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I doubt Freeman would have developed into the player he is today on the courts by the dining hall.

There are some really good players on this list. To be included is quite an accomplishment.

The MAC has always been a solid BB conference. It's nice to see this season is even more competitive than most with a lot of good teams. Makes the fan experience enjoyable. I wouldn't be quick to write off the Zips. They can beat anyone in the league. Fans will be in for some ups and downs in the coming weeks. Fasten your seatbelts. The fun is just getting started.

Did you try tuning it off and then back on?

I don't know if Akron just dominated almost all of the game or if Kent isn't as good as their record.?.?. EMU and Ball State played on CBS Sports before the Zips game and both teams looked better than Kent and EMU had a bad record.

Kent's coach looks like someone who would spend a lot of time at an Off Track Betting" storefront.

That was no fluke. Akron dominated the game. BTW,Was Kent's coach the creepiest person at the game tonight?

Maybe that person got in a terrible car accident severing both of his legs off at the knees similar to how Cotton Hill had his severed off in WWII by a Japanese machine gun nest.

College basketball attendance is a difficult thing to predict and explain. I've been reading that OSU has bad attendance, but they are also a bad team playing in a bad arena. Akron is a good team playing in a bad arena. I went to the Wake vs #10 Virginia game last weekend and there were easily 4,000 empty seats in a 14,000 seat arena that is pretty average for an extremely meaningful game for Wake. I'm past the point of caring about crowd size when I go to a game. In fact, the fewer the better as far as I'm concerned. The JAR is old enough now that Joe Akron has probably been to an event there. The truth is this, it's a bad place to watch an event unless you have a chair back. Winter is bad enough in NE Ohio. Braving the cold to go to a game to sit in bleachers that can only make a chiropractor smile isn't a very attractive Saturday afternoon for a lot of people.

Sorry about the thumbs down. I had a fat finger incident.

Is this a running score over three games or is this an actual score for one game? Either could be true when it comes to the Akron/Miami rivalry.

I didn't see the final score, but if this game was like past Miami/Akron games, I assume the Zips went up something like 21-16.

I laughed a little when I saw this sentence. I wonder how many times over the years an Akron fan has said/posted this or something similar after an Akron vs Miami game.

Could have been my brother.

Without winning, it is little more than experimentation.

60 point loses to Kansas, Kansas State and Baylor are games to look forward to?

No doubt, but he needs to take those tools and turn them into the most difficult part of the game.... winning. Improvement without winning is not enough.

Temple will be a key indicator of how the Zips season will go. They were terrible last year and winning there is in the world of reality and should be expected. If they lose, they start out, yet again, 1-3.....sigh. 1-3 means they would have to perform better than expected to win six. A 1-3 start can easily turn into a 1-4 start with the wheels coming off the bus.

I don't disagree he can improve. How much is the question. He's going into his fourth off season and fifth year. The time to take a major step forward was two years ago and I'm not confident the jump to 6 wins is in any QB after that amount of time.

You should shop around for another bank.

Just to be clear, I've never said this. P5 have nots will never leave P5 for G5. There is more money in failure at the P5 level than they can make at G5.

I'm unimpressed. Remember, the TP is actually the Washout Portal. His career has been at best unremarkable while washing out at two different P5 schools. He'll have one more unremarkable year at BG and that will be that.

I'd like this also but them protecting themselves is much more than a playoff. They need to separate from P5 as much as possible while not becoming FCS.

I want everyone to have a good time as long as it doesn't impact my viewing of competitive and interesting sporting events.