NWAkron

As I was saying...

I know....and right on the point spread. playing terrible is the operable phrase, though. But we've been down this road before.

You can look at how Kent, Toledo, Ball State, and Ohio are rolling tonight and this gets really depressing. Trust the process?

I guess it's time to face the music.

Imagine the "angst and dread" if the Zips were landing in DeKalb right about now.

well, that should help in attracting a new coach...if it comes to that.

happy valentine's day. gee, bodily function and odor seems to be the theme of the day. nice. I'm with LoyalZip as usual. Winning for the sake of winning doesn't mean much when the only true goal is to win the MAC tournament. It may put a few more people in the seats but...well, we know the rest. I'm not even that worried about the seeding. This is wide open. As for tonight, I was 100% indifferent going into EMU last year and had given my tickets away to that home NIU game. Don't expect much this evening and will check on the score every 30 minutes. I have my "John's Next Endeavor" and "Has Groce Lost the Team?" threads ready to go at a moment's notice.

crickets.

No problem dispatching Toledo

I mentioned in another thread that succeeding at this level of coaching requires a decent amount of luck.

Good conversation starter. Groce may be able to recruit and/build a more cohesive unit. Abreu and Noah, before felony and injury, were pretty good. Having LCJ or X at the helm in 2016 and 2017 would have been a game-changer.

''to whistle past the graveyard'' ''To attempt to stay cheerful in a dire situation."

Here's the tourney simulator. http://bball.notnothing.net/bracket.php?conf=macm Frankly, doesn't matter to me who plays whom in what round. Trivia: in 2021, Ohio (at #5 took out #4 Kent State, #1 Toledo, and #2 Buffalo. In 2022, Akron did the same in reverse: Akron as #4 took out Buffalo, Toledo #1, and Kent #2. This is what I came up with.

Just get to Cleveland. Right?

Not a great weekend to be a Zip.

#SaveMelissa. #FireGroce. #LostTheTeam. #Toledo'sB&%*$H

their offensive #s were fine. But even if they made a few more FTs that wasn't going to make the difference. of course, why do the other teams win with similarly lax defense?

And the shady Chris Jans was their coach last year. I'm sure he left a clean and respectable program. Coach Heiar comes from LSU which is also a program beyond reproach.

Zips have the roughest road to finish the season, having Kent and Toledo on the road and Ball State at home, followed by Ball State who has Toledo and Kent at home with a stop in Akron. Zips will be the 4th or 5th seed again...maybe make it up to #3 if Ball State stumbles and Zips pick up an away game against Toledo or Kent. But that seems unlikely.

That's what is great about CBS games. They don't live for months in the ESPN cloud.

It's been a long season, and he and X carry the team. I'm not rationalizing but if the Zips were rolling right now, I would be wondering when they were going to hit the wall. They get an extra day before EMU. Give the guys some rest.

Zips won a few games this year because of a serious advantage at the FT line. That's been reversed these last two games. They will fix that by Cleveland.

Agree, I'm joking around for the most part. Read the WMU and NIU threads from last season. Yikes.

23-46 9-18 7-14 50.0% 50.0% 50.0% shooting 50% across the board

wow, 70-52. Time for panic posting: "has Groce lost the team?" "Melissa Jackson on line 2."