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South Carolina fan here just joined to give y’all some helpful insight there actually is a bar within walking distance J’s Corner restraunt & bar great place stones throw from the stadium

Sara Bower doing a nice job in goal - Zips have two solid goalkeepers in Bower and Penelope Cuirinier. Also of note they Zips have only one senior on the pitch at this moment. Future looks good.

Solid first half for the Zips. Defense has looked pretty good, offense needs to step up. They are playing a good Buffalo team lock-step.

Would like to add on to this yes J’s corner is completely new they redid everything very nice to stop in and grab a drink. I hope y’all have a great time visiting and for the Akron fans that make the trip I think you’ll find a lot of hospitality and friendliness really soak in the night game experience it’s a blast

Agreed also if you want a real taste of South Carolina bbq while y’all are down here go to Marice’s piggy park thats about as authentic as it gets. Five points is where all the college kids go to drink and the state house district is also very nice. Also y’all visit the horseshoe very very pretty part of campus

Friday Sept. 20 results Marquette 3 Villanova 2 UConn 3 DePaul 2

This is the least of our problems.

Klaus bombing 70 yarders in pre-game was great!

Providence 4-2-1 earlier in the week, they were showing as being #1 in strength of schedule Quinnipac 2-0 Boston College 1-1 Hofstra 0-2 U Mass 2-1 Rutgers 1-0 Rhode Island 0-1 Bryant 2-1 Villanova 0-3-3 they have 2 common opponents with the zips St. Peters 2-2 Temple 2-3 Michigan State 0-1 Western Michigan 1-5 Lafayette 1-1 Fairleigh Dickinson 2-2 St. Johns 2-2-3 they have tied 2 teams ranked in the top 15 Rhode Island 0-2 Stony Brook 1-1 Manhattan 2-1 Albany 3-0 #12 N. Carolina 2-2 Princeton 1-2 #6 Marshall 1-1 Georgetown they were the highest ranked Big East team at the start of the year picked to win the big East....East division 2-2-3 record Pittsburgh 0-2 Maryland 2-0 UNC Greensboro 1-0 FLA International 0-0 Cornell 2-2 James Madison 0-1 Long Island University 2-2 UConn at DePaul starts at 3 today Marquette at Villanova starts at 4 today other 4 league games start at 7 Butler at Akron St. Johns at Xavier Seton Hall at Providence Georgetown at Creighton

Books about the War of Northern Agression

USA certainly looks good tonight. Ohio may have been fortunate to catch USA sans the starting QB.

Future is bright.

I know this place but had forgotten. Never been there. Looks like it got a much needed facelift in recent years. Thanks for bringing it up. It's going to be a beautiful day Saturday. My advice is to stay out of a bar and enjoy a nice day. Don't worry about the games on TV. Most aren't very good. Doc's BBQ is close to the stadium. Go buy some drinks and pick up some BBQ. Eat your BBQ with a knife and fork, not as a sandwich. The bread takes away from the taste of the pork. Also, get hash and rice as a side. Try a South Carolina mustard based sauce. Parking. Go on the Internet and spend the extra money for a parking spot in a private parking lot. Most have modern bathrooms. It's worth the money.

Seton Hall 6-0-0 record FLA Intl 1-0 Albany 2-1 Manhattan 1-0 Columbia 2-0 Rutgers 3-1 Harvard 3-2 UConn 5-0-1 record Stonehill 6-0 NJIT 2-1 LIU 0-0 Central Conn. 2-1 Siena 2-1 Dartmouth 2-1

I was told there would be no math.

OK, back at it...... lets look at the teams projected to finish 7 thru 10 3 of those teams also played Oakland....you all probably have Akron's score against Oakland imprinted in your brain...so I will not highlight the comparison score @Z.I.P. was kind enough to share via facebook message...the historical significance of Colorado College in women's soccer. Colorado College twice lost in the NCAA finals to UNC. @Z.I.P. and @fknbuflobo are both much better soccer historians than I am. Perhaps the 2 great minds can grace us with a prediction for how women's soccer will do in the MAC??? PLEASE !!! Northern Illinois picked 7th in pre-season poll impressive win over a team that the lady zips tied 6-1-1 record DePaul 0-0 (DePaul also played to 1-1 tie with league favorite Western Michigan) St. Thomas (MN) 4-1 Southern IN 6-1 Oakland 1-0 #9 Notre Dame 0-4 E. Illinois 3-0 (lady zips played to 1-1 tie with E. Illinois in 2nd game of season) Illinois St 1-0 Valparaiso 2-1 Toledo picked 8th in league 3-3-1 IU Indy 1-1 Cincinnati 2-3 Northwestern 0-1 Detroit Mercy 1-0 Loyola Chicago 1-2 Oakland 1-0 Ohio Dominican 3-0 Miami picked 9th in league 4-1-2 Eastern Kentucky 4-0 Tennessee Tech 2-2 Indiana State 0-2 Northern Kentucky 3-1 #21 South Carolina 0-0 ...I thought that was an impressive result for a team to picked to finish 9th Southern Indiana 2-0 Chicago State 4-0 Eastern Michigan picked 10th in the league 4-3 record Oakland 1-0 UIC 3-2 Youngstown State 2-0 (YSU had played to 2-2 tie with Kent State (picked 4th in league) Purdue Fort Wayne 1-0 Cincinnati 1-3 Valparaiso 0-1 Loyola Chicago 0-1 I am very impressed by the non conference records of the 12 teams. I had done a combined record for the teams picked to finish 1 thru 6. The very knowledgeable and all around good guy @NYC ZIP kidded me when I did too much math in another post.....so I will refrain from doing more math. Best wishes to the lady Zips.....as they begin their journey.....thru a tough MAC schedule

