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http://gozips.com/sports/msoc/2014-15/releases/20150416r9p6g4 How PATHETIC is it that the Zips Mens Soccer Sports Information Director has to dig up stories (links) as far back as Dec 11, 2014? If someone doesn't know by now that Saad was at the MLS Combine and drafted by Sporting KC, then that person isn't a Zips Mens Soccer fan or doesn't care. Where's the recruiting class announcement? I don't care if the recruiting class isn't completely finalized due to whatever issues still are in work, if any. Publish the information about those who are officially signed (NLIs). Then update it later like we used to get. Is Victor Souto's post-season suspension done or not? It was originally 2 NCAA Tourney games, as I understood it via the grapevine. (We never did get the information.) We only had 1 NCAA Tourney game last year. I think it may done, however, and it won't be carried into this season, but why can't the SID inform us. I don't think other schools are nearly as secretive about this stuff. I'm sure it's in the public domain, anyway; so, why not report it. I can't believe that we can't get better and timely information about the Zips' premier sports team! What a joke (but NOT FUNNY)!

KD just announced on Joe Dunn's radio show that the Zips will play in the preseason NIT. Probably 4 games. 1 home, 3 road. Likely opponents - Wisc Green Bay (home), Arkansas and Villanova. Mentioned a couple others, too.

Coach Bowden's home for misfit boys brings another one to the fold. To date, there have been no problems with the second chance kids. As long as that continues, I think most are willing to give a young man a second chance on life. Chapman's issue truly seemed like an anomaly, from what I have read. We will have to wait and see how this young man handles himself. I don't think it is hypocritical to dismiss Treadwell and take this kid. The punishment was being dismissed from the team. If the behavior warrants shunning from other teams, that should come from the NCAA. If you watch any footage, this kid can catch, better than anyone we currently have. He is explosive and can take a hit and hold onto the ball. A dual threat RB and a dual threat QB could tear up the MAC.

Imagination is sometimes confused with awareness. But it's certainly true that I back most of Coach Dambrot's decisions over most of the alternatives posted by fans who are unaware of all the circumstances that led to the decisions in question.

We haven't talked about Zeke in the last few months. I have no inside information, but this is what I believe based on what I've been able to pick up from various sources. Coach Dambrot had said that Zeke would need about two years of seasoning before he might be ready for the NBA. Those two years are now over. While Zeke has done OK in several overseas stints plus the NBA D-League, he hasn't been dominant. Every undrafted player I know of who has made it to the NBA has become dominant in one of the lesser pro leagues. Zeke is now back in the U.S. after his latest pro stint in Lebanon. Back on Feb. 24 Zeke posted the following on his twitter: My unofficial interpretation is that this was the point where Zeke had reached the decision that he was not destined to play professional basketball, but that playing a couple of seasons of pro basketball had opened doors that would help him in the business opportunities that he was really more interested in all along. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am. I think that Zeke's future is in the business world rather than in professional basketball. I think he's finally proven to himself that he's a computer geek trapped in the body of an NBA center, and that his mind rules his body. Let's face it. If Zeke's primary interest was basketball he would have never ended up at UA. He would have gone to one of the college basketball factories and focused his life on making the NBA. Instead he came to UA and anchored some of the best Zips teams we've ever seen. I look back with great fondness on watching him perform at an ever higher level and in his senior season leading the Zips to the longest winning streak of any D-I team that season. I think it's likely that Zeke's professional basketball career may have reached its end. But I still look forward to seeing how he represents UA in the business world.