GP1

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/rick-pitino-flips-off-uk-fan-on-the-way-to-locker-room/ I could post 20 articles where this happened.

I love it. This is the stuff of great rivalries. Ever notice nobody ever says, "That was a great handshake line after the game. Very straight and nobody showed any emotion." Akron vs Kent is a great regional rivalry. Let the trash talk happen. Great game. Zips fell short. Do better next time.

Is there anyone from Hudson on this board who could provide some guidance?

Is there a "Companionship Waiver"?

Recent events have caused me to schedule a last minute trip to Ohio. Does anyone know where I can buy an expedited fishing license in Hudson?

Good for him. He's a good guy. I have no animosity towards him.

Good. Of you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. The quality of education at UofA dwarfs CSU, KSU and YSU. Hopefully this moronic talk of mergers ends before someone does something really stupid.

I always thought he left because his talentless soccer playing son couldn't get on the field for the Zips nationally recognized soccer program. It couldn't be because Duquesne was greener pastures because it is a joke of a program. He literally did take his problem with him.

I don't. He's a grown man who has an extremely high paying job to coach basketball and win games and is losing. He has been given a brand new arena to recruit around and has done nothing with it. He should be fired at the end of the season. He is their Rob Ianello. Maybe the Riverhounds are hiring. He could get some money from LBJ to support the team.

So am I. In fact, I find the idea laughable. In addition to being too old for the job, he has zero experience in running an athletic department staff, hiring head coaches, marketing or anything else that might make him at least moderately competent at the job. He would be the laziest leadership move the University made since placing John Green in the President's seat. The decay of the athletic department would make the decay of Rolling Acres Mall photos on the internet look like a remodeling job.

If any of this is true, KD isn't as smart as I thought he was.

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Tough assignment with a horrible franchise. They have nowhere to go but up, but will they be able to turn things around fast enough as impatient as franchises are now.?.? I hope it works out for him.

Those are ok. Don't want to see another. Praying one of those schools in each of the years buys out the contract.

I'll give the AD a pass for the schedule next year and ONLY next year. The insanity has to stop.

If UofA is going to be the cultural center of NE Ohio in the fall with the football team being a feature of the University, only 5 home games is unacceptable. There have to be six. I don't care how they get there, but there have to be 6. Three games at Liberty, Tennessee and MSU do nothing to benefit the players, students, alumni, fans and general communities around Akron. Playing games with the primary purpose of cashing checks is morally bankrupt, but we are also talking about athletic directors.

You are correct. A lot of people will be taking Friday off as Labor Day is that Monday. Going to a game the first night of an extended weekend sounds like a good time. I'm not a fan of weeknight games, but will give this one a pass.

I hated it. Back then, they painted the astroturf and it accumulated on the surface like sandpaper. If you fell on your exposed skin, it left an abrasion mark like baseball players get when they slide. The end zones were the same way.

Our blue and gold colors are fantastic. A fan can buy a piece of merchandise and it will look good with whatever else they are wearing. I prefer the Z logo. If your name is Zips, own it.

I think it is a huge fad right now. While it will always be around, I can see the volume declining over the years because I think for most kids it won't solve the problem they believe they are using it to solve, whatever that may be.

Maybe it's as simple as the TP is a fad.

First of all, I agree. Second, the lack of sell outs cannot be spun as a failure. If 18K go to a football game, have a good time, watch some good football on a day and time of the week that is convenient, that would be success as long as the Zips win over half of their games at home. Those 18K people go home and tell others what a great time they have. I don't think regular sell outs are realistic because we are seeing even P5 schools struggling to fill their stadiums (ie: OSU) for certain games. The people who go to games and have a great time get programs through a down season or two because they see the value in going to a game. I am exactly this person as it relates to Wake Forest. I've sat through some awful football at times but continued to go back because everything else around the bad football worked for me. There is nothing Wake Forest does that Akron cannot do. In fact, The Big Dialer is better than Wake's stadium in almost every way. The team has to start winning to a point that a five win minimum season is not considered reason to tear everything down and rebuild. These seasons have to be considered bumps in the road.

Perfect! He doesn't say there is a "building process". Building what? Ever notice over the past 25 years nobody ever defined what the building process was supposed to entail? Saying there is a building process is a fancy way of saying, "I have no idea what in the heck I'm doing and I'm hoping something good happens before the public figures that out." John Madden had only three rules: be on time, pay attention and play like Hell when I tell you to. Why only three? The more rules you put out, the more a person is able to break the rules so you spend all of your time trying to get the person to follow your rules instead of playing football. I like JMoorhead only has four rules. It's very simple and is how you establish a solid base in a program. There is also discussion about making the program something people in the community can look to as a source of pride through winning. Presenting a good product and winning is something the university can control. There is some discussion of attendance. Attendance is something the university can have influence over, but cannot control because it's hard to control people in a free society. It's why winning on the field isn't enough. The university has to put a full-ass effort into, on game day, making the University a cultural center point for the players, students, alumni, fans and general community. The presentation of the University as more than a football game on game day is something the University can control and needs to control. Finding ways to benefit these five groups on game day needs to be the foundation of success for the University and athletics has to be a part of it but not the only department owning this responsibility. Lastly, it's encouraging to see the University is putting various people in a forward facing position to the citizens of NE Ohio in a way that highlights the positive things going on at UofA.

We could feed Herbie a dozen sauerkraut balls and watch him have to excuse himself to go to the bathroom during the primetime broadcast. I miss sauerkraut balls. Can't get them anywhere but NE Ohio.

The more I look at and read about this coaching staff, the more I like it. I hope those who stuck around embrace this staff because the experience they get as a football players will be changing for what I hope they feel is better. The experience is going to be more challenging, physically and intellectually. This is a D-1A staff. The days of D3 coaches is over and these new guys have a lot to teach you. Embrace it. I once worked for a division leader who told the management group I worked for, "We are going to change the people or we are going to change the people." Those who stuck around need to pay close attention to this sentence.