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  1. President Matthew Wilson

    in General UA & Campus Discussion

    Posted

    Like him.  Don't like him.  Savior.  Place holder. 

     

    Whatever the case, the Board of Trustees hopefully have learned from their mistakes.  Scarborough was in an awful position of having to lay off all those employees, but he also had no sense of PR.  Wright State has horrible finance issues and when their president was pushed out they put a provost or someone in as interim president.  The interim then made all the tough decisions so the new president wouldn't have to be the one firing people.  So maybe Wright State learned something from the Scarborough fail.

     

    No excuses for the Board this time.

     

     

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  3. NCAA Tourney Thread

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, LZIp said:

    Buffalo off to a hot start. Not sure if I should root for them or against them.

    100% against.  Plenty of teams in MAC I would support in tourney.  Buffalo isn't one of them.  Ok Buffalo's had their 20 minutes of fame.  Time for Arizona to wake up.

  6. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    8 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

    I spoke with a member of the staff this Sunday and he said all were sorry to see Version leave but no one would miss his lack of control and immaturity. The staff felt this was best for the team and the culture they wanted to achieve. That may be a good sign because Groce is looking long term, not necessarily seeking to leverage a great season for a better job as fast as possible. Spare me the comments that Groce will leave ASAP. I believe he will leave one day too, but I feel he will build a higher level of expectation than KD did before leaving. I'll take it. Akron is a stepping stone job, not a destination as much as I hate that.

    I remember all the posts in the various threads about how John Groce and his staff are going to leave as soon as something better comes along.  I don't necessarily look at that as a negative because in order for him to do that he's going to need to build the Akron program into a team that's in the NCAA and winning games there.  When that time comes, it will be up to the administration to decide whether the Zips go the route of Ohio U or the route of Buffalo.  I don't want a coach that is just happy with being slightly above average.

  9. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    Since I wasn't in the room when Groce and Cotton had this discussion, I don't know why this occurred. 

     

    We all know who the core players are on the team for next year, and I haven't heard of any of those guys wanting to transfer

     

    BG and WMU have important players leaving (although, I don't think Derek Koch was all that), and both teams crashed and burned at the end of the season and didn't make it to Cleveland.

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  10. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by NWAkron

    Virshon had some great moments we will always remember with Western game and BG game as well.  But I still remember watching him go after Jimond and there was the suspension that was pre-pink eye.   When Virshon had a big game, Groce let him do the post-game interviews.  I appreciate that Groce is able to make a hard call and put sentiment aside in order to build a team.  (If that's how it played out).   

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  11. President Matthew Wilson

    in General UA & Campus Discussion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Joe Akron said:

    Yes, a headline grabber that leads to an article that goes on to refute what the headline conveys.

    Beacon at its finest.

     

    Dyer is lazier than George Thomas.  Somewhere in his vague memory he remembers Geno Ford and then compares a Kent basketball coach's contract to a University president's contract implying that Kent is smarter than Akron is.  Guess what Dyer it's called "negotiation."  Wilson gives Akron a few things such as a lower salary, not taking the house, and whatever else and in exchange they give him a 6 month out clause.  Akron wasn't in a great bargaining position at the time, and Wilson certainly knew that.  He probably could have jacked up his salary request but instead took the out clause.  Dyer also did a hatchet job on the Groce hiring. 

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  15. Duquesne Basketball Coach Keith Dambrot

    in Off Topic, Smack & Jokes

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

    It will be interesting to see what is easier -

    • Winning the 1-bid MAC, with its tourney held 35 miles north of Akron?
    • Being the #2 or #3 team in the A-10, where you'll need to annually finish above VCU, Rhode Island, Dayton, Saint Joe's and whomever else might be hot (like Davidson or  Saint Bonaventure)?

    I'm thinking winning the MAC is a much easier route to the NCAA's. Just look at all the teams that couldn't beat the crippled Zips this year.

     

    Dambrot predicted Akron would be "Gonzaga of the East." If he said "MAC East," he'd have been much more accurate. I don't think anything I ever saw from him at his time at UA, or this season at Duquesne, foreshadows him having massive success in the A-10. 

     

    He'll do ok. I hope he's happy there.

    We always had some top teams in the MAC in basketball and it's fluctuated around, but what I'm seeing developing is maybe a situation where there is a permanent underclass in the MAC and maybe some multiple bids from the top group similar to A10.  I think Akron and Miami will move to the top tier with Buffalo.   Maybe Toledo will hang around at the top.  As for KD, he did wonderful things for our program but he stalled out and didn't have the recruits to continue.

  16. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, LZIp said:

    Sometime around the tourney I read something about Steinbrecher wanting to scrap divisions completely and going to a 22 game conference schedule.

    I would like that.  I didn't mean it would literally break up into the haves and have nots but that right now some schools have had new coaches for a few years now and just aren't getting traction unlike say Cal State Fullerton.  And there may be an even more dominant core of top MAC teams. 

  20. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

    Back to my often made point.  You can appreciate all KD did AND appreciate what Groce is doing and support the effort.  They needn't be mutually exclusive positions.

    Ugh.  More reason and commonsense.  Yawn.

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  21. 2018-2019

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by NWAkron

    Incredibly excited about next year!  How many months do we have to wait? 8?   Really excited to see how the off-season plays out and who stays and who goes.  If the Big 3 of Ivey, Utomi, and Parrish stay with the Zips along with Sayles that will tell me a lot about Groce and his staff and the confidence the players have in their leadership. 

     

    If I'm guilty of anything that's gotten me in trouble on here it is this:  I am 100% behind John Groce and his staff for now, and I was indifferent about KD's departure. 

     

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  25. 2017/2018 End of Season Thoughts

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by NWAkron

    What things are obviously different?

     

    Oh and a "legitimate concern" from the "concerned troll."

     

    concern troll

    In an argument, a concern troll is someone who is on one side of the discussion, but pretends to be a supporter of the other side with "concerns". The idea behind this is that your opponents will take your arguments more seriously if they think you're an ally.

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