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I doubt Groce forced him out. Dawson played meaningful minutes on this year's team, which in all likelihood will be far more talented on paper than whatever our roster looks like next year. Had he returned, I think it's a given he would have had a role in the rotation given the state of our current roster. It might not have been the role Dawson wanted however.

Scroll through the pictures. They just had this arena built in 2020. I don't think anyone could tell me with a straight face that the JAR is nicer than this. https://www.athleticbusiness.com/project-galleries/architectural-showcase/m1UCQrt96Q/atlantic-union-bank-center-james-madison-university#next-slide

Personally, I feel NIL would go further with basketball anyway. You really only need 8-9 contributors on a basketball team and of those you only need 2-3 of them to be All-MAC caliber players. Football you need considerably more and those players are likely fetching more as well since football is much more popular.

I agree, it's not like the NCAA was behind NIL. They had their hands forced by the courts. Any restrictions they attempt will likely just get met with more lawsuits.

I imagine it's also easier and cheaper to retain players on your current roster as they already decided to play for Akron once. If you try to go after the 'free agents', who have no connection to the area, you probably have to pay a premium to get them to come to Ohio vs Florida or a Southern Cal school.

I was going to go to the feartherootrust.com, but the website doesn't seem to work for me. Was anyone else able to give it a look?

The collective might just be made up of a dozen or so Tommy Evans Lounge types. Perhaps they will look to expand.

Honestly, I might be in the minority, but I'm not all that impressed with Coit. He's a career .416 shooter and .354 from 3. The only scoring that he does efficiently is free throws, but it's not like he gets to the line a ton. ~18 ppg on ~15 fga/gm just isn't all that good. He's a chucker on a bad team.

That's because at NIU he was the #2 scoring option. At Akron he was relegated to being a distant #3 option as he had 2 All-MAC players ahead of him in the pecking order. If you have the ball in your hands less and you take fewer shots, naturally you're going to score less. At Akron he was pretty much asked to be a 3 & D role player. That's the role he filled. I wasn't necessarily thrilled with his performance here, but we pretty much got what we recruited.

I agree it was an underwhelming hire. I do think Calhoun has done some nice things at YSU as he took a perennial bottom feeder and made them a consistent contender. I just think he's the kind of coach a MAC, MVC, or Sun Belt school would target.

The non-blue bloods are the ones plucking the talent from conferences like the MAC. Case in point, All-American Mark Sears at Alabama. I'm not saying the system was designed to intentionally screw the bottom 15 conferences. I'm saying that just happens to be the end result.

The MAC is just the AAA for the top 11-12 conferences. The system as constructed is never to even out given how far we're down in the food chain. It's turned more into just developing players for others.

Home and home. The return trip will be on the Allegheny

Redshirting only makes sense if you don't think he's ready to play. Our roster is very thin at the moment.

I wonder if Dru would be more open to scheduling home and homes against Akron. Low travel costs and decent OOC competition.

They promoted one of the assistants to be HC

This was probably the toughest poll. We've been blessed with good PF.

I would imagine it's more about trying to keep the ball rolling and build on their success. If they go out and try to bring in an external candidate, the bulk of their players likely transfer and they have a 'year 0' with a complete rebuild.

Toledo and Kent have no problem doing it. It wouldn't make sense to handicap ourselves against our competition.

For Polsky, the only thing that would make sense is converting it to office space and then sectioning it of so that it could have multiple tenants. Obviously Akron isn't in the real estate business so it's only something they could do if a developer showed interest.

It just made gambling more mainstream. The NCAA tournament just set record viewership records at a time when fewer and fewer people are watching live TV. Now that the can of worms has been opened, the leagues are making more money and politicians are generating more tax revenue I don't see it going anywhere.

That wasn't even the first time Toledo was caught for point shaving. They also got busted in the early 1950s.

Honestly, I think the University should consider right sizing itself to reduce overhead and eliminate debt. It probably won't happen because they're in the process of a major renovation, but selling Polsky would have made the most sense. I know it's used for some classes currently, but with enrollment down they could easily move those back to campus. They could also try selling Quaker Square, but that might be harder to find a buyer for.

Point shaving wouldn't be new to college hoops. There have been numerous scandals over the years.

I'd be surprised. CMU finished 4th in a down year for the MAC. Any AAC, MVC, or A10 AD would have a hard time selling that to their fans.