Let'sGoZips94

Yes, I might be reading into the lull too much. Yes, I LOVE Dambrot's classy personality, but just think about this. Last year in the MAC tourney, Dambrot was out-coached. Humtpy saved our butt in the Toledo game. Linhart had the leadership to keep the team focused. McNees got hot. Everything went our way. Sometimes that's what it takes, but consistency for sure helps, and that's what I'm not seeing and haven't seen for 4 years.I probably am overreacting, but I want to win, just like everyone else should. I want to get out of the MAC, but this can't happen unless we dominate.

You know, I might rustle some feathers with what I'm about to post, but it's just my opinion. If I'm the AD, I'm telling Dambrot his seat is getting a little warm. Don't get me wrong, I was happy with the win, but let's face it, his coaching has been subpar for a stretch now, and it's happened 2 years in a row. Yes, players make mistakes that coaches can't control, and yes, coaches make mistakes, but I'm not seeing any learning from the mistakes. For 4 years we've had pretty much the same game plan. Teams are starting to figure out how to stop us. It doesn't look like Dambrot is adapting. For example, we finally started to press against Toledo, but then we stop because it's working. Plus, it seems to me that we continue to ignore the one thing that can win a game: putting the ball in the basket. Again, Dambrot preaches defense, which is a good thing to a point, but I think he's ignored the shooting aspect of the game a little bit. Also, is it just me or is Dambrot starting to coach like Charlie Coles? Has our offense started to slow down like Miami's does? I'm not sure if it's because of our lack of athleticism, or the coaching. If I was coaching, I would press a lot more than we do. I'd throw Zeke on the inbounder and put Jimmy at the safety position. Put Nik, Drob, and Humpty on the rest, then trap. This way we may get more turnovers, which leads to more points, which leads to a win. Again, these are just my observations and opinions. Great win though for the Zips. STRONG OT. We cooled down a very hot team, but now hopefully they are mad and take it out on Can't State. Come on BSUcks and let's go Zips! BEAT CMU!

I think BSUcks can do that, too. They are an athletic group of guys and they have that HUGE dude on the post. If they drive on Can't, they can beat em.

Pretty close, they have only beaten NIU. That loss is not looking so good now. And EMU has lost to every East team thet've played so far, except us. INCONSISTENCY! Just throwing that out there.

Lady Zips won 62-55! GO ZIPS!

Haha, that was his idea. I saw that on FB. Great bounce back game. I was very hot after last game, but have since cooled down. Dambrot looked like a better coach tonight. He left players in. Heck, Zeke played a ton! Great job Zips! Let's get em Saturday!

As far as MAC soccer goes, Bowling Green and Northern Illinois both have excellent recruiting classes coming in.Excellent as far as the regular MAC goes, but Akron has its own standard of excellent. It would be cool to get a rivalry going with SU.

That's the Akron attitude! You have to raise the bar once it's been beaten. We won the MAC, now we have to try to aim higher.

Not that I have a problem with cool halftime routines (the panda plate lady was awesome), but who comes to a game to see the halftime entertainment? Why pay for something if it's not going to get people in the seats?Have you ever been to a Cavs game? Even though they have the greatest player in the NBA, they also have non-stop entertainment action going on before, during and after the game. It really does add something to the overall experience. If the Zips are ever going to draw the casual fan, they need more than just basketball.There are talks of renovating the JAR. How about this for a renovation: take out the safety lights so we can use strobe lights or spot lights and shut off all the other lights for the intros?

I drifted this quote from my post on offering my tickets to the NIU game.My right .... you bet. I have been a fan of Zips sports from before most of you were born. I have held multipleseason tickets for football and basketball for more years than I care to count.Ninty-nine percent of the time I am a huge supporter of coaches. Even the really bad ones. I love KD.But, he has lost control. He needs to right the ship. The Zips have stunk up four of the past five games.The team has no heart, no soul, no drive, no killer instinct. Where is the leadership? I will tell you where.He is sitting to damned much of the time. KD, love the kids. Stop putting them in season long dog houses.Tonight I saw Dan Hipsher not Keith Dambrot. Hipsher never trusted his kids. KD knows better.Let us start with basics. First, free throws. Which coach teaches free throws? It is not enough tomake the kids shoot free throws when they are winded. A coach needs to watchfully correct bad mechanics.It is not being done. Game after game the kids go to the line and never get off their heels. A free throwshot is a continuous motion that begins at the ball of the foot and ends with full extension of the shootingarm. Other than Darryl Roberts none of the kids have good mechanics. Not one.Second, we play great defense for thirty seconds, usually. Sure, there are occasional breakdowns, that hapens.The problem is the last five seconds. Teams have learned to pass and weave and patiently wait for theend of the shot clock then drive the basket. We stand there flat footed and they knock down lay up afterlay up .. unguarded. This happens repeatedly because no one is communicating. No one calls the switch. No one releases and doubles down. No one, and I mean, no one is talking on the floor. If they were, we would hear them.You know all those missed shovel passes that become turnovers? No communication and the receiving player gets the ball unexpectedly. He can not read the other guy's mind.Third, other than Nikola, who drives the lane to the basket? That's right. No one.Fourth, we need a point guard that sees the floor and distributes the ball. I love Steve McNees, at the twowhere he gets open and knocks down treys. It is a whole different ball game when he is chucking themup in desperation. KD is not developing a point guard because he is comfortable with Steve. I'm not.But, I'm just a stupid fan. I want Steve out at the two where he is most effective.Fifth, who is guarding who? We had Brett McKnight guarding the EMU shooter. Isn't that better handledby Jimmy Conyers? I thought that assignments were awful. EMU had so many great mismatches on us.Sixth, lethargy. You just got to love lethargy because we have so much of it. Passion? Hell, if the securityguards catch a fan with any sort of passion they hustle them right out of the gym. If KD sees a playerplaying with passion he sits him down. KD, you are ripping the hearts out of these kids. Its on you, pal.Seven, the good old AK-howdies. They are back. Thrity kids in each end zone. There were a thousandRowdies at the soccer games. They all die?My last gripe of the night is the backing off of the full court pressure right when EMU was coming unglued.The time out at 6:32 and the three bigs are sat down and in trots Zeke, McClanahan and I don't recall.At any rate, the full court pressure stopped and so did the run. That's coaching, ahem. I am pissed.+1

