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That one got me too. Obviously, if his academics were only up to an associates degree after four years he would have been sitting and not playing.

Or to put it more simply: Some women drive men to smack them around. But it is always the man who goes to jail.

And as ALWAYS it is the MAN who is guilty and has to leave.

A wise man has spoken.

How does he even get out of bed in the morning to go to work?

That is not true. "Hitting a woman" can be: Harassment Misdemeanor Felony or SELF DEFENSE or just plain old fashioned BS and NOT GUILTY Selling drugs is ALWAYS a Felony if found guilty. You can not go to trial on that and be convicted of a violation or misdemeanor. So I take some exception to your statement. It is just overbroad and too general.

I am not a lawyer, but I don't need to be one to figure out that celebration. I was crying when he hit that shot. And I think it was the following year that Bobby Richardson caught that line drive that was on the way UP to end the Series. I was delivering newspapers and listening on the radio.

Giants fan for life. Do not like Baseball, although I did go to the 1963 World Series. I didn't know yet that I don't like baseball.

Not unless JD was broadcasting from New York!

They may get blown out almost as badly as we did. 27 points and two free throws on the way.

What I don't think has been mentioned is that KD has built teams for the purpose of winning the MAC. Because winning the MAC is the ONLY way to get to the Dance or NIT for MAC teams. So if you look at recruiting, especially the last couple of years, he has gone for height above all else (no pun intended). NO team in the MAC has a 7 footer backed up by a 6'11". Our wings are tall. All 6'8' or 6'7". We recruited Reggie and Jake for their height and ability to shoot outside, NOT as slashing athletic small forwards. Our PGs have lately been guys who can bring the ball up and defend, they are NOT DJ Cooper types who sink 30 footers and score 2000 points in a career. And in general we don't face Earl Monroe in the MAC, so we don't need to be built to defend that. Our big can usually neutralize MAC quality guards. So the point I am making is that I think our teams have been build to beat the people we need to beat, namely the MAC. IF KD had been looking to build a tournament team, he might have looked at different players. And it is at least possible that THOSE players might not have matched up well against MAC teams. I note that the only MAC team that we have not matched up well against lately is Buffalo. DIG can analyze why they got up 20 on us, then beat us in the second game, and why every time we face them we are seriously worried. It just seems that the way our teams have been built, they are not a good match against Buffalo. So that raises the question, what do you want Coach to do? Build a team that can beat OOC high majors, but lose in the MAC? OK, I know we want both, but which is the model you follow. Remember, NASCAR cars are different than Indy cars, and each car is tuned for the specific track and driver and weather conditions. But we can not hire and fire players in the middle of the season, or before each game. So just food for thought.

Least popular sport in the United States. In the context of this discussion about American Collegiate Sports, no one cares about soccer.

Yes indeed. But in the United States of America as a professional or collegiate sport NO ONE CARES ABOUT SOCCER And that is the issue here, unless I made a wrong turn at the kitchen and we are in Guatemala.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT SOCCER.

We have won the MAC the last two years, and the Q two out of three. The last three years two NCAA and one NIT. While we have not won lately in either of those two venues, we may have gone as far as we can in the MAC. Seven years in a row in the championship game. Exactly what more can we accomplish? We basically dominate that league. And even though we lose Zeke, OU and K E N T will probably both be very weak next year, losing basically all their top players. So we may have hit our ceiling in the current situation.

Unless Melo spends three or four hours every day seven days a week between TODAY and opening day next season learning to shoot from the perimeter, he will never be a DI point guard. He just does not contribute any points. And the team that scores the most points wins.

I did not say nobody wants to go there, I said specifically that for a top recruit, given the choice of Akron Ohio or Notre Dame or OSU or Michigan or Princeton, where do you think he is going to get that degree? THAT is the burden the coach has to overcome. Winning in the NCAA, yes that helps big time. But it does not change the fact that offered Florida and Akron, mom and dad tell the kid to go to Florida. Or Rutgers. Or Wake Forest. Etc and so on.

I just have to add, where I live there is St. Johns for BB, and basically no one for football. Hofstra dropped their program. There are two million people living on Long Island. The top athletes leave. They go to Syracuse and Maryland and OSU and Penn State. Akron is dead in the middle of Sports America. For LOCAL recruits you have to compete with YSU, CSU, Can't State, and OU and Miami and BG are drive home on the weekends close. It is hard to attract local talent.

You ignore the most basic truth: AKRON is NOT California or Hawaii or Florida. It is a grungy industrial city in the midwest. It is not glamorous. UA is NOT Ivy league. It does not play in the Big 10. The chances of getting to the Professional level in any sport coming out of AKRON are very very low. Does happen once in a while, not often. The point being, it is impossible to compete for recruits that can get offers from Power 6 or BCS or Ivy League schools. We don't have to offer what they have to offer. Please don't give me the blah blah blah about how highly rated UA is or anything else. Given the choice to attend AKRON or Princeton or OSU or FSU or MICHIGAN STATE on a full ride, where would YOU get that sheepskin? The point of my post is NOT to knock AKRON OHIO or UA? I graduated from there, remember? The point is that ANY coach who works for AKRON has to play the hand he is dealt. We got Zeke, that was a big WOW. But in general, UA will never get Top 50 recruits, and not because we are in the MAC. Because you are in AKRON OHIO. It is not a glamour spot. Face it, that is the truth. So what a good coach does is spot diamonds in the rough - players who are not getting big time offers for one reason or another. Tree was one of those, so was Len Paul back in the day. That is what KD has done. He recruiting has been very very good. But understand that "top tier" recruits will rarely consider Akron, and if they do, other MAC schools are in the mix. K E N T has way more name recognition, at least in part because of a certain day in 1970. OU, Ball State, Miami DO have more name recognition. Remember, I live in New York. Prior to the internet, I could never even get an Akron score. Totally off the charts in the media. So even when a quality recruit will consider Akron, we almost always have to compete with other MAC schools that may have more to offer for one reason or another. Personally, going back a lot of years, I know I would have been happier in a "college town" than the urban setting. Remember, these athletes almost always live on campus, or at least are not Townies. The Akron campus life has always left a lot to be desired, because it has always been a Townie school. So remember I am not knocking AKRON or UA. I am an alum. I am merely stating the facts. KD has done a WONDERFUL job. Going to the next level is very hard when you recruit for a school like Akron. Just ask Terry Bowden about that.

Coach was on the floor but I did not see him shooting, rebounding or dribbling. Maybe you were watching a different game.

Already indicted? They didn't waste any time. That does not look good.

Hey Zekes Mom: Now that it is over and Zeke will no longer play ball in a Zips uniform, I just wanted to say what a pleasure it has been to have you here as a fan. Zeke ended up being so much more than we ever could have dreamed of, and you were here all the time as his biggest fan. I know your formal connection to Akron Athletics is now over, but please stop in and say HELLO once in a while!

Fire him? WTF??????????????????????????????? He took the team to the regular season and MAC tourney championship and the Dance. WTF???????????????? You want to fire any coach that does not make national champion? Guess what, there is only one national champion every year. And Akron is not getting that coach. Not ever. We must grow our own. And this team played through the loss of the 6th man of the year, the starting point guard, and two main players who got the flu. Pretty damn good performance by everyone, especially the coach. NOW STFU

It will hurt less when VCU goes to the Final Four and probably beyond. There is no dishonor in being slapped down by the best team in the country.

I hate to break it to you all, but VCU probably would have beaten any team in the Dance tonight. They just shot the lights out. It was actually unnatural.