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I won't get into all of the assumptions you made here, but at least look at your math. This year, soccer sold 750 season tickets at an average of $75 apiece, That alone is over $55,000 and that does not count GA ticket sales. And with your other assumption if we sold out every game and had 1500 students in attendance, that would still be 2700 paying customers. At $5 apiece and 14 homes games, that would be $189,000. I'm not saying it operates at a profit, but at the very least your ticket math is a bit off.

Top Drawer Soccer also has a list of the best players by conference. Do you think Akron is dominating the MAC? The Zips have the first ten players, eleven players in all and Perry Kitchen is not listed. That's a dominant team. Also, Tulsa holds the consecutive unbeaten at home record at 39 in a row, Akron currently stands at 29. With five more home games, if the season breaks right, there would be two home games in the MAC tournament and three in the NCAA tournament (all of those would count if they are at home), so the Zips could tie the record this year. Of course I'd trade everything that could happen this year to be

If it was under old NCAA rules (20 years ago), there would be co-champions. They ended that in 1989 but there were two instances of co-champions (1989 and 1967). They have also played 4OT games that had to be decided by penalty kicks. I've advocated a system where you reduce the number of players in each successive overtime (opens space and there is a strategy of who you leave on the field. Do you keep your strong defenders or keep your strikers? In our case, we could have both just by leaving Kofi on the pitch ). In the fourth overtime, the goalies get pulled. At least you're still playing soccer and once the goalies are gone, you will get a goal at some point.

Also on the same Buckeyes site was a discussion on Akron soccer. They are actually very complimentary though it is mostly one guy.

This was in the pregame notes for last Friday: Joining Akron (5-0-0) and No. 2 Tulsa (6-0-0) in that exclusive category (undefeated, untied teams) are No. 4 Monmouth (6-0-0), No. 9 SMU (7-0-0), No. 17 Butler (5-0-0) and Towson (6-0-0). The list is now down to only the Zips, SMU and Butler. Apparently there is no stat for most consecutive wins in the regular season.

Top Drawer also released their list of the Top 100 freshman. We had three, Kitchen (#3), Mattocks (#15) and Stevenson (#77). I also think some of our excellent freshman (Ontiveros, Tulloch, Genovesi and Brenes) just aren't getting visibility because of all of the upperclass talent in front of them on their own team. Pretty good class once again.

From Top Drawer soccer today: Loved the picture of the Zips celebrating with the Rowdies and the "Domination" headline. Writeup is here, but it's pretty short so I just copied it here: An emphatic 4-0 win over previous #2 Tulsa punctuated the #1 status the Akron Zips continued to enjoy in our Men's Tournament 48 National Ranking. Caleb Porter's Zips remained perfect after the win, with the team remaining unbeaten, untied and unscored upon. Observer will now have to contemplate just how good this team can be over the course of the season, as the squad will need to look to itself for motivation and challenges through the regular season, starting with a midweek game at Ohio State. By the way, I was surprised to learn that Tulsa only has about 4200 students. We had a bigger crowd than they have students.

I had the same thought, I'm just not too lazy to do it myself. I didn't count MAC games. Akron FCS 0-1 BCS 0-3 Non-BCS 0-0 Ball State FCS 1-1 BCS 0-2 Non-BCS 0-0 BGSU FCS 0-0 BCS 0-1 Non-BCS 1-2 Buffalo FCS 1-0 BCS 0-2 Non-BCS 0-1 CMU FCS 1-0 BCS 0-1 Non-BCS 0-0 EMU FCS 0-0 BCS 0-1 Non-BCS 0-1 Can't State FCS 1-0 BCS 0-2 Non-BCS 0-0 Miami FCS 0-0 BCS 0-2 Non-BCS 1-0 NIU FCS 1-0 BCS 1-2 Non-BCS 0-0 Ohio FCS 1-0 BCS 0-1 Non-BCS 0-1 Temple FCS 1-0 BCS 1-1 Non-BCS 0-0 Toledo FCS 0-0 BCS 1-1 Non-BCS 0-0 WMU FCS 1-0 BCS 0-1 Non-BCS 0-0 So FCS 8-2, BCS 3-20, Non-BCS 2-5. Most surprising to me is how few non-BCS games there are. That may be one of the MAC's big problems, we really aren't playing like competition. Most of the BCS games are against the Big Ten which probably has to do mostly with geography and travel. I've said before, I'd take one payday game, one FCS game (since you're not going to get a payday team to come here) and then two games against whoever (BCS or non-BCS) we can get to do a home-home series. If it is a BCS team. it is likely they are not going to be a top team so then it would be like competition. I'd be fine with a schedule like that.