Can't State is a rivalry game which holds a big home court advantage...did that loss really shock you? APB was a win, so was Toledo...maybe they weren't pretty, but are we really complaining about wins???? Come on, we're better than that.I think his point is that we've had bad games and it's getting old. We want to move on to bigger and better things, but we're sucking at the average right now.I'm not saying it's not frustrating. But the top programs in the country have fans that are there every game, no matter how the team is playing. You guys all talk on and on about becoming a top program in the nation, then hold up you're end of the bargain, don't start jumping ship after ONE bad loss.I'm not jumping ship. I get in fights with kids at my school who tell me Akron sucks. I'm not completely down. I just said I'm not looking forward to the game.

Can't State is a rivalry game which holds a big home court advantage...did that loss really shock you? APB was a win, so was Toledo...maybe they weren't pretty, but are we really complaining about wins???? Come on, we're better than that.I think his point is that we've had bad games and it's getting old. We want to move on to bigger and better things, but we're sucking at the average right now.

But you know, when you lose a game by two or three points, and you leave your starting point guard sitting on the bench in street clothes, someone's judgement has to be questioned.It's Dambrot. School comes first. I back Dambrot 100% on the decision.

I hear ya, I'm not looking forward to the NIU game either.

IF we were to win the MAC tournament, a win here might take us from a '13' to a '12' seed in Spokane. With the lost to EMU, I don't think this will help us much. Last I checked, Bracketology had Central winning the MAC as a 16 seed.

now that the lady zips are winning, maybe we can start getting more people to come out to the games. I've been saying it for the last year, that the program is turning around and that they are going to shock alot of people.My dad wants to start buying season tickets for women's, too. I LOVE Coach Kest and the way she's turned this team around. Good for the Zips.

This is good to hear. Temple is awesome! Can't wait for the CSU rivalry to start back up again. The Las Vegas tourney seems better than a lot of preseason tourneys we've been. Good job KD. Keep up the good work!

Should be an easy sell, Rob isn't going anywhere anytime soon.Except bowling, hopefully....

National Championship, but I would also like to beat a meaningful team in the first round of the NCAA tourney because basketball is still more watched than soccer (in America).

I also agree. I was listening to 850 yesterday and they were talking about OSUcks' scheduling. They mentioned how Pete Carroll at USC became known for playing anyone anywhere. Gonzaga is kind of the same way. I think we need to start playing meaningful schools (not YSU's or St. Francis's) on the road. I've said this all along: to be an NCAA tourney team, you have to schedule like one. We'll get Can't at our place. GO ZIPS!

My thing about Ianello is he is a recruiter more than anything. You can't coach god given talent, but you can recruit which is something we've been missing IMO. He's got a good staff around him to help him out. He's from Notre Dame so he had to learn something there. I'm with Captain and I'm giving him the BOD.

Not to mention, it could end up being for the MAC East like the game @ Can't was a few years ago when J-Wood made the game winning lay-up.

I don't have the picture of the sign, but that sign was the FAILURE sign right?FAILURE! When your best just isn't good enough, again, and again, and again!

This will be the first time in a few years that I will not be able to go to the game @ Can't, but I'm so glad it's on TV. Akron 74Can't StateCKS 53.13 will be ejected 11 minutes into the game.Can't creamed Buffalo, but listening to the announcers and such, it seemed like Can't did what Buffalo did to us: GOT VERY HOT! Buffalo also seemed very cold and short tempered. Should be a fun game at the MACC.

all i can say is that it took U at canada to play their best game of the year and probably one of our worst games for them to beat us by only 13. Regaurdless the score we had it down to 2 posessions a few times in the late second half. IM sure KD and the boys will be ready for them when the make the trip to THE UofAPlus, I doubt Pierce will go for 31 again and Smiley is that hot again. Let's beat Miami and continue to prove we are one of the best, if not the best, in the MAC.