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I wasn't aware this feature existed. I'll keep it in mind.

Balsy posted a press release by Matt Wilson, our president and the person who this thread is concerning. He didn't even make any comments in regards to it. Just simply posted the article. YOU'RE the one that derailed this thread by you trying to get your political agenda a crossed. This is the same way you take every opportunity you can get to bring OSU into a discussion. If you want to get into a lengthy debate about how OSU sucks or how you feel liberals are loony bins, go create threads in the off topic, smack talk section. I'll make sure to avoid them. Edit: I admit I've personally foolishly taken the bait a few times, but no more.

BPI has the MAC rated 12th and RPI has us 15th (we'll probably finish ~13 in RPI at seasons end). That's pretty much on par where we've been historically. What makes this year different is the bottom of the MAC has greatly improved, meanwhile, the top (outside of Akron) has gotten worse. Campbell's injury is probably partially to blame for why there isn't another team there pushing us. It's better to be a top heavy conference for tourney bid purposes, but overall performance I'll say we are about the same.

Briefly skimmed through the NIU message board and encountered some pretty great stuff. They went from a top of the world feeling when they had that big 1st half lead to complete pitch forks we need to fire our coach mode. http://csnbbs.com/thread-807490.html

The guy speaking called Cincy Ohio State Junior College in reference to Fick getting his pick of the litter on those transfers.

If we can't be that defense that defends for a full 30 seconds and forces our opponents to take difficult shots, we need to be a defense that can create turnovers. We came into last night ~300 in the country in steals averaging ~5 per game. Last night we had 11. The way we played defense that 2nd half is the way we'll need to play defense down the stretch if we hope to get into a position to pick up that ever elusive NCAAT win.

So I heard on the radio today that OSU is going to need to trim it's roster of 7-8 guys to make room for all the new signees. Something to keep an eye out for.

The Zips won a thrilling game on the road. We are all winners!!!

You still would have won betting NIU as Akron didn't cover the 3.5

I hope akzipper turned the game off and went to bed.

We don't have ISO players yet we try to play ISO ball. We need to keep running the offense that has got us the lead.

Figure if Big Dog keeps shooting these percentages from the line hack a Big Dog will gain steam.

Unlike Aaron Jackson, I'm not ready to give up on Josh Williams.

Need to keep up this defensive intensity, just because we are back in it doesn't mean we can let up.

Josh Williams is 1/5 shooting. If he isn't making shots, he provides us no value.

We are forcing turnovers. Just need to hits shots.

We have the best starting 4/5 combo in the MAC yet our bench bigs are stiffs. Need to get Hughes healthy and hope he can contribute.

We got out rebounded 19-10 in the 1st half. If that doesn't change in the 2nd half I don't care how hot we get in 2nd half, we won't win. If our defense can't get stops, we need to create turnovers.

I'm calling it now next years Akron team will end Dambrot's coveted 21 game win streak.

Glad I'm listening to this game on the radio and not watching it. Idk if my eyes could handle it.

According to this, I believe so. It lists him as a kicker with WR as a secondary position. http://scoutingohio.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid=13570

I don't have numbers, but I felt we did a slightly better job of running them off the 3 point line in the 2nd half. This however resulted in them blowing past us on their way to the basket. We don't have guys that can both play tight and keep their man in front of them. We tried to stop both and it resulted in us stopping neither. This is a poor defensive team and honestly I'm not sure it has the ability to ever be good giving what I've seen from our personnel. Hopefully we can get it to average and keep playing at a high level offensively.

Akron is favored by 3.5.

17 would seem about right. Assuming every freshman redshirts (not necessarily the case but a high % do) 85 scholarships divided by 5 years comes out to 17 players per year. Sure attrition such as; players transferring, quitting school, or in the case of Lane declaring for the draft makes it so not all players stay 5 years. But we take on, or at least in the past have, a lot of transfers so that offsets some of that.