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That undefeated December prediction is looking more and more stupid with each passing game.

Good question. He would raise the overall athletic ability of the team. We would score more transition points in lieu of trying to rely on our inept half court offense (if you want to call it that).

I see KD says that Zeke has to call for the ball more. If all it took was calling for the ball, I could go out, buy a megaphone and play center in D-1 basketball. Perfect example of KD never really taking blame in a horrible loss and displacing the blame on to one of his players. He has done this for years and I can't believe nobody else finds it as distasteful as I have. It's what survivors do though. Are we really paying this guy $500K to tell guys to call for the ball more? Call me crazy, but I thought we were paying him to bring in players, keep players, develop players and game plan. Next thing, we will have to hear about "coaching toughness". How about coaching a jump hook or accurate passes to the low block? This is your team KD. Get it together! Good reporting George. Lots to think about if people read it.

Everything the coach said is correct with the exception of paying the players. They players should be able to exploit their fame by having jobs during the off season. College basketball has been milked dry with the NCAA Tournament. There is no money left to get. Football has dictated this because it is the most popular sport in the US. In addition, athletic directors can dupe university presidents and the taxpayers of the states they work in to finance a building project so they can put it on their resume and move to a higher paying job. With football, you can have many more building projects, thus more opportunities for ADs to pad their resumes....indoor practice stadium, press box renovations, seat expansion, etc. Anyone who saw the 60 Minutes article a few weeks ago about college football should be left with no doubt that athletic directors are only concerned about money and self promotion. The AD from Michigan was shameless and I felt like I needed a shower after listening to his interview. Waddell was both shameless in saying they play LSU for an "advertisement" and shameful in his self promotion cheering on a player in front of a running camera. Waddell is one of the best self promoters I have ever seen and I take my hat off to this part of his personality. He'll bankrupt and entire state some day. I just hope that state isn't Ohio or South Carolina. When athletic directors run out of things to build, watch out because they will then be able to raise money for themselves. I make fun of the "building process" a lot because there is a big problem with the building process. It goes directly to why these ADs are so dangerous to the universities they work for and the taxpayers that support public institutions. Think of the athletics "building process" (It has been more of a frenzy than a process.) we have seen nationally the past few years as the housing bubble. It becomes unsustainable financially. After something is built, it costs a heck of a lot more money maintaining a structure than building it. BOMA estimates that only 20% of the life cycle cost of a structure is the construction of that structure. So, all of these schools building one arena or stadium or indoor arena have to maintain them in addition to the rest of the facilities on a campus. I don't know if anyone has noticed over the past few years, but our states have no money. Michigan is so broke they had to issue a $250 million bond for a press box renovation that adds future debt in the form of interest payments and maintenance on the press box. Nobody seems to have the sense to say, "We can't afford all of this freaking stuff!!!!" I see this movement of Catholic schools to their own conference as something very healthy for them and my get everyone else to get their minds right. They are finally saying, "Enough is enough." Instead of scrambling to start up football programs, new stadium projects, etc., they are just going to have their own league and do well at those things they are capable of doing well at. It might be the best thing for schools like Wake, Duke, Army, Navy, Air Force, Stanford, Baylor, Miami (FL), Vandy and other private schools to follow in their direction. Instead of these schools trying to be something they aren't, they are going to be what they are and be good at it. Hats off to them for understanding their identity. Taxpayers, university presidents, boards of trustees and smart alumni should also be willing to tell their athletic directors, "Enough is enough." Athletic directors cannot be allowed to continue down the road they are taking, but I fear the monster has gotten so big it can never be wrangled. I've met a lot of very nice people in college athletics, but most aren't the brightest bulbs on the tree. What smart person would want a job like that? It is rare to meet a Mike Thomas, a man who I always felt had a top notch intellect. The norm are people like Mack and Waddell. Nice enough people and decent at the mechanics of their job, but they have second string intellects. Wistrcill is just not a smart guy at all. It amazes me that our states have allowed/are allowing people like this to spend millions, upon millions of dollars of their hard earned money in a manner that will harm taxpayers in the future. Our society has totally lost sight of what universities are for.

Pay for their scholarship. Let them have a job. Let them major in whatever sport they play if they want to.

It's no secret on this board. I've thought that for a long time now for a host of reasons which I'm not going to get into now. If Tom Wistercill thinks something is a good idea, the opposite is true. TW thought it was a good idea to extend his contract for a lot of years. Enough said.

It's no secret on this board. I've thought that for a long time now for a host of reasons which I'm not going to get into now. If Tom Wistercill thinks something is a good idea, the opposite is true. TW thought it was a good idea to extend his contract for a lot of years. Enough said.

Define "that good".

He is the difference between winning and losing today.

