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One other thing, how does this guy from State (probably a Seahawks fan too) know that the ball is not across the line or maybe was across the line and came back as DK protects himself from the fall? Touchdown Akron!!!!!!!

What would a game be without the post game cry by the losers.

It smells like sour grapes in here. Are we sure Sloopy isn't posting again? Anyhow........Look cracker, learn the rules. A player is not down until something from the hips or lower touch the ground. Every piece of video I saw showed DK clearly crossing the line before his lower body touches.There was not a single person on the post game analysis on 680 AM here locally who questioned whether or not he was over the line. In fact, this is the only State fan who questions the call. When asked whether he crossed the line or not, one of the State radio guys said he was clearly across. One split second in a photo does not tell the whole story. The video was on TV several time last night and today here and he was clearly across the line. In fact, the entire ball is across the line before his lower body hits.Akron is a better team than State, period. In fact, State is a really bad team. No more excuses please from the sour grapes growing in Raleigh.

Would all of you believe that I had a business trip down here Wed. thru Fri. this week scheduled........my as well stay until Sunday and bring the wife down on Fri. Interesting how things work out. Anyhow, I've had a chance to go around town and recommend some things to do here in town. This is my first trip here so this will be brief.If you are coming, ask someone how to get to Glenwood Avenue in the city below the I-440 beltway. It's pretty easy to get to if you are staying near the team hotel. Anyhow, my recommendation would be to go to Sullivans steak house and you can go either way from there all within walking distance. There are several casual type of places to go serving different types of food. Just walk around until you find something you may like.Another place you may want to try, but is not near Glenwood Avenue, is 42nd Street Oyster Bar. It's kind of a local place and has been here for a long time. Nothing fancy, but good seafood.Chapel Hill is really close and my understanding is there are a ton of things to do when you get there.Lastly, I don't know a single bar in the Akron area that serves Yuengling, but evey place down here does. I know some of you really like this beer so you will have a treat this week.

I'm surprised nobody picked up on it yet. Any thoughts on the new away uniforms (tops)? I thought they looked better than the past.

Did anyone else out there waste three and a half hours of their life watching the most over-hyped game of the year on ESPN last night? I'm so ashamed of myself today.Was anyone impressed by either team? Both teams seem to run the same play every other down, which is the deep pass down the sideline, and hope for a catch or penalty. Could there have been more penalties?Does the game really warrant ESPN Classic playing reruns of past games all day long or are they just short on things to show?How many times was the word "speed" used last night? Does it matter if a guy is fast if he can't catch, cover or tackle?Here's to time wasted.

I guess if I'm calling anyone out, it is ME and everyone else. When I say we as in the Alumni, I am speaking as a member of that group which should be looked at as one body. I'm not trying to call anyone single person out though. Sorry if you are offended. However, if there are some people out there who are offended, they should ask themselves why?, and then ask if the shoe fits.I understand that there are people who give a ton of money, and that's great. The point is that this small group can not be the only people to financially support the program. If Akron is going to have a top notch program that pays coaches well and can support a new stadium some day, they must have a much larger group supporting them financially than they currently have. I don't think that asking the question, "With what?" when people say they need to pay JD more and we need a new stadium is unreasonable.The other end of the issue rests with the University. We should not always blame them for everything, but they do deserve some blame for the lack of money. I will take this point up at a later date though as I do not have the time to expand today. I think they do one thing HORRIBLY as it relates to generating money. The problem is easy to solve with a little time and effort.

