Captain Kangaroo

We can solve the problem by listing Christian-Jackson as a center.

He was injured.

Without Scarborough we'd never have had the chance to have a renaissance. God bless that guy.

Good to see Robbie Kelly back for his senior season. We really could have used him last year when Kato went down.

There seemed to be a big recruiting night orchestrated on campus last night. InfoCision was blasting music and the scoreboard was showing the Northwestern game highlights when I was returning to my car after the bb game. Probably 12 black Chevy Suburbans lined up inside the stadium, underneath the home stands. Appeared to be a rocking party

Good to see the Zips terrible offense didn’t affect their effort on the defensive side. They need to find some way to score in the second half. Hardly any open looks in the first half.

Woo hoo! I'm young!!

You ain’t kidding. I stopped in and watched the last 4 minutes. It was awful. Hudson was up 30-29 with 1:12 to go and tried to run the clock down. With 20 seconds left Mayfield stole the ball and got an and-1 off the fast break. Game over. There are some good players in Hudson, but few want to play for the coach. Most play rec ball instead.

In his last 4 games, he's shooting 14.8% from behind the arc (4-27).

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I'm going to take the unpopular side of GT on this one. Riak is a great passer. Maybe the best-passing player over 6' 10" in Zips history. He sees the floor unbelievably well for a big. But Groce needs to empower the kid to score. Riak gets a rebound 2 feet from the rim, and he's looking to kick it out for one of our 28% marksman to clang another three-ball. Just freaking dunk the ball. You're going up against MAC centers who'll be lucky warm the bench in the Holland Pro League one day. Dominate!! If you can't dunk, just give a head fake and go up for the shot. You'll get fouled and go to the line, where you're actually a pretty decent free throw shooter. I think Riak has the tools to be WAY better than what he's shown statistically thus far. He just needs to amp up his offensive aggression big time. Quit waiting for everyone else to carry the offensive load, and start throwing a few down yourself.

Just learned that I will be working the concession stand at a Hudson HS tonight. Yippee. No beer at The Score for me.

We play ok at home, so I'm tentatively confident of our chances to pull out the "W." How's that for hedging?

I expect I'll have 2 extra tickets tonight. No handling fee ($0 x 4 = $0). No order processing fee. CK-bay™ policies are very family-friendly. I expect I'll be at The Score prior to the game if you want them.

We lost to a crappy team today. Poor second half yet again for the Zips.

Ok...let’s not get carried away.

FYI - We beat EMU last night.

I've never seen so much angst over a "player" who never played a minute for the Zips, and another who was 0.001% away from being a walk-on. Jimmond Ivey is playing some great basketball right now, if anyone'd noticed.

If we lose tonight, The Score on Exchange Street is offering a post-game drink special.

There's a quality understatement!

Yeah...if he'd have punched a few Huskie starters into unconsciousness around the 12:00 minute mark, I think we'd have pulled out the "W."

Again? When did he wear one?

I don't think your thoughts are correct. There was never any hope that he would get new commits prior to December 31st. And he stated he would not pressure any incumbent recruits/commits to sign. It would have been a low-rent move to have a handshake agreement that he become the head coach, but wait to officially sign him until January 1st. And I'm sure there would have been some sort of lawsuit if we'd have tried it. Who cares about the $350,000? It is chump change in the world of D-1 athletics. The Nebraska game that we didn't play footed the bill, with $300,000 left over. The South Carolina game paid for Bowden's buyout, with $600,000 left over. Notre Dame paid Charlie Weis $19,000,000 not to coach the Irish. Kansas then paid him $5,650,000 to not coach the Jawhawks

You are kind.

Who forgot the D in the locker room at halftime? Go back and get it!