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Topic: Stay Classy Akron

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Chicken George
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Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/16/2015 11:03:54 PM

Akron 100
Hiram 30

FINAL

Last Edited: 11/16/2015 11:04:14 PM by Chicken George

That one crazy fan
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/16/2015 11:33:54 PM

Who is Hiram?

The opposing team sucks!

Chicken George
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/16/2015 11:48:03 PM

Believe they're an OAC team---same league as Marietta College.

nycbobcat
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 12:12:48 AM

Hiram Abiff ! .. "woe, Is there no mercy for the widows son?"
(for all you Free and Accepted Masons out there) Ha Ho Ho!

Last Edited: 11/17/2015 12:18:40 AM by nycbobcat

Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 12:40:38 AM

Chicken George wrote:

Believe they're an OAC team---same league as Marietta College.

They used to be OAC, now they are NCAC. They never competed well in the OAC.

bobcatsquared
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 5:50:10 AM

If you like that, Miami plays Kenyon tonight.

MariettaCatFanatic
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 7:09:18 AM

Hiram finished 9th out of 10 teams in the NCAC last year. Akron had no business playing these guys, they're pretty poor even by Division III standards.

Last Edited: 11/17/2015 7:10:09 AM by MariettaCatFanatic

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OU_Country
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 8:50:05 AM

Not that I'm sticking up for Zippy, but we're playing Ohio Dominican in a month...that's not exactly a bragging rights game either.

UpSan Bobcat
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 10:33:40 AM

OU_Country wrote:

Not that I'm sticking up for Zippy, but we're playing Ohio Dominican in a month...that's not exactly a bragging rights game either.

At least Ohio Dominican is Division II with players on scholarship, but of course, Ohio has played Division III schools in the regular season in the past (Marrietta, for example).

Pataskala
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 12:15:03 PM

Akron plays one miserable DII or DIII team every year and runs up the score. They have absolutely no shame. I've never seen us run up the score on a lower division team.

Last Edited: 11/17/2015 12:16:05 PM by Pataskala

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Jeff McKinney
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 12:41:12 PM

Absolutely no comparison btwn Hiram and Ohio Dominican. As others have said, Hiram is weak even by Div III standards. Dominican plays Div II ball in the GLIAC, one of the toughest Div II conferences.

Agree that Akron should find a decent small college team for a tuneup rat her than Hiram.

perimeterpost
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 1:42:33 PM

Here's a list of DIII teams playing MAC teams this week alone-

Hiram @ Akron
Alma @ CMU
Kenyon @ Miami
Eureka @ NIU

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

Jeff McKinney
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 1:48:08 PM

Alma is usually respectable, would more likely serve as a decent tuneup game for a Div I team.

Eureka is the alma mater of Ronald Reagan. Other than that, I've never hearD of them being a good Div III basketball school.

71 BOBCAT
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 1:53:17 PM

This game only serves their stats as they will show is huge point differential.

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Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 1:58:05 PM

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

OU_Country wrote:

Not that I'm sticking up for Zippy, but we're playing Ohio Dominican in a month...that's not exactly a bragging rights game either.

At least Ohio Dominican is Division II with players on scholarship, but of course, Ohio has played Division III schools in the regular season in the past (Marrietta, for example).

At least Marietta goes deep in the D3 NCAA tourny, and it is a fun (and historical) regional match with great attendance.

Alan Swank
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 5:28:02 PM

This is interesting. Look at all of the schools that were in the OAC at one time including OU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Athletic_Conference

LuckySparrow
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 5:58:21 PM

I can't get too worked up about this. I wish they'd schedule slightly better non-Div I opponents, but whatever.

What a day at the Convo.....Wow!

MariettaCatFanatic
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 6:36:52 PM

I said that Hiram was 9th out 10 teams in the NCAC...that last place team was Kenyon. Well done Miami. Alma is a very respectable squad just down the road from Central Michigan, much like Marietta is to Athens. Eureka is a middle of the road team out of the SLIAC conference, one of the bottom rung conferences in Division III. The NCAC and OAC are def. in the upper tier of DIII conferences.

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Andrew Ruck
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/17/2015 11:21:31 PM

[McKinney]Hiram really had a tough night and struggled to ever get it going. They are dealing with injuries to their strong forward and backup point guard, as well as turnover in the graduate assistant slot. They've proven before that they can make some noise however, and in fact trailed Our Lady of Peace College (a very very respectable program) by just 12 in the 2nd half a couple years ago.[/McKinney]

Last Edited: 11/18/2015 8:07:22 AM by Andrew Ruck

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MariettaCatFanatic
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 6:56:40 AM

Alma played CMU very tough last night and was within 10 deep into the 2nd half.

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Jeff McKinney
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 8:47:58 AM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Well, bobcat695's Parkersburg YMCA team beat Hiram, so that's really struggling.

ts1227
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 9:12:37 AM

OU_Country wrote:

At least Marietta goes deep in the D3 NCAA tourny, and it is a fun (and historical) regional match with great attendance.

I mean, Hiram is only 30 miles from Akron so they can make regional arguments too

OhioCatFan
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 11:48:46 AM

Hey, don't dis Hiram College . . . one of its alumni became president of the United States. ;-)

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bobcatsquared
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 11:57:03 AM

OhioCatFan wrote:

Hey, don't dis Hiram College . . . one of its alumni became president of the United States. ;-)

Does this mean we can no longer dis Miami? Is it time to delete the "Miami sucks" thread?

Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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RE: Stay Classy Akron

Posted: 11/18/2015 12:21:38 PM

In 1964, we could've had a President named Hiram who didn't go to Hiram.

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