Zipsrifle Posted September 4, 2006 Report Posted September 4, 2006 Ok, I'm a hypocrite. I bash the Stinkin Urinal, but I did find this article on their website. Apparently the Zips are on the "Dirty Dozen" list of schools that need to average at least 15,000 home attendance this season. I'm a bit miffed by this. I know this is entirely the fault of the UA Athletic Dept for the schedule, but this is a bunch of BS!! We have to import North Texas to a home game when the schedule changed to 12 teams. We will get very close to ZERO of their fans in attendance. We have only 5 home games this year and the home opener is late in the season. We basically have no option of where we will play the "Big Schools", and they can meet this mark in one game. Look at OSU next season. To my understanding, they will play in Cleveland. They will probably have 7 home games, and the Cleveland game will be an away game in for them in name only. So essentially they have 8 home games next year (2/3 of their schedule)? While we have to beg, borrow, and steal to get 5 home games. If one of these games has crappy weather (God forbid two!...Cough, Cough Army, Can't, Cough), we are screwed!! Couple this with being forced to start late in the season, and we run into what happened last year.....low attendance numbers. Maybe the Mid Majors should boycott playing the bigger schools unless they return the favor. That would help our record, hurt theirs, we would get into more bowl games. Of course, that wouldn't necessairly help the Mid-Majors get any better. Quote
Buckzip Posted September 4, 2006 Report Posted September 4, 2006 We make a lot of money going to the bigger schools for games. They make nothing from coming here. Once we get the new stadium, we may be able to get the lower tiers of the big conferences, but probably not the big boys. Once we get a new stadium, there will be no problem averaging more than we need. Quote
gozips19 Posted September 4, 2006 Report Posted September 4, 2006 remember that akron has lower majors coming to akron in the future with iu, ku, and the cuse. also i think cincy comes to akron to. it has also been known that rhodes is trying to change akron's future schedule to include 6 home games... the point of the article is that akron needs to ave. 15k per game and they will as long as they win. the city is aware of akron progress and the article in the abj did bring attention to the public that they need to go to the games and they will (at least a game here or there) but as long as they win this year and they should akron's attentence issue will be fine Quote
Kangaroo Craig Posted September 5, 2006 Report Posted September 5, 2006 the point of the article is that akron needs to ave. 15k per game and they will as long as they win.I just fear that it won't be this year because of the wacky schedule with the majority of the marque games being played in cooler weather. Do we go on probation next year if we do not make the 15K average? And if it happens again next year do they drop us out of 1A status? Quote
RACER Posted September 5, 2006 Report Posted September 5, 2006 the ncaa is asking for a ton of lawsuits if they try to push some of the d-1 schools into 1-aa. it opens up a huge can of worms. what about basket ball d-1. if you have an attandance policy for football dont you have to have for other sports as well.it also hurts the womens sports.with title 9 if there are less mens schollys for men couldn't the university cut some women programs then to? Quote
Captain Kangaroo Posted September 5, 2006 Report Posted September 5, 2006 Ok, I'm a hypocrite. I bash the Stinkin Urinal, but I did find this article on their website. Shocker...The printing info from a "wire" story. Quote
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