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  4. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    Keith Dambrot took Akron to our first D1 NCAA Tournament appearance in 23 years (back in 2009). He took us there 2 more times. He brought LeBron to support our team and university....and did many other good things for UA some of which we may not all be aware. He is a fellow alumnus and Akron native. He is a good man and a good coach. Why can't all of us just thank him and his family and leave it at that.

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  5. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by Zip_ME87

    5 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

    Zip ME someone reminded me a few months ago that this is an anonymous sports blog...so try not to read so darn much into my postings.  You don't know me or anything about me.

     

    I commented on what you stated...hence the words "seem to" which was in my edited post and had been my intent with the original. So, I will point out the same.

  6. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    2 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

    Well if anyone cared to do a little research they'd Nunn and Paul were kicked off the team. Tate had his charges dropped. So as a matter of fact I feel comfortable that of anything like that were to happen here, Groce would handle it the right way.

     

    Thank you. That's reasonable to me.

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  8. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by Zip_ME87

    6 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

    Because right now a possible future criminal charge on a player not yet on the Zips team isn't high on my priority list of things to care about.

     

    I agree that I'm not so concerned now because it hasn't happened. However, it is beyond disgusting to read the cavalier attitude some of you seem to have about assault and domestic battery.

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  10. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    46 minutes ago, ZachTheZip said:

     

    At Illinois, he had four players arrested in one year (one was previously arrested the year before) in the 2015-2016 season.

     

    http://writingillini.com/2016/03/17/illinois-basketball-kendrick-nunn-arrested/  Kendrick Nunn - Domestic Battery

    http://writingillini.com/2015/08/22/illinois-basketball-darius-paul-dismissed-from-illini/  Darius Paul - Under-aged drinking and resisting arrest. Got kicked off the team. Previously arrested for vandalism, public intoxication, and resisting arrest while on a trip to France.

    http://writingillini.com/2016/02/19/illinois-basketball-leron-black-arrested-now-what/  Leron Black - Aggravated Assault

    https://writingillini.com/2016/03/12/illinois-basketball-jaylon-tate-arrested-enough-is-enough/  Jaylon Tate - Domestic battery

     

     

    I see your concern.

  12. John Groce Officially Hired

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    44 minutes ago, ZachTheZip said:

     

    Groce has plenty of skeletons, but instead of the closet they're in jail.

     

    How many? What were their crimes? Sometimes you take a chance on a guy and it works out; other times it doesn't. The ones that don't work out should not discourage taking chances. You need to be smart about it, but you're going to get burned from time to time. Huggins had his problem children along the way, but he did quite well at Cincy, K State, and WVU. I'm happy to say he did so at Akron, too.

  16. Buffalo mens soccer coach leaves for another program

    in Akron Zips NCAA Championship Soccer

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    Something that many who follow collegiate sports seem to forget...the players are student athletes. The actually have to attend classes. If Zips Mens Soccer were to go to Conference USA, then I think that it is time to start scheduling more out of conference games in the east. Why do we schedule UCSB and make that long trip when we could get an east coast opponent 1/3 the distance away.

  23. Search For The Next Head Coach

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    2 hours ago, LZIp said:

    Dix Stadium - 20,500

    Doyt Perrty - 23,724

    Yager - 30,012

    Info - 30,000

    Peden -24,000

    UB Stadium - 29,031

    Glass Bowl - apparently 26k, but had record 37k once.

    Husky stadium - 24,000

    Kelly Shorts - 30,255

    Rynearson - 30,200

    Scheumann - 22,500

    Waldo - 30,200

     

    Looks like we have a pretty middle of the road sized stadium compared to our peers. Seems reasonable to me.

    So, where are your numbers on the percentage of those seats that have been filled in the last 1, 5, 10 years (average attendance)?

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