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kreed5120

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  1. The issue is quality bigs that can give good minutes are in short supply. I'm sure nearly every team in America wishes they had another 1-2 bigs.
  2. As of right now, this is probably Groce's worst coaching effort during his Akron tenure. There was obviously some top end talent missing at the pg position, but on paper coming into this season this looked to be his deepest team. Also, it was spearheaded by 2 players that were projected to be 1st team All-MAC. Given how bad the MAC is this season, this team should have went 16-2 or 17-1 and ran away with the conference title. Instead, players have regressed and disappeared. This post isn't really me trying to criticize anyone in particular. It's just me voicing my disappointment and coming to the realization that we had a player of Freeman's caliber and couldn't turn it into an NCAA tournament win.
  3. Honestly, this was a fitting end to a game the Zips didn't deserve to win.
  4. Sure, maybe if we were Toledo those 2 P5 games could be winnable. I haven't seen anything from this program during Moorhead's tenure that leads me to believe we will be remotely competitive in those games. Let alone have any chance of winning them. This is the year I'd like to see the program begin to take strides. It would be great getting to 6 wins, but I'd be content getting to 5.
  5. CMU is just returning to the mean. Everyone could tell CMU wasn't as good as their MAC record indicated.
  6. The game is played at a faster pace today and there are more players today that shoot the 3 ball more frequently and more efficiently. Scoring is up at all levels. I think what's more shocking is that we were able to keep a player of Freeman's talent for 4 years in this day and age.
  7. At the moment I think I prefer him coming off the bench and leading the 2nd unit. I always felt the 5 you finish the game with is more meaningful than the 5 you start the game with.
  8. I think you will be seeing more and more of these smaller privates close. Moving forward I wonder what, if any, impact it would have on Akron's enrollment. I'd imagine the vast bulk majority of what would have been incoming freshman will just select a different private school.
  9. Most likely not because not only would they have to invest $100+ million in facilities, but they would then need add women's sports to stay title IX compliant. I do think the MAC should adopt a more eat what you kill mentality when it comes to paying out NCAA tournament credits. The current system gives little to no incentive for the Northern Illinois, WMU of the world to try to contend. They get their money regardless so they have no further incentive to want to improve.
  10. They would make a lot less money in the MAC. The A10 is an eat what you kill conference. That means the schools that earn the tournament credits are the ones who receive the payout for them. The MAC gives a little extra to the team that earns them to cover travel costs, but they're mostly split evenly.
  11. Richmond, VCU? You guys realize that UMass only moved to the MAC because it needed a home for its FBS football program, right? What would Richmond or VCU have to gain by coming to the MAC?
  12. I don't think it's a given that a Purdue or Indiana would never make the playoffs in the expanded 12 team format. Forever is a long time and its not like bad P5 programs don't have runs where they find themselves in the top 10-15. Kansas has been one of the worst P5 programs this century. Now they look like a program that will be contending for one of those coveted playoff spots. A 4 team playoff I'd certainly agree.
  13. I could understand that argument if they were having similar success to a Dayton or VCU. Reality is for the last 15-20 years they've performed like an upper mid-tier MAC team. The guys talks about Kenpom, but if he took the time to go through it I'm guessing on average Akron, Toledo, and Buffalo have all outperformed UMass. Ohio and Kent are probably around the same ballpark.
  14. Why would a Northwestern or Rutgers walk away from $60M-$100M in annualized revenue just so they could compete against Toledo or Marshall for a 2nd rate championship?
  15. I wouldn't say they should be perennial favorites, but they should be perennial contenders. I'd place them in a similar category of an Akron or Toledo.
  16. Couldn't you really say Groce will be looking to hit the portal at any position? Is there any player on this roster who will be returning next year that you would be thrilled to see as a starter?
  17. There is no chance for an NIT at-large. The tournament isn't seeded based off of NET. If it was there wouldn't be a need for a selection committee. Also, because of auto-bids to the NCAA tournament, there are 20-25 teams who aren't even in the top 100 that make the tournament. That means even if they picked the teams for the NIT solely based off of the best NET remaining, it wouldn't be teams 69-106 going. It would be teams ~45-~81. Akron is well below that.
  18. I'd prefer the #1 seed, but it's not much of a prize anymore now that the NIT did away with the auto bid. It's going to be either win the MAC tournament or no Zips postseason regardless of what seed we are.
  19. It's my fault. I placed a moneyline bet on the Zips. I normally don't bet on my teams, but coming into tonight the Zips are 0-2 when I have this season.
  20. Buffalo is down because they made a poor hire when replacing Oats. They have shown a commitment to spending and investing in their basketball program so I'd expect them to at least work their way back to respectability.
  21. I'm sure in football discussion those schools are saying the same thing about Akron. Really the only programs that have done well at both football and basketball are Toledo and Ohio. Everyone else has been good at one or the other.
  22. I could have had the tie-breaker wrong. My thought process in that scenario was that Akron and Toledo would have the same record. Ohio would pass CMU for 3rd place since they would own the head-to-head. Toledo went 2-0 against Ohio, but we would go 0-1. Toledo would have the better record against the 3rd place MAC team. Was there another tie-breaker that comes in play before that I'm missing?
  23. What's great is the people who say that MAC needs to make a move are the same ones who complain when they do. Frankly, I'm a little indifferent. I follow MAC basketball more than MAC football so I'm excited about the move for that. Financially, between the MAC CFP playoff pool, NCAA tourney credits, etc so much of the revenue is fixed so adding more teams just means you split the same sized pie into more pieces. That's not even getting into the TV deal. I obviously don't know the terms of the deal financially so I can't cast judgement.
  24. Delusions of grandeur. At times I see people post thinking Akron can join the AAC or a conference like that. As if they would want our perennial 0-4 win football program. In general, online forums don't have the most rational fans.
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