Captain Kangaroo

Clayton Qualifies for Tokyo Is he still pissed at UA, or has that been smoothed-over?

What will get you more "clicks?" "Coach punishes Jewish football player - forces him to eat pork" or "Disruptive local HS football player punished - chooses to pull pepperoni off pizza rather than eat chicken nuggets"

I think the last Zips player to give the dual sport, hoops/gridiron teams "the old college try" was Jake Schifino back in the late 90's? He lasted a couples games at the end of Hipsher's bench before hanging up the Chuck Taylors and focusing on football.

Hope the deposit on his graduation party tent was refundable.

Does a kid's Akron vs. Duquesne decision possibly come down to the endorsement deal he's promised from Akron Felt and Chenille vs. Primanti Brothers?

Bubba transferred to OU. No one died. It was fun to booo and heckle him.

I wouldn't worry if I was a Buffalo fan. They have apparently named their new interim HC.

Tulsa's Zaven Collins picked #16 in the NFL draft last night.

Drop his name in the search box and you'll find the info. It is in the "...looking forward" thread.

In the MAC, he'll be a good coach. EMU basketball should be in the top half of the conference with him at the helm.

With the P5 teams emphasizing recruiting of transfers, the availability of talented freshmen should be at an all time high for mid-majors?

Can we just change the term "mid-major" to "The Power 5 Minor Leagues?"

Explains why his heart wasn't in the NIT game. Didn't want to injure himself. He was already on to bigger and better things. #foreverarocket

Looks like Zagorski.

If you wanted to better understand the overall effects of basketball players getting an extra year of eligibility, Steve Czaban recently conducted a nice interview with DeMatha HS HC Mike Jones. You can listen to it here. It is lengthy (over 1 hour total), but for the most part is all interesting stuff.

Hope Boykins gets it. Heath is a retread. Rode the wave of Gary Waters efforts to nab a big payday, but mediocre wherever he landed afterwards.

Well...as long as we're laying out the mea culpas...I wrote: Houston 87 CSU 56 Houston could have had 40, but called off the dogs when it got to 35 points late. You can see why Kelvin Sampson didn't get any looks from Marquette.

Still better than the Big10

Remember This Guy? “I thought I had the world in my hands ... I didn’t have to listen to anyone because I already knew it all,” Howard continued. “No matter how good you are in sports and no matter how good you are in school, if you let negative people into your life, and if you let things in that aren’t going to push you closer to your goals — despite what you know is right — you’re never going to succeed.”

Whatever makes you feel better about pretending AAU/G5 Cincinnati has the same budget as MAC/G5 Bowling Green. Each is "...just another G5 program," right?

Tulsa is from a better conference than the MAC. They've played in 10 bowl games over the past 15 years, winning 6. The Zips have played in 3, winning 1. In their three bowl wins against MAC opponents, they've won by a combined 163-30.

Karma. Couldn’t happen to a better fraud.

If we’re going to be any good next year, and he’s a starting guard, he’s gotta be above 30% from 3. Preferably at least 35%. The days of having guards shoot 25% from behind the arc are over unless you can dish it like Rondo or Kidd.

1.) Put some arc on your shot 2.) Shoot 500 3's a day between now and October. 3.) Practice finishing the shot when you drive to the hole 4.) Make at least 70% of your free throws That's my Tribble offseason workout program.

So what is the right move for 2021-22? Do we bring in a P5 grad transfer or two, or do we develop what we have? With only 5 players on the floor at once, you can't do both. My ultra-concise overview of the recent transfers is - Wynn (late arrival) showed some promise, but didn't conjure up anything reminiscent of X's impact. We'll see what happens with a summer of team workouts. Trimble disappeared when opposing teams found he was no threat to do much offensively but drain straightaway 3's. Daily rarely impacted a game outside of Toledo #1. Will the tide ever turn back to developing Freshman? Coaches want to win immediately, and get fired quicker than ever if they don't. Fans want to win immediately. Players want to play immediately. It can't all happen simultaneously, but we're all in the instant gratification era. Not a big fan of the Transfer Portal era.