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Not just directed at you, but I feel a lot of Zip fans think blocking shots is the only way to play defense after watching Zeke.

I think it's fair to say that if they were a slouch, it wouldn't come down to fouls called/not called. We should have beat them, but they weren't a slouch.

Surely you'd agree that if we had the info equivalent of the JAR, it would be full.

Thanks for the info Brad, cool stuff. Seeing ~3,300 at the exhibition makes it seem pretty likely in my opinion. I'm pretty excited, hope the team makes your job easy this season.

Per backthezips.com, 1881 seats remain. Wonder if they include a student estimate in there. If not, might be close to a sellout

2200 tickets left. With pregame sales this week and walk ups I'd expect about 4,500 which is still fantastic for a game against coastal carolina in football season. Nice to see fan interest finally start to catch up to the quality of the team.

No offense to our guys, but we're 3-7. I'm not real concerned about "losing" anyone.

It's almost as if the coaches see these guys play every day when they pick the starter.

Should be 4-8 after this year. As strange as it sounds, that's gonna have me really excited going into next year. I think Bowden has us on the upswing, hope the recruits think the same.

Did I miss something? I didn't see any rumor mongering going on

And.. It's officially basketball season

I don't think he should redshirt either. If he grew a half inch during your post, he should dominate by March.

Just because McCrea plays dirty doesn't diminish his ability. This isn't the Lady Byng award. I think by the end of the year more will agree that Tree is better, but as of now it's a tough argument.

Fantastic. Step one of not feeling like I'm at a high school game.

Can the new lights turn off for the intros?

Bought my first set of season tix today. A couple more thousand to go!

Ahh back the Zips playing off the back to back titles. Nice.

High School stats are tough to compare. Pat played at Brunswick, Zeke played in the WPIAL

You realize it's back the zips, not back to the zips, right?

LBJ came to open gym today with the players. I'm sure none of them cared

Well hypothetically speaking, if Dambrot starts slangin weed to his players, we'd get hit with lack of institutional control as well. Just a few rungs away.

I think we are in agreement.

Are we really comparing Cameron to the JAR?

A new arena wouldn't help bring better OOC opponents?

7 in a row, but who's counting? Other than that, agreed wholeheartedly. Part of the reason fans don't come out is because of wooden bleachers. Part is because there are no suites or real club suites to entertain clients. Part is because fans don't see us as big time when we play BG in our crappy gym. The new arena solves all of these. Pitt was in a similar situation when they built the Pete, on an upsurge, in the crappy old Fitzgerald Field House. Obviously we're on a smaller scale, but we can use the arena as our springboard to the next level much the way Pitt did with the Pete in my opinion.. We have the perfect storm of success, coaching stability, and some great crowds last season. Just keep the momentum going and get it built.