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GJGood

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  1. It isn't all that often that my alma mater visits my home town so I always attend when the Zips diamondmen play in Columbus.. This was a good game that went back in forth. Akron went up 4-0 after two innings before the home team came back and tied it 4-4. Akron scored the next 6 runs late in the game and OSU scored 3 in the 9th and had two men on when the game ended. Kudos to the Akron fans that showed up. The Zips fans were nearly as loud as their homestanding counterparts despite there only being a large handful of folks dressed in blue and gold. Curiously enough, I believe Akron is now 2-2 against the Big Ten but only 2-10 against the MAC. I encourage everyone to go out and cheer on the baseball Zips. This team seems td do quite well when they are motivated. Often times Fan support=Motivation
  2. I am still of the belief that Steward can be that drive and dish guy you are looking for. The guy just hasn't had enough minutes on the floor. Its easy to forget that when they arrived on campus Ronnie was the starting PG over Hitchens. The Steward had the injuries and has been nothing more than a minor role player. Right now i think he is largely an untapped resource. He not only needs more minutes for experience but for confidence. Hopefully next year will be his "coming out party" like Conyers' was this year. If it is i think you'll have a Dru Joyce type player that isn't afraid to drive the lane.
  3. Depending on who else may be in it, I think I'd like to see us in that St. Marys tournament. Heck, why don't we host our own 8 team three game guarantee tournament? That may be something LeBron could be involved in as well. Just a thought.
  4. Anyone know if any online viewing will be available? I'd love to be there but have to work until about 6:30 which obviously doesn't leave enough time for the trek from just outside of Columbus.
  5. From loooking at the bracket on the CBI website, am I correct in assuming that IF Akron beats UWGB and Indiana State goes on the road to beat St. Louis that we'd get another home game? The bracket makes it look like the second round game would be in St. Louis regardless of the Billikens first round result. I have to think the second round game is there only if SLU is still alive.
  6. EXACTLY! We could maybe schedule one more opponent that is Top 25 or 30 and that would be fine with me. The bigger problem is how many teams we play that don't make the top 240 or 250. We don't need to play a lot more very tough teams, we just lead to play many fewer very weak teams. We need to play more winning teams from lesser leagues and not losing teams from lesser leagues. If you want to play teams that lose a lot then play BCS bottom feeders or at least second division teams from leagues like the A-10, Mountain West, and Missouri Valley.
  7. Just looking at the names, the CIT looks better. It's a tournament full of teams that look equal to Akron. Perfect to see just where we stand in the basketball world. There is a rumor about a Wisc-Green Bay at Akron matchup in the CBI starting to percolate.
  8. Just looking at the names, the CIT looks better. It's a tournament full of teams that look equal to Akron. Perfect to see just where we stand in the basketball world. The CIT is NOT better! It doesn't even use brackets which means they can arbitrarily put us wherever they want. Plus, in the CBI we could end up in the finals against a bigger name school. If that were to happen, since the final is a best of three we'd be guaranteed of hosting that big name squad for at least one game.
  9. I thought there were some questionable calls as there are in every game. Maybe more of those calls went Ohio's way than Akron's but still I didn't think it was anything like the quarterfinal against EMU.The most frustrating part about the officiating we saw in this tourney to me was how in the first two games they were calling everything as a foul and then they did an about face in the title game. I would like to see some more consistency than that.
  10. Definitely a great game, just came up short. This is sure one heck of a rivalry with Ohio. Are there any two teams that play more consistently even games meeting after meeting in the country? It seems like every game we play against them comes down to the last 30 seconds or overtime or double overtime or a few years back quadruple overtime. Fortunately, we've won most of those games. Unfortunately we lost the most important one.Congrats to Ohio, they earned the title for sure when you realize who they had to go through and even had to play a road game in the first round.OK, so where do we go from here?
  11. I sort of agree. I would root for them if they were in a position to make a big statement for the conference but I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing them falter against lesser competition if the league seemed to be on the upswing overall.
  12. This one really scares me. This is probably the last team I wanted to face in the final, even less than those Portage County boys as they likely would have been overconfident to a degree and they don't have the outside gunner that OU does. This is the type of team (like our archrival) that gives us trouble. It is good, however, that we are playing them when it is three straight days with games. That should benefit the deeper team and the team that employs a more low tempo offense.I see it as a 50/50 game. I think Ohio has played better than us in this tournament but a lot of the intangibles (depth, experience, etc..) favor the Zips. Stay away from that dreaded scoring drought and play good defense guys! That's the key.
