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I would contend that, just because Hipsher and Crawford didn't win, KD shouldn't be considered our "ceiling." KD was a good guy. Very good MAC recruiter. Good MAC coach. And in the MAC, being somewhere between good and very good will get you in the Championship game more often than not. Just look at all the crappy coaches with full scholarship benches that couldn't beat the crippled Zips this year...it doesn't take John Wooden to get to the MAC Championship game. Huggins won at Akron in the 80's. His body of work then, and beyond shows he was the best Zips coach in the JAR-era. His tenure was short (5 years) but the guy has won big-time wherever he's gone. Against the best-of-the-best competition. Any AD would take Hug over Dambrot. The oft-maligned Hipsher had some good years too. But unlike Dambrot, the MAC during Hipsher's tenure was brutal. Bonzi Wells, Gary Trent, Brandon Hunter, Wally Sczerbiak, Tamar Slay, Antonio Daniels, Theron Smith ...the MAC was pumping out some NBA talent back then.

Riley Freeman‏ @easymoney____1 21h21 hours ago These past 3 years at the University of Akron has been everything to me, and the people here has been Family and welcomed me with open arms since day 1. Can’t Wait to play next year for my Senior Year with this group of guys. Akron Luv! #YearOfTheBrodie (Zips96 I read your post too literally. I read that as Jimond is keeping his Twitter account.)

Your best idea was when you suggested deleting the thread. I think the Zips will be awesome next year. Like the new coach, like the players. And I don't mind the JAR. Get the team rolling again and the seats will fill up. Even with the down year, attendance looked not too different than other years at least from my perspective.

I forgot that they used to have one additional position than they currently have. Hopefully it's that position being filled and not a current coach leaving.

Do you really think if the tournament was expanded, the committee/NCAA would push to give mid-majors more of a chance? Do you think they'd really make a change to benefit mid-majors? They literally added more play-in games for the 11-seed spot in order to dip into some bigger schools' pockets at least one last time for the season. There are ~.500 P5 schools making the tournament over 20+ win mid-majors. Expanding the tournament to 96 teams believing mid-majors would have a better chance to make it to the round of 64 is like people who don't trust the government, voting to grow the government and give it more power. The little guy would continue to get squeezed out.

Because nobody wants to watch 4-28 Delaware State play Villanova. There is such a thing as watering down your product too much.

Ivey announced he is staying on Twitter.

Again, I have to preface this with the fact I love KD. But I think the KD era showed us the ceiling for Zips basketball under KD. I think Groce may be able to take the Zips to a higher level than KD did, but only by building on the foundation KD laid. Before KD, Zips basketball was a disaster. So nothing but love to KD.

Trust me, we know all about building it and no one coming. If you want tickets on football game day the walk up window is always open.