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I may be hallucinating. 3-3 from 3 point range 15 points in 22 minutes with 2 assists and 2 steals. Maybe Coach was not playing him right.

I agree. He needs to keep himself under control, but he has a ton of upside. And in a Groce team, he better learn to shoot something besides dunks.

http://www.liveliveonline.com/ He is showing moves he never had at Akron! Shooting from the outside - and hitting.

Some of these MAC bench warmers will be transferring back out of Duquesne in a year.

I like Ivey. And you are correct, he could probably get a very good offer. He has game.

Time to place the ad in the Student Newspaper!

I don't know if they are a "better" school but they are a FAMOUS school. Which matters on job interviews: (and obviously this has nothing to do with hoops) The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). LSU ended the 2015 season with 770 victories, the 12th most in NCAA Division I FBS history, and the 4th most of any SEC team, behind Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Tigers also have the 11th highest winning percentage among teams with at least 1,000 games played. LSU has won three National Championships in 1958, 2003 and 2007. LSU won the BCS National Championship in 2004 (2003 season) with a 21–14 win over Oklahoma in the Nokia Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and the 2008 BCS National Championship Game (2007 season) versus the Ohio State Buckeyes with a 38–24 score, thus becoming the first team since the advent of the BCS to win multiple BCS national titles. LSU has been featured in a game with ESPN College GameDay on location a total of 25 times, and the show has aired from Baton Rouge a total of 13 times. The Tigers have now made at least one appearance on the show every season since 2003. In recent years, LSU has had a high number of players drafted into the National Football League (NFL). As of the beginning of the 2016 NFL season, there were 42 former LSU players on active rosters in the NFL, the most of any college program.[3]

I was simply making the point that if he can get an offer from a "name brand" school for his Masters, it would be a good career move. Not necessarily LSU.

My sheepskin says University of Akron. This is not about pride. The name of the school does make a difference. Most SCOTUS Judges have Harvard Law degrees, NOT Akron Law. If you want to be a Judge in NYC, you mostly need a law degree from St. Johns, along with a big hook. An MBA from the Wharton School of Business carries a lot more weight than an MBA from Akron or Kent or even OSU. It matters. That is all I am saying. If a player has graduated and can get a free ride for a Masters degree, the name of the school matters more than how good the hoops team is that year. Most 5-11 players are not going to the NBA, and even pro opportunities in Europe are probably fleeting. Eventually he will need to get a job. And not everyone has an engineering degree. I am talking in generalities. Business, Political Science etc. The name of the school matters.

Back in the day the grad rate was much higher. Because if you could not get it done in 4 you finished up at the University of Saigon.

You gotta get hired first. Name Brand grads have an easier time finding jobs. And Johns Hopkins is a big deal on a resume, which you already know.

Athletics has everything to do with the value of the name on the sheepskin. Schools that have dominated sports, like LSU in the old days, OSU, Indiana, Louisville, UCLA etc have name recognition. Employers will jump all over a Notre Dame grad, long before they will consider someone from Akron, Youngstown, CSU etc. "Quality of education" is hard to measure. Does one get the same quality at Akron as at Princeton? Quite possibly. But perception is everything. Princeton is Ivy League. Akron is Akron. Just saying, a person being offered a grad degree on scholarship might well opt for the name recognition on the degree before the quality of the current BB team.

When you are looking for a job, the name of the school on the sheepskin matters. LSU is better known than Akron. Princeton, Harvard, tOSU, all better in the job market. Robert Morris, not so much. Maybe some of you guys never got out of NEO, but in the rest of the world UA is pretty unknown.

Would you rather have a graduate degree from LSU or the University of Akron?

Well that sucks. At this rate we will probably be putting an ad in the student newspaper for anyone who have every played basketball.

Major Major schools get to have losing conference seasons and go to the Dance. Thus the angst.

I have to agree with you. Duquesne is not really much of a step up. Stronger conference, but no winning tradition at all. Someone with KD's resume (less the skeleton) should have been gone to a major major winning program long ago.

No, the reality is that bigger programs sometimes won't take a chance on them unless they are superstars, so they go to MAC level schools and lower.

That is what I said. Followed by the other two who apparently were not, but still charged by the University.

AA Not "arrested" but gone for the season due to off Court activities that were maybe not totally "legal": Tree Diggs

NOT a transfer. A HS recruit.

I get that, but Groce was already gone for a while, so I am just not connecting it to the new hire. This guy was sought after by a bunch of big time schools, I can only imagine they have kept the pressure up (probably against the rules, what else is new?).

He was considering asking for a release to go to Missouri and on Monday he stated he was staying at Illinois. So it does not seem related.

NOT coming to Akron. As recently as Monday he was said to be considering Missouri