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  1. Hello all! First post here, nice to meet you all. I'm a season ticket holder (first year!) and glad I found an online community of fellow Zip fans! Would be a nice win this weekend. Ohio is 0-4, so there is a chance! Starting off MAC play 1-0 would be great! Also, since I am bringing a group of people with me, we want to do some tailgating. What are the best lots? Thank you. GO ZIPS!
    5 points
  2. https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/ In the United Soccer coaches poll, the West Virginia moved up to #3 in this week's rankings (they were #4 last week) One of the 24 coaches voting...voted West Virginia as #1. The Zips dropped from #20 in last week's ranking.....to #26 The soccer coaches rate the Zips as the 3rd best team in the MAC. Bowling Green is 7-1-1 and stayed at #17 in the weekly rankings. To side track for just a second...it is interesting to look at some big name schools that are not in the top 25. Indiana is #30 ; North Carolina is #31 ; Stanford is #34 ; Wake Forest is #40 Getting back to West Virginia West Virginia is 6-0-2......and is a team that is fully capable of reaching the college cup in December I think that it is safe to say (that if you exclude Akron teams), this is the best MAC team in the past 15 years This is the toughest MAC season opener that any Zip team has ever faced. West Virginia began this season with a huge chip on their shoulder. West Virginia deserved a berth in last year's NCAA tourney. They had a regular season win over eventual NCAA champion Marshall and they thoroughly destroyed at large selection Charlotte 3-0. West Virginia ended the year around #15 in RPI. West Virginia deserved to be in last spring's NCAA tourney West Virginia did not receive one top 25 vote in the preseason coaches poll. WVA is 6-0-2 they started the year with a 2-0 win over Robert Morris. In their 2nd game, they hosted then #3 rated Pitt. WVU came away with a 2-1 win 3rd game, they hosted then #17 ranked Penn State. WVU won that game 3-1 On Labor day, they hosted Loyola (MD). That game ended 0-0 5th game, they hosted the Ohio State Buckeyes. WVU added another shutout in a 1-0 win they then travelled to #6 Marshall. After 110 minutes, it was a 2-2 result On Sept. 21, they hosted Dayton and WVU won 3-0 On Sept. 25, they hosted St. Bonaventure and WVU dominated in a 4-0 win. in 5 of their 8 games, they have shutout their opponent. They have only allowed goals to Pitt, Penn State, and Marshall. (2 of those 3 teams were ranked in the top 6, other team was ranked #17) 17 goals scores in 8 games. Only 4 goals allowed. West Virginia coach Dan Stratford is one of the great young soccer coaches in the game https://wvusports.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/coaches/dan-stratford/3999 3 years at the University of Charleston (WV) - 61-4-5 record....Division II national champion in 2 out of 3 years This is his 2nd season as WVU coach. This is a team with great depth. 11 different players have scored goals for them. Yoran Popovic leads them with 3 goals. Frederik Jorgenson has 2 goals and 2 assists. Kevin Morris has 2 goals and 1 assist. Pau Jimenez Abelda has 1 goal and 3 assists. The zips will have to get off to a quick start in this game. In the past 2 games, Malik Henry has been fantastic early on and put the ball on a forwards foot in the first 5 minutes of both games. In both games, the zips striker did not convert. To use a Jared Embick term, the zips need to be very clinical and put the ball in the net early in the game. The zips were not at full strength - player wise against Yale. Hopefully, all of the backline players are back healthy. The zips have proven that they can compete with Indiana and Pitt. West Virginia is every bit as good....possibly better than last year's college cup teams. The zips can get a win......But they need to regain their confidence....BE CLINICAL early in the game. Huge Challenge for a young team. Go, Zips !!!
    3 points
  3. Less overhead. No $550k head coaches. Vast administrative costs and recruiting budgets. Far fewer scholarship dollars spent. Just to name a few.
    2 points
  4. What utter nonsense. In what UNIVERSE are you living in? Seriously...it's not the 1920s. Precisely ZERO people watched that game and went "GeE I mIgHt Go To AkRoN" like come on. Getting drummed by OSU on not-national television does nothing for enrollment or notoriety, nor does it help with any level of advertising. Akron played a hell of a game against Tennessee in 2012, and followed that up by almost beating Michigan in 2013. If that contention is true, that it "helps with enrollment" there should have been a bump no? At the very least maintained right? UA's enrollment in Fall 2012 was 30,000. In Fall 2013 it was 27,000. Which was the verge of a half-decade of constant declining enrollment which in large part created the financial mess the University has been in for nearly a decade, because it was built on the debt-mirage of constant growth. This is the same tired, easily debunkable argument made to justify ridiculous spending by administrators who want to pad their resume. Kinda unbelievable to see people on this board still making it lit it's a serious argument.
