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I will miss Stan Heath for entertainment value. But this hire does appear to be an attempt to class up the program.

Agreed on all fronts. Unless he found the secret sauce at Clemson, he'll likely lengthen the MAC, keep EMU around 17 wins and sniff 20 every so often, while never truly threatening the top third. NIU hired a solid D2 coach from Northern Michigan and that's more the direction I thought EMU would go.

Honestly, a better hire then I expected for them. He had 2 stints as a D1 head coach and finished better than .500 in conference play in both. Still not all that concerned. He might be able to build EMU into a respectable program, but I don't see them contending.

It's great hearing the merchandise is moving well and people are excited about Zips athletics. I wonder if this will cause a delay in shipping as I'm not sure how many they had on hand to start to start with.

I am a huge proponent of great bars with Touch Tunes jukeboxes. This one is in the Hyde Park neighborhood close to downtown.https://www.retreattampa.com/ Easy Uber from downtown. Some bars in FL that operated before smoking bans took effect were grandfathered in and still allow smoking. Many banned smoking anyhow because of the cultural change. This one still allows and is a great place to drink, listen to music and smoke a cigar. This place shares the same block as Retreat. https://www.chantarestaurant.com/ European style cooking. Eat dinner and then go smoke a cigar and have drinks. The next morning, go back to Hyde Park for brunch at Willa's. https://www.willastampa.com/

I've seen celebration highlights from Saturday night and Josh Henderson stood out as someone who looked really happy. Cody Head also looked like he was enjoying himself. I'm not saying others didn't, just that these two stood out. If Sharron returns to lead the backcourt, we'll be in good hands I think.

That was fun with Bud as a full episode guest. The story about the hats being made prior to the season makes that even more special as it becomes a symbol for "mission complete." 1000+ hats being sold is fantastic; imagine if they produced 3Peat shirts, too.

Well we all know there's only one choice here.

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I think Groce is the best coach in program history. The culture, the MAC Tournament success, all of it. With that said, he doesn't take the job in the first place if KD - who I also consider an all-time great - doesn't build it into a program with a winning tradition. Sometimes I take a step back and think about how fortunate we have been to have 13 seasons of KD followed by 9 seasons of Groce.

Apparently they have sold a thousand so far…got mine!

I went ahead and ordered the 3-Peat hat. I normally don't like wearing ballcaps, but I like the design and there isn't any other 3-Peat merch to get.

I'm guessing the Tampa site shirt artwork won't be complete until after the First Four games because we don't yet know all the teams that will be playing in Tampa.

I was excited when Groce came to Akron, but if I'm to be honest I had doubts he would live up to Dambrot. Not because I didn't think he would do well, but because it's hard to expect anyone to make 9 MAC finals and then win 3 of those. Not only has Groce lived up to those standards, he has surpassed them by making the tournament 4 times in 5 years.

All we need now is a win over Bowling Green in the Championship game to complete the Ohio sweep. 2018, 2019 (Groces first two years) are the only two years since 2005 where Akron did not make at least the semifinal. And Akron has won at least one tournament game in every year since then (except of course 2020).

That's the same cheater Bruce that kissed Travis's posterior last week after saying that Miami didn't belong in the tournament. He's a phony and a clown 🤡.

He probably believes everything he reads on the internet, which is why he thinks Auburn deserve to be in the tournament.

Speaking of rewatching - I went back and watched the last five minutes. Evans block with a couple minutes left is my unheralded play of the game. Unreal hustle and athleticism on that one

Oh my. Bruce bought it lol

Saw the same thing. Bio doesn't look fake per se but I can't tell if all his tweets are satire or not.

deleted. fell for a twitter hoax.