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Now if they would actually quit talking about the Browns for 30 seconds to field a call about the Zips, that would be great. I personally like listening to the Bull and Fox on 92.3 the fan on my commute home from work. I remember last year the night before the start on MAC tournament quarterfinals Adam "the Bull" asked Dustin Fox (a guy who does MAC announcing on the side and self proclaimed MAC fan) who he had winning the tournament. Dustin Fox kind of shrugged the question off like it's a waste of their time talking about it. He did eventually say "Akron, because they were suppose to be pretty good." From there they moved onto talking about the Cavs or Browns.

Ball State fan reporting we are on their schedule. Ball State: Home: UAB, Tennessee Tech, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Miami, Toledo Away: Illinois, Western Kentucky, Akron, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan

I don't think they can change the date of the game on 4 days notice. edit: for selfish reasons I hope the Kent game gets moved to Friday as I'll be out of town that Saturday

This is where I saw it. No links were posted so idk if it's 100% accurate. http://csnbbs.com/thread-806403.html

Georgia Southern is now 7-0 in Sun Belt play and sits in sole possession of 1st place. When it's all said and done this might end up being our best OOC win. Nothing to be all that excited for, but at least 1 of the opponents we bought turned out to be good/decent. Can't say the same for Radford, Coppin State, nor American U.

I'm not too concerned with what FCS opponent we schedule. It's not going to make or break our schedule. Hopefully we run up the score big in the 1st 3 quarters so that our backup QB, whoever that is, can get some real game reps. Troy and Iowa State should both be challenging yet winnable games.

Toledo fans are reporting their schedule was released and we are on it. Haven't cared enough to look and verify.

So looking at this we are probably 3-4 weeks away from being ranked as long as we keep winning and all else remains constant.

We added bodies certainly to the position, but its still to be seen if they can play at the FBS level or not.

I haven't gotten the chance to watch the home broadcasts as I've been at the home games. The fact it has apparently led to us getting more of our highlights shown on local news will make it pay for itself over the long-term. I like the idea of it eventually being run by students to minimize cost and to provide students with a valuable experience that should help them in their related field. Going beyond the ESPN minimum requirements to maximize the full benefit is also great. I personally don't care enough about soccer to make the ~30 minute one way drive up to Akron for games. I would however tune into an ESPN3 broadcast from time to time to watch some of the bigger matchups.

AP Poll came out and Akron stayed steady with 1 vote as I imagined. Middle Tennessee and Illinois State, who I felt should have been ahead of us before and I'm guessing are in most voters eyes, also received a vote to tie Akron. The CPD AP voter IMO jumped on the bandwagon a little early. I feel the gap between us and #25 has narrowed and we'll start picking up more votes as the weeks progress assuming we continue to win. http://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

The person that made it is a Gonzaga fan and from his comments he seems pro mid-major. He's just trying to provide an objective opinion on how he sees this playing out with the selection committee.

I stumbled a cross this on reddit. It lists the at large resumes for relevant non P6 teams using Kenpom.

You'd have to add at least 1 loss if you're insinuating Akron as an at-large team. Certainly no other MAC team would remotely be in a position to make tourney without winning the MAC tourney. A 30-4 Akron team I'm guessing would get in, but I don't see us going 18-0 in MAC play. We still have 7 road games left to play.

The best solution IMO if there was actually a long enough waiting list for the lower section is that you track how often those lower bowl seats are scanned. Anyone that doesn't attend 66% or more of home games is subject to lose their seats at the time for renewal and someone on the waiting list gets them. I believe the lower bowl sold out just shortly before the start of the season so I doubt there is a waiting list, but if we ever actually grow one I feel this would be the best system.

If only we could hit free throws...

And fouls per minute

The mass exodus of people I saw leaving the JAR with 3-4 bobbleheads when I was walking in was pretty incredible.

Those freshman decommits shouldn't impact this season as I'm guessing the vast majority of them wouldn't have seen the field as true freshman. WMU lost some seniors (all schools do), but they also have a lot of held over talent from Fleck having the #1 MAC recruiting class 3 years in a row. Akron lost its 2 best receivers, perhaps best o-lineman, 2 starting DE, and #1 corner so its not like Akron's coming out unscathed. Unless there is a mass exodus of transfers, I'm feeling WMU can get to 7 wins. I don't see Akron getting to that total, but would love for them to prove me wrong.

Yeah, the 1 vote we did get was from a local AP guy (Cleveland). We are a far ways off from getting enough people to buy in for us to be ranked. Win another ~5 games while ACC, Big 10, and other power conference teams continue to beat up on one another and then we should be in the discussion.

It's no different than Mel Kiper and the NFL Draft. If he was half as good at evaluating talent and projecting where players will go in the draft as ESPN claims he is, some NFL team would have hired him for millions of dollars years ago. Your personality and the way you're able to communicate your point is more important to ESPN than how accurate you are.

FTFY Last year a study was done and it discovered Lunardi is one of the least accurate bracketologists out there.

Agree. Flying out to Salt Lake and playing an opponent like Duke, who who will drive up ticket prices, would cost me more than what I'd be willing to spend. Give me Xavier or Saint Mary's in Buffalo and that would be a game well within my budget.

Robotham has been quiet since he had that hot stretch in December. I think he gets hot from behind the arc and drops 17 to lead all Zips scorers.

Yeah, TBH I don't know why they waited until half-time to hand them out. Why couldn't we just pick them up before the start of the game to beat the rush? We're season ticket holders. Not like we will take it then turn around and walk out the door.