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Chris McKnight - 18 points and 13 rebounds in 20 minutes? Maybe he decided Jimmy isn't the only senior who can lead by example? Holy Crap - welcome back Chris!

By 3 - at Miami that is a blowout.Zips 57 - RedSomethings 48

Sportscracklepop did an article comparing late night talk show hosts to NFL quarterbacks. I thought they did a pretty good job. Charlie Frye got a mention, unfortunately they compared him to Carson Daly. D'Oh.

Elton has an article where he thinks it would be a good idea for UA/Can't State/CSU/YSU to all play each other. The Zips and Flushes already do, but he wants to add CSU and YSU to Akron and Can't's schedules. We've discussed adding CSU before (no matter whose "fault" it is that we don't play), so maybe adding YSU could get the whole thing off the ground. I appreciate Elton giving it a little visibility, maybe at some point we actually get some traction moving this thing toward reality. Seems pretty dumb this group doesn't play every year.

27-27 tie then the Bulls run off 13 unanswered, including a couple of uncontested threes. Pretty hard to blame all of the on the refs. Lets see if they have enough compusure to come back in te second half.

Just to answer this question, the wrestling program was dropped after the '80-'81 season.

Yep, that was Ray Mernagh's column in the MACReportonline. Nice read if you haven't seen it. Dambrot brings confidence, and victory, to the Zips. Here's a quote from the article "Nate Linhart, a kid one Zip fan said on a public message board back in his freshman year "wasn't a D-1 player" is winning MAC Tournament MVP honors." OK, own up, who was it?

According to BobCatAttack.com we're now the most hated team in the MAC. That's when you know you've made it. Akron=No traditions, stupid mascot, ego-maniac coach, most hated MAC Team.

Yes, but the bowl game they won was against a MAC team - doesn't count.

Continuing Jimmy's year so far (points/rebounds):0/1 Austin Peay0/0 NC State0/0 Drake2/5 Howard8/3 Ark-PB12/11 Niagara11/5 Texas A&M6/9 Malone6/3 UNCG10/7 St Francis10/19 UIC22/5 Valpo13/12 Wyoming8/10 URI16/6 BGSU16/14 OhioThrough all games: 8.75/6.875Ignoring the first four: 11.5/8.7Not quite MAC POY numbers but his MAC numbers are 16/10. If he can keep that up, then its a definite possibility.

I'm just glad Nate Miller is finally out of the league.

I think we may have found our senior leader. He is just playing lights out right now. I think Keith may hold the same opinion after viewing the following quote from the Elton article. "The guy is becoming one of the best players in the league," Akron head coach Keith Dambrot said of Conyers, who averaged less than three points a game prior to this season. "He's getting better numbers than Nate [Linhart, Akron's 2009 MVP]." Wonder what set him off - other than the Captain calling him out.

I can't do it all by myself. Nice opening game MAC win against Buffalo. Kara Murphy with 21 points, no doubt she will be the ladies all time leading scorer when she's done. Nice job Coach Kest and team!

I saw the comments on BigSoccer as well. Really ticked me off so I stopped reading it. Some of it boiled down to "even though the Zips have a good GPA, how hard are their classes?". I got my Master's degree from Johns Hopkins (very much a "name" school) and I'll tell you I learned far more and my classes were much tougher at Akron. Not trying to denigrate Hopkins because it is a fine school, but it just shows how petty and ignorant some posters are. For those of you still in school don't let anyone denigrate Akron. I always stand up for them - the first job I ever had I worked right along side graduates of more "prestigious" schools, Dartmouth, Duke, Florida, Oregon, etc and what I learned and knew put me on an equal footing with any of them (and I didn't have a monster student loan to pay off either). Was their college "experience" better than mine? Quite possibly, which is why I donate to continue to improve the campus and the experience fior current students. I'm proud of what the University of Akron has become (play patriotic music here ).

Wow - I would have bet about anything against him winning this year after it seemed like Zakuani was a shoe-in last year. My money would have been on Corben Bone. Great for Teal and the Zips. Now I have a poster signed by the Hermann award winner. A Hermann award winner this year and a runner-up last year. Ampaipitakwong next year?

What's that now? Nine straight MAC bowl losses? Anybody know the record for consecutive conference losses in bowl games?

Really! The MAC has a contract that allows them to boot Temple if they change football coaches? (The yard nome strikes again)Yes, it's called the Golden Rule (in true Zipmeister fashion ). I think it goes "He who has the gold makes the rules!"

Although I agree in principle with the idea you presented here, Michigan has a national championship (and two other championship game appearances) and UCLA has perhaps the strongest pedigree of anyone wth 11 National championships. Now if you were to substitute say Virginia Tech and Florida State then I might agree with you.

And ... UCLA picks off Temple at the one and scores a TD - the streak continues (probably).

Late answer but they are only about 2 1/2 hours apart. The profile would work well for the ACC.

Lets keep this thread going for a while, maybe like how we detailed last years senior, Nate, on his way to 1,000 points.So Jimmy's year so far (points/rebounds):0/10/00/02/5Looks like the Captain could be right8/312/1111/56/96/310/710/1922/5Definite signs of life!Jimmy's averages at this point7.25/5.6 - well above CK's expectations (though I am sure CK is quite happy to have underestimated him).Throw out those first four games and the averages rise to 10.6/7.75 - very nice.Then along comes this Jimmy Conyers MAC East Player of the WeekHe has probably been the best player to date - looks like he might very well fulfill that great potential. Love to see it - nice job Jimmy!

Can we get Jimmy Conyers another year? Or at the very least have the Captain call out, say, Brett McClanahan?

I've had a really busy last two weeks so haven't been on much but I'm hoping the Zipmeister got some cash for Christmas so he can finally have that surgery to get his tongue of out his cheek. Merry Post-Christmas ZM!

Guy named Jakubick was pretty good in the D-1 era.