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This is all still so early and raw so let's not presume the failed season already. This could all turn for the better in an instant. Looking forward to building a team around Aaron Jackson. We may all come to appreciate Aaron a bit more.

All of this doesn't bother me that much. However, this has been a huge reality check for me on the nature of what Akron basketball and division I basketball is all about. It's like that old song, "Is that all there is?"

Livingston was more interested in writing his snarks than getting the facts right. But I think for almost all of us the sham of the 20+ win season meme was becoming quite clear. AND...One of you guys said the home winning streak was a bit of a sham as well since we only had a couple tough home games a year and those were against MAC teams.

http://herald-review.com/herald-review/coaching-carousel-could-sweep-up-groce/article_bbdea43b-ede2-575b-a69b-27ad8bd19e8c.amp.html Akron mentioned in here as one of two options for Groce. (Groce always auto corrects to Groceries)

Reports of John Groce to Dayton.

I think the point was that since KD is gone any previous dispute with him to many of us is irrelevant.

That would be a plus for me. I really don't want to to see any of the old regime. As for Groce(which is a pipe dream) , the players would at least know he has the ability to get them where they want to be. And I'm so, so happy that Wilson is making this choice and not Scarborough.

Yes. Jump right into the fire. Or Lamont Paris...He's also a Fighting Scot!

I'm holding out hope for John Groce. Why not go all in!

Candidates for the AKRON JOB - Terry Weligand, Brandon Weems , Jeff Boals , Anthony Stacey, Charles Thompson, Lamont Paris, Chris Jent That list was great. But two of them are really tall. I don't know if I'm ready for that much change.

So anything new in Zips basketball?

Is Kent State mens golf team like 5x national champion?

Isn't this one of the stages of grief? "Turning Against Each Other." Fanatics v Fans? Talk about parsing

Well, I guess that's that.

Oh, I always ask that! And if the person didn't actually attend Ohio State he or she gets a sneer or maybe an eye roll. I don't know about you all, but I'm done with the Dambrot threads. The new coach is all that matters now. I'm all for paying big bucks and getting the best...But with youth and exuberance.

Right. This was a selfless move. Don't you see that? Am I the only one? (I've taken this thread off the rails.) So...Lamont Paris? Chris Jent or Chris Jans?

He loved us so much that he had to let us go. It's like the MAC version of The Notebook.

hell, I don't know. You can nominate me for stupid post of the month though.

And Dambrot knew this. He couldn't keep the facade up much longer. I went to that surreal net cutting before the MAC tourney and listened to him speak. Something clearly wasn't right. He was going through the motions. Maybe he left Akron because he knew there was nothing more he could do here. And give the Zips an opportunity to move onward and upward. (And get a big raise and take a few of our recruits).

AKZipper I totally agree with you. As a fan, I'm looking forward to something new in the JAR instead of stagnation. Each season was a bone chilling repeat of prior season. Will we go 15-15 next year with a few awesome wins and some upsets? Maybe. And that would be better at least to me than this ho him meaningless 20 win seasons.

Wow. A Dambrot presser. Sounds riveting. Sign me up.

Yes. That's exactly what I thought. Thank you for clarifying my already imperfect analogy.

The best analogy I can come up with is that Dambrot decided to buy the worst house in a high end neighborhood rather than the best house in a crap neighborhood.

I guess I should backtrack on my comment that the MAC isn't a one-bid league by rule. The problem is that the strength of competition in the MAC is so weak that you have to go OOC to find a quality win. If you go to a bottom-feeder in the Atlantic 10 at least you have confirmed two games a year against top flight competition. That makes the OOC scheduling a lot less daunting.

I have no more Likes so "well said" Dr. Z.