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CNBC had a show on Enron. You would have spent your time better watching that. I turned the game of at half, it was terrible. The tournament overall was good for college basketball this year, but last night was terrible for college basketball. It has been since the 1940s that a team scored as few points in the championship game as Butler did last night. I know there are a lot on this board who think sports in the 1940s were better, but your nuts if you want that.

Rasor is an OK writer, but I think he is part of a large group of fans who is in love with the "building process". How did Nicely look is the question? Is he better or worse. Granted, I don't put much stock in Rasor's evaluation skills, but he is all we have. It's hard to believe Moore didn't look good at times. After taking a year off, it is hard to look good right away. Am I the only one who thinks this D'Orazio kid might be the next (pick a player who everyone wanted to see on the field/court until they actually got on the field/court, then they couldn't wait for them to get off the field/court). Of course he looked sharp. He was playing against the #3 guys. Everyone looks good against the #3 guys. Akron's offense has nowhere to go but up, so why not play him? Great idea, we can live the four year building process some more, get stuck with our dicks in our hands after four years and start the "building process" all over again. I don't know it to be true, but Rasor has to be a Browns fan. No thanks. The QB race is against Moore and Nicely. May the best man win. The end. Rasor always likes to give his long view on things. He's one of those lawyers who thinks that a law degree is a sign of huge intellectual ability. His intellect is probably closer to Michelle Bachmann than William F. Buckley. We have to get worse before we can get better, but we would be better off with the guys from the year before? What kind of gibberish is this? Coach I took a large group of starters last year and made them worse than the year before. We did get worse. Now we have to get even worse? God help us. As far as his last paragraph, if we are going to get worse, why would a fan feel any energy towards the team at all regardless of a new stud that might be on the team? The five people at the final game won't be able to create enough energy to do......anything. He is completely wrong about this. If Akron is bad, or worse, again this season it will be years before fans turn out again. They have spent millions on new stadiums and fieldhouses while the rest of NE Ohio crumbles. They will have fired a bad coach for a worse one. Nobody will forget that and it will take a long time, if ever, for them to forgive it....just ask the folks who are still mad because they fired Dennison. Until we are able to contend for a MAC Championship? Mike, you are a reporter. Ask the coach the following question, "Given the ability of many coaches in the MAC to win a championship in their second year, like the guy you replaced, do you think you can win one this season?" Oh, I forgot, we are building, not trying to win games or a championship....it's amazing. Maybe he is positioning himself to be the next Terry Pluto of the ABJ and the Zips can always be the little engine that could. We don't need that type of writing.

I don't think it is asking too much for an adult (most are older than 18) to live up to his potential from day one until the end of the season. There are games to be played in December and January just as there are games to be played in March. The expectations of this Zips program should be: 1. Win all the games they should win. No more losing to teams like NIU and EMU. No more slow starts. 2. Win the MAC East. 3. Win at least 33% of the games against major conference teams. 4. Minimum make the MAC Championship Game.

They almost carried them into the trash heap of history. We should rejoice in their leaving.

Not exactly as I was saying, but close enough. Kristol not only gets the exact war he would have fought, but with Obama fighting it, now he can have his war and complain about the President at the same time. The guy has to be sticking to his sheets at night.

Wrong lesson. We play enough major programs. That isn't the problem. The Zips have to start winning those games and stop losing to the Daytons and CSUs of the world. "Learning how to win" has to end with a team actually winning to prove they have learned the lesson. If they can't do that, they will always be this good team stuck in an a "building process" or whatever we have rebranded it these days. And you increase your chances of winning a big game when you play more of them. Right? No, you increase your chance of winning by playing better in those games and living up to your potential. A team can only win one game at a time. If we play four major conference teams, we should try to win all four.

Resources are money. Notre Dame is a small school and one can't say they have a lot of money. Resources come from ticket sales, ads, alumni donations, etc. If you get enough of that, you have the resources to win. Your school can be as small as 100 people with one really rich donor. Not only can I say Notre Dame has a lot of money, I can say they have a boatload of money, and that's a fact. I don't know what I was thinking when I typed it....probably nothing, but I agree with you more than my statement.

Resources are money. Notre Dame is a small school and one can't say they have a lot of money. Resources come from ticket sales, ads, alumni donations, etc. If you get enough of that, you have the resources to win. Your school can be as small as 100 people with one really rich donor.

Like I said yesterday, schools like Dayton are looking to hire a young guy. Not someone in their 50s. I wish you guys would just listen when I post.

I always chuckle at it as well. It's college, not high school.

They played seven major teams and went 4-3 against them with only one home game. I'm impressed. They didn't have "only" four wins, they had four wins. "Only" is not necessary.

Wrong lesson. We play enough major programs. That isn't the problem. The Zips have to start winning those games and stop losing to the Daytons and CSUs of the world. "Learning how to win" has to end with a team actually winning to prove they have learned the lesson. If they can't do that, they will always be this good team stuck in an a "building process" or whatever we have rebranded it these days.

Texas Western beating a bunch of slow footed white guys in 1966 was not an upset. They had better players. If Butler wins Monday, it will be because they have better players. Butler has a championship team in that they have guys who make key shots at key times. They actively win games instead of waiting for the other team to lose a game. Mid major or not, Butler is good.

