Blue & Gold

As noted above, we seem to think our primary need is for another big next year, but, here is perhaps a different perspective to consider... Poke is almost a zero offensive threat. he's a hustle guy, plain & simple; athletic but w/ not a single offensive move down low. Big Mike is gonna be a good one but doesn't seem nearly as offensive-minded as Big Dog. 2017 PF Jayden Sayles looks to be a recruit with a lot of potential, but at this point doesn't look like he's going to be immediate help on the offensive end of the floor next year, as he's averaging a good-not-great 13 PPG. Bottom line: in losing Big Dog we're not going to be able to play inside-out next season. We're not going to be able to count on one of our bigs demanding a double-team to kick it out to one of our unathletic 3-point specialist guards. So maybe we should be looking for another guard who can create his own shot? Put LePear Toles out there with 'Tino & Ivey & we'd have a pretty athletic back court to compensate for what's going to be a less offensive-minded front court. Here's an article about LePear in prep school. The article states he currently has one scholarship offer... from Rice. I still think he'd look good wearing the blue & gold. (Btw, he stands 6-6, so it's not like he's a typical Akron undersized guard.)

Did a quick Google search & couldn't find anything. Idk where you could locate information like that online.

Csonka definitely went to Stow. My dad used to tell me about playing against him in high school.

How is it that WMU was able to schedule winnable OOC B1G games against Northwestern and Illinois while we got Wisky? Here's a Hustle Belt article about Old Dominion's "road map" to success. "Instead of the body bag games for a payday, they scheduled regional games on a 2-for-1 against teams like Virginia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, and Wake Forest." I like that strategy. Or at least quit scheduling games where we're simply lambs to the slaughter. Schedule more along the lines of Western Michigan, who played winnable B1G games this year against Northwestern and Illinois, while we played Wisconsin. Next year we play at Penn State and the following year we play at Nebraska. Two very difficult places to play. We are, however, set up for success in 2019, where our OOC schedule is presently @ Illinois, and then at home -vs- Troy and UAB. That's more like it. But we don't have a WMU-type yellow brick road to glory till then.

Exactly. If we would have played early in the year we would have won. Late in the year? YSU would've gotten the W. I with they'd just buck up & come here to play without expecting a return game. We're not going to play a D-IAA on the road even if they win the I-AA national championship. The more rivalry games we have the better. We've already got two good rivalry games with Kant & Ohio (I wish we'd cultivate more of a rivalry w/ Toledo as they seem like another natural one). YSU would give us 3 good rivalry games per year. I guess I'm looking... searching... scouring... wishing for anything to help attendance. Edit: And... on the other hand, YSU & any of the Top 15 1-AA teams are pretty tough & maybe I'd rather just play a 1-AA cupcake & get the easy W towards bowl eligibility.

The football recruiting page is what got me hooked on ZN.o... I'd say over 10 years ago now. Amen, and amen. Go Zips!

+1. Thanks for posting, 94zipgrad!

Mele Kalikimaka

Our D was an absolute abomination this year, and the last couple games our QB was a 3rd-string WR. The above stat sounds about right.

^^That is one freaking awesome trophy.

KD, Joe & Frenchy were raving about how well organized the tourney was & how well they and the team were treated. Sounds like they'd definitely be open to going back in a couple years.

Cincy's generally a D-first type of team.

Frenchy mentioned that Noah re-aggravated his sprained ankle.

MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS Daniel Utomi 1 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Daniel?... Oh, Daniel?

boat raced To be beaten very badly at something, especially in such a fashion that you were behind from the start and never had a chance. Comes from the Boat Race, an annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge, in which the first side to get ahead can move to the middle of the river (where the current is fastest) and is almost never overtaken thereafter. "Chicago got boat raced by Green Bay, 37-3." #dominated #blown out #ass kicked #outplayed #overmatched #annihilated

Buffalo lost to Robert Morris. Robert Morris. Robert Morris. Robert Morris is 4-9. Robert Morris.

Akron.com AP blurb: Antino Jackson leads Zips to win over Anteaters

In other MAC news... Toledo beat Loyola 74-70 & NIU beat USF 59-48 Edit: Oregon State took it to Kant, 69-50

This past year showed how valuable Rodney Coe & Cody Grice were. I was hoping Hamilton could fill the massive void left by those two, but alas.

Final: 88-80 Zips. Great game!

Josh Williams!

Man, great game!

So... TDM's on fire and, in typical KD strategery, KD takes him out of the game. I will go to my grave not understanding why KD does that.