kreed5120

The MAC this season is the worst it has been in a number of years. No team is going to come close to sniffing an at-large bid at least in the NCAAT. Akron would be a bubble team for the NIT currently.

That bracket has the 3 MAC schools as 7 & 8 seeds, which means really none of them would get in. The NIT gives auto bids to regular season conference winners who fail to win their conference tournament. There is usually 8-10 of those per year from 1 bid conferences. Those teams get the 7 & 8 seeds in the NIT.

This was posted on a MAC sports thread. Apparently as of now the tournament is on, but seats will be limited.

A MAC tournament better get played this year as there is no way all these games can be made up. It would be total BS if Akron finishes the season something like 15-4, but loses the conference because Toledo went 16-4.

He has shown flashes that he could play. I said it when he entered that portal that I thought he would do well in a conference like the American East, which is where he ended up. The bigs there aren't as big or athletic as the MAC so he will have a physical advantage over most

A lot of schools are hurting financially because of covid. Schools like OSU could certainly offer additional scholarships a crossed all sports and that would give them an even bigger competitive advantage compared to schools like us that are struggling to keep the lights on.

Yes, I was confused by this as well. Littleson also picked up his 4th foul with about 6 minutes left. He's one of, if not the best, 3 & D guy in the MAC this year. Getting him or Jackson out of the game could have really changed the complexion of the game.

You guys are looking at the wrong end of the court. We scored enough points to win. We lost because Toledo shot 50% from the field, 44% from 3, and 89% from the line. Add in they outrebounded by 9 and did a good job of not turning it over then it's easy to see why we lost. This was a team loss. You aren't going to win too many games when you need your team to score 92+ points in regulation to win

You just aren't going to win games when your opponent shoots 50% from the field, 40% from 3, and 90% from the line. Add in the fact they're out rebounding us by 10 and it's surprising we're not down more

Would be nice to attack the basket considering both their guards have 4 fouls

Man the MAC sucks this year. The first 2 years these rankings came out I think the MAC had at most 1 team at any given moment ranked 300+. This year 25% of the conference is that low. Toledo has an NIT at-large resume. They won't sniff March Madness without the MAC's bid.

The AAC doesn't want to be a part of the poll, which is why they're excluded. The WCC does want to be included, which is why Gonzaga is included.

Frankly we need to play better team defense than we played 3 weeks. The #1 MAC defense shouldn't give up 83 points in regulation

I feel we're playing better team basketball now than we were when we played Toledo 3 weeks back. Back then we kind of knew we were going to get 20+ from LCJ, but didn't know where else the points were going to come from. Now we're able to win games without LCJ needing to score much

I'd say M. Jackson is in the competition as well. This award is as much an individual award as it is a team one. The last time a player won it and his team didn't finish top 2 in the MAC was the 2009-2010 season.

It was great a few years ago when nearly every MAC conference game was on ESPN+. I not only was able to watch the Zips games, but I could flip to catch the end of some other games that interested me. It never gets boring to watch Kent lose.

Dambrot would have gone back to making something in the neighborhood of $600k/yr. If I recall right that big bonus was a 1 time bonus built into his contract for staying past a certain date. I don't think it's fair to say that Dambrot left purely because of the money. He turned down the Duquesne job I believe twice and 1 of the Florida C-USA schools that were willing to offer more than what he made at Akron. He probably turned down some others along the way as well. I feel it had more to do with Dambrot knowing that his time as a coach was nearing an end and he wanted to experience a tourney run before it came to an end. He has said in numerous interviews that he doesn't plan to coach well into his 70s. His last Akron team was probably his second best team from a talent stand point and he was going to need a complete rebuild as Kwan, Big Dog, and from the sounds of it Noah also made up his mind to leave. Meanwhile, his fathers alma mater came to him and showed a commitment to want to win. Either way it worked out for us. It's still to be determined how it will work out for Keith. If he isn't able to get a tourney win at Duquesne then I'd say it was a bust for him.

We don't have much room to talk. We thought a new football stadium would elevate our football program...

One would think the school with Ball in their name would have the arena named the JAR

I just feel the MAC was better in the 1980s-early 2000s than it is today. The MAC use to actually send players to the NBA (Boykins, Bonzi Wells, Kaman, Wally, Harper) and actually competed for at-large bids. That and the tournament wins i why I have Coles ahead of Dambrot, but certainly the argument could be made otherwise.

Who is the greatest Akron coach vs who is the greatest MAC coach would be two entirely different discussions. As of today I don't think either is a debate. Dambrot is still the most accomplished Akron coach. I'd say Charlie Cole was the greatest MAC coach. With times things can change. Edit: Huggins proved to be a better coach than either of them thus far, but his success didn't come at Akron.

I don't see the appeal in moving our best rebounder further away from the basket.

Groce would need to stay here 8-10 years IMO before it would even be worth start comparing resumes. Last years team was pretty great. It would certainly up there with Dambrot's best teams, but that was only 1 season.

You took the words right out of my mouth

I don't think anyone here has anything against people who were hesitant at first of the hire. It was more so the people who posted Groce first year that were posting in a way that made it seem they were getting enjoyment out of Akron having a bad year because Dambrot wasn't the coach that irked this board. You see those same type of fans posting on the football board currently.