[jeaglet1]

Coaching decisions at Akron and Ohio bode well for Mid-American Conference basketball

Terry Pluto talks about Dambrot staying at Akron, and Christian coming back to the MAC. He also talks with / about Senderhoff and Waters. It was a good read.

I found it interesting Christian and KD were talking during the Duquesne thing...

"Keith has done a fantastic job," said Christian. "We talked [during Duquesne's recruitment of Dambrot]. I mentioned that there are a lot of different things to think about, not just the money. I talked about that if I had to go back four years and make the [TCU] decision again ... well, he knew the answer."

I couldn't agree more with this quote from KD.

"The MAC needs to get to a place where it doesn't lose coaches to TCU or Bradley," said Dambrot, referring to Geno Ford leaving Can't State for Bradley in 2011. "It's one thing to lose [Ohio's John Groce] to Illinois for $1.5 million, but we should be able to keep some of our coaches from leaving for other high mid majors."

[Captain Kangaroo]

"My only concern is expectations [at Akron] have been raised so high," said Dambrot. "It's like some people expect us to win an NCAA tournament game every year. (Dambrot is 0-2 in the NCAA tournament)."

Since we haven't won one in 9 seasons, I can't say anyone expects the Zips to win an NCAA tournament game once, let alone every year. But it would be nice. I guess I'll don my patented Zips Hair Shirt for wanting a tourney win. Selfish me.

BTW - I hear The Akron Hair Shirt is the runaway leader in the shirt competition being run at the Bookstore.

BTW2 - The Zips have not won a post season game in 4-seasons-and-counting. The previous 4-year seniors (Dials, Joyce, Middleton, Wood, Travis, etc.) had 2 NIT wins, and probably would have had 1 or 2 more had CM Newton not shafted us. While my expectations for winning an NCAA tourney game every season are infinitesimally low, I DO expect us to win at least an NIT game every couple seasons.