Let'sGoZips94

Hey, at least the marketing department has come up with promotional items people actually want to trade for. Have you seen what the Dru/Romeo/LeBron trio sells for on eBay? Together, they fetch around $100, give or take. LeBron is the driving force obviously, but kudos to the marketing department for putting it all together. I traded my extra President Wilson bobblehead for a Michael Brantley (get healthy, damnit Dr. Smooth!) bobblehead, and just sold my extra Groce bobblehead (which by the way, looked more like Dustin or Geno Ford). Thank you Akron! Random question, but who pays for the manufacturing of the bobbleheads? Is it the sponsor, the University, or a split between both?

I wonder how the poll results would change if we knew that Sayles & Poke would miss most of MAC play, and we'd be down to 9 guys total. The coasters are very nice. I'm impressed, and am looking forward to them being under many a beer in the Man Cave, hopefully watching the Zips finally win a game in the NCAA tournament someday.

He apparently "went off" on their legendary announcer, and might have referred to him as an 80 year old, old man, or something like that. I never heard the audio, but that's what I gathered by what was posted on their board. Against something like the 340th "toughest" schedule in the country. I'm way past beating cupcakes for the easier W's. Duquesne is in the stage currently that we were back in '05-'07 or so, and these wins are great for them. But losing to a horrific Fordham squad (DU's board was saying they only have 8-9 players dressing at the moment, with their top players out with injuries or something, similar to us) isn't good especially at home, regardless of past success - or lack thereof. I don't understand why it's a bad thing to want a competitor to do poorly. I thought that was the "agenda" of every sports fan.

You should really change your name to either ZachTheKD or ZachTheZipUnlessAkronMakesADecisionIDoNotLike.

At EMU? It's been so long since I've had to pay attention to the non-Cleveland portion of the MAC Tournament, I forget how the seeding works. Edit: After some research to refresh my memory, 5-8 all host the first round games. For some reason, I thought seeds 5 and 6 still went to the Q automatically.

Oh stop. There were worse crowds during Dambrot's cupcake OOC schedule; actually I remember some similar attendance numbers during conference play under Dambrot when some garbage MAC West teams would come in. Half the issue is the MAC isn't interesting. Of course MAC-play attendance might be down a bit this year, but we've had some solid crowds for how decimated this team. It's up to Groce & co. to win games worth a damn in future seasons to build interest back up. My "filled in decently well" comment was in reference to what the place looked like 10+ minutes before tip, which was a ghost town.

It wasn't, but 5-10 minutes before tip, there were a lot less people. It filled in decently well right before tip-off.

Revenge game.

KSUcks. Buffalo doesn't impress me.

That was a fun, fun game. Incredible effort and great win. Frenchy mentioned that pulls us even with CMU and we hold the tiebreaker.

Great finish to that half. The effort is there this game.

Sina is playing well on D. It's ironic that he wears #14 and looks exactly like Robotham.

Just saw this. I laughed. I need to go read Shoo Shoo Rah Rah to see if there is any rah rah on the board. Update: I did. Whoa.

Our rotations are going to be hockey-like to keep guys fresh.

Shoo-Shoo Rah-Rah is a fun read right now.

Did they leave Akron off that list then?

LOVE the basketball component. This is what the MAC should've done with UMASS when they agreed to admit them as football only.

So we're playing with 7 scholarship players the rest of the season, 4 of which are freshman? Wow... I'd shut Sayles down and heal that wrist properly.

To have the opportunity to bitch about being lucky while making a Sweet Sixteen run, now that's something I want.

What Dambrot inherited vs. what he left for Groce is night and day. Last I checked, Dambrot inherited an A10 All Rookie Team member, and didn't reciprocate for Groce. With the injuries that have occurred, this season cannot be measured by wins/losses. The losing sucks, I want to win just as badly as anybody here, but that's not how I'm measuring the successes of this season now. I'm looking at the progress of our freshman, and I am very pleased. - While KLac hasn't been as big of a presence in recent games, there was a stretch there where he was a real force. He has developed some excellent post moves, has knocked down some jumpers, and his effort to get on the floor has been tremendous. - Virshon Cotton is looking like he will be solid for years to come at the point position. - Parrish, despite some frustrating moments of "what the hell were you thinking", is largely everything you can ask for in a freshman forward. He's aggressive, drives to the basket, rebounds, jumps the passing lanes. I'm really excited to see him continue to develop. - Patton is even getting more confident. He rebounds well and is starting to find more and more of his game on the offensive side of the ball. Most importantly, I like the main emphasis on building the culture to Groce's standards over getting a bunch of cheap and meaningless wins in the grand scheme of things.

Love the OLinemen. Love the size of the DBs. Love that Reggie Corner Jr. will be joining us. Love amount of Ohio recruits.

OU fans better drink one for the basketball gods tonight, hold up their beer to them, and say, "Dilly Dilly." They can't miss tonight from beyond the arc.

Not sure I'm following what you mean by "young guys" and "what's he doing".

Good. He eluded to this in Saturday's postgame. He's not afraid to lose if it builds the discipline he wants as the foundation for this program.

Josh and Noah were leaving regardless. Josh went to play with his brother or whatever, and Noah wanted to play closer to home. I doubt Dambrot did anything to push Antino to stay, which aggravates me. He then took Big Mike & TDM, not that I was a big fan of either but that's depth that left. Ivey is undisciplined, Utomi is still young but was underdeveloped under Dambrot (he barely played Utomi last year). Poke is Poke, and I hope he's having a speedy recovery. It's just frustrating. I'm confident Groce will get us to the next level quickly, but this year is a bit eye opening.