ZachTheZip

Don't worry. It won't happen. Nothing will happen for Akron basketball while Groce is the head coach. Mediocrity, here we come. The guy got insanely lucky to catch lightning in a bottle at OU one year. We're banking the future of the program (and more) on the hope that it happens again, and happens consistently.

Yeah, God forbid we want a coach capable of putting together a good conference record.

All his sources just left for Duquesne with Dambrot. The athletics department is going to be a lot less "leaky" with info from now on.

I would be surprised if search firms didn't include contract negotiation, background checks, and other legal/paperwork handling in their services. People get too caught up in the semantics of calling it a "search firm". It doesn't make sense not to use one, even if you have a specific person you're trying to hire. Coaching hires like this are major, major undertakings for Division I universities. It's not your normal hiring process.

DJ Cooper carried that team by transforming into Steph Curry before anybody knew who Steph Curry was, pulling off circus shot after circus shot. Groce hasn't won anything without Cooper. He basically stumbled onto a "diamond in the rough".

Jim Christian would be hands down the worst thing to happen to an Akron sport. Ever. Worse than Ianello, worse than the baseball team getting cut.

I thought this was a reference to something happening in Athens. Nope! It's an actual earthquake! https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10008dxn

Lots of people from Indiana seem convinced that Groce is our leading candidate (they were equally as certain that he was the frontrunner for Dayton, too, though).

They're now 19-2 and riding an 18 game winning streak!

Compared to pretty much any other coaching vacancy outside the power conferences, we're one of the most desirable landing spots out there.

D not expect any news, or anything but unconfirmed rumors until after the Final Four is concluded. Most NCAA administrators, presidents, and the like tend to meet up during this event, kind of like pro sports owner's meetings.

Goes to show that beating a lower-half "Power conference" team with an RPI similar to a MAC East team doesn't register enough to be remembered.

All in on poor choices?

Three of out home games are against good MAC teams. OU, Kent, and Buffalo. The entire West is garbage and has been for many years now, same with BG and Miami. Three decent games out of fifteen is not worth season tickets. It's not even worth multi-game ticket packages.

And that's a minor miracle given the quality of our home opponents.

I don't think that's a good thing. It says "I don't have a specific idea for what a good coach should look like".

Last two seasons he is a combined 24-41.

Nah. Let 'em go. More scholarships for the new coach to get players that fit his system. Also, you don't want to harm the University's relationships with the players' high schools.

I would be supremely happy with Boals or Paris. And to whoever keeps suggesting John Groce out in the Internet, please, just, NO.

He is no longer a Zip, and so I could not care less what happens to him career-wise from this point on. Just another random mid-major coach at another mediocre program. There's hundreds of them.

You just managed to name my entire list of candidates. Amazing.

So, did he get an offer to Akron, or to Duquesne?

I don't think they give the students any seats. The student section the last few games was through the AK-Rowdies, with tickets purchased out of their own budget (which explains why they didn't go for the $50 seats down low)

So far so good. Great defense.

I'm stuck at work. What happened?