Media coverage

[zipboy]

Gotta complain about something. I have the game taped and have not seen it yet. But compare the 2 stories in the Beacon and PD.

Beacon

DL does a great job with the story capturing the excitement of the night and what a great ball game it was. I hear him on Monday night on the Joe Dunn show, and he really sounds pumped about the game and how Akron is really acting like a bigtime program. 3 paragraphs into the article, he has OU's record way off. So I give him credit for effort and he is way better than Jason Butler was. Then I remember his employer. The sad thing is if this game was at Marshall, we would have been reading an AP story about it in the Beacon. What are the odds they actually give DL gas money to go to Ford Field for the MAC title game if we are there? And how do they F up the adverstisement listing the game at the wrong time? Either they are that incompetant or they seriously do want to sabotage Akron athletics.

PD.

I have pretty much stayed quiet on Elton. I used to love him but after the Owens firing noticed a negative slant in his articles. How disappointing was his article Saturday. Yes what Marshall did to lose the game was a big part of it , but how many key plays did Akron make to win this game? A brief mention or none at all about it. While DL captured the feel and excitment of the night, I had a feeling that Elton already had his article written, had to tear it up, and pieced together whatever.

And where is Roger Brown? No mention of Charlie Frye being in the final 9 for the Unitas award. Any mention in the next week or 2 about the biggest freaking win in Akron history and how maybe Rog was a little off in his preseason criticism? And on that front how about Terry Pluto saying gosh I liked Lee Owens but with what I now see, I was wrong, it was time for Lee to move on and JD Brookhart has been amazing.

[Zipsrifle]

I was really Glad to see the Zips on the FRONT page and the articles in the ABJ. I was thouroughly annoyed though when I started reading Elbert Stark's front page article. He was trying to get the point across that this was a BIG game. This is admirable, but the way he did it is an insult. According to him, the reason this was a big game was because an OSU fan brought his RV to the game to tailgate. Apparently big games can't happen without OSU fans around. To further the insult he mentions the fact that the guy was a UA grad. All I can say is that I hope this guy comes to more Zips games and soon his RV sports a Kangaroo on the side. Of course then, they wouldn't be big games any more.

I wonder why he talked to this guy instead of the multiple Zips tailgaters? Oh, wait, probably because he had a big O on the side and that was the only logo he recognized.