I wouldn't call Zeke soft. I would call him underdeveloped. On the defensive end, he can be overly aggressive and go for blocks he has no shot of getting leaving him out of rebounding position. On the offensive end, he sets the post where the other player sets it which is what players do these days. As the ball rotates, if he is too far from the basket, he can't reestablish closer to the basket. This isnt all on zeke. Our perimeter players never seem to have themselves in position to deliver a pass to the center at an effective angle. There are a lot of things with our offense that are not allowing it to come together as we'll as it could. They need to get to work.

I wouldn't call Zeke soft. I would call him underdeveloped. On the defensive end, he can be overly aggressive and go for blocks he has no shot of getting leaving him out of rebounding position. On the offensive end, he sets the post where the other player sets it which is what players do these days. As the ball rotates, if he is too far from the basket, he can't reestablish closer to the basket. This isnt all on zeke. Our perimeter players never seem to have themselves in position to deliver a pass to the center at an effective angle. There are a lot of things with our offense that are not allowing it to come together as we'll as it could. They need to get to work.

You are reading my mind. Our ability to get the ball inside is terrible. Detroit's center, a guy who will never play a second of professional basketball on any continent, was the best center on the court today. Zeke had trouble maintaining offensive post position against him. When he did, we don't have a player who can make an accurate pass into the post without Zeke losing ground. We need better inside offensive production from the center position...34 needs to play more.

If you guys thinking beating the Titans at home is easy, this is their 14th win in a row at home. Werethe Zips out scored 80-63 the final thirty minutes?

If you guys thinking beating the Titans at home is easy, this is their 14th win in a row at home. Werethe Zips out scored 80-63 the final thirty minutes?

We allow them to run 25 seconds off clock without foul?

Weren't the zips winning 10-0 at one point?

From where I sit, the game is still being played.

Need to play with better poise on offensive end.

Fox Detroit analyst just made a point I agree with. 34 should be getting more minutes.

As sharp as the zips were the first ten minutes of the game, Detroit is that sharp now. Need to get momentum back. Three should help.

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Good summary page. What I am always shocked by is the number of names that just move from place to place and fail. How does Skip Holtz keep getting coaching jobs? The best part of that guy ran down his dad's leg and somehow he keeps getting hired. Then again, he had some good years at ECU so maybe LA Tech is a good fit for him since it is CUSA.

Makes me happy I don't watch ESPN in the afternoon. This guy thinks he needs to get to the bottom of something. Of what? I read a statistic once that over 50% of people in Mississippi are against inter racial dating/marriage. 50% is such a large number that a large number of people of all races in that state are against it. Maybe Rob Parker needs to find a home and Jackson and live in the pre-modern world with everyone there. Seems like he may really like it. What I like about George's post is he doesn't shy away from this type of thinking. Racists and the likes of Parker should not be placed somewhere where people can't see them or hear them. They should be put in public view and ridiculed for the fools they are. Well done George.

I heard rumors earlier this year about Wake leaving the ACC. I don't know how much of that is true or not. Lots of fans talked about it at games. I don't see how those two schools can compete in football in the future. What the other ACC schools have going for them is they are public institutions and can play games with public money in order to build stadiums, etc. Duke and Wake are private schools. Duke has a religious affiliation to Methodists and Quakers. Wake is a Baptist school....not exactly a fit for the all Catholic league. Wake recently spent millions in renovations to their off campus stadium and it is still inadequate compared to what the bigger schools can build with public/private money. Duke is a lost cause...their stadium is a hole in the ground with a concrete "U" shaped stadium poured in to it...remember the Rubber Bowl? I was listening to Coach K talk about the ACC not long ago and he said he was "worried" about the league. My guess is he is worried about Duke and their future. He built that program and is nearing retirement. Duke will fall apart like UCONN is going to fall apart after JC. They are going to be mighty happy they only have that little basketball arena to fill and didn't spend tens of millions on a "building process" for a 20,000 seat arena because there will be a lot of lost interest in their program. Duke, Wake and UCONN are in big trouble. I think Cincy is in much less trouble than these schools; CUSA would take them back in a second.

Lew Perkins I'm sure ZW remembers this guy. He put the wheels in motion to bankrupt UCONN with sports programs and nobody had the guts to stop him. Remember guys, the ADs are the problem in college athletics right now. In the early 90s, UCONN was in the Yankee Conference for football and it was a great league to go watch. RI, UMASS, Maine, Boston U, Richmond, Villanova, UCONN and NH made up much of the league. The games were competitive and UCONN had a great little I-AA stadium right behind their basketball arena. I don't know how they would do it, but they need to find a league like that again. Lew Perkins shouldn't have been given awards for his time as AD, he should have been taken away in handcuffs. Speaking of handcuffs, he had to resign from Kansas because five of his hand picked guys were stealing money from the University. Rumors were always around UCONN that Perkins was on the take from various contractors associated with the new stadium in Hartford. Lots of money leads to lots of corruption. In our lives, maybe in the next ten years, we will start to see athletic directors arrested for corruption. It's only a matter of time. If anyone thinks the off season stories of players taking money are something, wait till these stories get going.