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Richie's awesome goal got noticed by Top Drawer Soccer. http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91stminute/2014/04/akron-freshman-hits-stunning-goal-in-spring-game/

@Zach, Sorry, I live out of the state and there is no buzz anywhere about Tressel becoming the President of UofA. Everyone I have brought it up to only rolls their eyes. Only in Ohio do people think the name Tressel and his association with tosu matters. Most people now remember him as a disgraced college football coach. That's exactly the type of buzz we should be trying to stay away from. I worry about the admittance of students (and their parents by extension) who think Tressel would make UofA a real university. We should be keeping this kind of childish thinking out of our school. Improving academic profile by letting more people in? Doesn't that just bump up the number of students at a university? So, we let in an extra 5,000 to get 50 really good students and the rest can have weekly appointments in the Encouraging Department? Terrible idea and plan if you ask me. It seems to me that the academic profile of a university is increased by top notch academic programs(which Tressel has never been involved with), hiring top notch professors (which Tressel has no experience in), securing research grants (which Tressel has no experience in or experience in hiring people who do), teaching the newest and greatest to top notch students (which Tressel has no experience in). tosu is the flagship university of Ohio. They are going to get a disproportionate amount of state funding. It's something we have to live with. I see nothing in Tressel's resume, with the exception of his hiring "encouragers" (makes me feel like I'm writing about a pre-school) or his ESPY nomination that says to me he knows how to maneuver in the halls of government. Again, Tressel is the most flimsy of the candidates and shouldn't even be in the final three. He is a football coach, not a serious candidate for a university presidents position. It is a childish road UofA has taken.

P.S. I think we can close the book on Abreu.

Wow! I will be smiling about that video for hours.

@fknbuflobo, I found this a week or so ago and forgot to mention it at the Spring match vs Louisville. It answers your question about why the Crew didn't sign Eric Stevenson as a homegrown. http://www.soccerwire.com/news/pro/akron-senior-eric-stevenson-overcomes-chronic-injuries-to-play-in-mls-combine/ "After the season, he was in talks with the Crew to sign a Homegrown Player contract, but the league deemed that Stevenson had not trained enough hours with the first team the past two years. ... His lack of training hours in Columbus stemmed from playing for the Seattle Sounders FC Under-23s in the Premier Development League in summer 2013."

I cannot make this one for many of the reasons cited above. I expect someone to step up and provide some sort of recap here. Please.

14 women's scholarships and four MAC-level coach's salaries are an "unbelievable drain" on a 26,000 student university? Who knew?

Aero design team breaks record, finishes 1st in international competition http://www.uakron.edu/im/online-newsroom/news_details.dot?newsId=ec16fc25-a28e-436f-87be-2c38b1f88a9f#.U1Z1xiS3KIA GO Zips!