Dr Z

DIG attends more basketball games than I do, I would rather read his opinion about the team, that's what ZN is about. I can look up any stat I want on the internet, anybody can. It seems to me that DIG thinks he needs to "verify" everything with a number, like when your writing a history paper. I don't need/want that. That's all. I enjoy reading these kind of posts from DIG. Statistics can be as much of an art as a science. "There are three kind of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics" Less progress? Excellent question. Could be a thread by itself (hmmmm...). I like him when we win, and question him when we lose. I wish we could beat an opponent that was equal or better than us. My favorite thing about him is his post game interviews (seems genuine). My least favorite thing about him is his offense. It often comes off as unentertaining, confusing and boring to me. I don't think I can give you a yes or no answer, how about if I say on a scale of one to ten, I'll give him a six. If it were a grade, I would say C+ to B-. Is our program better since he got here and Hipshire left? Eh. I wish a BJ reporter would ask him to grade himself one time, I would like to hear his answer. My answer would significantly change if he was somehow instrumental in the development of the new LBJ Arena.

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Thanks for stopping in, taking the time to make an account and offering your opinion.

From a purely aesthetic point of view, I like the movement of Miami's design given the three choices.

Your link says 'page not found' Here is another.

I have to think that somebody that has watched Zips basketball for 30 years can form some kind of opinion without reverting to irrelevant stats all the time. Seriously, your trying to prove something about the Zips basketball program by comparing numbers with Villanova's basketball program!?!? Apples and oranges once again. Trust your eyes more. You would have to have the exact same games with the same players and play a shorter rotation to see the results. That ain't happening. Without any "stats", what would indicate a change in use of KD's typical deep rotation next year? I'm guessing he continues to rotate the exact same way he has since he got here. I'm hoping for different, but expecting nothing but the same because I've heard him explain why he does it.

How would anybody ever know that since it hasn't happened? Unless we go back and replay the season with a shorter bench, there is nothing to give a fair comparison. What if Jimmy was one of the guys in a short rotation and he got to see more pt earlier in his career, would we have to wait 5 years to see him finally reach his potential, or would he have reached his potential earlier? We'll never know. One thing I'm pretty sure of, right or wrong, not much is going to change with our rotations....unless four more kids transfer out.

You know Dambrot is still coaching next year right?

...and one of those teams they lost to was TOLEDO!! Looks like he had a PG that could penetrate and dish in that game.

Statement from Lemon (cut & paste from Rasor's Blog)

It would be very cool if we can have the scoreboard broadcast someone reading through and commenting on the scores. Maybe have a media student or invite guest local personalities to do the read. I'm all for that. A nice thing about Infocision is the WIFI, I can bring my ipod and actually follow other games.

Good question. Maybe somebody can find some examples of four kids transferring in one year by the coach that recruited them. Then we would have a better idea of how common it is. I'd still love to read an exit interview by the Beacon with Humpty. If you would like to do an interview with ZN, PM me Humpty.

Is there any concern with a bball program when four kids in one year ask to leave, or is this normal? I'll hang up and listen to your answer.

I was hoping to start a list. I don't know of any football players, do you? GoZipsUpdates = Official Akron Athletics AkronCoachKest = Jodi Kest TimCarroll15 = Tim Carroll Hump24Hitch = Humpty Hitchens thedarknight30 = Chris McKnight CG005= Chauncy Gilliam

Ken+ & GW are gimmies, the team should be able to win two more home games, and one more road game giving them 5. I'm basing all of this on the progress of PN7 (seeing him in all of 7 games last year). If Alex Allen stays healthy throughout the year, give us another win somewhere, he is that good, but hasn't proven to be reliable (probably my favorite player on the team). If we turn our defense around, pressure the QB, stop the run and get the ball back to the offense, maybe one more, that's very optimistic, but it's May I'm allowed to be. If our special teams play like last year, take a win away, but I'm expecting iCoach to improve this area. Corn, I like your link, it made me smile.

I went to Buc night the year after they played in the NLCS. They have been doing it successfully for years.

Getting kids to an Akron football game is a great idea. Benefits for the U include, selling concessions. Kids love to eat..."Dad I need...(fill in the blank)" Kids love to do what Dad does. If Dad loves the Zips and takes his son or daughter (even niece or nephew), chances are, they will love it too. Kids love Zippy, just a proven fact. Great chance to sell apparel (of course you should have it there). Chance to create a Zips fan for life (gawd help them). How many of you remember going to a (fill in the blank) game with your Dad and still do it because of that? Parents are looking to get the kids out of the house and do something. I can't see any drawback to this idea. Any chance you have to get a "family" to the game, you should take it.

Great idea.

Good thread topic. I'm pretty easy since I'm a right brain thinker. Don't use all caps. Start a sentence with a capital letter. End a sentence with a period. Learn to use the insert link, and insert image buttons (I hate when somebody pastes a link in the thread, especially since I made a how to.). The rest I can deal with. Oh yeah, I forgot my biggest complaint, junking up threads by hitting the wrong reply button. I made a how to on that also. Nothing worse for me than navigating through a thread that four people replied to a five paragraph post and have the post repeated over and over. I used to "clean" threads up, but it became a part time job.

There are plenty of good people with marketing degrees, you just need to hire the right one. If there are two people in that department making 6 figures, fire them both, I can get you 1 to do a better job. PM me if your interested TW. Nice job CK.

A link to three sentences that has the original link that was posted in the top of this thread a month ago?!? You guys are really on top the situation.

Win + Marketing = Fans (always has) Our marketing is still below average. Youtube messages are nice, but they are not going to cut it as an only source. It seems that we have tried all the budget marketing attempts, but are afraid to put both feet in and go all out. I'm not going to get into football vs basketball because IMO, they are two totally different animals. Football has more marketing potential for many reasons. Like I have mentioned umpteen times here, we need to get students to the game to create lifetime fans. Your not going to have a lot of success getting current alumni to the games if they aren't already there. They are already set into their lifestyles that don't include Zips football. We need to start current students off as being Zips football fans so they adjust their fall schedules to Zips football when they are alumni. You need to show them a good time and create a "fun" atmosphere for them. Start to market your "stars" in print. PN7, AA10, BW34, AS56 schedules, posters, fatheads, magnets, billboards, building banners, print & web ads. Get on the morning local news by running some kind of charity event. Get on the evening local news by giving them some personal interest story. Work with the local paper, use your own photographer to take photos and make them available to all the media sources. Make it easy for them to do a story. Start an Akron Football Twitter account (include photos). I've seen all this successfully work in this local area for a new sports league. They have actually figured out how to get billboard time (digital) donated to them. They got STO to show their event on tape delay for free. It's really not that hard. You just need to hire the right person (hard working with experience) and give them a budget (which really doesn't even need to be that much).

If it's true, I wish Humpty the best. I'll continue to follow his Twitter page. I can remember in the championship game this year in the second half when Humpty was on the bench. He went down the bench trying to motivate his team. He looked as though he was ready to become a team leader. Point being, if he is transferring, he never quit on his team or teammates up until the very end. Good luck HH. PS If he is transferring, I would LOVE for Mike Rasor or Tom Gaffney to an exit interview. PSS HH hasn't tweeted since May 8th (not usual).

They both might get a BBM.

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