kreed5120

We want Bama!

Receiving a vote isn't that high of a threshold. Some voters even intentionally include an under the radar team that they don't feel gets enough attention in their 23-25 spot. If our win streak gets north of 15, we might sneak onto someones ballot.

It's usually around the time that people start talking about at-large bids or getting votes in a poll that we suddenly have a head scratching loss.

Replacing dead weight NIU with UMass will greatly improve the MAC's chances of competing in this in future years.

NIL exists in the NFL. It's just called endorsements. Any star player will make far more in the NFL than they would in college when you factor in both their NFL salaries and endorsements. The players who can make more in college are the guys who are terrific collegiate players, but are practice squad talent at the NFL level. A guy who jumps out to me is Amando Bacot (I know he's basketball) who was making more at UNC than he is now making in the G-League. I think that post was more a knock at Brandon Marshall and his poor money management. Jeremiah Smith has only made a few million at the collegiate level. Obviously that's a healthy sum, but Brandon Marshall should be worth 10s, if not 100+ million, had he not recklessly spent his career earnings.

I actually think QB might be the one position that it's useful to recruit straight out of HS. Even if they sit a year or 2 that gives them additional time to learn the system so those years aren't a complete waste.

You left us blue hairs I see.

The issue is they scheduled the 2nd leg too early. At the time South Alabama was the 2nd best team in the SunBelt (per NET). In the last 2-3 weeks they have fallen off the cliff. Dropping 50-60 spots in NET. Had they delayed scheduling the second leg another week or so, we would have been paired with Troy, which on paper is a quality matchup.

AD is kind of a figure head position anyway. It's not practical for one person to be a SME in ~15 different sports. What's important is they put people in place that know what they're doing, work with the school and donor base to make sure the staff has what they need, and work out contractual obligations with internal and external staff. Bud kind of already has stepped in and became a volunteer GM for the basketball program. He's already giving the program more attention than what any AD conceivably could as its his sole focus.

At the time this game was scheduled South Alabama was ranked #2 in their conference. Since then they have lost 3 out of their 4, 2 of which was to an abysmal ULM. Their lone win was an OT win against an equally bad Rajun Cajun squad. I'm not sure if they've dealt with injuries or what, but their play has regressed significantly in the past couple of weeks.

To be fair, all year would be 2025. Had he said all season, it would be St. Mary's. I still think on the grand schemes Miami is better than Ball State.

AJ Clayton is back for Ohio. They should be improved moving forward.

Moorhead is obviously a respected coordinator. The thing about OSU is they pretty much have their pick of the litter. Kelly left being a head coach at a P5 program to become their play caller. He's now going to be the top paid OC in the NFL. Their defensive coordinator just got hired away to become the highest paid coordinator in CFB. Whether you're wanting a 2nd chance to revive your career or you're just wanting a brinks trunk of money, getting an OSU coordinator position seems like an easy path to the top.

I was going to make a similar type of comment when I saw this post this morning. I decided it wasn't even worth responding to lol.

The sites back up so the tears may start flowing again.

The Stryker family gave WMU athletics $50 million around the time of covid. I'm not sure how WMU went about spending it.

In the big picture we're all the Pittsburgh Pirates. Duke, UNC, Kentucky etc are the Dodgers/Yankees. Programs like Dayton would be like the Guardians.

I believe UMass is somewhere in the neighborhood of $250k-$300k and it was reported they would have biggest NIL in MAC hoops. That would make me guess Akron is in $100k-$200k range. Large enough that it's a competitive advantage. Not large enough that other programs can't overcome if they learn to get their sh*t together.

Have you seen the MAC?

I don't make much of the NIU win as they are, even by their standards, having a horrible year. Per NET there are only 10 teams worse than them in the entire country. I'm more confident after the Kent game. Not because Kent is good, but because Kent is the type of team that would have bullied us around in November with their physicality. We've definitely have been more assertive and cleaned up many of the things that were plaguing us earlier in the year.

Every year the NBA has players from overseas that get drafted at the end of the first round or 2nd round who never come to the NBA. My guess is they wanted his draft rights in case he decides to join their league in the future. A two-way NBA contract has to pay better than the Puerto Rico league. He probably only plays in Puerto Rico if his NBA career flames out.

I said stay in the game with a chance of winning late. They were certainly in the game against Ohio in the closing minutes. I never said if they force us to play their style of ball that they would definitively win.

By the metrics (NET & Kenpom) Kent is still ranked as the 2nd best team in the MAC. Kenpom has their defense ranked #53 in the country. Kent can only stay in the game (with chance of winning late) by making it physical, slowing the pace, and forcing Akron to play sloppy offense. If Akron's able to control the tempo, I think we'll be able to win fairly comfortably (10+).

Hopefully that day comes on a cold February evening, not in Cleveland in March.

You forgot 4) shoot too many 3s