Your Rubber Bowl stories

[Captain Kangaroo]

one more thing. I don't think we should take the incompetence of the sports writers out on the lady trying to write up this article. if any of you feel so inclined to send her some memories on the bowl her E-Mail is kmcmahan@thebeaconjournal.comshe asks that you include name phone number and contact info.her name is Kim btw

Thanks, Kim.

[bigham78]

I'm not asking anyone to fall in love with these guys and take the chocolates. they are giving us an opportunity for a great story and I think we should take it. this probably wont translate into great all time coverage but if we have the shot for a great story that could get people interested in the university and it's new stadium shouldn't we take it? and if your still pressing for more coverage than good for you it just drives me nuts that everyone complains about the lack of coverage and now that they are giving us an opportunity to gain some coverage all you want to do is bash them. look at it as business they probably wont be into us for long so lets just go ahead and get whatever milk we can from this cow while it's interested

So when they post my RB story and still use some blogger for coverage of the UofA Vs Wisconsin game.How did sharing my RB story help?

it helps in general interest. people in the city read the article and read your story and get interested in the history of our old stadium and the future of our new stadium. maybe people see what the RB used to be and visit it just to see. even if they have no other storys about us ever atleast this one will help us

What help do we need?The general interests is already there. UofA a couple of so called well know firms that do studies on the area and business potential and the like and they told UofA at best they'd sell 5 to 8 skyboxes. Not only did UofA sellout all 13 skyboxes. They're now slowly building lists for future interests. The sales are great for season tickets for ICS.The only thing lacking is sports coverage. The general interests is there and usually the hottest blogs at the ABJ outside of politics.We don't need more general interests help from the ABJ. We need some decent sports coverage to go with the general interests we already have.

[zipseuph]

I'm not asking anyone to fall in love with these guys and take the chocolates. they are giving us an opportunity for a great story and I think we should take it. this probably wont translate into great all time coverage but if we have the shot for a great story that could get people interested in the university and it's new stadium shouldn't we take it? and if your still pressing for more coverage than good for you it just drives me nuts that everyone complains about the lack of coverage and now that they are giving us an opportunity to gain some coverage all you want to do is bash them. look at it as business they probably wont be into us for long so lets just go ahead and get whatever milk we can from this cow while it's interested

So when they post my RB story and still use some blogger for coverage of the UofA Vs Wisconsin game.How did sharing my RB story help?

it helps in general interest. people in the city read the article and read your story and get interested in the history of our old stadium and the future of our new stadium. maybe people see what the RB used to be and visit it just to see. even if they have no other storys about us ever atleast this one will help us

What help do we need?The general interests is already there. UofA a couple of so called well know firms that do studies on the area and business potential and the like and they told UofA at best they'd sell 5 to 8 skyboxes. Not only did UofA sellout all 13 skyboxes. They're now slowly building lists for future interests. The sales are great for season tickets for ICS.The only thing lacking is sports coverage. The general interests is there and usually the hottest blogs at the ABJ outside of politics.We don't need more general interests help from the ABJ. We need some decent sports coverage to go with the general interests we already have.

so are you telling me that we are to the point of not needing any help what so ever? theres a little saying that goes make hay while the sun shines. well the sun is kinda bright at the moment so lets take every little angle we can. I personaly don't think hat this will do anything other than help. yes the ABJ should do more with Akron in sports but that doesn't mean we should pass this opportunity up.

[bigham78]

so are you telling me that we are to the point of not needing any help what so ever? theres a little saying that goes make hay while the sun shines. well the sun is kinda bright at the moment so lets take every little angle we can. I personaly don't think hat this will do anything other than help. yes the ABJ should do more with Akron in sports but that doesn't mean we should pass this opportunity up.

NoI'm telling you the responses to Rubber Bowl stories has been great. If, you'd drop Kim a line at the email and ask, you'd see that. I've already asked that question of UofA general interest writer and have been told that. But, a massive response is not going to get the ABJ to get off their poor sports coverage of UofA.They had massive responses for tell your old Spicer town stories.The blogs have been burning down all year on ABJ stories on UofA.But, to date only Rasor Blog has bothered to do any summer camp football coverage. We can flood the ABJ with all the human interests UofA stuff we like. The excitement is already building for the on campus stadium and advance tickets sales and money coming in more then drives that fact home. But, until we flood them about their lack of sports coverage for UofA.The human interests stuff is not buying us anything that UofA doesn't already have short of the poor sports coverage that needs to improve. One more RB story from myself or Captain Kangaroo is not going to make or break UofA from human side. But, decent sports coverage improvement like covering the summer camp and not just picking up a wire report from the Wisconsin game will do all the good in the world for UofA.

