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Topic: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Topic: Akron's uniform for Saturday

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Bobcat Swag
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Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 3:53:52 PM

http://zipsnation.org/forums//index.php?showtopic=28335&st=0

Pictures are on second page.

I for one think the back of the jersey is silly.

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RSBobcat
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 4:06:32 PM

I have to admit I like these. Per the back - pretty innovative W/it being social media night.

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cathead
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 5:47:32 PM

And Dakich has them in his "sleeper" Final 4--

@whatever....

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 6:58:53 PM

cathead wrote:

And Dakich has them in his "sleeper" Final 4--

@whatever....

Zzzzzzzzzz....................

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bobcat72
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 8:27:16 PM

These uniforms are one of those things you either like or you don't. I'm not a fan, but I'm more on the traditional side of things.

I don't think this is ever something you would see us do, at least under the current athletic department brain trust. We do not generally push radically different concepts like these.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 9:54:03 PM

Yeah - when I saw those Bobcat black uni's the first time I thought "those are so old school"...........

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/27/2013 11:46:06 PM

RSBobcat wrote:

Yeah - when I saw those Bobcat black uni's the first time I thought "those are so old school"...........

We were far from the first school to do a black uniform, though. We just capitalized on the growing trend.

Akron is probably the first team with a Twitter name on their jersey. I'm just saying that we would never do something as new/gimmicky/different as that. Not OUr style (and I'm thankful that it isn't).

Chicken George
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 12:21:07 AM

I kind of like the Akron uni's. Much cooler in my opinion than Kent's football attempt at being cool.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 1:19:14 AM

I don't think they're actually putting Twitter stuff on the real uniforms. That was just a Twitter promo.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 1:30:05 AM

its funny that they're changing their uniforms so we'll have to wear our home whites on the road. I think in the last 3 years we've only worn our home whites against Akron once, at home in 2010. The last 2 home games have been green-outs and we wore green and black in the 2 MACC games. We're 0-1 in our home jerseys and 5-2 in the roads.

Maybe they want to see what we look like in our whites because we'll be wearing them as the top seed in Cleveland.

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athena
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 8:40:08 AM

Ugly.

Which is to be expected from Akron.

OUVan
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 10:59:56 AM

JSF wrote:

I don't think they're actually putting Twitter stuff on the real uniforms. That was just a Twitter promo.

It sounds like the NCAA blocked their using it.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 9:36:59 PM

the Zips look like idiots on Twitter with their misinformation, confusion, and corrections.

the more this thing becomes a spectacle the more confident I feel about us winning.

#InCoopWeTrust

#ZipsSuck

#BobcatNation

#ZekeIsMeke

Last Edited: 1/28/2013 9:39:17 PM by perimeterpost

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/28/2013 11:15:51 PM

OUVan wrote:

JSF wrote:

I don't think they're actually putting Twitter stuff on the real uniforms. That was just a Twitter promo.

It sounds like the NCAA blocked their using it.

Warmups only:

sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/ncaa-denies-akron-request-wear-twitter-handles-back-020151886--ncaab.html

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/29/2013 12:16:52 AM

This is too funny. Love the fact that they tried to be fancy with these things and then get shut down. #AkronSucks

OUcats82
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/29/2013 3:39:17 PM

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Last Edited: 1/29/2013 3:39:58 PM by OUcats82

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/29/2013 4:51:37 PM

I enjoy making fun of Akron, but this was pretty smart from a buzz-building, social marketing standpoint. See ESPNs take...
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id...

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 10:36:25 AM

Say what you want about Akron but this was a great marketing campaign. It has created a great deal of awareness. They sent these boxes with a jersey inside to the likes of Bilas, katz etc. Pretty smart. It must have been created by an outside marketing firm, no one at Akron could be smart enough to come up with this on their own.

https://twitter.com/JayBilas/status/296631758798086144/ph...

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 11:16:52 AM

This is a great idea by Akron. It is creating all kind of buzz and is really innovative. I'm guessing they will have the twitter handle or # on the court as well, which is also a great idea. Missed opportunity by us.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 12:00:52 PM

Would be epic PR if a Bobcat hijacked their social media event/twitter account and dropped pro-Ohio tweets.

"DJCooper owning Abreu...#MACPOY"
"Damn Zeke ...what are you doing? #NITBound"
"Is that not the winning team? #CongratsBobcatNation"

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 12:02:11 PM

the123kid wrote:

meh, we do our marketing on the court

#Sweet16

LoganElm_grad09
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 12:10:11 PM

Another opportunity to make fun of Akron... Ozone, take note.

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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 12:17:17 PM

BlockedPunt wrote:

the123kid wrote:

meh, we do our marketing on the court

#Sweet16

For the Akron game if the O Zone could pull off a #Sweet16 by people wearing white shirts against the crowd of green, that would be pretty impressive. Keep the hashtag folks in place and throw in a #NIT at the end when Ohio drops the hammer on them and that would be classic.

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Tom Valentino
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 7:06:52 PM

I just wish our athletic dept. would endorse one official hashtag for our teams. It would be a nice way to find other Ohio fans during games and get everybody on the same page. Off the top of my head, I've seen: #Bobcats, #OhioBobcats and #OhioU, among others.

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perimeterpost
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RE: Akron's uniform for Saturday

Posted: 1/30/2013 8:53:32 PM

Akron fans are starting to get real full of themselves. They act like they won the internet or something.

I realy hope we give them an Athens style beat down saturday.

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