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On Saturday March 2nd, the zips soccer fans....that live in NE Ohio .....will get to see the Zips debut of 8 exciting new players....as the zips will play 2 games on March 2nd against an under 19 Canadian soccer club...and against an under 21 team from that same soccer club.... Making their Zips Debuts - 6 January additions Maximus Barboto Joshua Bartels James Buebendorf Nicholas Beier Beto Ydrach Devin Armstrong and 2 very talented redshirt freshman (injured, could not play in the fall) Caleb Borneo Nathan Ferguson You will notice that the Zips .....will have a lot of players on their team.....with a last name beginning with B How many of the 11 zips starters in the fall...will have a last name beginning with B? Jonas Buechte ? Mitchell Budler ? Caleb Borneo ? Maximus Barboto ? James Buebendorf ? Nicholas Beier ? Joshua Bartels ? I am really excited.......to see how this exciting group of zips do in the spring campaign.....Go, Zips !!!

I wonder if Dawson's Achilles injury is still haunting him. I love the kid's heart and support of his teammates but he seems reluctant to go to the basket and has become completely one dimensional on offense.

Good post with the exception of the highlighted item. KY can afford to buy an entire team and still have plenty left over for other stuff. There are a bunch of other factors that might make really good players turn down Big Blue's offer (e,g., the recruit's: perceived available playing time at KY, loyalty to a different coach, school or state, location of girlfriend and on and on). One interesting (and old) example, with a local connection, of KY NIL money before there was NIL money involved a large basketball player from Mogadore. This example took place before some of you were born (early 1970s). KY got the recruit "a job" watching horses (not feeding them or grooming them - watching them) at $20 per hour (pretty good money back then). As far as I know there was no time clock to punch and no limit to the number of hours the recruit could "work." The local boy decided to attend KY and play for their team.

Freshman Teniesha Clarke w/ 19 🙂

Prather was on the postgame and came across very well, as we would hope for a Zip. From listening to him and Groce, he was the practice player of the week so they were looking to work him in, and that was ramped up when Dawson got in foul trouble. Groce was not happy, especially with the first half and readily admitted it would be a long night Tuesday if the Zips play that kind of 20 minutes. He praised Prather. He also commented in Tavari's offense positively but said he wasn't nearly as good on defense.