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I can't believe there are people stupid enough to believe there isn't enough donor money lined up to buy out his contract.

Carlo Ritaccio is growing up (as a player) right before our very eyes. Enjoy him while we can, Zips fans! Much ⚽️❤️ #3‼️

ACC has 1 team remaining in the Elite 8 - Notre Dame. The class of the ACC - UNC, Wake, Virginia - are all gone.

@VAZip Always a pleasure to meet a Zips fan. Enjoyed rooting for our team with you and all the Zips fan in attendance at Wake Forest. Hope your trip home was uneventful. Hope to see you at a future Zips match. @72 Roo So glad you and your family made it down to Wake Forest. Always a pleasure! Great group of Zips fans in attendance. So glad we all sat together to collectively cheer our team. Pleasure to see Michael Nanchoff and Brad Ruhaak among the Zips faithful.

zips united twitter account....correctly giving the plain dealer crap....for their love of Blowhio State...and their lack of coverage for zips soccer

I don't think anyone is looking for the next Nick Saban. We just want to win more than 40% of our games and stop the high frequency of times we get housed by mediocre MAC teams. We have no home field advantage and often times we cannot compete with average to good mid level programs. As for Solich, I checked out his first 7 years at OU. He was 50-40 overall (56%) and 36-20 in the MAC (64%). TB is 35-51 and 23-33 in the same time frame and will probably end up 35-52 overall. You are correct that Frank has never won the MAC, but he won the East 3 times and went to 4 bowl games in his first 7 seasons. TB will end up at 1 and 2. Frank beat his rival Miami 6 out of 7 years with his only loss coming in the first year. The program he took over was in very similar condition to when Bowden arrived at Akron. Frank has won 8 or 9 games each of the last 4 seasons which is a level I do not believe TB and Milwee can get to. I agree that nobody will be putting Frank in the coaches hall of fame, but he is the perfect comparison to what a decent coach can accomplish. TB has said several times that he hands over the day to day of running the team to his assistants including the play calling. He is a figure head like his father. This is why people want changes, especially with the OC. I do not think that a 7 year sample is leading anyone to a knee jerk or rash decision. I hope i am wrong, but I do not see this team going anywhere next year except the usual 5-7 season that is TB and Milwee. This will be my last post on this as I am beating a dead horse, but I have to ask you one question. Do you really feel that this program is going in the right direction with TB and Milwee? Thanks and Go Zips

I think that might've been for us destroying their season last year

At about the 17:10 minute mark they mention Bowden could be fired this week.

https://www.collegesoccernews.com/index.php/awards/team-of-the-week/1258-college-soccer-news-national-team-of-the-week-week-ending-november-25-2018 honor for Marcel

Nice to see the ABJ write a big story about Zips soccer, but Mr. Bournival fails to mention the controversial offside call on the potential game tying goal with a minute left that resulted in the Wake coach being ejected and a cheap foul by a Wake player when play resumed that almost resulted in a fight. Glad I watched the game so I know the whole story.

How could you hear any other words with that female commentator (she knew her stuff, though) constantly using "just" and "unbelievable"?

After finally watching the full reply, I was most impressed by the team's defensive fight. Ritaccio had a couple clutch and skillful tackles that probably saved a goal or two. Wake is/was a very good side. On another note, I was perplexed at the commentators frequent use of "kids" to describe the players. A kid is a child - children don't play soccer nearly that well. It just felt disrespectful. Ok, I'm getting off my high horse now.

It did happen to Akron at Charlotte in 2011 when Matt Dagilis scored the tying goal. It was waived off for his being offside. To this day, I don’t think he was offside from any view.

Well, you know I am in for either JAR or InfoCision, or really any gathering anywhere.

God, that’s so funny! I was thinking the same thing on my way to Swenson’s after watching. Thought I post a poll to see who would show up at InfoCision to watch! Since it is December, at 9 p..m. Maybe start by showing on big screens on 7th floor and see how many show, if it’s crowded, open up the suites on 5 and 6 and let everyone sit in luxury and power up the big screen outdoors....

All this begs the question... how often does and Akron or MAC team get the benefit of a call in any sport when they are playing the Power 5.

It was incredibly close and I would die inside if it had happened to us, but it appears to be the correct call.

Echo NW...Wow! Balsy (but appeared to be correct) call by the AR. Egbo has got to keep a lid on it. But WOW, SO FREAKING PROUD!

I get so nervous watching soccer it’s almost not even enjoyable. FEAR THE ROO!!!

I've had this one circled ever since the schedule was released

It's not too early to speculate. It's a discussion forum, where we talk about our favorite teams. I'm about 50/50 whether we're looking at new coaches. If it was just injuries, I'd say those are the breaks. But the debacle where players didn't want to be there, not giving a comete effort, lining up on the wrong side of the field. That is a coaching issue and someone has to go...

I wholeheartedly endorse the NCAA adopting the FIFA rule. No Re-entry.

After watching the Northwestern and Iowa State games, I thought this was a good football team. I went to the Miami game and there was a very good crowd. Everyone showed up except our football team. We did not give up a first down in the first quarter and things went down hill after they went to a hurry up offense. I kept thinking that we were too good not to come back and stayed until the end of the game. It only got worse. That was by far the best crowd and we layed a big egg. That crowd was not coming back. This years we had 2 wins in the MAC and the teams we beat had a combined record of 1 and 15 in the MAC. We were not competitive against any other MAC football team. I do not know why anyone thinks next year will be better. What is bizarre is that I had written off the soccer team after watching that terrible loss against West Virginia and the rest of their subpar season. However, that team got better as the season progressed and now is playing its best soccer of the season.

The one thing I would like to see change about the NCAA sub rule is that once a player has been on the field and taken out, that player should not be allowed to return. Allow all the subs you want up to the number available on the bench, but not allow them to exit and re-enter. College baseball does this just like pro baseball. Why can’t collegiate soccer at least do that. More players can be allowed to play, but like in the pros, the teams/players with better fitness have the advantage that they should.

Home.

It is very rare that i look forward to a low level OOC opponent coming to the JAR, but I cannot wait for this game. At least it isn't Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff this time.