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And with Sarkodie being named All-American of the year (and not majoring in something like Sports Communication). How could Porter do any better? Incredible on the field, in the classroom, recruits quailty kids (when was the last time you heard about a soccer player getting into any kind of trouble?). Caleb

Well, we do have a Wagner as our lead "composer".

If you're looking for a positive sign, every team the Zips played this year (and beat since CSU didn't qualify and OSU got an undeserved bye) that played in the first round (Creighton, MSU, Tulsa) won their game except Oakland (who played MSU). 8 teams on the Zips schedule made the tournament. If you remove the MAC schools, 8 of the 12 OOC teams on the schedule made the tournament (pretty impressive statistic) and one of them wasn't Wake Forest and the only team that we didn't beat either. I'm still shaking my head at that one. As a comparison Maryland played only three OOC NCCA tournament participants (Mich St, UConn and W&M, of course they did have their four opponents in conference as well). With BC falling there is also now no chance of the final four having three ACC teams.

Seeing as how I believe it is written by a ZN.O member, I think that would be classified as "plausible".

So much for the vaunted ACC. BC and Virginia both go down and Duke squeaks by Coastal Carolina. Hope this trend continues.

At least he's keeping his word about being loyal to his city.

iCoach is a loser. Should never ahve wasted that last time out. What an idiotic decision. Last timeout was irrelevant. Though there was little chance the fumble would be overturned it was really the only hope we had. We really have lost a lot of players (Wagner made a tackle on a punt and I'm doubting they were just trying to pad his stats). Maybe the discipline is paying off. I do expect to beat Buffalo next week. We have iCoach for probably the next two years so let's see if his plan works.

At least it showed some progress and wasn't a complete embarrassment. I think Miami is a bit of a fraud for a division leader. Beaten only the dregs of the East and West (Eastern and Central). Not impressed. I think Temple will destroy them next week and I hope they don't get selected for a bowl because they will embarrass the MAC.

Gotta give some credit. Even though Miam's starting QB is out, the Zips appear to at least be playing with some heart. Only down 10-7 at the half, I give them better than a 50/50 chance of at least beating Buffalo next week.

No surprise, we are still at the bottom but I'd like to thank Pat Forde for including this little nugget in his Forde Yard Dash. Miami (Ohio) (25). Record: 6-4. Last bowl game: 2004 Independence. Games remaining: at winless Akron, Temple. Projected record: 7-5. What's gone right: The RedHawks are 4-0 in games decided by seven points or fewer after winning a total of three games the previous two seasons. On the bright side for you Lee Owens fans, he did include Ashland in his Obscure College Score of the week (and a nice photo of Olivia Munn).

Well maybe Miami will lose a little motivation, with Ohio beating Temple tonight (at Temple), that pretty well eliminates Miami (they still have to play Temple and already lost to Ohio). Hats off to Solich for the likely MAC East title for the second year, maybe we should have hired a former successful head .... oh, never mind.

Yep, don't care if Euton can't jump over the backboard. The boy plays smart.

Back in it, but 4 on Zeke.

Euton's redshirt is burned. Nice three though.

Effective ten minute scoring drought. We really ought to apply for a patent on it.

Arrgghh - stream is too slow, can't get FXOH because the Cavs game is not carried in this area and the GD Xavier-IFPFU (or whatever they're called) game is in OT.

Still gotta give the guy credit, that was a pretty entertaining preview.

Actually he did. He stated that he far prefers defense but recognizes that he needs to score more to help the team win and he has started to do that.

Thought it was great how Zeke kidded around with Dambrot when he first came into the press conference, seems like they must get along well. More and more proud Zeke selected Akron the more I see him. Also found it interesting that Dambrot said Egner had the ability to become the next Romeo Travis and that Zeke had the potential to be an All-American. Dambrot doesn't hold back with praise or criticism, gotta respect that. ZTV, thanks, it's almost like we're a real program or something. I actually purchased a Sports package on Dish TV so that I can watch the Zips play at Dayton.

Unfortunately, Maryland is on Akron's side of the bracket. The Louisville (#1) and UNC (#4) brackets are the opposite side. The Zips and Terps would match up in the College Cup semi's if they win out at home.

Not real happy with the bracket. A lot of tough teams in with us including Indiana and UConn and UCSB. And yet another ACC tool on the selection show, Taylor Twellman of Maryland, who loved their bracket and asked if we even needed to play the games? Had UNC beaten UMD in the ACC final, Akron would have had that bracket. A bit annoying but nothing the Zips can't fight through.

And the NCAA's projection. Not sure why they have one and it has to be wrong anyway since it still has Wake Forest listed (who has an overall losing record and is not eligible for the tournament). Zips have the number two seed and would likely get Virginia in the second round if it holds up.

I also didn't want to mention this but sometimes you have to discuss tough topics head on. Our commissioners name begins with S. All of the MAC teams that are bowl eligible (assuming Western beats Can't as expected) have school names beginning with letters in the second half of the Conference (M-Z). All non-eligible teams are in the first half of the alphabet. I smell conspiracy. Our commissioner may well be an alphabeticist.

OK, I know we're not in discussion having been the first team eliminated from post season play this year. The MAC, however, is looking a little better. With all of the teams in other conferences struggling, the MAC has 5 teams bowl eligible and the winner of Can't State-WMU (go Broncos!) game will also be eligible. As long as the the MAC wins at least a couple of those games, at least there might be the start of the perception of pulling out of the tailspin. Interestingly, the AP stats have the MAC as the 8th best conference in the country right now, ahead of the Big East, Conference USA and Sun Belt. The computers still have the MAC at #10.

Final RPI that will help determine NCAA seeding will be out tomorrow. While we didn't get any help from who we played this weekend, officially Louisville recorded a tie in the Big East final. Will that be enough to vault the Zips back to the top spot? In any case, the Zips will almost certainly get a top four seed which means all games would be at home until the College Cup. Since the NCAA also typically regionalizes the opening couple of rounds, we could be seeing OSU or Xavier as our second round opponent.