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Thus far it doesn't look like Brisco can shoot from the outside. Right now he just looks like a limited-minutes role player. Doesn't appear to have a very high motor, which is aggravating.

Ignore the quote (stupid phone). Looking at the box score, Purdue outrebounded Bama 52-28. Bama shot decently well but Purdue shot exceptionally well. Purdue: 47% FG, 42.9% 3P Bama: 42.4% FG, 36.4% 3P Bama only lost by 7. Our style is very similar to Bama's. This gives me hope that we can be competitive with Purdue despite being completely outmatched in the post.

Thanks for your thoughts @72 Roo. Interesting that Goodrich is building NIL. @exit322 JoeMo's complaining is exactly why he's the worst coach for the job. It's pathetic. He knew what he was coming into and his prickly ego/personality has created another hurdle for the program to climb over.

I am following up my own post. Ha!! I thought Brisco was going to be an explosive rebounder, power forward type. But Groce has said he will play strictly the center position. Well, he’s only 6-8 so he’s not a rim protector. All accounts say he moves slow and I watched him miss a dunk against Princeton. So he’s not going to be an athletic, jump out of the gym, Freeman type center. That only leaves the traditional, back to the basket, play under rim, earth mover type. He’s currently 240lbs. Maybe he gets to 245-250lbs by his senior year. The question I have is can he shoot at all away from the rim? Right now I believe he adds value by banging down low with the big boys and rebounding. Let’s see. I have posted this video link before of Maverick Morgan at Illinois under Groce. He was 6-10 and maxed out at 250lbs. This video is from his Junior year without a redshirt year. So he was even bigger as a senior. Notice how like a big tight end in football he gravitates to the open holes in the defense. Not flashy, but effective.

Since he's already grumbling about how he doesn't have the support to complete, maybe the angle is to make it clear HE'S not getting it...

After calming down I still want offer a few thoughts on the Kent game so bear with me. Our biggest problem Tuesday night wasn't JoMo, player stupidity, the refs, or the cold. It was Kent State. They came believing they could win. They didn't have the talent, but they had a plan and they stuck to it. The game was exciting. The rivalry is renewed and heightened. The public wants a good game between these two schools and they will show if they believe it is going be a good game. Zip football can recover. It will be slow and it will be a series of addressing issues one at a time. Nemer wants a good team. Goodrich has been told to build up the program. He believes he can, but only over time. He is building up NIL now. It will not be great, but it's a start. Jo will not be fired or bought out. If he leaves no one in administration will talk him out of it. Jo told his team he didn't believe in them when he kicked a FG on 4th and one. They were on the 11 and all they needed was one f**king yard. It was the first series of the game and they had nothing to lose. Why? The Zips weren't prepared. On the first series of each half a TO called to straighten out the team. What a waste! What team uses TO's tat early in the game. That's an indictment on the staff, not the players. Also how can DeWalt be running to the ball on a punt when the receiver ran away from it thus exposing DeWalt to a bounce that goes his way, hits him and gives the recovery to Kent. That's stupidity and poor coaching. High school kids know not to do that. Speaking of coaching, I watched Kamara after giving up an 89 yard TD to Clark. He went to the bench, threw his helmet down and no one talked to him. Not fellow players, not captains , not a coach. He sat alone for several plays until a coach told him to get up and join the DB's. No coaching was given and guess what? He blew it again for another Kent TD. We were the better team, but we lost. Jo coached teams do that every year he has coached. Not once, but two or three times each season he has been here. After four seasons why would we expect it to stop. Jo has yet to show he can correct it. He may feel he hasn't gotten a fair deal here and he would be right. Sill he has compounded the problems and for that he can't blame anyone else but himself.

Results from Thursday Night Virginia gets a 2-1 win over California SMU was very impressive in a 5-1 win over Syracuse Georgetown 2-0 over Providence Connecticut 2-1 over Akron Cornell got a 1-0 win over Penn Princeton continued its great season with a 3-1 win over Harvard What happened in RPI ???? Princeton and Virginia stayed at #1 and #2 SMU moved up from #11 to #7 Connecticut jumped from #21 to #12 Georgetown did not have a strong opponent so they only improved from 19 up to #18 The winner of the Georgetown- UConn game will almost certainly finish ahead of Akron in RPI. Cornell improved from #22 to #21 Akron , with the loss.......dropped from #8 in RPI to #10 in RPI.....

I think they likely will be, based on the fact that they're still #9 in RPI after the loss. The committee seems to stick pretty close with the RPI rankings.

UConn is a resilient, good soccer team. should be a good final. The teams played pretty early in the season. Georgetown really dominated in that game. Georgetown won 4-1. Georgetown led 25-10 in shots and GT led 13-5 in shots on goal.

Georgetown dominated Providence 2-0 in the second semifinal.

WOW! That sounds like a lot. Exactly how much are we talking about? Now, about the part where you bet your own money.

If we lose, we can say Purdue took back the #1 ranking because of us.

Zips add Devan Christion. Also, Zachary Halligan is a redshirt sophomore. Correction made.

By "reeling in" I mean get him to make a significant contribution to the basketball program. Co-funding or helping to promote a proper basketball arena. Possibly King James Arena?

But what’s your take? Thoughts on seeding for NCAA etc?

No, Wistrcill is replacing a different yet-to-be-publicly-announced departures.

Amani get ready to take some charges

Purdue/Alabama was a good game. Purdue is really solid. Two very good bigs and a strong 7'4" backup, though Trey Kaufman-Reay who was playing his first game left the game hurt with a couple of minutes left. The guards are also very good. I can see the Zips competing on the perimeter but the inside is going to be very tough. The Boilermakers killed a very athletic and solid Bama squad on the boards.

Wow Purdue holds bama to 80

Purdue wins!! Akron should be facing #1 coming off a big road win. Maybe they’ll come out flat👀🤞

As an Akron connection, Fletcher Loyer's dad John played for the Zips when I was there, from 83 to 87.

Purdue probably works closely with whatever lab grows Edey, Wemby, Olivier, etc.

Those 16 steals are an all-time NCAA D-1 record. I watched the game for a bit at the start of the second half and they were getting destroyed. Saw one Zips basket and Notre Dame running all over them. Now they are a top 15 team, so I have no idea how the Zips stayed as close as they did.

Yurachek is out. Wistrcill is replacing him. 😉