Game 13- Concord

[roopride]

No Akron or Can’t on TV

[csims0917]

I’m loving seeing the youth showing up to the games. Been seeing a lot of youth basketball and football teams coming to games and filling in for the students. Great for growing the game and the fandom

[Illini Zip]

How does our defensive effort look to those in attendance tonight?

[NWAkron]

10 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

How does our defensive effort look to those in attendance a

still very loosey goosey on 3 point line.  they have 10 3s. 

 

make that 14.

Edited 15 hours ago by NWAkron

[Reslife4Life]

Concord is shooting 31%, but 34% from three

[Illini Zip]

Does Micah Young (Tai Perkins brother) look to be a D1 or D2 talent? He’s having a good game. 

[Reslife4Life]

Tavari just eclipsed the 1000 point mark

[MDZip]

2 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Tavari just eclipsed the 1000 point mark

Only including this game? 😉

[Let'sGoZips94]

36 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

Does Micah Young (Tai Perkins brother) look to be a D1 or D2 talent? He’s having a good game. 

 

How in the deep-dive-hell did you find this factoid?

[clarkwgriswold]

Tough to complain about a 51 point win but the 3-point defense tonight was not great.

[Illini Zip]

16 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

How in the deep-dive-hell did you find this factoid?

The radio. 😬

[HoopsFan03]

Big Stank looked pretty good when he played at the end. Brisco not so much. 

[Zippy87]

My son and his friend stuck around for post-game autographs and the players were great. Really makes it easy to be proud of the program. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

10 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

My son and his friend stuck around for post-game autographs and the players were great. Really makes it easy to be proud of the program. 

 

For the life of me I will not understand why the program does not go all out game in and game out to embrace the youth especially. They do a great job being a program we can all be proud of, don't get me wrong, but as a university that needs that special connection with the community to stand out, they fall short compared to where they could be in this department. Glad to hear your son and his friend had a great interaction though!

[Reslife4Life]

I was not expecting Coach groce to be out there signing autographs but I was surprised to see he was! Not enough good words can be said about him, he was telling all the people in line “thank you for coming out” and was just very appreciative of all the support the fans have for the team

[Hilltopper]

For a Monday night, Christmas break game against a D2 opponent, I thought the attendance was pretty good. It was a fun night.

[ZippyRulz]

11 hours ago, Zips1991 said:

Actually, no. Official attendance, maybe. Which begs the question, when was the last time the official attendance was less than 1,000 outside of covid?

 

I would say it was over 1,000 B.I.S. The announcers mentioned several times they were impressed with the size of the crowd considering

* students on break 

* wintry weather

* weeknight

* weak opponent

 

Of course the atmosphere is not the same without the students and the live pep band. I sat in the student section and my view was obstructed by some heads in front of me. I now realize I much prefer sitting up in the bleachers with a better view and some elbow room.

 

[Reslife4Life]

7 minutes ago, ZippyRulz said:

 

I would say it was over 1,000 B.I.S. The announcers mentioned several times they were impressed with the size of the crowd considering

* students on break 

* wintry weather

* weeknight

* weak opponent

 

Of course the atmosphere is not the same without the students and the live pep band. I sat in the student section and my view was obstructed by some heads in front of me. I now realize I much prefer sitting up in the bleachers with a better view and some elbow room.

 

Now imagine having a back on the sideline bleachers, would be the best seat in the house no doubt 

[Zippy87]

1 hour ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

For the life of me I will not understand why the program does not go all out game in and game out to embrace the youth especially. They do a great job being a program we can all be proud of, don't get me wrong, but as a university that needs that special connection with the community to stand out, they fall short compared to where they could be in this department. Glad to hear your son and his friend had a great interaction though!

 

They do a really good job with youth group experiences. I coached my son's team last season and we did one. They were able to do the high-five tunnel pregame and scrimmage each other at halftime. They all really enjoyed it and the Zips staff was great. I hope they keep looking for ways to connect with kids - it really does matter. 

[Zips1991]

10 hours ago, ZippyRulz said:

 

I would say it was over 1,000 B.I.S. The announcers mentioned several times they were impressed with the size of the crowd considering

* students on break 

* wintry weather

* weeknight

* weak opponent

 

Of course the atmosphere is not the same without the students and the live pep band. I sat in the student section and my view was obstructed by some heads in front of me. I now realize I much prefer sitting up in the bleachers with a better view and some elbow room.

 

I was impressed by the crowd based on all of those factors also. I don't see an official attendance listed in the box score like usual but it was better than some of the other games. The youth teams and family that were in attendance certainly helped. And I don't think they kids will care who the opponent was, they'll remember the Zips winning by 51.

[Reslife4Life]

8 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

I was impressed by the crowd based on all of those factors also. I don't see an official attendance listed in the box score like usual but it was better than some of the other games. The youth teams and family that were in attendance certainly helped. And I don't think they kids will care who the opponent was, they'll remember the Zips winning by 51.

That is why if they do play multiple games against non D1 opponents, one of them should be a noon game during the week and bring out local schools as a field trip. Last night was still fun, but pack in the jar with 3000+ screaming 6th graders