kreed5120

First off, LeBron didn't create super teams. IDK where this idea came from. People seem to forgot a big reason LeBron left the 1st time was to overcome the super team of Boston. Before Boston there was the Lakers who added Malone and Gary Peyton to a team that already had Kobe & Shaq. The Cavs sucked for the 30+ years before LeBron was drafted, they sucked the 4 years he was away in Miami, and they will suck for at least the next several years now that he's gone. Our only window of opportunity in the Cavs 48 years of existence to win a championship was LeBron's 4 years back. When you have a chance to win a title, you go all in. The Bulls sucked when Jordan retired, the Lakers sucked when Kobe was on the downturn of his career and retired, and so on. That's the price you pay for win now mode. The Spurs have been the lone exception and even they're on the verge of needing a rebuild. Did the Cavs overpay TT and JR? Sure, but even if both players signed for half of what they got the Cavs would have still been well over the cap and still couldn't have signed anyone. Had they let TT walk they wouldn't have won a title 2016 as their starting center would have had to be someone that would have had to of been willing to take the tax payer mid-level exception (roughly 3 million for 2016). Personally, as a fan that title was worth TT contract as it brought Cleveland it's 1st championship in 50 years. Who cares it cost Dan Gilbert 2-3 extra million per year. It's not like the money is coming out of your pocket. JR has 1 more guaranteed year and TT 2 more guaranteed years left on his contract. Neither contract is really a hindrance to our long-term future.

Millenials make up the largest group of cord cutters so we obviously don't find it all that entertaining.

It's just going to lead to more G5 vs G5 games as bowls will pass over 7-5 MAC/C-USA for a 5-7 Florida/Georgia/Illinois/etc. I don't know about you guys, but I like seeing MAC and other G5 programs have the opportunity to pull off upsets against bigger name programs on a national stage.

Why stop at 43? Let's expand to 65 bowls so all 130 FBS schools can make it. Also, instead of calling them bowls, let's change the name to participation trophies.

Seems petty bringing up a 16 month old tweet.

That would be ~$570 in today's dollars. Stills seems like a solid deal.

I'll wait for the facts to present themselves before casting judgment.

It certainly wouldn't hurt the MAC to adopt a similar type system, but at the end of the day we'd still need to pick up a couple resume building OOC wins to have any chance.

I don't know how the argument can be made that the baseball job is better than the men's basketball job. Akron's financially committed and offers the full allotted scholarships in basketball. In baseball we'll be lucky to have 6 scholarships if the plan is to have it be a self funded program like it has been talked about. The only argument that I can see if job security. In baseball if we're at or near the bottom if the MAC every year it's not a big deal because it's expected. In basketball that won't fly.

I'm fine cutting corners as well. I just don't understand why they wouldn't be able to start the coaching search and begin the interview process now. Its not like an offer letter couldn't be written to have a July 1st start date if that's what the hold up is.

We have a young team that finished 11th in the MAC last season. Racing to 20 losses isn't the way for us to rebuild our program. These young kids need to build confidence. Losing by 30 to (insert blue blood) won't do that. We should look to schedule tougher when we have a team that is capable of actually making those games interesting.

How does that impact starting the interviewing process?

Nice to see the stadium will fill up for once.

The fallacy in the argument is Akron hasn't shown a commitment to want to win at women's sports. Volleyball - Finished 10th out of 11 Softball - Finished 12th out of 12 Women's basketball - Finished 12th out of 12 Women's soccer - Finished 12th out of 12 Akron not having a plan in place to replace Jodi and showing no sense of urgency in filling this position for what's easily the highest profile women's sports shows you women's sports are very low on their list of priorities. It also shows the position isn't better than BGSU as they went out and got the hot name before someone else could snatch them up. One program is looking to win. The other is just looking to fill a Title IV requirement.

They had to of known by mid-season that she had to go. She might be the winning-est coach in Akron women's basketball, but she still in 12 years made only 1 tourney and had a cumulative 89-113 conference record. If the plan wasn't to fire her it probably had more to do with the fact Akron didn't want to pay to buy out her contract.

http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-is-making-more-money-than-ever-off-of-subscribers-2017-12

It might turn into something close to that number if the NCAA really does get rid of the must sit out for a year if you transfer rule.

Just because we might not have any current available scholarships for 2019 doesn't mean we won't have at least one by next April. It's highly probable that 1 or more players transfer.

I'm going to guess the fact he's averaging a turnover every 3.28 minutes plays a factor in why he hasn't played more at South Carolina.

Adding more D1 sports seems counterproductive to balancing the budget. I'd rather seem them just properly fund the sports we already have first.

The below article says he was also considering PCCC. Glad to see he made the smart choice. https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/former-flyers-forward-williams-picks-new-school/BoBEMNEUml75EgmXpevyEK/

He should make for a very nice stretch 4

With the size and depth we're accumulating in the back court I'd have to believe the plan is to play Utomi at the 4 for 10-15 minutes per game.

There is definitely some sort of balance needed. That being said I think this is a good slate of teams. All these teams are pretty much good to great, but it's not like they aren't beatable. If we come out of the tournament 0-4 we just don't have that great of a team.