clarkwgriswold

Need some stops and a run.

Can't trade baskets.

Aaaaah, the age old character vs. talent conundrum. That's now referred to as a "Gordon."

Nice job Captain. Well done! I really liked this quote- "At the end of the day, where a player comes from, how he gets here is less important to me than the type of person he is and what he can contribute to our program. Both on and off the field. Is he the right fit for The University of Akron? Is he the right fit for the culture of the program that I’m looking to build here? Those are the decisions we have to make.”

Or maybe like most stories, both sides have in right in part so there's blame to share.

Beacon article about Jimond with a blurb about the Nevada game by Michael Beaven. Nice to see Beaven doing some UA basketball stuff. Did we not though just have a GT article on Ivey? https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181221/university-of-akron-mens-basketball-jimond-ivey-continues-to-mature-on-and-off-court

If Terry Bowden had KD's success, there'd be a damn statue of him at Infocision.

Here's the blurb summing up the KD melt down video from SI Extra Mustard- The worst time to give an opponent free points is in a tie game with five seconds to play. Just ask Duquesne’s Keith Dambrot, who gave Penn State four free points by picking up two technical fouls in the closing seconds. Those shots, paired with the two the Nittany Lions were already shooting (for the foul Dambrot was so upset about in the first place) put the game out of reach. Even worse, Penn State was favored by 5.5 points in the game. Without those four extra shots, the Dukes would have covered. Even worse than that, the over-under was 138 and those four extra points pushed the total to 140. I sincerely hope no one reading this actually bet on a Penn State-Duquesne game on a Wednesday, but I understand why you’re mad if you did.

Wolfpack- 83, Zips- 67. The Wolfpack's bigs will be too much for the Zips. I am so old I saw Eric Musselman play for Brecksville.

Some previews of the Wolfpack- https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/nevada-basketball-wolf-pack-prediction-2018-19 https://bustingbrackets.com/2018/09/29/nevada-basketball-2018-19-season-preview-for-the-wolfpack/

Right now, Cheese appears to be the primary backup, and he's better suited to the off guard spot. After him, it is thin. I like Scott Walter, but he's not ready for major minutes. I'm afraid teams are going to try to pound LCJ in MAC play.

No question that some kids want to go away and that's okay. I've acknowledged that numerous times in here. The point I am making is that UA should be in the running for kids that go to similar schools. I have no idea what Bowden and his crew did. I do, however, know of one kid in particular that wasn't offered from a very close area high school that is doing very well at a superior MAC football school and that he would have strongly considered Akron if offered.

Cleveland.com had an article today entitled "Early National Signing Day 2019: Where area football standouts are headed." Bowling Green. PCCC, Marshall, Toledo, Eastern Kentucky, Ohio, Miami... Arth needs to cut into that mass. No kid in NEO should think of schools like that without having had UA pounding on his door for a couple of years.

Again, waaaaaaaaay to many turnovers. That level of play won't work in the MAC, but there's still some time to iron things out. I was not pleased with their play against that weird 1-3-1 zone. Too little ball movement. I also was not happy with the way they responded to the press. Glad TSU ran some of that stuff to help get the Zips ready. Kudos to the TSU kids for playing hard sportsmanlike ball all night.

I realize it's not great to quote yourself, but I wanted to apologize for being off on my prediction by an entire point.

takes me back to the last year when they were playing that Earl of Sandwich commercial over and over and over and over...

Not looking good against a pretty sloppy press.

We're up 12 on a team that makes Detroit Mercy look like the Golden State Warriors.

I need a lighter to try to get that barbershop quartet back out for an encore.

Ugly stretch here for the Zips. This team is awful and they are letting them stay in the game.

He did a decent job.

Arth just spoke in the break. Blah, blah, blah, go Zips!

Looks like Banks is back. K-lac and Toles in street clothes.

Remember the good old days when we complained about the Dambrot OOC schedule. How could you not get tickets for Carnegie Mellon? That team can score some serious (ACT and SAT) points.

Zips big. Clarky gets home early. 82-59.