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I wonder why no one is acknowledging this slide from UA's presentation:

GT missed the crucial follow-up question to Bowden's blather. "Why go away from the Air Raid in the first place? It appears you don't have the personnel to line up and run the ball."

Firstly, great run against 3 quality teams and a gutty comeback v SLU and looking at schedule a WF win could be part of an amazing run. Congrats team and coaches and special play of Laryea and Najem. As pointed out, GAA and giving 2 or more in 4 of 5 games is an issue, but it is a byproduct and given that of 206 D1 programs only 6 come in higher than the lofty 2.00 it is fortunate that goal scoring (2014 front and center issue) has bailed the team out in 2015. How things change, but credit staff inserting Balena and getting the best players more forward to add spark and variety. As for pinning down GAA, it comes from containing SOG and maintaining a healthy Sa%avg. It is a 2 pronged issue. SOG is Zips 31 to Opponents 29, so a 500 team level of back line defending thus far. 2009 Shots (cant find SOG#s) were 412 to 130, 2010 SOG 187 to 79. Has to get better (DM may have to work harder?) Sa%age is 0.655 and they are not firing in upper 90 bullets. Routine stuff. Somewhere around 100th in nation and 5th/6 in MAC GK stats. 2009 Meves 0.873. 2010 0.771. Also has to get better. At current top 10 0.842 GAA Zips give 1.10 GAA and are over twice, not just under 5x the rest at 0.43. TDS Rank, GAA, Sa%avg 1 Creighton 0.200 0.917 2 ND 0.000 1.000 3 UNC 0.500 0.875 4 UVA 1.000 0.778 5 Stanford 0.200 0.900 6 Oreg St 0.400 0.818 7 Clemson 0.800 0.778 8 WF 0.400 0.714 9 U Wash 0.000 1.000 10 UL 0.800 0.636 Avg 0.430 0.842 11 UA 2.000 0.655

If there were a QB performing at a high level, this would be the case. When a QB delivers the ball accurately and on time, most offensive schemes have success. If you don't have a QB that can do that...well, I can come up with a pretty simplistic defense to make you punt. I think coach is looking for someone at the position to step up.

Bruce JoJo Natson will have one year of eligibility in 2016 according to information derived from his Utah State bio.

Now that we have some agreement on the tOSU issue, let's take another look at the Zips' OOC road schedule this season: Villanova Arkansas Green Bay Cleveland State Iona UC Santa Barbara Marshall All of these teams were ranked higher than the Zips last season in one or more rankings except for Marshall, which was a top 100 team when the series contract was signed but fell apart over the last couple of seasons. So no one can accuse the Zips of trying to duck healthy competition on the road. Villanova and Arkansas certainly qualify as tOSU-equivalent teams. When we talk about adding another tOSU-equivalent team to the schedule, what we're really talking about is replacing a home cupcake game with another road game against a tough high major. This does not represent a major scheduling change and is not an unreasonable request. Even last season when the Zips lost their best player early in the season and had injuries to several top players late in the season, they still won 21 games. One more road loss against a tough team in place of a sure win at home against a cupcake would have still given the Zips a 20-win season.

So with all of that out of the way, you still don't think Coach Dambrot would risk one loss in one season for a chance to upset the Buckeyes in Columbus and make a major gain in Ohio recruiting clout?

DIG--drawing some conclusions--in 4 of the 7 seasons you reference OSU was a sweet 16 team.. And in 2 of them a final 4 team, and in one -National runner up. The relative strength of a MAC/ OSU team vs the Zips does little to make me think OSU would be scared of playing them. Remember that i believe KD did have a bonus in previous contracts for 20 wins --that to me seems to have been a bigger factor in scheduling many years--then a perceived fear of the Roo. This is a Zip team that most recently competed in the 2013 NCAA tourney after a "gaudy" 26-7 record and lost in a game that featured the following USA today headline "VCU demolishes Akron in historic NCAA tournament blowout"

Considering all the electrical gremlins in the rain at the stadium, maybe UA quietly farmed out operations to the New England Patriots organization.

Looking at the last 5 Mens College Cups, 2010 (MOST EXCELLENT YEAR) to 2014, we need significant improvement on goals against average: Year Winner GP GA GAA 2014 Virginia 23 17 0.74 2013 Notre Dame 24 18 0.75 2012 Indiana 25 18 0.72 2011 UNC 26 18 0.69 2010 Akrron 25 16 0.64 EDIT: Looking at 2009 (a GOOD YEAR) Year Team GP GA GAA 2009 Virginia 24 8 0.33 2009 RU Akron 25 7 0.28 As I've told numerous people, numerous times, I'm not diminishing 2010 whatsoever, but the 2009 Zips were better than the 2010 Zips even though they didn't win the Championship. The 2009 team was special to be able to play their beautiful, attacking/possession style and yet defend better than any other team. It's still painful to think of not giving up a single goal in the NCAA Tournament and yet not bringing home the Championship trophy.

First 10 minutes. This was not long ball over the top. This was irresponsible, too cute, play along the back line. Billikens simply took the ball and scored. Nothing fancy about it. There is not much statistical promise in allowing 2 goals per match.