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Not to be a debbie-downer but two questions?:
1. Nobody has said/confirmed Ali would actually be immediately eligible if he came back. I would not be surprised if he is, because likely more of his Butler hours are good at Akron than vice-verse when he left.
But still.
2. In this portal era, it is not safe to assume everybody stays if Ali comes back (although hopefully all do). Does Dawson look to exit instead of stay???
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4 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
Bass?
He picked the perfect school for this then. Pinky once again doesn't even have to recruit.
"Looking for a school with low academic and character standards? Look no further than Can't State."
Good luck to Bass memorizing the colors in Crayola's 64 box of crayons. Hopefully he's at least better than his classmates and doesn't eat any.
I get the digs at "That" program ... but let's face it. A 1.8 GPA (if accurate) for a freshman athlete in any major college sport (FB, Mbb,) is probably more likely than not, no matter what school they are attending, including Akron. I would think any coach would be more worried about that overall FG % than fixing that freshman GPA. And let's not forget, Mr. Carry had a really bad FG % as a senior ... and still was a handful for most teams to deal with.
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Copy-Cats ....
Anyone notice the pattern of once Akron gets a MAC transfer player from the Portal ... Kent gets a MAC transfer player from the portal. It has happened again. CMU's Reggie Bass headed down the road.
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I don't understand what you mean by "cheating out on basketball" ... please explain.
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3 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:
That article is the gift that just keeps on giving. Some of my favorite parts:
"I took the coach at Kent State's job, Rob Senderoff. Rob Senderoff was cheating his brains out for Kelvin Sampson at Indiana and Kelvin is pretty smart. He got rid of Senderoff, but took care of him"
"He slips me a camp check and says 'give it to Senderoff, would ya?' So Senderoff gets fired in the middle of the 2008 season, and then because cheating pays, he ends of getting a job at Kent State becuse he has buddies there. He went back to Kent State and got a job because he's a scheming little guy.''
"Senderoff was a little cheat, and he wasn't even any good at it,'' Dakich said. "He got caught easy when he was at Indiana."
"You've got to understand that when I came to Indiana after 16 years at Indiana with Bob Knight, this little weasel Senderoff tells me 'this is as new Indiana. There's a new sheriff in town,’ “Dakich said. ''I said, ah, man, you guys are great. You're all awesome.' About a month later, I find out that Senderoff and McCallumn and Sampson are all cheating like crazy.''
Dakich said that Senderoff ''has done a good job and Kent State, and has a good team,'' but he also interjected that he ''probably still gets his players the same way Kelvin Sampson does, by cheating.''
"You can't lose to little Robbie Senderoff. He had no idea how to coach nothing. He was coaching the bigs, and that's what I did after he was fired. We had D.J. White. I said 'D.J., you need to get a jump hook.' Senderoff never did that. He's a whiner, he's a baby.''
I'm guessing there is both a lot of truth and a lot of revisionist history going on here.
Let's face it: (1) Both Sampson and Senderoff have gone on to better things in the last 15 years. (2) If Dakich knew so much hanky-panky was going on at his alma mater, I'm sure the NCAA would have gladly listened and threw the perps under the bus.
Instead the NCAA wrist slap for both was for illegal cell phone calls -- that became NCAA legal shortly afterward.
That said, if Sampson and Senderoff are such bad coaches, what does that say about Dakich, who can't sniff a basketball job. Daffy Dan was a great sideshow and coach his first tour of duty at BG ... but once he accepted/turned down West Va. he kind of showed his true colors. And when he went back to BG his players never respected him again.
That Sampson, McCallum and Senderoff all became head coaches after Indiana's NCAA sanctions says more to me about the severity of the miscues, ... just as Dakich' failure to land another head job speaks for him.
I'm sure Indiana would have hung all three (Sampson-McCallum-Senderoff) out to dry w/the NCAA if that would have cleaned out the Hoosiers closet. But it didn't happen.
We all have opinions about the quality of their coaching ... but the fact at least Sampson and Senderoff have had a relatively high level of success for a long period of time kind of speaks for itself.
And for the most part over the years I believe the Zips vs. Senderoff have had the better of the matchups ... which is what really matters.
