I will provide several useful factoids to consider and comment on.
Several people doubted the veracity of my claims that the Zips are "poisonous".
Let us review what we have learned thus far.
Thus far Akron has OOC games scheduled with YSU (Coach's vs. Cancer Classic),
a home game with Marshall and good road game at Creighton.
People poo-pooed about being turned down for OOC games at "scale" with no
return. Scale currently is approximately $95,000. Some teams have offered to
play Akron at their venue for the princely sum of $60,000. That will NOT happen.
Can not cover expenses and it is demeaning. Forget the hog wash about getting
our collective foot in the door. In a future post I will show high major games the
Zips have played in the past decade.
Here is a partial list of teams that rejected Akron's offer to play at their arena
with NO return game.
Cincinnati, Dayton, Xavier, PITT, Houston, Michigan, Michigan State. Tennessee,
Florida, Alabama, LSU, Mississippi State, Wake Forest, Oklahoma State,
Auburn, Tulane. See any you like? Not one of these schools want to play Akron
on their own court. There are more; I will list them at another time.
Six so called high majors did not even respond. Will name them later. Big Ten, SEC,
A-10, ACC schools that did not to have the courtesy to even respond.
There are numerous statistics and facts concerning scheduling that will be presented later.
Akron will play in two early season tournaments. The UTEP tournament has promised that
UTEP will play the Zips. That is good news. The Savanna tournament is larger; eight
teams reportedly. Akron will play two of those games in Akron against mid-major teams.
Then the Zips travel to Savanna to play two more schools.
I hope this helps.