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http://www.uakron.edu/im/news/ua-corrects-article-about-enrollment

About 3/4 of this video is him scoring on the dribble drive.

I said you can't claim bias because St. Bonaventure plays in an as good, if not better, basketball conference (I'll say better) as Tulane and Wichita State and also finished with an RPI that was +17 better than Wichita State and +28 better than Tulane. Both of those teams got in over St. Bonaventure. It wasn't biased that got Wichita State and Tulane in over St. Bonaventure. This was your exact quote. "RPI is certainly well recognized, therefore getting a high RPI score makes an argument for your school. Just do what we have to do to make that number higher." Every year it seems the record gets broken for the highest RPI to not make the tournament. Do you really not see that it has been losing its value every year? RPI is an easy system to game. 75% of it is based off of your opponents winning % and your opponents opponents winning %. Any game vs. a none D1 school isn't included in the formula. Games vs. MEAC and SWAC teams drive your RPI numbers down as they typically have poor records and play a conference schedule vs. teams with poor records. The Zips could instantly improve their RPI by removing those teams from the schedule and replacing them with more games vs. Malone, Hiram, Mount Union, etc. because those teams wouldn't factor into the RPI formula. Do you think the selection committee would view that as more favorable? Edit: Here is an excerpt that I pulled from the New York Times quoting the selection committee chairmen...“The common metrics most of us use are KenPom, Sagarin, L.R.M.C., B.P.I., K.P.I.,” the committee chairman, Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione, told reporters Wednesday, sounding like an economist rattling off the names of various federal departments.

Is coach Dambrot really that desperate and so insecure to send you out here to post this garbage?

Yep-- this issue is going to continue to grow I think. We had a great discussion on the board last year about this as the faux fiscal crisis/polytech re-naming stuff was happening. If attention really ramped on this topic, there would be alot of focus placed on the UA-KSU situation-- two similar public schools 12 miles apart spending $20 million or so just on football, let alone the rest of the sports, with neither really drawing enough interest/support to pay for it.

This came across my facebook feed today, thought I'd share. Brave New Films trailer for a film about the College Debt Crisis. Guess which universities are a big focus of it!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guHL1pNtVS8