kreed5120

It seems like a foregone conclusion that Boals, barring a miracle, is canned at seasons end. I peaked at UMass message board and it seems they want Frank canned as well. The problem is they can't fire him because his contract is fully guaranteed throught 2028-2029 with a reported $6-$8M buyout. Between giving out that large of a guaranteed contract and the performance of the football team that AD needs fired.

For me it's not that I'd be concerned with losing to UMass (although anything is possible in single elimination tournaments). It's more that having to win 3 games in 3 days requires being able to recover quickly. The bumps and bruises we take on Thursday can have an impact on Friday or Saturday.

If Buffalo (who might be without Frietag) and UMass (play OU) lose CMU losing to us shouldn't matter.

Out of curiosity I looked and found Akron's longest win streak vs Kent is 9 games. That streak occurred from 1941 to 1947. Kent has never had a winning streak last longer than 5 games.

A few things here. 1) Surprised to see Sendy take accountability for once instead of trying to blame an injury, not having resources to compete, or whatever else. 2) Evan has played the PF position for Akron all season. This isn't some new revelation. Is this his first Akron game that he has watched/covered this season? I will say the breakdown was otherwise very good. I do wonder if how much energy and focus Amani played with on the defensive end impacted his offensive play. I said before this may have been his best game defensively. Certainly it's up there.

I read on the Miami forum that the speaker belonged to that DJ and wasn't even WMU property. That's likely why there was a confrontation in the tunnel with thr DJ. Definitely something should be done.

Tweet was about Skaljac, but Steele in post game conference says its fake news and that he will play Tuesday.

They would have to lose both and we would have to win both in order for it to matter for seeding

I don't think anyone here was really arguing that a new arena wasn't needed. More that it could be completed at a fraction of the $280 million proposed cost.

I felt Amani finished the game strong after being non-existent offensively for the first 30 and having a few early miscues. If you told me before the game that he would match Gillespie in rebounds and only score 2 fewer points I would have taken it. I know he had some help defensively, but he was still the primary defender on Gillespie and holding him to 3/15 from the field and not getting bullied by one of the nations best rebounders makes this one of his best performances defensively this season IMO.

Connor Groce sighting

Are you assuming his species? If Kent fans could read this they would be very upset.

Time for another half-time show that spends the entire break glazing Miami and spending only 30 seconds talking about the game at hand.

They have 2 Gonzaga's of the midwest within an hour drive of them. Both Xavier and Dayton are better positioned. Xavier I suppose shed that title when they moved to Big East, but that's generally why there isn't a "Gonzaga of the Midwest". When a team reaches success they move up. Gonzaga was isolated and there was no Big East type conference on the west coast. They would have otherwise bolted the WCC many years ago had geography allowed it.

That was mainly why I said it would improve the game. I don't mind the buy out language in some of these contracts. Like the Cincy QB contract stipulates that if he leaves he owes Cincy $1M. The problem is even with that language in the contract whenever it tries to be enforced it turns into a legal battle.

AD reported on X that they are confident they can get $75M-$100M in donations to help fund. Even so that would leave ~$170M-$200M that they will have to finance. That's going to make our debt servicing on Infocision appear awfully small in comparison. Edit: Frankly if they were able to secure $100M in donations they could have fully funded this project with a more modest build. Maybe needing to borrow just a little if they had a few over runs. Georgia State just completed a very nice arena for $85 million and that was in Atlanta where I imagine labor costs are much higher.

When we were an Adidas school before the basketball team still had LeBron's. I wouldn't see why that would be an issue now if Groce sees value in keeping the brand connected to the basketball team.

Nothing is preventing these players from unionizing and forming a players union. In fact, it would be a huge positive to the game as it would open the door to collective bargaining.

My better half asked if I wanted to go to the game, but I let her know I didn't want to be surrounded by the stench and filth. You're a braver man than me.

I'll be interested to see if Kent tries to use the press early seeing how badly we struggled with it against UB.

I peaked over at Miami's forum today. Apparently they only have $450K in donations committed to this project. That means of the $281M projected cost as of today $280M would would have to be financed. To be fair I imagine they will get some money from naming rights and some more donations will come in, but I don't know how this could be put up for a vote with such a low commitment. My only guess is they're trying to rush this project along to capitalize off the excitement surrounding the program. I know this new arena has been in planning for many months, but I doubt it would be put up for a vote at this stage if they were sitting at 18-10 instead of 28-0.

This gave me a good chuckle as I can see the comparison, thank you! I'm just more tired of seeing Ohioans hard earned dollars going to waste because of vanity projects. We need fiscal responsibility.

Outside of Toledo how often does BG really sell out? For them 4,300 feels like the correct size. For schools like Toledo or OU, who have historically drawn better, it would be too small.

Swag (if that is even what the youth call it these days) probably doesn't have the same pull it did 10, 20 years ago. It might still heavily matter to the top players at the top schools because those players have NIL deals directly with Nike or Adidas. At the G5 level it's probably much more important whether or not the NIL check cashes vs. whether or not you're a Nike school.

The Stroh Center was built for about 10% of this cost and was almost entirely booster funded. Even after adjusting for inflation the Stroh Center would be $43 million. It was done the right way IMO. ~$50M-$100M seems reasonable for a MAC arena. Edit: There is no need for these cathedrals that sole purpose is to pad an ADs resumé who will long be gone before the financial ramifications become a giant anchor to the athletic department and school finances.