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41 minutes ago, NWAkron said:
That is total B.S. about last year. Not sure why you would even write that or try and denigrate what they did...especially a year later. Akron was playing exceptionally at that moment. If anything Kent took this year's run out of Akrons playbook...defense.
Sorry ... did not mean to denigrate? After two close losses last year Akron most likely wins no matter what. Third game theory. Just trying to say that gameplan and that defense was the difference ... and made stronger w/o Jacobs, who to me is the key to Kent, not Carry.
IMO.
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14 hours ago, GP1 said:
Yes, but not in the way you might think. It's poo in the way that sports fans use statistics to make meaningless points. Facts aren't reasons.
Each game unfolds differently. Different strategies are deployed resulting in different outcomes across the board, including point totals.
Sad to say, but MAC Tournament game last year was an outlier. Great win for the Zips to be sure, and great gameplan, too, but Kent not having Jacobs for the first half really helped that gameplan, and sent Carry into a game-long funk. Akron home win this year was stellar as well. But the last two games Kent was clearly the better team, and I actually think Akron matched up better last year (w/Ali) ... but still lost two close ones.
Tough to swallow ... but it is what it is.
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13 minutes ago, LoyalZIP said:
Carry MVP, Castaneda all-tournament
I actually thought Thomas was the MVP for the tournament ... didn't have three straight games like that all season.
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15 minutes ago, Z.I.P. said:
Kent was and is the better team. They defeated Toledo with the same force they defeated Akron -- overwhelming numbers of excellent players. They lose 3 or 4 starters next season? The MAC will be up for grabs again!
They lose Carry, Jacobs and Thomas .... will need to hit the portal hard for guards. All their big guys are back.
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2 hours ago, NWAkron said:
putting my bias aside, they do come off as arrogant pricks led by Santiago.
Taking a step back a bit ... it seems whenever there is a dominant team in the MAC over the years be it Kent or Buffalo or even the Zips, they are somehow portrayed around the league a classless, and/or thuggish, arrogant and more. Truth be told, it takes a bit of swagger and physicality to dominate and that almost always comes out on the defensive end.
The season is not even half over yet. Certainly not time to crown any team yet. As someone noted above, Kent didn't start rolling until February last year and were very ordinary before that. If this is their year, so be it. The tournament is still the deciding factor in the end. Just ask Toledo ... or look at the Zips.
No need to trash the opposition, no matter who it is. Just play ball. Loyola Marymount looks pretty good today, right!
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The MAC has never had an undefeated BB team in its history, I believe. Certainly none since the 1970s. If that Big Dog-Cheatum team couldn't do it ... or that PCCC-Elite 8 team couldn't do it, and none of the recent high-scoring Toledo teams couldn't do it ... I wouldn't be putting my $$$ on any MAC team doing it. Certainly not making that bet in December.
Now if things look different come Valentine's Day ... then maybe I go to the bank.
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Frankly thought the Zips would be No. 1 ... and probably would have if more than just the coaches voted. That said, a serious and legit argument can be made for any of the top 3 teams. Ball State, if the new coach is the real deal, might be the team to watch as the Cardinals have a lot of experienced freshman talent back from last season plus some VG transfers. Without a target on its back, Ball State may be tough to deal with come February.
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Neither is Gross ...
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41 minutes ago, LZIp said:
You guys are pretty good at convincing yourselves these departures mean nothing lol. If they players are on the team, they're good. If they leave, they sucked anyways.
The staff has their work cut out for them if we want to repeat or more.
If we want to repeat or more .... what do you mean? Repeat by winning three games in Cleveland ... or ... repeat by being a 4th place MAC team again. One (4th place) is a lot easier to do than the other.
32 minutes ago, NWAkron said:We don't have any control over it, so we might as well look at it in a positive way. Reminds me of the panic when KD left. It all worked out. On my own private list, Aziz was the first I thought should go. As for Ali, that certainly is a loss in that he produced a lot of points. But he is replaceable.
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37 minutes ago, Z.I.P. said:
Who's going to start the New MAC Coaches for 2022-23 thread? We can start with Michael Huger's replacement.
Didn't he sign a 3-year extension last year.
Unless somebody moves on (TK???) really don't see any coaching moves this season.
