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Yeah I mean I’ll never be mad at more shooting. Even if its on a small sample size

Tom House is the white version of Sammy Hunter. I would LOVE that at our program. Sammy was so key to our runs in the last few years.

You’re missing absolutely nothing. I simply love his name, we are connected to him, and he’s a P6 talent. I thin JG coaches up talented players about as well as anyone in America.

The Prather news doesn’t shock me just based on his… well…. Skill. But I would love to bring in Drissa for a visit. Amani is not an acceptable backup big as the clear #2. Need depth there badly.

Hearing credible rumors that VonCameron Davis will enter his name in the portal.

A lot of complaining in this chat comparing to haydays of Akron. I graduated in 23’ and loved all four years. Akron isn’t Harvard, OSU, hell even OU, but its the charm of going to Akron and loving the Akron experiences that make it special. The city is growing and recovering from COVID, a young mayor that seems to care, and a president that has gotten us back to a stable situation. We are seeing positive changes!

Dr. Miller mentioned in an alumni event recently how there are WAY more students who want to live on campus and not commute. Great news overall?

Sucks to lose, but this is the wake up call we needed. Have to adjust a lot prior to Kent. Praying we see Nate in the last game prior to Cleveland to maybe work him in a little. Just win out and get the 1 seed!

Anyone else going to this game? I am SO excited. See you all there.

The OOC schedule is great. If we win one of the Drake or Utah State games we absolutely have a shot at an at large if we won out. Now? Extremely Unlikely unless we NUKE the last 10 or so teams we play.

At this point if JG leaves I will have no ill will and nothing but an incredible amount of thankfulness. Will it suck? Is it possible? Both yes. Would I blame him? No. He's had chances to leave and hasn’t, Akron fits him well. The school loves him, he seems to love the school. IF he leaves, I want Ford as our next guy!

Can someone give me a quick rundown? How bad of trouble are we in?

I just wish we would spend money on things for more actual fans.

Game plan is simple. Play like the Akron Zips and be smart.

I don’t think this is necessarily bad news. What is bad news is that a young man is suffering from mental health issues and the NCAA doesn’t care. That is despicable.

Great point on the soccer and basketball attendance. Last year we HOSTED A NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME and had less than 500 people in attendance. Yeah, it was cold. Really cold. But good fan-bases show up. No reason for our basketball team to not have great turnouts each game, actually pretty insane how empty that arena is. Yeah, some of it is on marketing, student turnout, etc. But a lot of it is just simply lack of caring. It’s pathetic and annoying as a true fan, but it is what it is.

Winning MWC game, need it like we need air to breathe. We are due for a reasonable shooting night.

That post by that article (behind a paywall, because of course), drives me absolutely insane. Charles Guthrie is the only reason that this athletic department is alive right now. Say whatever you want about him and his tactics, attitude, ignorance to things, but he’s the reason that: 1. John Groce is on the length of contract he is, we haven’t lost assistant coaches, and we have had recent continued basketball success (I know it started before him, etc) 2. Our football team even had HOPE of being decent (anyone with a brain thought Morehead was a home run hire, it just didn’t work out, not his fault) 3. We are starting to see success in other sports (VB, Softball, Track/XC) That article headline is such a stupid grab for attention. What he is saying is that while the MAC gets a boatload of money for midweek MACTION games, it’s horrible for attendance. He is quite literally saying what all of us have said, that we need to think out of the box. He said the Florida comment which was dumb, but hey, why not? Might be as may fans down there as there are up here. What people just refuse to acknowledge is that AKRON DOESNT SUPPORT THE ZIPS. All of the pictures from back in the day with packed stands were either from: A game with free tickets, the opener of the season, or some special high school game. People in this area love HS football teams, the browns, and Ohio State (which is dumb because 90% of them didn’t graduate from there, sue me). Yes, the Zips are horrible, so bad, it makes me sad every morning, BUT, Charles is simply trying to stay relevant. The game day experience is horrible i know, and good teams fix this, but lets not act like he is some horrible athletic director for being smart and taking a $1,000,000 payday to avoid losing by 40 at home to UK. Would love to hear thoughts on this.

Not sure why anyone would have expected anything different. Pathetic excuse of a football "program". I'll always watch and stick around, always support. But im not sure why I would even think about buying any Akron merch, tickets, donations, etc. in this holiday season. I know they dont care, but show me success then i'll buy bakc in financially. Until then we'll always be the pathetic football school in the corner of Ohio.

Next week is heaven for us college basketball fans. SO excited. Bonas win is huge for us, lets handle business at the ROCK on the 30th

This is a huge deal. Keeps them as a HOPEFUL quad 1 game when the end of the year comes. They lose to a weird MAAC school every year, but that’s a great bounce back game for us.

I would give my right testicle to win one (1) NCAA tournament team. Don’t ask what I would do to make a final 4.

You new here? We hate Kent, and we will lie about how bad Kent is to make us feel better. Welcome to the group.

I live out of the area now, how has marketing been?

Totally agree, must win come from teams like UB who have legit candy cane sweet matchups