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You have an agenda, I get this. However, when you say this team has so much talent, you lose all credibility with me. Talent wise, I believe this is perhaps the weakest bunch we've had in the past ten years. How many games do you think a team is going to win when shooting 32% anyways ? We lost a MAC POY type player, we have two fresh 1 guards, we have two wings with zero consistency. And despite your opinion, I don't see the NBA in Forsythe's future either. Aren't you the guy that called for the two bigs to be out there together? How did that work out for you? Now you say Big Dog is a suspect D1 player. OK then..... Hey I'm pissed off too but lets make an attempt to keep it just a little bit real.

When I uprooted myself in 1972 and moved all the way out to Southern California in search of a better life, I remember being in awe of all the entertainment options available compared with the heartland. I recall attending world premiers of blockbuster movies at Grauman's Chinese Theater on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the California 500 for Indy Cars at Ontario Motor Speedway. Who needed to go to Disneyland when you were living in the middle of Disneyland no matter which way you looked? And then there were sports. I was there when the short-lived World Football League played in Anaheim Stadium. And my love for basketball took me to many ABA games in Los Angeles and San Diego because I always appreciated the finesse of the ABA to the physical hammering of the NBA. But my first love has always been college basketball, and what a selection I had for my adopted team. UCLA in 1972 completed their first of two back-to-back 30-0 seasons under legendary Coach John Wooden. And for those who preferred underdogs there was always USC. But me being me, I went with the big underdog. I adopted Long Beach State with its upstart coach, Jerry Tarkanian. The year I arrived in SoCal, Tark took the huge underdog 49ers all the way to the Elite 8 before losing by just 2 points, 57-55, to undefeated UCLA. The next season when I was there to watch every game, Tark again took the 49ers to the Elite 8 only to be ousted again by Coach Wooden's UCLA. I went to every Long Beach State home game. What a thrill it was to watch future NBA players like Easy Ed Ratleff (who led Columbus East high school to the Ohio State Championship in 1968), Glenn McDonald, Cliffton Pondexter, Leonard Gray, Eric McWilliams, Chuck Terry and Bob Gross. Amazingly, all of them played for Long Beach State in the two years I followed them before Tark left for UNLV and a future NCAA championship. Tark the Shark was aptly named. He pushed the envelope like no other college basketball coach. He was the hotshot amateur attorney who knew every loophole in the NCAA book of law. Looking back on it I see it was like being a fan of the Can't teams of a few years ago where more players had police records than degrees. But just watching the brand of basketball was mesmerizing. I can still see him standing on the sideline chewing on that towel with his future NBA players steamrolling any team that dared set foot in the Long Beach Arena. Great memories of an era gone by. RIP Coach Tarkanian.

Is Dambrot perfect? No. Is he the most successful basketball coach in the last 30 years of Akron basketball? Absolutely. If he did not have that elephant skeleton in his closet, he would have moved on to a larger program long ago. Sometimes, players just suck and there's nothing you can do as a coach to fix it. They are human beings and sometimes they have off nights and no matter what you do with rotations and substitutions, nothing works. This is a young team that lost its best player. The teased us with some big wins, but as a young team with average talent, they are going to be inconsistent.

Please. KD is just fine here.

I am sooooo pissed. Niu emu, OU, now Miami. I hope we are a low seed bc we can't seem to be the bottom dwellers.now we've lost 3 in a row and 2 in a row at home. Ugh

Anyone who still wants us to play big more often with the twin towers on the floor needs to go back and watch the last 2 minutes of that first half. With Pat and Isaiah on the floor together with Kwan, Jake and Noah the Zips were an unmitigated disaster against Miami's zone press. An 11 point lead gets slashed to down 1 at the half in the blink of an eye. You have to have ball handlers on the floor against the press. This is basketball 101. There was no reason to stick with that lineup as long as we did. Just because you have two big guys doesn't mean you have to have them on the floor together.