Balsy
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And people were worried about the Bowden Boys...
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IDK, it seems the same to me...
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Can someone explain to me how 6-2 Ohio is put above us 6-2 in conference standings? Implying that they hold first place in the division because they hold a tie-breaker? I thought we held the tie-breaker because we've beaten them...
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Elton's opinion means less than zero.
http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaab/eye-on-col...on-sunday-right
http://www.bloguin.com/runthefloor/2012-ar...ain-dealer.html
These links come from less than 5 minutes of trying.
After reading both of those articles it made me re-realize how stupid the AP ranking system is. Why on earth are we still using such a ridiculous, blatantly-token-favoritism system?
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As casual of fan of basketball...I was really impress with Kwan this evening. If I ignore the future PG stability...Kwan makes me really hopeful about our future!
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Get to the JAR early. These tee shirts are among the best "freebies" ever offered at Akron.
A few have been showing up all day on campus.
At least three different styles will be employed. First is the standard "tee" shirt. Then there is the long sleeve version
known as a "warm up" shirt. The team will have their own warm up version for pre-game.
See you there.
I'm wearing my purple "Welcome Week" shirt from 2012, just incase I don't make it there for a freebie.
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I'm a diehard football fan, but just a casual recruiting fan...I don't know much so forgive me. But judging by what departed and what we have coming in...I really don't think we're looking that bad. Isn't it the quality of recruits coming in, as opposed to the quantity that matters? If we don't lose Trumaine Washington and Kyron Brown, and despite having less recruits; this class would be a vast upgrade over the past couple of years.
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You should lay off of the LSD for a while.
+1. Or perhaps it's your screen? But probably the LSD...
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I really wish everyone would stop pushing the panic button on the Men's team....We're really lucky that we've got two GOOD basketball teams, but roughly speaking I'd say from the women's basketball games that I've watched (which mostly have Akron or the top schools) they are more entertaining IMO than the men's games. However I wouldn't go so far as to say that the women's is better than the men's. They've both play difficult road schedules, the men are 13-6...WBB is 10-8.
I guess the weird observation I've made from watching both teams is that the men seem to find ways to win even though they are playing terribly...and the lady Zips tend to win by playing hard for 40 min. Suffice as to say, I don't know which one is better...
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Northwestern is my BIG10 team of choice. I agree with the stated goals of the group and support the student athletes in accomplishing said goals. The problem lies with the puppet masters...aka big union and/or lobbyists. Somewhere in the shadows lurks an evil. Groups need a vehicle to gain a political advantage, money and/or power.
After reading their petition, I completely support them. However, I know that the devil is always somewhere lurking in the details.
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Marquette Law Review Article
I have a solution. Work frequently involves creating a product. I argue that there is a product being created (a game) and paid for in terms of tickets, television, etc. It's simple, make it so the product is free. Make it free to attend games and put the games on PBS. If nobody wants to do that, then they have to admit the players are employees producing a revenue producing product. If it makes it hard to pay coaches and ADs, then they can go get jobs making millions of dollars somewhere else in another industry.
I like this idea a lot. I have never been a fan of the outrageous profits made by college athletics. Higher education should be about higher education, and I firmly believe that students should have full 100% free access to the home games played on their campus. Luckily I went to Akron where my tuition dollars already subsidized the program (maybe not a good thing?) so I could go for free. Higher education institutions should be about higher education, period. All else should be secondary.
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Board looks same to me too...I got rejected off and on today as well.
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Just a couple of thoughts on this. If you divide 200 by 2, you get 100 minutes. If you divide 100 by five, you get 20 and ironically, that's the exact number of minutes in the first half of a basketball game.
Additionally, the closest prime numbers to 200 are 199 and 211.
Interestingly, if you round Treadwell's average minutes per game down to 31, you would have a prime number, but if you round it up to 32, you no longer have a prime number.
So that must mean that Tree is headed to the "prime-time" (NBA)?
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When did we ever remove the word "College" from College Athletics. The donors funneling tons of money into the notorious big-name schools is the culprit. It's time for everyone to take a step backwards. It's out of control.
+1.
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And I can't imagine a Florida kid taking a trip to Amherst, Massachusetts during the worst cold snap in twenty years unless he was really serious about playing football there.
Eh...I'm starting to get tired of recruiting talk. If he stays, he'll be part of one of the greatest turnarounds in college football in the past decade, if he goes...his loss.
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Aren't you neglecting Miami (Ohio) University, the University of Dayton, and Xavier University?
That I am (Miami). Dayton, Xavier I excluded. I also excluded CSU for that matter. However, the point remains the same....the two markets are still very different.
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Have you ever heard of the University of Cincinnati?
