Let'sGoZips94

Eric Mahaffey has allegedly grown to 6'6". He's the same height as his brother now without the muscle build (yet). @Illini Zip Sorry you have to do more scholarship chart work than originally expected.

Just confirmed with Shammah's grandpa that he's staying put.

Where are you seeing this?

The issue isn't backups making millions. It doesn't matter what the young adults make. The issue is 99% of the schools in the country are feeder schools every single year for the 1% without any return on their investment. If the NCAA is going to allow this to be free agency, they need to establish a legitimate group of approved agents and put in place contractual requirements and a transfer fee. If P4s want to poach, they need to pay the school for their development. This current iteration of NIL is BS.

There are thousands of players in the Portal. Auburn just lost their 2nd best player today. We'll be fine. The Portal closes next week and we've already seen transfers decommit and re-enter the Portal.

Came out of the delivery room to this crap news. Happy for Nate - life changing money coming his way. In no way, shape, or form should players ever be shamed for taking the money; always blame the NCAA and the greedy bastards that have let this be a free for all with no guardrails. In addition, continue to hold guys like Freeman on the highest pedestal for their loyalty. I don't think this is that big of a talent loss. As Captain said, you'll struggle to improve by losing your will-be-senior and reining MAC POTY, but the discussion all season was how average the competition was for that award. Nate isn't that great of a shooter and he had so many boneheaded plays over the years. The biggest hits will come in the experience & fit departments. If we can find a shooter or even another front court player to replace Nate, I don't think we'll see much - if any - drop in success. Good luck to Nate and thanks for some wonderful memories, especially the euro floater just over a month ago.

The Kent component really muddies the water. This is absurd for a normal person, but a Kent person...

My son is being born this morning - they're getting a new fan. 😂 The baby's room is nothing but sports with plenty of Akron, and I'm wearing an Akron sweatshirt and the 2025 MAC Champions t-shirt, so he has no choice.

They were a top 4 team and had 2 guys over 7 ft tall (including Edey) when they lost to 16 seed FDU.

That's a good fit for him. They have zero expectations athletically so when he gives up game winning floaters with the worst possible transition defense, they won't hate him.

Now I see why the ABJ article was so absent of details. Kent was aware of half the alleged behavior and never investigated it. Not a great look by the University. What would be interesting is if the University ignored the allegations of drinking on the job, gambling, and staff abuse when they gave him the extension.

Go Zips but college sports suck now. F the NCAA.

There was only one tweet mentioning this and it was an Ohio State fan. I replied to the tweet asking where they got this information and they haven't replied yet.

He's AJ Storr without the talent or the money AND he was dumb enough to go to Kent for a year. 3 strikes, you're out.

Amanda Garrett got paid to type a lot of words that ultimately provided zero details. The 30 seconds I spent skimming that article are lost forever. Bummer.

They're going the Drake/Ben McCollum route. Interesting.

Thanks as always Captain. How did the OLine look?

I heard it was a surprise to the team. Jimmy being committed to Utah so quickly likely supports the unexpectedness of the decision. I would not expect it to take too long to fill his spot, though.

Painter & Groce are friends; Purdue is throwing us a bone, especially with paying us to go there, because of the scheduling struggles we've had. One interesting component to this matchup: Purdue guard Fletcher Loyer's dad, John, played for Akron in the 1980s.

Big 12 poached him.

Available PF Available C Tons out there that probably give you 2/3 of the criteria you mentioned. All about culture fit because the one "miss" you mentioned from last year ended up not being a culture fit.

It possibly does if the replacement is bigger than 6'8" and has an offensive game.