jupitertoo

Bringing in a one-and-done player at QB makes me suspicious of Bowden's long-term plans. Is he hoping for a quick fix and new job? It's not really textbook approach for building a program.

I like Joe Dunn. I really do. But he starts every sentence with "I'll tell you what," and in every response to French, says "No doubt about it." It's drinking game material when he's on the radio and it drives me freaking nuts.

That's true of several state schools. OU is making a big push into online and projects 38,000 total students in next several years. Higher education has become an unbelievable big-business scam. It's all about collecting tuition and fees, not educating students.

Your theory is based on an assumption that "local talent" wants to stay local rather than go away to college. True, SE Ohio doesn't have a strong talent base at the high school level, but Solich and co. recruit NE Ohio, etc. just as hard as Akron does. (Solich grew up in Cleveland.) Miami and BG are located in less fertile areas yet have traditionally been football powers in the MAC. To give you some more background on Ohio's turnaround, the fact is that the school did not invest in football until Solich came to Athens. Jim Grobe was successful in Athens in the early 1990s (beat Lee Owens a couple of times in four years) but did so on a shoestring budget. Since Solich has come in, the school has invested heavily in football and has a larger football budget than Akron. It is a small market, but Ohio consistently outdraws Akron in football and basketball. Ohio is also building an indoor practice facility this year. One area where Ohio, and Miami for that matter, are at a disadvantage is in their enrollment requirements. They will not sign Prop 48s and will not take chances on kids who have questionable backgrounds.

That's an asinine statement. How many MAC schools have you been to? Have you seen other schools' basketball facilities? Several MAC schools had indoor practice facilities well before Akron. Coaching salaries? Other MAC coaches make more than Bowden and Dambrot. A number of MAC schools spend more on athletics overall than Akron. How exactly does Akron "stand out" significantly more than Toledo or Ohio, for example?

And if Groce moves on this year (which I don't expect), OU will be calling Boals for something else entirely.

I have season tickets for Akron...and Ohio, though I see more Akron games for obvious reasons.

I am a full-time professor at Akron. Been on faculty for 16 years. Does that qualify me?

Um, OK, but it was the last time Ohio was in the Dance, and it was front page news nationally. And they didn't merely squeak by Georgetown, they thrashed them buzzer to buzzer.

Doesn't Akron have required "donations" (seat licenses) for premium seats? Ohio does.

Doesn't that make sense given the Georgetown upset?

Stevie Taylor is a very capable backup and actually a better shooter than Cooper. But Cooper surely was shooting lights-out in Cleveland.

I get that you're disappointed. But this is a ridiculous statement.

Someone needs to smack Rizzo for his noon segment yesterday on why Ohio college graduates are all OSU fans even if they went to another Ohio school. A MAC grad, he's among the lemmings himself. A guy called up from Mansfield and said, "I like OSU because it's THE Ohio State University." Rizzo's sidekick asked, "Who said it's THE?" The guy responded, "It's in their name. The state legislature wanted them to do that to make sure everyone know it's the most important university in the state." I almost drove off the road.

Pluto proves once again that he is the most overrated sportswriter in America. He just recycles this stuff...feel-good stories, etc...and fills in with meaningless quotes. PeeDee

I agree. Frankly, KD should have won this three times by now.

“I’d rather lose now and get it over with,” point guard Alex Abreu said of the regular season. Is that the right mindset going into tonight?

Senior night. Chance to secure first reg season title. Only 3,800 fans?

Thomas might view Dambrot as too much of an Akron guy, but you never know. And KD might be perfectly comfortable finishing his career out in Akron over the next 7-10 years. Shaka would be an excellent choice. Some speculation Groce might get a look, too, though lack of a MAC regular season title might play against him.

Appropriate that you would borrow from Peter King following this game.

There are probably 8k there. Certainly respectable for a Sunday night. They had over 13k earlier this year and over 10k as well.

I would argue that this year has been Dambrot's best overall coaching job, given the changes in personnel in recent years and the wide range of talents and personalities on the team.

Good coaches sometimes will their teams to victory on the road. Dambrot does that. Be happy you have him and not John Groce of OU, who has built one of the league's softest teams. Disgusting.

Terrible decision. Plus it's Oscars night, so there won't be any co-eds in attendance. Look for 4,500 max in the stands.

Even stranger is the fact that this is not the first time that has occurred here.