Captain Kangaroo

Any team that buys into the CBI is signaling the rest of of the world "Hey look at us; we are desperate for attention." If that were the case, it would mean that people pay attention to the CBI. I don't think that's the case. I like the CBI. More competitive basketball at the JAR is always good. My over/under is 2,900.

$20 - lower chairbacks (no Z-fund donation required) $15 - upper chairbacks $10 - adult general admission $5 - youth general admission Good price structure.

Sucks for Shaka that he's in a tough conference. If VCU were in the MAC, they'd have waltzed through the MAC tourney and been an NCAA 12-seed. I predict Sanders will be the CBI MVP.

The frustrating thing for an "old-timer" is the fact that, only 8-or-so years ago, the MAC was a lot better. We were getting NBA lottery picks, winning NCAA tourney games and getting at-large NCAA tourney bids. If I'd only followed the MAC for the past 5 years, I wouldn't really care much about the level of play. But I've watched MAC hoops erode for a while, and I want to see it return to a level where you can realistically argue our upper-tier teams could compete with the best of the MVC, or the Butler's of the world. 2010 was a step back towards respectability for the MAC. But there's a long way to go.

People forget the Rowdies are what...5 years old? The O-Zone, in some form, is decades old.The folks in the OU "Old Zone" did the same cheers as students that they do now.Conversely, if you are a 40 yeal old Zips alum, what cheer did you do as a student? What cheer was a fixture at Zips games 10 years ago? Answer - None.The Zips cheerleaders tried to get an organized crowd cheer going at the very end of the basketball season. It was a GREAT idea, but the execution was horrible. They needed to get fliers in every one of the seats telling fans what to do, and how. Instead they tried to teach a somewhat complicated, very lengthy cheer to the crowd during a 2-minute time out. Bad move. You can't build a tradition in 2 minutes. The Zips crowd participation and energy is light years ahead of where it was even 5 years ago. But it has a ways to go.OU's participation and energy is what we should shoot for.

I don't know how many of you caught the post-game interview, but this quote from Coach Dambrot really stood out to me. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget --"We're going to have to do some things to get better that I don't particularly care for."Schedule differently?"Suggest" some players transfer?Take a chance on an at-risk kid?Take in a transfer?JUCO?Very interesting comment. I'm actually a little excited about it.

As Keith Dambrot is fond of saying -- "Each game is a mutually exclusive event."If the Zips go out and get pounded by K.e.n.t. (rival)...in a nationally televised...sell-out...home game...the fans will react differently than if the team goes toe-to-toe for 45 minutes and simply fall short.I think most fans have been very fair in any criticism this season. There are a few that consistently go way overboard. Conversely, there are fans that really don't seem to care if we get waxed by K.e.n.t....they're just always happy, and looking towards the future.Welcome to the phenomena known as the Internet Fan Message Board.One guy says ZipsNation is WAY overmoderated. The next guy says "The moderators let WAY too much stuff go." Who's right?

I'm guessing Alex Allen has called it a career? I'm pretty sure he was cleared for his 6th year if he wanted it.

The Zips don't need a player like Kool. He isn't athletic. We need players that are athletic. Not guys that can just flat-out play basketball. At least that's what I'm told.

Zips recruit Josh Egner -

The program was in place well before K.e.n.t. exited the tourney.This is a much better deal than the MAC-n-Cheese promo. Two boxes of EasyMac was getting to be around $7.00.Now it is a $1 lottery ticket.FYI - They sell lottery tickets @ a vending machine directly across from the Q ticket windows.

Zeke's block at the end of regulation was just as big as McNees' shot.

Well done.

Only players who are academically eligible are listed. If a player was a non-qualifier in 2009, he is not eligible in the spring of 2010.Or -- If he was eligible in fall '09, and had a bad report card, he's also not eligible for the spring of 2010.Just because they are not on the spring roster doesn't mean they are off the team.You're welcome.

