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Hazime is a grey shirt from last year's class, so he will count against this year's scholarship count. He's a B-I-G dude. He's on campus and will participate this spring.We had 18 recruits visiting this weekend, so more verbals should follow soon.

He's slimmed down!

Thanks guys, can't believe some of you guys didn't get that one.Read it in a rush @ lunch. I'm an idiot (but most of you already knew that).

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I'm relatively shocked to see so may critical critical posts after such a blow-out win. BG beat OU and Cincinnati...and we blew them out of the gym! Maybe Dambrot was right when he half-jokingly stated in the post-game show "I think our fans are getting a little spoiled."It wasn't all that long ago that Anthony Stacy was burying us at the JAR...Keith McCloud was ripping our hearts out, and Antonio Daniels was tossing down LeBron-esque dunks on defenseless Zips. I, for one, am digging this Zips team BIG-TIME. And I'm especially digging the payback for all those beatdowns I endured over the past two decades.Bardo is fine. I though he had a nice game last night. I'd take Bardo over that fat, lazy Otis Spunkemeyer that repeatedly got out-hustled last night.As bad as Dials was shooting, is as good as he was in distributing the ball. He made some awesome passes last night.Quade got some confidence against the stay-puff marshmallow men that manned BG's paint. How did these softies beat OU? Oh, I forgot...Bubba.Roberts gets better every game. He can both drive the lane, and hit the 3. We'll see what kind of nerve he has on Wednesday.Brett McKnight hoisted 10 shots last night! I like his confidence, and I like how he banged inside. I wonder if KD tries to play him a bit more vs. K.e.n.t.? He could be an "X-factor."Awesome game (again) by the Zips. My only worry is with Cedrick, who really seems to be a shell of his healthy self. Hopefully, after the K.e.n.t. game, the youngsters can give him a breather and let him heal for the stretch run.

We need to beat K.e.n.t. to get a "premier" opponent. If we lose to K.e.n.t., we'll probably get CSU.

Congrats to Hixon. I hope he gets a Super Bowl ring.Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Best of luck to him!And Chase Blackburn too. Both guys were tremendous student athletes. Nice to have two Zips in the Super Bowl! B) B)

I hear it was heart-related. After several series of tests, doctors determined he has no "heart." Zips fans already had a hunch this was the case.

Nate Schuler is from Springfield Local, which is in the Youngstown area.

I'm sure Bubba will be cool with that.

The crowd was great for a late Thursday night. I was impressed. Akron folk are starting to finally catch on!But I still hate ESPNU.

That's why Bubba was a bad fit in Akron. If you are a Zips basketball player, you can't be a "minute monger." If getting 22 minutes per game instead of 32 minutes per game really bothers you, then you won't fit in @ UA. Bubba quit once Dials came on board. Unlike Ced, he didn't have the character to be a 6th man. Bubba can be a 3-point "freak," if you don't know his game. That's why he does well against non-MAC opponents. He catches them off-guard with his bizarre shot selection. And if left unmolested, he can hit those 27-footers with regularity. In MAC play every coach knows "Simply guard Bubba, and you shut him down." He is way less effective in MAC play than in OOC. Especially against teams that play D like the Zips.

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Should be a good one! Wish I wasn't 45 minutes north of Downtown!

I must have watched a different game than you. I thought it was a gritty performance by both teams. We got a little lucky...but give Linhart credit for making his own luck. He crashed the boards aggressively and good things happened. I could kiss him!I was also impressed with the crowd. Maybe the people of Akron are a couple weeks ahead of the schedule I'd predicted? Great crowd for a late, weekday TV game. Kudos to all involved!Bubba sucks a$$. He's so mentally weak I almost feel bad for him. Rowdies got in his head --

but it was "Old Milwaukee" I remember the "Happy Hour" -- $2.00 for a 16oz, marked down to $1.90! Hey, I did let the Alteri's guy keep the dime (I wasn't a big tipper back in the college days)

El Clicko Hereo

It is great to see your enthusiasm for the Program remains sky high! I spoke to a Zips coach at the Golf Outing this year and he was lamenting the fact that, back in his playing days as a Freshman, he played a whopping 39 minutes. At the time he really opposed red shirting, but when his senior year rolled around he realized trading a year's eligibility for 39 minutes of PT was a bad deal. Hang in there and enjoy UA! Your time will come!Here's looking forward to your 4 full seasons on the court, beginning in 2008-9! And remember:

They had pep rallies back in the mid-late 80's. And into the early 90's. I remember a quote from Butchie Washington, recalling how no one attended.We will get attendance and school spirit once we win on a "big stage." If we keep shooting ourselves in the foot in the MACC, our bandwagon will never get out of second gear.K.e.n.t. basketball drew flies for years...until they made the NCAA's. By by repeating that couple times over the course of several years, the K.e.n.t. students and public got excited about the program. Their attendance is still riding the wave from that "era." If the Zips can get 4 NCAA appearances in a 9-year stretch, then you'll see pep rallies getting a bit raucous, and crowds bursting the JAR walls. And the Marketing Crew will look like geniuses. Until then, it will remain hit-and-miss.UA pep rally for the K.e.n.t. game would probably draw well?

Get in his head!

Gotta love a player that went 4-15, but "hit big shots late." So what did he start off...0-11? Keep shooting and The Law of Averages will eventually kick in. Too bad his 0-11 start was what put OU in the situation to begin with.As my friend kept yelling at The Q last March, during another one of Bubba's epic displays of ...ummm...."marksmanship": "Keep Shooting, Bubba!!!!!!!!!"

Agreed. It is a real stretch to claim you're the MAC Champ when Miami beat you 2-out-of-3 and went to the Big Dance. We were #2 last year.

I like the hat! Nice touch!

I wish he'd look at what numbers Jabari put up last year in Akron with B-A-D QB play and envision what he could do. He'd be our feature WR from Day #1?Look at David Harvey too.I hope we get him because we sorely need him. But I wonder if, the longer he waits, the better his chances that the Zips pull the offer in favor of a WR who really wants it. Sometimes the waiting game works (for the player)...and sometimes it can backfire.Regardless -- If we want to get back to a bowl game...and actually WIN a bowl game...we need players of his caliber.