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That is the best half of soccer that I have seen from the Zips since the 2010 year. The young players have shown great improvement. Very happy for Jared Embick and the entire team. Go Zips!

I agree with most of your second rant. The thing you are missing though is that 2 years ago we would have lost all 3 of those games you mentioned. IMHO, that is progress, not enough and certainly not fast enough, but it is progress. I look for next year to be more of a breakout year for Akron. Yea, I know, wait til next year. My biggest concern is that Bowden isn't recruiting at the level I thought he would. He is a known commodity and has the family name. With the facilities we have, Bowden should have Akron in the top 2-3 MAC classes every year.

Thanks for letting me know I had no idea. Hope he gets better soon, we could use him in the backfield.

My feelings exactly. A year ago at this time we were right on track for our fourth 1-11 season. Somehow we recovered at the end of the year and had a surprising win against UT. Lots of fooball to go, I've got my eye on that BG game! I hope there is a TON riding on that game!

Article on turnovers. The above article was written about nfl turnovers. Not sure how close the similarities are between the nfl stats and ncaa stats, but my bet is they are pretty close. The major mistake he makes in the article is attributing turnovers to chance or luck. Turnovers happen because of hustle and concentration. There are few accidents in football. Re-watching this game again isn't going to provide some great clue as to what the coaches did or did not do right. It wouldn't have mattered if they stood on their heads and signaled the plays in through mental telepathy, -3 in turnover margin = almost guaranteed loss. The Zips were +4 turnover margin going into yesterdays game. They are still +1 on the season after yesterdays game. If the Zips can maintain a +1 turnover margin for each of the three quarters of the season remaining, they can win the MAC East. Lastly, "The most dangerous team is a team with confidence and momentum". - Bill Cowher...... When you have as many turnovers as the Zips did yesterday, you are never going to capture either. Turnovers doomed the Zips to a horrible afternoon. Yesterday was really a lesson on how quickly a game can spiral out of control and why they spiral out of control. Turnovers equal easy points. Easy points puts pressure on teams to respond to those points in ways that forces a team out of their game plan. Once you are out of your game plan, you have huge problems. The good news? The Zips are still a team that has forced more turnovers than give up. When they stay within their game plan, they are an effective team and in the top third of MAC schools. Bowden is still a good coach and one bad day doesn't make someone a bad coach Browns fans. They still have some really good players who just happened to have a horrible day yesterday. The MAC is not a good league. Pitt is a beatable team, but early season upsets are more difficult as teams close out the OOC schedule. I didn't think the Zips would win yesterday and I didn't expect them to be any better than 1-2 at this point in the season (I don't expect them to be any better than 1-3 after next week either). I did expect them to play better. I still expect them to win 6-7 games. Yesterday is over.

I believe in one step at a time. You don't go from perennial sucktitude to marquee wins in 1-2 seasons. I am not happy only winning the Mac. But we have a large talent gap. Winning the conference and making a bowl appearance will do wonders for recruiting. Good recruits will help you become a better team. A better team will help you recruit more talent. Lather, rinse, repeat. I get your point. But we are only a couple years removed from the worst coach in CFB history.

I know our crowd was quiet, but there wasn't absolutely nothing to cheer for. I'm one of the loudest, yelling all the time fans and I was speechless. First drive...punt. They drive and score. Second drive, good play followed by a fumble. Marshall drives and scores. We get the ball, three-and-out, marshall gets the ball and scores. We get the ball and throw an interception. Marshall takes the turnover and scores yet again. We later get two redzone trips that end in zero points. This was a case study of "How to take the crowd out of the game". I'm sorry, but I can't fault any fans for being quiet at this game. Of course the marshall fans are going to be louder than us, WTF do we have to cheer for?

Marshall is not that good and we made them look like a top 10 team. This is why we can't get anyone at home games.