Arthur, Corner earn All-MAC honors
Posted November 28th, 2007 by mrasor
Football
Jabari Arthur and Reggie Corner are All-MAC First Team.
Brion Stokes, Chris Kemme and Almondo Sewell are second teamers. John Mackey, Bryan Williams and Kevin Grant are third teamers.
That’s a lot of honors for a 4-8 team. You might argue there should have been more. Perhaps Davanzo Tate should have been included, too.
Men’s soccer
Akron plays South Florida at 7:30 tonight at Lee Jackson Field.
Tickets are $8 and $5 for students.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Boy, it really hit home how back Akron was when I saw the printed MAC final standings. There was UA all the way at the bottom, with only Kent State beneath them. And the Zips had the nerve to brag about beating their crosstown rival. Some victory. Some season. Some-thing has to change.
P.S. Does anyone really believe the Zips will open the 2009 football season at the corner of Brown and Exchange? I sure don’t.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Ooops. That’s “how BAD” Akron was, not “how back.”
November 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Maybe you were thinking “back-asswards” as in “Boy, it really hit home how back-asswards Akron was …”
Assuming they begin site prep soon (early January), doing what they can while the remaining properties are being acquired … yes, I do think we’ll have a new stadium in time for September 2009. I know NOTHING about construction planning but I’d be doing everything I could on the property I do own. I’m a huge Akron fan but it makes me nervous how eminent domain is being used in this country these days to acquire property so it can be put to better/more profitable use. The Supreme Court really screwed up in the New London, Connecticut eminent domain case.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Hey, if I owned the Sun B&G and my brother owned some other property Uof A wanted, I’d tell ‘em, I am giving up more business than you can ever compensate me for. Give me enough $ so I can retire OR buy me another piece of land close by so I can relocate!
November 29th, 2007 at 9:24 am
And Lee, I would say stop trying to extort the tax payers of the state. Your property is worth what your property is worth not what you think you can get out of it. Everyone thinks that eminent domain was designed so a government could just seize land.
Nope, the truth is eminent domain was designed so that tax payers are protected from greedy people who think that a $200,000 property is worth $2,000,000. All the Constitution says is that the government cannot just come in and seize your property. It does not say that the government cannot buy it, or acquire it through just compensation.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Good point G-Mann, also don’t forget the part about for the “Public Good” as the primary justification. UA and the City of Akron would have very little problem proving that the stadium project would clean up and revitalize that section of Exchange Street, thus providing for the “Public Good”.
Another distinction to be made here is that in the New London case , the city turned the property over to a private sector developer. In the UA situation, UA is a Public entity and not private. One additional and maybe nebulous point is that UA owns the land adjacent to the targeted parcels and so UA has a pretty strong case that those properties are having a negative impact on the UA property.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Concerning the high number of our 1st, 2nd and 3rd Team All-MAC honorees considering our lousy record, I think this just goes to show how vitally important good QB play truly is! Hopefully Matt Rogers can steady this ship next season.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
You’re right, Rob…for the life of me, I cannot understand how a coach would sit back and watch ridiculously poor quarterback play for two seasons and do nothing about it. Let’s face it, Getsy torpedoed last year, and another season like the one Jacquemain/Jackson offered in ‘07 will surely cost Brookhart his job. QB is the single most important position on your team, and it can’t be left to “chance” or “hope-so’s.” Didn’t the Browns prove that once and for all in Game 1 by jettisoning another vastly-overrated ex-Zip?