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Before the Zipmeister does it, I'd pay to see that.

5 hours to gametime and ...

The Miami error was mine, Dave, you remembered it right. Didn't hose things up too badly other than that.Its set now.1. Akron/Can't2. CMU3. Can't/Akron4. Buffalo/Miami5. Miami/Buffalo6. EMU7. WMU8. Ball State (if they had won they would have been the #2 seed)9. Ohio10. BGSU11. NIU12. Toledo

I will pick Brett McClanahan as the Jawanza Moore of 2010.Obviously not because it is his final game at the JAR (unless someone knows something I don't), but because he has played EXTREMELY well in is limited minutes lately. Brett's 3-point stroke is looking very good, and he's taking advantage of his limited minutes, not pouting.My second choice would be Ronnie Steward. He allows the Zips to play at a totally different pace...he's like throwing a fast ball, after McNees has been tossing knucklers and change-ups.The Jawanza Moore effect (or Moore's Law as some know it ) only seems to apply to someone whose last game is in the JAR. That would likely mean Chris McKnight, Jimmy Conyers or Tim Carroll. I think Jimmy will have a fine game but its Chris's K(night), so the Jawanza Moore effect goes to him.

Q: How do you locate Can't State's campus from Akron?A: Go east until you smell it and then north until you step in it.

Here is one.http://ncaabbs.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=474

:screwks:And that's all I have to say about that.

Actually on the Can't State message boards, they are attempting to organize a "gold" shirt response (don't they understand their color is yellow - works on a lot of levels). I hope they do, it will make them easier to identify and eliminate.

As long as they are not satisfied with just "Being There", they'll be fine. Man you stretched a little with that one. :)This is the first time in a long time I can remember there was no ATM game, so at least there is a punchers chance of winning against every team we play.

My original estimate didn't include the SRO crowd but since a lot of them are rowdies, I don't think it raises the till too much. From what I understand the Zips only sell season tickets for the number of seats they actually have available which is where my original number came from. With the womens tickets being so cheap and their finally putting a reasonably interesting product on the floor, here's hoping they see some upswing in their season ticket holders too.And while Zach is probably correct on getting a split of the NCCA tournament money, that's a pretty small pot. There may not be anything even left to split after the expenses are paid.

We played Ohio State in the NIT in 1989.It was a very tight game. OSU had Treg Lee, Chris Jent and I believe Jay Burson? The Zips Eric McLaughlin blew out his knee late after being thrown under the scorers table by an opposing player, and we couldn't recover.Instead of OSU, we would stand a very good chance of playing Dayton or Cincinnati should we end up in the the 2010 NIT.If your point is only that you'd rather be in the NCAA tourney than the NIT...or that participating in the NCAA tourney is more exciting than the NIT...why bother posting it? Who wouldn't rather be in the NCAA over the NIT? No one.Fixed.Fixed again.A lot of beers between March of '89 and March of '10. Feel free to correct post inaccuracies at any time. Now back to the beer... Does your boss know your drinking on the job? Does yours know about you wasting time on the Internet? Oh, wait ...

Just to be clear, I was in no way calling GP1 a troll, simply pointing out that since he had come up with a vaugely similar plan before SI posted theirs, it might give him a reason to try to put another great in front of his name. No one wants that.

I'm opposite. I like it. I hope it toughens our team up. I'm excited about Kentucky and plan on going. I bet the players from last year feel like they IU one. They know they can play with em with PN16 at the helm.Not a bad point.. I guess it does have its perks. Still a little confused on the absence of the bye weeks in the schedule unless we're getting them at the beginning and end of the schedule. If thats the case, thats going to wear on our players more than the back-to-back road games against BCS conference teams.You can look at the bye week as being either the 13th or 20th of November. Its just that the Miami game on Wednesday got stuck right in the middle of that time. For a Wednesday game, that's not so bad.

