Captain Kangaroo

Calling a time out when the opponent has successive easy dunks is a "great move?" That's pre-coaching 101. How great a move would it have been for Dambrot to play Ibitayo in the second half? "Supermegastellar Great?"

Abreu acquired 5 pounds of pot with the intent to distribute during his team's run towards a MAC Championship and an NCAA appearance. Some teammate. It is the lazy way out to take him back. Find another point guard and move on. To equate Dambrot's ignorant tongue slip with drug dealing is fairly stupid. Try an analogy with Kevin Mackey firing up a rock of crack with a hooker. Not the same, but it's closer. If Abreu is welcomed back to UA after his 5lb escapade, and his other suspensions, I'm not going to burn down Buchtel Hall. But I will be disappointed. Help the kid find another team to accept him and his baggage for a season. But time at UA should be expired. I'd rather lose with Betancourt than win with Abreu. And we won 21 games with Betancourt this season. If he could develop any kind of offensive game, we could easily win 23-25 next season. And not have to worry about him putting on 15 lbs of fat, or celebrating Cinco de Poundo Viernes.

If we are listing sports the general public could care less about, why not include Rifle? Men's football and basketball are all the masses care about. Soccer is a distant 3rd, with women's basketball an even further distant 4th. As a zealot and an alumni, I take pride in the accomplishments of all UA student-athletes. But Bill Livingston would look like a know-nothing clown if he pimped UA swimming or track. Those sports are for GoZips.com writers to pimp, not regional newspapers. And I'm with Dr. Z - Gimme a real point guard next year. Gimme gimme gimme gimme.

If Evans and Betancourt are our primary PG's next year it will be like bringing back Clayton Moore and Patrick Nicely to split duty at QB for the Zips football team next year. KD will bring in another PG. A good one. He knows the status quo ain't gonna cut it.

I wouldn't have voted for Tree. He was a no-brainer first team all MAC. But he has a lot of improving to do if he wants to be considered the most valuable player in the conference.

I think $1.2 million of that can be directly attributed to the Zips fans paying for overpriced beer and food at the Clevelander.

They should call Dan Hipsher and Roxanne Allen to get recommendations on what to do with their spare time this week.

Interesting that Elton Alexander had BG as his 5th best team in the state of Ohio earlier this season. Who knew that Louis Orr would stink up the joint? I mean, aside from everyone else?

Can't even make the "Elite 8" of the MAC anymore? My, how the smelly and mighty have fallen.

MAC Tourney tix still BOGO

Says a lot for Coach Dambrot's program when a 20 regular season win team is the worst in a decade.

...and congrats to Diggs!

Regardless - Cheater referees and opponent thuggery will doom the Zips. We have no hope. Seed schmeed.

The Zips were slow and lazy. That's how K.e.n.t's string bean "bigs" got endless dunks and rebounds. And how K.e.n.t.'s guards got easy, uncontested lay ups. It wasn't until the 10 minute mark that Tree started going strong to the glass. Then he made shots. He was able to get put-backs after misses. He got to the free throw line. We began whipping the indersized K.e.n.t. like we were capable of whipping them. If at any time in his life Mark Henniger is considered too rough for Akron bigs, we should immediately drop the Zips men's basketball program and go watch rifle.

Ugly win, but that's how we roll in 2014. We aren't a sexy fine-tuned machine. Our meat grinder team just needs to find a way to win by one every night. Watching sausage get made is gross, but the end result tastes delicious. Keep fighting Coach Peters! And congrats to Frenchy! Thank you Zips for the #4 seed and for beating K.e.n.t. Someone has to win the tournament. Why not the Zips?

Tree played soft for the first 30 minutes. Consistently settled for jump shots and fade-aways instead of taking it strong to the hole. Big Dog played like a 12 year old basset hound. As skinny and undersized as K.e.n.t.'s interior was, they did whatever they pleased for the first 30-or-so minutes. It sucks when the K.e.n.t. offensive haiku is: dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk Layup, layup, layup, dunk layup, dunk, dunk, dunk On the positive side - Props to Deji for stepping up and putting the team on his back. He was the difference-maker in an otherwise low-level UA-K.e.n.t. game (by the standards set over the past decade). McAdams made the most of his minutes as did Evans. Aside from the late missed FT's, Tree manned-up the final 10 minutes and pushed us over the top. Take the ball to the glass and you either score or get fouled. Fade away and you miss more than you make. And you don't get fouled. And, Diggs should never be our primary ball-handler in a half court set w/ < 1 minute remaining. The ball is more-likely to go off his hip or into the 3rd row than it is to go into the hoop.

I like the idea of the Thursday night opener. The quicker football arrives, the better. Summer night...take off the afternoon from work...the only drawback is Friday morning. I'll probably take an hour or two PTO for that one too.

If Evans can hit his open looks, we'll win. If he doesn't, and Ken.t can slack off on the perimeter, Tree will get stifled. We can lose. McAdams can obviously help there too, but I can't see him playing more than 20 minutes. The other guys need to hit their open looks. Or in Harney's case, don't shoot the 3 at all. Finally - Whether or not Dambrot's chioce of the word "quit" was correct or not, the Zips played with no sense of purpose vs. OU. Even Tree went through the motions, putting up soft shots underneath when no defensive player was nearby. Conversely, they played with great purpose against Buffalo. It was a completely different team vibe. If they play with that intensity again, we win by 20. And we've sucked on ESPN2 thus far. It would be nice to put on a good show for the people on the BW-3 bar stools across the nation tonight. BAC the Zips!

Missing Incisor Big Face Mole With Long Black Hairs Those K.e.n.t. Cheerleaders

Bachelor’s Degree Pizza Delivery Job Lick Cheese from Box Lid

Senderoff Phone Calls NCAA Prohibits K.e.n.t Says Perfect Fit No-name Team of Stiffs Elite 8 Seems Ages Ago Carp Bottom-feed too

There is no player or coach on the face of the earth thast whines like Hurley. I've never seen anything like it. I don't think his dad "coached" that way? After his review of the video, I would be curious to hear our new friend's opinion on whether Reggie would be faring similar to Hurley had he stayed @ UB? I think he would have been similar.

Nice find. Curious to see if our new member w/selective memory calls that a clean off-ball screen.

In the same light as OJ's glove not fitting, there was no video of the rabbit punch, so it must not have happened. But moving onward - McCrea is the 2014 POTY. It will be interesting to see if he gets his ring this year, or simply a personal award and a CBI away game. Stay tuned...

Resounding "Boo" to the Clevelander being our team bar in Cleveland. Expensive and packed. Will Zip81 be able to get us hooked up at the bar next door again? -- Liked Reggie's 13 minutes tonight. Hope to see him for 20 minutes on Friday -- This team seems hell-bent on beating K.e.n.t. I think the swagger is back. I look for a 20-point Zips win on Friday Night -- I am the "Carmelo Betancourt" of Chuck-a-Duck. Frenchie should wear a helmet when I throw. BAC the Zips! Note - Issues with the new board caused me to separate everything into multiple, successive posts. Not what I wanted, We'll need to figure it out.