kreed5120

I'm guessing CBS Sports picks up the Akron/EMU game. The Akron/Ohio game was picked up by CBS Sports, however, the game date still stayed Saturday but the time moved to a noon tip-off. More times than not if CBS Sports picks up the game it moves to Friday, but the possibility does exist that the EMU game could get picked up and still be played Saturday. http://www.gozips.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/2017012435norh

I'm going to guess it's that Dambrot likes to play the conservative method as the fewer possessions, the less opportunities an opponent has to overcome a lead. I'm not going to criticize him for that approach as he is extremely accomplished and is way more knowledgeable about the the game than I'll ever be. That still doesn't mean the inner fan in me doesn't want to see Akron curb stomp a team like WMU.

I never really thought the game was in doubt. We didn't look as good offensively in the 2nd half because we were waiting ~15 seconds before settling into our offense. We quit moving the ball around and we stopped pushing the ball in transition. We were pretty much playing against the clock instead of WMU that 2nd half. This led to a lot of contested forced shots late in the shot clock. Shots we wouldn't have been stuck with had we just kept the offense flowing.

With Portage County Community College knocking off NIU if Ball State 8 point half-time lead holds over EMU, we'll be 3 full games up in the MAC 7 games into the conference season.

Yeah, I'm not going to complain getting the "W" on the road. People asked what it will take for Akron to gain steam in AP voting? Akron not only needs to win, but they need to win in convincing fashion. Voters weren't watching this game to see Akron was up 23 before taking their foot off the gas pedal and coasting to victory. They see a box score that says Akron won by 10 points on the road against a not very good WMU team.

Same happened to us last game. We had our offense running in the 1st half then kind of come out in the 2nd and focus on burning the clock. I never understood why you don't keep the foot on the accelerator when the offense is flowing. Same bothers me in football when teams go to prevent defense and it lets the other team back into the game.

Nvm

I saw CBSN picked up the Akron-Ohio game. The gametime got moved from whatever time it was suppose to be to noon, but it is still on a Saturday. I kind of thought that was odd as when one of our home games gets picked up, it always gets moved to Friday.

delusions of grandeur

We aren't even the trendy mid-major team right now. That distinction goes to 17-2 UNC-Wilmington followed by 16-4 Illinois State who recently knocked off Wichita State. We probably would gain more votes by these 2 teams losing than we would by any of the other relative P6 teams losing. http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/1/24/14370256/mid-major-madness-power-rankings-week-10-gonzaga-saint-marys-illinois-state-winthrop (Note College Insiders doesn't include C-USA teams as the conference said they don't want to be a part of it)

The point that I was trying to convey last week, but I was indirectly told my viewpoint made no sense. Last weeks vote was just 1 mans opinion. There are 64 other voters. Just because 1 guy from Cleveland had Akron ahead of Middle Tennessee, Utah, and Illinois State among others doesn't mean the other 64 guys felt the same. Edit: We really don't have any chances this week to pick up signature wins so any votes we gain would likely be a result of teams ahead of us losing. It's kind of hard to say if we'll pick up votes without knowing if the teams directly ahead of us will lose. The top 22 probably could all lose and stay on most peoples ballots.

I like the concept, but hate the fact they only list the top 16 (Top 25%). It would be like the CFP committee hosting a show and only telling us 1 of the 4 teams in. They could at least give us a top 40-50 so that we could see what teams are in the bubble discussion.

Yeah, in general I feel a lot of it stems that outside of March Madness, college basketball just isn't that big of a thing in NEO. Even the people that claim to be OSU fans probably couldn't tell you their record and name their starting 5. You'd still like to see media outlets that are viewed/listened by 10s of thousands of people per day talk positively about something their city is hosting. Not that it would convince people with no interest to go, but it might get people who were on the fence or are just basketball fans in general to fill it is worthwhile to go downtown and see.

Now if they would actually quit talking about the Browns for 30 seconds to field a call about the Zips, that would be great. I personally like listening to the Bull and Fox on 92.3 the fan on my commute home from work. I remember last year the night before the start on MAC tournament quarterfinals Adam "the Bull" asked Dustin Fox (a guy who does MAC announcing on the side and self proclaimed MAC fan) who he had winning the tournament. Dustin Fox kind of shrugged the question off like it's a waste of their time talking about it. He did eventually say "Akron, because they were suppose to be pretty good." From there they moved onto talking about the Cavs or Browns.

Ball State fan reporting we are on their schedule. Ball State: Home: UAB, Tennessee Tech, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Miami, Toledo Away: Illinois, Western Kentucky, Akron, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan

I don't think they can change the date of the game on 4 days notice. edit: for selfish reasons I hope the Kent game gets moved to Friday as I'll be out of town that Saturday

This is where I saw it. No links were posted so idk if it's 100% accurate. http://csnbbs.com/thread-806403.html

Georgia Southern is now 7-0 in Sun Belt play and sits in sole possession of 1st place. When it's all said and done this might end up being our best OOC win. Nothing to be all that excited for, but at least 1 of the opponents we bought turned out to be good/decent. Can't say the same for Radford, Coppin State, nor American U.

I'm not too concerned with what FCS opponent we schedule. It's not going to make or break our schedule. Hopefully we run up the score big in the 1st 3 quarters so that our backup QB, whoever that is, can get some real game reps. Troy and Iowa State should both be challenging yet winnable games.

Toledo fans are reporting their schedule was released and we are on it. Haven't cared enough to look and verify.

So looking at this we are probably 3-4 weeks away from being ranked as long as we keep winning and all else remains constant.

We added bodies certainly to the position, but its still to be seen if they can play at the FBS level or not.

I haven't gotten the chance to watch the home broadcasts as I've been at the home games. The fact it has apparently led to us getting more of our highlights shown on local news will make it pay for itself over the long-term. I like the idea of it eventually being run by students to minimize cost and to provide students with a valuable experience that should help them in their related field. Going beyond the ESPN minimum requirements to maximize the full benefit is also great. I personally don't care enough about soccer to make the ~30 minute one way drive up to Akron for games. I would however tune into an ESPN3 broadcast from time to time to watch some of the bigger matchups.

AP Poll came out and Akron stayed steady with 1 vote as I imagined. Middle Tennessee and Illinois State, who I felt should have been ahead of us before and I'm guessing are in most voters eyes, also received a vote to tie Akron. The CPD AP voter IMO jumped on the bandwagon a little early. I feel the gap between us and #25 has narrowed and we'll start picking up more votes as the weeks progress assuming we continue to win. http://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll