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Is Sinisa Ubiparipovic still in the MLS? or playing anywhere else?

From the article: Darlington plays professional soccer for the Portland team in the Major Indoor Soccer League My comment: That ceiling over the crew stadium is extremely well done. It totally looked like the sky to me last time i went there.

You misspelled Akmahdeniijaniastonia, it is spelled with a flimkh...ask Jeff Dunham.

If i remember correctly, we lost to Arkansas LR, Illinois-chicago, and Toledo in that season. No team with losses to these 3 will ever get an at large bid even if their record was 30-3. Toledo won the regular season that year, did they not? Yes they did. And that loss took away our argument that the zips were the best team in the conference losing on a buzzer beater.

If i remember correctly, we lost to Arkansas LR, Illinois-chicago, and Toledo in that season. No team with losses to these 3 will ever get an at large bid even if their record was 30-3.

Ewww! No! Boals will not accept a job at Can't. He should be able to do better than that. If not now, maybe in another year. Maybe Butler, xavier, or VCU when their coaches cash on multi million dollar contracts elsewhere.

According to Wikipedia, Shaka makes $325,000 a year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_Smart A very decent salary for a mid major...can they go higher? Wake or Tennessee will be calling with the 7 figures salary soon after next week end.

How exciting would it be to say that the (then) national champion is coming to play at Akron? I really doubt to see Shaka with them though.

I love D-rob as much if not more than the next giy but I think we have enough guard coaches. We need a big giys coach. Not that i am suggesting Bardo but just saying.

Holly Shaka Smart. looking like the next best coach in the nation.

This is really well done. You can say whatever you want about "youtube Tom", I for one, appreciate the additional publicity for the athletic department and also the chance for me as a fan to know more about the team i care about. Good job Mr. Wistrcill! Next step: a decent webcasting of our home games. Not the current thing we have.

I am glad we have Walsh coming in. If for nothing else, to guard DJ Cooper in the 2 or 3 games we play Ohio next year.

I don't like this at all. The revolving door sends a bad message to future recruits. Whether the kids are forced out or shown the writing on the wall, it reduces KD's credibility when he tells the next kid: "you will have a great career at Akron". Also, if Gaffney had some solid info, he should have stated his sources. Otherwise, he shouldn't mention it at all. He's a journalist not a discussion forum poster.

What are Shaka Smart's chances to be the next coach at Tennessee?

I think we oversimplify the issue when we pretend that changing our scheduling will suddenly take us to the final four. Scheduling is an issue and can improve our visibility only if we can win. Scheduling ranked teams and getting killed by them does more dammage than good. To get where butler is we need to bring in better talent. (That's not a cheap shot against our current players). in College basketball, teams can be separated into 5 categories. 1 - winning high majors (the Duke, NC, OSU, Texas, etc...) 2 - the top midmajors (the Butler, Gonzaga, Xavier, etc..) 3 - the bad high majors (northwestern, miss. state, colorado state) 4 - the decent midmajors (teams with consistent chances to make the tournament, but not much more than that) 5 - the doormats (sucking year after year) Moving from one category to another is extremely hard. Moving 2 steps at a time is even harder (more on that later). Needless to say, the zips under Hipsher were in group #5, in that group, you'll be lucky to get a kid with another D1 scholarship offer, you're lucky if you finish your season at 0.500 and you're lucky if more than 1000 people care to watch you play. KD successfully took the program from #5 to # 4. No one else could have done it so fasr and so efficiently. He brought Rome, Dru, and J-wood. People in Akron started caring and the team started being competitive. A disgruntled walk-on at OSU with the name Dials decided to take a chance on the rising zips and that group of people, under KD made the 5-->4 transition. Now that we're in group # 4, the zips can recruit a bit better, we can beat another decent mac, horizon or OVC team for a recruit but still not more than that (Zeke is the exception and not the norm). KD can promiss any kid he talks to that they will have a chance to compete for an NCAA bid every year and that they will not play in front of totally empty seats when they play at home. Now to make the move, we have to go from 4 to 2 because 3 is not an option (no! the big east is not taking us anytime soon). To do that, we need to consistently recruit the Zeke type of players. We need to consistently sell our arena, we cannot loose to EMU and NIU, and rather than scheduling more more ranked teams, we need to schedule less "nobody" teams. KD successfully made the move from 5 to 4 few years ago. Now can he make the 4 to 2 move?

I'm affraid that this "forcing" people out will come back to bite KD in the butt when he goes to recruit new kids. You know that HS coaches remember this kind of stuff.

Hey Zeke for MVP, now that you got your screen name/wish granted, can you please change your screen name to Zips to final4? You never now

But hey, that 14 points come back to beat Iona was really impressive and tells a lot about Dambrot's teams

As a motivational strategy, It may be useful to remind this team that Can't state is returning everyone but Rodriguez Sherman. Porrini, Guyton (aka grand theft auto), Manns, Henninger were all in their first year in Geno's system. They will come back next year with Justin green and Randall Holt and chances are they will be really good! Zeke, Quincy, Alex, Nitro, and everyone else must understand that nothing will come easy.

Not any guard Dave...an NBA bound Guard if we're thinking of the same play.

Yeah Can't! Who's seed 7 now NIT clowns? I hope all Mac teams keep winning. Perhaps we may get some respect.

My friend majors in aeronautics, so i assume it has something to do with it. You call a Can't Stater a "Friend"?

Get your eyes checked Racer http://zipsnation.org/forums//index.php?sh...=22137&st=0

You haven't seen how he steps his game up when he plays in the big dance Dr. I have a feeling that we will be talking about the pre MVP and the post MVP Zeke for the next two years.

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