Hilltopper

Nick Harney let his man score about 30 that night. I don't think Diggs and Tredwell spoke two words to each other that entire season. At least I had dinner at a really good Cuban restaurant on the trip over that day.

Marla has the right idea. https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181202/marla-ridenour-ua-needs-to-become-stepping-stone-for-coaches-to-elevate-football-program

The fat lady sang this morning.

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DA ZIPMAN !

Found this explanation on Twitter. It appears that Ben actually deflected what was a shot on goal and the rebound was redirected into the goal. "Rebound off goal keeper to a player offside is offside. If a defender attempts to play ball but missed header or wiffs a clearing pass and ball goes to offside player then it’s not offside under new college rule. Good call since goal was deflected by goal keeper to offside player. Go Zips!"

I can't believe there are people stupid enough to believe there isn't enough donor money lined up to buy out his contract.

Frank is 70-42 in the MAC. Terry is 23-33. We have 8(7?) Senior starters on defense. Next year will be another rebuild. I feel the winds of change blowing strong. Something has to happen to salvage what is left of the fan base and more importantly the booster base. The empty suites on the 6th floor and loges and club seats on the 5th floor are sending a message that can't be ignored.

Nope

I thought we looked a little sluggish in the first half. I think the physical battle we had the day before with Clemson caused us to have a poor shooting effort in the first half. Just didn't seem to play with the same edge we had on Monday. I also think Illinois State was determined to not get embarrased like they did on Monday. All we needed was for a few more shots to go through the hoop and we could be 2-0. Another encouraging thing is how well we have taken care of the ball. Only 5 turnovers yesterday and 4 on Monday.

Toles has only practiced a handful of times in the last 5 weeks. Once he getsp his legs back and gets some chemistry going he will be a welcome addition.

I'm sure he just forgot the sarcasm emojis.

Nice call oh great Swami!

The guys watched the Chi-state, Ill-state game last night. They know what their in for Friday night.

I would guess that our loss to Syracuse earlier this season was the difference between the 16 and 17 seed.

Christian is a very smart kid. He is already a senior academically majoring in business. Next year he will be working on his MBA. This also translates to his performance on the floor. A coachs dream.

Hester is no longer with the team.

Jeremy Roscoe

Do you really think that they would tell you that any member of any coaching staff sucks and deserves to be fired?

Correct

This is better than a bowl game. We play a quality opponent and we get to keep all the money.

Just prior to that I had told my wife what a fine job the lady ref had been doing. Then she blew it!

That was a really bad call. The NIU player merely bumped into Nelson. Does this ruling mean that the 1/2 game suspension against the player is overturned?

The landscape of mid-major basketball is changing. With the new rules on transfers mid-majors are going to be more reluctant to solely recruit HS seniors to fill their rosters. Why spend a couple of years as a training ground for those players so the good ones can just transfer up to a P-5 school to finish their career.