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Successful programs lose coaches every year. Look at any winning program and you will see they turn over complete staffs ever 2 or 3 years. This shows me Arth is bringing in good people on his staff. Now he needs more good players and hopefully we will have something to root for here.

Welcome back to Zips Nation. There is nothing wrong with occasional disagreements or differing points of view as long as we all remember we are in this together and Kent still sucks. On to Cleveland....

Excellent, please put out the news as soon as you know. Thanks.

I prefer Canada, Can't and the Bobkittens, but to each his own. It is fun having so many opponents to get after.

Great win today. I agree with the board that Cheese is most likely a good kid, but he and Banks jaw with the other team all game, every game. It has been a common sight to see the refs have to get between both of them and the other team. Reece was doing this at the start of the season, but he appears to have grown up. Cheese and Banks need to get control of their emotions and act like the seniors they are. This is their last shot at the tourney. We need both of them to have their heads in the game the rest of the way. Go Zips!

Close loses to good teams and cupcakes aside, KD has really improved a down and out program. That being said, I have really enjoyed watching Groce build this Zips team. Here's hoping the Zips shooters get hot in March and the team makes a run.

At least Bob Dyer doesn't write about Zips hoops. They are too good a story for his column.

The biggest coaching issue was EMU trying to bleed the clock up 2 pts with almost 4 mins left in the game. Their offense is bad to begin with and holding the ball forced them into multiple bad last second shots and a shot clock violation or two.

In the post game interview, Groce stated the decision to foul and extend the game was based on the the two stats Kreed just cited.

Take off, eh!

Buffalo's Student Athletes of the Week are sponsored by Tim Horton's. Just more proof that it is in fact a Canadian school, eh.

100%. Plus neither guy jumped ship during the rebuild as transfers came and went. I have a lot of respect for them staying here and working hard, especially Sayles after all the injuries and limits on this PT.

Riak - Sayles' hands don't shoot 3's.

The fact that they raised ticket prices for the upper reserved section during a rebuild is crazy. They need to market like the Rubber Ducks and just worry about getting people in the stands. I would try $5 GA and family plans with food vouchers, parking, etc. for single games. We never got a lot of students, but have the AK-Rowdies basically folded now that a lot of the die hard students from the first row on the base line have moved on?

They have flown in the past, but usually its a miserable bus ride that awaits the team. Frenchie occasionally talks about the haunted hotel they have to stay in as well.

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I would have loved to seen what both backs would have done with a different OC and emphasis on the running game. Neither guy seemed like more of an afterthought to the Zips. Hundley averaged 4.5 YPC for his career and Chisholm was at 4.9 but neither ever got a 1,000 season.

I know Riak drives a lot of Zipsnation crazy, but I'm glad he made a big play in a big game. I know he is the most scoring challenged big in the history of the program, but he plays hard and does whatever is asked of him. He lost his starting spot this year, but goes out every game as a solid backup and defensive specialist. Having X on the squad allows Riak to play the role that suits him and he never seems to complain about the lost minutes. He talks to his teammates non-stop and calls out a lot of the defensive sets. Now if he can just learn the art of the put back.... Also, I am requesting no comments next time he chucks up a long 3 out of nowhere.

I appreciate the info. Any idea on where they ended up and if they saw the field? Thanks again.

Just curious which commits that would have played left Akron besides the LB who went to MU. From what I have seen most if not all of TB's recruits that left seemed to leave DI all together. The ones in the portal now are getting no offers from DI schools. Last update was one offer from Tiffin.

JD Brookhart won our only MACC and had a higher winning percentage than TB. Anyone want him back?

I think everyone on this board would agree TB is HOF material compared to the icoach. I have not read a single post comparing him to Ianello as you describe above. Also, nobody has said anything lauding Arth as a great coach. It was an uninspiring hire. I just do not know how you evaluate him fairly this season when the program was left in such poor shape with no depth and little talent. If the Zips had won 8 of their last 10 games in TB's final season instead of the opposite, I could understand the anger, but they were in a serious decline. How many games do you think TB would have won with this team? Two? One? None? If he had gone 2-10 this year, would you have still fought to keep him?

Arth was an underwhelming hire, but TB left the cupboard empty for the next coaching staff. The only difference between TB's first year and Arth's was that there was no VMI or Morgan State on this year's schedule. If there was we would have fired up another of our classic 1-11 seasons. Both lost to terrible UMass teams and both played Miami close. Of TB's 35 wins at Akron, I believe 7 were against FCS schools. That knocks his FBS winning percentage down to under 35% which I believes qualifies him as mediocre or worse.

Thanks for the updates. It sounds like it is coming together.

Don't forget that Freddie Kitchens is in action today. We get see if he can beat the worst team in pro football or will he become an unpaid assistant coach next year as well? BTW, I will be at the Zips game. It's a no-brainer.