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I just think it's harder to turn a team around, especially the shape it was in after the Arth debacle.

Three interesting points you pass along. First, the ACC is not screwed. The conference is stable and doesn't need to grow. They are swimming in money. Maybe they can't afford gold plated toilets in their football facility, but they will be ok. Trimming the fat indeed. Some day the highest level of college football will be played by 30-35 schools. This is just the beginning of the fat getting trimmed. G5 schools MUST find another path. ND should immediately jump into the ACC with both feet. It gives them a much needed home and the rest of the conference the extra money they are looking for. I think someone mentioned Stanford and ACC. Terrible idea. Bad for ACC and Stanford. A better idea is Stanford to the Big 12 and WVU to the ACC. The ACC should have admitted wvu years ago but they were afraid the Mountaineer would dominate the league immediately like VA Tech did. The tried to pass it off as wvu not having a big enough endowment, but everyone knew that was crap. They were scared. A great rivalry like The Backyard Brawl could happen every year. Rivalries like that are great for conferences.

August 28th #12 Vermont comes to First Energy Field to play the #22 Akron Zips is there any other Zip sport where you can see a top 25 match up in Akron September 19th Notre Dame comes to play at Akron Akron will be favored against Notre Dame. Akron favored against Mighty Notre Dame. This is a must see game.

Looking at the rankings....the soccer coaches think that Akron will be the 3rd best team in the Big East 4 big east teams listed among the 37 teams receiving votes Creighton is highest ranked big east team at 8 Georgetown is 17 Akron is 22 Providence received votes (30th in rankings) As usual, ACC teams are quite prevalent in the rankings 1. Syracuse 4. Duke 5. Pittsburgh 9. Clemson 15. Virginia 18. Wake Forest 34. Louisville Notre Dame is an ACC team and they come to Akron for a match. Irish not ranked by the soccer coaches. Where are the North Carolina Tar Heels? UNC-Greensboro is ranked #10 preseason and the mighty tar heels are no where to be found. Once again, the Hoosiers are expected to rule the Big Ten 2. Indiana 14. Maryland 32. Rutgers 35. that team from Columbus....that puts a "The" in front of university name PAC 12 6. Washington 7. Stanford 26. UCLA 36. Oregon State Looking at the zips schedule...for ranked opponents 2nd regular season match in Akron ....will be gigantic #12 Vermont comes to town on August 28 #21 FIU visits Akron on September 11 Providence (receiving votes ) visits Akron on September 15 at #8 Creighton on October 18 Big Green, good luck to Marshall during the coming season. You have a great coach and an excellent soccer team