When JD leaves Akron, it will not be for a D-II school.

If Akron, or any MAC school, moved to the Big East, it would spell disaster for that program in football, basketball or WBB program. Sometimes I think people post Big East posts just for a laugh.

There isn't if you are a Lee Owens apologist.

Lee Owens absolutely stunk. I can't believe anyone ever comes in here and defends him. During the Owens years, the following teams were better than us: BGSU, Miami and Marshall. None of those teams had either a new stadium or fieldhouse. How did they get good?What was the luck in the MACC? The way I saw it, we completely outcoached NIU in the final 15 minutes of the game.