Hilltopper

Poor horse!

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Bridget, who is a friend of my daughter. She is a great kid, with good parents. Her dad was one of my daughters favorite teachers.

Gary Waters didn't even need to pull back the curtain at the convo last week. Attendance: 5105Thanks ZW. OSU is having trouble filling 50% of the seats at their home arena this season. There is no advantage to Zips for playing games at the Q, except for the MAC tournament.

This is an ATM game for UNCG. The game is being played at Greensboro Coliseum which seats 20,000. My guess is 18,000 of those fans will be rooting for WF. I'm sure UofA could get a home game like this if they were willing to play it in Cleveland.Name the team that would draw 20k to the Q in a matchup with the Zips.

Umm....Valpo's 7 footer is a redshirt and didn't even travel with the team.OK, Their center fouled out.

What the heck was up with the radio broadcast yesterday? When I got back to my car, Fenchy was interviewing KD using a cell phone, passing it back and forth. We have to do better than that!

Seeing Zeke steal the ball and drive the length of the court for the layup and one was sweet. No sense in burning him out with too many minutes before conference play is a smart move by KD. Valpo's 7 footer fouled out with 15 min left in the game. Another solid performance by the Zips.

I've been sick the past few days and have had lots of time on my hands. I decided to take a look at a few of our opponents message boards and here is what someone on Bobcat Attack reported after attending the UIC vs Zips game.http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/t...&PID=205084 You can read the rest.ps; Check out the thread about the Rowdies "Stealing" their chants.

Some thoughts from that season -The Zips played as an Independent. Being a basketball Independent at that time, much like today, is an impossible situation. You have no Conference Championship to play for...absolutely no chance at an NCAA bid...you needed to fight and scrape to schedule every game played after January 1st, because every other school in the nation went into their own Conference schedule at that time and had no desire to schedule an Independent game. Especially on the road.I remember those two games against Pitt. I attended both. Unbelievable wars. Losing by 2-points and 4-points to those Top 15 teams was impressive. We went toe-to-toe with some greats...Sean Miller, Jerome Lane, Demetrious Gore, Charles Smith...lots of big names on those Pitt rosters.Yep...that Independent scheduling was tough. However, myself and most of the people I know still believe that this '88 team's biggest downfall was the two losses to Western Illinois. That was a tough hurdle to get over when trying to impress the NCAA tourney committee. Once again, no matter what your record, "bad losses" will do you in. I still wonder if the strong turnout for that game against #3 Pitt in Richfield indicates that possibly a game today against a Top 10 team at the Q would be a good draw. Or...was it the fact that Richfield was so close to Akron. Who knows. But, I do know a lot of people throughout NE Ohio who went to that game, and would not otherwise go to an Akron basketball game.Skip, I think some of it can be attributed to the fact that we were finally winning at the D-1 level. Bob Ruperts teams were not so good, but when Huggins arrived and the opening of the JAR, the people of Akron started to take notice. You didn't have hundreds of games available to watch on TV like today and the internet was unknown to the average fan. If you wanted to see NCAA basketball your options were limited to a few games a week on TV. Huggins was also a very flamboyant coach(Still is) and part of going to game was the guessing what he might do next. I lost count of how many times he removed his suit coat and flung it into the stands. It was rumored that he kept a roll of quarters in one pocket so that the coat would fly farther. When Muse decided that we needed to go bigtime in football as an independant it was the kiss of death for the BB program. After Huggins left, we were treated to really awful basketball during the C Crawford era. His idea of basketball was summed up in the "Defense 65" promotion. All you had to look forward to was a free taco if we held our opponent under 65 points.

Here is the schedule for 87-88, the first year after we left the OVC. 1987-88 (21-7)Coach: Bob HugginsN30 Ashland W 69-52D4 Rice+ W 74-67D5 Western Illinois+ L 73-77D7 Robert Morris W 74-61D9 Ohio W 76-69D12 at Can't State L 74-92D21 (3) Pittsburgh^ L 63-67D30 Bethune Cookman W 85-51J2 North Carolina A&T W 63-57J6 at Cleveland State L 73-80J9 at Youngstown St. W 80-61J11 at Middle Tenn. L 78-82J18 Middle Tennessee W 76-72J20 Otterbein W 109-54J23 at Northern Illinois W 75-68J25 at Chicago State W 61-56J28 Kenyon W 75-53J30 Brooklyn College W 96-57F3 at N. Carolina A&T L 70-92F6 Youngstown State W 90-59F10 at Wright State W 88-81F13 at Brooklyn College W 97-70F15 Florida International W 103-58F17 Wright State (ot) W 89-82F20 Chicago State W 78-58F24 at Western Illinois L 71-76F27 Morehead State W 90-67M5 at Western Mich. W 79-74

If he did, they might want to check the envelope for Anthrax!