    2 points
  5. Lots 9 and 10 are best for tailgating. Irons is out for concussion protocol. May be cleared by Saturday. Nelson will start if he doesn't have any setbacks. Gibson played well in the 3 minutes he did play on Saturday. Looked composed and confident. Our QBs are not our problem.
    1 point
  6. DII allows 36 football scholarships. I believe they also allow partials.
    1 point
  7. All those other levels spend less money for the cost of scholarships. D2, D3, and NAIA spend zero. FCS still less than FBS.
    1 point
  8. I mean, other than the checks being cut during weeks 1-4, it already is that way. The "non-conference" schedule has morphed into the "preseason schedule." All we're waiting on now is for the "haves" to formalize it. And if these super conferences are finalized before the CFP expands to 8+ teams, we can probably kiss goodbye any opportunity for G5 teams to gain access. Would be cool if FBS pulled off some sort of relegation system like European professional soccer, but the odds of that are probably worse than mine are for winning the Powerball jackpot tomorrow.
    1 point
  9. not much here other than they are thin on offensive linemen. https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2021/09/ohio-bobcats-football-tim-albin-press-conference-akron I've also seen that Kurtis Rourke is out with a knee injury
    1 point
  10. Going to ball st from Stetson. Per VC
    1 point
  11. I used to fight back against this idea, until about 5 years ago. The Western Michigan Broncos in 2016 were the best MAC team to ever take the field. They beat two Big Ten teams in nonconference and destroyed every single MAC team they faced. How were they rewarded? A trip to the Cotton Bowl for a fancy exhibition game in which they lost to Wisconsin by 8. Never even a whiff of a national championship or playoff of any kind. Now would I LOVE for Akron to miraculously be that good some day? Absolutely! But when you are perfect and unbeatable for 13 games and your reward is essentially just another bowl game, I start to question what the point is. I understand there is a somewhat valid exposure argument, plus money gained through TV contracts. However, how do you weigh having a legendary football team going on a run vs. the basketball program going on a similar run? I am very curious to know which is more "worth it" if you're successful, being big time G5 football, or being a top mid-major basketball program that wins in the NCAA tournament.
    1 point
  12. Exactly. Ultimately, what's the difference between a loss by 21 at Iowa State with a $800,000 pay out and a 40 point loss at Auburn with a $1.8 million pay out? A million $ left on the table. I bet the athletic department searches for the biggest pay out they can find.
    1 point
  13. Isn't there a market dimension to this? Don't the blue bloods tend to pay more for their buy-games? So, the question may be, how much money are you willing to leave on the table to avoid playing someone. And is that fiscally responsible?
    1 point
  14. The following year, when Lee Owens was hired was the year I really started following the Zips closely. But I remember that game. I had hope for the Zips' future then (yep, hope's been springing in my heart for 27 years) because in that game the Zips started a true-freshman QB named Brian Magrell (sp?) & came away with the epic W. Brian's one of the better athletes to have come out of my proud alma mater, Green HS. (That's not saying a whole lot 😂)
    1 point
  15. The Wishful Thinking Universe. My mother always said, "Make a wish or crap in your hat. See which one fills up first." The exposure argument is made by G5 athletic directors right before they do something in their own self interest that harms the school they work for.
    1 point
  16. I definitely will! My family is all from Tennessee, and my cousin and I were both in college at Akron and UT when they played last. Looking forward to making the journey down there again
    1 point
  17. As opposed to the seasons since that have been nothing but 💩?
    1 point
  18. I've heard the exposure argument for years. How are these exposure games working out for G5 schools? As far as I can tell, we've never been as far behind the P5 schools as we are now.
    1 point
  19. I haven't seen D1 level play or coaching. Perhaps the program isn't D level after all.
    1 point
  20. Surprised we still had an open date for next year. I went to the Pitt game at Tennessee last week. Awesome place, anyone that's able to go should try to make the trip down
    1 point
  21. Did Irons leave the game Saturday because he was hurt? I certainly didn't notice that. But if he is out, that would explain the line and I would expect the Zips to lose big. And if he were to miss extended time, then I think Arth would ultimately be done. Now this is all I'll be able to think about all week. Great.
    0 points
  22. I don't fall into the camp which thinks all publicity is good publicity. I'd rather have none than this: Additionally, we don't need potential recruits seeing stuff like this nor any thoughts being put in DJ's head. (He "liked" the tweet.)
    0 points
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