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Step away from the bridges people. These things happen every season. The other MAC teams have figured out how to attack the Zips reliance on the 3 point shot. It was all a matter of time. This team has the coaching and talent to adapt to how they are now being defensed and will respond. Groce, Ford and a staff will figure this out and the players have the experience, maturity and leadership to carry it out. They've lost one game in 2025. It's not time to shake up the lineup or the rotations. Pay attention to who is in the game at crunch time, not who plays the first 5 minutes. That will show you who Groce trusts.

Congratulations to Zips legend Perry Kitchen on his being inducted into the Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame. https://www.soccerindiana.org/perry-kitchen-hof-class-of-2025/ Perry Kitchen’s Bio He was part of the Akron Zips side that won the 2010 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship and was a first-round draft pick (3rd overall) for D.C. United in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. …

Wow, this topic got hijacked in a hurry! I don't come to ZNO to read personal political commentary, and I don't think anyone else does either. I come to escape all of that. Everyone here is united in their love and enjoyment of the Zips, so let's keep it on topic.

Scott is playing 4th most minutes on the team and Young is playing more than Hardman. Who starts isn’t that relevant on this team.

We were due for an ass kicking. Perfect time for it. Refocus and get back in to form just in time for the tourney.

Awful half. Unfortunately, this is not NIU at the JAR. The second half will be a real character tester for the Zips.

The pathway we are on as a nation is not sustainable. The interest payments on our national debt is destroying our economy. The reckless spending of the last 10 years cannot continue. The past administrations strategy of essentially just printing more money is about to have the bill come due. Trillions of dollars in low interest rate short term debt will need to be refinanced soon at double the rate. The IRS has 45,000 employees. The few new hires that DOGE is trimming are not going to delay tax returns unless the remaining employees decide to take some type of work action to slow things down.

it looked to me like Nate stoved his finger in the first 1-2 minutes of the game. Coach took him out shortly thereafter.

Here is some perspective on the national debt. If we paid the $34 trillion national debt off $1.00 per second without interest accumulated, it would take over 1.1 million years to pay it off. 1.1 million years ago, Homo Erectus was the dominant humanoid on Earth. Someone needs to snap the country out of this insanity or something will.

While we mock the other MAC coaches and their programs, these coaches ARE D1 and have a competent working knowledge of how to compete against good mid majors like Akron.

https://open.substack.com/pub/akronzippedup/p/zips-mens-basketball-weekly-update-6bc?r=4gotw8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Once again, Zipped Up nails it with a dose of reality.

A wise Zips fan pointed out to me that the 2020 Zips had a head-scratching loss at BG as the season came to a close. Tyler Cheese bumped an official, got suspended for a game, and Zips won handily at Buffalo next game with Cheese on the bench in warm up gear.

We can trace this loss with a direct line back to SUNY Brockport and the failure to recruit a viable back up big.

Absolutely embarrassing loss TBH.

If you're going to get your ass kicked, go down shooting so we can at least get out of this slump hopefully.

We had a clunker against NIU but thankfully they're terrible, and scratched out a win against a mediocre CMU team before that. This isn't a one-off bad game IMO, they haven't been playing well.

I think the radio guys said Nate hurt his finger again.

Marvin is probably playing the best out of any zips this first half

It was absolutely used during intros.

I see OU knows to shine a spotlight on the players during introductions in the dark. 🙄

How did it get upgraded to a flagrant 1?

We’re flirting with a winless February…

Something to watch...