Blue & Gold

I hope his family is/will be well cared for, but on a selfish note, I do hope he returns for another season. It's good for the MAC.

Are there any rumors of development along Exchange St.? Though the economy is admittedly in the tank, I was still hoping for more by now. Exchange Street is not only a blighted embarrassment, it's dangerous. Gotta... keep... beating... the... ghetto... back!

I would guess that if Humpty is unhappy, it would have more to do with the Zips' slow style of play and KD moving him to the 2-guard spot rather than a lack of minutes on the floor. Humpty's a PG who is FAST. His talents are best utilized running up & down the floor, not walking the ball up for a half-court set. I hope KD swallows his pride and simply turns Humpty loose next year. Humpty & Egner would be murder running the floor. Also, Zeke can really run for a 7-footer. Turn them loose, KD. They're the show, not you.

How was the turn out?

Has there been any word on where he is transferring to? I saw Devo run in high school and was honestly pretty underwhelmed. But, then again, I saw Beanie run in high school and wasn't particularly blown away either. Shows what I know.

Did anyone act on GoZips' enigmatic charge to "Do some homework"? Is Dylan Ennis graduating early and joining the team next year?

Henniger looks like the typical forward we've had since Romeo graduated - 6'7-8" and a very solid high school performer but doesn't have any hops and actually lays the ball up quite a ways below the rim. Egner is a higher risk / higher ceiling player who has a mean streak and lives to take it strong to the hole and hopes you try to block it so he can break your hand while he gets an and-one. Great looking athlete. If he improves his jumpshot a little bit he may be a special player for us. Tonight he also had a couple very sweet no-look passes to Henniger down low.

Egner didn't have as dominant a performance tonight as he did against either St. John's or Gahanna-Lincoln and HE LOOKS PISSED right now even though they just won state! I LOVE IT!!!

I also love how he loves swinging his elbows @ head level after getting a rebound. Mean, competitive streak in him! Me like!!!

UTTER paint domination. Moeller look like the proverbial deer in headlights anywhere inside the 3-point arc. The boys are REALLY making Akron & Can't look good.

Dude, Moeller blows. They would have finished 5th in the City Series this year. They're not sniffing the paint w/ Egner & Henniger down there. They're just crappin' their pants against those two.

Actually, I can't be the only one thinking Moeller doesn't look very impressive, no? They're rather slow & are looking to milk the clock. I was expecting more. Frankly, I'd take Buchtel, Kenmore, St.V or even East over these stiffs. But they have been successful in slowing the pace, which seems to be the only chance they have. The slow pace won't likely play to Egner's strength. Henniger seems to be more of the half-court-set kinda guy.

Egner's 3 was a little short. But it was on-line and he's got good, smooth form on the J.

Egner likes to block shots like Bron-Bron!

Hilltopper, thanks for the above link! I had completely missed that conversation! That actually clears a lot up. Doesn't get anything accomplished, but clears it up for me.

Lee, I'm not sure what you're getting at with this post. Come again?

Now that is one poorly constructed sentence. The 'Meister is gonna have a stroke! Lol

Yeah. I wasn't able to watch the game, but during pregame I believe the announcer said Payne didn't start during the semi-final due to being banged up.

Oops. Sorry about the above post. K...S...U (Kansas State University) gets translated to "Can't State.". I'm sure you guys could figure that much though.

Well, it's halftime and Butler is beating Kansas State using strong... Defense! Lol. They actually held Can't State to 20 1st half points. I guess it's Can't State's lowest scoring 1st half of the season. Butler can put the rock in the hoop too though. But it's a low scoring 1st half. Butler up 27-20. Go Bulldogs!

If anyone is curious, former Zips recruit Adrian Payne - who signed with Michigan State - is playing on STO right now. He's #33 in blue (Dayton Jefferson). He just scored the 1st 2 points of the game.

Now I'm the one who was totally wrong! Lol. Yeah, that's really weird. Can we sue for breach of contract? Not having the Info Team Shop open by now is shameful. It's embarrassing really. Is our athletics department demanding enough excellence to be equally appalled and embarrassed? Or are they content with incompetence? Knowing the less-than-brilliant history of the department, I'm afraid I know what the answer is.

Either you think this team has a lot of talent, or Zipmeister is having a seizure right about now. I don't want any part of this. Lol. Yeah, that's no one's business but their own. Don't ask, don't tell. Just don't drop the soap in the shower! Lol.

Yup, that's the plan. I wish we could do it all at once, but I guess this will suffice.

Hmm. Idk, but to me it sounds like you may have simply been given the run-around. B&N would likely control the merch found in the bookstores, since they're run by B&N. But the team shops @ the JAR & the Info would probably be different. I only say this because last year in the Info the were selling InfoCision Stadium t-shirts as well as one shirt that read something like, "my two favorite teams are the Akron Zips and whoever is playing Can't State," or something to that effect. I just can't see a national corporation like B&N stocking items like those. They'd likely just have more generic UA merch. I have no way of knowing this, of course, but I would venture to say the lazy, incompetent bums in our athletics department simply didn't want to talk to you about it. So UA, when's the Info Team Shop opening? How lame.