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Basketball tomorrow! Basketball tomorrow! Basketball tomorrow! Basketball tomorrow!

You're just worried that the new seating will give the guy with the t-shirt cannon a better line of sight to your seat!

I can't imagine moving forward without the iconic glass rail. The downstairs seating and sightlines are okay. Upstairs, not so much. All in all, I find the place place just adequate and worse than the average D1 basketball facility. It has always struck me that we get to watch really awful football in a nice facility while we get consistently good basketball in a below average one. I am happy, however, that the JAR is superior to the Brimfield Animal Husbandry and Agriculture Center. That place has awful sightlines from the GA seats. Heck, the Canton Civic Center, which is a dump built in the early 1950s, is a superior basketball facility to the JAR and the the PCCC BAHAAC.

I'd settle for Larry Sanders if he'd average more than this team's 2.4 yards per carry.

Curious to see Amani Lyles. Given his size, he could be a nice replacement for Ali. Groce doesn't seem to use freshman a lot, at least since his first year but I think Lyles might fit in quickly.

The letter that came with the tickets says that the parking passes are digital. Chomping at the bit for next Monday night.

I started last week's thread on Wednesday. That demonstrated the Zips fans' apathy. GoZips86 started this one on Monday. This demonstrates just wanting to get it over with! The Tuesday night lights part of the season is underway.

Kato? LOL.

One week to Zips basketball and putting the abysmal Zips football program in our rear view mirror!

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The stats demonstrate that it is much more difficult to pass the ball inside the twenty than it is the rest of the field. The field shrinks down deep and the pass is easier to defend because there's so much less ground to cover and an additional boundary involved. That's why it's important to be able to run the ball.

Exactly. Hold the clipboard, signal in plays if asked, stay ready and shut the **** up.

Another proud moment. He can sit the rest of the year. https://sports.yahoo.com/akron-backup-qb-jeff-undercuffler-193322245.html

It has long been a pet peeve of mine when teams can't go under center in short yardage. That's not a wrinkle that should be tough to work into the damn playbook.

I don't know if he's going to work out. 😆

I know there was going to be something with IPFW but never heard any results.

That would certainly be the best way to go. Elevate the MAC by elevating the level of play. That would get the MAC noticed on a national level and take it beyond being a one team NCAA tourney/Tuesday night football playing conference. In that process, it is just as important to elevate the teams at the bottom (which unfortunately right now includes Zips football) as those at the top.

As I understand it, the refs are independent contractors and work for specific assignors hired by the conferences. If conferences have a common assignor, they will have common refs.

Am I in love with the MAC? No. Is there a better fit out there right now for University of Akron Athletics? No.

Bandaogo

Our defense has the ability to wake up sleeping offenses.

If Ali and Bandaogo returned I think we may have seen a higher ranking. I also suspect that Dawson's loss was calculated in to the coaches' votes.

Looking at that first team I wonder if the code has been cracked on Insincere after the way he finished the season. The Zips forced him to go left and trapped him over and over and he really struggled.

Well, it's Wednesday and there's no thread for Saturday's game, so here it is. I think that's a symptom of how beaten down we are at Zips fans and how apathy is kicking in for this season. That apathy seems to have spread to the Athletic Department as there's no publicity for what is the last Saturday home game of the year as we enter the exciting period of MAC Tuesday night football. Miami comes into Infocision at 3-5 and are 1-3 in the MAC, with a win over PCCC and losses to Buffalo, BG and Western Michigan. They had been chosen as #1 in the East in the MAC Preseason Media Poll.

I keep hearing about the injuries on the offensive line but this unit was bad when healthy. That has to be an emphasis in recruiting this year as you waste your skill position talent when your o-line is awful.