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Your views obviously conflict with mine Keener. I will no longer be providing service to you by commenting on your posts.

I really like Jeff Boals and hope he gets a head coaching job somewhere other than the MAC very soon. I want him to be successful and don't want to have to root against him.

On the bottom of my page there was a link to this article "15 College football programs that should suffer the same fate as UAB". Somehow the Zips escaped the list despite a number of complaints about the teams they did name never having won a bowl game. Can't, EMU and UMass were the MAC teams who made this list.

Bulls down by 4 with 4 minutes to play.

Unless Buffalo comes back, no 12-5 upset this year. When the Zips were a 12 a couple years ago they were the only 12 seed that didn't win.

And #3 seed Baylor gone less than an hour later. Two three seeds gone in the opening four games of the tournament. Going to be another good one.

Barber named finalist for Sullivan award. Awesome, thanks to everyone that helped. Now we need to help him win it. Contest ends March 25th so we don't have to do it very long, c'mon Zips nation, give him a big push.

Does the pay wall still exist? For some reason I'm able to read as many stories as I want on the ohio.com site.

Now that the season is over (and with the decision by the Zips not to participate in a post season tournament probably not easily arrived at since that is one of the things the Zips like to tout, how often they have participated in the postseason under Dambrot), for a little fun, Hustlebelt presented each teams all time team to see how they would stack up against each other. I think CMU has the best overall, with BGSU and Miami being pretty close too, but I disagree with two of the Zips choices: G: Steve McNees (2008-11) G: Joe Jakubick (1980-84) F: Derrick Tarver (2002-04) F: Romeo Travis (2004-07) C: Zeke Marshall (2010-13) I would substitute Eric McLaughlin for McNees and Len Paul for Derrick Tarver and I think the Zips might have a shot. And by the way, with the success of the Bulls this year, Hustlebelt reported that Bobby Hurley's name is potentially being discussed as a good fit for DePaul. Another reason to be happy KD stays put.

You can't tell that story without the representatives response to Bowden's response though - “So I tell him, ‘Yes, I’m interested,'” he says. “And the guy goes, ‘Really?'”

Should be a good game, the only team that the Zips don't match up well against is Toledo, so I'm really rooting for CMU tonight as well. Both Buffalo games were close contests, my only concern is how tired the Zips might be. Great run in this one. After having never even made the semifinals in MAC tournament history before this long run of dominance, the Zips have now made at least the semifinal every year in the last ten years. Last time they didn't make it at least this far was in the 2005 MAC tournament. We're pretty spoiled. Edited - since I seemed to have touched a nerve with my verb choice, I will amend it to say we're lucky that we've been treated to a long run of success, especially knowing it doesn't happen all of the time as we know from being Zips fans in the past. I'll still bet every other fan base in the league would be happy to trade places over the last ten years with us, just as I'm sure we'd have been happy to trade for the best team in the leagues experience prior to that. Of course part of reveling in the good times is the sticking through the hard times.

Still fewer points than minutes played - that's not a good stat. Good thing the Flashes have been almost equally awful. Still in it.

Ugh - 1-10 to start from 3. Not likely to be 40% shooting tonight. Could be tired legs. Playing pretty well defensively.

Rough afternoon for the ladies, lost by almost 30. Only hope that the men's three seed has just as bad a time.

During the game they announced that a losing Ohio lottery ticket could again be used for a buy one get one deal.

At this blistering pace it will be 12-12 at halftime.

And Dave In Green was extensively quoted and now they are making a TV series about him. Amazing!

It was mentioned by Frenchie on the NIU playoff basketball broadcast that Shawn Barber has been nominated for the Sullivan award, which is given to the Nation's top amateur athlete. There are a number of college football and basketball players nominated but they get enough attention (and if I need to motivate the anti-tOSU crowd, so be it, there is a Buckeye nominated ). Past award winners have included people like Peyton Manning and Olympic Gold medalist Michael Phelps, Shawn Johnson and Missy Franklin. You can vote once a day for Barber here, there will be an elimination round that will cut it from 12 down to 6 finalists. Help him out, Zips fans he could be an Akron Olympic medalist in a couple years, how cool would that be to have a Zip in the Brazil World Cup followed by a Zip in the Brazil Olympics?

Baby Blue?

Even though this year the format hurts the Zips, I actually really like the format and think other mid-major leagues should think of adopting it. It makes the regular season a lot more meaningful and you should give your top seeds a little more protection. They earned it. But thinking back to the Zips being 8-3 and the number one seed and then finishing 1-6 (sigh) does not give me a lot of hope for tonight. Zips are in a steep decline while NIU has really improved. I think the Zips season ends tonight.

How often do you think it happens that the seventh seed in a tournament beat five of the six teams ahead of them and swept two of them?

Except maybe the people who were actually a part of the last wrestling team Akron ever had. Lot of foot in mouth on the board here recently. :-) It was a real shame too, because the Akron area has long been a stronghold for good high school wrestling, one of the reasons Can't has had a pretty good team for a long time. I pay attention to the minor sports maybe more than most other folks because to me that's what college sports are supposed to be, not a breeding ground for professional leagues. I find the Olympic type sports to be a little more pure in that way. I certainly root for the Zips in the big ones, but I also enjoy the minor ones. I think Shawn Barber is a more amazing athlete than anyone on the major sports rosters. And the reason I always enjoyed wrestling was because you didn't have to hit the genetic lottery to be a part of it, and even though you were part of a team it really was an individual sport, and if you worked hard enough at it you could get better. If you were 7 feet tall even without much talent at all the basketball team would probably find a spot for you, same for football if you weighed 250 pounds.

I think everyone is really overlooking how good Central Michigan is, the Zips were pretty lucky to hold on and beat them and they've beaten both Buffalo and Toledo twice. I would be OK with the Chipps winning it all since the odds are really long for the Zips.

Still going to be tough to win it this year, if the men can't beat Can't tonight, it's a tie, and in the spring Can't has a clear advantage in baseball and men's and women's golf, the Zips probably have the advantage in M&W T&F and softball is probably a tossup. Men's soccer and swimming (where Can't doesn't have teams) would have helped.

Well I'll be watching the game since its on ESPN2, but this is the least excited I've been about a Can't game in quite some time. A promising season really went up in flames, eerily similar to the football season where a promising start disintegrated at the end of the season (even though there is one game left, both basketball and football ended on a 1-5 stretch). Always good to beat the Flashes, but sadly it's not going to mean much this season, I'm afraid.