Captain Kangaroo

How'd you get this picture of DIG?

This will be the first time since the Ball-Bosley era that Zips fans have a good chance to out-number K.e.n.t.'s, @ K.e.n.t. Should be fun.

Ok...then we should build a 2,000 seat arena (just to be safe). Coastal Carolina beat Clemson this year...so I guess they really should have built a 13,000 seat arena? The truth is - there is no use in building a 3,800 seat arena just so you can say you sell out every game. 90% of college basketball arenas have empty seats. The final nail is the Wistercill coffin will be his proud press conference boasting of his shiny new 3,800 seat arena...with 2 loges and a beer keg in the corner. A 3,300 seat arena is fine for Coastal Carolina, who typically draws 1,000 fans off the beach or out of Hooters. The Zips average over 3k/game. They sell out for Can't @ 5,600. If we build a 3,800 seat Division 1 arena, those games against Malone and John Carroll would soon become Conference games. For fun - Yurachek isn't the only ex-UA AD building a new arena. Towson's opens soon. 5,200k capacity.

Lest anyone think building a 30,000 seat palace for a, to-date, bottom 5% of D-1 football team wasn't perceived as a colossal bitch slap by KD , see how he feels when the proposal for a 3,800 seat "arena/dinner theater" is floated past him. "Hello, Duquesne? It's me again...how's it goin'?" It is the Wistercil administration, so it wouldn't surprise me...

So you think he is that much worse than K.e.n.t's John Edwards? Zeke will play in the NBA. Whether he's the next Ryan Hollins, or better, is really the only question. Maybe...probably...he starts in the D-League. But Fab Melo's there too.

A blogger from Akron says he's: "the most significant signing in the league's history and claimed he would quickly become the most dominant MAC player in recent memory." Wow... what hype... what pressure. In comparison to BCS-level programs, there is no real pressure in the MAC... I don't care who the recruit is. You aren't covered in the national media. You are completely under the radar. Your foul shots are in front of 923 family and friends in Dekalb Illinois. If you score a paltry 6 points in a game, some guy from Thailand is the only person in the free world who gets worked-up over it.

Attempting to get this thread back on topic...I think we should all give the Ball State dance team credit for embracing their situation -

Don't look now...but Arkansas Cream-Puff and Texas Southern have combined to win 6 of their last 7.

If there's a Bryan Hipsher bobblehead night, I'm renting a U-Haul and going through the turnstiles 1,500 times.

With tendonitis, a cupcake opponent, and a more-than-serviceable back up center why would Dambrot play him heavy minutes?

I believe the Colley Matrix has us at #12?

Who cares. It's a toy.

Speaking of "entertaining to watch," it will be very interesting to see how the remainder of the Zips home schedule plays-out. Games against OU and Can't will be great, but how can anyone get excited to see a lot more games like Wednesday's WMU drubbing in front of <2k? Dambrot has built a really strong team. The rest of the MAC hasn't. That sucks for folks like me that would like to watch high-level mid-major hoops for my $600 in season tickets. Maybe DIG and GoZips are on to something by attending practices...I think I'd rather watch the Zips' top 5 go against our 6-10 guys for 40 minutes than watch a 40 minute, 29 point drubbing of EMU! Zeke vs. Forsythe Harney vs. Tree Walsh vs. Kretzer Abreu vs. Deji/Carmelo Stalyga vs. Gilliam Dambrot always wanted to be "The Gonzaga of the MAC." Well...OU and Akron are the Gonzaga and St Mary's of the MAC. Unfortunately there's no BYU in the MAC...just a hoard of San Francisco wannabees.

Hopefully WMU doesn't become a MAC bottom-feeder, or we'll never play them.

Dammit. I liked all your comments, JZ. Regarding the ones I highlighted: Deadnutz on regarding the trap. Great trapping teams flow like a really fast amoeba. We were slow...late...mechanical...whatever you want to call it... it wasn't a cohesive, disruptive force whatsoever. Back up PG is scary at the moment. The big selling point on Carmelo was his high level prep career. I envisioned him as a plug-in-and-go guy from the start...and I think KD did too... but he will need the summer to get stronger and more confident. Either that, or the new JUCO PG will get his PT in 2013-14. Deji is a turnover machine at the point. And despite his confidence in shooting the three... he's not exactly Kyle Korver yet either. He does play good D, and he hustles. But offensively he had too many negative plays. Do I pine for Diggs at the point? Not really. He was really out of place there. Much more effective on the wing. And if I did pine for him, he ain't coming back this year anyhow.

God f-ing dammit. My sincere apologies Johnny. I accidentally do that about once per year. Figures I do it on a great post... I owe you a really good beer sometime soon.

I agree with you, but it is a league game, so there isn't anything he can do about it. I am as big a fan of Jonas and The Human Victory Cigars as anyone...but if KD wants to start filling up the JAR while playing these schlep teams he needs to ratchet it up a couple notches and laying some 40+ point beat downs on them. Get some WWE swagger going on. Loser Schlep Opposing Coach: "Akron ran the score up on us. It wasn't sportsman-like. Dambrot is a Jerk." KD: "If the guy doesn't want to lose by 40+, he needs to get better. Next cupcake, please." Count Von Count: "ONE MAC cupcake...ha ha haaaaa."

Gotta love statistics... Didn't opponents need to play their starters the entire game when they played the Zips this year? Were the Zips behind 66-5 in the 3rd quarter of any games this season? Were Caponi and Pressley injured for any period of time? Yeah, it was another 11-loss season. But the Zips were vastly improved in all facets of the game. We are simply digging out of such an unprecedented hole that the progress made appears invisible to all but a few.

The game was a total mismatch...Notre Dame had no business being on the same field...but...that first sideline catch by the ND receiver was a great catch, ruled incomplete even after the replay. Then the Tide's own player causes their return man to fumble the ball, and again, even after replay the ruling isn't overturned. Getting those calls right would have simply delayed the inevitable, but as someone who hates replay, they pissed me off. Why have replay if you still get the call wrong after watching it several times in slo-mo? I liked Musberger's "Jimmy The Greek/Cosell-Senior-End-of-Career Moment." The guy broadcasts for 50 years without much real identity, and now he'll forever be known as a creepy old perv. It was like Mogadore vs. St Ignatius. A 12-0 team that moved up way too high in caliber of competition and got waxed. How many draft spots did Manti Te'o drop? 15? 30? How many embarrassing whiffs by would-be ND tacklers. Is that simple spin move by 'Bama RB's really that effective? Probably not. I liked Urban Meyer's half time analysis. Emotionless...no hyperbole...stating flat-out that the beatdown would continue into the 2nd half and there was nothing Kelly could do to stop it. Bama's O-Line was awesome. They got a 5 yard surge on essentially every play. Finally - As creepy as Musberger was...he was right. Hubba hubba.

But you watch the Zips play John Carrol, Arkansas Cream-Puff and Malone (similar-level mismatches)?

I've never seen so much pregame observation regarding a game the Zips will win by 15.

Didn't Abreu have the same thing last season? If I recall correctly he was back at it in less than 2 weeks. And effective too.

Zips recent post-game: Frenchy (to KD): "Did you hear the EMU-K.entucky score?" KD: "No. What was it." Frenchy: "90 - 38." KD: "That's a problem."

If Woodson is given jersey #1 by Bowden, this will be a solid recruiting class. If someone else in this class is given #1, it will be an great class.