Captain Kangaroo

Tressel's rotting corpse, dangling in the wind, will never get old. if it will for me, does that make me not a true Zips fan? You may or may not be a true Zips fan...that's not for me to comment. What is for me to comment is - Our September opponent's coach, and his star players, are exposed as dirtbag cheaters and I love every daily-surfacing revelation. Twist, baby twist!!

Tressel's rotting corpse, dangling in the wind, will never get old.

Looks like Creighton is in the CBI finals, and Iona, whom CBS game announcers stated the Zips beat in the MAC Finals, is in the CIT Finals! Who says our schedule is weak?!

Politely asked? Please tell me we got a good chunk of change for f-ing up our own schedule to accommodate Florida International Football.

All hail Gino Ford -- the new King of Peoria.

I think they should name it: "The Place that Soon-to-Be Mediocre/Bad Coaches Leave as Quickly as Humanly Possible" "Cradle of Coaches? Puh-LEEZ... Where was Gary Waters...the guy that flopped @ Rutgers... this NCAA tourney? Watching the Zips on TV, alongside Jim Christian, Gino Ford and Stan Heath. An interesting stat for two of these "Legends" - Christian and Heath went a combined 2-30 in league play this year. At Akron, we keep our winning Head Coaches. Assistants depart, and subsequently have tremendous success at the highest level of D-1 basketball (Shaka - VCU, Boals - Ohio State, Paris - Wisconsin) Ford had a great salary and a great returning nucleus @ K.e.n.t. (losing one senior)...and yet he headed on the first train for Bradley? As AI would say - "Bradley? We talkin' about Bradley? BRADLEY?! Ford saw the writing on the wall...the MAC East is the Zips playground for the next 2+ seasons. His stock was only going to plummet. Like those who preceded him, he knew better than to hang around. Best news for the Zips - Laing Kennedy - an AD that actually knew how to hire mid-major hoops coaches - is gone. Can't wait to hear Thunder Dan Hipsher's name surface as a leading candidate.

From the ABJ

Broderick Alexander and Anthony Meriwether on the roster, huh? I think Paul Simkovich will set the Zips al time record for appearing on the sideline in sweat pants in Game #5.

The Zips basketball program has no Greyshirts.

Not one of Tom's more insightful columns...

Josh Enjoying the Season

You are on the Akron Fan Message Board. Everyone here knows the origin of the Zips name. Do you really have nothing to do but post on a Zips message board, and tease a Zips intern? Cease with the high school stuff here. No one has time for it.

I think it is best that the NBA has only 8 "super teams." Who really cares about Milwaukee, San Antonio, Orlando, Sacramento, Portland, Dallas, Indiana, Cleveland, etc anyhow? 8 super teams play each other 4 nights/week for 30 weeks, then the top 4 get a bid to the NBA tournament. ESPN can broadcast every game. Ditto - What chance does the NCAA #32 seed have to really win the NCAA Tournament anyhow? It should be a tournament of the Elite 8 every year, not 32 as GP1 suggests. Whomever the media and fans like to see the most should make the tourney. I think that would be fair and make for an exciting event that would blow the socks off the existing, yawner 68 team format.

I worry most about Abreu guarding the perimeter. McNees to a slightly lesser extent. 6' 1" guys shot with confidence over AA this season. He's going to need to get inside the opposing guard's shorts all the way up the court and disrupt their dribble.

Back in the 80's and early 90's, you could find NBA-quality players still playing college ball as college Juniors and Seniors. Had they played in the present era, Stacey Augmon, Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson would have been gone after their Freshman seasons.

It's a tired argument. The big schools get "home" games against the weakest away teams. What does anyone expect the results to be? BCS school fans and suck-up BCS writers only know big schools. They know school names, not their games. College sports becomes increasingly about only the biggest schools, marketing and ESPN. Thanks to TCU's, Butler's, George Mason's and Boise State's of the world for making the BCS shills like Wilbon and Gordon Gee, etc. look like the ignorant ass-clowns that they are. The correct answer is to let MORE teams in. Give 128 teams a shot. It would add one additional day. It would take away any program's argument that they got jobbed by the selection committee. It would make money. Making the tourney smaller, to only include big schools would be a death knell to the tourney, taking away what makes it special. And to be honest...it would kill mid-major D1 basketball.

I owe that guy a beer.

I thought the guy on the left was dead?

The selection party was very well done. Terry Pluto wrote a nice column on it in today's PD. He likened the party's vibe to a sendoff of a local high school team to the State Tournament, which I thought was a great analogy. Unlike a BCS program where star players are sequestered far away from the general public, with the Zips you feel like you're a personal part of the success. Everyone in attendance "knows" the players and staff on a level that's not possible at most other schools. Brett McClanahan walked through the crowd and proactively shook hands with a bunch of fans. He needs to work in UA Athletics when it's all said and done. In fact, it would be great if several of these guys stayed at UA in some capacity? If affable Steve McNees asked fans donate some money to the hoops program, who could turn him down? All the players and staff were accessible, and pretty much on Cloud 9. Smiles, photos, congratulations and handshakes never got old for any of them. My son got photos with most players, + Dambrot. I winced a little bit when he enthusiastically told Abreu - "I like you cuz you're one of the only Zips that can make a lay-up!" Alex laughed. Zeke took pictures with scores of kids, and the smile on his face was as wide with kid #1 and it was for kid #50. Great event. Thanks to all involved!

Who cares about K.e.n.t. The Zips are the NCAA Tourney. Focus on that. Hate on K.e.n.t. the other 51 weeks of the year.

I just googled "herbstreit relocating to nashville". All of you should do it. It does not paint a good picture for tOSU fans and Columbus. Those people are a bunch of a-holes. It was probably a biased reporter who wrote that Google stuff.

I was impressed with Ball State. They're the one team out of the West that I think has a chance to do some damage next season. They lose only Perry from this year's squad. WMU is a bunch of thug dirtbags. Teams like that don't win anything. EMU, CMU, NIU...they all suck. They've sucked for 5 years, and they'll suck next year too. Toledo will need to improve a lot to reach the level of EMU, CMU and NIU.

Awesome game by Zeke and the guys! Couldn't be prouder to be a UA alum last night! I hope Momma Zeke's next 3,000 miles are even better than the first 3k. Gotta get my dancin' shoes on!

FYI - It looks just as embarassing when Zips fans continuously whine about referee conspiracies.

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