I think you are joking, but if not, there is a huge disparity between an athletic men's team vs. an average athletic men's team compared to an athletic women's team vs. average women's teams. Anyway, great win and lets hope the men's team will follow through with a similiar effort tommorow (since it's after midnight) I should say later today.Regardless, point is proven. Athleticism does not win basketball games on its own. The negativity regarding Can't being "more athletic" on this board is ridiculous. Can't won because they wanted it more and executed better...period. The Zips can beat them if they play their game and play with some more heart.Quade Milum was Dambrot's most athletic recruit.Not a very good basketball player, however.

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And unfortunately, that was pretty evident throughout most of the 80 minutes we've played against those guys this year. So how do you beat a team like Ken+ if you know that they are superior to you? Can you come up with a scheme to beat them? Can you take away what they do best? Can you expose them defensively? Will we change something if we play them again? If our coach goes in with the same game plan and doesn't try something different, I will be disappointed. Does anybody have an example of KD beating a team that was superior where he "out coached" the other team? Will he tighten the rotation? How did other teams beat Ken+? I need some hope if we play Ken+ again.Hopefully the answer to the how do you beat Can't question is you play them when it is the third day in a row playing. Since their style is more up tempo than ours and our rotation has the ability to go a little deeper into the bench if a third meeting happens the Zips' legs may be a little fresher. I'm just worried about getting to the title game first though. I really think the rest of the teams remaining in the MAC tournament have all improved quite a bit over the last month or two. We've already lost to EMU and Central by no means was a cakewalk for the Zips either if you recall. These teams are better now than they were when those matchups took place.Can KD install the Princeton Offense in less than a week? I think that would be highly effective against K.e.n.t.

Again, I'll state - You can never get rid of every idiot a-hole. When you get 5,500 people in a gym, someone...I'll call him "0.1% Guy"...is going to say something totally out of line. Usually, that guy is a teenager, and he's drunk.Coming on ZipsNation to tell people not to joke about May 4th accomplishes nothing. Everyone on ZipsNation knows it. There were scores of K.e.n.t.-related jokes on our site this past week, and scores appear every time we play K.e.n.t. Never once was May 4th mentioned.

Congrats to Jimmy C. Great to see his hard work get rewarded!Hopefully he still has a couple double-doubles left in him before graduation?

I've seen worse.

I think 99% of all fans are good. But people love to make examples of the 1% that aren't.There was one particular post I removed from our site that I will only say was "highly embarrassing" to ZipsNation. That single sentence was plucked and dropped on a K.e.n.t. message board as an example of "typical" Zips fan's behavior.Of course, the K.e.n.t. fan that plucked that information failed to mention the 5,200 Zips fans that gave Laing Kennedy a standing ovation prior to the game. Or the fact that UA was classy enough to recognize the guy.99.9% of ZipsNation represented great on Friday night. Don't get hung up on the 0.1%. It's not worth it.

The question arose in another thread - "Who's better than Terry Pluto?"Judging from the ABJ link above...I say - Tom Gaffney.

ObitI placed this in the Football Forum only because of the guy's battle vs. UA regarding InfoCision. And, I guess, because the news merited a little more visibility than the "General Discussions" forum offers. I probably had 1,000 beers in The Sun over the past 25 years. Joe was a cool guy. A bit of a wingnut, but everyone is a bit of a wingnut.Pest in Peace, Joey.

Brooks wasn't recruited by Dambrot. Brooks transferred to UA on his own, with the hope of walking on.When I say "transfer" I am talking about a kid who went to a BCS program and didn't fit in. Or the coach left. Etc.Two other nice transfers: K.e.n.t.'s Demetric Shaw & Antonio Gates. They panned out ok.

"Explosive" is going off for 30 points or 14 assists or 20 rebounds. Roberts is anything but explosive, at least this season. Steward is quick, but has yet to show he's anything but a "change-of-pace back" to McNees.If either were on K.e.n.t's roster, they wouldn't see double digit minutes.