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  1. I thought it funny that the young men Arth praised were our only P5 transfers. Think we only have 2. I don't think any JUCO transfers have really done anything the last couple years. We have not been active at all in the transfer portal and there are plenty of upperclassmen there. Arth mentions only 5 players have had spring ball. This is very concerning. Sorry men but you don't win much with nothing but Freshman and no upperclassmen to speak of.
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  2. This would seem to be a logical fit...
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  3. I believe Domonick Holley, never made it, like all the kids from East but in his defense looks like Eric has good grades, will see, i wish him the best Correction - I guess they are cousins
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  4. Nope Hope he does better than his brother did, want to correct myself, i guess they are cousins
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  5. Former Zip video coordinator from 2017-2021 Evann Baker was recently hired as an assistant there. Must've wanted to finish up closer to home. Now playing for Damon Stoudamire.
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  6. Sorry to get you pissed off again. I love your posts. We need to support this program, and all Zip programs, that reach excellence. We also need to expect excellence of the ones that aren't there. I'd tell the coaches you are either on the way to excellence or on the way out, you decide. Now go have a beer and lower that BP.
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  7. Because it's now more evident than ever that via a relatively small investment in facilities and a coach, your non-P5 brand and university can be featured on national tv winning a National Championship against a Big Ten team and perrenial powerhouse. To me, that's better than playing in a no-name bowl game or the NIT every year. Even if it doesn't get the alumni as excited, the exposure is better. Winning a game in the NCAA basketball tournament is about the only realistic thing that tops this achievement, but in Akron's case, we literally have one more men's soccer national championship than we do NCAAT wins in basketball. When or how else would Akron or Marshall win a D-1 team national championship? I live out-of-state, and when I tell people that I went to Akron, if nothing else, they know our powerful soccer brand. That's a great return on investment.
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  8. This was only the 2nd time Marshall has been in the NCAA Tournament. The first time was in 2019 as an 11 seed and a Sweet 16. Marshall beat WVU in the 2nd round 2-1 in front of 2,121 (standing room only as Hoops Family Field holds 1006) only to fall 4-1 and 6 seed Washington. Marshall didn't have a proper soccer facility until 2013. They played on a field pushed up against Joan C Edwards stadium from 1993 to 2012. That is when Hoops Family Field at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex opened. Coach Grassie plays a style I don't think Ive really ever seen before. He plays a deep position ball control with an attacking front when he has numbers. He has stated his goal is to wear the other team out and let them make the mistake. Our defense and GKer only allowed 7 goals on the season and no more than 1 in regulation. Oliver Semmle also had 12 Clean Sheets (the most in the country). As far as mid major ADs thinking on soccer, I don't think that is gonna change. When at their school, soccer is probably the last and worst sport on their totem pole. Its much easier to just cut the sport rather than invest in it. I can remember back to the spring of 2011 when the AD at Marshall showed plans to build a soccer complex. It was met with "Why", "Do you really need to spend money on that", "That money should be spent on football and basketball", and other comments.
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  9. I don't think it's Embick's mess. It's the university's and the AD's. Embick is getting poor support for a program that considers itself in the top 5 in the country. He has had a volunteer coach taken away, a director of administration taken away. The university refused to honor scholarships this past season for seniors who were granted an extra year to play this spring. The soccer alumni funded those scholarships. Recruiting and travel budgets have been cut 20%. Jared is a better coach than this situation deserves. Yet he has hung in there. He is human and has made mistakes, but he is a fantastic asset for us and he will win if supported. Make no mistake, he wants to be at Akron. Just support him. That $100,000 spent by Miller to find the AD who reported to him at UWGB could have done wonders for our premier sport.
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