Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA athletes fail to qualify
- UA’s Alexis Cooks wins discus with school-record throw
- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
- Marla Ridenour: From walk-on to champion: UA’s Alex McCune finds his niche
- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
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For coaching jobs, bigger not always better
Men's basketball
Terry Pluto wrote an insightful column today about the MAC's coaches.
One point made a lot of sense to me:
"[Jim] Christian and [Gary] Waters both were far from their recruiting bases. Both were at schools where basketball was a lost cause for years. Both discovered they could not turn the situation around, no matter how hard they worked."
Leaving for a good opportunity is one thing (see John Groce), and it's an excellent long-term decision. Leaving for just a bigger check is another, and it often results in lost years.
All of this is to say, Keith Dambrot made the right call by turning down an extra $200,000 per year at Duquesne.
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