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When players collectively are demanding over 100 Million in yearly salaries on some teams in the NBA, something has to happen for the owners to be able to stay afloat. That's why I have very little interest in NBA basketball anymore.

I don't know Skip, you're the one telling the story.

2017 looks bright for the men and women runners, jumpers and throwers. Both teams smash Kent State in annual dual meet while the basketball team was beating Eastern Michigan. Score would have been worse if the scoring sustem wasn't skewed, only 2 scores per each team per event. 10 firsts by the men's team, 9 firsts for women's team. Terrell McClain breaks school record in long jump. Both men and women strong as usual in pole vault. Ariadna Rams Gandia a beast in women long jump and triple jump. Still need some good weight throwers,both guys and gals. Two sophomore men high jumpers that are the two best in the MAC by far. A few off-shore recruits this year. Need a replacement for Clayton Murphy mid-distance, but Jackie Seifring a multi-wonner and will be the multi champ indoor and out. Big meet on February 2 and 3 - Akron Invitational, lots of top notch competition. Great place to watch track too.

got me right in my Lu-NARD-is ..

Yep. And they will ask for even more because they know that the owners are getting more. Instead of paying the players, give some back to the fans in the form of lower ticket prices and concessions. We know that will never happen, because if it does, the players will go on strike and demand more $$. Its not just the NBA either. The Celtics just opened up the flood gates. I expect the NFL, NHL & MLB to do this as well.

Zips fans Joe Akron

Sports are becoming more and more crooked, but I don't mind this. Since the late 1800s/early 1900s, baseball organizations have been using their ballparks' walls and such to advertise for companies like the American Tobacco Company, banks, etc. If a team is privately owned, the owner should be able to open up their business to marketing/advertising profit opportunities such as this (now when these billionaire owners go to the taxpayers for stadium renovation funding, that's where I draw the line, but that's a whole different can of worms). Could you imagine AKRON, scripted on the front of our jerseys in GOODYEAR font or something like that? I think it would be pretty cool, and an excellent way for a college to get funding for sports, since sports should come secondary in funding to academics.

Although there are many successful, intelligent pro owners, when I think pro owner, I think whack job. I tend to not feel sorry for them.

..and to think that "someone" called me an SOB for picking one of those other teams... just sayin.

And what was that?. I just think even the thought of putting the teams post season in the hands of a committee is like panning for fools gold. Win out. Win the tournament and maybe they will give us a decent match up.

No you won't. If you kept watching the Zips at the JAR, when after each of roughly 200 3-point shots the announcer said "That's another Zips 3-pointer, brought to you by Tim Miller Insurance Agency", you'll never stop watching anything.

Looks like a 6-2 175 ATH from Mobile, AL may possibly choose Akron - he decommited from Ball State yesterday - HUDL

Ball State excites me as much as . (Miami does the same. I used to hate Miami but anymore they just make me ) But the rest of the home slate is great. With ISU, Ohio, Kant & Buffalo, all at home, attendance should be pretty decent (I know, I know... define "decent,"). And I mentioned this before, but Toledo should be on the schedule every year; natural geographic/demographic rivalry there.

I like outside the box thinking, but, IMO, a proposal like that is way too unrealistic. For one, like you said, you're probably talking hundreds of millions ... Why spend that to redo a perfectly fine football facility to make it into multi-purpose one, when you could build a perfectly fine state-of-the-art basketball arena for a fraction of the price? As to your ideas: 1. Akron won't host NCAA games, not when the NBA Quicken Loans Arena is right up the road ... and it's an arena that is about to get a $140 million renovation. P.S. I know the CSU Convocation Center has hosted first-round tourney games in the past, but that's the past. If the tourney is coming to NEO, it's coming to the Q. 2. The MAC football championship isn't moving from Detroit (already a domed NFL stadium) to Akron. 3. The MAC basketball tournament isn't moving from Quicken Loans Arena (especially once the renovation is done). 4. If a bowl game comes to NEO, it's going to Canton (and backed by the Pro Football Hall of Fame) in the new 20,000 seat stadium they are building on the old Fawcett Stadium site. 5. NFL preseason games are always played at a team's NFL stadium. They force season ticket holders to pay regular season prices for those, meaning they aren't moving. 6. NBA preseason games have been held at the JAR (and at the Canton Civic Center, a much more shitty facility than the JAR). No need for a domed InfoCision to attract "a game" when new basketball arena could land one of those a year. 7. Concerts are a possibility, but very few acts can justify a stadium; and those who can will, again, likely will go to Cleveland (either Progressive Field or FirstEnergy Stadium). Plus, in the summer months, Blossom can hold 20,000.

I know ESPN doesn't have near the pull in hoops as it does football, but if ESPN's SOR (strength of record) metric is used, Akron is in decent shape. The Zips are ranked No. 38 there. Here is the explanation of all of ESPN's rankings, including of "SOR". "The College Basketball Power Index (BPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of performance going forward. BPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Strength of Record (SOR) is a measure of team accomplishment based on how difficult a team's W-L record is to achieve. Game predictions account for opponent strength, pace of play, site, travel distance, day's rest and altitude, and are used to simulate the season 10,000 times to produce season projections. Numbers update daily." I say just make all this moot and win in Cleveland.

AN10 Junior year highlights...

This would definitely be a season where a Bracket Buster () game would be awesome. I'd love to see the 2016-17 Zips team match up against someone like Illinois State or Middle Tennessee. Big Dog and Kwan give us the size and skill to keep just about any college team honest in the paint, and we shoot the 3 as well as anyone. If we can tighten up the D over the next 4 weeks, we could really be something special. And, we need to stay healthy. And, no one go shipping/receiving 5 pound boxes of anything between now and April!

Hughes was in the warmups Friday night but was moving very gingerly. We're going to need another big this season, so let's hope he's mending quickly.