clarkwgriswold
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Bigger Crowd:
A) UA vs. Appalachian State Mens Basketball at JAR
B) Tuba Christmas at EJT
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It will be interesting to see the crowd a Saturday afternoon game brings in. The crowds thus far have been awful and I am curious how the Zips followers respond to a Saturday afternoon game.
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I think they're above .500, but not a lot. Given their youth and makeup, I see them surprising us with a couple of big wins and demoralizing us with a couple of inexplicable losses. I think next year's the year we see a jump.
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2 hours ago, lilroodude said:
Well maybe some people should get off their phones an pay attention. @NWAkron
I don't blame anyone for not really paying attention, however, to the t-shirt cannon. If the t-shirt doesn't unfurl, it's launched into the rafters, never to be seen again.
Unless of course you use NWAkron as a backstop!
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Just now, tboned said:
I am guessing the T-Shirt machine has been setup so as not to injure anyone.
What's the fun in that? LOL. Look what it did to the elderly NWAkron.
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The 5-5 App State Mountaineers come to the JAR on Saturday afternoon to face the Zips. The Mountaineers have wins over Toccoa Falls, Bridgewater, Davidson, South Florida and UTEP and losses to Iowa State, VCU, James Madison, Western Michigan and Western Carolina. Nice schedule. 6-5 junior guard Ranshad Shabazz leads the team at 21.4 ppg while 6-9 sophomore forward Isaac Johnson leads rebounding at 8.7 pg. They have averaged 87.5 ppg and given up 73.8 ppg.
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1 minute ago, NWAkron said:
In the lower bowl, and I usually don't stand up during the t shirt toss. I count on a few every year just randomly landing at my feet. However, last night, as I was looking down at my phone, the cannon shot one directly into my chest. Was quite a surprise. Came about 6 inches from smacking me right in the face.
Haaaah! The 1.7 percent that don't come unfurled!
I like the adult diaper idea. Huggies as a corporate sponsor.
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The dunk contest on the Little Tykes hoop was awful. The Pizza Fire contest is an abominable failure as I don't think they've given away a single pizza in two years. The t-shirt cannon shoots duds 99.7% of the time. The whole promos thing is going great!
Kudos to last night's halftime show. That was really worthwhile. I'd have preferred that the dance team not perform at the start of halftime to give those kids another couple of minutes on the floor.
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2 minutes ago, Captain Kangaroo said:
A friend of mine was listening to the radio feed and said Frenchy mentioned someone from Groce's staff noticed Smith playing ball in the UA Rec Center and asked him to join the team.
So, I wasn't that far off on the raffle idea!
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I think last night is a microcosm for the season ahead. Lots of ups and downs, but a few more ups than downs.
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Poke was good around the basket and showed his offense has improved some. He range has increased from point blank range dunks to 3 feet. His free throw shooting has improved.
I like how Groce jumps a kid but then takes a minute to give direction. He'll also yank a kid, give him hell, then get him back in. I like the short memory. His assistants are also well engaged in the process.
Still not sure how that Smith kid ended up on the floor. He's not in the yearbook or on the online roster. I think maybe he won a student raffle.
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We missed 16 damn free throws. So much for my early season enthusiasm about the free throw shooting. Awful perimeter defense tonight too. League play will be painful if that keeps up.
Nice night for Poke. Good to see him get some reward for all his hard work. I think his career points doubled tonight.
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Zips don't seem to want to put this one away.
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Poke doubling his career points tonight.
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Sayles with a dunk and a technical for hanging on. Ugh.
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Thin yet colorful crowd.
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Got my shirt! They only had regular portlies by the time I got here.
Nobody is wearing white.
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57 minutes ago, skip-zip said:
Unbelievable. I was still thinking that the White Out must have been a joke. But I guess not. Why even attempt to waste that idea on a day, opponent, and time of the season like this?
Yes, there might be less than 500 in the arena, so you might THINK that shirts will be left over. But, you're not counting all of the people I have witnessed walking through the gates at 6pm, grabbing shirts, and walking back out the door. I'm there an hour early for many of the games. I've seen it.
They should hold those shirts until 6:45. It might help.
Have them save an Extra Portly for old Clarky.
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4 hours ago, skip-zip said:
After a 22 point loss, on a Wednesday night, against an unfamiliar opponent? Do you know something that we don't?
Those t-shirts will be gone by 6:10 pm, and you won't see them in the arena. The students will make a rare JAR appearance to swipe them up, and take them back to their dorm rooms.
Sarcasm Skip. On a 30 degree windy Wednesday night against an unfamiliar opponent, they may have some of those 500 white t-shirts left over.
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White out tonight, with first 500 in the door getting a t-shirt. Excitement is building.
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I can see the anticipation for this game is building.
Just so we know what we're dealing with here-
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2 minutes ago, scottditzen said:
Listening to WKNR just now. Aaron and Tony both think we're gonna have a great game and they're considering going down there to broadcast live. It may just be polite talk of course (Akron is a station sponsor), but if I'm the U of A I'm doing whatever I can to make that happen.
Maybe I am a little cynical, but I suspect they would not be making such a statement if they were travelling to Boise for the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
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Generally, if a team's specialty is shutting down one dimensional offenses, the defense is not very good. I gave up on Brad Detwiler's analysis when he tried to explain to me during the Penn State game that the real difference between the top teams like PSU and teams like Akron was in depth, not in the quality of the starters. At the time, the Zips starters were down 42-0 to the PSU starters.
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16 minutes ago, Z.I.P. said:
He was so tough, he lost a finger to frostbite in Green Bay!
And wrestled a bear at a county fair!
Three For Thursday [Season Win Totals]
in Akron Zips Basketball
Posted · Edited by clarkwgriswold
I have been critical of some of those things, yet I appreciate all that KD did for UA basketball.
I'm not more going to assume Groce has a high win total based upon the quality of his coaching than I am going to assume KD will have 20 wins plus in his first year at Duquesne. They're both in transition years.