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So he re-commits Monday and says he's staying then Wednesday Groce is announced to Akron and he de-commits. Hmmm I'm gonna get way more excited for this than I know I should

And this is where I quit reading

Sure sounds like what we got out of KD. If that's our floor, then I'm in.

You'd think with all the advantages they think they have they would beat us a little more often

I am glad you aren't our AD

I'd rather the excess money go toward his assistants if that happened. A few hundred grand might get us a couple new bathrooms.

Just when I was starting to think you weren't that dumb. I'll make it simple. We have bought a lot of home games recently that weren't home and home deals. it appears Groce doesn't do that as much, so in short - not as many home buy games = less money spent. Groce's schedules at OU could easily be replicated here if he chooses to.

Our budgets are pretty much identical, so I don't think the buy games would be much different

Illinois State would be great. I'd take a roadie at Illinois, they're a beatable B1G team

No chance in hell of that happening imo. He's stated he hated playing Shaka because they were friends, I really doubt he'd want to coach against Akron.

I was going to say it looks like we'll play Bobby Mo each year before we start MAC play. Also, they played more away games OOC in 11-12 than we have the last 5 years

I see some teams in there that would be nice to set up some home and homes with - Illinois State, Northern Iowa, MTSU, Marshall isn't a bad series, Tulsa, a trip to St Bonnie, Oakland.. Looks like one ATM game a year.

Thought this might be interesting to some. I know one of my main criticisms of KD was the OOC schedule. Disclaimer - not sure when he was hired and if he put together the 08-09 schedule. 2008-2009 William & Mary AT Austin Peay AT George Mason Tulsa Lamar (Neutral) AT Louisville Indiana State (Neutral) AT Xavier AT Delaware AT Marshall Holy Cross St Francis NY Bucknell 2009-2010 Ohio Valley MTSU NC A&T Lamar Marshall (Neutral) AT Tulsa Austin Peay AT Delaware Illinois State Eastern Kentucky AT Pitt Elon Robert Morris AT IUPUI 2010-2011 Delaware Oakland TAM Corpus Christi Valpo Kansas (Neutral) Santa Clara (Neutral) Masrhall AT Illinois State IUPUI St Francis PA AT St Bonnie Temple Norfolk State Robert Morris 2011-2012 (Sweet Sixteen) UT Martin Lamar Arkansas State AT Louisville AT Marshall Morgan State AT Oakland AT Portland Marietta AT Wright State AT Northern Iowa NC A&T Kennsaw State Robert Morris

Let's hope we seal the deal. I'm excited. I'm going to check out his OOC scheduling at OU tomorrow to see what kind of schedule we can expect going forward.

Meh we can be a little classier I think

Go get em John. If you're actually our coach.

If Groce stayed at OU they would have crushed us for a few years. He parlayed his success into big time recruits that left when he did. We never got to that step. Let's hope he can get there with us

Sign me up

It's okay he posted that he wants to do the behind the scenes story on Sage Steele. Too bad there's no investigative work in Akron sports or anything to look into

If he wins they will get over it. Plus maybe some new people will open their checkbook.

Yeah what the heck did he do to them besides win?

Heck I'd settle for a final four.

Yeah Groce was on the verge of making the MAC his b****

Don't you do this

As long as he isn't getting excessive Ts I don't really care. I'll be busy watching the players. Take a gander at OU's board to see their thoughts. They kinda really hate this, so it's as if they liked the guy.