2020-2021 Akron Zips Basketball- Looking Forward

[RowdyZip]

Not sure if it was posted, but gozips.com has removed all non conference games from the schedule, showing us opening vs Kent on 12/19.

[DaytonZip]

9 minutes ago, RowdyZip said:

Not sure if it was posted, but gozips.com has removed all non conference games from the schedule, showing us opening vs Kent on 12/19.

I didn’t see any non-conference games ever scheduled or even announced on The GoZips website or Akron athletics — other than a retweet a couple weeks about about the tournament.

 

With the pause being 2 weeks, does that rule out the Marshall game that’s on the ESPN schedule? Was that ever a real game in the first place?

[Let'sGoZips94]

I'm watching BUGS take on Michigan on ESPN2. 

 

COVID aside, it's a little embarrassing how unprepared Akron seems to be vs. other programs. Even before the 2 week pause, there was hardly a semblance of a schedule prior to MAC play. 

[NWAkron]

On 11/23/2020 at 6:28 PM, Blue & Gold said:

A glimmer of hope - the article says we bowed out over COVID concerns, not that we had to bow out because we had one, or more, positive tests.  Idk, I may be splitting hairs.  Stay safe, young guns.

I see BG is playing Michigan.   WTF?

[clarkwgriswold]

15 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

I see BG is playing Michigan.   WTF?

 

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr...just stumbled across it.

[NWAkron]

32 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr...just stumbled across it.

Beyond disappointed.  But OhioSt couldn't play Akron.  Tune in 11/2021

[The Hip Zip]

On 11/24/2020 at 10:03 AM, mivid12 said:

for a virus with a 99.8% survival rate for 95+ % of the population?

 

Yeah buddy, I guess that 268,000 dead in America is not enough.

[clarkwgriswold]

Just saw Michael Flowers, formerly of Western Michigan, on Sportscenter.  Apparently, he bailed out of Western when Hawkins got canned.  He's playing for South Alabama and made a game winning shot the day after his dad died.

[LZIp]

OU just about knocked off #8 Illinois today.

[The Hip Zip]

2 hours ago, LZIp said:

OU just about knocked off #8 Illinois today.

Yeah , watched it and they played well. The Kittens actually held about an 8-10 pt lead in the 2nd half. Toledo just about took down Xavier and W Mich, sans Hawkins, hung in there well at Butler.  This conference is shaping up to be very competitive this season.  

[NWAkron]

3 hours ago, LZIp said:

OU just about knocked off #8 Illinois today.

So they are all playing Big 10 teams but Akron isn't.  Actually, Akron isn't playing at all.  

https://dknation.draftkings.com/2020/11/23/21591505/college-basketball-2020-2021-schedule-covid-19-updates-news-teams-programs-shut-down

 

Zips certainly aren't the only ones in this predicament.  Hopefully, the guys learned their lesson and this doesn't happen again mid-February.

Opening game is against PCCC...hell just call them Kent for this season.  All the fun's been sucked out of this/.

Edited November 28, 2020 by NWAkron

[clarkwgriswold]

2 hours ago, NWAkron said:

So they are all playing Big 10 teams but Akron isn't.  Actually, Akron isn't playing at all.  

https://dknation.draftkings.com/2020/11/23/21591505/college-basketball-2020-2021-schedule-covid-19-updates-news-teams-programs-shut-down

 

Zips certainly aren't the only ones in this predicament.  Hopefully, the guys learned their lesson and this doesn't happen again mid-February.

Opening game is against PCCC...hell just call them Kent for this season.  All the fun's been sucked out of this/.

Can I still call Senderoff Mr. Pinky?  You have to meet me half way.

[clarkwgriswold]

Sitting here thinking how in past years I'd be sitting here planning my day around heading down to the JAR to watch our Zips take on some branch campus of some southern state university.  Damn.  Ugh.  

 

Heck, I'd even take a warmup against the Concord Grapes right now.

[NWAkron]

1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Sitting here thinking how in past years I'd be sitting here planning my day around heading down to the JAR to watch our Zips take on some branch campus of some southern state university.  Damn.  Ugh.  

 

Heck, I'd even take a warmup against the Concord Grapes right now.

I know.  I used to put all the Zips games on my calendar and everything else was planned around that.  

[Blue & Gold]

13 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

I know.  I used to put all the Zips games on my calendar and everything else was planned around that.  

Precisely what I do ☹️☹️???

[NWAkron]

Ravenna State game for tonight is cancelled.

[zippy5]

I didn't know this about Preston, good for him

 

https://twitter.com/NEOhsSports/status/1332415456397963269?s=19

[Let'sGoZips94]

OU is good, and that was a fun game to watch. Preston is the real deal - one of the best players the MAC has seen in a while. Boals is going to have OU competing at the top until (if) he gets picked off by a bigger program. 

[NWAkron]

3 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

OU is good, and that was a fun game to watch. Preston is the real deal - one of the best players the MAC has seen in a while. Boals is going to have OU competing at the top until (if) he gets picked off by a bigger program. 

Screw that. 

[zippy5]

OU and UB have developed into nice rivalries. Kent will always be Kent but those other games are fun because they organically happened by a few teams playing some pretty high level ball. I feel like there's a mutual respect there from that

[Blue & Gold]

2 hours ago, zippy5 said:

OU and UB have developed into nice rivalries. Kent will always be Kent but those other games are fun because they organically happened by a few teams playing some pretty high level ball. I feel like there's a mutual respect there from that

+1.  Love both those rivalries.  I hope Boals stays at OU for a long time & they continue to win.

 

I also think we should stoke our natural rivalry with Toledo.  Wish UT was in the East instead of BUGS.

[clarkwgriswold]

Well, the Zips won't have big booster Bob Dyer to write uninformed BS about them any more.  He signed off today.

[NWAkron]

5 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Well, the Zips won't have big booster Bob Dyer to write uninformed BS about them any more.  He signed off today.

Finally, some good news.

[Blue & Gold]

3 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Well, the Zips won't have big booster Bob Dyer to write uninformed BS about them any more.  He signed off today.

And not a day too soon.

[zippy5]