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I just love seeing Groce interact with the players. You can see just how much he loves those kids and his job.

This might be sacrilegious to say, but I don't think Suder should even be the 2nd choice. Gillespie IMO was the 2nd best player in the MAC this season. I can see Suder at #3.

Word is that as of last week there has been record ticket sales for the tournament. In the neighborhood of a 50% increase over total sales from last year with a week still to go. Rocket Mortgage is going to be rocking!

The last line is mostly it for me. Also, I believe all my money going to the collective is going to players and the athletic department would have other uses even if it's all to basketball. I'm not saying there's a bad choice either. I'll get the official athletic link in here too when I have a chance. Bottom line we should all support however we are able imo

My wife is an award winning quilter. Very proud of her. 😊

That's a heap of ****. Here's for using it for motivation for Tavari to show why he is the best player in the MAC and for Evan to just plain shut down Suder and show why he's DPOY Hell, Suder has better numbers last year!

Some talk about donating in other threads and it probably deserves its own spot - it's very easy to setup a recurring donation. I encourage everyone to support however they are able. It all adds up and our program deserves the support. FTR Collective https://www.feartheroocollective.com/contribute-zipsmensbasketball UA Men's Basketball Fund https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/CompExFundNIL/team/MBB

Let’s enjoy this week and remember how good we have it right now! MAC Tourny one of the best experiences in college basketball!

He was MAC Player of the Week a whopping 0 times

Elmer is the best player on Miami OH and I don't think it's particularly close. Suder has the ball in his hands more, but Elmer is what makes Miami OH anywhere near respectable.

Suder barely led his own team in scoring. What a joke. Hopefully this adds some motivation for Tavari (not that I think he needs it)

Miami is 26-0 vs. Q3/Q4 and everyone is giving them unbelievable praise. Akron is 24-1 vs. Q3/Q4, with their lone loss being Q3 Murray State. Akron's 5 losses are all rated higher than any of Miami OH's opponents aside from Akron. Truly pathetic stuff from Miami OH.

TJ got robbed. I'm not even sure if Suder put up the best numbers on his own team, let alone the MAC. They should just change the award name to best player on the best team. That's all it ever is anymore.

Amazing what the MAC can be when Balls, NIU, and the Directional Michigans aren't invited.

Decided to get the hoodie, and I said what the heck and got the groce vest as well. For the people that bought the gear before me, how long did it take for the stuff to ship?

Nate had 19. 5-8 for 3s. Dybantsa had 40 for BYU Utah and Okonkwo (2 points) were also eliminated form the Big 12 tournament.

I believe with revenue share it’s spread around the different sports and their players. The players don’t have to do anything special, but perform their educational and team duties. The collective contracts can be tailored to a specific player for a specific amount of money to do PR work in the community or advertise for a specific company. Two completely different buckets of revenue with different functions.

Nate Johnson's college career is officially over. K State went 12-20, losing in the 1st Round of the Big 12 tournament.

I saw him wiping away tears during the senior night ceremony.

Nate was also MAC player of the year. Eric is currently the fourth or fifth option on a very good team.

That's actually really funny. We actually did eat there to celebrate her win there. 😂 You are correct, it is quite good.

Yeah I mean we can probably send the same video fifteen minutes before the first game Thursday in Cleveland too

Banged up other than his broken nose that he has been playing with for weeks? Haha

Tim O'Shea. Bobcat Attack has been using it for years to signal a coaching change.

I guess I was not chosen for the zips fan council. I just received this email. I honestly didn’t think there would be a formal process to join, I thought it was just going to be a bunch of fans getting together to voice their opinion. Maybe this group will actually have some swing to decisions then. Thank you for your support of the Zips and interest in joining the Zips Fan Council! While it’s been a hectic time of year with basketball season in full-swing, I wanted to send out a quick update regarding where our department is currently at with creating the Zips Fan Council. We had overwhelming interest in being a part of this council, with just under 100 applicants from across the state of Ohio and beyond. Our goal for this council is to build a group that spans across as many different demographics as possible, and as such we’ve selected limited numbers of individuals across a wide variety of graduation years and backgrounds to accomplish this goal. We are in the final stages of scheduling interviews with applicants and hope to have our council members finalized in the coming weeks, with our first meeting late in the spring. If you were not chosen to move forward in the process, please know that it was based on limited availability and Akron Athletics appreciates and values your support. As this will be a group that ebbs and flows based on availability, we would love to consider you for the group in the future even if you are not ultimately selected in this first iteration.

Can this conversation get moved elsewhere? While it's an educated and civil conservation, it's completely unrelated to Akron athletics.

Spot on. I work in education. 10 years working in schools with at-risk students. Pass/fail on standardized tests, especially with a 100% at-risk population, never tells the story - growth does. When you help an at-risk student graduate, you're literally changing the outcome of their life, but also the lives of future generations in that family. The work they're doing - investing in the kids, in the families, the wraparound services - is incredible.

Right. I don't see how he's to blame for kids' math test results. Also, no one is taking into account how ridiculous standardized tests are. These kids are from disadvantaged backgrounds, so they likely are behind already before starting at the iPromise school. Just because they don't pass the standardized test doesn't mean the school isn't helping to improve their education. Not all "failure" on tests is the same.

https://akronzippedup.substack.com/p/previewing-the-2026-mac-mens-basketball ZippedUP tournament preview. good read!

Not to mention compounding investment returns. I just don't see him being interested in contributing to arena. That doesn't really fit the profile for the charity work he has done. At most he might lend his name and shake a few hands, but he's not cutting a $100M check.

Mark Montgomery and Detroit into the Horizon League final. Quick turnaround of that program.

I saw on a "Tournament Resume" graphic yesterday that our highest NET win was against Toledo, which really surprised me because I didn't realize they had moved ahead of Kent and BG in the NET. But either way, we're definitely lacking a "big" win.