Where's the "Akron Football Night?"

[Z.I.P.]

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

Fredrick Douglass

You be careful what you say now Cap'n. You keep spoutin' off that radical talk, some peoples on here gonna think you one o' those there Can't Staters!

[Dave in Green]

Overall, UA sports taken as a whole are on an upward trajectory. Football has been the obvious lagger. I can be patient as long as I see signs that football is headed in the right direction. That will play out on the field this fall. This is not a make-or-break season in terms of my interest in Zips football. But it's getting darned close to it. My expectations are for a clear and obvious improvement on the field this season. The minimum standard should be that the Zips are not an embarassment in a generally weak football conference like the MAC. Longterm I'd at least like to see the Zips football team in the hunt for the MAC championship like the men's basketball team.