Blue & Gold

It’s kinda nice knowing we gave them all they could handle while we were still learning to walk. I’ll be rooting for them in the dance.

In the Post Mortem thread I guess i should reiterate my appreciation to Akron and the MAC for the guard play we were graced to enjoy this year. LCJ, Marreon Jackson, Jason Preston, Justin Turner. Good grief, that is some top shelf talent!

What a goof.

I hope Toledo gets in. For Marreon Jackson's sake, mostly. Does the NIT announce their field tonight?

Which conference(s) do you have in mind? I like the MAC. Or, I guess I should say I enjoy a handful of rivalries we have within the MAC. Ohio, Toledo, Buffalo, and Kent. How many schools even in the Big Ten can say they have sincere rivalries with 4 of their conference members? None of those 4 do it for me either, but I can't see a conference dropping a school, let alone 4. I do wish we could bring Marshall back. I miss that rivalry. (Just ear to the ground, but I think Herd fans do too.) James Madison is not a happy camper in their current conference (again, just ear to the ground). But JMU would have to upgrade their football program to FBS. What do you mean by that, Clark? Drop football down a division & campaign to join the A-10?

I had to search for this post. I posted this on December 7th. We went on to smash OU during our first matchup & I figured well of course, 'cause what do I know? Lol. But Boals has done a great job getting OU to gel into the team that worried me back in early December.

I've started toying with my 2-deep for next season already. 😂

In essence I think you really hit the nail on the head in noting that we simply became much too reliant on LCJ. We were not a well-rounded team. I still can't believe how off I was in my enthusiasm concerning Maishe Dailey. What a gorgeous athlete, ideally built for basketball. And in remembering his impressive skill set from high school, I thought Groce's style would be perfectly in his wheelhouse and that he'd become a 2nd Team All-MAC-caliber player. When that didn't materialize we were never the team I was envisioning preseason. Additionally, boy was I wrong about Currie. At 6'8"-6'9" I thought he'd be our staring center from day one. When he failed to earn any PT we suddenly became a very small team; our two true post players each coming in at 6'7". (And neither 6'7" guy was a stretch post player, like 6'9" X was, and like 6'8" Currie was touted to be.) So that also threw me a knuckleball from what I was anticipating preseason. We simply lost too much when we lost three leaders, tenacious defenders, rebounders, and 3-point threats in Cheese (6'5"), Banks (6'4"), and Williams (6'9"). Never were we able to begin to even slightly fill those shoes this season.

Just a nameless student manager.

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There's never a wrong thread for noting that.

Oh, and in case you forgot. BUGS was picked #1 in the preseason media poll. We own them.

I love his hustle and his grit! And his... team-ism. 😂

You're right though. Marshall shouldn't have shot that one. Lol

💯💯 Most likely some sort of COVID issue.

Love it!!! He wanted to take those shots!!!

💯 Reghi just said Marshall plays about 8 minutes per game? That can't be right. Can it? Who would have bet $$ Marshall would be hitting our clutch shots?! Love it! What a great game!

Marshall!!!!

Attack Plowden!

Ali & Freeman foul trouble. Uh, oh. And Plowden is absolutely playing out of his mind.

I was thinking the same. How does Reghi not know our players by this point in the season? Reece isn't a 6'5 hybrid. He's a 6'7" rather one-dimensional post player. Ali is a true hybrid. WTH?

💯 He's on fire

I don't see Dailey or Wynn on the sideline.

Also from GT's article: Looking at the practice field, it’s difficult to not notice 6-foot-6 quarterback D.J. Irons, junior college transfer from Iowa Central Community College. His presence along with Kato Nelson, who returns after recovering from a shoulder injury and is 100 percent for the first time since 2019, and last year's starter Zach Gibson give UA a quarterback room with unique potential.