zipsrowdy88 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/26/2025 at 6:56 PM, zippy5 said: I wish ours was a little more user friendly, if you could just log in and click donate $X/month, I think we'd get some more activity Expand Looks like that is a new feature they just released! https://www.feartheroocollective.com/contribute-zipsmensbasketball I think at least. Looks like the website it taking baby steps forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 Sendy is from 44 minutes N/NW of Fordham. There are 2 specific jobs and 1 generic job I think he would leave for - Albany, Fordham, basketball P5. Albany isn't open, he isn't getting a call for a basketball P5, so Fordham is his escape rope. He knows Kent is the athletics version of the Titanic, hence his comments after that first Akron game. 2 NCAA Tourney appearances and 1 NIT appearance in 14 years after Kent had 5 NCAA Tourney appearances and 6 NIT appearances from 1999-2011. Regardless of where Sendy is coaching next season, we need to thank him for restoring mediocrity to PCCC. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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clarkwgriswold Posted March 27 Author Report Share Posted March 27 This is still my favorite Senderoff related article- https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/dan-dakich-peels-back-curtain-on-craziness-during-kelvin-sampson-rob-senderoff-era 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 1:05 PM, kreed5120 said: The Kent board seems convinced that Sendy has coached his last game with the team and that he's already accepted the Fordham job. Kind of odd that he was just on social media promoting Kent's collective days ago when he likely already knew he wouldn't be with the team next year. The Fordham job is pretty terrible. He must really want out of Kent badly. If he thinks Akron is the Dodgers, he's in a rude awakening when he faces the AL All-Stars (Dayton) and NL All-Stars (VCU) every year. Expand Sendy is not going to Fordham. I guess Fordham is terrible if having triple the budget(or more), a better conference, and a couple of billionaires backing your NIL program is considered terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 2:58 PM, Hilltopper said: Sendy is not going to Fordham. I guess Fordham is terrible if having triple the budget(or more), a better conference, and a couple of billionaires backing your NIL program is considered terrible. Expand I was just sharing what everyone on the Kent board is claiming. I'm not pretending to be in the know. The Fordham program is a terrible job in the sense that it's one of if not the least funded in the A10. Since they joined the A10 in 1995, they have had 3 winning seasons in 30 years. They haven't made the NCAA tournament since 1992 or the NIT since 1991. Sendy would get a pay raise if he took the job so if you want to say that makes it a better job, sure. The odds of him actually winning at Fordham however are very low. Duquesne was a pretty poor program when Dambrot took it over, but at least there were monetary commitments to invest in the program, including a major renovation. Fordham plays in a 100 year old arena that to my knowledge has never seen a major renovation other than new flooring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlu Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 3/27/2025 at 2:25 PM, clarkwgriswold said: This is still my favorite Senderoff related article- https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/dan-dakich-peels-back-curtain-on-craziness-during-kelvin-sampson-rob-senderoff-era Expand First -- taking anything Dakich says as gospel speaks more about you than Senderoff. Second ... EVERYTHING that happened w/Sampson and Senderoff was at the dawn of the internet/cell phone age of recruiting. EVERYTHING Sampson/Senderoff were sanctioned for by the NCAA became NCAA legal within 2 years. Third ... both Sampson and Senderoff had no trouble getting rehired on the college level where the NCAA could have blackballed them ... but didn't. Both have gone on to not only be rehired in the NCAA ranks, but also have successful NCAA head coaching careers. Dakich ... bless his soul ... was a hot ticket at BG for a few years, then flamed out. Remember ... even to this day, everything about Indiana basketball is viewed through a Bobby Knight lens, for better or worse, and Dakich carries that torch higher than most. Edited March 27 by RoyalBlu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted March 27 Author Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 4:26 PM, RoyalBlu said: First -- taking anything Dakich says as gospel speaks more about you than Senderoff. Second ... EVERYTHING that happened w/Sampson and Senderoff was at the dawn of the internet/cell phone age of recruiting. EVERYTHING Sampson/Senderoff were sanctioned for by the NCAA became NCAA legal within 2 years. Third ... both Sampson and Senderoff had no trouble getting rehired on the college level where the NCAA could have blackballed them ... but didn't. Both have gone on to not only be rehired in the NCAA ranks, but also have successful NCAA head coaching careers. Dakich ... bless his soul ... was a hot ticket at BG for a few years, then flamed out. Expand First, spare me the outrage, I'm not taking Dakich's word for anything. He's a proven tool. It is an enjoyable article. Sendy cheated and got caught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlu Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 4:30 PM, clarkwgriswold said: First, spare me the outrage, I'm not taking Dakich's word for anything. He's a proven tool. It is an enjoyable article. Sendy cheated and got caught. Expand Sorry for the outrage ... have known Sampson for years. But the facts still stand. Everything they did was new age recruiting that became the norm very quickly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 3/27/2025 at 2:25 PM, clarkwgriswold said: This is still my favorite Senderoff related article- https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/dan-dakich-peels-back-curtain-on-craziness-during-kelvin-sampson-rob-senderoff-era Expand This led me down a wikipedia rabbit hole of former Kent coaches. Last season Geno Ford won 8 games coaching Stony Brook and Jim Christian won 3 games all season coaching Canisius. Hopefully pinky takes a similar career path as these two awful individuals. Edited March 27 by akzipper 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZipsBBjunkie Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 3/27/2025 at 4:49 PM, akzipper said: This led me down a wikipedia rabbit hole of former Kent coaches. Last season Geno Ford won 8 games coaching Stony Brook and Jim Christian won 3 games all season coaching Canisius. Hopefully pinky takes a similar career path as these two awful individuals. Expand I know and can appreciate the passion involved with hating our rival, but I'm genuinely curious is Senderoff truly a bad person/awful individual that warrants wanting his career to tank? Maybe Ford and Christian were in fact awful individuals, but I've heard Pinky is actually friends with both Groce and Dambrot, running in the same local coaching circles and all with mutual respect for one another? I think in terms of fandom and rivalries we have one of the best and I think most underrated nationally, but wishing someone ill will, just wondering if it is warranted by something specific? Edited March 27 by ZipsBBjunkie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 See ya, loser! