clarkwgriswold

Sorry, I misread your post. Not to keep this rolling but I think if there's a flaw to be exploited it will be in our shortage of bigs if and when they get up against a bigger squad or if Freeman gets in foul trouble or hurt.

It's all about the matchups. Groce's biggest successes were primarily built around guard play.

If the NCAA actually believes NIL with level the playing field they're stupider than anyone ever thought. There's no way a MAC school is ever going to be able to match the monetary resources of the collectives of P5 schools. Also, the intent of NIL is to let the kids share in the profits of programs and to avoid the anti-trust and other implications raised by kids struggling financially while the schools are making money with them.

The greatest shortage in college basketball is in viable bigs. At the MAC level, they are even more rare. You'll certainly run into the 6'10" kid in the MAC but they're much more often a " Mark Kostelac" than they are "Enrique Freemans". I think Groce is likely trying to get more viable bigs but the market is what the market is.

Stan Heath has a 26-55 record at EMU and 236-262 record over 16 years as a head coach. He started 30-6 at PCCC. That's a pretty rough ride. Acuff's 21.8 ppg going into Saturday was 5th in the NCAA. EMU Starters in their last game: Tyson Acuff- 6'4" guard- 21.6 ppg Arne Osojnik- 6'6" guard- 7.7 ppg Orlando Lovejoy- 6'2" guard- 9.4 ppg Jalin Billngsley- 6'8" forward- 6/8 ppg Javantae Randall- 6'11" forward- 1.7 ppg 6'8" forward Jusuf Jihad also plays a bit, averaging 7.6 ppg.

This is Akron. There's never going to be big NIL money involved. A little money to help a kid get by, sure, but they're never going to compete with the major conferences. As for Bronny and Duquesne, that would kill two birds with one stone for Lebron. It would give his kid a place to play where he could be the star and it would ensure his buddy Dru stays in line for the head coaching job.

Ohio went about it in a little bit of a different way, doubling Enrique with the near defender and quickly retreating quickly on the pass out of the post and was relatively effective. With Sammy and Dawson being ineffective, the doubling of the post will continue as there's no disincentive to doing it.

On an unrelated note, App State beat James Madison yesterday dropping JMU into a third place tie in the Sun Belt. App. State has handed JMU its last 2 losses.

I would say that with Sammy and Dawson struggling and Nate out, Tavari may be the guy on the team other than Enrique and Ali to go get a hoop in the clutch.

The Zips stay on the road this Tuesday heading to Ypsilanti to face 9-11/2-6 Eastern Michigan. EMU is coming off of a ten-point home win over Buffalo. Their only other win was over PCCC. All-MAC 6’4” junior guard Tyson Acuff leads the Eagles and the MAC at 21.6 ppg. No other EMU player scores in double digits, with 6’2” sophomore guard Orlando Lovejoy as the second leading scorer at 9.4 ppg. They are 10th on scoring and 7tn is defense in the MAC. They’ve already won more games this season than they won all of last season during the Emoni Bates mess of a season.

The team needs more that 6 points total from Sammy and Dawson. I think Ali was likely pressing because there was so little help from anywhere else. Curse you Brad Bournival.

There always seems to be at least one of these steaming turds in every season. I just didn't feel good about this one going in.

Run the damn offense.

Now get some damn stops and make shots!

We really need that extra post player.

I'm not a math guy, but I believe 325>220.

Need someone like Tavari to step up as it appears guys like Hunter and Dawson didn't get on the bus.

Need some stops.

This is all Brad Bournival's fault.

My stream in fine but I am starting to wish it would just cut out.

Another steal wasted in transition.

Enrique just looked p!$$ed as they went to commercial. I've never seen that. Here's hoping that's a good sign.

Burn the tape of that half. Yikes.

His Bam Bowman training regimen is really paying off.

They're shooting 61%. Part good shooting; part bad defense.