this team is in sad shape. the proof of that is they just lost two games in a row on their own court to teams they should,ve easily beat. instead they shot pathetically bad on a loss to lowly youngstown state. then they blew a 7 point lead with just over 2minutes to play against marshall. apparently an old problem resurfaced. that being a complete in ability to defend against the 3 point shot and on the perimeter. they allowed marshall to blast three 3 point shots and win a game that we should have easily won. looks like a long season that ends with at most 13 or 14 wins and a 1st or 2nd round bounce from the mac tourney. we could well see this team start to resemble the 97-98 team. time to recruit some stronger big men and to quit using the excuse that no one will play you for not scheduling tougher non conference games

We officially have our first Wilderness Campaign reference. So there's that.

Jim Peterson says hello.

Losses to Cleveland State, Youngstown State, AND Marshall equate to a Trifecta of Futility.

Spot on

The glass is not half full, it's half empty.

If any MAC team, much less Ohio, thinks it will win the MAC over Akron, you're drinking Jim Jones kool-aid. I don't believe the MAC has ever had a champion go undefeated in league play, but this Akron team is the one to bet on.

Not because they are so great - their guards are average at best - but no other MAC team can match up with their overall lineup. Shy of the officials nit-picking Freeman enough that he spends extended minutes on the bench no other MAC player can match his production.

With Ali back in the fold the Zips now have a primary/secondary scorer that no other MAC team has as well. Game over.

Based on history, Bobcats, over the long haul, should be able to scramble and grind out enough wins for a Top 4 MAC finish ... But who wants to bet on that?

And as noted by several posters, this is not a very strong year overall for MAC basketball. Ball State is the best team in the league right now based on record. Who's buying that.

NIU, Toledo, Kent show signs, but absolutely no consistency.

Sad to say, even on a bad night (and there will be a couple) Akron will be extremely hard to beat, this season.

So 'Cats should just focus on being the best they can be by March, then hope for the best from there.

Finally a non-doomsday take. Can only imagine the reaction after the Robert Morris and BG losses back-to-back in 11/12. The Marshall loss is bad, but it might be the swift kick this team needed to get it together. YSU and GW aren’t bad losses; Cleveland State is looking more like an annoying loss with how it faired against EMU and Kent.

Still way too early and too much potential. Miles is back this week, that’ll change the dynamic of this team and should help.

If AJB becomes AJB again, we’ll be just fine. I’ll add that a lot of us weren’t too confident in Hadaway heading into this season, now we’re calling for him to start. So, let’s give Ike more than 9 games to get acclimated. Not every recruit and/or transfer is going to boom right away. Hadaway and even Sheldon are perfect examples of that.

I’d still really like to see us utilize JUCO route; even if Miguel was a whiff. Here’s a few examples of success stories this season (granted a few of these guys had stops in the portal in between current school):

https://x.com/jucorecruiting/status/1734605318082969864?s...

More than 1 person. Unless, that is, only 100 applied.

Ha...ya get a game-ball. Molding young minds and posting on BA at the same time. Fantastic performance.

No issues. Teachers, believe it or not, have breaks in the day where they're not teaching. Planning time, lunch, before and after students are in the classroom. To be clear, I'm on lunch break as I type this. I would, however, like to thank you for your concern.

This is a lie. Teachers don't have breaks. They may have times when they don't have students, but they don't have breaks.

Perhaps in the state you live in they don't have breaks. But to make an uninformed comment, saying "This is a lie", as you did, is totally irresponsible. I've spent 18 years volunteering helping elementary school kids in math. The school also has both Spanish immersion and Chinese immersion programs where the class has multiple teachers. At various times in the day one of the two teachers is NOT involved in instruction and can be doing planning or any other number of related activities.

Further, I've seen instances when all students were doing self-directed computer-based learning where the teacher was not directly involved and had the freedom to do other activities. And people such as me or others may have been the contact person for the students.