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I’m done buying Zips gear until the Fordham AD’s fast food logo is crumpled up and tossed in the dumpster. Which would be criminal to do to any dumpster, but sometimes it sucks to be a dumpster.

I forgot to mention it at the time and maybe just thought it wasn't important but it seems to fit in this thread. On a recent Board of Trustees meeting that I watched part of, Goodrich stated that this is the last year of our Nike deal and he hinted we would be signing with someone else. He said something along the lines of "Nike doesn't value us as much as we value ourselves". I would like to go back to Adidas but I'm thinking someone like Under Armour may be more likely. As they have fewer schools in their portfolio and we could be a higher priority.

Does signing with a MLS Next Pro team give him a better path to the MLS than signing with USL? I assume so but I know some Next Pro players are on contracts specific to that level while others are on MLS contracts and are there to get playing time.

It's the perfect timing, when else will they have as much public support for this as they do now?

The size isn't the problem. The proposal is for a 6,500 seat arena, which sounds reasonable. It's all the extras that are running up the cost. There is talks of having 2 practice courts in this complex, a separate volleyball court/arena, and new athletic department offices. I'm sure there are lots of high end premium seating that is also running up the cost. They're telling people this arena will attract tons of concerts and other events, but Miami County barely has 100k. I'm not sure how many headliners are going to be eager to perform there. Maybe some B or C tier performers.

https://akronzippedup.substack.com/?utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web Zipped Up's preview of Friday's game with some cool stats.

I feel like this is an awkward time for them to do this. After having however many games in a row with almost 10k people they might advocate for an even larger arena. But if they do that and their support regresses to the mean it will be embarrassingly empty in there.

Even though they went 1-23 from deep. Four of those came from Magnus Entenmann, give him as many 3 point looks as possible 😂

Agree. Akron will have to play better, because that game was really close for a home game where the opponent was 1/23 from deep.

Leave it to Miami OH to build a steel/glass exterior and cover it up with brick walls that seemingly serve no purpose other than having bricks in the esthetic. $281M is unbelievably absurd, but when your concessions include the finest wine and cheese around, what else should we expect? What a perfect example of why I dislike that school and hope they get nothing this year like the similarly entitled kids in Willy Wonka.

Everything I've seen online points towards the new arena being very unpopular with alumni. It will be interesting to see how the vote goes.

Kent missed a looot of wide open 3s against us. Hopefully they just suck at shooting, but I'm betting they don't shoot anywhere near 1-23 from 3 again

Big key to the game is the Mahaffeys. I say it every time we face Kent or Miami. They are the big disrupters, and their athleticism and physicality will continue to mess Kent up like they did before. Chabi did very well the few minutes he played last time against Kent so that will help too. Lyles will need all the help he can get on the interior with Gillespie and now Whaley back as well. Plus, Griffith who had 17 rebounds last game! Just a bonkers number for a bench player even with the terrible shooting. Hope we can set the tone early like we did last game and let the shooters do their thing late to pull away.

Another player being sued for breach of contract. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48035774/cincinnati-sues-sorsby-1m-exit-fee-texas-tech-transfer

$280 million seems excessive. I really hope it's largely donor funded because that would be a lot of burden to place on tax payers or students if the plan is to use the general fund.

That’s a whole lotta sweaters.

Hell yeah. I've bought several of his cards on ebay just as keepsakes to remember one of the great Zips.

It seems quite possibly like a loss. But then you gotta remember that we're 37-2 (i think) in our last 39 MAC games if you include MAC tournament games. (This dates back to the consecutive losses to EMU and WMU going into the 2024 MAC Tournament.) So we'll probably win easily. 😅

I think this has loss written all over it. But we live in their heads rent free. We will break their hearts again.

Kent has played an incredible number of close games. To their credit, they have pulled through in most of them. Gonna likely see them twice coming up. I fully expect Kent to try and get under the Zips skin by being super aggressive. Show composure, rebound and make every possession count. Zips get it done but it’s gonna be a battle.

Saturday night, the card shop I work for on the weekends had a huge trade night. Afterwards, the owner thanked all the employees by gifting a box of 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Basketball cards to each employee. 1 pack, 7 cards per. 1 of my 7 cards? Enrique Freeman Rookie Patch Auto /75. Gotta love how Enrique keeps representing Akron.

Great to see he's still the same humble goofy kid he was as a Zip.

Need to limit the turnovers. After Tuesday night the Zips are likely to see a lot of defensive pressure. Limit the turnovers and stay close on the rebounds and the Zips should win.