skip-zip Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Kangaroo. If only everyone else in Akron had your attitude.Unfortunately, very few Akronites have a level of loyalty where they would tear down their backyard BBQ, load up the family, kids, and out of town guests in the minivan, and drive to Cleveland to show their love for the Akron Zips. Is Ohio State really playing another MAC school in Cleveland next year? Please tell me it's not so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Unfortunately, very few Akronites have a level of loyalty where they would tear down their backyard BBQ, load up the family, kids, and out of town guests in the minivan, and drive to Cleveland to show their love for the Akron Zips. I don't see why the game would conflict with anyone's BBQ plans. The game is being held on Saturday evening at 6pm...who holds their Labor Day BBQ on Saturday at 6pm? Sunday, maybe. Monday (Labor Day) definitely. But Saturday evening?You must have some awesome relatives if you can stand doing nothing but BBQ-ing with them for 3 straight days. I'd probably kill mine half-way through day #2. You must have a cast iron colon to eat BBQ for three days too. I couldn't do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdZip Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I think perhaps of greater importance than getting butts in the seats for the Patriot Bowl is enticing the owners of those butts to go to other Akron games in the future. Properly marketed, you can get people to come to this game. But if someone comes, and Akron flops, it sets us back. If people come and Akron either dominates or, perhaps even better yet, makes it an exciting game with a close win, maybe some of those people who think Akron isn't worth watching will have their mind changed.I'm speaking from experience here. When I was in college, I went to a lot of games. Once I graduated and moved to Chardon, then had kids, I convinced myself there were too many barriers in my way to go to games. Then Akron made the Motor City Bowl. We decided to give it a go. It was a great game, with an exciting finish, and now we're hooked. We live an hour away from Akron yet we're tailgating at all the football games and went to somewhere around 14 basketball games last year. We're even planning to go to Alaska in November.Get 'em in and get 'em hooked. I know it's not that easy, but it worked on us... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Good point Captain I wouldn't be able to handle my relatives for that long either. I'll be at the game. I'm simply speaking for those without our level of loyalty. Truth be told. I hope I am dead wrong about how I am seeing the attendance for that game. I just have too much history with this football program to feel otherwise at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-P Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 This is just OK-- not a homerun, but better than a game against Howard. What will really suck is next year when Toledo plays Ohio State in Cleveland.Whoa!Were you at Howard? That was the Battle of the Bands game. Man oh man, the show was awsome. Just remembering the way the Howard Band entered the stadium gives me goose bumps!Not to pimp UAM, but he took lemons and made lemonade...........something lacking around here lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 BTW, the start time for this game was recently moved from 6pm to 7pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eguins Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 One other thing on Labor Day weekend is the largest county fair in the state of Ohio out here in Youngstown. The Canfield Fair draws well over 100,000+ people every year. And I'm telling you, there are a TON from the Akron-Canton market which drive out here as well.I don't think it will hurt you all that much, but if its a beautiful Saturday Afternoon in the mid-70s with sunshine; it may change a few peoples thoughts of going to the game.Bottom line is I think you guys will get a lot of veterans to go to the game with their families; but you still will lose plenty of Zips fans which will be outta town for the weekend.25,000 sounds logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Might want to bring your own jug to this new facilityAt least the rubber bowl toilets still flush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronad Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Will the Stadium be ready? From what I just read, they still haven't found the source of the leaking pipe. It sounds as if the lockerrooms are going to have be recarpeted and the lockers repaired, since there is still 6-8" of standing water. It looks as though they are going to have their hands full getting the facility back up to status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipgrad01 Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 I think the game will sell better than a lot of people realize. I haven't heard it mentioned yet, but the game is Saturday night at 7pm. The Cleveland Air Show is all weekend long and it will be ending for the day on Saturday a little before game time. There will be hundreds of thousands of people in downtown Cleveland for the air show, so I am sure a lot of people will attend the game with all the military ties that are involved with the air show. However, I wouldn't be surprised if it feels like an Army home game. How sad would that be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-mann17 Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 BTW, the start time for this game was recently moved from 6pm to 7pm. The game time was always 7pm, the 6pm start time was for the CPD vs the CFD charity flag football game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 BTW, the start time for this game was recently moved from 6pm to 7pm.The game time was always 7pm, the 6pm start time was for the CPD vs the CFD charity flag football game. o rly?Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event. The Patriot Bowl, scheduled at The Cleveland Brown Stadium on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 6:00pm has changed times. The event will now take place at 7:00pm. Original tickets will be honored for the new time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozips19 Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 saw a pretty good ad in the PD for the game today in the sports section. also a pretty good article about the growth of the campus in the metro section (although the head line show us a akron u). not a bad day for press in Cleveland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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