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+1. I don't see us being very good next year either. But we must simply be more competitive. The third year will be the telling season. Then, if iCoach fields a consistent contender, we'll all love him and tell people we knew he'd be a winner from the get-go.

Last time I saw Tim on the court was a month or so ago at the Rec ruining the opposition. Just like this John Carroll game, you don't realize how talented Akron basketball is until you watch them play against guys who thought they were hot stuff in high school etc, etc... Yeah, I wasn't close enough to get in on that game... Although, it would be fun to see how one could fare against a legit Div. I basketball player. Tim is an awesome basketball player, just as any players are that can make it on Coach D's squad. Well said, and this couldn't be more true. This is a pet-peave of mine. The general Akron-area population is almost entirely ignorant about how good Akron's basketball players are. Most folks I talk to seem to think that if you started on your high school team, then you could play for Akron. I simply don't understand this incredibly ignorant sentiment. Did you know: The chances of playing D-1 athletics is less than 1%?! If you take 100 high school basketball (or football ) players, statistically speaking, less than one of them will be good enough to play at the D-1 level. Only 7% of high school athletes will play on any collegiate level (so those players from JCU were definitely the absolute studs of their respective teams) let alone the D-1 level. I think Akron athletics would get more respect in the community if people realized this, but, unfortunately, they don't seem to.

Smart ass.

Did Quincy Diggs play @ the 2G spot at all last night? Did it look like he could handle the 2G spot, or is he more of a SF?

Bump.

If I'm directing my comments at the same thing as K-Roo, and I think I am, it's a direct hit at their inability to draw attendance....whether they're bad or average. did the math and they need to average a tad over 11k for their final 3 games to reach that 90k mark. I saw the stands at the Ball State game. There were 2,000, if you rounded up. However, the box score said 16,000. With "tickets sold" being the reference number, they should have no problem with 11k/game. Local businesses are buying them up at $5/ticket, or less. I also watched much of the Ball State game and noted in a separate thread that their actual attendance was no stronger than our embarrassingly lousy attendance @ the Info this year. The general vibe I sense - and it gives me hope - is that people want to support the Zips, if given a reason to; it doesn't seem that anyone really even wants to support Can't State football.

TCU is quite the goofy fit for the Big East. Seems the Big East is really struggling/scrambling right now.

What makes you say this? Could you give a link to your source?

+1. He decapitated himself.

name someone who has all of those? The point is Ianello doesn't have one. How can any program be this bad? Please act Dr. P! Ahh, I get it now. I too was a little confused by your post. Actually, I believe you mean to say he has none of the above qualifications, save #10.

EXACTLY my point. This is the painfully rare exception that proves the rule. I've been watching the Cleveland-centric televised newscasts for over two decades now, waiting, waiting, waiting for some recognition and acknowledgment to be shown to Akron. Has never come. If the past is a good indicator of the future, it will never come. If Cleveland chooses to pretend Akron doesn't exist, we can return the favor. The King sure did. Cleveland can crumble into the murky lake. Go Akron! Go Zips!

CSU is only 8-9!!! They have to be the weakest team on our schedule, no?

Here's a pathetic moral victory - I'm watching the epic Ball State - Can't State battle on tv and, as far as actual butts-in-the-seats, K.e.n.t. doesn't have any better a crowd than the nightmarishly-sparse crowds we've been drawing at the Info. It'll be interesting to see what their "announced attendance" will be for this game. It really seems as though nobody really even wants to get into K.e.n.t. athletics. Contrarily, a lot of half-hearted, not-even-really-interested people that I talk to seem to want to rally around the Zips. Akron is just sooooo bad that it's literally embarrassing. If Akron could get their act together, the Info would be an absolutely jamming place to be on a Saturday afternoon.

Wow. How profoundly disappointing. I'd rather lose to anyone in the country rather than Cleveland State. Now I absolutely guarantee you the rat-bastards Cleveland media will be all over this story. Screw you, Cleveland. At least LeBron kicked you to the curb. We still have that going for us.

He looked great. Another player we should look into for the future is that LB from Buchtel. I think his name is Odin. Marlon Oden. Ricky Powers (Buchtel's HC) is very high on him. iCoach should be trying to become best friends with Ricky Powers. Anyway, I tried to look Marlon up on Rivals.com but the Football Recruiting page wasn't loading for me.

I lose track of time, but I'd say about 8-10 years ago there was talk of closing Can't-Stark to save state money due to the fact that UA is only about 10-minutes up 77. I was really hoping they would, but, to no avail. Can't-Stark cuts a good number of potential students off from UA. That campus is one of the big reasons I have such a disdain for Can't as a whole. I try to make fun of my friends who go there - reminding them that it's a little, high-school-like community college every chance I get. They should drive the extra 10-minutes, go to a real school & rock The U.

+1

Now it's only a 5.5 percentage point lead. They must be making a run. Still a nice lead, but let's make this a no-doubter! Go Ampi! Go Zips!

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Lol, whatever. MJ's really beginning to turn into the old fart who keeps dropping, "When I was a kid we walked to school & then back home, in the snow, barefoot, uphill - both ways..." Just go away, Mike. Does anyone know how many times the great Michael Jordan got his team out of the first round of the playoffs without Scottie Pippen? Never! Not a single time. Nada. Zilcho. And yes, you read that correctly, that's out of the first round. Know what the Bulls record, led by the great Michael Jordan, was the year before the Bulls acquired Scottie & drafted Horace Grant? 40-42!!! That's right, the "great" Michael Jordan's Bulls were 40-42 without Scottie & Horace & were again swept in the first round of the playoffs. The next year the Bulls acquired both Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant & then and only then did things begin to click. How soon we forget. The problem is more people know the myth of MJ rather than how the Bulls really fared w/o other All-NBA players surounding him. Shut up, Mike. And, btw, that embarrassing 40-42 record was with Charles Oakley manning the PF on that team - the 2nd best PF in the game at the time (behind, IMHO, Karl Malone.)

Nothing there that anyone on ZN didn't already know. But here's another nice quote "On the team's outlook:" "We don't have any reason not to be confident. We have won every other year. We have two guards that have played in the postseason every year. We have a 7-foot center (Zeke Marshall) that is twice as good as last year and we have a big forward in Brett McKnight that is one of the best scorers in the league. We will have to work hard to be good, but I believe we are as good as anyone for the most part."

I have November 26th circled and highlighted on my calendar! 1-11 c'mon, baby!!!

That is a GREAT quote!!! A true homeboy ready to represent! THAT'S THE ATTITUDE OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS!

Very excited to hear this! We've got to start keeping our best players home & this is a good start. Cody's a big, strong, fast back. I'm planning on going to the Info Friday night to watch the Firestone-Buchtel City Series championship game. It'll probably be the only exciting game I see @ the Info all year! [edit]... Another great quote: “I have been to some Big East schools and Akron’s facilities are better than there’s. I have been living in Akron all my life. I have seen the school evolve from just being mediocre to a high class school.” Welcome aboard, Cody! Glad you're a Zip! Great get, iCoach!

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