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  1. Matt Kaulig (Racing) Former Zips QB

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    20 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

    Unable to post the photo from my phone, but I'm at the Guardians game and there is now a section down the first base side titled "Kaulig Companies Club".

     

    Matt is one of, if not our biggest assets as Akron fans. He is a money-making machine. 

    That section has been there for several years.

  3. Basketball practice facility (and more) coming

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    I get a kick out of these "we're getting out of the MAC" threads.  Guys, if you haven't noticed, enrollment issues haven't turned around yet, so budgets are tight.  That alone makes a conference affiliation move impossible, unless it's going downward to a non-BCS conference.  Secondly, what does Akron (or any other MAC school for that matter) bring to the table for a larger/more prestigious conference?  Great attendance?  Big share of a large media market?  Nope and nope.

     

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  10. MAC tourney general discussion

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    Very nice incoming freshman class but they'll be freshman...hard to see them being immediate impact players.  I'd expect Boals to go after a couple of topflight transfers and edge out a couple of underperformers, including Ben Roderick, who started.  We didn't have our starting center, Dwight Wilson, this year, so hopefully he'll be back in form after a year lost to an acl.  My question for tonight is whether a bigger program comes after the winning coach.

  11. MAC tourney general discussion

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    9 hours ago, GJGood said:

    Looking at post season projections and clearly we sealed Toledo’s fate to the NIT tonight. We also know the victor tomorrow night is going to the Big Dance. 
    What about Ohio and the team that falls short tomorrow night? There are two other tournaments out there this year and it seems to me a MAC school could be, and should be, represented in each. The CBI this year is all at one site so there is not the pay to host situation that there was in the past. The former CiT is still held on home floors.

    I just have heard very little said about these tournaments. I expected to hear Buffalo mentioned as a possiblity here after the Zips knocked them out but it has been silent.

     

    Ohio is done. Too tired and beat up.  Carter and BVP have old legs.  Time to retool in Athens.

  14. Basketball practice facility (and more) coming

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted · Edited by jupitertoo

    Anyone majoring in sports administration/management/business is being sold a load of manure from a career standpoint. Without a master's degree, you are qualified to become an unpaid (and highly abused) intern for a minor league baseball team.  Are you a pretty blonde?  You're who they are looking for to fire t-shirts into the crowd or lead the (also unpaid) National Anthem singer onto the field. Even a full-time job at the major league level will be almost exclusively commission based (ticket sales) while requiring long hours and offering virtually no opportunity for advancement. Team owners know there will always be suckers attracted to the promise of proximity to superstars. Of course, the stars won't even notice you and you will be warned to stay away from them. I know nearly a dozen sports ad grads from schools with much better programs than Akron who quickly realized what a sham it is.  Go ahead and ask your professor how successful his/her career was in professional bowling/beach volleyball/kickboxing/auto racing and inquire as to why he/she is now teaching UA undergrads at minimum wage. You'd be far, far better off learning a trade such as welding, IT infrastructure management or pipefitting. Seriously, it's like majoring in English Lit.  Just flush your/your parents' money down the drain because you'll end up going back to school to get a degree or certification in something that will actually put money in your pocket. 

     

     

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  18. Western Michigan- 2/15/22

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    20 hours ago, RoyalBlu said:

    My guess right now is 5th spot on All-MAC first team is down to BVD/Carter, Freeman, Plowden, Sparks, Shumate and Norman. (Sears, Rollins, Carry, JWilliams). And at least one of these guys won't even make second team. For a down year in the MAC, that's amazing.

     

    Sears, Rollins, Carry, Freeman, Sparks, Shumate, Norman all return ... if the portal doesn't swallow them up.

     

     

    7 hours ago, Reslife4Life said:

    That’s what makes this team intriguing to watch. If we have the capability to beat anyone, who says we can’t win 3 in a row in Cleveland? Just because we lost at WMU doesn’t mean this team doesn’t have the potential do go on a run

    This team is not unlike Groce's Sweet 16 team at Ohio.  They were slightly above average in league play but caught fire at tournament time.  You never know.

  21. Western Michigan- 2/15/22

    in Akron Zips Basketball

    Posted

    Adding to this...

     

    Head to head, looks like Mballa didn't play against the Zips this year.

     

    In the first game against Ohio, Freeman had 7 points/10 rebounds vs. 19 pts/3 rebounds for Carter

     

    I personally don't think any of those three are close to Rollins, Carrie, Sears or Norman in terms of MVP consideration.  I think Rollins is the runaway winner there.

  22. Western Michigan- 2/15/22

    in Akron Zips Basketball

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    33 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

     

    Freeman certainly has an argument for being the best traditional big/post player in the MAC.  His stats are considerably better than guys like Mballa and Carter.

    His only statistical advantage is rebounding.  Carter scores more, blocks about the same among the three.  But that isn't my point...the original post said he was the league's best player.  Not close, though he certainly has been an amazing find.

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