Zips still using outdoor practice field?

[GP1]

Winter conditioning on the hardwood of Memorial and the JAR were a real treat too.

Anyone who has gone through winter workouts and spring practice knows tonight will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, party night for the football team. Bigger than the last game of the season. Workouts during the season are a cakewalk compared to what the players have to go through in the winter and spring.

Six AM workouts were always funny during the Faust years. Half the guys weren't done throwing up from the night before. Looking back, I don't know how anyone didn't die.

On this day, I would like to tell the current group of Zips.....Cheers! Go have some fun and be safe.

[InTheZone]

Winter conditioning on the hardwood of Memorial and the JAR were a real treat too.

Anyone who has gone thnt rough winter workouts and spring practice knows tonight will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, party night for the football team. Bigger than the last game of the season. Workouts during the season are a cakewalk compared to what the players have to go through in the winter and spring.

I hear that. Guys will be drinking their faces off tonight.

My one and only "trip downtown" in my life came the night follwing the spring game. Team was having a HUGE party on Brown, nobody was in their right mind or had been since around 4 PM. There were teammate's dads there reliving their glory days who had lost the ability to stand since about 2 hours after the game. Well long story short, Akron's "finest" showed up when some of the partying had spilled out to the street and from the yard I saw one of the officers giving a female friend of mine a hard time. Being the fine gentleman that I am, I proceeded to walk over to the officer and tell him that he was a f***'n prick and a pussy and to leave little girls alone. He then asked me if he could see some ID for that Natural Light in my hand. I defiantly produced my ID and shoved it in his face. Only problem was my ID said I was 19 . The fine gentleman seemed intent on only giving me a citation, until I told him to f*** off, and that I was an Akron football player (it's funny how when you're a freshman you think that actually means something). It was then that he decided cuffs and a trip to jail was in order.

[ZachTheZip]

Akron football team cleans up trash to "keep Akron beautiful".

Coach I has a sense of humor. The players go out to get trashed, then go out to pick up the trash. This early morning activity was most likely scheduled for the sole purpose of keeping the post Spring-game partying to a minimum.

[g-mann17]

Individual drills are not warmups, they're probably the most important part of practice. That was an incredibly ignorant statement.

And practice in the infield of the track complex, Really?? Number one, it isn't lined. Harshmarks are incredibly important to things like alignment and you're basically wasting your time trying to practice without them. Number two, there's a nice long hard surface running down the middle of it for pole vaulting. I'm sure that would make for some interesting injuries. Incredibly ignorant statement number two.

There's a no difference between prograss and grass?? Ignorant statement three. I've played on both partner, I'm not THAT old. And there's a huge difference, grass sets the game at a different speed than turf not to mention its a different running on it and making cuts. It throws off everything from QB-WR timing to running backs footwork to the ability of defensive lineman to make pass rush moves. You wouldn't understand what I'm talking about unless you've played a college football game on both surfaces, but it makes a HUGE difference, and our players should be able to practice on grass before they have to play on it.

The bottom line is all college teams have grass practice facilities. We built a multi-million dollar practice facility, and don't. The fields out at the Rubber Bowl are no longer kept in practice caliber condition (not that they really were to begin with, but that's beside the point...), and the fact that we would even have to think about bussing to the rubber bowl with as much money as we've spent on facilities is ridiculous. It was a stupid decision to change the original plans, and now we're landlocked and have no options correct it. Thus, we have a multi-million dollar practice facility that puts us up shit creek when we're playing a team on grass. Stupendous.

Ugh, you're pathetic. We have everything we need from a practice standpoint, deal with it. But then you are also one of those "always a problem" "everything is going to fail" "we perpetually suck" type people.

I get it, just have to argue until people give up.

Bottom line we have all the practice areas we need. If Coach I wants them on grass, there is grass available (and sorry the Track has even more open grass then the 60 yard grass practice field does. And considering that the softball field was moved to where it is now in 2005 (mostly because the Master Plan called for turning Buchtel field into all intramural fields) it's funny that "grass practice surface" is just now a problem.

[Dr Z]

They played on grass once last year (Penn State) and will play twice this year (Kentucky, Temple).

When I walked on PSU's field last year I had to pull the grass to make sure it was real. Whomever is in charge deserves a raise.