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I don't subscribe to that apocalyptic belief. Buffalo shook the tree, getting rid of a solid guy in Witherspoon...and it got them to the Big Dance. It now looks like they hired a solid guy to replace Hurley. Ohio has gone through several coaches in the past decade. They seem to be vying for a MAC championship on an annual basis? Kent has seen Waters...Heath...Christian...Ford...Senderoff...and they've consistently won 20 games and competed for championships. It would be asinine to hold on to an underachieving, or mediocre coach "...because the next hire might be Coleman Crawford." If that is your standard, you shouldn't be in Division 1 college basketball. If Dambrot left for Duquesne or South Florida, Larry Williams should be able to find an equivalent-or-better replacement. If he hired "the next Coleman Crawford," our problem would be that UA hired the wrong AD, not that finding a solid basketball coach is impossible. Thankfully we don't need to worry about any basketball HC in the near future. But when the inevitable happens, it doesn't scare me. Buffalo, Ohio, Kent...they all change coaches regularly, and still win 20 games...and they still beat the Zips once or twice per season...and they still compete for MAC Championships. And none of their hires remotely resembled Coleman Crawford.

So what you're saying is that there are few Fews?

I'm with you. To say that Zeke was not an impact player is ludicrous. He is the all-time shot block leader for the conference. Let me know when someone breaks that. Could Zeke have been better? Of course, but that can be said about EVERY PLAYER THAT EVER LACED 'EM UP. The hyperbole on this board is ridiculous at times.

Not a single error in there buddy. They have never beaten a top program, their small handful of wins against the power conference teams have been in significant down years. FSU in the NIT?? I guess you could count that, but bragging about NIT wins is not a very good position to be in. The MAC is one of the lower rung mid majors. When was the last win a MAC team has had in the NCAAs? Early 2000's? 1 win in what, nearly 20 years? MAC had a good run there in the late 90s, has gone way down hill from there. Soft schedule is a fact. They play schools at the JAR as a former college basketball player, I had no idea existed. But Dambrot will find any no name school to schedule to get an easy W to pad the most worthless 20 win streak record going. Zeke was the only high rate recruit he has landed, then failed to develop him to be an impact player in the MAC. No other big recruits, he can't even keep local kids from St V that are highly rated with his connection to that school. Josh Williams is his only St V kid the he hasn't personally coached, correct? I may be wrong there. Akron is not my primary school. I didn't go to school there, I don't live in the area anymore but I will always pull for local teams and I wish they would do more. I'd never go see a game in a HS arena against teams I have never heard of to watch guys that are so so college players. But I represent Joe Akron as you all call them and just pointing out the obvious.

This post is riddled with erroneous information, but I'm too damn tired to do it anymore. Just find another program to cheer for if it's that bad.

I hope to see some more of that this fall.

Glenville always lost to Ed's, Ignatius, etc... they weren't losing to a bunch of country bumpkins.

To summarize the article, Infocision stadium=

Had recruiters known Big Dog would turn out the way he did, he would have had 100 offers coming out of high school.

The phobia of an AD making an absolutely awful head coaching hire needs a name. Should it be call Wistrcill or Ianello Syndrome?

I think one 400 lb player is considered a surplus.

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Fair enough, but you're over-interpreting my post. My point is that the diehard Dambrot detractors fail to recognize that the change they yearn for could result in a downturn just as easily as it could result in an upswing. Nothing more. Given the success we've had, I'm not in favor of taking that leap. I'd never propose hanging onto a mediocre coach in fear of what might follow, but that's not the Zips situation. Certainly, there's room for improvement in certain areas. If you look at my posts, I'm as critical as any at times, but I'm urging restraint for those who'd like to take quick action.

Jebidiah Corneilius Wistercill?

This is an excellent interview. I didn't just want to tuck this into an existing thread. Good to hear community voices beginning to speak up on the need of a new arena.

Our beat writer couldn't even think of Hughes name.

Phew..

I 100% disagree.

For every Mark Few there are two Dan Hipsher and Coleman Crawfords.

You guys do realize that it is exponentially more likely that the next Akron coach will bring the program back to its historical mean (middle of the road to conference bottom feeder) than it is that they would turn Akron into the next Gonzaga or Wichita State, right?

As a former weights guy, "throwing the shot put" grates me so bad. That 12 pound cannonball is called a shot. You don't throw it. You rest it on your shoulder/neck and "put" it forward. Mini rant over.

I was with you until that.... To say Zeke wasn't an impact player in the MAC is laughable. Zeke Marshall is 7' tall... If Zeke was as good as you think/or wasn't as you think he could've been, he wouldn't have been playing at UA. 7 footers that can play basketball and have big dreams, aren't playing in the MAC. No team in the the MAC (and other conferences like the MAC) are getting top recruits. None. I may want more from the program from an OCC schedule perspective, winning more than the MAC regular season title, etc., but compared to the rest of the MAC, KD had done a pretty damn good job of getting players to Akron that put them in a position to win games in the MAC. (higher expectations of winning more than the MAC is a different argument)

Paying KD that much for a program that can't even sustain itself is pretty sad.