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From what I'm told, expect a twelfth game. It will be played away, and it is an FBS school. Details coming soon.

I am just so damn tired of having to "live with losses like this."

Well, well, well…. This game actually makes it worth the Great GP1’s time to post again. In the spirit of being a good Zip and in the spirit of southern hospitality, I’m here to help the rest of you have a good time, or at least in the case of Columbia, SC, avoid disaster. Let’s get started. I’m not going to paint Columbia as anything other than what it is, “The Screen Door to Hell”. Easily the hottest city in the country in the summer. The good news is it will not be unbearably hot like it normally is in Columbia. There are things to do in Columbia, but not much. This is why you need an expert like the Great GP1 to guide you through all your travel plans. First, sightseeing in Columbia consists of…well, not many sights and mostly things you would rather not see. You could go look at campus. The advantage of this activity is you can see the entire campus from your car as it is an urban campus much like UofA. The capital is nice, but you can basically drive by it too and see everything you would want to see. This concludes sightseeing activities in Columbia. If I still lived in Akron and wanted to make this trip (I know, it’s the weekend after Thanksgiving.), I would take Friday and Monday off work, leave Thursday and drive most of the way there. Golfing is always fun for people who like to travel. There is a nice public golf course in Tega Cay, SC just across the state line from Charlotte that is public and well maintained. Great people live in this town. It has 27 holes and make sure you DO NOT play the old 9 hold course. I would play golf on Friday and then go to Columbia Friday night. If I stayed in Columbia on Friday and/or Saturday, I would look for hotels in The Vista or generally downtown. Be careful of two night minimums for Gamecock games. Book one now and see if you can beat the chains putting on this restriction. Three places I recommend for dinner in Columbia are: Ristorante Divina (The Vista), Terra (close by but you must cross the river in to West Columbia) and my personal favorite The Blue Marlin. The Vista has a ton of other places though if these are not attractive choices. Sports bars at The Vista include: Wild Wing Café, Twin Peaks and Carolina Ale House. Wild Wing will have the best TV set up, CAH will have the second best and a rooftop bar and Twin Peaks will still have a good TV set up and hot girls working at it. Tickets should be easily available for this game as well as parking passes. Noon games are not very popular for Gamecock fans because the rich ones who drive from the ocean communities have difficulty waking up on Saturday mornings because of hangovers. This is my favorite type of game to go to. I love mostly empty stadiums and being able to park close to stadiums. I guess I am at the point in my life I like to have as little people around me as possible. Most definitely I will be attending this game. The best place to park is across the street from the stadium at Gamecock Park. Public restrooms and electricity make it a great place. https://gamecocksonline.com/sports/2018/6/21/ot-game-day-parking-information-html.aspx If you can surf the internet and find someone who has a condo in Carolina Walk and is willing to sell their tickets and parking pass, it is next to this parking area and is a good place. Near the top of Carolina Walk on game days, there is normally a band playing the residence hire and a bar. It’s a private party, but the residents often sell their wristband to attend along with their tickets and parking pass. The state fairground is a huge parking area and you should be able to buy a pass in it off the internet. Don’t park in some of the private business selling parking. The game will be over at 3:30 and you will still be waiting to get out at midnight. Be prepared, you must drive to the stadium from wherever you decide to stay. The stadium is away from campus and the general downtown area. Tickets? There should be plenty of them. Don’t buy tickets too low. The stands go right down to the field and it’s extremely hard to see the game from down there. Mostly, it’s hard to see over the players. Upper deck tickets are too high. If you want to stay out of the sun, get tickets on the Zips side. Plenty of tickets between the end zones will be available. If you are going to take my brilliant recommendation and stay until Monday, I have some Sunday advice for you if you can take a break from watching Baker Mayfield lead the Browns to the Super Bowl this year (cough…snicker). Either after the game or Sunday morning, get up and go to Charleston. It is beautiful there at Christmas time. If you are with your family, there are a ton of things to do in Charleston. If you are with a group of guys, go golfing again. However, if I wanted to take advantage of golf on Sunday, I would probably go to Myrtle Beach for that. If you take the family to Charleston and want to play golf also, Wild Dunes at IOP is the best place to stay. Rooms will be dirt cheap. You could get up Sunday, take a nice walk on the beach with the temperatures in the 50s or 60s (best time of the year to go to the beach here) and then play some golf. Drive safe on the way home. Too many people from Ohio get in to wrecks on their way home from Hilton Head in the summer in Charlotte and it clogs up traffic on Saturdays. It makes it hard for me and the luckiest woman in the world, Mrs. GP1, to get uptown for dinner on Saturday nights. Cheers!

