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The one advantage to changing our logo every few years is lost in this scenario, if they're going to put our name right below it.

And we didn't have a couple of guys named Mahaffey playing.

It's almost a little disappointing that we drew CMU at this point. Beating them probably means they'll miss the tournament and I'd be happier to see them than I would say UMass or Buffalo.

Keep this in mind. A fully healthy Miami OH team with essentially this exact same team plus Kam Craft, Reece Potter, and Mekhi Cooper shot 49% from the field and 50% from 3P in last year's MAC title game. They were up 18 at one point in that game. They lost by 2 to a far inferior squad offensively, especially compared to this year's Akron team. Miami OH doesn't have Craft, Potter, and Cooper this year; Ipsaro is out for the season. Good luck to the Redhawks should both teams make it to Saturday night in Cleveland.

Getting destroyed is an understatement. A sampling: Completely wrong. High majors played tougher schedules than ever this year. You are just trying to protect Miami for not putting in effort in building it. I promise if high majors are scheduling Yale and Akron, they will schedule Miami. You are unfortunately the last person to be talking about competitive courage when 11/14 of your non conference games were either an NAIA school, a D2 school, or a D1 that ranked 285 or below out of 365 teams. Maybe you should listen to your own preaching. Was pushing a $250M+ new arena project part of Miami OH's incentivization to schedule 3 non DI teams and have the toughest controllable mid major be Wright State? P4s aside, there doesn't appear to have been a legit attempt to target truly competitive opponents.

How close did you come to winning?

They are a team that can get very hot from 3...so can Akron. Those are the most dangerous teams in March.

I want and expect a win, but my biggest hope is to get through these next two games healthy.

I've seen some discussion surrounding Miami that Sayler would only play P4 teams if they agreed to a home-and-home. He obviously knows that isn't happening, so I have to assume this was intentional and he could still try the "nobody would play us!" nonsense.

It is sad that I'm surprised there are 6 teams worse? If blindly asked I would have thought we would be 2nd or 3rd worst.

I do agree there should be more standardization in compensation. Regarding is other tweet the big reason why power programs stopped going to mid-major schools is money. Not only do they get ticket sales and concessions, but the home team dictates who has broadcasting rights. Now that all these big conferences have their own networks they have to not only fill TV slots for ESPN, Fox, CBS...but also need programing for the SEC, ACC, Big 10 networks. Purdue-Akron might not draw millions of eyeballs, but it will get more viewers than a random Big 10 volleyball or soccer match.

Yup. You can't have Wright State as your best controllable OOC opponent and claim that nobody will play you. Absurd take. The question has to be asked: did they intentionally create a weak schedule to pad their success in order to push the new arena?

My thought about the chaos is this. It seems to me that P4 conferences are benefiting from the chaos. They are making money hand over fist and opportunities for success in P4 have increased. Indiana vs Miami seems to pretty good evidence. The transfer portal and player payments don't seem to keep people away from attending or watching games. I don't know why the P4 schools would want to reign any of this in given money is their driving motivation. It seems to me that pushing the greed to see what the breaking point may be is the most logical course of action.

It was an ignorant tweet. If he actively scheduled 3-5 games against teams like Yale, McNeese St, any of the top half teams in the MVC, etc. nobody would be commenting on the lack of a P5 game on their schedule. If anyone did risk assessment it was Miami. Actively avoiding quality mid-majors, but expecting a mid-tier (not a Purdue, Alabama, UM, Duke, etc.) to agree to play you. Edit: I will give him Wright State as a quality mid-major. He needed another 2-4 (excluding SunBelt challenge)

Sayler is getting destroyed in the comments. The facade is fading quickly for Miami OH.

Lots of talk on the site about other topics, so I thought I'd try to move things back to today's game. CMU has been playing pretty well especially at home. What does everyone see as the keys to a Zips win tonight?

I know Dakich is polarizing - and I don't know if I was naive for thinking otherwise here - but I did not realize refs are paid differently depending on the home team's conference. If that's true, that's one of the biggest flaws in the entire system.

This reminds me of an airport recently 'banning crocs and pajamas'... is there really a promo that says that 'swearing will not be permitted?' 😂

Probably 25 years ago my softball team played in Kent, and went to Ray’s Place for post game beers. One evening they held “Pimp and Ho Night”. Several guys in fur coats and fedoras with their over-make-upped girls in fishnet stockings vied for a cash prize. Those were different times…good ones tho’ 😀

Or continuing to open the door for greedy lawyers to uncover the next supposed loop hole allowing them to file suit on behalf of some 'student' athlete willing to go along with it and therefore pausing any forward progress. I'm just disenchanted and not as optimistic as you are that the current state of chaos has any near term resolution. But I'm hoping I am wrong, you are right.

Yeah, I think Akron would be favored by 3-5 points on a neutral court right now.

I think that was a safe assumption before this. 😅

Akron would be favored on a neutral court at the moment