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Thankfully, college basketball and NHL. The NBA is unwatchable, and beyond the Zips, college football bores me to death anymore.

Ragging on Miami's schedule is independent of Akron's schedule. Miami didn't even try to schedule tougher competition. Nobody is bragging about Akron's schedule outside of the margin of victory, which is far greater than Miami's margin of victory vs. even lesser competition. The ragging will continue. Miami is in for a rude awakening come MAC play I feel.

Miami and Travis = Buffalo and Nate 9th seed. Unstoppable unless they get tripped up by NIU.

Maybe the rest of the MAC should go for the easiest schedules possible (provided they win them). Gives us a shot at a real Q1 win.

You typed all that out just to further my point. Their win @ Wright State is better than any of our wins. In fact, it very well might end up being a Q2 win come March. Their NET is better than Iona and Miami got their win on the road while we got ours on a neutral court. They also have 2 Q3 wins to our 1. I'm not saying they're better. I'm more pointing out the fact we also just beat up on cupcakes during OOC play (evident by the fact all but 1 of our wins were Q4 wins). The better teams we played we lost to. We also played a very weak OOC schedule (#252 per kenpom). Not as weak as Miami who had the 4th worst (#362), but still nothing to brag about.

I’ll give you the practice facility and Miami hockey’s arena, but Yager Stadium itself was a dump when I went in 2019, and I’ve heard the locker rooms are equally as bad. I actually think the locker rooms are a bigger selling point than the stadium which Akron had state of the art when I was a student. Plus, Miami has the worst hoops setup in the country.

The MLS 2026 Super Draft takes place Thursday, December 18, 2026 at 2 pm ET. https://www.mlssoccer.com/superdraft/news/mls-superdraft-2026-tracker-order-selections Here is the list of draft eligible players...https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/2026-mls-superdraft-eligible-players Akron players listed: Remi Agunbiade (2025 So) Mitch Budler (2025 Sr) Stefan Dobrijevic (2025 Sr) Ashton Kamdem (2025 Sr) Freddy Kossahasse (2025 Jr)

Miami OH's schedule thus far (Where, Opponent, NET, Score, Result)... Q1 Games None Q2 Games None Q3 Games @ - UNC Asheville (229 NET): 90-87 OT W @ Wright State (146 NET): 83-76 W(Wright State shot 14% from 3P vs. Miami OH's 53%) Q4 Games Home - Old Dominion (245 NET): 87-72 W @ - Air Force (303 NET): 76-61 W Home - Mercyhurst (318 NET): 76-71 W Home - Ark. Pine Bluff (296 NET): 111-84 W Neutral - UNC Greensboro (295 NET): 82-71 W Home - Maine (330 NET): 93-61 W @ - Eastern Kentucky (289 NET): 79-69 Akron's Schedule... Q1 Games @ - Purdue (9 NET): 79-97 L Neutral - Yale (45 NET): 94-97 L Q2 Games Neutral - Murray St. (80 NET): 100-115 L Q3 Games Neutral - Iona (160 NET): 96-75 W Q4 Games Home - James Madison (200 NET): 85-71 W Home - Princeton (298 NET): 104-69 W Netural - Evansville (282 NET): 97-59 W Home - Milwaukee (248 NET): 105-81 W Home - Bucknell (311 NET): 97-77 W @ - Tulane (260 NET): 88-71 W Miami OH Opponent Average NET: 272.33 Miami OH Average Margin of Victory: 13.89 Akron Opponent Average NET: 189.3 Akron Victory Average NET: 251.29 Akron Average Margin of Victory: 24.14 Conclusion: Akron has played vastly better opponents, their average victory is against tougher opponents, and their margin of victory is substantially larger. Miami OH scheduling ragging will continue.

Thanks for passing this along TennZip. Rarely do you read an article where the interviewed athlete has such mature and articulate comments. Jason is another example of the exceptional quality of young men who come thru the Akron soccer program.

The profoundly annoying Drum Chant backdrop returns...

We rag on Miami for their weak schedule, but their road win @ Wright State is better than any win we have during OOC play.

Best facilities in the MAC? You need to visit Miami's football building. And before you point to InfoCision, remember that an empty stadium isn't much of a recruiting asset.

And as a reward for Miami playing that extraordinarily difficult out of conference schedule, they start with cream puff Ball State.

Arghh my bracket was off, it was Princeton. Because of the way they position the brackets I messed up Akron's victory over Duke. Duke beat Princeton and Princeton lost their first game to Duke.

Finally, I was getting worried they weren't gonna do a basketball version this year

Miami OH survived their toughest test to date. The team with the weakest SOS going into the night finally played a team in the top 200 in NET - a Q3 opportunity at Wright State (138 night going into the night). Miami OH was up by 12 at the half and won by 7. They shot 55% from the field and 53% from 3P, only winning by 7 despite Wright State going 3-21 (14%!!!!) from 3P and 43% from the field. The Sweaters will continue to get AP Top 25 votes despite playing absolute creampuffs. Toledo got throttled by Michigan State. BUGS creamed a lowly Chicago State. NIU and Ohio beat non DI opponents. Not including last night's games, the MAC currently has 9 teams in the top 200 NET. Only WMU, NIU, CMU, and Balls are outside the top 200; the latter 3 are all 300+.

Hopefully our coaching staff can stay in place for the foreseeable future and actually build something at UA. That is the one thing that has held us back. Hiring two of the worst head coaches in FBS history has dug us in a hole that is hard to come out of. Also doesn't help that people in NE Ohio only care about one college football team and it's not us. So there will always be this reputation that the Zips aren't a "real" school and our games don't matter.

Lunardi has us as a 12-seed: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions?appsrc=sc&RuleNumber=Not Applicable&consent_mode=ccpa

Excellent article on Jason Shokalook. article has many quotes from Jason. https://rg.org/news/soccer/mls-next-pro-mvp-jason-shokalook-road-top-american-soccer

So in every tournament where a team wins five or six games, there is also a team that theoretically loses five or six. That team this year is Michigan. Washington beat NC State who beat St. Louis who beat Akron who beat Notre Dame who beat Michigan. Congrats Wolverines!

Do you have general admission season tickets? If so, I might have to do that too.

The last memorable EMU game for me was a couple of years ago when Emoni Bates was 1-12 from the field and I think we were beating them by 50 points at some point in the 2nd half.

Student for a day tickets are available in the Student Section. Got my tickets transferred to there.

I just remember being shocked at not only the dunk but the game as whole. I felt much better a week later when we won the MAC Tournament. 😆