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+1. Thanks, Mods. I read ZNO more closely and often than the newspaper. ZNO makes every Zips success and failure more interesting. It is a welcome distraction from my everyday work. I would love to meet some of the members of ZNO and particularly the mods at future Zips events. Would be awesome to put faces with the screen names. I am overjoyed that ZNO is yet another dimension that makes us a "cut above" that wasteland of an institution to the east.

11. KD and the gang didn't want to distract from other programs' new found success (i.e. woman's basketball and tennis) by making a deep run in the CBI.

I like this idea. Let's start the country's first collegiate auto racing team. This fits within Title IX, and UA might as well buy the entire Fulton Airport and convert the runway into a track like at Burke with IRL. by default.

You poo poo a lot of the sports based off your pre-conceived notions and not legitimate reasoning. CSU has fencing, well they also have basketball and soccer, OSU had all those sports before either of us. Plus fencing isn't about fan support it's about catering to a type of student (foreign). It would be as low cost as Rifle and is Coed. Rowing doesn't have a body of water? Nimisilla is a 3000 meter body of water, rowing requires 2000 meters. Lacrosse has to use the soccer field? No not really, you have the Track field, and the practice field that can be converted, and not to mention Buchtel Field. Title IX only requires that for every scholarship offered a male an equal scholarship is offered to a female. Assuming the largest size team (Lacrosse, which is roughly 30) you could eat that up by adding women's Lacrosse or gymnastics and field hockey. Hockey is at max 18 scholarships. And nobody said let's add sports, I believe I prefaced the whole thing with "assuming we could eventually add sports". I didn't mean to "poo poo" on anything. I was just trying to be realistic about the situation. Your points about rowing and fencing are valid, but they still require additional infrastructure (regardless of how minor). The woman's tennis team currently hosts matches off campus and the rifle team is worthy of upgraded facilities as well. The soccer programs play at an inferior facility and who could forget the basketball arena issue? Let's focus on those first. Also, consider the last program that was added: woman's golf. Justified by being small and paired with the already established men's program.

Provide us with some details concerning how football = swimming and diving + volleyball + tennis. Is it: A. number of scholarships B. number of bodies C. size of budget D. an equation you just pulled out of your rear You can't go wrong with bowling. It's coed and you can rent the shoes. This was an estimation based on scholarships, number of student-athletes participating, and consideration for the parity in all other sports.

Title IX dictates that it would not make sense to add a large men's prrogram/team such as hockey. I love the sport, but it is not going to happen. We won't add wresting or gymnastics because Can't is already established and dominant in theset sports and we'd be setting ourselves up to be an inferior program to our rivals...the same reason Can't does not have men's soccer....so, not going to happen. Lacrosse and field hockey require new facilities or to share a field with our #1 soccer team that already shares with the woman's program and is torn up by the end of fall...not going to happen. CSU already has fencing and there is not enough national (let alone local) participation or interest to establish a program. Rowing?...We don't have a local body of water worthy of supporting a program. The only thing that makes sense to add would be men's tennis because of the parity with the woman's team and the relatively small roster and cost. At UA, now, because of Title IX, football = swimming & diving + volleyball + tennis. I don't look for it to happen though. We already have 19 programs. Look at a much larger and more prominent school like Pitt...they only have 17 total programs. You could argue we are already overextended as it is. I would love to see UA add men's tennis. However, until we regularly win Reese and Jacoby trophies and move onto the national stage in sports other than rifle and soccer, we should focus on improving the programs that are here and now.

Saint Louis beat Indiana State. And oh surprise, VCU beat George Washington.

I thought the exact same thing.

Crap again, VCU is on our side of the bracket, and we'd have a tough second game (winner of St. Louis and Indiana State).

Crap, VCU is now in the CBI...and I thought we had a chance to win this thing.

We are in the CBI at #8: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-co...to-the-nit.html http://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/statuses/10500857589 UWGB at Akron on Wednesday.

Can't got a 4 seed in the NIT. They play Tulsa at home. (Sound familiar soccer roos?)

+1

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 AM RIGHT! :screwks: Enough said.

