clarkwgriswold

I wish Kato the best and he's certainly earned the right to lead the team, but if he was a P5 talent he'd be a P5 player.

Nice ABJ article on Bassitt- https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/2021/08/13/university-of-akron-product-chris-bassitt-is-the-oakland-athletics-ace/8106358002/

I am often critical of GT, but that's a good article. Looks like Kato really benefited from a year of watching and participating on ways other than being on the field. He appears to have really matured and this team could obviously use the mature presence given their youth.

Well aware. It looked like Evan might stick at PCCC at one point. Ashland will be a good spot for him. Solid family.

We can only hope he's not a Van Trease or a Crum.

Unfortunately, 4 teams ahead of them are high school teams.

Since we haven't been over this before I'll cut to the chase- the administration just hated Bowden's haircut.

Rough final for Clayton, but congrats to the way he has represented the Zips- https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/2021/08/04/clayton-murphy-finishes-last-2021-tokyo-olympic-games-800-meter-final-university-of-akron-zips-track/5466331001/

I think the primary culprit is sh***ty football.

This may be the least excited I have ever seen a Zips' fan base about an upcoming season.

CLayton has made it to the 800 finals with a 1st in the first race and 2nd in his semi, both with strong finishes.

Clayton and Ludwig shown on the NBC Olympics broadcast in consecutive clips just now.

I'm more concerned about the fire coming out of that microphone.

Looks like they've picked up where they left off (with a quarterback running for his life).

3. Who counts down to a colonoscopy or root canal?

I was just happy he didn't call him Gavin, spell his last name without an "e" or call him a shooting guard.

Even our assigned Zips beat reporter doesn't know the difference between Bryan Trimble our starting shooting guard and Greg Tribble our backup point guard who is competing to take over for LCJ. Sigh...

I found the following par of the article a little odd- As for replacing Jackson, it comes down to Garvin Clarke, Bryan Tribble and freshman Nate Johnson. “Those three, plus Xavier Castaneda,” Groce said, “so we’re still a work in progress.” Strange that GT wouldn't just write all 4 of them into the sentence. I am 100% excited about the Zips upcoming seasons in football and basketball. 90% excited about hoops and 10% about football.

He's a fine player and he'll get drafted. I just don't see him as much of an NBA player. I hope I am wrong.

Good luck to Jayson Preston. He's a great story. I wish him well. He'll be a fine pro (in Europe).

I'm pretty confident that I could not fit into LCJ's gear!

He and daddy have never realized that he might actually have some success at the level of a conference like the MAC. An OSU tattoo in high school...4 schools in 4 years...now in the transfer portal... Not what they had in mind.

That's one shallow analysis. The typos really help the credibility too.

That depends on the extent of the loss. They still have to demonstrate some financial responsibility and not be a substantial financial burden to the school or community. That being said, community involvement and support is a benefit certainly worthy of financial support, even at some loss.

Despite technically losing money the OSU athletics program produces huge revenue for the area and the university and well as good will and publicity that pays off in many other ways. That can't be said of Zips sports.