kreed5120

Even a school like Dayton isn't above losing its coach to a bigger program. In today's world at the mid-major level if a coach stays in a place a long time it means he's doing enough to not get fired, but not enough for bigger programs to want him (look at WMU). What he had with Dambrot was the exception, not the rule. I hope Groce is at a (insert big name program here) in 5 years. That means he won at Akron and did his job.

C-USA has performed worse than the MAC in both football and basketball since the latest realignment. I'll pass on that.

They have Bowden on right now instead.

Listening to 1350 right now and they said they are trying to reschedule for later this afternoon. Groce is currently unavailable.

Without Wichita State and Creighton the MVC is a shell of its former self. Even if we were to take football out of the equation, I'd personally rather stay in the MAC to preserve our rivalries with Kent and Ohio than move to a conference that is marginally better.

I'm actually more optimistic about Antino returning after listening to that WZIP interview.He wanted to make it known that he is still considering Akron.

You go the Van Wilder route?

I wanted to throw my laptop when that kid asked about the trivial 21 win per season streak. The only things I found useful out of listening to the entire press conference was hearing we have 1 assistant (Dustin Ford) while still searching for our others and hearing him say what type of ball we expect to see. All the other questions were either poor or the answers doctored to not really say a whole lot.

Facebook feed is up and going.

Zippy is our new coach?

I'm not one to really speculate until I at least hear some rumblings. I've yet to hear anything. I imagine a lot of that has to do with the fact he's trying to acquaint with an entirely new pool of candidates. Any word on who will be on his staff?

I'm not sure I want to take my basketball insider information from a guy with a twitter handle of garbageman31 who has a whopping 60 followers.

Has anyone ever gone to one of these meet-and-greets? What are they like? I'm contemplating whether or not to rearrange my schedule to attend.

It would certainly quiet the naysayers.

No chance. He's the 29th ranked player in the country and has offers to several blue bloods.

We signed another 4 year deal with Marshall so they'll be on the schedule for sure.

We played @Villanova and @Akansas as part of the pre-season NIT tournament. Those were not buy games. We played @Creighton and @Gonzaga because we landed ourselves in a 2nd rate tournament and wanted some teams on value on the schedule. Our only home and home this year was Marhsall. The other games we purchased.

It would be nice if the ABJ would assign us a beat reporter that at least attended UA. Maybe this way we'd get someone who views the position as something more than just a paycheck.

At the mid-major level it's all about locking up quality home and homes as trail of tears tours do nothing but destroy your program. Dambrot often made reference that we couldn't even get "our old friend" Huggins to agree to a 1 and 1 or even a 2 and 1. I expect Duquesne to now be something better than a perennial A-10 bottom feeder. It would be nice if we can sign a 4 year home and home with them. It could be the start of a good rivalry, meanwhile, it's a short trip for both.

He didn't have to take the Akron job. He has offsetting language in his Illinois contract so every dollar we pay him, that is 1 less dollar Illinois has to. There is no doubt in my mind that had he taken the Indiana assistant gig this season, he would have had offers next year.

I don't feel strongly one way or the other. I can see both sides of the story. I just like the Zips are still financially invested to want to continue and build on the success that Dambrot brought. How this hire works out we'll have to wait and see.

Typical GT, wait for someone else to do the legwork then post what they find to make it look like he is actually doing his job.

You bring up some valid points, but the MAC BEast is the only division that matters. The MAC West is the JV division.