Who was that offer from? It doesn't matter. My point is that KD isn't leaving. Who offered him a job and when did they offer?

To where? KD is always on lists, but never one of the serious candidates. He couldn't go anywhere and be taken as seriously as he is at Akron. He has too much going for him at Akron. Any other school, he is just another coach. Schools like Dayton aren't looking for a coach in his 50s. They are looking for young guys like at VCU and Butler who create a buzz and are looking for the next step. The only time you hire a guy in his 50s is in a Gary Waters case....a guy who is taking a step back after cashing in and getting fired at a big school. KD isn't a guy who has ever been to the big time and probably won't ever get there. In ten years, he'll still be at Akron, doing well and still be the king. Don't worry guys, KD is not going anywhere. I don't think he wants to leave and I don't think anyone is taking him seriously.

The cmu stuff is old, but in the insane world of universities, nonsense like that matters. It shouldn't matter, but it does and sometimes presidents don't like to fight those battles. Like I've said before, KD has it as good at Akron as he is going to have it anywhere at this point in his career. He would be foolish to leave Akron for another school.

When and Athletic Director fires one coach and hires another, I expect the team to do better with the new coach. Coach I had something like 17 returning starters off of a team that won something like three games the year before. I expected the new coach to win more than three.

KD would be nuts to go to Dayton. Why leave being treated like a king at Akron to go somewhere and be taken less seriously. It makes no sense. KD isn't going anywhere.

Wake me when we get close.....

This one will stick in my mind, however it turns out, I will remember this quote: ''I think Akron is a sleeping giant. You have got to give them two or three more years. The way they can coach and recruit, this is going to be a juggernaut.'' Reading a quote like this sometimes can make me want to have a stroke, but I'll hold the sharpe comments for now and try to read through it a little. It is true that it might take a couple of more years to become a juggernaut, although the definition of juggernaut is unclear. Juggernaut to me is going undefeated in the MAC and winning at least half of OOC games. We'd all take a 10 win season in a second. If it takes 2-3 more seasons to do that, then I'll be patient. With that said, what are we going to do the next 2-3 years? There will be games played and tickets to be sold. I'm not interested in buying a ticket to watch bad football for the next 2-3 years. They need to show signs of life this season. Show that they at least can perform the basic tasks of playing football. BTW, they need to win at LEAST 4 games this season. All my thoughts fall back on what I see teams do in the MAC all the time. That is quickly turning around a program after horrible results with the previous coach. There is a long list including Miamioh last season. Why do we always have to be the team in the middle of a 25 year "building process"?

I love the idea of helping contact former players. I volunteered one time to do that. It went great. Raised quite a bit of money. I'd love it if they asked people to do it again. With that said, I am not a professional fundraiser and my effort were strong, but the results were those of a volunteer. If we want the Zips to take it to the next level, a higher level of professionalism is needed, not volunteers. I understand how a lockerroom works. The lockerroom before the spring game is a prelude to a drunk fest that evening. The players just want it to be over. I'm not saying taking 4 year old girls into a lockerroom is necessary, but I'm sure grown men who have been in a lockerroom before understand what the visual is going to be. Having a couple of seniors come over and say hello wouldn't hurt. I would agree Ms. Gossens did a good job. She should reach out and touch former players more often. I though my suggestions were a good way of doing that.

Not a knock on what they are doing this year, but Gary Bogue did a great job when he was working in Athletics dealing with former student athletes. It was never a big deal for him to organize an event because he knew what to do as he had experience doing it at other schools. Schools bigger than Akron in fact. Again, not a slap at anyone, but I wish Gary was still around the Athletic Department for alumni relations with former student athletes. It's been around five years now since he moved to the Law School. He picked up some good momentum in a short period of time and I don't think they have anyone with the focus or drive to do what Gary did now or since. Just think of what he would have accomplished by now. He did a lot with very little support or money from UofA.

Require an at large team to have at least a +.500 record in conference. That's one I think we can all get behind. If you're 8-8 in the Big East... sorry, you aren't going to win 6 games in a row to win the National Championship. Most 15 win MAC teams are going to either. That isn't the point. Only one team is going to win. Why not create a field that has displayed a high level of performance throughout the season against their peer group? It seems much more fair to me to reward a team for a well played season than for just being part of a big conference. One 8-8 Big East team could win it this year. UCONN went 8-8 in conference. However, they are on a huge run right now and are in the Tournament because they won their conference. The deserve to be there because of winning their conference, not because they had a great regular season. A .500 conference team could make it, they would just have to win their tournament to do so, making tournaments more exciting.

I think the idea is a lot further along than anyone wants to admit. I learned four other things watching the Overtime segment. BTW, lance99 is correct, it was the best part of the discussion. The four things I learned were: 1. Jason Whitlock is a lot fatter on my computer screen than he is on my TV 2. The Ivy League Commissioner is a lot smarter than any NCAA league commissioner should be. 3. Billy Packer's head is melanoma central. 4. Rich Rodriguez is so stupid he can't pronounce simple words. I actually think that if there was a split and we rightly ended up in the lower level, we would be perfectly situated to be successful at that level. We would have great facilities for that level and a good recruiting base. It might be the best thing that could happen to us.

Require an at large team to have at least a +.500 record in conference.