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Maybe they don't want their field to look like it belongs in a high school stadium.

Bigjim, this is new territory that not many people know about outside of the athletics departments themselves. If you’re not satisfied with my response, I suggest you contact Akron athletics or the NCAA directly for your answer. Unfortunately, you won’t receive a 100% positive answer here or on any other message board. I used to be a high school AD so I was in the loop, but not anymore. Now I write for a sports media outlet. The information I just gave you is as close as you’ll find without contacting the departments I mentioned above.

No Saturday home games. Makes it more difficult for us out-of-towners. Ugh.

Looks like a good pickup. I like it when there is interest from other schools. B&G, looks like you are getting tardy updating page 1 of the Verbal Commit lists for 22 and 23. I am just kidding 🙂 . You do such a fantastic job for Zips Nation. Thank you 100 times. Go Zips!!!

Your speculation is other people’s educated opinion. Be grateful they share it with you. If you want 100% rock solid info, go down to the Stiles Center and ask the coach. This isn’t Ohio State . He’d be happy to speak with you.

https://theathletic.com/podcast/97-the-audible-with-bruce-and-stew/ It's the June 9 podcast, near the end (starting around the 1-hour mark) with guest writer Max Olson relating some coaches' comments. The problem being if good players get too much attention around spring practice, before the transfer deadline.

Nobody has informed 247 about his #1 ranking.

Zarek Valentin scores his first ever international goal for Puerto Rico.

5'10" 165 lbs. He had offers from CMU, BG, UMASS, and Temple. Looks like there might been some P5 interest early on, but no offers. His Twitter says he's the #1 WR in NY. I would imagine he has a connection with Ferri - Cuse was interested.

That's almost as many times as another Dolphin has reached out to Akron personnel. 😅 This is awesome and will only help recruiting.

Felt like 40-0 due to inflation adjustment.😂

I do agree with you that the MAC has badly struggled for the last decade...to maintain 6 teams in the league. However, if BGSU, WMU and NIU are so terrible and unwilling to commit to top notch soccer, Akron should be easily clobbering those teams every time that they play him. For the past 3 years, that has not happened. I agree that Akron has the best facilities by far. I agree that Jared is the only coach in the league that has taken the zips to the college cup numerous times. There is no doubt that Jared is the highest paid coach in the MAC. In one note, you wrote that Akron has an elite coaching staff. If Akron can not beat Western Michigan and Northern Illinois over the past few years, does that mean that those schools are recruiting better players than Akron? Akron is usually the only MAC team that consistently appears in the top 25 team recruiting rankings by Top Drawer Soccer. When was the last time that Akron soccer beat Western Michigan? You have to go back to the MAC tournament in 2018 to find the last time that Akron defeated Western Michigan in soccer. in the last 4 matchups against WMU, Akron is 0-2-2. O28, 2019 1-1 tie at WMU A14, 2021 0-0 tie at AK A18, 2021 4-3 loss at WMU N 14, 2021 4-3 loss at WMU When was the last time that Akron Soccer defeated Northern Illinois? You have to go back to November 2, 2019 when the Zips defeated the huskies 3-2 at Akron. In the last 3 matchups against Northern Illinois, Akron is 0-3-0 and has been outscored 8-2 by a school that does not want to upgrade their program???? why is this? better players ? better coaching.....? To trash NIU and to say that they don't prepare Akron for the NCAA...would indicate that Akron is easily defeating NIU every time they play an 8-2 gap in goals....indicates the exact opposite M14, 2020 3-0 loss at NIU A4, 2020 3-1 loss at AK O30, 2021 2-1 loss at NIU How has Akron done against BUGS in the last 5 games? Surely, Akron must have a winning record . In the last 5 games, Akron has a 2-3-0 record against BUGS. I am including the spring 2022 league game.....as there was no excuse for that sorry 1-0 loss. Idiotic passing between the back line and the GK cost the zips that game. N15, 2019 1-0 loss at Akron in MAC tournament .....very painful loss M7, 2020 2-0 win at AK A11, 2020 1-0 loss at BG O 22, 2021 5-1 win at Akron.....Akron looked like the much better team,. Alas, BG finished in the top 4 in the league. Akron did not Spring 2022 league game 1-0 loss I am a very passionate Akron zips soccer fan. If you had made your posts in 2018, I would agree 100% with your posts. The MAC teams (with the exception of WMU in the Brandon Bye years) were not NCAA quality teams and did not prepare the zips for the NCAA tourney. However, the evidence over the last 3 years says that the zips are not beating these 3 teams that do not want to upgrade their facilities or their programs. Either, those 3 teams have dramatically improved the quality of their soccer teams or Akron is not playing as well. My point......is "let's get Akron soccer back to the point where Akron is making the college cup in 3 out of 4 consecutive years." We should not be bad mouthing NIU, BUGS and WMU until the Zips are beating them consistently by 3-0 margins or 3-1 margins. I am not happy to point out the poor record against each team over the past 3 years. However, we play each of those teams twice this year. I sincerely hope that your assessment of the other 3 programs is spot on for fall 2022. I hope that the zips go 6-0 this year against those teams and have a goal differential of 16-2. Let's go, Zips.