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We've been playing football for over 100 years longer than they have and we're 23.5 point underdogs (sigh). They should point that non-starting DE in the direction of their basketball team. They could probably use him more.

I adapted this from a presidental joke. When Ianello got the job, he received three envelopes from JD Brookhart and was told open the first at the first crisis, the second at the second crisis and the third at the third crisis. After starting 0-10 he opened the first, and it said "blame it on your inexperience" and he did and people decided he should get another year. He opened the second after the Gardner-Webb game and it said "blame it on the previous coaching staff" and he did and people said maybe the cupboard was bare and he continued on. He finally opened the third after finishing 1-11 for the second consecutive year. It said "Prepare three envelopes" ...

Absolutely f***** stolen. That blew. Hard enough to win on the road against a good team without adding a terrible call on top of it. Zips dominated both overtimes. They deserved better.

Absolutely on side. Someone should kindly explain to the AR that it's where the player is when the ball is KICKED, not where he receives it. Dammit, that was stolen!!! If there is any soccer god justice, the Zips win this one in the second OT.

Sudden death OT. C'mon Zips - kill them.

Still want him pulled out?

So is a major team only football and basketball? Soccer is the third best attended sport at the university and I'd say the students do an excellent job supporting them. If football catches fire (in the Bowden sense, not the Ianello sense), I'm sure the students will come out in droves.

Was nice to see a little chippiness from Meves on a save. The announcers said the goal was the result of excellent positioning. I think he was just lucky. :-) C'mon Zips!

Some sort of country band on right now.

Coaches had these guys ready to play, Williams has looked very good at QB, we need better receivers. They're killing us.

At that age we were playing flag football. Certainly gave you a good taste for the game to see whether you were interested in going to the full contact version. Seems like a good compromise.

GAME DAY!!! 12 hours and 45 minutes. I just saw an ESPN vignette on the new season, they mentioned it was a new chance for 26 FBS coaches and highlighted a half dozen, only one of whom was not a BCS coach. I'll let you guess who it was. I am so jealous of those of you who will be there tonight. Go Zips!!!

I'm disappointed, but he has given seven great years to a University to which he had no official ties and he didn't leave for another school, he left for a job in the pros. Can't be unhappy with any of this and good luck to him. The good thing about this timing is that it allows a search to start right now, so recruits may still know who they are going to be playing for soon. If this had all waited until December, it would have really put a crimp in all that. Caleb is a class act and maybe he recognized that as well which is why he is staying through the end of the season. The first person I'd have on the search committee is Caleb Porter.

And "We need to get better".

Nope, ESPN already has their game at that time South Carolina at Vanderbilt. Doesn't look like any of their other channels are going to be used. Toledo, BGSU and Ohio all got "real" ESPN games this weekend. Still happy it is on ESPN3.

1 day, 21 hours and 15 minutes, getting dadgum close now!

And nobody is going to mention that coach Bowden somehow managed to go 29-9 in his TWO years at North Alabama? Must have gotten some sort of special NCAA dispensation. I'm sure these guys try to get this stuff out as quickly as they can, but there are an awful lot of things that an editor/proofreader would catch. Or perhaps, its just not worth the time for an Akron article.

Here is what it said about Zeke. And for those of you who didn't think Zeke was a potential NBA talent, there are apparently several folks who would disagree with that. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Zeke Marshall is a video gamer by heart, a computer information science major at Akron. He didn't start playing basketball until he was in eighth grade, and only then it was by his mother's prodding. Some people learn quickly. Both NBADraft.net and Draft Express currently have Marshall as a late second-round pick in their 2013 mock drafts. He's already Akron's all-time leader in blocks, ranking in the top 20 nationally in that category the last two seasons. Offensively, the Zips have a balanced system that saw seven players average at least seven points per game last season, so Marshall isn't likely to blossom into a 20-PPG man overnight. Still, games like his 17-point night against Northwestern in the first round of the NIT suggest that the potential is there. Marshall made a strong improvement in his shooting stroke last season, evidenced by his free-throw percentage increasing from 58.1 to 70.6. Akron opens the season in Puerto Rico against an Oklahoma State team that is long on talent but short on size. Marshall could have a chance to overpower the smaller Cowboys and open a few eyes on an ESPN network. By season's end, he may be more than the MAC's best-kept secret.

That price is wrong - b***h! - paraphrased from Happy Gilmore.

After the last two years (and we really need a catch phrase for that time - "The coach who must not be named"?, "The Unwonder Years"?, "The time of disease and pestilence"?) if we can get to three wins, I think that is cause to rush the field. I really do think this team will be better, just don't know how many wins that will translate into, but for now I trust Terry Bowden about the same as I trust Caleb Porter, Dennis Mitchell and Keith Dambrot.

I guess this pretty well confirms it. Welcome Pat!

College Soccer News has the Zips at #6. NIU at #26, WVU in the ORV category (would be #35 based on their position).

Caldwell 1st team, Barson 3rd team on College Soccer News Preseason All-American list. Former Zip McKauly Tulloch also named to the third team.

A little surprised not to see Andrew Pratt as one of the 2nd teamers since he was reported to catch everything thrown his way, but he is still a freshman. I am pleased to see Hudson freshman Quaison Osborne worked his worked into the backup LT spot. Way to go, former Explorer.

Or perhaps the shame of knowing he undeservedly won it over Keith Dambrot finally got to him.