I have, but that's because I'm from Ohio. How many other people outside of this state do? And the nearest Division 1 program to Cincinnati is?...(drum roll)...University of Louisville (105 miles). OU is ( 157 miles), State Ohio is ( 109miles), University of Kentucky is (129 miles away). There's roughly a 100mile radius between Cincinnati and any other Division 1 program. If that Radius were applied to Akron, you'd have OSU, Toledo, Can't, BGSU and Akron. Cincinnati is more of a major city than Akron, and has suburbs that largely feed into it. Akron has much fewer suburbs, which also feed Cleveland and Canton.
I'm sorry but Akron isn't anywhere close to the same Market as the University of Cincinnati, as much as I'd hate to admit it. We've got to find a way to thrive in OUR MARKET, not compete in a market that we have no chance in. If we can thrive in our Market, than perhaps we can expand.
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If this is true, I think it brings the lameness of today's Akron students into proper perspective.
And people are debating Saturday morning games vs. Weekday evening games? When we have 30k students and are just trying to get maybe 500 to 1,000 to attend a FREE Division I basketball game? Ridiculous.
I was at the Toledo game...there were more than 500 students there...if not 1000...so I'm not sure why all the hate on the students. Hate on Joe Akron for not attending the 11am Zips game.
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Akron doesn't lack numbers, it is not the TVs, it is not the MAC. It is the lack of pride and identity at UA. I can't put my finger on it! It could be that a lot of our students only went to Akron because they couldn't go to tOSU? is it because they don't live on campus, they don't feel as committed and attached? Those are the things you need to look at.
+1. I agree with you 100%. I was a commuter the entire time I was in college and for the first half I had difficulty with identity/feeling connected because I wasn't on campus. My last years I did make a conscious effort to though, and is why I'm a huge Zips fan today. To me it harkens back to the culture. Alumni, Faculty, Staff, students. Most believe Akron to be second tier, or not of the same level as State Ohio. Despite working and graduating there, some still support State Ohio, and sometime over their alma mater. It's a cultural thing we need to fix, and I don't know where that begins.
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If this video doesn't make you sick... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/video/nca...rtsillustrated/
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It's this simple for me....
There would be a handful of Universities that matter to most sports fans. The rest of them will not matter. I want to be among the ones that matter.
I was here when we worked hard to gain D-1 status, and later, D-1A status for football. Any move backwards at this point would suck. We've invested way too much.
...and we're one of the universities that matter? I'm sorry...but UA matters to me...but I don't think we'll ever "matter". State Ohio University owns way to much of the "matter" real-estate in college athletics in Ohio that we'll never matter. We're not even the ugly step child...that's OU. We're the ugly step child to the ugly step child.
Now don't get me wrong. I support the Zips, and it pains me to say that. I've said it before, I'll say it again: we must understand our market-share.
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Thought about this one a lot the last couple days.
First off a point about our fan base. A few years ago we were all over the Can't State coaching staff and administration for being the program of multiple second chances. We railed their handling of Chris Singletary and others on that program who had consistent on and off the court problems. Now, as a fan base, we seem largely ok with the idea of Akron being the new program of second chances. I'm not saying we should shun Alex and never welcome him back. I'm not saying we should roll out the red carpet for him. But we can't have it both ways. What Alex did from a legal standpoint was far worse than anything that ever happened at Can't. If we wanted those guys at Can't to be punished more severely, we can't back off with Alex.
Assuming, for argument sake, that Alex does come back next year, as others have already pointed out, you can't assume that he will be the same player he was a year ago. Alex was well known in his time here for poor conditioning. I can't imagine a scenario in which he would come back in anything close to game shape. Even Quincy Diggs, who was a well known gym rat, took the first third of this season to get into game shape after coming off a year away.
Given all of that, the idea that Alex might come back might explain a couple things. It might explain why we haven't filled our one scholarship for next year. It might also explain why Alex is still spending time in NE Ohio instead of heading back home to Puerto Rico. (I'm sure he has a huge target on his back with law enforcement after what went down).
The other thing to consider here, not that it should be a determining factor, but Alex coming back would really make for an unbalanced scholarship situation next year. Presuming he would come back on scholarship we would be looking at graduating five scholarship players at the end of 14-15 (Alex, Nyles, Deji, Harney and Tree). That is a lot of turnover in one year. We've done it before, but it is still a lot of turnover.
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MBB Eastern Michigan Wed 2/5
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I guess with all the ESPN networks/sister networks/other nonsense, they probably easily confuse the products as we do. I'm getting sick and tired of all the convoluted nonsense around ESPN. Let me be able to watch the games I want with a subscription on my TV, not flip through four different subscriptions. Annoying.