Many of our fellow MAC schools were on television this weekand and many of us were able to watch them. With the exception of Akron, Toledo, BGSU and CMU, everyone else was pretty unimpressive. Most importantly, Akron and BGSU were the only two MAC East teams to score a respectable amount of points against bigger conference schools. What does this mean for us?Well, while we want to win every game, the real goal is similar to the first goal of an NFL team which is to win your division. Having Miami and BGSU at home is going to help us greatly. The rest of the MAC East is absolute garbage. In fact, Miami didn't impress me at all against Northwestern and I didn't get to see BGSU, but they had a similar score to ours on a neutral field against a much lesser team than what we played yesterday. I like our chances against those two schools.Most of the mistakes we made yesterday are correctable mistakes. We do have to stop giving up so many big plays though. Most importantly, we scored points against a very good defense on their field. Also, we played hard the entire game. If we can play hard against our MAC East opponents and score points consistently against them, we should make it to the MACC. Compared to other MAC schools, our team has a lot of talent even though it may not have looked that way at times yesterday. PSU had much more talent than we did on the field yesterday and I don't see how we could have ever overcome it.I don't feel like typing much today, so I'll just let you guys take it from here. We are the MAC East Champions and the Confierence champions though and as that bumbling idiot John Madden once said (I swear he said this, it's too stupid for me to even make up), "The champion is the champion until he's no longer the champion, and that's what makes him the champion." In his own crazy way, I think he is trying to say that someone has to take the championship away from us. I don't think Akron is the type of team to give it away this season. I really don't see anyone out there in the MAC East that can take the divisional championship away from us at this point, and I'll take my chances in a winner take all MACC again. I'm feeling good.

What are they going to pay him with? We have the cheapest and most short sighted fans in college sports. Even the people who consider themselves great fans complain the first time the cost of anything goes up.I'm convinced that it is not the fault of the Athetic Department that the coaches don't make more money. They would gladly pay it if they had it. It is the fault of all of US though. We are the alumni and fans of the University and in reality, very few are willing to do anything other than buy a ticket or two to support the program. We should stop blaming others and realize that WE are the problem and not THEM.

Frye is going to be one of a long line of QBs that Chicago defense makes look bad this season............

I would have to disagree with whomever told you this.I felt CMU was well coached and prepared for the game. They have one of the best coaches in the MAC. I do hate trick plays though and I didn't like what they did at the end, but I think what really would have lost the game for them in the end is the talent on the BC side.What scares me about CMU is their preparation and how hard they play. We had them down last year and they played hard the whole game and came back and burried us. At no time did they panic. That's the sign of a good coach.

I once told you guys that regardless of what your wives and girlfriends tell you, size does matter. When looking at NFL prospects, it is especially true. I think Luke is great for the program and I would even go as far as to say he is the second best QB in Zips history behind Mike Johnson, but I think a lot of NFL teams may take a pass on him because of his size. The question isn't who is better, it is will he make it?

If it rains, I may have to stay in the bar....which takes me back to one of my favorite sayings."No matter how warm or cold it is outside, it's always 72 degrees and dry on a barstool."

I don't think Akron can win a shoot out. If we win, it must be a lower scoring, ball control, field position type of game like 20-17 or 21-20. Shoot outs tire defenses too fast and I don't think we have the depth (compared to a top tier Big Ten team) to keep up the pace either on offense or defense. However, there is no reason why Akron can not compete in this game and possibly win.Getting first downs is a key component in winning a football game, especially in college. That statistic at half time will be the most important in predicting the outcome in the second half. If it is one sided in favor of PSU, the final score will be a blow out. If not, Akron can keep in the game until the end.

Nobody would want to pay for it........There will be 50 bars around Akron with the ability to get ESPNU. Winking Lizard is one, BW3 is another, Jillians is another, Damons is another, Gipettos (sp?) at Chapel Hill is another.......... GP1 are you saying that those places have it or they could have it but they don't want to pay for it ? i am confused. I was just cracking wise about our fan base...........They will all probably have it. Winking Lizard for sure should have it. I've watched other games on ESPNU out there. If you are a student and live on campus, Panini's will probably have it downtown. They had the basketball game from Nevada there last year.

Nobody would want to pay for it........There will be 50 bars around Akron with the ability to get ESPNU. Winking Lizard is one, BW3 is another, Jillians is another, Damons is another, Gipettos (sp?) at Chapel Hill is another..........

