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JSF
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We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 4:18:48 PM

Could very well be the worst team in 1-A. Don't care how we've looked the last couple weeks. The Zips are a glorified high school team.

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bobcats11
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 4:36:14 PM

that's an interesting post because one would think that how a team is playing coming into a game would indicate some things about what will happen the next week. And obviously we're playing to that same glorified high school level currently. ....just saying.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 4:42:18 PM

I have a nagging fear that Akron will miraculously play their best ball of the season.

JSF
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 4:51:50 PM

bobcats11 wrote:

that's an interesting post because one would think that how a team is playing coming into a game would indicate some things about what will happen the next week.

One might. One might think there's little, if any, correlation.

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And obviously we're playing to that same glorified high school level currently. ....just saying.

Disagree.

bobcats11
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 5:04:29 PM

Fair enough...you have your opinion and I have mine. But it makes perfect sense to me that how any team is playing coming into any given game will be an indication of the result. We've lost to 2 inferior opponents the past 2 weeks and are about to play against another one...so that doesn't convince me that anything will change. Not saying we'll lose, because I realize Akron sucks, however we are not playing good football by any stretch of the imagination right now....and 2 straight losses prove that statement correct.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/16/2011 5:32:58 PM

bobcats11 wrote:

I disagree that BSU is an inferior opponent. They were blasted by Oklahoma, but we would've been too. They were blasted by USF, but we probably would've been too. Their OOC schedule did not have a 1AA school -- they beat Indiana and Army, both of which are mid-level MAC quality teams this year; we would probably beat IU but I'm not sure about Army. Their pasting by Temps came the week after their D secondary was decimated by OK, so they were still making adjustments. Yes, we are not playing well right now. But I don't see Akron as being the threat that, say, Kent was a year ago. They don't have a Roosevelt Nix and they haven't fired their coach (yet).

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 12:30:38 AM

JSF wrote:

Could very well be the worst team in 1-A. Don't care how we've looked the last couple weeks. The Zips are a glorified high school team.

Buchtel vs. the Zips would be a barn burner, and that's just sad.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 12:40:26 AM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

I have a nagging fear that Akron will miraculously play their best ball of the season.

We seem to bring that out in teams.

JSF
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 11:31:59 AM

Oldcat wrote:

Pete Chouteau wrote:

I have a nagging fear that Akron will miraculously play their best ball of the season.

We seem to bring that out in teams.

I think the best effort of the Ianello era would result in about 17 points and giving up 30.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 12:13:51 PM

ts1227 wrote:

JSF wrote:

Could very well be the worst team in 1-A. Don't care how we've looked the last couple weeks. The Zips are a glorified high school team.

Buchtel vs. the Zips would be a barn burner, and that's just sad.

Akron was Buchtel College.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 12:22:19 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Akron was Buchtel College.

I thought he was talking about old Butchel High School that's now merged with Nelsonville-York.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 3:11:21 PM

Can someone permanently station a camera on SBH at this game?

I want to see the full range of emotions as vividly as possible.

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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 4:07:13 PM

I think SBH's dislike for his hometown team is only eclipsed by his disdain for that team in Columbus. And maybe not even them. Would love to see this video feed if the Zips put a scare into the Cats.

SBH
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 4:47:44 PM

I wanted those clowns and felons in Columbus to beat the Zips by 100.

My disdain is based on the quality of that school, known locally as "Hilltop High." They started a major last year focused on running a telemarketing sweatshop. Reason? They got a big donation from the folks who own InfoCision.

Heard a great story from an associate recently about the UofA experience. She took a statistics class at Akron and she and her classmates quickly discovered that the adjunct "professor" was actually a moonlighting junior high math teacher who had never even taken a statistics class herself. The class went on strike and asked for their money back. The university finally agreed, refunded 7/8 of their tuition and invited them to take the class from a different professor at half-price the next semester. So when they walked in the door a few months later...it was the same woman. They again went to the dean and were told that the university couldn't find anyone better (because they rely primarily on adjuncts to save money). But he assured them that she had brushed up on her statistics learnin' over the preceding eight weeks, so their experience should be "good enough."

Last Edited: 10/17/2011 4:50:48 PM by SBH

JSF
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 5:05:26 PM

On the other hand, I know a number of fine, capable people who graduated from Akron (including a student at OU-COM).

Alan Swank
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 5:34:50 PM

SBH wrote:

Drew, I think you'd be shocked at the number of adjuncts here at OU too. Sad state of affairs in higher ed right now. And on an unrelated note, 10 or so years ago I got a call one day wanting to know if I'd like to teach a volleyball coaching class. It seems no one from the Convo was available that quarter and since I was the local high school coach, they thought I'd be a good candidate. I said yes and started the next day and no, everyone did not get an A.

Last Edited: 10/17/2011 5:36:54 PM by Alan Swank

SBH
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RE: We Will Destroy Akron

Posted: 10/17/2011 5:36:47 PM

70 percent of Akron's faculty is adjuncts. They pay 'em pennies and don't really care if they are competent. A woman I fired for her utter inability to write a coherent sentence is now a journalism professor there. Hundreds of examples like these. They counter that people with "real world" experience can bring more to the table. That can be true, but most of the quality real-world people won't work for what Akron is willing to pay.

Last Edited: 10/17/2011 5:40:59 PM by SBH

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