Blue & Gold

February 2nd seems awfully early for NEO baseball. That's 6 weeks before the snow melts. Lol

ABJ: Zips struggle on offense in victory GT had the same observation we did: The Zips’ (2-1) primary opponent on the court was themselves...What should be concerning for coach John Groce and UA fans was the lack of energy and intensity on display in what could have been an easy game.

For some reason I have it in my head that their first game in on Groundhog's Day. I know I saw that somewhere. That would be February 2nd. So that would obviously have to be over a spring break trip to Florida.

I thought the same. I was going to take a friend (always trying to introduce ppl to Zips athletics) but he bailed on me last minute. So I just watched the game at home. In hindsight I'm glad my friend bailed. I wouldn't have wanted that to be his first impression of Zips basketball. I'm all for more uptempo.. but that effort was so ugly and uncoordinated it felt like watching YMCA ball. I wish I could have seen the WVU game. Everyone on here was positive about the team's performance even though we got the L. Tonight everyone is rightly critical of the team's performance even though we got the W. It's a great thing to have objective posters like you guys. Maybe NWAkron is right and they were just screwing around tonight. If... IF... that's the case I don't like it on a number of levels. I don't pay $$ to watch a team screw around. I hope I never see an effort so ugly the rest of the season. Respect the game.

Wow, was that ugly. Glad we won but we’ve gotta find a few guys other that X & Cheese who can put it in the hole. I believe X had 20, Cheese had 20 & LCJ had 10. The rest of the team contributed only 7.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

If you need a good laugh, please click on this ABJ's University of Akron men's basketball scouting box.

FWIW, Mikal Dawson "Liked" this tweet.

Not yet. And I'm with you. I could think of a couple reasons the Zips Men's Basketball staff may have for holding off on announcing any signings just yet. (Jared Embick did something similar in announcing the men's soccer recruits last year almost a week after NLOI Day.) So what really makes me nervous is that neither Taylor Currie nor Garvin Clarke have announced that they have signed on their respective twitter pages.

True, but I believe you pointed this out, Kreed, that our cumulative total is 8th in the MAC, but our average recruit ranking puts us 2nd in the MAC, presently, just behind Toledo (IIRC). So that’s a drastic improvement over a typical Bowden recruiting class.

I remember that now that you mention it. Thanks! And Arth made those comments after Kyshad tweeted that enigmatic message. So, yeah, good call!

I don't know if 43 is hurt. I hope he's not transferring. He's a good player. He's not listed by 24/7 sports dot com as being in the Transfer Portal, FWIW. But he tweeted this enigmatic statement on October 24th & I've been worried since...

This guy's one of my favorite Zips already. He bleeds blue & gold and isn't even on campus yet. He seems to have one of those contagiously optimistic personalities much like Mykel Taylor-Bennet or Josh Ward.

No letters of Intent in today... yet (2:15 p.m.). I don't know what kind of competition Taylor Currie is facing at Mott Community College, but he's done well his first two games. This tweet is from his first game: 18 points & 14 rebounds. He did only shoot 33%, so it'd be nice to see a higher shooting percentage. But it was only game #1. This tweet is from Mott's 2nd game: 23 points, 12 rebounds, 4 blocks.

^^At the 8:18 mark, did he say Xavior Gray "got his 3rd game under his belt"? If so, I guess he'll only be able to play in one of the remaining two games. At the end of the press conference Arth states that Xavior Gray had surgery 3 weeks ago.

Zips postgame press conference

@Dr Z @Captain Kangaroo, can you guys enable the site to allow for more reactions to posts-per-day?

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Thanks. Seems simple enough and makes sense. I wonder why 7-year-NFL-vet Ray Bentley (thank you, @ewbrooman1) was so obviously surprised by it?

Our OL looked much improved. I really liked what I saw out of Xavior Gray at LT. He'll retain his redshirt and he looks like he'll be a four year starter. X was the missing element. With X at LT, we were able to move Trevor Brown to RT and shore up the right side of the line, which had been the problem all season long. Peter Hayes-Patrick finally saw considerable game action. I thought he looked pretty good. A few times he zigged when he should have zagged and missed some running lanes, but of course it's easier to see that when you have more of a bird's eye view. Someone lamented that we don't have a big back like EMU's tank. Well, let's keep our fingers crossed that we don't lose the commitment of DeAndre Bulley (6-1, 220). He's tearing up Michigan high school football right now & if we sign him we certainly will. But Hayes-Patrick is a pretty big back himself, coming in at 6-0, 210. It was pretty thrilling see Timothy Scippio with the long TD catch. He's a hard worker who always seems to stay positive, so it's great to see him have a highlight like that. Jeremiah Knight continues to impress. I like Julian Hicks. We were ridiculously deep at WR to begin the season. But the game is won and lost on the line of scrimmage. I'm breathing a sigh of relief that Davon'te Jest is okay. (Last night on twitter he indicated that he is.)