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I'm curious how much of our high school recruiting strategy is based on making contact with players who we know are not going to come to Akron out of high school, but will potentially be in the portal in a year or two and we want them to already be familiar with Akron.

Just curious, but why? I don't know anything about the kid, but last 2 years averaged 3.5 and 6.4 min/game with 0.6 and 1.7 ppg. What am I missing?

This thread has turned into Keeping Up With Keith Dambrot's Friend's Kids.

These players are already in the portal. If a MAC team doesn't take the good ones, they go to a different conference. How is that cannibalizing the MAC?

I have two different Zippy bobbleheads they gave out at basketball games a few years back. Bobblehead nights were always sellouts it seemed.

Interesting tidbit from the article about Freeman. "With 30 double-doubles this season, he’s one away from tying the NCAA record set by David Robinson of Navy in 1986."

I remember Chris and Brett, but I must have missed their other brother Brian. 😉

What makes you think that? They've been to The Dance once this century. They've only had 5 20+ win seasons the last 25 years, and 0 in the last 10 years. I know the A-10 is considered a stronger conference, but they haven't finished above .500 in their conference in 10 years. It will be interesting to see if their recruiting takes a hit after the move. Frank Martin has shown signs of improving their team, and they are headed in the right direction. It will be interesting to see if he sticks around if he does find success. He will instantly be the highest paid coach at $1.66M in the MAC, well above Groce's $650k. It will be interesting to see if UMASS continues to spend that much in the MAC.

In 2020, 18 out of 229 schools that were looked at had a profit in their athletic department. They ranged from Oregon at $270M profit (due to a Phil Knight gift), all the way down to JMU at -$46M. Where did Akron land? #205 with a loss of $22M. How did the rest of the MAC do? #106 NIU -$23.2M #130 BG -$14.4M #167 Portage State Community College -$19.3M #176 EMU -$21.1M #177 Ball -$21.4M #179 OU -$21.5M #181 UT -$21.6M #191 CMU -$23.6M #195 WMU -$24.2M #199 Akron -$24.7M #208 Miami -$26.1M #215 Buffalo -$29.5M https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-found-18-profitable-211-money-losing-ncaa-public-scott-hirko-ph-d-/

On Sunday you can catch Wichita State playing Friends University.

I live in Wilmington, NC. I fully endorse this wish.

Can anyone explain why Indiana’s bad snap before the last overtime wasn’t called a false start? I understand the ref hadn’t said it was ok to start the play yet, but shouldn’t that be false start on the center?

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet.

I think we already tried that InfoCision Stadium. It didn't work out well.

I know it's probably pretty early, but do we have any insights on next year's schedule? I know the majority of ESPN pre-season tournaments have announced their teams and haven't seen Akron on any of them.

Going into that game multiple players told me the whole team didn't want to play and had checked out. What a depressing way to end the season at home that year. That year Shaka Smart's VCU won the CBI and used that success to help get them to the Final Four the next year.

In the new age of NIL, who better to learn under than Prime? It's a good move for Lewis. It will definitely help him get his next HC job.

Not a fan of this logo at all. I can’t wait to see the logo that replaces this in 3 years.

As someone who lives in Wilmington, NC, I'd selfishly love to see Akron schedule some teams near me. I'd love to see home and aways with UNCW (just won the CBI) and Coastal Carolina (playing in the championship game of the Basketball Classic this week). I'd also really love if they scheduled UNC, Duke, or NC State.

Akron vs Illinois. Book it.

Anyone else having streaming issues? My ESPN+ keeps saying the event hasn't started. 🤦‍♂️

Having no fans at the game gives a clear advantage to Miami, who has prepared like this all year.

Anyone find a streaming link?

Anyone have a link to watch the game? I don’t have the CBSSN.

It's just weird when you have a limited number of OOC games and you schedule the same team twice.