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According the the MAC web site there were 7 MAC players drafted. Interesting that none came from the MAC champs and every MAC East school except the Zips was represented. I knew the East was better. 1st Round: OT Eric Fisher, Central Michigan (No. 1 overall), Kansas City Chiefs 3rd Round: OL Brian Winters, Can't State (No. 72 overall), New York Jets 5th Round: DL Steven Means, Buffalo (No. 147 overall), Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6th Round: DT Chris Jones, Bowling Green (No. 198 overall), Houston Texans 7th Round: OL Eric Herman, Ohio (No. 225 overall), New York Giants 7th Round: QB Zac Dysert, Miami (No. 234 overall), Denver Broncos 7th Round: RB Michael Cox, UMass (No. 253 overall), New York Giants

I think it's great that the MAC had a #1 pick. Of course I do find this part of his bio on NFL.com funny and telling: Hmm, now why would that be? Because he didn't end up at Alabama? The bias is amazing at times Was nice to see this in the AP story though.

Yeah but what the hell happened at Miam? Roberts and Harris averaged over 25 minutes a game, McGhee over 12 and Tadlock played in 17 games even though he didn't get a lot of minutes, but Miami touted him because he was on the all-MAC academic team. Something must have gone really wrong other than just a bad season. Edit: Not as dire as I thought, Saw this on the RedHawks board "McGhee and Roberts will graduate in May and could have an additional year of scholarship. Tadlock will move to a program where he believes he can find more p/t. It appears that Jon Harris is leaving on his own --- probably based upon the roster turnover. No other players have been confirmed." Suspect it will be a few years before the RedHawks challenge the Zips again.

“That’s a big deal for us,” Dambrot said. “He’s probably one of the top two or three players in our conference.” Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are "it might have been". Trying hard not to think how a full season with all of our players might have turned out. (sigh)

What? That may have been true earlier in his career, but I think if you really watched him closely his senior you would see the joy he gets out of playing the game now. I think his self awareness is a huge plus and I think he will put in the work and some team will see enough to take him i the draft. Even if his ceiling was a career backup center (and I'm not sure anybody, including him knows what that ceiling is since he really hasn't played the game that long), that's not a bad life. He represents the University well. Go Zeke!

And as an added bonus, if you checked the women's roster, Akron recruit Hannah Scipio is listed.

Can we count it if Zeke doesn't get drafted by the NBA but gets picked up as a tight end by the NFL?

More praise for Yedlin - Why Seattle Sounders' DeAndre Yedlin, strong rookie class are stars in making

Speaking of that Don Banks of SI.com just projected Central Michigan OT Eric Fisher as the Number 1 pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Wonder what the highest MAC pick in history is? Edit: Good point MD. Though it might be better to discuss over at the football forum, and keep this thread Zeke related.

Athletic seven footers are a rarity even in the NBA. He gets drafted.

I find that pretty cool, here are two high level players that battled each other for four years (even if not mano a mano) and each won two titles in their time. I will have no problem at all seeing Cooper dish a few dimes into Zeke. That would be awesome.

Impressive just from resurrecting an 8 year old single post thread. Geezing for a moment, but our rec centers back in the day were when they opened up Memorial Hall and the Rubber Bowl to play intramural sports or sneak over to Can't to play racquetball. UA has come a long way (and needed it to compete against other schools in that list like OSU and Cincinnati). It does annoy me when they refer to UA in articles like this as a "smaller" MAC school. What the hell does that mean? I think they simply mean less well known since I believe UA has the fourth biggest student enrollment in the state. Still good to see UA mentioned in something like this though.

Funny, short, satirical piece on Frank Solich.

I don't know who Chris Driver is but he is apparently advocating (I'm sure tongue in cheek) for a MAC-Sun Belt football challenge.

Ah, if only. smh

just wanted to bump this up in case anyone still wanted to go

Had someone drop out at the last second. Its in the Akron section. PM me if interested.

Hey DB, are you going to the game?

Always found these find of entertaining where they list the famous alums of the participating schools. Of course Akron got Jason Taylor, who I'm fine with. Black Keys would have been a nice choice since they chose attended rather than graduated. But they didn't take all positive ones - Villanova got stuck with disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy and they chose Jim Jones of the People's Temple mass suicide in 1978 for Butler.

In case anyone was curious about what VCU fans have to say about the game here is the link to their thread. I genuinely like this school and their fan base, I hate that we are playing them first.

Are you sure? With that late start you wouldn't have to take a kid out school and if you drove back late they could sleep on the way back and still be up for school the next day. You might be a little groggy and have to take a few hours the next morning but its is possible to do it without missing much work. I know because we're doing that exact thing with my sister.

I know the Zips have not officially released ticket info yet, but for those who already have tickets who is going? As the ticket information is released others can add in. I'm in for two, have nosebleed seats if I have to, while hoping the Zips ticket office comes through.

Figured this is as good a place as any to place "dancing" related info. ESPN had a montage of every coach with a snippet of a conversation with Andy Katz. Keith's snippet was "He could coach my team or I could coach his team" or something close to that. Think I can guess what that was in reference to. Shaka's was "Every team that makes the NCAA tournament is good". Think I can guess what that was from too. Still hate that we are matched up with VCU but they've had a nice spotlight for the last few years, I will be OK if we have to turn it off for one tournament.

Well done - even a brief appearance by GoZips didn't hurt it.

I suspect (but do not know this for sure) that each team was allocated the same number of tickets but with it being so close in distance there was probably a lot higher internal (to UA) demand for tickets which only leaves a certain amount for the fans (I also suspect students are not included in this number which is why fewer are available for the rest of us). Everyone who attends needs one and that means band members, cheerleaders, mascots, etc. and I think everyone comes out of that initial allocation. I don't mean to cause widespread panic but I wanted to pass along what I heard from what I believe is a pretty reliable source.