Captain Kangaroo

If Dalton Williams was K.e.n.t.'s QB, they win.

Was this the inagural episode of "When AD's Strike"? Amazing that show has run for over 30 years and still has legs.

@ Z.I.P. Justice was not served at the CSU game. But obviously he and the other Human Victory Cigars were not the subject of the original post...they rarely play anyhow. I highly doubt someone heard about Egner leaving the team and misinterpreted it. I expect some know-nothing heard something completely unrelated to the Zips basketball program and blurted-out something completely erronious. Which typically goes straight to the internet. Happy Holidays to you and Eugene!

Must have been Blake Justice?

Keener for President

I'm betting it's Luke Avsec. We'll see if he plays Sunday...

It was 12 months ago that said AD was left with said pecker in his hand. It will be REALLY interesting to see if his contract is renewed/extended this summer. I will guess - no.

"Fans don't like to hear this, but I think they've gotten spoiled at both schools," Dambrot said. "Now, they expect Gary and I to make the NCAA every year -- and maybe win a game in the tournament -- for it to be considered a success." Gary's done it. KD needs to do it. I'm not saying it is easy, and I've heard the word "tortured" used to describe being a Zips' fan more than I've heard "spoiled," but the NCAA tourney is Joe Akron's measuring stick. That, and noteworthy OOC wins.

I still don't understand why we would have a better chance for success at a lower level than 1-A? I contend we would be of equivalent record at whatever level we sunk to. And the debate is laughable anyhow. If TW would have hired a good coach instead making his own call with Ianello, we'd be winning football games and no one would care about 1-AA (no amount of marketing will ever stop me from calling it what it is). We now have a good coach. The wins will come. F 1-AA, F 1-AA, F 1-AA!!!!

People that grip about 30-whatever bowl games simply don't like football. I don't begrudge people who love the Oxygen and Lifetime cable channels. I'll watch some of Ball State tonight. I think it'll be a fun game to watch. Better than "A very special episode starring Merideth Baxter Burney..." Or Guy Fieri on his 13,974th episode of Diners Drive-in and Dives."

I think there is a 50% chance that you repeat yourself more than SeeTeeZip.

Crazy stuff?! Seems like a great pick up for the Zips. Ed Stockett is no longer a Zips commit. And this kid takes his place. Article #1 whines about Stockett's scholarship being pulled...but the article quotes Stockett as saying the decision was mutual? Article #1 Article #2

Sloppy, bad basketball Two weeks ago was roughly 18,000 miles ago for the Puffs. They still had some legs. And they had two of their better players available...guys that didn't suit up vs. the Zips. Michigan State would beat the December 2012 Zips by 15 - 20 points. A universal truth. I think - because no one really wants to talk about the game at all. The Arkansas Cream-Puff game measured only slightly higher on the interest scale than the Dayton women's game. Good for McAdams, but I will be excited when he does it against K.e.n.t., OU, even Princeton. And thank God he did, or the Zips would have nothing to hang their hat on aside from a beatdown of a dilapidated Penn State team. Since MTSU, JK has been...pretty rough. MAC tournament time, yes. We've seen that for 6 straight years. But when the coach comes out and says he's expecting to compete for an at-large NCAA bid, the fans want to see a team peaking in the NCAA tourney. Despite what anyone might say...if the Zips fall asleep in any of their next 3 games, they can easily lose. They are not Bluff Puffs.

Texas Southern will be tough. Davis is a relatively young coach who's taken different teams to the NCAA's. And the way our defensive discipline sits today, I would also worry about a team like Princeton.

It's just Zach being Zach.

Looking back at the 2002-3 K.e.n.t. team, they began the season 4-4., including unbelievable losses to Hofstra and YSU. Their players, on their own, decided to pull their heads out of their butts, quit crying atop their faded Polaroids (youngsters can ask their Grandpa what a "Polaroid" is) of Gary Waters, and play basketball to their capabilities. OU is obviously the closest parallel, having an NCAA Sweet 16-caliber team being captained by a new coach. And succumbing to the likes of Robert Morris and Winthrop. Eerily similar. Smart money in on OU to run roughshod over the MAC. The Zips have similar upside/potential. But rationalizations and scapegoats run rampant... "The referees are against us!!" "The NCAA is against us!!" "We'd have won if we had Diggs!!" (No we wouldn't. We never won with him.) "We're so young!! Wait until next year!!" "Nothing really matters until the MAC Tourney anyhow!!" (No, 1-and-done post-seasons with zero meaningful OOC wins are officially old) "Oh the seating...the seating is soooo bad!!" "Oh the student support...those students should be packing the house to see...John Carroll." "Oh, we had too many days off...how, oh how could we be expected to beat anybody??!!" "Oh you don't understand...Detroit and Coastal Carolina are really good!!" The Zips have a rare combination of talent, excuses and rationalizations. OU has talent, a resume' and some sort of tangential history. Two sailors with different stories....in essentially the same December boat. Who will turn it around in 2012-13? And who will begin their quest for a scapegoat? Stay tuned....

I think it's pretty much run from 1986 through today. C'mon, TB. Give us a nice Christmas present...or two...or 13.

Why would you say that? We had Q for two full seasons prior to this one, and we still lost every similar-caliber game. Why would this year be different?

I'd have to believe the A-10 and MVC would rather die than agree to a MAC-opponent tourney. Playing each other? That would be a good tourney. The MAC is a better match up for the OVC you mentioned, or the Horizon. The Northeast Conference unfortunately might also be good competition. Rotating the event between Pittsburgh and Cleveland might get some interest going? The now-depleted CAA would still be a sexy partner.

It was always bizarre to me that the dregs of many mid-major conferences still participated in "The Bracket Buster" tourney. I think that sort of cheapened the image. That said, in years where the Zips got a seemingly bad draw (not necessarily a "dreg"), the return game saw a much improved opponent (Valpo and Creighton). The return game is really the gem of the whole deal. Hopefully we still participate in a future, reformulated event. It has proven to be an excellent gauge of where the Zips' program stands in the world of mid-major basketball. And a mid-season treat for the fans tired of the EMU's and NIU's of the bowel-major world.

Chose Miami (OH)

While I'm sure they will contend for the Horizon title, they look pretty pedestrian thus far. A close loss to St Johns is their marquee performance to-date. A loss to BG is their low point. Schedule and Results

I gave it to him for free, since his parents forgot to give it to him at birth.

Milwee looks like he's 18 years old. The kid must be a genius. Funny entry from your link: Wisconsin: Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for coaching the Badgers in the Rose Bowl. If Wisconsin beats Stanford, Alvarez will receive a $50,000 bonus. Must be nice to appoint yourself coach for a month, and give yourself $118,500? Make it rain, Barry!!

I don't think it would be a problem to set Akron/K.e.n.t and YSU/CSU in opposing bracket sides every other year. And make their meeting count as a conference game. Yeah, coaches will complain they lose home court advantage in a given season. But you gain it the next season. People from Youngstown would show up in droves...they show up in droves for Instructional League baseball.