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kreed5120

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  1. On the basketball hierarchy Depaul > Akron, that's my biggest point. Their budget is nearly double ours, they play in a better conference, they have a better history, and they have a better chance of returning to national prominence given which conference they play in and the resources at their disposal. You're the one that brought up Duquesne who is completely unrelated to this topic. This thread is titled Coleman-Lands. If you're not wishing to talk about him, why are you wasting your time posting in this thread? It makes complete sense to me why a kid would be interested in playing basketball at Depaul, but not Akron. Just because Depaul has fallen on its hardest times while Akron hit its peak doesn't make Akron the better overall basketball program.
  2. @LZIp, convenient to cherry pick numbers to fit your narrative. Accept it or not players would rather play in the Big East, even if it's one of the Big East's 2nd rate programs like Depaul, over playing in the MAC. You call it being a contrarian, I call it realism. Coleman-Lands isn't coming to Akron.
  3. Never said powerhouse, just that they have achieved much more than we have.
  4. What I'm stating is who are we to make fun of a program that has achieved a far great more than we have. You can laugh about their success in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but meanwhile we're still waiting on our 1st tourney win... PS Oberlin was last Ohio team to beat OSU and that was in 1921.
  5. 22 NCAA tourney appearances 10 Sweet 16 appearances 3 Elite 8 appearances 2 Final 4 appearances I wish Akron "sucked"
  6. We don't need a larger arena. We can't even fill the seats we currently have. Bigger doesn't mean better. Having 3500 fans show up to a 15k seat "Carrier Dome" would just kill any kind of atmosphere.
  7. I'm hoping with the new arena the HOF hosts an early season basketball tournament. If we can't get any teams of note to agree to come to the JAR, maybe we can agree to get them to play at a "neutral" location.
  8. At least he correctly referred to us as University of Akron instead of Akron University.
  9. The problem is with only 1 bye week it becomes challenging to do that. If you have a game on a Tuesday or Wednesday, you can't play on the Saturday before or after.
  10. To be fair I only attended App State last year so if I do attend 2 games, I'll double my last years attendance.
  11. I'll probably attend Iowa State and whichever other game ends up being homecoming.
  12. I was laughing at how he was quick to want to bolt Akron with his boys Hughes and TDM to Duquesne only to later get booted from Akron and forced to play at a JUCO. There have been plenty of Zips that have dropped down to play at a lower level of competition and you can look at my post history, I never commented negatively towards any of them besides Dalton.
  13. Sure, if he still wants to play college basketball it's his only option. I'm laughing because after The Decision 2.0 he was one of the most vocal players about leaving Akron for greener pastures.
  14. If you're professional in 1 sport, it doesn't make you professional in all sports. You can retire from 1 sport you can play amateur in another.
  15. ???? I've long moved on and looking forward to seeing what Groce can do, but this is revisionist history if I've ever seen it. We won multiple MAC Championships under Dambrot. Both regular season and postseason.
  16. What you are proposing is comparing apples to oranges. If they were all FBS then each school would be required to have at the minimum 77 scholarships (90% of the allotted 85 scholarships). Currently the max allowed for FCS schools is 63 and conferences like the Pioneer have 0. At D-1 basketball all schools have roughly 13 scholarship players with all schools having a path to a national championship. There are just more schools in D-1 basketball willing to spend the resources required to compete as the barrier to entry is less which creates more competition. That's why I've been comparing our place to other MAC schools as that is the most fair comparison since all schools in the MAC are in a similar situation. We just saw a team from the 9th rated conference make the national championship game. We will never in my lifetime see a team from the MAC or Sun Belt make a national championship game in football.
  17. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Poke, Kostelac, and I suppose Sayles (if he's still committed) our only bigs eligible next year? It seems PF/C is what we should target, not adding (retaining) a 4th scholarship pg.
  18. After this year Bowden would have 1 year left on his deal. Given our financial situation, it would take something much worse than 5-7 for him to be fired. It's very probably he would go into the last year of his deal as a lame duck. Edit: At 8-4 he probably gets a 2 year extension.
  19. Just stop it. It's easier to reach top 25 status in football as you only have to be better than 103 schools opposed to needing to be better than 326 in basketball. It's why generally quality wins in basketball are stated in top 50 or top 100 wins instead of top 25 wins used in football. There are heavily resourced basketball programs and conferences that don't bother with FBS football (Big East, Wichita State, Gonzaga, etc.). The MAC East division is arguably the worst division in all of FBS. MAC basketball meanwhile is a well respected mid major with the MAC East carrying the conference. We play in the 14th rated conference out of 32 conference which places the MAC in the top 44% of basketball conferences, meanwhile, we are at the 80% percentile as a FBS conference. We compete with similar resourced programs in both sports and are at or near the top of the MAC in spending for both sports. One sport we are the cream of the crop for the MAC. The other we are the laughingstock.
  20. When you are 1-11 there is only 1 way to go and that's up. My biggest complaint is we are at the same spot after year 5 that we were in year 2, 5-7. We have plateaued under him never finishing better than 7th place in the MAC. I refuse to accept that 5-7 is the best this program can do when we have peer programs winning 9-10 games per season dispute having inferior facilities and who play in areas where talent is harder to come by. Akron is too poor to fire Bowden so he'll have 2 more years to prove himself. I'm not buying we'll be MAC contenders either of the next 2 years and ultimately I'll be glad when we bring in a fresh new face.
  21. I wouldn't be opposed to having an available scholarship at the start of the season. Every year there are a few players that transfer mid season. That would put us in a position to snag one of those or we could just use it for an incoming freshman next year. Either way I don't see the need of offering a scholarship for the sake of offering a scholarship.
  22. We should not have an arena as nice as Dayton or Cincy. Those schools have much better fan support than we do. In fact, it may be an unpopular opinion but given our putrid fan base the JAR is all we deserve. We have some tremendous fans like Hilltopper, but unfortunately we don't have enough of them. Let's start filling the JAR before we talk spending ~$50M on something nicer. So many people are quick to jump to the defense of football. I don't understand it. If fans are content making 1 bowl game in 5 years, we'll never progress to being consistent contenders in the MAC. I'd be complaining about Zips basketball if it was in the state that Zips football is in. I want to see Zips football succeed and that's why I'm so vocal in my displeasure regarding our current state.
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