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Another thought - there are 4 walls on the JAR that have been home to all time great coaches. What will they do to include Groce soon enough?

Zeke Marshall.

Kentucky's court ruling against the NCAA with some strong, common sense language.

LCJ jersey retirement this year. LONG time coming.

D3 gets a little tricky because they don't (legally) offer athletic scholarships. There are guys attending Akron, Kent, Ohio State, etc., who aren't there to play sports, that are as or more athletic than most D3 athletes, but they couldn't afford or didn't want to pay the high tuition that comes with going the D3 route. On the flip side, a school like Hoban is a combination of many top athletes in the region (which is a VERY good HS football/athletics region) or even beyond because they can recruit. I remember when I was in an underclassmen at a greater Akron area high school, there were a couple kids in my class and the class below that were REALLY solid athletes that never made it to my high school because Hoban & St. V plucked them after middle school. Massillon would be another example of a NEO high school that could be in the argument against a D3 school, although in any scenario I think D3 ultimately wins out due to depth, age, size, etc.

His cousin(?) played for Todd May at Concord. Good family relations there I'd imagine.

WHO?! 😉

On this team, most likely. Last year, his elevated role was fine. Our system will run through Tahj, Mahaffey, and Oriol - everyone else will have fluctuating roles, playing time, etc., depending on matchups and whether a player is "on" or not. This is the beauty of how this roster was constructed. It's legitimately a 10+ deep roster with only a couple players locked into actual positions.

Like one of the coaches said in their response - it's not like the 1 & 2 seeds were consistently losing early, or even missing the Finals. It was only Miami OH & Toledo that struggled. Criminal that we're being robbed of MACT Thursdays because 2 of the more unlikeable coaches in the league failed at their jobs.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfCx01iETGF/?img_index=2&psln=ZWI4aXp0eGhpOWw3 Some additional highlights for Tahj. He is SMOOTH.

Maybe, but what would be awesome is if the coach actually answered the question.

I was surprised that there were 8 returning head coaches. Felt like there was more turnover than that. Just a couple Directionals, Balls, and Akron. I think the second answer is Buffalo. He came from Nova and the Big East let's all 11 into the tourney. Totally forgot about Tod K's whiny rear end when labeling the first answer as Steele. I bet they combined the answers into one since they were probably so similar and full of tears. 3 & 4 are almost certainly Sendy and Boals. They're the only returning coaches that had any real success with the previous format. Both would give a ticked off answer like that, too.

It set the tone in terms of defense/effort expectations.

What's worse, apparently they gave these out during an exhibition with 12 people in attendance.

Toledo Blade MAC Hoops Coaches Anonymous Most interesting excerpt for me... Thoughts on new MAC tournament format? ● “I’m for it. It rewards success in the regular season, and protects the top teams.” ● “I get the logic of trying to protect the higher seeds … but I’m still of the belief that every team should go to the conference tournament.” ● “Totally against it. All the basketball leagues around the country that do this are all gimmicky. Gimmicks don't work, man. The number one seed has to play in the quarterfinals. That's the way all the real basketball leagues do it. I voted against it, and I was very loud, but I'm just one vote. What we did to overreact because somebody’s upset the number one seed got upset in the quarterfinals, that's embarrassing.” ● “I’m against it. First of all, the first or second seed has won our conference tournament six of the last [eight] years. It feels like fixing something that's not broken. Two, I’d argue, most importantly, the essence of March Madness is UMass beating Miami in Cleveland. It’s [No. 8] Kent State beating Toledo. Why are we getting rid of March Madness and those moments?” ● “If you were to ask me what we should be thinking about as a league, it's … knowing that the expanded NCAA tournament could put the MAC more often than not in a play-in game, how do we not play the conference tournament final on the Saturday before Selection Sunday, and then have to turn around and play so quickly? If we want to invest in basketball — which we do — the team that’s going to celebrate and go to the NCAA tournament should reap the reward of having a week to galvanize their community and alums and fans. To win on a Saturday night and potentially play on a Tuesday is a really wasted opportunity.” I'm going to assume the bold answer is Steele. Pansy. I wish we had more coaches involved in this to get a better indication of the league wide thought process. This small sample size shows 1 for it, 3 against, and 1 non-answer.

In the postgame presser, Ford said Halligan would've been available last night if it wasn't an exhibition. Said he will be good to go for Louisiana.

Rumor has it they're putting Skaljac's jersey in the rafters to honor his Preseason 1st Team All MAC, too.

Avoiding GTown until potentially the finals would be ideal.

Love the offensive philosophy - doesn't really matter the shot selection as long as you're rebounding.

The Sun Belt does a pre season third team? Holy participation trophy, Batman. The Cajuns have some size, including our old friend Josiah Harris. Given Burton's 6 week or so absence, I doubt he's back for this one but it would be very nice to have him.