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 3/27/2025 at 6:36 PM, Let'sGoZips94 said: See ya, loser! Expand I've heard rumblings Kent is cracking its piggy bank trying to gather every last cent to make a last-ditch offer to keep him. This might be why we haven't heard anything formal. He might still be weighing his decision. Edited March 27 by kreed5120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 7:27 PM, kreed5120 said: I've heard rumblings Kent is cracking its piggy bank trying to gather every last cent to make a last-ditch offer to keep him. This might be why we haven't heard anything formal. He might still be weighing his decision. Expand No way does Kent scrape together enough to retain Sendy. The NIT was his job interview and he used it to perfection. He's going to get a big pay raise to go coach at a much better school 40 minutes from where he was born, in a much better conference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsrule Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 https://collegefootballnetwork.com/mens-college-basketball/kent-state-rob-senderoff-become-fordham-head-coach/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Zip Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 8:10 PM, zipsrule said: https://collegefootballnetwork.com/mens-college-basketball/kent-state-rob-senderoff-become-fordham-head-coach/ Expand Charles Guthrie got his man 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72 Roo Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 Does Kent now go after Dustin Ford? That's where I would go if I were AD there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 9:43 PM, 72 Roo said: Does Kent now go after Dustin Ford? That's where I would go if I were AD there. Expand You can't think rationale. You're talking about the guy who hired Kenni Burns. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWAkron Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 9:43 PM, 72 Roo said: Does Kent now go after Dustin Ford? That's where I would go if I were AD there. Expand I was going to type this theory merely as satire. No effing way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 I saw a statistic on the NIT game the other night that Senderoff has never had a losing record as a head coach. I couldn't believe that was true so I looked it up and since he's only ever been a head coach at Kent, it is true. He's had three seasons where he was exactly .500 but he has never had a losing record. I still bet he'll wake up in cold sweats in the middle of the night at Fordham thinking of Akron. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illini Zip Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 3/27/2025 at 10:17 PM, MDZip said: I saw a statistic on the NIT game the other night that Senderoff has never had a losing record as a head coach. I couldn't believe that was true so I looked it up and since he's only ever been a head coach at Kent, it is true. He's had three seasons where he was exactly .500 but he has never had a losing record. I still bet he'll wake up in cold sweats in the middle of the night at Fordham thinking of Akron. Expand So you’re not predicting a home and home with Fordham anytime soon. Edited March 27 by Illini Zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWAkron Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 TOS PCCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted March 27 Author Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 5:32 PM, ZipsBBjunkie said: I know and can appreciate the passion involved with hating our rival, but I'm genuinely curious is Senderoff truly a bad person/awful individual that warrants wanting his career to tank? Maybe Ford and Christian were in fact awful individuals, but I've heard Pinky is actually friends with both Groce and Dambrot, running in the same local coaching circles and all with mutual respect for one another? I think in terms of fandom and rivalries we have one of the best and I think most underrated nationally, but wishing someone ill will, just wondering if it is warranted by something specific? Expand I dislike him a lot less now that he's gone. That's kind of the point- I disliked him primarily because he was the rival's coach. He did other things along the way that irritated me like the Dodgers/Yankees reference and discounting the games when Akron would win. To his credit, he always kept PCCC competitive. Groce spoke highly of him and that tempered my disdain for him. I regret not trademarking "Mr. Pinky". I think now it loses its value! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZipsBBjunkie Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 11:17 PM, clarkwgriswold said: I dislike him a lot less now that he's gone. That's kind of the point- I disliked him primarily because he was the rival's coach. He did other things along the way that irritated me like the Dodgers/Yankees reference and discounting the games when Akron would win. To his credit, he always kept PCCC competitive. Groce spoke highly of him and that tempered my disdain for him. I regret not trademarking "Mr. Pinky". I think now it loses its value! Expand You definitely could have had a Pinky tshirt and gear side hustle going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 Kenni Burns placed on admin leave. Oddly it happens on the same day national reports say Fordham will be hiring Pinky. I wonder if Kent is using the Fordham buyout to help buy themselves out of Kenni's contract 🤔 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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