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Bring him here, we'll take him, especially since he's a forward and our stock of those seems to keep running low.

Recruiting updates from me will be sparse. There's a whole new group of coaches...and I have no way to meet them until signing day. Or maybe the summer golf outing.Sucks. This used to be my favorite time of year.A 3 star running back that is committed to NIU visited Akron this weekend and could very well switch his commitment to the Zips. His last name is Bowers.Does it bother any one else that a Toledo fan keeps up better with our potential recruits than we can now?

Does your tongue ever hurt from keeping it in your cheek for so long?

While I don't care much about who Joe has penciled in as the MAC rep at this point (he has CMU), he has them listed as a 16 seed. I don't expect that to hold but man, that would be ugly.

As much I want simply want the team to do well as a team this year, I always like to keep an eye on the record books to see what milestones could be approached. There is no chance of any 1000 point scorers or, quite frankly, anybody doing anything like getting into the all-time rebounds, assists etc. at least partly because the playing time is so divided up. I did notice one possibility, though - if Zeke continues at his current blocked shots pace, he will add his name into the top career shot blockers in UA history in just his freshman season. Number 10 on the all-time list is Marcel Boyce with 50. Zeke currently stands at 33 (1.7 per game - even though some of us think that number is low) with at least 13 games to go. That pace would put him at 54 which would be good for 7th all-time already as just a freshman. I think Zeke has contributed what a lot of us expected, some very good defense (and an intimidation factor) with at least some offense to go with it. I am looking forward to his continued development but I think it's pretty cool he could put himself in the top ten all time already as a freshman.

Hmmm, I think this has gotten off-track. No one is arguing that we wouldn't love for all of these things to happen, certainly any Zips fan would. The question as posed, however, stemmed from a discussion in another post about what Zips fans really cared about. I follow all three sports more closely than any other sport and I'd love to see a wnner in all of them, however, when I see someone say they'd happily trade a National Championship in a relevant but not one of the "big two" sports for something good simply to happen in one the big two, that confuses me. That was the intent of the original question which I think has brought out some fairly interesting perspectives. To simply dismiss it by saying I want it all, well who wouldn't?

But he did make a nice play on Pierre Garcon on a potential TD throw in the first half. Must be his familiarity with Garcon playing just down the road at Mt. Union. Either that or he has experience waiting tables at French restaurants.

Since this topic has been brought up on another forum, i thought it might be interesting to see what Zips fans really thought. I tried to make them realistic choices. I think anyone would take a national top ten for football or basketball but those aren't too likely to happen in the near future. As for me, I'd take the national championship in soccer. It may not be the most high profile sport, but it would give UA it's first team title. I'd be a little less excited if it was in something like say swimming, but I'd still be happy about it just like I was happy about our two NCAA champions last year. So what so you ZNO?Evidently I don't have the poll setup right, but the three questions were:1) National Championship in soccer2) Men win a first round NCAA tournament basketball game3) Football wins a low level bowl gameMods. feel free to delete the other one.

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!"