“It’s time for the people who don’t think of Akron as a special place to think of this as a special place,” [coach Caleb] Porter said. “We need people to think big and stop waiting for the worst to happen. We need to start thinking good things will happen.”
This guy can be a Northeast Ohio legend. Or yet another tragic casualty of the region's crippling depression.
For what it's worth, Akron has been regenerating it's campus for a while, and they've consistently done good work. While I hope they can secure funding for phase two to be completed on time, part of me will miss the old Lee Jackson Field. It's all a bit ragged, but it also has the charm of something out of lower league European football. In the former communist bloc. In 1985. Lamps that look haphazardly lashed to surplus utility poles, a pair of dilapidated shacks that account for bench shelters, a grass berm that goes right up to one side of the field so players have to run down a hill to throw the ball in -character is the word you're grasping for. While the designs look good, hopefully the end result won't be totally sanitized.
Edit: According to Google Images, here's a picture of the current Lee Jackson Field:
You get the idea.
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