clarkwgriswold

I guess I got in as I was in last year. Try the link at the very top of the thread. Maybe that will work.

He'd be a Zip so I guess I would cheer for him from the stands as he played, but deep in my calloused heart I would not completely buy in. He had very few offers coming out of high school yet Groce recruited him, brought him in and helped make him into a valuable player on a tournament qualifying team. He cast that good treatment and effort aside. That's certainly his decision to make but it casts light on his sense of loyalty and I prefer kids who buy in 100%.

Here's hoping Guthrie acts quickly and gets somebody into the seat. Each day it sits empty is another missed opportunity to recruit and work to keep some of the current women here.

This bracket is open again for anyone interested- https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ha2tambyguyq====/standings/

But...but...but...it's a national audience.

Coleman Crawford available? LOL. They could play the Dukes at SVSM. KD has pissed in the Zips' backyard before by bringing the Dukes there!

It would be great to get guys like Nate, Tavari and Lyles some time extra time on the floor to help prep them for next year. The problem is that if you get them extended time on the floor it likely results in a loss. At that point, you have to make the value assessment of whether an extra 30 minutes of playing time for those guys is worth $27.5K.

For completely different reasons, eff Shaka Smart. My blood boils just hearing that azzwipe's name. Not that I have any strong feelings about him. I'm just glad Detroit Mercy isn't in there to allow Davis to fraudulently steal the scoring record.

Rob Senderoff. Indiana. Chuckle. The committee has a sense of humor.

I love the end of a Zips basketball season in how it brings out people we never otherwise see on ZipsNation- people that come to p!$$, moan and b!+ch after a loss and those who come to celebrate and bask in success. The most amusing are those who are actually in both groups.

And nobody knows the kid better as a basketball player than John Groce.

Tribble's ability to bring the ball up and play the point also allowed X to move over to more of a shooting guard and run off of picks, etc. to get loose and get off shots.

Spoiler Alert- many women from this year's team are going to leave and next year will suck. We will then get "this would have never happened if Coach Jackson was still here" to which the logical of us will respond "No $h!+, this is hat happens with coaching changes."

Greg seems like a disciplined hard-nosed kid. Groce seems like he could be an appropriate taskmaster. As such, at this point I don't think it's a lack of effort. I just think his shooting technique has become so neurologically engrained that there's no fixing it at this late juncture. I suspect that as a kid he was so athletically advanced and with inadequate coaching was never "fixed" when he was raw enough to have it happen.

I'll tell you what, it's not easy to say!!

Tribble has the lowest turnover rate of any of the regular starters and was occasionally the point guard so I am not concerned with his dribbling. He has a high dribble but his dribbling is fine.

Tough to miss someone who was never on the roster.

I don't like it one damn bit, but there's a very simple answer as to who had the better team this year- SCOREBOARD. Now it's up to the Groce and his staff to remedy that so that we're not watching while they're still playing.

Toledo occasionally used the defense against Carry that the Zips used in the championship game last year, but didn't consistently do it. Toledo panicked in the end and rushed one on one matchups for the last 10 or 12 minutes. I've been harsh on Senderoff over the years. I even came up with "Mr. Pinky" and should have copyrighted/trademarked it! That being said, he had his team ready for the tournament and they answered the call on numerous occasions. Carry and some of his teammates aren't the most likable kids for their opponents, but what we see as cockiness and showboating is seen as confidence and having fun by their fans. If Carry's sweetie was a UA undergrad, many Zips fans would have seen him similarly.

I don't think Toledo had a 3 pass possession in the last 12 minutes of the game.

The movie I watched ended so I have been unexpectedly watching the PCCC/Toledo game. PCCC has played its fanny off. In the second half, Toledo apparently decided to stop running its offense to just go one on one every possession.

These are all further indicators of the demise of the MAC and other similarly situated conferences. They've become the minor leagues for the P5 conferences.

Blew up at the end of the season, averaging 26 ppg in his last 5 games.

And they really grew up as the season went on.

I command you to respect her decision.