Let's look next at the teams predicted to finish 1, 3 , 4 and 6 in the league there are some common opponents that the lady zips have played....(I will try to highlight those) Oakland has played 3 MAC teams shown below Western Michigan picked to finish first in the league 3-1-3 record N. Kentucky 3-0 #24 Iowa 1-1 Marquette 3-0 Creighton 0-3 Wisconsin 1-1 Det. Mercy 3-0 DePaul 1-1 Ohio Bobcats picked to finish 3rd in the league 5-1-1 record...very impressive against zip common opponent Butler 1-1 (this is good result for Ohio as Butler defeated Ball State (picked 2nd in league ) 3-0 N. Kentucky 4-0 #8 Mich. St 0-3 (item of interest ...Grace Jackson played 26 minutes for spartans...yes, she has a brother named Will) Valparaiso 5-0 Marshall 2-0 W. Kentucky 2-1 Oakland 7-0 (akron def. Oakland 1-0) Kent State picked 4th in league Cleveland State 2-1 (akron beat the Vikings 1-0) Youngstown St 2-2 Oakland 4-0 (again, akron won 1-0) Colgate 3-2 Duquesne 2-4 #21 Kentucky 1-3 Bowling Green picked 6th in the league 3-2-1 record Detroit Mercy 3-1 Findlay 3-0 Duquesne 0-2 Loyola Chicago 0-1 Cleveland State 2-0 (again, Zips 1-0) Oakland 0-0 )again, zips 1-0) I am going to take an hour or two break....before looking up records for the teams predicted to finish 7,8.9 and 10 in the league the teams picked to finish 1 thru 6 in the league had a combined non- conference record of 24 wins , 8 losses and 8 ties

I am happy to have the distraction. I have spent way too much time over the past few days being upset over Jared's blame throwing comments after the Temple fiasco. I will probably post 2 or 3 answers. I will start here with the first 3 opponents on the lady zips Mid-American conference schedule. I have not found any common opponents yet for the lady zips among their first 3 opponents. Just so everyone can have the info in one place, let's start with the MAC preseason poll for the ladies. 2of the first 3 games are going to be very tough 1. Western Michigan 2. Ball State (3rd MAC game for zips) 3. Ohio 4. Can't State 5. Buffalo (zips 1st game on Thursday) 6. Bowling Green 7. N. Illinois 8. Toledo 9. Miami 10. E. Michigan 11. Akron Lady Zips 12. Central Michigan (opponent #2 in the MAC) Let's first review....what the lady zips have done so far this year Does everyone realize that they have not allowed a goal in their last 5 games? and that they have only allowed 2 goals all year? Akron zips 5-0-2 Iona 2-1 E. Illinois 1-1 Oakland 1-0 Wright State 1-0 Robert Morris 0-0 Cleveland St 1-0 St. Francis 1-0 1st Mac Opponent Buffalo - picked to finish 5th in the league they have started 5-0-2 and they look strong St. Bonaventure 1-0 Pitt (was ranked #7 at time of game) - 2-1 win for Buffalo Cornell 1-1 Canisius 1-0 Colgate 3-0 Colorado College Tigers 1-1 tie ...(not familiar with that college in Colorado Springs) N. Colorado 2-0 2nd Mac Opponent Central Michigan - picked to finish last ...12th in the MAC 2-4-1 record...they have played a tough schedule Kentucky 0-2 Cincinnati 2-1 TCU (received votes ) 0-3 #14 Texas 0-2 S. Dakota 1-1 Wisc Green Bay 0-1 Purdue Fort Wayne 6-1 3rd MAC opponent Ball State - picked to be very strong...2nd in the league 5-2 record...have scored 13 goals in last 2 games) Purdue Fort Wayne 4-0 Indiana (receive votes) 1-2 Butler 0-3 Michigan 2-1 Austin Peay 2-1 Queens 7-1 IU Indy 6-1

Sorry, but a reasonable FBS football team should be able to run the ball down the throat of a winless FCS team, even if they are stacking the box.

They are different markets, but that doesn't excuse Akron's failures. Being a benefit to the surrounding community can mean a lot of things. Toledo found a way to do it. Akron doesn't try.

Jen Simonetti is a leader I would follow into battle. She has the Caleb Porter intensity behind the eyes.

I met the women's coach at a Zips golf outing in June. I'd hire her to do anything. She seems like a great leader. I asked her a few questions that were interesting to me, but maybe not to her, and she gave me very well-thought-out, detailed answers. I asked her why the women's team hadn't been able to ride the coattails of the men's program and she basically said they are two completely different, mutually exclusive entities. I asked how she recruits, and she said the best tool she has is the School of Nursing. The women on the team are all very academically oriented and the top notch nursing program at UA is a big asset. Very impressive, focused woman. I would expect her to do some outstanding things in her career.

great start to the season.... Coach Simonetti was handed a pile of smelly stuff in her first year. She is a hard worker.......and I am happy that the players and coaches are seeing some good results. go, Lady Zips

You know a really cool side benefit to the advent of NIL? - We'll never have to worry about the cost of adding names to our Wall of Fame. From here-on-out, any decent player will bolt the Zips in a heartbeat for some P5 cash. The days of watching a Dwight Smith, Jason Taylor, Charlie Frye etc. for more than a year or two are officially over. Yippee. Next up - Based upon the success of the 2-minute time out, I foresee instituting the "6-minute breather"...a 5 minute "catch your breath" break at the 6:00 point of each quarter. We'll be able to listen to 15 consecutive, "Akron Bearings" and "Electrifying your Future" commercials, 4 times per game. Double Yippee.