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  5. Game 15- Ball State

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    I've watched the Cards a couple times. I caught a half of their slog of a win over winless Detroit, and the first half of their MAC opener at Kent last Tuesday. The wonderful folks over at Over The Pylon have hit the nail on the head. They are a rather boring team without much of an identity. Lewis was going to have a hard time replacing the lost talent from last year, and it looks as though he has failed to do so in any significant way. With that said, Groce has had a hard time getting over the hump in Muncie. He's 2-3 at Worthen since getting to Akron, 2 of those Ls coming in the first 2 years (Ivey game). The 2022 win over there was a prime example of how the Zips had it rolling down the stretch that year. Road games are hardly ever easy, as even last week the Zips couldn't find the net for the first bit of that game. 

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  6. Increasing JAR Attendance/Engaging the Fans

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    I urge folks to look at what McNeese State is doing. That thing has turned into a total party, amazingly without stilts and Tik Tok dances and foul balls sponsored by Luigi’s. They are good, and they make sure people know it. 
     

    The game-winning dunk (I repeat, GAME-WINNING) at NKU went totally under the radar. Sure, they posted it. With grainy video, no audio, no Zips radio call, and went on their way. That’s not good. It didn’t get outside the Akron bubble we all exist in. There are a few people I spoke with at the Miami-Hamilton game the following week, who obviously follow the program and go to the games, and they said they had heard about some game winning shot but never saw it or had any idea what happened. That blows my mind and should never happen. It’s not 2007 lost footage of a Jeremiah Wood game winning layup at Kent. 
     

    To add, with promotions, they do not move the needle as much as you’d think. When UA has done them in the past, many students and general public have shown up, picked up their items, and left. There was a whole controversy back in 2015 when all the hats for a football game were given away within 15 minutes of the gates opening. And an empty, rainy infocision stadium watched Akron win their 6th regular season game for the first time in a decade anyway. Same thing with bobble heads over the years. And coasters, lapel buttons. You should have seen the ticket office the last few years before it was cleaned out. It was like a Zips giveaway mass graveyard. The Ark of the Covenant could have been buried in all of the unclaimed items that were supposedly going to help make a difference. 

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  9. Game 14- Bowling Green

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    4 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

    Really? Who brews theirs?


    Sibling Revelry in Westlake. Kent grads run it, apparently. Fortunately, Zips beer is much better and actually brewed in Akron. The Kent stuff is a trashy waste of grain and hops. They will have the advantage of wider distribution, but Akron did better this time around. Many years too late. 

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  14. 2023-24 MAC & CBB Season

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    Winning 8 straight to go to the NCAAs on the back of a 20 point win over Kent in a season where they were swept by Kent, lost to directionals back to back, and had 2 starters from the beginning of the year leave or get booted almost gets lost in the shuffle of impressive things this coaching staff has accomplished in 7 years. All points to culture. This program is a pleasure to watch and I'm proud of them win or lose. Couldn't always say that over these last 20 seasons of mostly unprecedented Akron basketball success.

  18. Game 13- Northern Illinois

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    2 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

    I'd like to see the Zips stretch this out even a little more.  I want to see some killer instinct out of this squad.


    The FAU mentality. Smoke everyone you can by as much as you can. Helps keep the winning mentality no matter who you’re playing. 

  25. Game 11- Gardner Webb

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    6 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

    Akron dropped from 99 to 106 in Kenpom from yesterday. Mr. Pomeroy now has GW at 217, one spot below NIU


    I was shocked by the plummeting of the defensive rating. Dropped like 30+ spots. Bad game, I know, but still surprised. 3pt. defense one of the worst in the country, concerning with great guards at the top of the league. 

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