kreed5120

Recruiting rankings are far from a perfect system, but I do feel they are a useful tool if for nothing else to see where the top rated players are going. As you can see in the below link Akron has 3 of Ohio's top 100 rated players (#94, #95, & #100). What I noticed is we are losing a lot of guys in our own backyard to low P5 and G5 schools. Todd Sibley #15 - Pitt Danny Clark #18 - Kentucky Kadeem Trotter #46 - Syracuse Travis Koontz #47 - Bowling Green Kyle Vantrease #49 - Buffalo Tyrone Chambers #51 - Toledo DeAmonte King #61 - Toledo DeCavilon Reese #64 - Marshall Coby Bryant #65 - Cincy Vincent McConnell #73 - Cincy Chris Anthony #75 - Kent State Domininique Robinson #81 - Miami (Oh) Jabari Taylor #83 - Cincy Adam Mahelic #84 - Miami (Oh) John Speelacy #86 - ECU Donte Taylor #91 - Miami (Oh) Jimmy Daw #92 - Ball State http://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings?State=OH

I agree Jason Taylor playing at Akron 20+ years ago will have little to no effect on recruiting. Everyone that coached and recruited him is long gone and perhaps retired. What will impact it is if we are able to produce Jatavis Brown type players. Guys that weren't highly recruited out of high school which Akron helped them not only get drafted, but become productive players in the NFL.

Having the best team in the MAC the past 2 years has certainly helped.

Congrats to Jason! In related news I see the HoF left out T.O.

Thanks, I needed to hear a good joke to lighten the mood. Mods - You going to do anything with this troll?

You should probably be worrying abOUt the Bobkittens being able to beat WMU in a potential play-in game.

And how many of those were free throw makes from OU. It's just natural that the down in the final few minutes presses trying to chase points. Have Big Dog in when we were up 5 and I don't feel we surrender the lead.

Big Dog pretty much sat the bulk of the 2nd half the same game Kwan had his wortst game of the season. I'm not going to fret over the loss.

Well moving onto Ball State game Tuesday.

Big Dog should be coming back.

I wish we had Hughes right now.

Going to put them in the bonus before 2nd TV timeout.

I'm more concerned that Big Dog has 3 fouls than that the Zips are down 5. We can easily overcome a 5 point deficit with Big Dog out there. I don't think we're that good of a team when he's on the bench. Edit: Big Dog is going to have to play smart this 2nd half and hope he doesn't get a bogus whistle.

Big Dog with a bogus 3rd foul. Zips shooters NEED to wake up.

Trademark of E, committing poor fouls. Need to get Hughes back.

Can't buy a shot.

Suppose it depends on what betting agency you use. Link you sent me showed me 4 betting sites. 1 had no spread given, 2 had it as a pickem, and 1 had Akron favored by 1.

When I checked last night OU was favored by 1. Now it is a pickem

Big Dog regular season FT% is shot at this point. Hopefully he can have a few consecutive good games from the line down the stretch to build confidence. If he can hit 65%-70% of his FT during the postseason, I'll be happy.

Kwan

If you're scared of Big Dog having the ball, you might as well pull him from the game. NIU in that situation didn't need to foul. They fouled because Akron was still in the one and ones and was hoping Big Dog would miss the 1st shot, which is the equivalent to a turnover. They wouldn't have fouled another Zips player catching the ball, however, they would have fouled Big Dog the 1st time the Zips tried to feed him the ball in the low post.

I took it upon myself to find a bracketologist that would give a concise answer on where Akron stands. He said if he was to rank them among the bubble teams today, he'd have them 12-15 spots out. He estimates an Akron 11-2 finish, including loss in final, would put them right at the bubble with a 50/50 shot of getting in. Question: Hi Dave, I see that you have the Zips as your 49th seed. I imagine that it is fair to assume that means you have them out if they don’t win the MAC as things currently stand. Roughly where would you place them in regards to the other at-large candidates? Reply: First, thanks for your interest in Bracketville. The biggest hurdle facing Akron is a lack of “Quality” wins and/or opponents. The MAC isn’t helping. As of this morning, Akron is 0-2 vs. Top 100 teams and they’ve played 11 of 21 games against teams ranked 200+ in the RPI (10-1 against those teams). No shame in losing at Gonzaga or Creighton, but there isn’t much else to showcase. The BPI has them at 76, but with a better SOR (Strength of Record – 34, a relatively new metric). Akron is No. 99 at KenPom. Their overall SOS and NC-SOS numbers are over 200. In other words, the numbers don’t look favorable. But there is a caveat (at least right now). The bubble is mired in mediocrity, with a bunch of teams posting significant sub.500 league records and other issues. And winning still matters. So in a round-about way, I would put Akron somewhere in the group of four teams maybe 12-15 spots away. It depends on how metrics might be used. Example: Wichita State is similar in some respects, but the MVC is a little stronger at the top. WSU has a notably higher BPI (24) and KenPom (21) marks, although worse in the RPI. If Akron avoids another “really bad” loss and wins the MAC with say a one-loss run, they’ll be in the conversation should they lose in the MAC final. But at best, it’s probably a 50-50 deal in that situation, depending upon teams around them. Long way to go. https://bracketville.wordpress.com/s-curve/

Yeah, if you take Big Dog out we are a 73.8% FT shooting team. We have players we can get the ball to if we need to ice games. Unfortunately if our offense keeps playing at the high level it is and Big Dog keeps missing FT at the rate he has been, teams will soon realize that hack a Big Dog might be their best strategy to steal a few extra possessions, particularly in 1 and 1 situations.

According to this we offered him in May 2016. I'm not sure if we pulled that offer or what, but he must of been on Bowden's radar at some point. http://247sports.com/Player/Andre-Williams-57233/TimelineEvents

I went back and found the poll, which was still open, and voted that.