SeeTee, I feel more like you every losing season at Akron. That's another reason why our soccer program is rising by leaps and bounds. Next season, you may need a season ticket to get in the gate to see Porter's Prospects.Is there potential for men's futbol to be revenue neutral with a sold out stadium via season tickets? I'm not asking is it possible to sell out the season as season ticket packages .. what I'm asking, is there enough capacity at LJF that if you sold every seat for every game, would men's futbol pay for itself?Currently season tickets are $50 (great deal by the way, I only got to use mine once last year and still consider it a bargain). With 1500 seats thats $75,000 and thats not near enough to sustain the program when you consider the total budget (coaches salaries, scholarships, travel). Even if you sold out the entire new stadium at 4,000 seats that's only $200K which doesn't leave much after you pay Porter (who is worth it). So not likely the soccer program will ever be self sustaining. My guess is the only self sustaining program on campus is mens basketball.

Please do not feed the GP1.

My 1000th post has been reserved for one simple purpose: Beat K.e.n.t!

Post Graduation Employment

Zeke currently sits at 49 blocked shots, standing right now in third place for most blocked shots in a season (probably not going to break into the top two), tied for the most blocked shots in a single game (6 against Niagara) and with one more will move into a tie for the most in a career (Marcel Boyce - in 59 games) and only three back of #7, Nate Linhart. Here's to a dozen against the Flushes!

I know that folks here don't agree, but being in the top 100 means a lot.If we beat K-ent, and somehow lose the tournament by a shot at the buzzer, we do have a shot at the Dance, and at least the NIT.And I would rather win the NIT than go one and done in the NCAA. Not that it's going to happen.When we beat the Flushes, we will have an automatic invitation to the NIT, no matter what happens in the MAC tournament. I'd still rather make the NCAA tournament no matter the outcome of either.

OK, we all know that the winner of the Zips-Flushes game gets the top seed and the loser is #3. The rest of the league's other top two seeds could be any one of five teams right now, so that's kind of interesting. So I did a little analysis so we could see how the rest of the top of the league is shaping up.The four teams at the top of the west (EMU 8-7, Ball St 8-7, CMU 8-7, WMU 7-8) all play each other, EMU v. CMU, Ball St vs WMU. WMU cannot win the west nor get a top four seed under any circumstances. We are lucky we won at BGSU, however, because EMU wins the West if they win their game period (if Western beats Ball St, EMU wins it outright at 9-7, otherwise EMU wins the head-to-head tiebreaker with Ball St. at 2-0). If Central beats EMU and Ball St loses, Central wins it outright at 9-7. If CMU and Ball St win, Ball State wins because they are 1-1 vs. CMU and Ball State beat both Miami and Buffalo, one of whom will have nine wins and neither CMU nor Ball St. beat the Zips or Flushes. So EMU, CMU and Ball St. are all still alive for the #2 seed.Buffalo gets the 4th seed (at ten wins) if it beats Miami. If Miami wins then they and Buffalo will be tied. If no one from the West other than the champ finishes at 9-7, Miami gets the four seed by beating Buffalo twice. If Ball State does not win the West but finishes at 9-7, they get the four seed by virtue of victories over both Buffalo and Miami. If CMU finishes at 9-7 (with Miami and Buffalo) and is not the west champ, then Miami gets the four seed (beating both CMU and Buffalo twice). Buffalo could finish as high as the 4th seed if they win or as low of the 7th seed if they lose. I didn't bother with the lower seeds (though I am pretty sure Toledo will be #12 ). Lot of playing to be done yet, but my prediction is that if Buffalo ends up as the seven seed, we will see an all-East semi-final.I think this is all correct, I will see if it shows up on Ohio.com like it did when I showed that the BG game was actually important.

Actually it helps the East a little by doing it this way, otherwise all the East team would draw each other in the 2-3 bracket. The only way you don't draw the West winner in the semi's is if a 7 or 10 seed upsets them. The team it really screws over is the fifth if there are at least four good teams in the East (like last year and this year), but if you're finishing fourth in the East anyway, perhaps you don't deserve the first round bye. I think it is OK the way it is.

Now it is set up the way that it should be. Win and you get the regular season championship. That would be huge for us. Bet ESPN2 is glad they picked this game up a while ago. C'mon Zips, put on a show!

Just heard a very distinct ZI - PS!

Well really just a mid-major controversy.

I would like to have a word with the person who designed that pamphlet they made for the event... What didn't you like about it? Didn't look that bad to me.