I'm with you 100%. After driving back and forth to the Q for three days, I thought I was going to be angry and depressed if the Zips lost tonight. But they played their hearts out and almost came up with yet another miracle finish.Numbness is a great description. I do feel numb. I also feel sad for the players that their season is ended after they tried so hard to make it two straight trips to the NCAA tournament. They came so darn close, and I'm so darn proud of them for never giving up. They were just outplayed tonight by the smallest of margins. A different bounce of the ball on a single possession could have produced a different result.Kudos to KD for getting his team to the MAC championship game for four straight years. How many other coaches have ever achieved that in the MAC?I'm already looking forward to next season.bunch of damn apologists, you better be furious about this loss....3 outta 4 and here we go with the "oh it's ok" attitude...it is time to hope for more I agree. heres the question. is KD what we need to take us to the next level? personaly I don't know enough about basketball to put in an opinion here other than to say it's a high risk move especially for a mid major like Akron where people aren't exaclt foaming at the mouth to be hereI support Dambrot 100%! In terms of loyalty/commitment and results in improving and making this program an annual competitor for the MACC, Dambrot deserves at least another 5 years regardsless of those seasons. Let's also not forget about the upward trend in the quality of student-athletes he has been recruiting. Zeke was a huge get as are the players for the incoming class.Go Zips!

http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/kent_state/"I hate to say it, and Can't State fans don't want to hear this, but suddenly these past two seasons the tide has turned and now the MAC tournament is Akron's turf. Watching them win these close games, I knew they were going to win. They make winning plays down the stretch, and yes, they get some breaks and bounces. The key is, they put themselves in position to have some good luck. The difference is this year, and the part that really stings, is that Can't State was the best team in the league for the entire grind, the entire four month process of the season and couldn't get to the semis for the second straight season."Beautiful.

Amen. For the most part, very classy Zips fans! B)You don't go to 4 straight MACC games with a bad coach. Yes, I would like to see the schedule upgraded and don't want to see losses to Austin Peay or Eastern Michigan either. However, the program is as good as it ever has been and I believe the growth will continue under KD. This WILL be the case.Here's to a couple more wins this season...

Not true at all. On TV they showed a stat that Kool torched everyone who guarded him...except Jimmy Conyers who guarded him half the game and Kool had less than 10 points against. Great job Jimmy!Kool is a great player. I liked watching because you could tell he was playing for fun and love of the game. I wish I saw that at the professional level but I suppose that is part of what makes amateur athletics so special.

Congratulations on a great season.

For the record, I posted this a full 15 minutes before McKnees hit that shot. Eerily similar to last year. Depth was the difference in this one. We didn't play great or disciplined (especially with the foul trouble), but survived. Setting up for an exciting weekend.

Does anyone remember last year in the opening round at the Q against Toledo?...then we went on to win the MACC. Enough said.

Great win, ladies! Keep it going.

Great read. Thanks, Watcher!

The NCAA Tournament is for conference champions and teams that have the potential to win the National Championship. That is likely not any team beyond the six seed in each regional let alone teams #25-96 and certainly not the Zips. If we make the field of 64 by virtue of winning the MACC, great. Otherwise, we have only earned the CBI (at best)...Can't on our own floor on national television in a sold out arena with a MAC regular season championship and NIT bid on the line and we are not prepared or motivated to play...that is not the heart of a champion, and I don't want embarrassed again on the national stage.Go Zips! Bring your A game and win the MACC. Otherwise, quietly check yourself into the offseason knowing that the only dimension of success for this year was continuing the streak of 20+ win seasons. or bust!Sincerely,Jim Rome

Agree 100%. Nobody but those two look like they give a crap. The only possible other exception is Humpty.I agree. Humpty came on later in the second half after my initial post. Unfortunately, by that time it was far too late.We totally laid over for them. So much for defending the home court. I think there are only two ways we win the MACC: 1) shoot lights out against Can't State if/when we face them in the finals, or 2) not having to play Can't State because they lost in an earlier round, which I highly doubt.Win or lose, the Zips and the campus/city look great in high definition.