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Ivey's given us much more energy out there. Antino, of course, is pure energy.

^^Why can we so easily see that but guys who've been playing ball all their lives can't?

Let these guys shoot jumpers & stop getting beat off the dribble. These guys can't shoot straight & are just looking to drive to the basket.

^^I take that back about Utomi. That's Ivey in there.

Great move by Antino! Here comes Utomi.

So far we're laying an all-too-typical Akron egg.

I actually prefer one cupcake.

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-soccer-newly-blond-sean-sepe-sparks-zips-second-most-goals-in-ncaa-play-rutgers-falls-6-1-1.642604# “They scored five goals in 13 minutes,” Rutgers coach Dan Donigan said. “You can’t do that in this game, especially against an Akron. “They were exceptional in every facet of the game. They bottled us up defensively. They were getting incredible numbers into the attack and their movement off the ball along our back line was something I’ve never really seen before and I’ve been in the game a long, long time.”

Well, I'll get this thread started as I'm anxious for this game already. IMHO, this is a huge game if we want to obtain a regular-season Top 25 ranking. If we can crack the Top 25 early in the season maybe we can start to fill the JAR for games other than those against Ohio, Buffalo & Can't. Green Bay is 1-3, with their only win coming against Minnesota-Duluth, an NCAA D-II school. However, the Phoenix gave Stanford all they could handle, in losing to the Cardinal 89-93 in OT. UWGB then got beat by a very tough East Tennessee State, 90-103. ETSU is 3-1 on the year with an impressive 69-68 win over Georgia Tech in Atlanta. This while UWGB got demolished by GT 77-107. (ETSU, however, was also beaten by Villanova 86-51, so lost to the Wildcats by 35, whereas we "only" lost to Villanova by 19. But now I'm really daisy-chaining.) If we were at full strength I'd be fully confident about Tuesday's game. But we are far from that. The loss of Pat worries me the most as now we only have 2 true bigs and one (Cheatham) doesn't really like playing down low and the other (Big Dog) might really struggle playing 30+ minutes. Additionally, we've been on the road for a while & might be tired. But... Go Zips, beat the Phoenix! Get through this game and we've got a couple easier games to play at home while we get healthy. After Villanova, I think we should be favored to win every game the rest of the regular season (save, perhaps, CMU) which is pretty crazy to think about. Mission: Top 25!!

I love the solid blue uniform combo, btw.

Last I heard not till after Christmas break... at the earliest.

http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/soccer-men/d1 As I post this the Sweet 16 consists of... Akron Wake Forest Syracuse Creighton Indiana Maryland Boston College Georgetown Notre Dame Ohio State Still playing... Clemson -vs- Elon SMU -vs- Denver UCLA -vs- Seattle North Carolina -vs- Coastal Carolina Stanford -vs- Santa Clara South Carolina -vs- UC Santa Barbara

I think I just heard in the post game show that Kretzer may have broke a rib. Probably why Utomi's redshirt was burned.

Saw that too. Interesting. Coaching staff must be really high on Isaiah Williams coming in next year to burn Utomi's redshirt this year. I hope Utomi gets sufficient minutes to develop & make burning his redshirt worth it.

Spot on. I'm getting butterflies already.

I was listening to 1350 and this was also Frenchy's opinion.

They've played Penn State close, held BUGS to 28 & blew out OU. On the other hand they got blown out by CMU & just squeaked by Can't. I have zero idea of what to expect today. Huge game.

Very nice article by GT on JB1. http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/ua-football-linebacker-jatavis-brown-making-a-name-for-himself-as-a-possible-nfl-player-while-leading-zips-defense-1.641311 I didn't realize he just passed Jason Taylor as UA's all-time sack leader. JB1

I see this game is on the SEC Network. Is there anyway we'll be able to watch this game?

I'm a huge Josh Williams fan, in fact I'm using his name as a password right now. Lol. But he seems to be struggling more than I anticipated he would.

Can't game needs to be played early in the season - maybe 1st conference game? Either Buffalo or Ohio could be played on "Rivalry Week." I'd bet Ohio's rivalry with us is more intense than their rivalry with Miami is. I know they're right up there with Can't for me. I love to hate Ohio. And I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual.

http://www.gozips.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/releases/20151112n0sc5p

Did Jordan Davis sign?

I believe today was the early-signing day? Any news?

Agreed. If Canton McKinley's soccer team was still in the state playoffs there'd be a daily Sports Section front page story about them in the Canton Repository. Very strange disconnect with the ABJ.