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<blockquote data-quote="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals" data-source="post: 131850917" data-attributes="member: 1759980">Akron just fired Coach Tom Arth in his 3rd season with the Zips with 3 games left in the season.Terry Bowden was 35-52 with the Zips, which sounds terrible. Terry got Akron into 2 bowl games, where the Zips hardly ever show up throughout history.But you have to put it in perspective: NO coach has had a winning career at Akron since Jim Dennison won 56.3% of the time in 1973-85. Think of it, 56.3% is a high-water mark at Akron, a death knell for coaches! Since, Gerry Faust came from Notre Dame and an amazing Cincinnati high school coaching career to go 44.9%, Lee Owens was 39.6%, J.D. Brookhart was 41.7%, Rob Ianello was 8.3% (yes!) with 2 victories in 24 games, Terry was 40.2% and now Tom Art is 5.6% (1 victory in 18 games!).When you look at the comparative numbers Terry sure looks a lot better. Akron is a LONG way from Alabama or WVU!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals, post: 131850917, member: 1759980"] Akron just fired Coach Tom Arth in his 3rd season with the Zips with 3 games left in the season. Terry Bowden was 35-52 with the Zips, which sounds terrible. Terry got Akron into 2 bowl games, where the Zips hardly ever show up throughout history. But you have to put it in perspective: NO coach has had a winning career at Akron since Jim Dennison won 56.3% of the time in 1973-85. Think of it, 56.3% is a high-water mark at Akron, a death knell for coaches! Since, Gerry Faust came from Notre Dame and an amazing Cincinnati high school coaching career to go 44.9%, Lee Owens was 39.6%, J.D. Brookhart was 41.7%, Rob Ianello was 8.3% (yes!) with 2 victories in 24 games, Terry was 40.2% and now Tom Art is 5.6% (1 victory in 18 games!). When you look at the comparative numbers Terry sure looks a lot better. Akron is a LONG way from Alabama or WVU! [/QUOTE]

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