Captain Kangaroo

News to me? Me too. I guess if being the knife in the back of Dan Hipsher is a better job, then so be it....someone had to put Hip and Zips fans out of their misery, why not KD? After being the knife, then he did have a better job. Tarver was the knife that ended DHip's run. With help from Hollingsworth. It's not uncommon for me to be in agreement with a lot of GP's edgy comments, but I can't roll with this one. Mount Saint Hipsher had no knives in his back. His explosive personality burnt his players out early. Gambles on troubled souls like Carson, Tarver, Hollingsworth, Melton, etc, coupled with a crappy son and a crippled son blew up in his face. He died by his own sword, not one in his back.

My favorite quote: Gary Waters has ascended to...Cleveland State. Heath just went 1-15 in the Big East. Christian just went 1-15 in the Mountain West. Now Ford leaves for Bradley, who incidentally has one less NCAA appearance than the Zips in the last decade. Obviously K.e.n.t. has NOT produced "the best and brightest." It has produced guys that can win in the MAC, but not beyond the MAC. It has produced guys that want to line their pockets rather than win. Which is fine...but just don't try to sell me on the fact that that group of 4 coaches is anything but slightly-above-average. Just because other Universities are stupid enough to hire them and throw a lot of money at them doesn't mean they're "the best." It seems to mean - the hiring AD isn't "the brightest."

News to me? That Dru Joyce II mask KD wore at the end of LeBron's St V career was a really good one.

I heard Arizona ripping us off with their "UA" chants during the tourney this past week. Oh, it made me soooo angry. They must have seen our game against Notre Dame.

I thought the same thing!

Something tells me there won't be a second printing of that book for a couple decades...

It isn't luck. From the Clarrett "gettin' his goose on", to Troy Smith's $500 handshakes, to telling Erik Howard, a Zips commit, to back out and go to a Prep school, everyone knew Tressel would eventually get exposed in a big way.

It's funny to see LeBron glomming on to someone else's celebrity. FYI - I played baseball against Urban Meyer in 1982 (the epic McDonald vs. Ashtabula St Johns match up). We lost 22-2. Man amongst boys (Meyer, not me).

We have YouTube Tom at the helm. A successful hire would be a given. Don't sweat it.

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.