Your probably right near the mark. Over the past few years, our season ticket holders have declined, from around 2,000 per game to around 1,250 per game last season. With four weeks remaining until the first game, they shoud be able to beat the per game number of season ticket holders from last season. Four weeks is a long time to sell. My understanding is that they are happy with the progress of season ticket packages so far.I know a few people who have sold several packages for the Family Plan who have not turned them in yet. Add in walk ups, single game purchases, new ticket holders who do not buy through the fund drive, credit for students and other sources they should be able to hit 15,000 per game. In additiion to ticket sales, this group is bring on a lot of new donors to the Z-Fund so that revenue will now be moving through the Athletic Department.In order to make the Fund Drive a long term success, they will have to do it every year and not give up after one. Continuity has always been a problem at UofA because of the amount of people who come and go from the Athletic Department. We'll see if they can keep it up.

By the end of the fund drive, I should sell well over 200 tickets myself. The family pack is by far the most easy sale. 8K for OU is probably a total number if you add all the tickets for all the games. That is still pretty good.If I sell 200 and others doing the fund drive sell around the same, it should be a pretty successful fund drive. I look for this group to sell at least 3,000 tickets. Add in other sales, it should work out well for us.

In 2003, we allowed Can't to score 17 points in the final 3:29 to win in regulation on a last second fieldgoal. I still refer to this game as the "Divine Intervention Game", because only through divine intervention could we have lost that game and it happened.

I don't know how many of you have been to a professional golf match or not, but there is an interesting dynamic that takes place I think UofA fans should exploit.At every match, there are a certain number of drunks who follow around the players yelling things like "you're the man", "get in the hole" and my personal favorite "get legs". Why? I have no idea, but it takes place.I would challenge any ZipsNation member(s) attending the match this weekend to get boozed up and yell "FEAR THE ROO!!!!" after every shot. See if you can get others to do it with you. At least do it once for me as I will not be there this weekend. I can only be an a-hole in one place at a time and I need some support this weekend.Let me know who does it.

For those of you who may or may not know, Luke Getsy is the QB of our team. He is also the only QB to ever win anything at this school. Broke Limpwiches Motor City Bowl record last December 26 for the most passing yards in the game. He completed a 35 yard TD pass with seconds to go in the MACC last year.Here's to finally having a winner.

I have something more exciting than high school football to do. With all the extra rain this year, my grass continues to grow so I will be outside watching that this fall on Friday nights.

I would think that we would have at least one also. If there are approximately 130 D-1A teams in the country and each has 22 starters (130 x 22 = 2,860) Kiki and Luke would only be .07% of the list. Surely one of them deserves to be on the list.

We "hear" about a stadium all the time. If you want to "see" physical evidence of how far along the stadium is, call the purchasing department and see if they have any projects bidding pertaining to a new football stadium. The answer is yes they do. I looked on McGraw Hill Construction News and it isn't there yet (I may have done the search wrong though), but there are projects in the purchasing department. The University is a public institution and you have a right to see it if you wish."But GP1, but GP1, what are the projects?" Thanks for asking. They are playing a little catch up right now. There are still some routine engineering studies that need to be competed and that is what is out to bid. These studies are pretty easy to do. Things look good. Patience is all they ask.As far as the remainder of the property, someone mentioned a good idea to me last week and someone else told me they did this at one of the Hilliard high schools outside of Columbus. To Hell with the two or three houses they need to buy. Threaten to build the stadium around them and leave their access to the road. Build a fence around three sides of the homes so they will be protected. If this happened, it would drive down the value of those homes to next to nothing like it did to the guy in Hilliard. If those owners want to play hardball, they University should play right along with them. Enough being nice.

It is; however, is that the most funny part of this thread? Everyone think about it. There is one poster I find strangely interesting and funny that he still feels the need to come in here and post. Being a self promoter myself, I always enjoy reading other self promoters comments hoping to use one myself some day. Nice work......even from afar.It's good to see everyone this week. I was away on business and now that I have a BlackBerry I don't take my computer with me on the road so I can't post when away.