GoZips Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 The needs for the near future in men's basketball were for tall/big power forwards and a center. These needs have been met with the verbal commitments of four outstanding young players. National Letter of Intent signing day is November six. All four were heavily recruited by both mid and high major schools. Three of them will be among the best seniors in Ohio high school basketball this Fall. The fourth, B J Gladden, is a bona fide three star recruit out of North Carolina. Akron was the only mid-major school on his short list. A great pick up for the Zips. Pat Forsythe, a transfer from West Virginia, is not considered as part of this recruiting class from a scholarship perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalapeño Zippy Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 Thanks Go Zips! We miss you around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Welcome back GoZips, we missed you. Now can you tell us where are the scholarships coming from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Now can you tell us where are the scholarships coming from? My guess is that Brian Walsh didn't get his extra year and will graduate after this season. That puts us at four open spots (Zeke, Chauncey, Quincy, Brian). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippyman23 Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 My guess is that Brian Walsh didn't get his extra year and will graduate after this season. That puts us at four open spots (Zeke, Chauncey, Quincy, Brian). We would still be one short with Forsythe taking up a scholarship next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 We would still be one short with Forsythe taking up a scholarship next season. I'm sure things will work themselves out before the start of the 2013/14 season. Most likely someone will decide to leave after realizing they weren't going to get any PT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 There are possibilities for good players to remain on the team without a full athletic scholarship. Some might be capable of earning a full ride academic scholarship. For example, Blake Justice earned a 3.9 GPA in HS and membership in the National Honor Society. In any case, it's a good problem for the team when more talented players want to be in the program than there are athletic scholarships available. Likewise, it's a good problem for the team when there are more talented players on the bench than there is available playing time. As DistrictBaller noted in another thread: ..... As the talent level is upped there in Akron, you're going to start recruiting players who all expect to play. There are X amount of minutes and Y number of players expecting Z number of minutes. Inevitably players will move on. The staff has to prepare for that. It'll keep the competition level in practices high and morale (which is just as important) at a high level. ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Districtballer Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 There are possibilities for good players to remain on the team without a full athletic scholarship. Some might be capable of earning a full ride academic scholarship. For example, Blake Justice earned a 3.9 GPA in HS and membership in the National Honor Society. In any case, it's a good problem for the team when more talented players want to be in the program than there are athletic scholarships available. Likewise, it's a good problem for the team when there are more talented players on the bench than there is available playing time. As DistrictBaller noted in another thread: That's a good thought Dave, but unfortunately you can only have 13 scholarships of any kind on a basketball team at a given time. An academic/track/football etc. scholarship would count against that limit just as red shirts do. If you were allowed to do that you would see many teams try to game the system by offering academic/other sport scholarships to get more scholarship players than the NCAA allows. Anyone playing beyond the 13 scholarship players has to pay their own way. I'm sure financial aid in the form of loans and whatnot are possible, but that would be the same as any other student studying at Akron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 @Districtballer, thanks for clarifying that. I'm not familiar with every NCAA rule, but I can see where the scholarship situation could get out of hand if there were more than 13 scholarships of any kind available for college basketball teams to leverage. There may be things happening that are not generally known to the public that could have an effect on a team's scholarship situation. The coaching staff has to be prepared for situations that might develop which are out of their control. We might be surprised by what happens with the Zips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZIPCODE Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 @Districtballer, thanks for clarifying that. I'm not familiar with every NCAA rule, but I can see where the scholarship situation could get out of hand if there were more than 13 scholarships of any kind available for college basketball teams to leverage. There may be things happening that are not generally known to the public that could have an effect on a team's scholarship situation. The coaching staff has to be prepared for situations that might develop which are out of their control. We might be surprised by what happens with the Zips. Yea, like maybe Diggs won't be back or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronzips71 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Yea, like maybe Diggs won't be back or something like that. It appears that everyone we have now has been a high school star. One or more of them might not stick around if they don't get any minutes. And there probably won't be enough minutes to go around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Yea, like maybe Diggs won't be back or something like that. Diggs won't be back after this season one way or another. Unless he becomes eligible for a medical redshirt (I hope not), he will run out of eligibility at the end of this coming season. To my mind (no insider info here, just pure, unadulterated speculation) the most likely scenario has Josh Egner transferring out in search of playing time. He hasn't seen a lot of playing time in two years here. He will likely enter this season behind Tree and Harney on the depth chart at PF and Zeke and possibly Pat F. at C (e.g., there likely won't be much playing time for him again next year). Then you look at next season and you have Tree, Harney, Pat. F, Cheatham and Big Ike that will be competing with him for playing time. Next most likely scenario to me is Blake Justice leaving in search of playing time, but that is much more difficult for me to predict as we haven't seen Blake play at all yet, and there will be quite a bit of playing time available on the wings after this season with Walsh, Q and Chauncey all graduating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 Yea, like maybe Diggs won't be back or something like that. I picked up on this...appears I was alone? Kudos to ZIPCODE for the accurate yet disappointing scoop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 Diggs won't be back after this season one way or another. Unless he becomes eligible for a medical redshirt (I hope not), he will run out of eligibility at the end of this coming season. Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 I picked up on this...appears I was alone? No. Some of us were just respecting the process that was on going at the time of his post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 Yea, like maybe Diggs won't be back or something like that. Something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 That still doesnt open up an extra scholarship for next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 No. Some of us were just respecting the process that was on going at the time of his post. We are a respectful group, aren't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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