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Where did I comment on his talent??? His tweets rubbed me the wrong way when Dambrot announced he was leaving.

I'm actually glad to see Dalton leave. It's the first player I said that in regards to.

An earlier article stated he sat out last year for basketball unrelated reasons and spent the year at home for "personal reasons". Perhaps he's wanting to play someplace close to home. If that's the case maybe the team Akron is really battling for his services is Niagara, not Georgetown.

I just assume all heights are overstated by 1-2 inches.

I do agree that TE is a bit of a luxury pick, but we are in desperate need of play makers on the offensive side of the ball and the receiving class was pretty weak so I understand the move.

We now own both the Texans 1st and 2nd round picks next season. Hopefully they finish poorly.

They also traded up and finished with 3 1st rounders overall.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/akron/ua-students-tweet-earns-his-class-free-popsicles-gatorade-after-tweet/434879667

Adding a guard that can contribute immediately makes a lot sense, especially since we only have 1 scholarship senior.

It was a tad exaggeration as I'm not entirely sure where we will finish as the MAC should be in for a down year losing 12 out of its 15 ALL-MAC team players and that doesn't even include Campbell, Antino, and Noah. My bigger point was I don't feel the Zips would have been good either way.

We have 10 scholarship players that can play next season. I see no harm in having 1 player that has to sit out 1 year. We'd still have 2 more scholarships to play with.

Can't really fault him for not getting playing time on a very talented Florida team. If he was good enough for Florida, he is good enough for me.

They very well might end up being terrible evaluators of talent. Time will tell. Either way I feel they have a really good plan. Now it's just a matter of if they can turn that draft capital into players that can actually perform. As long as teams are willing to continue giving up next years 3rd rounder for this years 4th rounder, I expect the Browns under this regime to always expose that market deficiency.

It's a small upgrade I'll say going to the MW conference school. I imagine he hoped for something better. Personally, I think given everything else we lost, him returning wouldn't have made much of a meaningful impact. Instead of finishing 8th now we'll finish 10th in the MAC. What this does do is free up some minutes for our younger players which should hopefully help speed up their development.

And you must have been in the pisser when the Zips played offense...

One draft is too small of a sample size to give a fair evaluation. A huge part of last years draft was acquiring extra picks for this year and next years draft. It's also too soon to speculate how Coleman and others from last draft will pan out. We actually picked up Jamie Collins using a compensatory pick they acquired from letting one of Gibson, Schwartz, or Mack walk (not sure exactly which one). I believe in the philosophy of acquiring picks and exploiting other teams overvaluing this years picks over future years picks to maximize our return. They are pushing the envelope to find ways of acquiring more assets. Now it's just a matter of hitting on those picks and statistically speaking the more picks you have, the better your odds should be. For once I actually feel the Browns have a real plan that is something more than just trying to rubber band and glue a team together then hope for the best.

They were for sale at the surplus sale.

Calm before the storm...

Duquesne has a young guard of their own that has shown he can perform at the A-10 level. He was pretty much playing all but 2-3 minutes of each game down the stretch. If anything that argument would work against Duquesne.

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Make it happen Groce

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Revisionist history. The dude made 62.5% of his shots despite consistently facing double teams this year, which placed him among the tops in the entire NCAA. It's not like Dambrot was out there shooting the basketball for him. A coach would be a moron not feeding the ball to a guy who makes 62.5% of his shots who also shown the ability to find open teammates by his ability to attract extra defenders. I was at the MACT and saw him score nearly 40% of our points against Kent. We lost because Antino and Kwan combined for 5 points on 2/12 shooting. Big Dog and Ivey were really the only 2 players who showed up that game. Without Big Dog we would have lost by 20.

This is what is concerning to me. We're going to be asking many of the same people who stunk up the joint to be big time contributors on defense. We then are down arguably our top 4 offensive players from last year (Lane, Jojo, Tuley-Tillman, and Woodson to start the season). I'd feel much better if we had a healthy Woodson and if we landed 1-2 grad transfer DE to help sure up that D-line that got manhandled last season.

Below is a list of some players who have gone through IMG Academy. There are players who emerge after 1 year of JUCO. I guess I don't see how this couldn't be any different. Renaldo Balkman, former forward for the New York Knicks.[4] Michael Beasley, currently power and small forward for the Milwaukee Bucks Satnam Singh Bhamara, center playing for the Texas Legends; the first ever Indian to get selected in the NBA (drafted by the Dallas Mavericks) Ramel Bradley, currently playing for Hapoel Holon in the Israeli Super League Earl Clark, forward for the Delaware 87ers[6] Erick Dampier, former professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA Taurean Green, currently plays point guard in Spain for CB Gran Canaria; drafted in the 2nd round (52nd overall) in 2007 by the Portland Trail Blazers; also played for the Denver Nuggets Ricky Sanchez, drafted in the 2nd round of the 2005 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets; currently plays for the Santurce Crabbers of the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico Dwight Powell, current forward for the Dallas Mavericks. Jonathan Isaac, college basketball player for the Florida State Seminoles. Dwayne Bacon, college basketball player for the Florida State Seminoles. Elton Brand, who has played for multiple NBA teams Patrick Patterson, current forward for the Toronto Raptors.