I feel really sorry for the kid (Rollins I guess), but my goodness, that foul was dumb.
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Saying it was dumb is being kind.
Perfect illustration of why I wouldn’t have played this game even with house money from Y5.
Akron wins MAC men’s basketball tourney final over Kent. Zips coach John Groce earns $52,000 in bonuses: $20,000 for conf tourney title, $32,000 for the NCAA tournament bid. Rollins deserves a cut of that, tbh…
Kent happen to a better team
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He can negotiate that in his next NIL deal
To be forever remembered as “That Guy”…
This is a perfectly titled article. @The_Sackman did you write it?
It was a dumb foul for sure - basically a brain fart. I have trouble making too much of it.
I remember the long-term negative impact of costly mistakes on people like Billy Buckner, Steve Bartman, and the Michigan kid who called a TO when the Wolverines didn’t have one left. I also remember personally watching young Huskies QB Warren Moon throw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock once on fourth down against UCLA. And there’s always the fat pitch Donnie Moore served up to David Henderson that cost California a World Series title. That ended tragically down the road.
I think we need short memories in terms of fixing blame and compassion for those who make critical mistakes in sports.
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The Michigan kid was Chris Webber. Rated #1 his sr yr in high school. All American (IIRC). And, as far as I am concerned, a dirt bag cheater who got $600,000 while at UM. I was very close to Bud Middaugh when he was at UM. I heard a great deal about that entire situation before it became public.
Couldn’t have happened to a better kid. I feel bad for the KSU player. I laughed when Webber fucked up.
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The Michigan kid who called the timeout was Chris Webber. I think he turned out just fine. Really he just saved Michigan the indignity years later of removing a national championship banner along with the Final Four banner.
The person who really gets forgotten is Georgetown’s Fred Brown who just casually threw the ball to James Worthy in the closing seconds of the ‘82 title game. Brown somehow managed to escape eternal scapegoat status. I’m sure part of it is that it’s better to say “Michael Jordan hit the game-winner in the national title game” than “Random Georgetown player throws away chance to win it” but still the fact that his name isn’t included alongside Donnie Moore and Bartman (seriously Cubs, don’t boot the double play ball and Bartman is never known) is kind of baffling.
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MHT would cease to exist. It would literally blow up and somehow leave a sizable crater somewhere.
Probably the biggest recent flub belongs to Mario Cristobal for not taking a knee against GT. But he makes $8 million a year and can afford personal protection against crazies.
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I got my ass handed to me betting Houston Cougar -6 vs Iowa State, but I really didn’t feel that bad after watching the Kent State play. Why? Because there were likely a few millions of bucks on Kent St MONEYLINE that just plain ol’ vaporized due to the KSU foul.
Maybe it’s Karma for the whole Morgan deal. Some of our bad luck exited Millett Hall with him and inadvertently infected Kent! I reverse curse of the Bambino if you will. Either way, glad to see Akron win and I think they can win a game in the tourney.
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Chris Webber played in the NBA for 15 years and is in the hall of fame. I think he did okay for himself.
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And Warren Moon recovered from the mistake well, too. The others not so much. The most agregious ever was probably the Colombia soccer player that someone had murdered after a critical mistake. My point is there are so many armed crazies roaming around that it is dangerous to place too much emphasis on mistakes athletes make.
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Webber traveled about 7 seconds before he called the time-out, and the refs ignored it, so Michigan deserved that L.
Is it possible Rollins thought they had a foul to give? Though that wouldn’t make sense, either, cuz Akron had just missed the front end of a 1-and-1.
He thought they were behind
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