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App State won 11 games last year and routinely fills their stadium. They just took Tennessee to OT. Miami is coming to their place this week. I'd kill to be App State

I'm just asking. Do they have an 8 year old doing the video with a cell phone?

I am not an insider. But I know where insiders live. Our erstwhile Samba MF is being punished, and rightfully so. How many matches is anyone's guess. My guess is that he will play in Tulsa. But I really don't even know if he remains in country. I have not attended practices since early August. And no one has seen the guy. It is all hush hush.

I am very happy for the coaches and the players. They showed a great deal of character after getting steamrolled at UCLA. Great defensive effort in both of the last 2 games against two high scoring forwards...Timmy Mueller and Dupuy from UCSB. I have to give coach Embick a lot of credit for sitting an All MAC performer in Sam Gainford for most of the last 2 games and giving Skye Harter an opportunity. The redshirt freshman made his coach look very smart. Last year, the team really took off when Coach Embick moved Andrew Souders to an outside DB spot and inserted Danilo as one of the center backs. At the beginning of last year, no one expected Danilo to be a key contributor. Last night, Brad moved to an outside back position and Shane Wiedt joined Danilo as a center back. I hope that change works as well as last year's change. Coach Embick, Coach Leo and the other coaches have the courage and the knowledge to make needed changes. I can not say enough good things about Jonathan Lewis. His effort level is absolutely outstanding and he is going to get better as the year goes along. Nick Hinds has a tremendous amount of skill and he is also quite tenacious. Very happy that these 2 young men from Plantation,FL are playing soccer for the Zips.

Don't sweat it, even if you do end up being wrong. You aren't the only one reporting it.

Great to see the Zips bounce back from the disappointing west coast trip with a couple of nice wins.

What a shame. It would have been good for the team and him to have the exposure at Marshall and App St. Maybe we will throw to the TE a little or run Williams out of the backfield some. Do we have any defensive take-aways this year? That is concerning me.

I think Van Edwards is a very capable MAC-level RB. True, Warren Ball looks like an NFL-caliber back to me, but I think we could still go bowling with Edwards (considering we play in the MAC East).

Thanks GauchoMike. Have a great season!!!

Congrats on the win. If you're interested in reading a recap on the match from a UCSB perspective, check out my blog entry: http://gauchosoccer.com/2016/09/12/akron-2-ucsb-0/

I think our Generals decided not to fight too much at the battle of Wisconsin - let's send out the militia and see what happens (no creative play calling probably decided in the coaches sequester at the beginning of the year). In Huntington, we had better have a decent game plan. If this is not a contested game (which is what happened last year), and we decide to just slug it out in the MAC later in the year, then I'm not a happy camper. We had better to play to win against the Herd and not just get better.