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  1. These forums are a real lifesaver for a long time Zips basketball fan like me who rarely gets to actually watch a game. First went to the JAR during the Huggins era and actually attended a Coleman Crawford basketball camp in the summer of ’92 (I think). I started reading these posts during the post-Dambrot coaching search and got hooked when I discovered there was a “Rec League Smith” appreciation thread. Finally got around to making a profile. Keep up the good work, everyone. I will be travelling on Thurs night but am interested to see how the Zips look against a regional rival.
    6 points
  2. So God's a Kent State fan...who knew? I know absolutely zero regarding the Zips 2020 recruiting mindset, but after what's likely to be an 0-12 season we need mature bodies that can step in right away and play big boy football. There is no time to bring in Freshman...redshirt them...work them into the line up on special teams as a RSFr....and wait 3 years before they make an impact. Redshirting kids is essentially saving them for the next head coach. If I'm Arth, the whole "recruit local kids from NE Ohio" mantra needs to be put on ice for a couple years and we need to get JUCO's and Grad transfers to InfoCision asap. 330/216/440 area codes be damned. If a "stud" local kid wants early playing time that he otherwise wouldn't get at a P5...or even a "Toledo", by all means get him on campus. But every available 2020 scholarship is precious and I can't see spending any on "projects" with "upside." If this sounds like early-era Bowden, it is. He was in the same situation.
    4 points
  3. This is the next level walk-on analysis that keeps me coming back
    2 points
  4. Fearless Forecast: #43 Austin Gillespie sees the field for the first time, and rushes for 275 yards and 6 TD's. In the ABJ game column the next day, Gillespie is referred to as Brandon Junk.
    2 points
  5. When you play college basketball titans like NCC and SCU, you play on THEIR schedule!
    2 points
  6. So it's the YSU Quisenberry's vs. the Akron Zips. Got it. Keep the effort up, and good things will happen. Out-efforting a team will make up for not shooting lights out. We have the talent to compete at the top of the MAC; establish the fundamentals early this OOC season, and we'll be in good shape. Go Zips!
    2 points
  7. How could we possibly "crucify" any Zips fan for comments such as these when they stem from the fact that OUR STANDARD for Zips Men's Soccer IS SO HIGH, and rightfully so. Our standard for all of UA should be as high. Instead of "ripping up each other" in discussions as 72 Roo has pointed out, we should all be letting our President, Board of Trustees, Athletics Department and other leadership know that we expect them to live up to the same high standards. It's unacceptable to be lazy in making financial decisions, hiring coaches and & other important decisions. Zips Men's Soccer, Track & Field, Swimming & Diving, Volleyball... are all exemplary of the high standards we expect throughout. Get onboard, earn your salary, or move on.
    2 points
  8. The emphasis should certainly be on getting ready to play players, but we will have the full allotment of 25 scholarships. I wouldn't automatically disqualify recruiting a few true freshman because they couldn't help us year 1. The focus needs to be on stopping the bleeding while building for the future. Bowden always seemed to be focused on the present and scrambled every "free agency", as he referred to it, to fill holes. He kept trying to treat the symptoms instead of curing the real problem. When said player went down there would be a significant drop off in talent from the next man up as we had depth no where. You build depth by recruiting freshmen well as they might have to sit 1 year, but you then get 4 years of playing out of them. There is a finite number of scholarships that you can offer per year (25). If you spend all 25 of those on 3rd to 5th year players, it's mathematically impossible to hit, or even come close to hitting, the 85 scholarship cap.
    1 point
  9. Thank you for all your recruit updates. They're greatly appreciated by everyone!?
    1 point
  10. Those are the blue-and-gold-colored glasses I'm wearing as well. I'm telling myself it's no coincidence that we had 10 JUCO's touring campus last weekend - apparently getting verbals from a handful of them - and a day later we have three high school seniors de-commit. I wish Jalen well. But I'm telling myself that, yes, we need full-grown men to step in and play next year. I wish Bass well. But I saw him play this year and he was alright. I saw other area high school safeties who I think are just as good. I wish Bulley well. He's indeed a bully. But I'm telling myself that he's doing that against high school kids and I'm not certain his skill set will translate to D-1 ball. And his weight looks like it's going to be an ongoing issue. Reminds me of Keondre White. There, I feel better now. Go Zips!
    1 point
  11. I for whatever reason watched the first 15 minutes of the second half. YSU looked like the marginally more talented team, but NCC seemed to play with much more effort. Kudos to NCC coach in being able to motivate his players to play with lots of effort on a nightly basis. It can't be an easy task to do when you spend the entire OOC on a bus traveling city to city to pad other teams win totals.
    1 point
  12. LOL...In my defense..... 1. I didn't think somebody on the board would be calling for a walk on to get on the field. 2. Junk is a similar number and is mostly the lead blocker whenever the play calls for one. 3. He asked whether the player was hurt, and Junk was/is hurt.
    1 point
  13. A little tongue-in-cheek here John Ward to a comment I made a while back....that's why the laughter....
    1 point
  14. Maybe you should layoff the cheesesteak.
    1 point
  15. Fearless Forecast: Jest scores, and breaks the pencil in two.
    1 point
  16. I want to see him play too. I know this board has already declared him to be no more than an end of the bench extra. But he is long and athletic and had a nice stroke on that free throw. Remember, Everson Walls was a walk on. Sometimes there is a diamond in the rough.
    1 point
  17. Also looks like the AK Rowdies are starting to rejuvenate. For some reason, they got really excited when Enrique Freeman entered the game.
    1 point
  18. We are going to get smoked. Well, maybe if we score first, on our first possession, it will help our effort. Seems like when we do, we at least overcome the lack of deep talent and comete for a quarter or quarter and a half. Too many times our first drive looks good, something goes wrong and we don't score, and then it's turn-out-the-lights time. We're only going to score 1 touchdown and i think it's going to be on a return, hence Boogie Knight as my choice, and I think we may get a turnover, but it's going to be a non-forced error on Miami's offense. Pretty negative, huh? My Fearless Forecast is what I said, our lone touchdown will be a return by the Boog-ster......
    1 point
  19. I hate the way that USA Today focuses on the very top and very bottom of college football. They are catering to the least common denominator of readers. It would be so much more interesting to do articles on conference races, rivalries, local traditions, etc. But every day, it is the same thing. Who is #1 for the Heisman? Who will make the Playoff? How is Tua's fingernail or whatever is ailing him this week? I've come to hate national media. College football is so special because of the local interest it draws. But that can almost never be "news" in a national media outlet.
    1 point
  20. Man was I impressed with Tribble toward the end of the game when he was our #1 scoring option on the floor. He's got a scorer's mentality and is a serious athlete. He's gonna be a good one! I love the way Ali moves and handles the ball for someone 6'8" but wish he had more of that scorer's mentality that comes so naturally to Tribble. X has MAC POY potential.
    1 point
  21. I agree with you that Sayles looks lost out there. He cannot hold onto the ball on offense. Had a couple of nice moves to the basket but could not finish. I think he played better as a frosh than as a junior. He is a step slow on this team and needs to be aggressive on offense.
    1 point
  22. We are all fans of Akron now What are the odds of the last sentence coming true ?
    0 points
  23. Didn’t root hard enough...OU’s rolled up a whopping 66 points on BG with 2:03 remaining in the 3rd quarter! Have we scored 66 points this season?
    0 points
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