kreed5120

Here's the game winner in case anyone hasn't seen it or you just want to see it again. https://mobile.twitter.com/LiveOnASN/status/829138837448310785/video/1

I left after the Big Dog shot thinking it was a buzzer beater. Didn't find out until I was at my car that they added time back.

Time to go on a run to put this out of reach.

Defensive effort has done much better. Now we just need our shots to start falling.

An over the back 90 feet away from the hoop that results in free throws at the other end is a bad foul. He has 29 fouls on the season in 121 minutes of play with a large chunk of them being away from the basket. That's a foul roughly every 4 minutes. Hughes struggled with fouling early on, but he hasn't committed more than 2 fouls in any game since Air Force. In fact the last game he committed 2 fouls going into the Ohio game was when the Zips played Coppin State.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch

Yes, to everything.

I say Zips come out looking to redeem themselves after Saturday's loss.

He accumulated 5 fouls in 13 minutes of play, including an over the back 90 feet away from the basket which put Ohio at the line for 2. If I'm not mistaken he had another defensive foul away from the basket to put Ohio at the line as well. He's a big reason why Ohio spent the bulk of the 2nd half in the double bonus. I feel he has potential, but he needs to learn to play defense without acquiring fouls at rapid rates.

Sure that definitely has played a factor. I just feel if we don't have a rich history of tradition to sell, we'd be better off on selling the kids on our vision for the future and how they will be the ones to help us achieve it. The University between paying for the IPF, new stadium, and bring in a coach with a recognizable name has showed it's willing to invest in the program.

When I read more minutes for Aaron Jackson and Olojakpoke, I cringed. Getting Hughes back into basketball shape while he refines his game will be vital. I'm for getting more minutes out of Utomi/TDM and fewer out of Josh Williams.

They've been producing pro-bowlers consistently for decades. If I counted right the below link lists 57 players that went onto have NFL careers with various different degrees of success. That doesn't even count the players that flamed out after a year or 2. Over that same time we've had like 4 players that have went onto have actual careers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Miami_Hurricanes_in_the_NFL In 2015 alone they had 7 players drafted. That's about as many players Akron has had drafted in the past 20 years combined. Between the years of 2000 and 2015 they have had 93 players drafted, which is 2nd only to the team that you refer to the Suckeyes.

Not to mention Josh Cribbs, Edelman, James Harrison, and Antonio Gates just to name a few.

So we have outstanding offers to at least 6 RBs (Assuming all accurate). Clearly being addressed as a position of high priority.

I like to see we are targeting guys all throughout Ohio along with western PA and MI. Kind of hard to make any clear takeaways as so many of those guys hold 5-10+ offers.

Pessimist? I'm a realist. People were jumping ship on Akron basketball after the YSU basketball game and I was the one telling people to not be hasty over 1 game. Same can be seen in the Ga So and other various early season basketball threads. Just because I'm not pleased with the current state of the football program doesn't mean I'm a pessimist. I'm just not going to sugarcoat things as I see it. We have differences of opinions. Not everyone is going to share the same opinions. I want the team to succeed as much as you do.

The fact they went onto NFL careers at all is extraordinary. Only the top 1% make it and on average an NFL career lasts 3.3 years. I also appreciate they show their pride in being Zips. Stil doesn't change the fact the average 18 year old kid has never heard of them.

+1

There is no evidence to show that it has helped us over the past 5-10 years, but now that he is going into the HoF suddenly the Dade County kids will be wanting to go to Akron. Good to know. I hope you are right. You do realize LBJ goes to Akron games and occasionally drops by to practices and such. When you commit to Akron, you know you'll see Lebron a few times per year. I'd buy into JT being a boost to our recruiting if he actually would stop by for a game or 2 or would attend a spring practice.

I concede it was unfair for me to call Smith a bust. He had a productive NFL career. Blackburn did ok for himself for being undrafted, but he was a career back up. Nothing to write home about. Hixon was the #4-#5 receiver on a SB team. Hixon had 1,492 yards and 7 TDs in his 6 NFL seasons.

Yeah, I have a meeting scheduled at work until 5. Hopefully it doesn't go over as I'll have to haul a** as is to make it to Akron, park, and get into my seat before the 6PM tipoff. Unless you work in downtown Akron, I imagine most people that work standard business hours will have similar problems.

I inferred it to be Fat Lives Matter, but could be wrong.

I have no problem with Zips tweeting out about Jason Taylor or having an alumni fundraiser in honor of him around HoF weekend. In fact, we SHOULD do those things. I just think it's ridiculous that people believe some 18 year old kid would sign to play with Akron today because a guy played for Akron 20 years ago. It would be different if we had a history of producing those guys, but the only promising NFL player we've produced since is Brown and it's too early to know how his career will turn out.

Sure there are some guys that will be wanting to go to places like ECU just to get away. Being able to talk more and better talented players to stay home will be key if we want to take the leap from being borderline bowl contender to serious MAC contender. It's how a school like Houston has been able to compete with the big boys for the past 2 years. Nobody said it would be easy. NEO is one of the more heavily recruited areas in the nation. That still doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. We've done a better job of getting Summit County players this year. Hopefully we build upon that next year by adding more and hopefully expanding our footprint further out to the suburbs until it eventually extends from Canton to Cleveland and from Canton to Youngstown. Every year getting a little more selective. Edit: Urban Meyer has transformed OSU into more of a nationwide recruiting school. He passes on those upper scale 3* players that Tressel and prior OSU coaches targeted. It would be nice to land 1 here and there.

Personally, outside of recognizing T.O. as the tremendous player he was, I'm indifferent to him as a player. I never cared for 49ers, Eagles, or Cowboys and still don't. I just feel it's an example of how the current system is flawed.