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I didn't see any other slugs there, but if I missed someone, my apologies. I got there about when the Q&A was starting, so I haven't been able yet to hear his opening (or MT's) remarks. I'm really cooked from the red-eye flight I took to get to the PC (only partly kidding), so I'll post more in detail later. Some quick hits: 1. No Terry Pluto or Elton Alexander to be found. 2. Most of the team was there .. and in quite good spirits 3. He's got a presence at the mic .. definately engaging. 4. He understands that this is a change for a reason .. not a status quo thing (more on this later). 5. The room really liked him .. Tommy Evans was SRO when I got there .. For now, I'll just add my favorite comment of the Q&A: KD "When we win ... we'll outgrow the JAR, and that's one of my goals here .. to outgrow the JAR" More to come...

I'm going to vote for JL tonight because I definately want him to be part of the process. He should be interviewed. I trust the Boss's instincts & if a top assistant from the ACC or BE is available & interested .. then I'm interested. My vote for Loyer today is for a few reasons: 1. If you google it .. his past doesn't appear as dubious as Bobby H would like people to believe. He was cleared by NCAA of infractions & yet UC still made him the scapegoat. I think he's every bit worth the look (if not more) than Dambrot. 2. He's a winner .. he's been a successful recruiter. He's played in the NCAA tournament, coached in the Final Four, coached a successful JUCO program, and now is in the NBA. He's been at every level. 3. HE'S A MEMBER OF THE ZIPS NATION. He's a Zip(s)! The banners in the JAR mean something .. there's tradition here. 21-10 all time in NCAA games isn't insignificant. And JL was a part of that. I'd like to see him come home for an interview. Ultimately, I trust MT's judgement.

I think he made the same sort of veiled guarantee last year .. "we'll get one .. things are coming together .. " We all know how that turned out .. we'll see this week. I have to agree that I don't think this is a bad draw. I'd certainly rather be going to Muncie (or Huntington) than BG. We'll see how it goes .. I'd just like to see the Zips at the Gund.

Great post Z-P. Nice to have your thoughts and inputs from the front row. Those of us slobs a few rows back don't always see the same things. Thanks for sharing. BTW, I've been very aware of the coaching from the stands for 2 years now, especially w/ DT. His brother sits about 6 rows behind and to your left, Z-P. That's probably the source. Sucks to have another season at the JAR over .. I'm already looking forward to next season. On to the MAC tourney and a chance to watch some competitive hoops.

Is that the Men's or Women's? Kraft is the ladies tourney sponsor now .. are they still giving away men's stuff? Anyone remember when they gave easy MAC away at the end of the tourney the first year? We must have taken home about a case of the stuff. It was horrible. One of my buddies fed it to his dogs.

Cap'n: I'm in the same boat as you. This will be my 6th consecutive MAC tourney appearance (that's more than some people we know!). It's my favorite sports week of the year .. and our team won't be there. We shoudl be sure to get together over the weekend. I'll be the guy with the brand new Buffalo Bulls hat with the tag still hanging off the side. L8er. P.S. All should attend & view the signage that might appear at the Gund

Many people have posted thoughts in the past about our radio team .. specifically the color guy & his blinding love for our Zippers. I'm in the camp that sort of longs for the days where Frenchie flew solo .. whatever, bad basketball doesn't deserve great coverage. However .. I didn't realize how good we have it. Moments after the end of the UA / Marshall game, I flipped the dial over to WNIR to catch the end of the Can't State choke job against Miami. All I can say is that I look forward to reading an article in the paper about how the game ended, because I have absolutely no idea what happened on the court at the end of the game. Needle is ridiculous! I can't believe that's their radio coverage .. aren't you supposed to understand what's going on on the court when you listen to games??? This guy is unbelievable. Can't State fans must be in hell when the flushes are on the road. My heartfelt apologies to Joe Dunn for any past criticisms of his work. Keep up the great job Joe!

