Cleveland State Scrimmage

[eguins]

I know little details so do not kill the messenger!-Cleveland State won.-Dambrot said the following, "One thing I know for sure. We aren't very good right now."-The starters of CSU beat the starters of Akron. However, the Akron bench was stronger and deeper.Per: LetsGoVikes.com

[Zipmeister]

I know little details so do not kill the messenger!-Cleveland State won.-Dambrot said the following, "One thing I know for sure. We aren't very good right now."-The starters of CSU beat the starters of Akron. However, the Akron bench was stronger and deeper.Per: LetsGoVikes.com

Well this is to be expected. The Horizon is a much tougher conference than the MAC. In a Horizon/MAC challenge, the MAC would likely finish 2 and 10 and the two MAC wins would only be because the Horizon League only has 10 teams.

[Quickzips]

I know little details so do not kill the messenger!-Cleveland State won.-Dambrot said the following, "One thing I know for sure. We aren't very good right now."-The starters of CSU beat the starters of Akron. However, the Akron bench was stronger and deeper.Per: LetsGoVikes.com

That I know of Akron has not, and will not be playing CSU this year. Exhibition or otherwise. Other than the possible Bracketbuster or tournament game. Nice try though. As for the quote from Dambrot about not being very good right now, the Beacon Journal website has a preview of tomorows game up that contains such a quote. Dambrot is well known to be pretty critical of his teams. This isn't the first time we've heard tempered expectations from the coaching staff over the last few years. Keep on trolling though. Maybe you'll catch something.

[Zipmeister]

I know little details so do not kill the messenger!-Cleveland State won.-Dambrot said the following, "One thing I know for sure. We aren't very good right now."-The starters of CSU beat the starters of Akron. However, the Akron bench was stronger and deeper.Per: LetsGoVikes.com

That I know of Akron has not, and will not be playing CSU this year. Exhibition or otherwise. Other than the possible Bracketbuster or tournament game. Nice try though. As for the quote from Dambrot about not being very good right now, the Beacon Journal website has a preview of tomorows game up that contains such a quote. Dambrot is well known to be pretty critical of his teams. This isn't the first time we've heard tempered expectations from the coaching staff over the last few years. Keep on trolling though. Maybe you'll catch something.

It was a scrimmage last Saturday Quick.

[zipsbandman]

Paterno does this all the time. Dambrot says this every year at this time. I expect it more this year since his team is coming off a championship season.

[zipboy]

I caught the last 15 minutes of French's show. He said Zeke had 12 pts, 17 rebs and 4 blocks and looked good in the scrimmage. He also said, don't expect the world from him early on.

[ZachTheZip]

I wouldn't look much into the "starters vs starters" thing. If you remember last season, Akron's biggest strength was the fact that they could substitute out the entire starting five and hardly lose a drop of production. Depth is the greatest strength of this team. The starters are good, not great, but so are the bench players. I'll take a team with 12 above-average players over a team with three great players but a weak supporting cast any day.

[Zipmeister]

I wouldn't look much into the "starters vs starters" thing. If you remember last season, Akron's biggest strength was the fact that they could substitute out the entire starting five and hardly lose a drop of production. Depth is the greatest strength of this team. The starters are good, not great, but so are the bench players. I'll take a team with 12 above-average players over a team with three great players but a weak supporting cast any day.

I hope you don't use that as a real life strategy UAkronkid. You will lose your shirt.

[GoZips]

Because these scrimmages are suppose to be behind closed doors I have not commented until now.One, a player (who will not be named) told me Saturday at the football game that Waters pouredeverything into "winning" the "game", while Keith took the approach of trying a long list of plannedcombinations. In that sense, both sides "won". Basically, KD was not keeping score and Waters was.Two, a UA athletic department person who was at the "scrimmage" told me Saturday evening thathad it been a "game", CSU's starting five all would have fouled out a couple of times over. In a scrimmage you can continue to play after your fifth foul. This source, much like the never to be named player stated that KD ran combinations of players that he continually switched up on.Until CSU agrees to play the missing away game at Akron, there will never be a series between thetwo schools. I have been making this statement for over three years. The situation has not changed.

[ZachTheZip]

Until CSU agrees to play the missing away game at Akron, there will never be a series between thetwo schools. I have been making this statement for over three years. The situation has not changed.

There may not be a series between the schools, but there is hope that ESPN will look kindly on us and match Akron and CSU together in the Bracketbuster. It's our only chance of playing a team that should be a natural geographical rival.

[Blue & Gold]

I looked around LetsGoVikes.com for about 5 minutes and didn't see anything about the Akron scrimmage.Anyhow, whatever. We almost lost to Walsh in a scrimmage last season. Lol.