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To be fair only the top 10 or so C are drafted each from a pool of 351 D1 schools. There are really good college basketball teams that don't even get their best player drafted. Whether Lane gets drafted or not heavily depends on how his numbers read at the combine.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

Kent football has continued to be terrible since Nielson took over as AD and for a school that has declared their goal is to be a basketball school, their hoops program has regressed as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they are in the market for a new AD in the coming years.

I don't see this necessarily bringing waves of fans in, but it is nice to see them try something new to try to get fans more engaged in the game. Who knows it might provide a few smirks and a couple laughs. I'm all for anything that improves the atmosphere, especially in a contest the Zips hopefully run away with.

I haven't seen a promotion like this since the Browns organized a bottle throwing on the 1st botched call that cost them the game and their season.

I'm going to assume Akron either intends to burn a timeout or the teams and officials agreed to a stoppage of play. Maybe Akron is just willing to accept the technical. Either way it's definitely the plan.

Well I guess we're going to have to go 13-0 next season and test this theory...

I've seen it on social media. They are giving away 1000 shirts. They are doing the toilet paper toss. Also, teddy bear toss at half-time. Edit: Hopefully I end up with a white shirt as I don't own any white Zips apparel.

Like I said I agree with you. What is the marginal cost to educate, house, and feed a student athlete? IDK the answer to that, but I'd bet it is certainly less than the 25k-30k they quote. Losing the TV money, CFP money, Guarantee money from P5, what would be increased travel cost, lost notoriety, and whatever else would make it so that we are giving up more than we are gaining if we were to move down.

I'm in agreement with you Captain, but it should be pointed out that the reduction in football scholarships would perhaps open the door to cutting a women's sport so that 22 scholarship savings might actually be more like 35.

Isn't this like our 5th straight season facing them?

It did neither IMO. Teams that are wanting to schedule a solid team to either help their OOC SOS or as a tune up for conference play will continue to schedule us. The schools that don't want to risk an embarrassing defeat will continue not to.

We did have stretches where we made 3's on back-to-back possessions. We just couldn't come up with the stops defensively. Akron being such a 3 point heavy team allows us to erase deficits pretty quick. It also puts us in a big hole when they aren't falling. Being down 8-9 points with 3 minutes left isn't an insurmountable lead. It's ridiculous if you think it is.

More likely it is the fact a 9 point lead is only a 3 possession deficit for the opposing team when they're a prolific 3 point shooting team like Akron. Creighton knew they had to continue scoring as Akron is capable of putting up points in bunches themselves. Edit: If Mac felt the game was well in hand he would have went to his bench the final few minutes.

We were without our starting PG and went into a hostile environment against an elite Creighton team and competed for 40 minutes. If you don't think we competed then explain to me why McDermott played 4 of his 5 starters 18+ minutes in the 2nd half, including Patton the full 20? I've heard everyone all year say this is one of the worst Dambrot teams. This team didn't look like one of the "worst Dambrot teams" last night. I actually came away more hopeful on our outlook for the season after the game than I went into it feeling. Upsets in the regular season are talked about for a week or 2 then forgotten. Akron, like all mid-majors, will be judged on postseason success. Give me back Robotham and I feel we could compete against a lot of high caliber teams this season.

I wish we could see this Kwan more consistently.

Our only hope this game was to hit >40% of our 3's and win the glass. We've done neither. Edit: Missed shots just lead to fast break opportunities the other way.

TDM is playing terrible.

I'd have to imagine the Zips will slide Antino to point, Williams to the 2 guard, and insert Ivey into the starting lineup. TDM coming off the bench being the combo guard. We will need someone to step up big time at the 3 to give Ivey ~15 minutes of rest.

We might not of had Natson last year, but we were fully aware of what he was capable of considering we saw him play at Utah State. I certainly hope we are better as a team next season. If not, Bowden better be out the door. I'm not fretting or losing sleep over the loss of Lane. As I said there are other areas of this team that we can more than offset his loss. I'm just acknowledging the fact that it will be pretty evident our receiving core won't be as good next season as it was this season. That's just recognizing a fact. The same as it was pretty evident our linebackers this season weren't going to be as good as last season after we lost all those players to graduation. As you have stated and is obvious players only stay 4 years. Of which most starters start for only 2-3 years. This means with constant turnover the strengths and weaknesses of your team are ever changing. WR might not (and probably won't) necessarily be the weakness of our team next year, but it won't be the overwhelming strength neither.

I don't see anyone here saying we should just hang it up and forget about next year because we lost Lane and Jojo. However, I'm not going to sit here and pretend we aren't going to miss what they provided us. The strength of our team this season was our WR core. We enter next season with it being an unknown. There are still plenty of other areas where we can improve as a team (QB play, O-line, D-line, Linebackers). Perhaps 2-3 years from now these young receivers will be better than Lane or Natson. I just don't expect them to be next season.

What I was getting at is the average NFL career is 3.3 years. Many 6th and 7th rounders don't even make the roster of the team that drafted them. Being able to make a roster as a rookie isn't necessarily the most challenging part. Being able to fight off incoming rookies year after year and turning it into a legitimate career is what the challenging part is.

Whether he gets drafted in the 6th round or signs as an undrafted rookie really isn't what matters. The real challenge will be him making an NFL roster and sticking 2+ seasons.

Dambrot entered that game 6-0 vs YSU. If you play the same team enough times eventually they will beat you. We've played and beat 3 teams that I feel are better than YSU (GA So, Air Force, and Mercer). This isn't to say we aren't without our faults. We have things to work on if we want to win the MAC and have a chance to make noise in the tourney. I wouldn't put it past the realm of possibility. We have some nice players. It's just a matter of putting it all together. The MAC looks down this year which should help the cause. The MAC is 1-9 vs. RPI top 100 (our win vs. Mercer is sole RPI top 100 win) and is 10-30 vs. RPI top 200.

I can see him going in the 6th or 7th round. Another year of college would have improved his chances of not only getting drafted higher, but actual be able to stick around for 2+ years. I'm not going to question his decision as it's his life and idk his circumstances. I wish him the best. Edit: As a fan I've always viewed it as if you can go in 1st 2 rounds leave. If not, stay unless you feel an extra year won't help.