Blue & Gold

Bandaogo! Clarke!!

Wynn in. Dawson

Decent start.

Yep. That's the next project when they're finally finished w/ Main Street (did you guys see Bricco is not going to reopen? - great job City of Akron). Exchange is going to be the next 2-year unmitigated disaster... but it's necessary. Gotta break some eggs, I suppose.

Cost prohibitive. But, if it is somehow feasible, getting a preseason scrimmage under the belt is long over due.

We did too.

That lounge was actually packed last night. Idk if it finally caught on for our next-to-last home game, or there was something special going on down there last night.

No. We need a new arena. And desperately. An older gentleman tripped while trying to step off our breakneck bleachers last night. He braced himself on a lady in a wheelchair on the running track and almost knocked her over. One of my friends I sometimes take to games who isn’t aware of this ongoing conversation said, “Every time I’m here someone almost falls.” Desperately. Caveat: If Groce doesn’t improve the quality of basketball on the court… it’s not fun. Only true diehards are at these difficult-to-watch, often boring games. Good, fun basketball > new arena

I noticed one of those is against Malone so maybe it’s to get our young players some PT?

Been a lot of drama this year. Freeman seems like a very drama-free, level-headed dude. Hope he doesn't tire of this.

Did Melissa Jackson call that timeout?! I thought OU called the timeout to stop Akron's momentum. Good grief.

Disappointed this schedule doesn't have more to do with the Spring League. We only play each team from our North Division once and don't play any teams at all from the South Division unless we make the Spring League Championship match. I.e., we're not really creating any sense of rivalry with the teams in the Spring League.

Freeman and Carry on the floor together would have been unstoppable

Groce has been coaching his butt off this season. But... it's his fault he's had to coach so hard this season because of some lackluster recruiting over the past few years. The best teams don't require a ton of coaching. Busts who transferred down: Tre Edwards Jermaine Marshall Taylor Currie Quite flawed players on current roster: Tribble - can't shoot a lick Clarke - can't shoot a lick Trimble - usually can't shoot a lick Wynn - apparently a head case? Idk. And the thing I can't keep from grinding my gears is that our best player wasn't even recruited. Have mercy, what would this team be right now without Freeman? Is Freeman saving Groce's job? Groce & Co. have to do a better job of recruiting. Hopefully this next class of G's can right the ship.

If this is the case it probably has to do with Williams hiring John Groce rather than coach Dru Joyce II to replace Keith Dambrot. LBJ wrote a very nice letter of recommendation for Coach Dru (you can tell he didn't just throw it together) & he probably was trying to pull some strings behind the scenes (pure speculation). But Williams went with Groce. Good for Williams. Coach Dry is a great HS coach but you can't go from HS to the HC job at Akron. But anyway, as with Clayton Murphy, these two should be priority 1a & 1b as far as trying to smooth things over. Both our president & AD are different ppl from when that went down.

What's a PM?

💯💯 (as usual, I'm out of Likes 😅)

From GT's article: Guard Bryan Trimble Jr., UA’s 3-point sharpshooter, didn’t play against the Eagles and Groce didn’t disclosed a detailed explanation. “I’d made the decision that Bryan needed to take a break from the team,” the coach said. Whoa. Well, at least yesterday it sure looked like addition through subtraction.

kinda like this?

We want Wynn! We want Wynn! We want Wynn! 😉

Here's who I want to see in the starting lineup -v- BUGS: PG - X...............Clarke 2G - Tribble..... Dawson W - Ali W - Wynn P - Freeman..... Aziz