kreed5120

I feel we'll settle upon an 8 man rotation with Poke and Walter only getting a minute or 2 here or there. I don't see where Poke will be able to pick up meaningful minutes. There is no way I want any combination of Riak, Sayles, and Poke on the floor at the same time. That means there is only 40 minutes to go around for all 3. Riak and Sayles are both capable of giving you 20 minutes so it leaves Poke as the odd man out.

So everyone in attendance will get one.

I agree, LCJ is in the middle of a severe 5 game slump and really we have no option but continue riding him in hopes he will figure things out. Cheese is listed as the backup pg, but he looks much better when he's playing off the ball compared to when he's trying to create offense for others

Why would you put yourself through that torture?

I would have penciled this in as a win 2-3 weeks ago. Now Akron's play has gone to crap while EMU is now starting to look like the team that was picked to win the MAC West. If we drop this we're 1-3 with 2 games still left against Buffalo.

Given how gloomy the men's team is looking I figure I'd look to see how the lady Zips are doing. They're now 11-3 overall and 2-1 in the MAC. The lone conference loss being against CMU whose just sitting outside the top 25.

This is what I saw as well. When they went cold offensively in the 2nd half they started to look like they didn't want to be on the court. NIU got every 50/50 ball plus some they had no business getting. NIU played with a lot of confidence and hustle. We quit.

If we want to be a 3 point shooting team how about we get some players that can shoot a 3 pointer...

We're going to have to make a 3. They're packing the paint to prevent dribble peneyration.

NIU scoring a lot this 2nd half off broken plays.

Risk is getting buckets, attracting defenders, and creating open looks for teammates. Where has this been all year?

Attacking the basket early, I like it.

EMU just pulled their starters up 37.

PCCC is also down 20 to EMU

The Keith Dambrot years aren't the problem. It's all the years the proceeded those. Let's look at the number of tourney appearances by the schools ahead of us and see how well they did in those appearances. Miama - 17 appearances, 4x Sweet 16 Ohio - 13 appearances, 3x Sweet 16, 1x Elite 8 PCCC - 6 appearances, 1 Sweet 16, 1 Elite 8 Ball St. - 7 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 CMU - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 Toledo - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 WMU - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 Akron - 4 appearances, 0 tourney wins I don't see how anyone can argue against Miami, Ohio, Kent, and Ball St in those top 4 spots. After that it gets a bit clustered, but the teams ahead of us all have 1 Sweet 16 run.

I thought Mexico was going to pay for it?

Budget wise, having Akron at #2 is pretty accurate. Ohio and Akron pretty much go back and forth year to year on who spends the most money on men's hoops. Below are the most recently published numbers. The JAR is still serviceable, you're right. It wouldn't make much sense for an athletic department that already runs deep in the red to spend money on a new arena when the current one is still structurally sound. That being said, I'd definitely say there are 9 MAC teams who have a nicer arena than ours.

It actually sounds fairly accurate to me.

Stadium conducted a survey of league coaches to determine the best coaching jobs in the MAC. Overall they had Akron as the #3 rated job in the MAC. Below I have a link a long with a graphic which shows what 8 categories they used to rank the programs. Personally, what I'm most surprised to see is Miami at #9. Had this survey taken play 20 years ago they'd probably be #1. https://watchstadium.com/news/mac-college-basketball-coaches-rank-the-best-jobs-in-the-conference-01-10-2019/

Does anyone know if we're busing to the game or did we charter a flight like we have sometimes done in the past?

That's correct http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/sep/01/why-doesnt-ysu-play-mac-teams/

There is no requirement that we have to play an FCS opponent. We don't have one on our schedule this coming season. If we need the money bad enough that we're willing to sacrifice a home game for it let's at least make it worth our while.

I really hope that idea of playing at Chattanooga was just something that was tossed out as an idea, but then quickly scrapped. You only play 12 regular season games and 4 OOC games. If we're that pressed for cash, just schedule (insert P5 school here) and collect the ~$1.3 million. Pay Chattanooga their $300k and use the other $1 million to pay down debt on Infocision.

Looking at NIU 2018 roster and the only Ohio player I'm seeing is PK Andrew Grantz from Dayton. Looking at their 2019 recruiting everyone is pretty much from IL, IN, or WI. I don't see any of these guys finding their way onto Akron's roster.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie, I'm a tad disappointed we're inheriting the entire UTC staff. There has been a lot of talks of us wanting to recruit NEO/Western PA. I was expecting we'd see a staff hire or 2 to show that.