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Written by @Captain Kangaroo Article linked here.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20378626/more-100-teams-covered-uni-watch-2017-college-football-preview#mac

The BJ has sucked for as long as I can remember. ( No pun intended)

OK, OK, OK. . . Here you see the power of the pen. A well written piece on a Zips player gets the blood flowing through the body of the fan reading it. I lapped up those words like a starving Amishman at a $2.99 buffet. This is where the Beacon Journal has failed the University for years and years and countless years. There are many stories to be told every season that could potentially pique the interest of the fabled Joe Akron but they are never told. The University, the staff, the players and the local media outlets all need to come together and realize how important and integral in-depth coverage is to developing any type of fan base for our football product. Same goes for basketball. Build it and they will come has proven not to be the case. Just win baby, has not filled the JAR. You know, back when NASCAR was popular, the costs of being the title sponsor of were rising rapidly. I remember watching a segment on Inside NASCAR about these costs and that the payout to the race teams to be, for example, the Robert Yates Racing #88 UPS Ford driven by Dale Jarrett were extremely high, but UPS needed to spend an amount equal to the sponsorship activating it. United Parcel had to run an advertising campaign surrounding the sponsorship to get any mileage out of the first chunk of money spent. Kinda the old "if a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it" deal. The potential for return on investment was much much larger than the NASCAR community. Millions of dollars were spent on commercials like this, run on non-NASCAR broadcasts to catch people's attention. It's an apples and oranges comparison, but who is activating the investments UA has made in their athletic program? How much should UA spend? How much coverage should the BJ provide? They should have a vested interest in the success of the local University. How much responsibility falls on us to demand it? Can't wait for the next CK Zips article. Love it. Ready to buckle my chin strap and get after it. Go Zips!

So wish we would have had more than a year with him. Most exciting Zip in a long, long time.

https://www.ohio.com/akron/sports/university-of-akron/university-of-akron-soccer-highly-ranked-zips-get-ready-for-another-run-at-a-title Nice that the Beacon does an article.... However....someone needs to explain to Mr. Bournival....that 1) the NY Cosmos are not in the MLS 2) that Jon Lewis was a very high draft pick and is playing major minutes in the MLS...and 3) that some guy named Najem....was the MAC player of the year...and has played some for the Union in the MLS.

I think you will find there are no other kind. Very unlikely, but if you should happen to find a host who is not cordial, please point them out to us so we can ostracize them.

Jiu named MAC Defensive player of the week..... http://www.gozips.com/news/2017/8/22/womens-soccer-jiu-named-mac-defensive-player-of-the-week.aspx She's going to be a Difference Maker for the Women...keep them in matches for the entirety.

Great article. I'm definitely loving the confidence these guys have and if the defense is even 75% of what we had in 2015 it will be a fun season.

Some nice goals by the Akron guys in this one...NE v NYCFC. NYCFC wins 2-1 on Jonathan Lewis' stoppage time goal.

The Zips still play in the MAC, right? There's no such thing as a rebuild for the Zips. They won the regular season last year. Sure there's tons of new faces and a new staff .. but you re-build when you're at the bottom. This team needs to find 8 or so non-conference wins to guarantee a 20 win season. IMHO, this is a reload, not a re-build. Re-calibration to a new system, maybe. The Zips are gonna be really young this year .. and really loaded next year. If any team in the MAC wants to get over on the Zips .. they had better get it done now, cause it's only gonna get harder in 18-19. Remember, it's still the MAC. 9 home games. Win 7 of those, and beat the crappy teams on the road, and you're at 10-12 MAC wins .. it's not a Herculean Task. Jimond and the guys are up to it. Go Zips!

Yep. The dude just keeps proving himself. Unbelievable. https://www.stampedeblue.com/2017/8/22/16187024/jojo-natson-making-a-major-case-for-himself-early-in-the-preseason I think it's finally time that we tell all of the girls that "Size Does NOT Matter"