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After a brief downpour at the beginning of the outing some exciting things happened. A participant aced the 215 yard par 3 18th hole to win a 3 year lease on an Acura TL. Tom Arth showed me the way on a 20 foot downhill putt for birdie on the 1st hole. A good time was had by all.

I wish Marshall was back in the MAC. I miss the rivalry.

zippypitt I agree with you. Colin scored a huge goal vs Stanford on the way to the College Cup vs Stanford but over the past two years he has disappeared. Good luck to him but we will be fine without him.

Pretty sweet. Adidas sucks.

Noted optimist and friendly poster mivid has logged in

I understand just how dominate Akron has been. And since last month I see the reason no one outside of Indiana actually roots for them. After Marshall won the national championship, I plus others have run into nothing but "Entitled Soccer Mom Karen and Chad's". One even had the nerve to claim we "Bought Our Title, with Grown Men". He claimed since Marshall is heavily international (All but 1 stater is international), that we were playing 25-27 year olds. When I proved to him that the oldest player on our roster was a 23 year old senior (And the avg roster age was 21) and he was already drafted to Sporting KC and was gone now. It shut him up somewhat. But at the same time I also pointed out that Marshall had just become a decent program and that only one of the 2 programs of Marshall and Indiana was going to get the 4-5 star HS kids and only one program is going to get the MLS Academy kids, and it wasn't Marshall. So for Coach Grassie to play with the top schools he had to recruit internationally or be left out. Also the announcing in that game was so one sided for Indiana it was crazy. They questioned Marshall's schedule. Marshall was 4-1 against the top 25 with wins over #11 Kentucky. #12 Charlotte, #17 Charlotte (2), #24 FIU and a loss to #6 Akron. They didn't bring up Indiana's schedule which included no OOC schedule and one, count them one game against a top 25 team, #16 Michigan, and it took Indiana 119 and 52 seconds to win, yeah they scored with 8 seconds to go in OT 2. They claimed that the jersey you wore mattered and all the prestige was on Indiana's side. As one of our players said in the press conference after the game "We didn't know or even want to know their history, the fact is none of them on the pitch tonight had never won a college national championship, so the jersey didn't intimidate us like it would some". If you would have told me 10 years ago that one day Marshall soccer was going to win a national title I would have probably looked at you a lil strangely. Just 18 years ago Marshall was 24 hours from cutting men's soccer. If the asst AD at the time wasn't a former soccer player at Marshall and hadn't blown the whistle on what was about to happen to the 3 major papers in Huntington and Charleston, the program would be gone.

https://gozips.com/news/2021/6/15/akron-athletics-announces-all-sports-partnership-with-nike.aspx

I was very surprised at Todd Yagley's coaching or even coaching system/style. Marshall's coach Chris Grassie plays a possession based style while attacking when you have the numbers. Coach Grassie will even play side to side if that is all you give him. He has said that if you do that long enough you will run the other team ragged and a mistake will happen. In the title game Indiana rarely contested Marshall for the ball and only trying to score on the counter. Marshall had possession of the ball in the title game 73% of the time. Other stats: Shots: Marshall 13, Indiana 8, Shots on Goal: Marshall 8, Indiana 1, Fouls Marshall 13, Indiana 14, Yellow Cards: Marshall 4, Indiana 3, Corner Kicks: Marshall 7, Indiana 2. And the most important stat: Marshall 1, Indiana 0 on the scoreboard. Also Indiana only had 1 shot in the 2nd half, coming at the 56:28 mark of the 2nd. Considering the game went to OT and ended at the 98 minute mark, Indiana only had 1 shot in the last 42 minutes of play. There was 5,000 tickets that were sold. WakeMed Soccer Complex main stadium holds 10,000. At least 4700 of those 5,000 were Marshall fans. Those there also said the parking lot was full of Marshall fans that couldn't get in the game too. If the complex could have sold all 10,000 tickets I would estimate that 9500-9600 would have been Marshall fans. Besides Huntington only being 5 1/2 hours away from Cary NC, Charlotte and Grensboro/High Point have a high concentration of Marshall alums.

This team has not performed up to Akron-level expectations. I am not happy to see local guys leave, but perhaps we need some new voices to get things turned around.

is that all some of you ppl do is b*tch & complain?

did not know about soccer almost being cut there.... Coach Grassie, Coach Porter and Coach Embick deserve a ton of credit for competing against the big guys I will always root for schools like Marshall and Akron

Most schools put a clause in the coaches contract that if they leave for another school they must pay a certain sum, a penalty, for breaking their contract. I like the one year rules because it made the player also pay a penalty and think before leaving. Because the coach had the player on scholarship while he could not play for a year, it also put pressure on the coach to make sure a player was worth the scholarship since he would have to wait a year before benefitting from the transfer. A lot of these players were superstars in high school. If they don't get adequate playing time as a frosh they threaten to leave. Puts a lot of pressure on coaches to keep players happy. It looks like the Zips will be living or dying with transfers. Last year Groce had X man and this year we had.... not X man. I think the era of the 4 years player will be history. Glad they implemented the one-time cap.

More news on the subject. Now the coach has been let go. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/detroit-mercy-embattled-womens-basketball-212058686.html

No one mentioned this transfer previously because the TDS Transfer Tracker was very recently updated to include that information. I've been watching but it hadn't been posted previously. Appears TDS just updated within the last day or so. https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2021-ncaa-mens-transfer-tracker_aid48768

No one's mentioned Colin Biros gone to 'Cuse. THAT is a big loss for our side and pick-up for the ACC. Will miss the Jackson grad.