CK & GZ have pretty much summed up my thoughts. Not much motivation for new discussions .. check out dreamwater before it disappears to see that this horse has been bludgeoned to death already. Tonight, the Zips lost an opportunity to lock up a home game. With all other results in from today's games .. I believe a win by UA would have given them nearly all the tiebreakers against Marshall. The head to head being the strongest. Nice use of timeouts during a frenzied 12-0 run. I also thought it was a genious coaching move to leave RT on Black, whom he clearly couldn't check all night. As Joe Dunn tells us .. "Black's having a great game against us .. seems like that always happens to the Zips" .. BS!! The Zips made their own bed tonight. Sucks for us & them .. but that's that. If the Zips sack up and beat UB on Saturday (I don't expect it .. but I won't be at all surprised) .. they will have closed the season by beating the top 3 teams in the division and losing to the bottom 2. What a fricking waste ... we deserve better than this. And to think I was having a pretty damn good week.

I second GZ's comments above .. as I listen to the wheels fall off with a chance to lock up the home game tonight. I don't know how much I can take of this .. listening to the Zips on the radio is downright painful, for a number of reasons.

Best post to date on the new board. Nice find!

ZFF - do you remember the license plate website? I can't remember where it was posted originally .. just did a brief search on the Dreamwater ... but I couldn't find the original link.

Reek'n Urinal article: Futbol & Football go together! How many acres does the U control south of Exchange? CK & JP, you can split the $100million, right? Rt8, 77, 76 .. that's pretty good access. If Cleveland isn't willing to foot the bill, MT LP & co. should start stumping to get this built with Wolstein on campus. It's funny to me that he says Richfield didn't work last time .. yet he appears willing to do it all over again? Curious ..

Great game to watch .. back and forth .. emotional and energetic. It's good to get a win against these guys. My thoughts on the game: 1. I thought DT came out with pretty good intensity. Certainly had a great shooting afternoon to help propell the Zips over Can't State. That type of intensity the whole game and season .. and we're talking about different things the next few weeks. 2. I'm happy for Seibart. Great start to the game this afternoon. He should be proud to have converted on the opportunity that he had this afternoon. Several guys have had good nights on senior nights over the years and in their last games (Jawanza Moore comes to mind especially .. even Scott Gooden). Nice he was able to put a shot in over Edwards & contribute. 3. Joyce impressed me again today .. it won't show in the box score, but I really felt he played a steady, steady game and kept things going. We're in good shape with him at the point. Not happy about losing JH .. but I didn't think about him during the game. Joyce & Collins got it done. 4. Wood / Travis / Futch .. nice upside & hustle today. Rebounded well in the second half. My dream is that thes guys learn to post up the way Andrick did. Great fastbreak conversion by Wood late in the game. He had several shots that I couldn't believe didn't drop today. 5. If we can beat a healthy 20-4 MAC East Champion team with the reduced troops we had today .. why are we 13-12 on the season .. inquiring minds want to know. 6. Hugely disappointed in the small size of today's crowd & the large percentage that was Can't State fans. It's a tribute to their recent success that their fans travel over here that well .. and a sign of our lack of the same success that that many seats are available to them. Makes me sick ... Finally .. Anyone happen to tape the game today? I'd pay money to see a replay of Tarver's move on Haynes in the second half. He simply abused Haynes .. made him look silly .. the guy friggin FELL DOWN he got juked so bad. That's a highlite I would love to have in avi or mpg format and post here on the site. I think I'd play it everytime I visited the site. Anyone have a tape of the game???? Maybe we can start "highlight" reels in a forum or something .. there haven't been many this season, but that was certainly one! These are the things I remember about todays game. Doesn't make the season a good one or make the frustration go away .. but it is nice to beat the teams we're supposed to.

Gotta go to class .. they are student athletes after all. Can't say I'm happy about not having him out there .. but I do think the program has to enforce some basic rules. This takes some balls by a coach on the brink. The classroom matters at Akron .. and it should for the team as well. The Joyce era began a few games ago .. it's now officially in full swing. Go {to class} Zips!