  13. And unfortunately, that was pretty evident throughout most of the 80 minutes we've played against those guys this year. So how do you beat a team like Ken+ if you know that they are superior to you? Can you come up with a scheme to beat them? Can you take away what they do best? Can you expose them defensively? Will we change something if we play them again? If our coach goes in with the same game plan and doesn't try something different, I will be disappointed. Does anybody have an example of KD beating a team that was superior where he "out coached" the other team? Will he tighten the rotation? How did other teams beat Ken+? I need some hope if we play Ken+ again.Hopefully the answer to the how do you beat Can't question is you play them when it is the third day in a row playing. Since their style is more up tempo than ours and our rotation has the ability to go a little deeper into the bench if a third meeting happens the Zips' legs may be a little fresher. I'm just worried about getting to the title game first though. I really think the rest of the teams remaining in the MAC tournament have all improved quite a bit over the last month or two. We've already lost to EMU and Central by no means was a cakewalk for the Zips either if you recall. These teams are better now than they were when those matchups took place.
  14. Guess you haven't been reading about Josh Egner in the recruiting forum.Actually, that quote of mine was slightly edited by the moderator. And rightly so (thank you). But, sadly, it sounds as if, excluding Zeke, Egner will easily be our most explosive athlete next year. Man, what's that say about the caliber of athlete on the team now? Where are the hops? Where are the rim-rattlers? Where are the players salivating on every fastbreak opportunity?Sure, CMU loses LeFevour and NOW they take them off our schedule. Actually finishing where we did last year I was kind of surprised that we aren't playing EMU in Ypslanti in 2010.
  15. I disagree. Both Roberts and especially Steward can be especially expolsive. I don't know why we haven't seen more of it from Darryl but when he attacks the defense he is as good as anyone on the team. Steward, for all intents and purposes, has the game experience of someone in the second half of their freshman season and has already shown a spark in a number of games despite limited playing time.
  16. Based on a few things I've read, including the article below, I believe the CIT is still in existence.http://www.thesouthern.com/sports/article_...1cc4c03286.htmlHowever, I prefer the CBI for the simple reason that is has brackets and seeding. The CIT is like the old NIT where they just pair up the remaining teams after each round. That would be the least likely way for Akron to get a home game as they would surely try to fill each of the larger arenas available. In the CBI the seed would determine who is at home. Plus, the championship is a best of three guaranteeing both teams a home game.
  17. I'd like to Zeke play more too. I love the way he changes opponents' shots even if he doesn't block them. The problem at this point is the coaches want him around near the end of the game and he hasn't shown an ability to stay out of foul troble yet remain aggressive defensively. He's a bright guy and he'll learn, he just hasn't got it yet so he can't really be a 25 or 30+ minute player yet.Where defense is concerned, though, I'd like to see more of Steward. I think he bothers his man and makes good defensive decisions more than any of the other outside defenders for the Zips do. A game like last night's is where we really missed a guy like Linhart or a big wide athletic body like Jeremiah Wood.
  18. What am I missing here? I don't think Can't State is necessarily much better of a team overall than Akron is. Last night Akron didn't hit shots, plain and simple. Granted a lot of that was because they settled for jumpers and long-range shots instead of taking the ball inside. The Zips are used to winning that way though.My main point is that basketball is a game of matchups. Akron does not match up well with a bigger and equally as fast team that likes to take ball inside that also plays quality defense. They haven't been all year. Our opponents last night can be taken out of their game too. They were unable to be very successful when they played games in which the other team controlled the tempo and had a good inside-out game going and was able to hit some key outside shots. I believe if Akron and Can't played 10 times, Can't would win about 7 of those games. However, if both Akron and Can't were to play a team like Miami ten times Akron would have more wins than the flushes. Its about matchups in style and position versus position if not player versus player.Personally I'd like to see the Zips play a few more teams that exhibit that 'A' word in the non-conference slate the next few years so that the defense can learn to play those types of teams more efficiently because if you look around the MAC teams like Ohio, EMU, and Ball State are starting to follow that 'A' model too.For what its worth, I thought Akron played well for the most part when they took the ball inside on offense. Cvet looked inspired underneath and Conyers wasn't bad with the ball in close range either, even Zeke got that little hook shot going late. The problem was they didn't go to that well nearly enough.The goal now is to get to that title game in Cleveland for the fourth straight year and see who we meet there if we make it. If its our arch-rivals again it will be interesting to see if we learned anything from last night. If we did, we can win but the gameplan and strategy must be sound.