[zipseuph]

so are you telling me that we are to the point of not needing any help what so ever? theres a little saying that goes make hay while the sun shines. well the sun is kinda bright at the moment so lets take every little angle we can. I personaly don't think hat this will do anything other than help. yes the ABJ should do more with Akron in sports but that doesn't mean we should pass this opportunity up.

NoI'm telling you the responses to Rubber Bowl stories has been great. If, you'd drop Kim a line at the email and ask, you'd see that. I've already asked that question of UofA general interest writer and have been told that. But, a massive response is not going to get the ABJ to get off their poor sports coverage of UofA.They had massive responses for tell your old Spicer town stories.The blogs have been burning down all year on ABJ stories on UofA.But, to date only Rasor Blog has bothered to do any summer camp football coverage. We can flood the ABJ with all the human interests UofA stuff we like. The excitement is already building for the on campus stadium and advance tickets sales and money coming in more then drives that fact home. But, until we flood them about their lack of sports coverage for UofA.The human interests stuff is not buying us anything that UofA doesn't already have short of the poor sports coverage that needs to improve. One more RB story from myself or Captain Kangaroo is not going to make or break UofA from human side. But, decent sports coverage improvement like covering the summer camp and not just picking up a wire report from the Wisconsin game will do all the good in the world for UofA.

I'm not saying that this story will bring around the sports people. I'm saying that this story will help other things. if you have an E-Mail address for me to write some of the sports people then by all means throw it out there but this entire conversation is just grinding gears at the moment. if you don't wanna write Kim with your story then don't but don't sit here and discourage others from doing it

[bigham78]

so are you telling me that we are to the point of not needing any help what so ever? theres a little saying that goes make hay while the sun shines. well the sun is kinda bright at the moment so lets take every little angle we can. I personaly don't think hat this will do anything other than help. yes the ABJ should do more with Akron in sports but that doesn't mean we should pass this opportunity up.

NoI'm telling you the responses to Rubber Bowl stories has been great. If, you'd drop Kim a line at the email and ask, you'd see that. I've already asked that question of UofA general interest writer and have been told that. But, a massive response is not going to get the ABJ to get off their poor sports coverage of UofA.They had massive responses for tell your old Spicer town stories.The blogs have been burning down all year on ABJ stories on UofA.But, to date only Rasor Blog has bothered to do any summer camp football coverage. We can flood the ABJ with all the human interests UofA stuff we like. The excitement is already building for the on campus stadium and advance tickets sales and money coming in more then drives that fact home. But, until we flood them about their lack of sports coverage for UofA.The human interests stuff is not buying us anything that UofA doesn't already have short of the poor sports coverage that needs to improve. One more RB story from myself or Captain Kangaroo is not going to make or break UofA from human side. But, decent sports coverage improvement like covering the summer camp and not just picking up a wire report from the Wisconsin game will do all the good in the world for UofA.

I'm not saying that this story will bring around the sports people. I'm saying that this story will help other things. if you have an E-Mail address for me to write some of the sports people then by all means throw it out there but this entire conversation is just grinding gears at the moment. if you don't wanna write Kim with your story then don't but don't sit here and discourage others from doing it

You really kill me.I've spoken only for myself and mentioned what Captain Kangaroo already said that we're not sharing anything. I'm sure no one here is going base their decision to post a RB story because I've said I'm not. I'm not trying to encourage or discourage anyone. You responded to my posting here busting my chops about not posting a RB story in article that's going to have plenty of RB stories good, bad and ugly. Would be waste of my time anyway as I've been battling with the ABJ over their poor UofA and City of Akron High schools sports coverage. I'm sure they'd post my RB memories which include going into a freezing locker room where the sinks and urinals had ice floating in them during halftime of the City Series playoffs in 1977. Or a leaking locker room with rain water coming in it during another halftime during regular season game in 1976.Or maybe I can mention the mud my older brothers played in when it still had grass back in 1972. I have others in the 15 years of going to the RB (1968 First game-1983 last game) before I moved out of Akron. But, bandwidth doesn't allow and I'm just talking the ones that indicate the poor shape the RB has been in for decades. Like I said earlier. The UofA beat writer I email with off line as already indicated too me the responses have been great and if you bother to check the blog under the article. You'd see it one of the hottest articles going in the ABJ right now.Busting my chops about posting another RB story is not going to make or break UofA from human interest side.