Dr.Z., you starting to come around, man? Hey how awesome would it be to set the NCAA record shutout streak with a victory at OSU? I'd still be happy with the win but that would really be icing on the cake.

Yes, but this line from the first one was pretty amusing: Several times I counted at least 16 Akron players on the field, including 3 number 11's from Jamaica.

Just booked my flight too (Southwest has some nice deals going on right now), I think the Zips chances are good, but if not I'm coming out a day early and leaving a couple days late to give myself a nice vacation anyway even if they don't make it.

Don't know about that one - think I'd go Freebird, so EMU gets that one.

Stayed at number six. I would have moved us down.

We seem to have a kindred spirit on their board: Re: 2010 TU Soccer Thread Reply -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TU soccer is currently the only football on campus that isn't totally depressing! Posted from wireless.rivals.com Posted on 9/19 4:40 PM | IP: Logged But their football team is way better than ours. Our futbol team is only a little better than theirs.

I thought you just wrote those last two sentences as a joke so I went to go see what they really wrote. Un-freaking believable, what an ignorant comment. Oh, did Kyle Martino write it? And 14 of the top 25 NSCAA ranked school are BCS schools. I get very tired of the eliitist attitude that exists with that set of schools. Most are exactly the same as Akron in quality.

In most polls, they are #2 including the NSCAA and Top Drawer Soccer so this is effectively a matchup of #1 vs. #2 (again). Where the hell is College (Soccer) Gameday on ESPN for this? Tulsa has a good squad, including a couple of very good forwards in Austin Neil and Ashley McInnes who are their leading scorers. Their schedule has not been really tough so far (Seattle, Lipscomb, Western Illinois, SIU-Edwardsville and St. Louis and none of those teams are ranked) and they have Missouri State this evening. So I don't think they've been tested too much yet, but they still have a good team. They have been scored on in three of those five games so at worst I expect to have a 2-1 victory. Go Zips!

Those should be swapped at the very least. A few interesting things I noticed in the current MAC standings. Only two 0-3 teams (us and EMU, great). Toledo has beaten both WMU and Ohio to start off the MAC standings at 2-0. Temple is 3-0 (and beat CMU) and actually got a few "Others Receiving Votes" in both the coaches poll and writers poll. They take on Penn State this weekend so we'll get to see how far they've come. The Zips may be a lost cause this year but I'd like the rest of the MAC to make some kind of a showing this year. Wouldn't mind seeing Temple get ranked (at least until we play them). The MAC may be bad but if at least a couple teams rise above the rest, it is probably better for the conference as a whole as opposed to a 5-3 division "winner". At least until we can rise up again.

Not this week, baby! 10-4, woo-hoo!

I'm stumped. I have no idea whether to take this post seriously or not. Someone help me ...

The biggest surprise to me is Ampai rated #1. I think he is a very good player, but there was some discussion about the level of his game being elevated last year because of Gavin and Zemanski. I'd have no problem at all if he was our second straight Hermann winner.

Ttile IX is federal law. You're not getting out of that one unless you don't wish to accept any more federal funding. That includes grants.

To add insult to injury, anyone know how much we padi GW to come in and do that? I'm assuming this was a buy game.

I think the guys suck it up a little after their embarrassment last week. They won't win but they won't look completely pathetic. 38-14.

Maryland. Gut wrenching loss to them in the 2005 quarterfinals. I'd like to see the rematch now.

Makes no sense. If he isn't going to play at WR, he could actually be an all-MAC talent back at safety. Wonder if we'll see him heading back there soon?