  19. Buffalo plays more of the kind of non-conference schedule I'd like to see the Zips play. I'm not for loading up on schools in or near the Top 25 although having one or two is a nice measuring stick.I just think if we are going to play teams from conferences that are lower profile leagues than the MAC that we should play teams that perform fairly well within that conference and not teams at the bottom of those standings. I am all for playing teams like Niagara, Austin Peay, and Wyoming. I just think it would be nice, if instead of teams like St. Francis we were getting at least somebody like a Bucknell, Morgan State, Arkansas State, or even Air Force. Those teams are at least going to get a good number of wins over the course of a season and you may even be able to secure home-and-home scenarios with them.
  20. Just wanted to point out that in addition to the NCAA, NIT, and CBI there is also the CIT. This tournament was specifically created with "mid-majors" in mind, so even if catastrrphe strikes and say we lose two straight from this point, we would almost assuredly have a place to continue playing. The only problem with the CIT vs. the CBI is the fact that they don't use a bracket, so its like the old NIT and we'd not be too likely to ever have much of a chance at a home game whereas the NIT and CBI have seeding and better seeds play at home.Hopefully none of that matters in the slightest for this year, but I thought it should be mentioned.
  21. Since I am just outside of Columbus, I'm hoping to get out and see Green soon if Dublin Coffman continues to advance in the tournament. If I go, I'll be sure to post something. It just depends on when their games are compared to my work schedule and of course Zips games.
  22. It will help for seeding too if we end up in any of the following: The NCAA, NIT, or CBI. The only way I'd rest a lot of the guys is if there is an injury that needs nursing or you really want to take part in the CIT.
  23. Can't argue with what the statistics say I guess. Its just too bad that they are so important to selection committees and those who do the seeding in postseason tournaments.The fact that those numbers can change so much with just one game is exactly why I say the Zips need to schedule a little differently out of conference. I don't think they need more big name schools necessarily though. They just got to keep the bad teams from lesser leagues off the schedule. How big an impact would it have had on our SOS if we took the four worst teams off of our non-conference slate and just replaced them with teams in the middle of the pack in those same conferences? I don't think we need to change who we schedule from the marquee names down but rather from the bottom up.
  24. I think the Zips frontcourt actaully did a decent job on Sanders which surprised me. The key was both McKnights and Marshall getting in foul trouble. Of course Sanders did too. Still three guys in foul trouble is much worse than one. The frustrating part about it for me was the "bigs" were getting called for petty little hand-checking fouls for the most part.The difference in this game was Akron not being able to use their usual depth, the foul shooting, and the field goal shooting. To be fair though a lot of those Akron shots really looked good and somehow spun out.As far as athleticism, VCU has more than Akron but not by as much as many say. Conyers, Hitchens, Steward, and Roberts are all very athletic guys. I actually cannot figure out why Roberts isn't leading this team in minutes played most games (although right now he may have a bit of a bum ankle). He's able to drive and dish and probably has the sweetest shooting stroke on the team.Just my take. Kudos to VCU on playing well.
  25. I still say we don't need a FCS, or 1-AA, team. There are plenty of FBS teams we can compete with and defeat. I'd rather play Western Kentucky, New Mexico State, or Florida International than Gardner-Webb, Howard, or Morgan State. Plus, I still believe the NCAA should quit letting games against 1-AA count toward bowl eligibility. It hurts schools in the non-BCS conferences because they are getting on the BCS schools schedules as much as they used to.As far as the only one BCS level team I can go along with that. At least to a degree. I wouldn't want to play more than one mid-level or top BCS conference team but wouldn't mind playing a BCS conference bottom feeder in addition to an "ATM" game as it was referred to before. I'd have no problem with us playing both a Penn State and an Iowa State, Washington State, or Duke in the same season.
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