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3 hours ago, NWAkron said:
This is the most likely bracket:
Ball State isn't going to pull off any upsets. Maybe Miami can surprise.
I say the opposite ... Ball State is the wildcard in that bracket.
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11 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:
They haven't beaten anyone. If it's an increase number of games, those games have been against garbage competition. These records would warrant a Top 30/40 ranking if they were legitimate, not top 60 ceiling.
The MAC blows. I'm hoping we'll prove that on Friday against OU.
Don't forget, the MAC now plays a 20-game schedule, not 18.
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1 hour ago, The Hip Zip said:
Yep, he's still playing and apparently playing well after parting ways with Keith at Duquense.
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Tavian Dunn-Martin had one of those games again tonight… He dropped 43 points as FGCU beat Liberty in overtime, 82-72. The Eagles out scored the Flames in the extra frame, 16-6. Gonna be a sneaky team in the ASUN Tournament.
Say this for Dambrot ... he knows guards. --- If Duquesne still had Dunn-Martin, Sincere Carry and Norman at WMU (combined averaging about 60 ppg!!!!) the Dukes would not be on an 11 or 12-game losing streak. Yikes.
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This was supposed to be a week to get well (WMU-NIU-EMU) vs. three worst teams in the MAC ... what happened???
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Akron went through a stretch like this early in the season .... then snapped out of it. Still games and MAC Tournament left, they can do it again.
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8 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:
This team has some awful possessions at critical times.
What happened at the end ?????????
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2 hours ago, 72 Roo said:
This is one of the best analysis of our team this season. I'll add one more point to it though. My point is that Groce knows all this too and he is at his wit's end on how to bring out the full potential of this team. We are at the end of the season. A time when Groce's teams have come together and started playing their best basketball. This team is not doing that. They are probably as good as they are going to get. They know it, Groce knows it and we see it. I don't fault Groce or the staff. They are doing the best they can. It's on the players when we continuously see poor passing, questionable defense, turnovers, launching 24 footers while completely guarded, looking for their own shot, poor foul shooting and lack of growth. Next year will be better. Groce will get the players he needs, but this year is what it is..... we can beat anyone, we can lose to anyone.
All true ... but underneath all of this is leadership on the court. Really, after Carry, what player does KSU have that Akron would rather have? But it's clear that Carry and that other guard (No. 2) have some gonads to carry that team beyond their apparent limitations. Freeman can't do it all ... and right now he doesn't seem to have the voice of an on-court leader, which seems to be what the Zips might be lacking most. What player is holding other players accountable???
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16 hours ago, ewbrooman1 said:
Decisively. At Toledo. Double ugh.
16 hours ago, ewbrooman1 said:Decisively. At Toledo. Double ugh.
16 hours ago, ewbrooman1 said:Decisively. At Toledo. Double ugh.
That's huge for tie-breaker purposes if Toledo wins the league.
I've always felt tiebreakers should be decided by your record vs. bad teams not good teams, starting from the bottom up. If that were the case Kent would have issues w/losses to Central Michigan and Northern. (Akron obviously vs. Western).
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29 minutes ago, RowdyZip said:
If Enrique takes the same big jumps forward his Jr and Sr years as he did from Fr to Soph, then he will most likely be the best player in the league. Right now, I'm not sure he gets a spot on the All-MAC first team, though he probably deserves it.
My guess right now is 5th spot on All-MAC first team is down to BVD/Carter, Freeman, Plowden, Sparks, Shumate and Norman. (Sears, Rollins, Carry, JWilliams). And at least one of these guys won't even make second team. For a down year in the MAC, that's amazing.
Sears, Rollins, Carry, Freeman, Sparks, Shumate, Norman all return ... if the portal doesn't swallow them up.
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This whole Ali Ali deal is starting to seem a little fishy. If he's coming, say so, and work out the details (academia???) later.
Either he wants to be at Akron, or he doesn't. Be it now or 24-25. Either the Zips want him at Akron or they don't. Be it now or in 24-25.
Or maybe I/we are just frustrated with the whole deal.
Yes, he makes the Zips better, if/when he plays. But this is starting to have an air of entitlement about it, and I'm not sure that is worth it.