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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 Johnvplayed 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. 😉

Currently in a very close game. Have this one be a super hard fight and not come back totally focused

Where does Purdue find this pipeline on 7'4" players? He's no Zach Edey but I'd still be happy to have him.

I think that's one of the reasons Carney seems a better fit. He's no introvert. Not that introversion is bad...I'm an introvert haha. But head ball coach isn't necessarily the best role for an introvert.

Good post. I just want to launch a conversation off of it. We have had a few centers at Akron during Groce’s era similar to Barre. Tall, mobile, shot blocker type; Riak, Aziz and briefly Gueye. The other type of center we are accustomed to obviously is the Freeman type. Very versatile, athletic and skilled with more of a power forward frame. You can add Sayles, Lyles and now Marvin to that list. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Oggie play the 5 spot in time as well. But the last center type we are not too familiar with at Akron is what I call the “earth mover” center. I witnessed it with Illinois. They are big, strong and weigh about 250lb. They typically range between 6-8 and 6-10, but have a low center of gravity. They are immovable objects. The only guy that has fit this description was Kostelac. They are less versatile and athletic, but can be highly skilled and effective in Groce’s system. They don’t run the break as fast as the others, but they do run the court. Brisco is an earth mover. We have had other MAC teams use earth mover centers against us recently. I don’t remember their names, but the Zips recruited one of them. Any way it will be nice to have a big body to throw out there during those match-ups especially. Personally, I would like to see Brisco cut his teeth with some time against the 6-11 big for Purdue. And I would let Barre get some time against their 7-4 center. The rest of the time I would play small with Lyles and let their bigs chase us up and down the court.

That stinks. Assuming they'll be still be seeded?