clarkwgriswold

Ulrich and Easterling seem to be stating Melissa's case.

I guess there's plenty of blame to go around, including Guthrie, but it seems like informing the coach that she wasn't going to be renewed was a better option than leaving her hanging. College sports is a cruel world. Win and you stay or move on to a more prestigious job or lose and go home. That's the cold hard reality of that world. I feel bad for Coach Jackson and wish her well. With any luck, maybe she'll get a chance someday to prove UA wrong.

Exactly! It's refreshing to see an adult conversation, even between people who may not see eye to eye. Thoughtful conversations are far too few on this kind of forum.

It was a hell of a first post. LOL.

I hope that the staff has figured out a way to defend what's essentially a 4 guard lineup for Toledo. Nate is certainly more capable of guarding one of those guys that Sammy, so that should help. There were just too many instances of Enrique having to defend a guard on the perimeter in the fist game and Toledo took advantage of it.

It does have the sound of an angry parent or staff member.

The Zips head to Toledo Tuesday night to seek revenge against the first place Rockets. The Rockets are 21-6/12-2 and on an 11 game win streak. Their last loss was in Brimfield on January 10th. RayJ Dennis is now the Zips leading scorer at 19.1 ppg. JT Shumate is now up to 17.1 ppg will Cetric Milliner is scoring 15.3 ppg. They remain first in the MAC in scoring at 84.7 ppg, a whopping 6 points more than the second place squad (Ohio). They are 9th in defense. Here's hoping the rediscovered Zips defense can overcome the Rockets high scoring offense. The Rockets beat the Zips by 10 at the JAR on February 7th.

Apparently, the administration got outrebounded by 11 boards and turned the ball over 18 times. In 40 minutes, the Zips had 13 field goals and 18 turnovers. They were outscored by 30 in the paint.

Won more with much less talent. EMU has some talent, but between Emoni's selfish game and Heath's ineptitude, they've become a laughingstock.

If I as Emoni, I'd prefer to be judged on my high school reputation than my recent MAC play. Keep me off of TV and burn those tapes.

In hindsight, to keep it from going down as it did, yes. Not necessarily to the authorities, but to a coach or other adult before it all went down. In the present, as a college kid, that would not have been as easy of a call.

The thing that bothers me is that the quote makes it obvious people knew what was up and nothing happened. I have to hope only Zeke knew and he didn't know how to handle it as a 21 year old. Nick Harney may be my least favorite Zip of all time. The glaringly bad attitude he displayed on a nightly basis was maddening. Tree...Harney...Abreu...let's not forget Diggs. Yikes, that damn wound is still open 10 years later!! Wouldn't it be nice if every player was like Enrique?

The part of the article I found most disturbing: Marshall, who was Abreu’s roommate, said he warned him and was disappointed by what happened. “This is me looking back, maybe he wasn't in the place to see the long-term consequences of what his actions were,” Marshall said. “But even at the time I would tell him, 'Well, if you're going to do this, do it after the season.' ... I'm like, 'What we have here, don't mess it up.'” Damn...damn...damn...

Both.

Somebody else may have mentioned it, but has anyone else noticed that Michael Beaven has been writing the Zips stories for the Beacon for the last week or so?

...and how the one had that whiney meltdown as to how he was treated by the mean Akron fans.

I prefer Sunday afternoon games during the NFL season against D3 opponents.

I think they added it on the front!

The 12-14/6-7 Buffalo Bulls come into the JAR Saturday night to face the Zips. Buffalo is coming off of losses to PCCC and OU. 6’5” sophomore guard Curtis Jones leads the Bulls 15.5 ppg while contributing 5 rpg. 6’8” senior forward LaQuill Hardnett leads rebounding at 7.4 rpg while contributing 10.3 ppg. From looking at their schedule, our friends from Canada have been very inconsistent, being competitive in some games and even thumping Ball State by 34 in Muncie while struggling unexpectedly in some others. The Zips won at Buffalo, 81-64, on January 31st, with X leading the way with 32 points. The administration will be watching the attendance very closely as they try to decide between Saturday afternoon games and Saturday night games going forward. It will be interesting to see if this one outdraws the 2234 attendance at the OU game a couple of weeks ago.

...and easily gave up 25 to 30 points through no effort on defense... He's closer to being Kevin Malone than Kevin Durant.

Bates is out and not on their bench.

I suspect X may be ailing from something tonight.

Stan Heath should be out of a job tomorrow morning. The effort he's getting from these kids is EMBARRASSING. Groce needs to get anyone of any value out of this one. No need to risk an injury against a team that quit 45 minutes ago.

If a conference is only as good as its worst teams, the MAC is in trouble.