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  1. I'm laughing when I say this, but Kent was a real disappointment this year.  They should have contended, and they didn't.  Yes, I realize that Hall was a big part of their recent success, but they still laid a major egg by only going 9-9 in conference play.  

     

    Pinky should be on the chopping block.     

  2. 1 hour ago, 1981 grad said:

    Why do you think he still had problems?  After the win on Monday and the competitive game they played last night that was the last thing I expected.  I did not see anything on the floor that looked like a bad attitude.  The refs slowed down the game, we slowed down the game.  And it caught up to us when they started hitting their shots and we could not make a basket.  Not sure what you saw or heard.

     

    I think most of this has been addressed already, and most of it very recently in other threads.  But even if it may not be visible to you, I think you can get some idea by looking at the game thread, and this one.  Things such people questioning why a certain player didn't play more last night, especially down the stretch.  And how someone likely turned the game because of a lack-of-emotional-control technical foul.  

     

    1 hour ago, 1981 grad said:

     Groce needs to figure out what players he considers to be problems and make a decision whether it is immuaturity that can be fixed on something else that cannot be fixed.  I certainly do not want to hear about coachability next year.

     

    I probably should have commented on this earlier.  I think your suggested approach to this situation is exactly what needs to happen.  I said almost these exact words about a week ago.  Decisions need to be made now, rather than later. 

     

    However, we might not agree on how easily these these types of things are even "fixable".   I think too often it can only be fixed via the exit door.  

  3. 5 minutes ago, 1981 grad said:

     But I was surprised to listen on the post game last night where he indicated he had some issues with the character of some of his players.  

     

    I'm not.  

     

    37 minutes ago, UAZip0510 said:

    I think Groce did well given all of this, despite the record and finish.  

     

    I think around the 2nd week of February, this season was headed for complete disaster after that string of blowout losses.  He deserves credit for getting them to play the rest of the way.  We even got a couple of wins here at the end to give everyone something to get excited about before it was over.  I was just hoping that this season didn't leave us with the task of fighting our way up from last place going into 2018-2019.  

     

      

  4. I think a couple of the criticisms about the coaching are probably a bit harsh and emotional, because our season just ended with a major thud.  

     

    But at the same time, I think a few of you can now stop coming to this forum repeatedly to declare him the Master Of March and "his teams play their best basketball in March", and then come back later to insist that there must be some other reason why we lost.   He's now had 6 years in a row (and 2 more at OU) where his teams got knocked out of their conference tournament in the Quarterfinal round, or earlier.  

     

    Just call it what it is.  

     

    A few of you know that you would have sentenced our previous coach to a Public Flogging if he engineered a collapse like this. 

     

     

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  5. 48 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

     

    I didn't like it when it went down as I thought they should force KSU to inbound the ball on the fly without a chance to huddle and draw up a plan.  In hindsight though, and after hearing Groce discuss it and explain it gave the Zips a chance to devise a plan that didn't allow a KSU guard to get the inbounds pass on the run, I appreciate  the strategy.  If KSU would have scored, I would not be above sticking to my initial criticism!

     

    I guess that's why I am in the bleachers while Groce is on the bench.

     

    Don't be so hard on yourself.  

     

    If I remember correctly, it gave Kent a free timeout because they didn't have any left?  I think that was the only thing that was questioned.  But I think you'd find that most coaches would want to talk to their players in that situation.  And you can see why, in this situation.  It was the right move.        

     

    However, if you're on the offensive side, every coach has a different philosophy.  Some like to run the ball up the floor right away against a backpeddling defense, and others like to set up a play.   

  6. On 3/5/2018 at 5:22 PM, Captain Kangaroo said:

    Still awaiting Skip's response to this one....

     

    On 3/5/2018 at 10:45 PM, Hilltopper said:

    Hell will freeze over first.

     

    You are absolutely correct.  

     

    Let me also add that I hope everyone else here likewise uses good judgement in deciding what sensitive information to blast out on a public forum, based on how much they respect our alma mater, and how much they value their own particular personal, social, business, and employment relationships with the UofA. 

  7. 7 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

    Elton says Toledo is first game.  The bracket says Buffalo has the first game.  Is there anyone at the Q now who could tell me who is warming up?

     

    On Cleveland.com, Elton didn't trash the Zips.  He said "the Zips don't care" and foul a lot.  And if we are "shooting it" EMUs going to have a problem.  

     

    #1 Seed SHOULD be playing the first game.  

  8. 7 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

    As much as a Participation Trophy.

     

    13,000 people from the Dayton area would be there to see it (minus the sections for the 4 teams playing that night).  A potential recruit might see that as a positive.  Who knows.

     

    And for Akron, we'd at least be able to say that we technically won a game in the Big Dance.   And earn the honor of getting beat by the #1 seed by 70 points.  

     

    So, I'm mostly agreeing with you.  But, there might be a positive or two.  But we'd have to WIN.    

     

     

  9. 11 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

    I'm in agreement that Akron would be a 16 seed. I just don't think they would be one of the 16 seeds who has to play in Dayton. 

     

    Fair enough.

     

    Like I said earlier, the only way to avoid it is to hope for a lot of bottom-feeder teams from low level conferences to win their conference tournaments.  

  10. 40 minutes ago, UAZip0510 said:

    Winning the tournament would put us at 17-17.  Last year, a 19-15 conference champ was a 16 seed play-in.  If Akron somehow pulls this off, start looking at hotels in Dayton.  

     

    That's darn near a 100% Guarantee.

     

    For God's sake, our 2011 tournament championship team that won 23 games was a #15

     

    Maybe they wouldn't look solely at the record, but we'd be a last place team in a crappy conference winning a conference tournament. 

     

    Book it in Dayton.  

  11. 46 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

    How can anyone say our program warrants a 16 seed when we've been on a list for the past decade with Duke, Kansas, and Ohio State?

     

    Just to correct you, It's Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas as the only remaining schools on that list at the end of last year along with Akron.  Ohio State dropped off.  

  12. 54 minutes ago, UAZip0510 said:

    I'd almost guarantee the Zips would head to Dayton if they pulled off the huge upset tournament win.

     

    I've been to the games in Dayton before.  It's actually a fun part of the tournament because all of the matchups are against equal seeds, so it's far more competitive than most of the opening games later in the week.  The City of Dayton rolls out the red carpet, and the UD fans pack the place for all sessions.  It's a lot of fun.  

     

    Generally, the 16 vs. 16 game on both Tuesday and Wednesday night are teams that won conference tournaments, but had really bad records, or sometimes even losing records.  So, to your point, I think it would probably be nearly impossible for us to avoid a 16-seed play-in game, unless there was a lot of really bad teams that pulled tournament mega-upsets in numerous conferences.

     

    The good news is that I'm guessing this would be the closest venue for us to travel.  

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  13. 1 hour ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

    These are attendance number predictions for the respective schools, not game lines. ;)

     

    That's funny.  

     

    Actually, I was pretty surprised when I saw recently that the listed attendance for last year's Quarterfinal vs. EMU was only about 2,000 people.  But, that was for a NOON game, the first game of the day.  I didn't even realize it was that low, but I was probably too focused on the game to look behind me to see who else was there.  

     

     

  14. 2 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said:

    We've struggled against the zone for more than a decade!

     

    ???

     

    I can at least tell you that we won ALL 3 GAMES against Eastern last year, and BOTH GAMES the year before that.  And in some of those games, I know we scored in the 80s or 90s.    And I think the 2016 MAC Quarterfinal game was the only one that was really in any jeopardy.  

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