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the mac doesn't have any kind of equivalent to that, do they? That's a good one!I am a paid subscriber to zipszone (supposedly webcasting zips events). For almost all the season, it has all been audio only. Until the ball state game that was supposed to be on video webcast. Guess what? waited the whole night and saw nothing. Sent and email to complain, and i got an email reply saying:sorry we had technical difficulties, but we will keep your money.

I follow D3 Ohio Athletic Conference basketball. In that conference, John Caroll university has a 'decent at most' level of talent compared to some other schools. However, John Caroll has more depth. In every game, the coach has 10 players divided into 2 formations. Every 4 minutes in the game, the whole five on the floor are substituted with the other five. This allows JC to play 40 minutes of full court press every single game. The opponents, sometimes with a higher level of talent, commit tons of TOs and are usually exhausted. The result, JC is currently on the top of that conference ahead of the OAC traditional power houses. Why am i telling this story? with our depth, can KD implement the same plan or do we still need to have starters and substitutes?

What is the award for reading all those pages?

I think he'll need to touch more than two balls for that to happen. In other words, he must be on the floor for more than the last 2 garbage minutes.We all saw what Nik did when he got the minutes, i am sure swiech will not disappoint either.

It is not the #15 seed and getting the tail kicked that will sell out the jar but the whole scenario. Think about it. If we only loose at Buffalo for the rest of the season and then win out at the Q, that is like a 13-1 record to end the season in addition to winning the MAC and having Akron's name on the brackets.You add to that the Zeke effect and a winning streak early next season and we will sell out for a bunch of games.Now let's see if that scenario works out.

I say the only game we loose in the rest of the regular season is at Buffalo. We get that 3rd seed in the tournament and play Buffalo in the final. And then, since the third time is a charm, Ohioans will fill the Q and the home court advantage (fans split 75/25) will help take Witherspoon and his team down.We get a 15 seed in the tournament and get our tail kicked. Next year, the JAR sells out for more than half the home games and by Zeke's junior year, people will talk about Akron, Gonzaga, and Butler in the same sentence. Now will i be disappointed if we just go to the finals and play in the NIT, definitely not.Will i be disappointed if we don't get a bye and a 20+ wins season, you bet i will.

Am i the only one who finds this statement disturbing? does KD want his future recruits to read that he tried to break a player?

73-48 Akron

Did you see anyone saying that Harrison is not skilled enough? did you ever read that he won't be welcome in Cleveland? or what does cleveland have to do in this thread?You don't think that punching someone who is on the floor on a dead ball deserves a suspension? and the guy is "one of our white guys". I have to agree with you here, we must be stupid beyond belief. Harrison should be allowed to kick people in the nuts and punch them in the face, as long as he is signing autographs in the penguins games.

I punching a guy on the floor multiple times and pushing him around didn't earn that Can't state Thugh an ejection, i don't know what would. Regardless of who you root for (Browns, steelers, cardinals, etc...), and let alone our feelings towards the thug factory in Can't, NFL should take some serious actions against Harrison.

Thanks for the exception. Charlie Cheeseburger has lots to do with that.Why don't you go find me the last NC, or even top 20 team that was made of all 1-2*?You can probably find 1 exception there too.Buckzip, the number of stars a player has is a reflection of who offered them, not of their athletic ability. Just look at scout's page for Akron recruiting: they made every single one of our recruits a 2-star guy today, where there used to be quite a few 1-star guys. They did that because MAC recruits are automatically 2-stars unless they have a significant amount of offers from BCS schools.That is not entirely true. Patrick Nicely is a 3 star knocking on 4 star and he doesn't have one BCS offer. There is a reason for the most part that MAC schools have their players rated as 2 stars. For goodness sakes watch the games. Most of the MAC players are just not as talented. Like anything else, there are a few guys that fall through the ratings crack like a Domenik Hixon, James Harrison, Ben Roethlisburger, Greg Jennings, etc... All those 4 and 5 star guys that USC, Miami, Florida, Texas, OSU, Oklahoma, etc.. gets every year sure seem to make a difference, don't they? Those teams recruit the cream of the crop BASED ON ATHLETIC ABILITY. The scouting services obviously see a kid not getting offers from bigger schools and most of the time correctly grade them out at a lower star level. I have no idea why some people on here think there is a conspiracy to downgrade MAC recruits star levels. Go to Rivals and click on the Akron verbals. Half of them show Akron as their ONLY OFFER! Go to any BCS conference and click on their players. Even the 2 and 3 star guys have multiple BCS offers. These programs have been doing this for decades. They know what they are doing.Thanks genius! Now get off this board and go find a buckeye board to get off on.Wow! so let me get this straight, unless you feel that the MAC recruits are the best recruits on earth, you are not welcome on this board?

Can't wouldn't be interested in him anyways. When was the last time they recruited out of high school?

One good thing about Can't state is that they know where you can find excellence. Their slogan: Excellence in Akron. As in, if you're after mediocrity and hippy life style, welcome to Can't, but if you're after excellence, go to Akron.From their website:

I think you meant to say that Nicely talked nicely about UA

I am very pleasantly surprised... still careful to jump on the wagon, i can't afford another broken heart.

Seattle Sounders is not biased by the big school crap. They're only after their interest.

With the way this season appears, my feeling is that every MAC east team will win their home games and loose their away ones.At the end of the season, all mac east teams will be 5-5 in the division No seriously, winning away would be a nice thing but we can afford not to win, at home is a different story, this is a must win.

Here is one for coach Dambrot:Considering the anticipated addition of Zeke Marshall next year, and seeing how you have 2 centers already, how are you going to distribute the minutes between 3 centers in the next 2 years?Coach Kest:How did the dissmissal of the best players (basketball speaking) over the last 2 years affect the team chemistry? How do the fans know that is not going to keep happening every year.No softballs here captain

I agree that there was some positives, i didn't think that we had a chance to take Miami to OT in their arena. I didn't see the game but what i can see from the boxscore is the following:1 - We all knew that we will not shoot very well, we all know about miami's defense, especially on their own court. 2- you can't blame the TOs for the loss when the home team commited 3 more than the away team, that would actually be a positive thing for usWhat is unexplainable is the rebounding margin. 31-46 we had 15 less rebounds, that is 15 less possessions. Even with our 0.316 FG, if we grabbed 3 more rebounds (which would still be (34-43) in miami's favour, we would make one of those 3 balls, we would have won the game in regulation.AS some one mentionned above, miami's center grabbed 12 rebounds, how many did our center grab?

Those stats are interesting... so if Bardo played the whole 40 minutes in all games we would have been undefeated? Here's how i explain this, Bardo is the only Center KD is playing. When Bardo is out, we are playing with no Center (whether 2 PFs or 2 SFs etc...)My conclusion would be that when the zips play a center (even when that center has terrible stat lines) we are doing better than playing with no center. So, when KD wants to give Bardo a break, how about throwing in another center? who by the way cannot have a worse stat line than Bardo.

Geno Ford about Tyree Evans: "he's as quality a kid as we have in our program." What does that say about your program Mr. Ford?

I am sorry i can't be as axcited as you are for a 5-8 team.

Fir hill seems to be the only decent place within walking distance. Over priced in my opinion though.

Did we play that game today? Seems like no one wants to talk about it

any luck ?