Game 12- Toledo

[clarkwgriswold]

The Zips head into the Glass Bowl on the 27th to bring a merciful end to this season.  The Rockets are 6-5 and will be coming off of an 11 day break following their fun with Tuesday night football.

[you am i]

I can see the anticipation for this game is at a fever pitch.

[ewbrooman1]

Wise move scheduling game at same time as OSU-TTUN game. Maybe no one will notice. 🙄 

[clarkwgriswold]

7 minutes ago, you am i said:

I can see the anticipation for this game is at a fever pitch.

I only put up the thread due to the tradition of every game having one and thinking no one else would.

[GP1]

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product. 

[Blue & Gold]

19 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

Wise move scheduling game at same time as OSU-TTUN game. Maybe no one will notice. 🙄 

We can only hope. 🙏

[NWAkron]

18 minutes ago, GP1 said:

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product. 

Infocision isn't clean?

[GP1]

21 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

Infocision isn't clean?

I haven't been there in a long time. I assume yes. The cleanliness of the stadium is not the problem. 

[ewbrooman1]

1 hour ago, GP1 said:

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product. 

Yeah, because there's no Ohio State or TTUN fans in Toledo who would want to watch that rivalry game. 😉

[clarkwgriswold]

Infocision is plenty clean.  80% of the seats haven't had a butt in them in years.

[ewbrooman1]

1 hour ago, NWAkron said:

Infocision isn't clean?

Cobwebs 😉 Actually I did wipe down some pretty dirty concession counters this June while volunteering for the Akron Marathon race series, but that was understandable after more than a year of nonuse.

Edited November 21, 2021 by ewbrooman1

[zippy5]

4 hours ago, GP1 said:

The game is at noon. I love it. Toledo is going to put on a football game in a clean stadium, good food, good tailgating and they field a good team. They don't give a flying poop that the OSU vs Michigan game is going on less than an hour away at the same time. Hats off to them for believing in their product. 

Gametimes don't really get decided by the school

[zipsfan33]

4 hours ago, zippy5 said:

Gametimes don't really get decided by the school

100% true.  I once asked the greatness that was Tom Wistercill about this and he told me that ESPN/CBS Sports/ Whoever else holds contracts controls all game times. For what its worth, he told me he would have held more night games. 

[Spin]

9 hours ago, NWAkron said:

Infocision isn't clean?

 

35 fans can only make so much of a mess...

[Spin]

1 hour ago, zipsfan33 said:

100% true.  I once asked the greatness that was Tom Wistercill about this and he told me that ESPN/CBS Sports/ Whoever else holds contracts controls all game times. For what its worth, he told me he would have held more night games. 

 

I didn't like his personality, but we had some competitive teams during his tenure. 

[Football grandma]

So far, everyone is playing nicely. Let's not repeat the bashing of the last thread. 😄

[NWAkron]

5 hours ago, Spin said:

 

I didn't like his personality, but we had some competitive teams during his tenure. 

And he gave us iCoach 

[Blue & Gold]

 

Are you ready for some football?!?! 😢

[lance99]

I was hoping when the Schools was annonced that Akron+Toledo=Black Friday Fun! However I just hope how that this Dumpster Fire of a Season would end on a meanness Saturday........

Edited November 23, 2021 by lance99

[clarkwgriswold]

23 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

 

Are you ready for some football?!?! 😢

 

TIME TO FINISH.

 

Can I get an amen?

[bigjim]

On 11/21/2021 at 2:12 PM, clarkwgriswold said:

I only put up the thread due to the tradition of every game having one and thinking no one else would.

Thank you for keeping the tradition.

[GoZips86]

I expect this game to get ugly. I know the players are playing a game they love, but I think a lot of them probably just want to get this over with as quick as possible. The coaching staff is about to be gone, they are not bowl eligible, they are bottom of the MAC...again, and so forth. Not a lot to play for. Sure, maybe their effort should be 100% every day, but I assume many of them are just checked out by now. Perhaps they will play strong to try to give Coach Rodriguez his first win as a head coach in D1? I don't know. 

 

But yeah, this will certainly be an L. 

[LZIp]

Zips are 28.5 underdogs, so I think Vegas agrees with @GoZips86. Tempting to take them, but I should know better.

[Blue & Gold]

😢

[ZippityDoDah]

I just want to give a shout out to the Zips Media person/team.  They have had very little to work with all season but day after day, week after week, they put up posts on twitter and Instagram trying to keep people interested, motivated and engaged.  Again a very challenging task given what they have available for content.   Great work - Happy Thanksgiving all. 

Also saw for the first time yesterday Scott Van Pelt commentary called "Bad Beats".  Seems like Akron football has several appearances this year and Akron basketball was featured when they lost to Ohio State.