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Would you: 1) Please stop treating this so seriously, taking everything so damn personally and cease childishly calling people names like a angry child (e.g. idiot, genius, etc.)? Your Akron education should have taught you reasonable means of having a respectful disagreement. 2) Just put me on ignore? I'll give you the same courtesy.

They should have never gotten rid of Lee Owens. Discuss.

Unfortunately we are the worst team in D1 until we prove we aren't. I am not against this coach and staff but they have to prove to me that 1) they can recruit, 2) they can coach and 3) they can win. Until all three all done I am a skeptic who wants to be optimistic , but has no proven reason to be so.

The Zips head to DC next weekend for the DC Holiday Hoops Fest Tournament. On Friday, December 20th, they face the Green Wave of Tulane. The other side of the bracket is Liberty vs. Towson State. The championship and third place games are on the 21st. Currently, Tulane sits at 7-2. Their biggest win is over 7-2 Utah. They have lost to Mississippi State and St. Louis. In the American Athletic Conference Preseason Poll, they were predicted to finish last in the 12 team conference. Tulane hired veteran Ron Hunter as its head coach in the offseason, replacing Mike Dunleavy Sr. Hunter has 445 wins and four NCAA tournament appearances in 25 seasons as a head coach. Tulane also has 11 new players including guard/forward K.J. Lawson, who was the 2017 American Rookie of the Year at Memphis before transferring to Kansas. 6-5 junior guard Teshaun Hightower leads Green Wave scorers at 16.4 ppg. Here's a preview of the Green Wave- https://bustingbrackets.com/2019/10/17/tulane-basketball-2019-20-season-preview-for-green-wave/ Liberty is currently 11-0, with wins over no one of consequence. They won an NCAA tourney game over Mississippi State last year. 6-6 senior guard Caleb Homesley was voted ASUN Preseason player of the year and leads the team at 11.4 ppg. They were chosen to finish first in the ASUN Preseason Poll. They received 9 votes in the most recent AP poll and one in the Coaches Poll. Here are two good previews of Liberty: https://www.aseaofred.com/liberty-basketball-season-preview/ https://www.midmajormadness.com/2019/10/8/20901449/the-other-top-25-preseason-rankings-liberty-flames-preview-2020-ritchie-mckay-scottie-james Towson State stands at 5-5, but has had close losses to PCCC, Buffalo and Florida. They were predicted to finish 6th in the 10 team Colonial Athletic Association. 6-5 senior gaurd Brian Fobbs, who averages 16.2 ppg was chosen to the CAA Preseason First Team. Here's a Preseason Preview of Towson- https://www.midmajormadness.com/2019/10/7/20901405/towson-tigers-ncaa-basketball-season-preview-brian-fobbs-caa-2020 I think this tournament will give us a very good read as to where the Zips are going into the MAC season.

You have now successfully bored me to tears. Can’t you talk about anything else? More I think about it, your like my wife. Can’t let anything go and move on.

JD Brookhart won our only MACC and had a higher winning percentage than TB. Anyone want him back?

...and much easier on the budget!

I think everyone on this board would agree TB is HOF material compared to the icoach. I have not read a single post comparing him to Ianello as you describe above. Also, nobody has said anything lauding Arth as a great coach. It was an uninspiring hire. I just do not know how you evaluate him fairly this season when the program was left in such poor shape with no depth and little talent. If the Zips had won 8 of their last 10 games in TB's final season instead of the opposite, I could understand the anger, but they were in a serious decline. How many games do you think TB would have won with this team? Two? One? None? If he had gone 2-10 this year, would you have still fought to keep him?

Trips to Hawaii and Cayman Islands must take a lot of time, energy, and $ to plan and coordinate. A short trip to DC to play against solid competition without the jet lag or international travel seems like a more serious endeavor.

Yet another game with no television or streaming? Why am I seeing my Zips less this year than in the last few years? I thought we were starting to get toward the point where seeing them, since I do not live local, was getting easier but it is starting to feel like we have gone back to the time when I first moved away from Akron back in 2001.

I'll always prefer the tournaments that provide us the opportunity to play Louisville and WVU type teams on a neutral court. It's so hard to pick up those resume building wins when you're forced to play at their arena. Liberty & Tulane are having good seasons, but those are the type of teams we could (and should) schedule home and homes with.

Got my tix a couple days ago...$45 for 4 games not bad. Looking forward to seeing this team for the 1st time in person. Go Zips!

Congratulations to these student athletes

We apparently are not the worse team as many of you have stated ? please don’t @ me as I’m making lite of the situation