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Thinking this might be better served as it's own thread but I'll put this here for now. https://gozips.com/sports/2025/6/10/Competitive-Excellence-Fund

Reminder…. Today - July 31st is the Zips Happy Hour

My understanding is that concessions is contracted out to Aramark.

This is random, does anyone know a contact for the concession stand people, I would love to get some new options next year! lol

Congratulations to SHOOKY !!! MLS Next Pro player of the week https://www.chicagofirefc.com/two/news/chicago-fire-fc-ii-named-mls-next-pro-team-of-matchweek-20

MACtion!

Seems like a great person. Welcome to Akron. I'm eager to see him on the field.

Sad thing is, we can't say iCoach was the worst coach in Akron history...

Nice find.

Yeah. Zips FB is so successful, let's go back to Ianello's ways of doing things with little to no fan engagement. 😩

Nice season preview here: https://akronzippedup.substack.com/p/akron-zips-football-2025-season-preview

Looks like a hell of a get!

I just saw that & was coming over to post. My apologies. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/college-football/article/deion-sanders-turns-cancer-diagnosis-into-a-teaching-moment-i-depend-on-depends-181910143.html

It's Prime who had bladder cancer not the kid

Riverhounds (Beto Ydrach) on ESPN2 tonight.

Groce has signed several players from USA-Africa, I believe. They just haven't stuck for long. As far as basketball, those guys seem to be pretty transient - quick to transfer if they show any definite skill (blocked shots, rebounding) scoring usually comes late to most of them as well, if at all. Frankly, most would be better served staying and improving at the mid-major level but I'm guessing handlers and agents are pushing for bigger bucks as fast as possible.

On my phone so can’t post the tweet but it appears the poor kid had cancer but is now cancer free. ...edit update...

For 1970’s style retro bigs we will probably need to recruit out of Cuba.

According to inquirer.com, in a subscription article dated Dec. 06, 2024: "Roman Catholic drops state championship game to Bishop McDevitt in overtime" .... "Roman Catholic junior standout quarterback Semaj Beals reportedly was injured just before the fourth quarter concluded..." I am not sure the extent of his injury, however, the injury might be the reason some schools lost interest in recruiting him.

Then people would just complain that he isn't a 1970s style back to the basket scorer.

Now that we are expanding our recruiting to Europe maybe we can finally get that serviceable backup big?

Word is that a former Serbian Zips player is helping Groce in Europe.

Our soccer team has had foreign born players for a long time. This is kind of the first I'm hearing about Akron basketball actively recruiting overseas players. Not to say they haven't before. Just that I don't recall seeing it mentioned. The overseas players I recall Akron landing in the past were either transfers or guys that came to US to play basketball at either a high school or prep school.

Like others I'm surprised the buyout is so low for a 10 year deal. I would have thought it would be 2-3 years of his base compensation so more like 800k-$1.2 million. He still earned about $950k this past season it appears. Given that he seems to like it here, it would seem that would be enough to keep him unless a team from SEC, B1G, Big East, etc came calling.