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Unless I missed someone, Jimmy Hall is the only other MAC player.

For 2018 and beyond recruits, I'd say no unless Groce feels that are a player worth continuing to pursue. I haven't seen tape of Gavin and have no idea what type of player, but he is drawing interest from above average to very great mid-majors so he may very well continue to pursue him.

His offer list is alright. It's more on par with 3* prospect instead of 4* so the rating agencies might just be grading him higher than what D1 teams are currently.

If we can't get 2,000 people to show up to a 6PM Tuesday game (I'm talking actual butts in the seats) when the date is picked months in advance and the time ~14 days in advance, I'm not sure why anyone would expect we'd have hundreds of people show up to a meet and greet on 24 hours notice and that's assuming you follow Zips social media and actually saw it in your feed to know it was taking place.

Other outstanding offers are currently Toledo, Ball State, and Indiana State.

I was wondering this too. The below leads me to believe there is, especially since I'm not aware of a surplus sale after the basketball season ended. I wouldn't be against buying an 'Akron football' polo', however, I hope there is just general Zips gear that I can wear year round. I couldn't go last year as I was in Vegas for a bachelor party that weekend so maybe someone else can provide a clear response. "old game jerseys (including football)"

We are on page 16 of the Groce discussion. Like CK said I'm not sure what is left to talk about until we actually see stuff happen. This thread has the 9th most replies (and growing) on the entire basketball forum with the #1 being the coaching search thread, the #2 being the 4 year running Duquesne/Dambrot thread. There has been plenty of discussion. In fact, the basketball board has never been this active.

Jimond has the physical attributes. I'd say Antino is the more polished player currently, however, Ivey has the higher ceiling.

God have mercy. At least summer is right around the corner for you.

I'm not a big fan of preseason in any sport, but I'll make an effort to stop by to pick up some office wear swag (is that the hip term kids use these days?).

Is Sayles still coming?

If we are going to have this ridiculous conversation can someone at least state what Antino's actual degree is in? Given the time committments required to be a D1 basketball player I highly doubt he is an engineer or a law student, both of which people are trying to use in this dick measuring contest.

I'm a big fan of placing it over top Lee Jackson Field since we aren't getting a baseball team back anytime soon http://rs279.pbsrc.com/albums/kk143/faeini1/stirthepot.gif~c200 Edit: I fail at embedding

Or in the case next year, most likely 4

I'm not going to judge Groce off of this years performance. If he puts us in a position to contend come March, he's a miracle worker.

I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Our goal every year should however be to win both.

Winning the MAC regular season and MACT means you are winning 16-17 games alone. It blows my mind that anyone wouldn't want to accomplish both. After all that is what Gonzaga has been doing for the past 20 years. Isn't that what we all want to see Akron become?

I don't know much about the guy, but from the little I have read he seems to have some pretty great credentials.

Sure, if you play in another conference besides the MAC

Call me selfish, but I want to win the MAC regular season title, the MAC tournament, and win 20+ games per year. If you do the 1st two, it's a 99.9% chance you'll accomplish the 3rd. Why do people feel we only have to pick one of the three?

Same with winning MAC regular season title and making NIT.

At this stage I'd rather us just target JUCO and grad transfers to fill out our roster. The last thing I'd want is us committing 3-4 scholarships for 4 years to kids that aren't good enough to be big time contributors. It would be far better for us to put ourselves in a position that Groce can recruit 4-5 next year who fit his system who he has an entire year to scout.

My comment was directed towards the MAC still needing to be on cable TV for the exposure as Sling TV still only has about 1.2 million subscribers and Playstation Vue another 400,000. For comparison there are still about 86 million cable subscribers. Until those numbers grow to rival cable subscribers, the MAC still needs to play on cable. I personally have PS Vue so I'm well aware that skinny bundles are an alternative to cable. The way things are going they will eventually pass cable in subscribers. We just aren't there yet.

Javon Pickett just decommited from Illinois. He had a handful of other others. All of which were to mid-majors. https://mobile.twitter.com/JavonPickett/status/850709867576926208 http://247sports.com/Recruitment/Javon-Pickett-89408/RecruitInterests

I listened to the Groce interview on the Tay and J Show. Nothing that we haven't heard already.