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As far as I'm aware Walsh Jesuit OL Owen Pelkowski is our first commit of '27 Owen also had offers from KSUcks, Miami(O), Illinois State, and Cornell

The Zips will open the season with 3 straight regular season home games Dayton on August 20 Army on August 24 Wake Forest on August 28 I will update the first post in this topic. https://goarmywestpoint.com/news/2026/6/24/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-announces-2026-schedule

Big East Matchup of the year!!! Georgetown at Akron Septmber 25 https://guhoyas.com/news/2026/6/23/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-announces-2026-schedule.aspx

God, this is pathetic! Who cares what Bowden is doing at this point!

Richie Laryea moves on to the round of 16.

Whys it perplexing? Because a couple random Internet strangers said a couple anonymous coaches didn't like it?

I don't believe the soccer playing conferences would not support this. The coaches recommended overwhelming approval of the two season concept. According to Jared the conferences that cared about soccer (BE, ACC, Sunbelt) were the ones driving this proposal. It is a complete joke that the cabinet sent the proposal back to the oversight committee to investigate the affect it would have on academics. Anyone who knew what D1 soccer players go thru in a season that has up to 3 games in 5 or 6 days would know the split in seasons with one game a week is far better for the players and their academics. If they cared about the athletes they would rush to this concept. Injuries would also be significantly reduced with more time for rest and time for treatment. I hope this concept is adopted.

For those of you who are not native Spanish speakers. 😊 Forward Enrique Freeman will make his debut with the Puerto Rican national team this summer after confirming his participation, according to president Yum Ramos.

Ivory Covington had previously announced his intent to join the Akron zips for the 2027 season. @Zip_ME87 spotted today....that the speedy winger from Atlanta will join the zips for fall 2026. Welcome, Ivory. https://www.instagram.com/p/DaGoUExiaEW/?img_index=1 This was Ivory's original announcement about 2027. When I look at both instagram posts, I am very impressed by Ivory. He is a very appreciative young man...Very excited about this young man joining the Zips. https://www.instagram.com/p/DRfq03kiQYL/?img_index=1

If this were accurate to real life, feels like Akron's offense should be pretty OK!

We're not in a position to look down on anybody. It'd be nice to have a couple of these agreements with different mid major conferences. Give more good regular season games leading up to Cleveland.

I actually like the series TBH. I know some expressed they would prefer to pair with a different conference or have a multi-conference event, but that's not happening. At least not in the immediate future. The SunBelt and MAC are two relatively comparable conferences and in fact the SunBelt has more wins than the MAC in the series so we're not in a position to look down on them.

Class of 2027 Verbal Commits Luke Fleischman, LB, 6-1, 215, St. Francis HS, Chaffee, NY Owen Pelkowski, OL, 6-5, 280, Walsh Jesuit HS, Cuyahoga Falls, OH Class Summary Total Commits: 2 Offense: 1 QB: 0 RB: 0 WR: 0 TE: 0 OL: 1 (Pelkowski) Defense: 1 DL: 0 LB: 1 (Fleischman) DB: 0

English newspaper picked the best 11 by position in the world cup (while excluding Messi, Haaland, Mbappe and other superstars) Our beloved former zip from Canada made the best 11/ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/21/the-2026-world-cup-team-of-the-tournament-so-far-without-the-superstars Richie Laryea (Canada, left-back) Canada’s buildup was dominated by the fitness doubts surrounding their captain, Alphonso Davies. Jesse Marsch has not needed to risk his talismanic left-back in the opening two games thanks to the performances of Laryea, who usually plays on the right. The Toronto FC defender is full of running and provides the sort of attacking threat Marsch demands, a real outlet in the 6-0 takedown of Qatar. Davies’s absence need not be such a hindrance.

I promise the season ends before Akron goes 4-8 again.

Delaware marketed the crap out of themselves in the game and I believe even had a contest for those who used them in dynasty. Akron could afford to do the same.

That is such a strange font initially I thought it was for the Greek National team. 🤣

Gracias!

In the last 15 minutes of play, I heard the commentators say : Laryea has had a very good game. Richie Laryea has been outstanding. Richie Laryea has been fanstastic in this game. Not surprisingly, Richie was the highest rated Canadian player....by Sports Illustrated https://www.si.com/soccer/canada-player-ratings-vs-bosnia-herzegovina-canada-collects-first-ever-world-cup-point-6-12-26 LB: Richie Laryea—7.9: Ran a marathon down the left wing. Stout defensively and a valuable asset going forward. A strong showing should’ve been rewarded with a goal, but Kolašinac denied him with an incredible block near the goal-line.

I believe it is called the P4 rule. P4 schools get extra outs if they are trailing non P4 schools. F'ing ridiculous. 🤬

Seems like he could be a candidate to succeed Joe Mo one day. Those NDC teams were pretty good before the school shut down.