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You do realize that runs during timeouts don't count. right?

https://herdzone.com/news/2019/9/20/mens-soccer-back-on-the-pitch-as-akron-comes-to-huntington.aspx This Marshall team is much better than their teams in prior years. Marshall has already defeated Butler and S. Carolina. Akron's performance against Pitt was its worst game of the season....by far. The 1-0 score was very misleading. The final could have easily been Pitt 4-0 or Pitt 5-0. Almost, every Akron soccer team seems to suffer a gut punch during the season. In 2015, the zips went to Old Dominion and ODU used the long vertical pass to make Brad and Danilo and the zips backline look slow. The team met as a group after that mauling and came back the next weekend and won at Georgetown and Maryland. That team got stronger during the year and was one penalty kick off the crossbar away from beating the eventual NCAA champ in the college cup semis. Last year's gut punch came during a brutal loss at Northern Illinois. Bad luck plagued the team after that game with games cancelled with Notre Dame and Western Michigan. However, the team found a way to regroup and make a magical run to the NCAA final. The Pitt game was brutal. The zips dropped to 0-5. They were outshot 18-6. Pitt led in corner kicks 11-3. Many people want to blame Tor for all of the problems. Tor had some outstanding saves at Pitt to keep the game from ending up 4-0. The 0-5 record can not be blamed on one player. This team has so much offensive firepower and yet, they have scored 2 goals in 5 games. The Pitt game will hopefully be this team's gut punch and they will get off the mat..... They need to play Akron soccer....work as one unit....the captains need to lead and provide direction. They need to spread the field and move the ball with Akron precision. The talent is there. 7 of the guys started in the magical NCAA run. The newcomers have tremendous talent. However, it is always tough to transition to new teammates. David, Skye, Daniel, and Carlo....and other experienced players need to help Bradley, Will, Federico, Mani and Henrique when the new guys have a need to learn. The coaches were super excited before the season about this team's talent and tremendous depth. The future can be very bright for this team. It will take 110% from every player that steps on the field. Akron has had some great stories in its proud 65 year history. Will 2019 be remembered as a non-NCAA year or will it be remembered as the year that the team recovered from an 0-5 year to win the MAC and have a memorable run in the NCAA's. The talent is there. I believe that this team can and will get off the mat after the Pitt "gut punch".

It seems pretty apparent that the AD wanted to go with younger coaches hoping for a better long term return than SUB .500. OK! Then lets not compare b.ball and football. Two completely different situations. I am not going to assume that Arth and Co. are going to win a MAC champeenship. But I hope so! I didn't assume JD and Co. were going to win a MAC. NONE OF U DID! If u haven't figured it out by now, this is the sports life at U of A.. If U do not like it there needs to be a more drastic solution. Figure out what it is! See U at the game on Saturday! Right?!

Three straight blowouts. Great start. I could do just as well, I will gladly take the job for half the pay. In fact, I have a pension and social security and Akron is cheaper to live than New York. I will take the job for $1000 a week in season.

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Oh, so now we're expected to rely on people who go to practices and games and interact with the players as opposed to people who read two articles in the Beacon and the box scores every week?

I saw a pic from Dr Z of our RT with the club arm (broken hand?) blocking one handed. He's showing some manliness being out there with this injury, but it does seem some experimenting should be done over there? Really like the thought of putting Council at RT. I think Corne can play at guard and maybe bring in Sample or Kallay at the other guard spot. Not sure what happened to Muldowney, but he may not match up well with this new offense or something. I hope Sands is OK after his broken leg a while back. He just does not seem to be the same.

@kreed5120 don’t waste your time, Balsy has crossed over to the no common sense zone, can’t talk to him anymore

I'm not sure what your problem is. First off, I was being nice welcoming a new member. Next I haven't seen people calling for Larry Williams to be put on the hot seat. Maybe they have and I just haven't seen. I found his post well put together to display his argument.

This speaks for itself: Remember when the last time we hired a new coach, and it was still the players recruited from the last guy, we saw overall improvement with the team in competitiveness and stats. I ask you...are we seeing that now?

Bowden was kept around for too long. No big secret there. Larry Williams is a Lawyer who is not going to assume much risk, so he waited until the buyout was down and then made the move. I am at a loss when trying to identify anything that has improved since Williams has been in the AD chair. He has brought no one new in and the same people are running the key positions in Zips Athletics who have been there for the better part of the last 30 years. Obviously the most disappointing move to date was letting Keith Dambrot leave for Duquesne, but a close second has to be the Tom Arth hire. Arth has nothing in his past that leads you to believe that he is going to be able to build a MAC-level D-1 program as a head coach. His staff is made up mostly of D3 guys, like himself, who have never recruited D1 athletes. Recipe for disaster? Time will tell. Rob Ianello went 2-22 overall and 1-15 in the MAC and then AD Tom Wistricil pulled the plug after 2 years. The program was brought back by Terry Bowden, but his time too had come, and now, here we are. If Arth's season is a resounding 0-12, Larry Williams has got to be shown the door. William's basketball hire John Groce (31-34) has killed off any remaining momentum from the Keith Dambrot era. Zips Men's Soccer is 0-5 despite paying the coach the 4th highest salary in America. No way soccer ticket sales are justifying that expense. But at least we have strong Swimming/Diving and Track & Field teams.