I know it's always a well attended game. I'm thinking it's going to be a packed house this weekend. And while recently that has meant a lot of Can't State people .. I think Sunday will be different. You have to figure the concert after the game is going to draw a pretty large number of people, and they've probably set aside large numbers of GA seats for church groups .. etc. And I'd guess that the fans attracted by the post game show are local Summit county Akron folks. If so .. very shrewd move by UAM & staff, IMHO. Go Zips .. tear 'em up!

Nice story in the Reek'n Urinal this morning about Brenda Norris at the MAC Championships. Only a Junior .. owns school record(s)!

This late in the game .. you have to figure that they'll look inward for continuity's sake, wouldn't you? I'm hoping they pick one of their co-ordinators. That wouldn't be too threatening to the Zippers. I just love Tammy piling on the whole "Winters is the greatest coach who isn't already a head coach" fire set by Morgan and Alexander ..

Actually it didn't really take me any time. To be honest .. my eyes when right to it when I saw the picture. Don't know why I didn't post before .. just reminded of it this afternoon for some reason.

I think we can all agree that MT & co. have brought a winning attitude to the department that hasn't always been there. In order to be big time .. you need to look & act like you belong in the big time. So they've really done well to improve the marketed image of UA & the Zips. No question in my mind that the production value of the hoops & football games has moved WAYYY upstream. This is something that's been bugging me since I opened my ticket package back in November. There's something that we might not want to repeat again. Anyone who has one of those ticket books .. take a look at the photo and see if something catches your eye. On the front of the book is an image of a pretty full JAR with a Zip (Tarver) at the line .. nice picture .. new floor .. etc. The problem I have is that the scoreboard is visible ... and the Zips are losing big at the start of the second half to a big rival!! Surely, we could have put the Akron basketball logo a little more north on the page to obscure our struggles in that game? Anyone else notice this? Small faux pas .. but sometimes it's the little things that separate you from the crowd one way or another.

6100+ witness a big win by UB tonight against Can't State No seniors on the Bulls .. may be making their first trip to the Gund Don't you wish that was us???

Sorry for any confusion .. I was trying to get things to where they belong and some posts got moved without leaving a link in the original forums. Special apologies to zipper. If you're looking for a post that has disappeared, you will find it Here. In the future .. moved posts will appear as zippers post "new board problems" appears in the Basketball forum. My apologies for any confusion! ZW

Sorry for any confusion .. I was trying to get things to where they belong and some posts got moved without leaving a link in the original forums. Special apologies to zipper. If you're looking for a post that has disappeared, you will find it HERE In the future .. moved posts will appear as zippers post "new board problems" appears in the Basketball forum. My apologies for any confusion! ZW

Check your messages (here on the board) .. support requests have been added to a new forum for that purpose so we can be more responsive .. your post was moved .. not deleted .. it should have shown here as "MOVED" .. not disappeared altogether .. still working the bugs out on this thing! Sorry about that. Your prior post is in Here. As for needing to refresh when you use the back button, my recommendation is to use the navigation bar right below the members bar at the top. Right below where it says "Logged in as: zipper" there are several links that tell you where you are. Just click on the area you want to go ...etc. back one step or all the way back to ZipsNation.Org. This way, you'll see the updated forums without needing constant refresh. I think perhaps that may help your problem. Let us know if that helps...

Dr. Z, Related to the buttons .. I do think they could be lightened up. I have a zip file with all existing button images, along with the blank buttons. Can I drop that on you to generate buttons with brighter text? I like the background color, but I do agree the text is somewhat faint. Thanks & let me know .. ZW It's about 12 or so buttons I think.

Hmmm.. Going back just gives you a blank page? What happens before you hit refresh? Most browsers won't tell you there are new posts unless you hit the refresh, it just takes you back to the image you had before. You can click on the logo at the top to go back to the main board .. does that behave differently? Have you been over to macBBS? Same issue there?