Blue & Gold

I think they finished in 3rd place. Not bad. Jailin Walker’s one of the best players I’ve ever seen in the MAC.

I don't think next year's schedule has been released yet. Just this past week the football and futbol schedules were released (fall sports). So we probably have a while to wait.

GT: Walk-On Brandon Lee catching eye of Zips staff P.s. At the bottom of the article GT says 25-35 "elite" high school juniors will be in attendance at Saturday's practice.

Good catch. FWIW, his twitter bio still says “UA.”

Boogie Knight put in WORK over spring break.

Matthew just posted this. Don't know if grade issues are what actually prompted his initial need/desire to transfer? Hope everything works out for him. Wonder if there's any chance we'll see him back in blue & gold, ala, DeVonte Jest?

What was Featherstone's injury? Did he fracture his leg?

Love Utomi. But he's one dimensional. He's a spot-up shooter. He can't handle the ball very well. He's surprisingly slow-footed & almost entirely earthbound (in his 3 years as a Zip he never once dunked the ball & honestly, it doesn't look like he can). Due to his relatively slow feet, he wasn't very good guarding players away from the basket and due to his lack of explosiveness he wasn't the rebounder you'd expect with a build like his (5'8" LCJ averaged more rebounds per game). People on here were clamoring for him to take it to the hole more this past season, but he's really not very good at it (he had a difficult time finishing at the rim so would usually halt his drive a step or two too soon & then pump fake a few times; lack of explosiveness). I'm not happy Utomi's transferring but que sera sera. I do, of course, wish him well.

Clark ain't lying.

Everyone rounds the height up. If Ivey was 6’4&1/4” he’d be listed at 6’5”. Whatever. I ran into Ivey & Utomi at the Akron Family Restaurant & they were sincerely big dudes. Utomi was huge.

How ya like dem apples, 'Meister?

Disappointed for the MAC.

Idk but I'd assume we are. FWIW, VerbalCommits dot com still has Javohn as undecided & with us as still having on offer on the table.

I don't want to get my hopes up, but Mikal Dawson may be one of those rare immediate-impact freshmen.

Are any of you guys on twitter? If you are, will you do me a favor and follow my dorky little new twitter handle? @AkronEcho. I'm pro everything Greater Akron, so I thought I'd start a little portal just to retweet 330 stuff. Somehow I have several hundred followers of my personal twitter account & all I do is retweet stupid cat videos & what-not. So I'm hoping maybe this will eventually get a few more followers than that & I can (re)tweet about area restaurants, microbreweries, shows, high school sports and, of course, the Zips! It's just gonna be a little hobby. But I'd appreciate you guys with twitter giving me a few followers off the bat so I don't feel stupid having zero followers. Lol. Thanks, fellas!

What's TOS mean?

For anyone interested, Liberty plays Mississippi State at 7:30

Yeah, I guess that wasn't the right word. Lol. Cashier.

I can tell Josh is a great young man. He oozes grace and positivity. I saw him at Speedway last year. Legit 6'2" & 240 but humble & gentle off the field. Big smile on his face. Opened the door for a lady as they were both coming in. He stooped over & picked something up off the floor for someone who had dropped something. Said thank you to the teller; big smile. Held the door for some guy as he was leaving. I thought, "Damn. What a cool dude." The world could use more Josh Wards. Edit: GREAT article, CK. And I wrote the above before I read the article & was not surprised the first thing you mentioned about Josh was his "PMA!"

Thank you. Well said.

This is my perspective. I can't believe how disgruntled some people already are with Groce when he inherited a team with only two players (like I said before, Olojakapoke doesn't count. Good young man, though). Two players. Groce has had to rebuild literally almost from scratch. Considering everything I think we've been surprisingly competitive.