ABJ: Young Broncos raring to give streaking Zips a tough time

[Blue & Gold]

Okay, yeah, the title's kinda cheesy, but this is a really good pregame article from GT  

 

GT discusses the UA-WMU rivalry, the youth of the Bronco's roster, the buzz beginning to be heard in the community concerning the winning streak (wish we didn't have to have the pressure of never losing to create interest), and the Zips' free-throw abomination -vs- EMU.

 

Great article!

[Blue & Gold]

Man, it's too early in the morning.  I just started a new thread for this but actually just wanted to place it in the WMU thread.  Would a mod like to merge this?

[LZIp]

Why did he have to emphasize "right now"? Does he see the MAC favorite Zips choking and not winning their division?

 

BTW regarding buzz, I walk by the ESPN studio in Cleveland every morning and this morning something new caught my eye. A Zips basketball poster hung up.

[kreed5120]

20 minutes ago, LZIp said:

Why did he have to emphasize "right now"? Does he see the MAC favorite Zips choking and not winning their division?

 

BTW regarding buzz, I walk by the ESPN studio in Cleveland every morning and this morning something new caught my eye. A Zips basketball poster hung up.

 

Now if they would actually quit talking about the Browns for 30 seconds to field a call about the Zips, that would be great.

 

I personally like listening to the Bull and Fox on 92.3 the fan on my commute home from work. I remember last year the night before the start on MAC tournament quarterfinals Adam "the Bull" asked Dustin Fox (a guy who does MAC announcing on the side and self proclaimed MAC fan) who he had winning the tournament. Dustin Fox kind of shrugged the question off like it's a waste of their time talking about it. He did eventually say "Akron, because they were suppose to be pretty good." From there they moved onto talking about the Cavs or Browns.

Edited January 24, 2017 by kreed5120

[clarkwgriswold]

I hear WMU has some killer guards-

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2016/12/12/western-michigan-basketball-player-charged-murder/95350492/

[LZIp]

2 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

 

Now if they would actually quit talking about the Browns for 30 seconds to field a call about the Zips, that would be great.

 

I personally like listening to the Bull and Fox on 92.3 the fan on my commute home from work. I remember last year the night before the start on MAC tournament quarterfinals Adam "the Bull" asked Dustin Fox (a guy who does MAC announcing on the side and self proclaimed MAC supporter) who he had winning the tournament. Dustin Fox kind of shrugged the question off like it's a waste of their time talking about it. He did say "Akron, because they were suppose to be pretty good." From there they moved onto talking about the Cavs or Browns.

Yeah I do not listen to local ESPN at all. Can't stand those guys. Really do not listen to much Cle sports talk radio, but when something big is happening I do enjoy listening to Bull and Fox the most (even though that isn't saying a ton). Fox gets some points from me because he is a MAC fan and pretty knowledgeable of the conference, in football at least.

[Blue & Gold]

5 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

 

Now if they would actually quit talking about the Browns for 30 seconds to field a call about the Zips, that would be great.

 

I personally like listening to the Bull and Fox on 92.3 the fan on my commute home from work. I remember last year the night before the start on MAC tournament quarterfinals Adam "the Bull" asked Dustin Fox (a guy who does MAC announcing on the side and self proclaimed MAC fan) who he had winning the tournament. Dustin Fox kind of shrugged the question off like it's a waste of their time talking about it. He did eventually say "Akron, because they were suppose to be pretty good." From there they moved onto talking about the Cavs or Browns.

It's stuff like that which has soured me on all-things-Cleveland (except Akron's King) over the years.  That's been the overwhelmingly prevalent attitude with the Cleveland media for at least 30 years now (as long as I've been following the Zips & have thus been miffed by their out right refusal to cover Akron).

[Blue & Gold]

7 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

I hear WMU has some killer guards-

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2016/12/12/western-michigan-basketball-player-charged-murder/95350492/

 

[zippy5]

2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

Man, it's too early in the morning.  I just started a new thread for this but actually just wanted to place it in the WMU thread.  Would a mod like to merge this?

In all fairness, GT producing a column might be worthy of its own topic

Edited January 24, 2017 by zippy5

[kreed5120]

Yeah, in general I feel a lot of it stems that outside of March Madness, college basketball just isn't that big of a thing in NEO. Even the people that claim to be OSU fans probably couldn't tell you their record and name their starting 5. You'd still like to see media outlets that are viewed/listened by 10s of thousands of people per day talk positively about something their city is hosting. Not that it would convince people with no interest to go, but it might get people who were on the fence or are just basketball fans in general to fill it is worthwhile to go downtown and see.

Edited January 24, 2017 by kreed5120

[Blue & Gold]

6 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

In all fairness, GT producing a column might be worthy of it's own topic

Sadly, you're probably right :/

[Dr Z]

2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

Okay, yeah, the title's kinda cheesy, but this is a really good pregame article from GT  

 

This is the most interesting/important part of the article to me:

 

...the Zips can’t afford many nights like this past Friday against Eastern Michigan when they shot 45 percent (17-of-38) from the free-throw line

...if we didn’t make free throws that night, let’s spend a little time on it, Dambrot said

...after the game, Robotham and Antino worked on their own time from the line. Mon morning, Johnson spent time after practice doing the same

[Dr Z]

On 1/24/2017 at 10:10 AM, Dr Z said:

...after the game, Robotham and Antino worked on their own time from the line. 

 

Robotham 5 of 8 from the free throw line last night. Antino 4 of 4.

 

20 out of 27 (74%) overall as a team! Keep it up 

 

 

[LZIp]

Did not want to start a new thread, but it seems were aren't the only ones who get crappy media coverage. Northwestern is 17-4 and currently 3rd in B1G standings.