Do you think Groce's preference is to recruit JUCO's. Or is it simply the short term, best route to quickly become competitive? Losing so many players, I think he had no choice but to go with JUCO guys if he wanted to be competitive before 2020. And coaches don't get that long a leash to become competitive now-a-days. I remember Hipsher's first team...it was Senior Jarvis Katron, Soph. Tron Jenkins, and 11 Freshman. I think they started the season 3-0, and finished it 3-25. Glad we didn't go that route again. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd guess Groce will get out of the transfer/JUCO business soon.

I don't think you are giving Dyer his proper due, as he knows his target audience well: 80-year-old Firestone Park residents.

I was at the game and the crowd was scarce but all those pictures are straight up slander.

WMU will be a stern test come Saturday, and the sloppier the conditions, the more it favors Broncos' direct style. Broncos are not as good as they were last year, but neither are Zips. Thank goodness GK Drew Shepherd has finally moved on. Did he play like 6 years or something? Don't miss that cat at all! (I now see that Shepherd is Volunteer Assistant Coach. What does it take to get rid of this guy?) https://wmubroncos.com/news/2018/10/30/mens-soccer-heads-to-akron-for-regular-season-finale.aspx?path=msoc I am not really a soccer coach, I just play one on ZipsNation.org. But Zips should take MF Tommy Clark out of the match. Just sit on him. Mark him tightly, severely limit his touches, tackle him hard a few times, and Broncos will not have Offense. I would assign Skye Harter to that task. "WMU ranks first in the MAC with a 1.01 goals against average and 115 corner kicks - averaging 6.76 per game." Combine those stats with sloppy conditions, and this is unlikely to be a high scoring affair. Final score will probably be 1-0. Broncos will take their numerous CK chances very seriously. They devote the last thirty minutes of every practice to CK execution. Zips had better come to fight.

I didn't get to watch the game but I was listening to Frenchy. It sounded like a good, hard-hitting, entertaining game. Kato was having a great game and the offense was both moving the ball and scoring points. That was good to see. Ramart was put in a very difficult situation, especially considering he's seen such little game action this year.

You have to take a shot at winning. With little time left, you do not have a lot of options. He probably has not taken a ton of reps in practice with the 1's since the season started. Ramart will improve and no doubt, he learned a ton in a short time, tonight. Tough to lose your QB at a critical juncture in a game. No matter how good your backup is, the rhythm is broken.

nice writeup on all 6 seniors and also has a video interview with coach Embick https://gozips.com/news/2018/11/2/mens-soccer-zips-host-western-michigan-on-senior-night.aspx

I may need a 5th of something if I continue to watch Zips games which I will.

Great photos, as always.

I was told it was South Carolina ya threw me a curveball that is was east Carolina I was like huh ???

I hope not. Don't recall anything in the contract saying that.

It was only a matter of time before the hall monitor caught on.

Duelly chastised, aren’t we, buflobo? ?

Arrrrrrr

Here is a little fact that is blowing our minds in Ames. We have a 35% chance to be in the Big 12 Championship game! A guy on our fan site did some analysis using thousands of simulations. I don't think any Iowa State fan was alive the last time we won a Big 12 Championship!

After the first drive with that crappy conservative play call, I think the O was fine. It sucks to see Kato get injured during probably his best game all year. He's tough and looked to be a good leader out there on the sidelines after the injury. Its time we stop giving him a bad rep just because of a family member's actions. Hopefully he can get back out there soon, but I have my doubts. I also think the D adjusted well after halftime. I didn't see Gilbert out there a lot though. Wonder if he is hurt? Also noticed Brady and Davis switched sides at DE. Even though we didn't win, it was actually an entertaining game against the 1st place team in the MAC-W. I can live with losses like this, even though we still have breakdowns that need cleaned up. Need to get one of OU or EMU.........

Announced paid attendance 16,401.....?

That’ why I luv ya, Man. Besides his skill, a legacy, a local, an awkward pronunciation....We DO need to get him...

HOLY CRAP! LET'S GO ZIPS!

Nice adjustments by Stroud at the half.

look like ankle, hopefully not a knee

Best part of the game: they showed on the big board the last drive of the2005 MAC championship game over NIU.

Or transfer in for that matter. Recruit some quality freshmen to build on.

I think he meant final 4 in the MAC.

It will be tough for "some of the forecasting" to include both the second and third forecast in your list, but wouldn't it be great to be able to say you were there when a record 15 field goals were scored in one game (although this number could be slightly lower given some touchbacks). Be there or be square.

Not firing Mounds at the same time as the rest of the staff is not the same as him being retained by the next staff. I can guarantee a 12th game win against almost any team if the other team is forced to use Milwee as their OC, and we use a trained goat for ours.

Kato’s Dad just tweeted that Kato’s got a high-ankle sprain :/

This picture made it into Sports Illustrated Extra Mustard this morning in a tweet from Sam Borquin saying it was 7 minutes before game time. Not a good look.