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I definitely support offering an outright scholarship to attract a kicker and punter. Not a fan of offering a long snapper a scholarship.

To me it's not even an issue about the MAC. Teams in general have been shying away from the traditional big. Hell Golden State won 2 out of the last 3 NBA titles playing a 6'7 guy predominately at center.

The comment I was responding to was you calling the Zips midgets when their projected starting 5 will be on par, if not taller, than the Dambrot lineups we're accustomed to. You seem to now be changing your argument, which is a completely different discussion. If Riak is too skittish and KLac picks up too many quick fouls to be effective centers that means they failed for lack of talent, not because they weren't tall enough. Obviously E-Man health is a factor nobody can predict.

Give it a rest. The starting 5 of Big Dog (C), Kwan (PF), Antino (SG), Noah (PG), and Ivey (SF) was 384 inches If the Zips elect to start Poke (C), Sayles (PF), Ivey (SG), Hester (PG), and Utomi (SF) that's 390 inches Even if you swap out Hester (who I hear is more of a SG) for the shortest guy on the team (Loren Jackson), the Zips starting 5 will be 383 inches. There is even a chance Riak beat out Poke for starting C spot and that would add 2 inches to these numbers.

I'm not concerned that we only have 1 scholarship senior. History shows you can count on 1-2 players to transfer per year.

Athletics has certainly helped the OSU, Duke, and Alabama's of the world. What I'm interested in knowing is how much the Elite 8 run helped PCC, the Sweet 16 impact on OU, and BCS/New Years Day bowls impacted WMU & NIU? Side note: I'm really genuinely curious. I've never really heard hard numbers in any of these circumstances.

Sure he was good enough to play on a bad A10 team that was short handed much like Akron. The A10 wasn't as good as it normally is and Duquesne played the 273th SOS. Their schedule was weaker than all 12 MAC schools.

Looking at his career numbers, I have no interest in him. I think Groce can do better. .408 fg% .302 3pt % 1.35 assist/turnover ratio

I feel there is a large amount of people on this board who would agree with you.

We sucked because our roster was deprived of ready to play talent. We were forced to play true freshman, who probably should have been red shirted, and walk-ons. If all those guys that played were 2 inches taller we still would have been terrible.

If we could keep all religious debate confined to this thread and out of the sports threads, I'll be a happy camper. You guys can jump topic to topic for all I care.

I feel there are a lot here that would agree with you. I'd love for Zips basketball to get a new arena, but it would be a huge waste of student and/or taxpayer dollars. If there was money to be made off a downtown arena a private developer would be bankrolling the project.

The JAR is still structurally fine. I posted a report on this site 2-3 years ago that detailed the report conducted by that independent party that conducted the feasibility study on the cost of repairing the Rubber Bowl. Long story short, the Rubber Bowl was totaled. Building a new basketball arena while continuing playing football games at the Rubber Bowl wasn't an option. The option was either build a new football stadium or disband the program. Infocision was built at a cost of $61 million. That's really cheap compared to most other stadiums built and renovated in that same time period. Could have they built it a little smaller and saved a few million? Probably, and honestly they should have. It still would have only saved a few million dollars at most. Not enough to fund a ~$70 million basketball arena.

I was just posting examples. People on this site don't get upset (or at least I hope not) because you share different beliefs. Most here seem to be tolerant people. It's the fact you seem to always find something to argue over and the tone you take when arguing. It's not that I dislike you. I just dislike the fact you engage in long winded debates regarding topics completely unrelated to the thread at hand.

I'm not defending anyone here. You're right there are a select few others that do it too and I hate when they do it too. I really don't keep score on who does what more. I distinctly remember getting in disputes with Skip in the past for him pushing his agenda a crossed too. The type of stuff I get mad at you for most of the time is your self need to correct everyone on everything. Exhibit A: Going on a rant how Easter is a pegan holiday Exhibit B: Despite not knowing where I stand on any political issue (as I do my best to avoid them on this forum) you really tried arguing over how politically biased I am. This is the type of stuff that irks me along with others.

Frankly I don't care if they pray or not and I wasn't really personally offended by anything you said. I'm just sick of seeing the back and forth political debates overtake the sports section on this forum. Part of what makes sports great is it's suppose to be an escape from reality. The back and forth bicker is honestly driving down the amount I frequent this site. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

It was pretty irrelevant information to the topic at hand and completely derailed the thread, hence why the mods moved it. I, like many, come to this forum to discuss Zips sports, not to debate whether team prayer is a violation of separation of church and state.

@Let'sGoZips94 I'd get your point if they were talking about adding an additional 1-5 teams, but with 28 added teams there certainly would be multiple mid-majors getting in that wouldn't have otherwise. There are only so many P5 teams and they certainly aren't going to allow an 8-24 Pitt team in.

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

What does OU, Buffalo, and Kent have that enables them to have ceilings of winning 1 or more tournament games, but makes Akron incapable of such a thing?

Love the thread rename. Once again another thread hijacked by Balsy feeling the need to impose his political and/or religious beliefs on others...

16 seeds are now 1-135 against 1 seeds and he's talking about having a 32 seed play a 1 seed? If they decide to expand I feel expanding to 96 would be the way to go. 128 is too many.

The taxpayers of Akron and Summit County spoke. They have no interest in funding a multi-purpose arena with taxpayers dollars. That ship likely sailed when the John S Knight Center was built.