The JAR was so full, people were sitting in the aisles. The fire marshal told them to stop selling tickets. It was "Mouse" McFadden vs Eric "Cricket" McLaughlin. What a great game. People complain about how weak our schedule is now. Take a look at this schedule. 1. 8,168 Cleveland State (ot) 12-9-86 W, 73-692. 7,131 Murray State 2-22-86 W, 76-573. 6,701 Middle Tenn. State* 3-7-86 W, 68-634. 6,546 Eastern Kentucky 2-16-87 W, 74-735. 6,518 Youngstown State 3-2-87 W, 103-746. 6,382 Eastern Michigan 12-3-83 W, 78-747. 6,140 Morehead State (ot) 1-28-84 L, 78-868. 5,864 Bowling Green 12-10-83 L, 90-919. 5,718 Middle Tenn. State 2-25-84 L, 64-8410. 5,657 Can't State 1-17-07 W, 78-6811. 5,651 Can't State 3-4-06 W, 75-6712. 5,607 K ent State 3-9-08 L, 58-6113. 5,582 Tennessee Tech* 3-3-86 W, 67-5814. 5,552 Youngstown State 1-3-86 W, 60-4615. 5,547 Can't State 12-6-86 W, 67-6216. 5,519 Ohio 12-9-87 W, 76-6917. 5,511 Austin Peay 2-24-86 W, 84-72* - 1986 OVC TournamentArena attendanc e records1986-87 (21-9, 9-5 OVC*)• NIT Participa ntCoach: Bob HugginsN29 Slippery Rock W 82-53D1 at Ohio L 79-81D3 Bowling Green W 79-52D6 Can't State W 67-62D9 Cleveland St. (ot) W 73-69D12 Central Conn.+ W 72-47D13 Coastal Carolina+ W 66-61D20 Edinboro State W 95-76D22 at Robert Morris W 73-60D29 South Carolina St. W 81-66J3 Youngstown State* W 60-46J5 at (14) Pittsburgh L 65-67J10 at Eastern Ky.* L 61-82J12 at Morehead St.* L 52-62J17 Austin Peay* W 89-76J19 Murray State* W 76-70J24 Tennessee Tech* W 95-73J26 Middle Tennessee* W 96-78J31 at Youngstown St.* L 68-71F2 Detroit W 82-74F4 Hiram W 91-63F7 at Middle Tenn.* L 62-64F9 at Tennessee Tech* W 87-83F14 Morehead State* W 93-83F16 Eastern Kentucky* W 74-73F21 at Murray State* W 76-66F23 at Austin Peay* L 58-63OVC Tournament(Murfreesboro, Tenn.)M2 Youngstown St.# W 103-74M6 vs. Eastern Ky.% L 85-94NIT (Normal, Ill.)at Illinois State L 72-79+-McDonald’s Zip Classic#-OVC First Round(UA 2 seed, YSU 7 seed)%-OVC

I'm pleasantly shocked they're updating it in practically real time. 5 GA's(?)...that will help keep the costs down. Is it good to hire unit coaches before the coordinator? I guess RI is being very selective about a DC.Its possible that some of the hires won't be announced until the bowl season is over.

You need to fix your link CK, it goes to an article about Syracuse football.

Dare I say it? Jimmy Conyers has been the Zips most consistant player this season. He is making all the little plays, the dirty work. He goes after every rebound and is our best defender. Hmm, kinda reminds me of another guy from last years team. Nate Linhart

Sometimes, yes .. other times .. not so much.We need an applet where you can play music behind a post when someone is reading the post. This one needs the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" .. nice motivation speech. I'd have written the exact same thing 10 years ago. Might be interesting to revisit in 5, and then again in 10 years. Hope it's a prosperous 2010.Opportunity does flourish amid chaos. And that too!Go Zips! B) B)This song would make more sense for GP1.

Are you channeling GP1 now, or what?

Huggy was ahead of his time. He is exactly what college sports are and what they have always been. He had the balls to say what everyone else was thinking. It's about winning today. It was about winning in the 1990s. It was about winning in the 1950s. It always has been and always will be. Coaches are brought to schools to win. Alumni give money because the school is winning. Coaches are fired because they don't win. Athletic Directors are fired because their teams don't win. Alumni stop giving money because the team is not winning and are willing to turn their backs to bad behavior if the team is winning.I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it just is what it is.You are so full if sh!t.Look at John Calipari. Or Rick Pitino. Those guys stand for all that is good in Division 1 athletics. With them, it is all about teaching kids. About education first, then athletics. About integrity and character.How long would Bobby Knight have lasted at Indiana if he won 15 games per season? FOREVER, I SAY!Winning has nothing to do with anything.ROFLMAO ... !!!!Cap'n, surely you say that tongue-in-cheek. You just named two of the biggest cheats on collegesports. Continuing to ROFLMAO. Nearly brought tears to my eyes. If only they could keep theirJohnsons home.I forget, was it Pitino or Calipari who coached Tiger?

This is great news. I hope that Porter is here for the full 5 years. Hopefully there is a huge "poison pill" in there that makes it very expensive for another team(Pro or collegiate) to lure him away.

Epic! Post of the year.

Waiting for GP1.....

Like I said during the game, #17 is a thug!

#17 for UVA is a thug. He got one yellow, but deserved another one for stepping on Ampi's head.