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Lol what an absurd statement. Egregious is a fitting name.

Beto Ydrach with the winning PK. Riverhounds prevail and advance to the Conference final 4-3 in the shootout. Great to be there to see it and congratulate our Zips Mens Soccer alum.

This staff has a brilliant record in developing players. Of course Enrique comes to mind, but also how about Amani, MMK. If Briscoe and Barre are willing to work the staff will have them ready for more minutes.

Another factor I forget about Barre until now is that he spent some of the time in the off-season in a walking boot with a bad ankle, further setting him back.

Revenge Tour Update: JMU✅ Princeton✅ Milwaukee (Coming Soon) I never forget. Let’s go zips!!!!

Shout out to TennZip for the great coverage this season. You showed out!

Zips X feed was on fire yesterday so instead of posting ~20 highlights, here is the link to X.

Remember he won 3 NCAA tournament games in a span of 4 years at OU. I also think you forget having NIL money is only part of the puzzle. UMass has significantly more money than Akron, but from what I've watched they look pretty mid. A coach still has to be able to identify talent, develop players, and get them to fit in their system. Tod meanwhile is in his 24th year as a D1 coach, 16th at Toledo, and has never made the Big Dance. NIL has only been a factor for 2-3 years so that can't be an excuse. Even if you exclude his Akron tenure, Groce had more success in 4 years at OU than Tod has had in his 24 years as a D1 coach.

Oh, for me it’s the fact that Groce beat Toledo in the MAC Tournament one year and it seems like our Zips have been rolling ever since. Where as Toledo has good conference records, but can’t get past Groce (or Miami, Ohio, Kent). But because he does seem to despise Groce, I like to give Groce credit for breaking him. Just having fun and I’m biased of course.

The UCLA game haunts me. I thought we were the better team that day. Ugh!!

Darlington Nagbe reflects after final match of incredible career

This would be a really good game to make an education day game for local school kids. Either way bring on Penn State*

Defense was stellar!!

Tulane has beat Texas State after being down 20 at home. They went 30/30 on FTs. They should crack top 100 in KenPom after that. They were 107 before

Man Oggi is an unselfish player, had possible good shots but passed to a player with a better shot. Only 1 point but 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

This is a D1 vs D2 type beat down. Very impressive game from the Zips.

Great to see so many Zips fans there cheering on our team in a tough place for visitors and celebrating the victory with them. Very cool. 💙💛

Early candidate for the Jimmy Conyers award. 😊

He's a career 20% three point shooter so I don't have high expectations for that aspect of his game but he contributes in so many other ways that I think he's going to be an integral part of the Zips' success this season. On top of it all, he's just a nice personable kid, as is Eric. As an aside, the other OSU transfer the Zips were rumored to be pursuing, Austin Parks, had 5 points and 3 rebounds in 18 minutes in Toledo's opening loss to South Alabama. We got the right Buckeye.

Rewatching this game I have to say Evan is a really good piece for us. It might not always show on the stat sheet, but he hustles on defense. Makes good passes. And does the intangibles. Because he has a physical stature similar to Lyles I was crediting the wrong guy at times. He did miss a wide open three, but I like that he didn’t hesitate in taking it. The form looks good too.

My sources say we'd get the waiver removed if we get to 6 wins

Seems like Akron athletics in general are on a revenge tour. Basketball with JMU & Princeton; soccer with UConn. Go Zips!

Someone else is now the MAC's punching bag instead of Akron/Kent competing for that "honor" each year.

But unfortunately, the problem still exists, this will probably be another completely different roster next season. Many players that have some success this year will move on and who knows what they will replace them with. Building a program, especially in a situation like Akron, is more difficult than ever