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I think Maine is better then they're preseason projections. Based off their performance so far they'd be a mid-tier MAC team. It looks like they prefer to play a 4 guard lineup similar to us.

Yes, I agree it's an extremely easy drive to get to. Also, downtown would make it so fewer students would attend. If anything I wish the arena was next to the football stadium on exchange that way it would be more convenient to go to the bars/restaurants before and after the game.

Enrique was always a 1 dimensional scorer (back to basket) with a shooting range of ~7 feet. He's elite in that 1 facet, but that's the limit to his offensive game. What you're seeing is teams are able to send hard double teams at him freely to force the ball out of his hands or make him force a shot. Defenses couldn't do that as freely as last year as he was surrounded by shooters that would make them pay. If Hunter, Hankerson, Tavari become consistent from 3, you'll see Freeman get back to being the offensive force he was last year.

Actually it's more the students picking up the check through the student fees. Athletics is really just a marketing arm and community engagement tool for universities.

They don't need to leave the NCAA as the NCAA doesn't really receive any of the football revenue anyways. Without the G5 schools like Ole Miss, Rutgers, Boston College, etc would instantly become annual 1-3 win teams. The value the G5 has to the P5 is it allows their middle and bottom tier schools to pad their win total enough to keep fans interested. Perennially winning 1-2 games a season kills a fan base. We've witnessed that first hand at Akron. The Big 10, SEC, etc don't want that for their fans. They would rather just keep throwing peanuts at the G5 to keep their fans engaged.

I don't really feel strongly one way or another with this hire. Probably someone of credentials is the best they can do given what they're willing to spend. We probably would have had to someone similar had extenuating circumstances not made JoeMo fall into our lap.

The game was on a Sunday during the same time as the Browns game and the opponent was Jackson State. I have season tickets and I didn't even bother going. It's not a marketing issue here. It's a scheduling a game against an irrelevant school most people have never heard of while trying to compete against the Browns issue.

Last years team with Ali & Dawson is frankly better than this years team. At least as of right now.

To be fair @Z.I.P. never stated Yellow Tail was the absolute worst on his wine scale. The 2nd half vs Jackson State was pee poor, but I've witnessed worst halves of Zips basketball in the past. He might have a lower tier of wine to represent those.

If you exclude Kent, Akron, and Toledo Wright State is about on par with the rest of the MAC this year. These are the type of games we need to win, particularly at home. That said, I expect given Akron's offensive woes that we'll be upset by a few subpar teams this year. I still have Akron winning, but wouldn't be surprised if Wright St makes this game interesting.

It's like Akron thought the game was over and quit playing. Not boxing out & instead of chasing down loose ball they just let other team pick it up and lay it in uncontested.

Even though Tavari makes a few of those head scratching freshmen mistakes each game, he's still a better option to have on the floor than the alternative. Hopefully with more experience by February and March those mistakes become fewer and fewer.

Already looking ahead I see.

Tribble and Hunter

Nobody rolled out the red carpet bigger than Rick Pitino with his strippers and prostitutes

On the plus side if they joined the MAC may no longer be the worst conference in FBS.

We're 8 games into the season, which is a decent sample size. We're shooting 40% from the field, 31.9% from 3, and 60.3% from the free throw line. Our average shooting night is still pretty horrendous.

Looking at his Twitter it seems he's on a lot of teams radars.

With Irons this team has a much higher ceiling. Irons has areas he does need to improve his game (As can be said about nearly everyone). Namely in getting through his progressions quicker to find the right read, and simply understanding at times its best to throw the ball away to live for another down instead of taking a costly sacks that kills the drive. Hopefully with an improved o-line and another offseason with JoeMo he improves in these areas.

Were we at the full allotment of 85 scholarship players heading into this season? I thought @LZIp in the past had tracked that and we have been in the 70-75 range in previous years.

Wish him well, but if he's a 5th string RB at a 2-10 FBS school it makes me question if he'll have many suitors

Last one to leave remember to turn off the lights.

Akron to Cincinnati is a hell of a move. He must have family in the area I assume

The Sun Belt is an upgrade over the MAC

Kent is just a tough place to win. They schedule 3 games a year against the likes of Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Oklahoma, etc. That means they have to go go 6-3 in all other games just to make a bowl. Their facilities are absolutely terrible. As I understand it what they budget for assistants is near the bottom half of the MAC. Their AD publicly has come out and said the athletic programs focus is basketball. Lewis likely just felt he achieved all he could at Kent and it wasn't even enough to get him into the discussion for what I'm guessing is his dream job at his alma mater (Wisconsin). He probably feels going back to being a P5 OC increases his opportunity to get where he wants to be.